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The War of the Weak

January 21, 2010 By Stephen Brown 15 Comments

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Despite the media’s spin, the Taliban is losing the fight in Afghanistan.

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How the Democrats Lost Massachusetts

January 20, 2010 By Jacob Laksin 56 Comments

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Political excess and an unpopular agenda paved the way for Scott’s Brown’s improbable Senate victory.

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Chicago’s Real Crime Story

January 19, 2010 By Heather MacDonald 13 Comments

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Why decades of community organizing haven’t stemmed the city’s youth violence.

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Victory for Free Speech in Texas

January 18, 2010 By Robert Spencer 33 Comments

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But the war to defend it is just heating up.

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Stephanie Gutmann: Doing Security the Israeli Way – The American Spectator

January 17, 2010 By Jacob Laksin 3 Comments

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“Let’s do things the way the Israelis do.” That’s the latest buzzword in airline security. It’s nice to hear the Israelis being praised for something, but if we don’t understand what the Israelis do, we’re just going to be adding another layer of bureaucracy to an already overloaded system CNN spent an hour interviewing Isaac [...]

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Failed attempt to kill Israeli envoy in Jordan – Jerusalem Post

January 14, 2010 By Jacob Laksin Leave a Comment

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A bomb exploded near a two-car convoy belonging to Israel’s embassy in Jordan on Thursday afternoon. The cars were making their way to Amman. No one was hurt in the incident and the vehicles continued to their destination shortly thereafter. The Foreign Ministry received a briefing on the incident. According to several reports, the ambassador [...]

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Bret Stephens: Can Intelligence Be Intelligent? – WSJ.com

January 13, 2010 By Jacob Laksin 4 Comments

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“Intelligence,” Daniel Patrick Moynihan once observed, “is not to be confused with intelligence.” To read two recent analyses of U.S. intelligence failures is to be reminded of the truth of that statement, albeit in very different ways.Exhibit A is last week’s unclassified White House memo on the attempted bombing of Flight 253 over the skies [...]

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Gauging the Iranian Threat

January 13, 2010 By Matt Gurney 21 Comments

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Should Israel – and the world – worry about nuclear-armed mullahs?

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“Notional” Security – by Thomas Sowell

January 13, 2010 By Thomas Sowell 15 Comments

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Far better to be blown to smithereens than to be politically incorrect.

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George Noory: He Believes in Bigfoot and Area 51…Islamic Terror, Not So Sure.

January 8, 2010 By Jeanette Pryor Leave a Comment

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The Al Qaeda plot to murder three hundred innocent Americans thrust the privacy rights vs. national security debate into the public forum once again. This became personal when I was awakened in the middle of the night by the host of Coast-to-Coast AM. My husband had left his radio on and I was wrest from [...]

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