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National Security

U.S. Military Playing Expanded Role In Pakistan
U.S. Special Operations Forces on a training mission in Pakistan are playing an expanded but largely unseen role in the country’s counterinsurgency campaign, working with paramilitary units to “hold and build” tribal areas as militants are cleared out. U.S. defense and administration officials say the elite trainers, who currently number more than 100, have not [...]

Obama Limits US Ability To Use Nuclear Arms
The Obama administration is locking up the country’s nuclear weapons for all but the most “extreme circumstances,” pledging in a new policy not to develop new nuclear weapons and to limit the use of the ones in storage — even for self defense. But the president said in an interview that he was carving out [...]

Dick Cheney – America's Most Influential Conservative?
THIS GUY GETS IT – Former Vice President Dick Cheney stormed the beachheads of the liberal US media again today with a fiery performance on ABC’s This Week. He offered a stinging rebuke to current VP Joe Biden’s ludicrous claim that Iraq may end up as one of Barack Obama’s “great achievements”, as well as [...]

Obama PR Helps Terrorists
AMATEUR HOUR – When President Obama’s leading counter-terrorism staff member, John Brennan, says that “politically motivated criticism and unfounded fear-mongering only serve the goals of al-Qaeda,” he has it exactly backwards. It is the president’s efforts to crow about how effective he is in fighting terrorism that are helping al-Qaeda. What kind of policy is [...]

Nelson Defects From Dems Over Terror Trials
THERE MUST BE AN ELECTION APPROACHING – Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson joined a bipartisan effort on Wednesday to block the administration from trying the Sept. 11th suspects in civilian courts. Nelson (Neb.) signed onto legislation offered by Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Jim Webb (D-Va.) to require military commission trials for [...]
Americans Reject “Not Bush” Approach to Fighting Terrorism
BUT WILL THEY LISTEN – American voters say 59 – 35 percent that 9/11 terrorism suspects should be tried in military courts rather than in civilian courts, as currently planned. Voters say 68 – 25 percent that terrorism suspects should not receive all of the constitutional protections afforded by a civilian trial. Democrats prefer civilian [...]

How to Save The Obama Presidency – Bomb Iran
ACT BEFORE ITS TOO LATE – I do not customarily offer advice to a president whose election I opposed, whose goals I fear, and whose policies I work against. But here is an idea for Barack Obama to salvage his tottering administration by taking a step that protects the United States and its allies. He needs [...]

Brennan: Some Guantanamo detainees will go to Yemen
The United States still intends to send some Yemeni detainees at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, facility back to Yemen despite a terrorist threat there, President Barack Obama’s terrorism czar said Sunday. John Brennan, the assistant to the president for homeland security and counter-terrorism, said on CNN’s “State of the Union that the failed Christmas Day [...]

Democrats' worst nightmare: Terrorism on their watch
From the time he launched his campaign for president three years ago, Barack Obama had to consider how he would react to the first serious act of terrorism during the campaign, or if he won, on his watch. Considering how he’s systematically taken apart the Bush administration policies which kept us safe you can understand [...]
U.S. Loan Effort Is Seen as Adding to Housing Woes
From the NY TImes: The Obama administration’s $75 billion program to protect homeowners from foreclosure has been widely pronounced a disappointment, and some economists and real estate experts now contend it has done more harm than good. Some experts argue the program has impeded economic recovery by delaying a wrenching yet cleansing process through which [...]