Ordinary people acting courageously
TweetAs I write this, reports are still sketchy about the attempted bombing of Northwest Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit. Apparently, Nigerian Abdul Mudallad tried to detonate a bomb he said he...
View ArticleHis daddy tried to warn us
TweetThe initial reports of the attempted bombing of Northwest Flight 253 apparently got the perp's name wrong. It's not Abdul Mudallad, it's Abdul Farouk Umar Abdulmutallab, and there's some...
View ArticleSensible profiling
TweetABC's Nightline actually asked the question Monday night, "Should part of enhanced airport security include profiling passengers of certain countries, races and religions?" I dashed off the...
View ArticleSurprised by al Qaeda’s determination
TweetA couple of days after Abdul Farouk Umar Abdulmutallab almost managed to blow up Northwest Flight 253, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told CNN that "one thing I'd like to point out...
View ArticleTargeted killings
TweetThey told me that if I voted Republican, the U.S. government would escalate its use of CIA hit teams and Predator UAVs to conduct assassinations without regard for collateral damage or...
View ArticleTawfik Hamid appearing in Denver
TweetThe Act! for America 5280 Coalition is sponsoring multiple appearances in the Denver area this week by Dr. Tawfik Hamid, a physician, former terrorist, and author of The Roots of Jihad and Inside...
View ArticleMohammed Al-Madadi: incredibly stupid or gathering intelligence
TweetQatari diplomat Mohammed Al-Madadi caused a bomb scare on a flight from Washington, D.C., to Denver Wednesday night. Reportedly, Al-Madadi sneaked a smoke in the john. When confronted, he joked...
View ArticleNaming the enemy
TweetDavid Harsanyi noticed that lots of people on the left were ready and willing to point a finger at “right-wingers” when the identity of the Times Square bomber was unknown. But now that the real...
View Article9/11: Timeline of Terror
TweetI just finished watching "9/11: Timeline of Terror" on Fox News, an uninterrupted hour-long recap of the events of September 11, 2001. I'm emotionally drained. But I'm so very glad I watched it....
View ArticleNever forget
TweetNine years ago this morning, we watched in horror as people jumped a thousand feet to their deaths because it was better than the alternative. Later that day, we learned that the heroic passengers...
View Articlebin Laden dead
TweetSomething happened tonight that hasn't happened in a long time: the President spoke, and I cheered. Osama bin Laden, hunted as the mastermind behind the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, has...
View ArticleNever forget
TweetTen years ago this morning, we watched in horror as people jumped a thousand feet to their deaths because it was better than the alternative. Later that day, we learned that the heroic passengers...
View ArticleObama administration ignored warning about attacks
TweetThe Obama administration and their media lapdogs are more interested in condemning Mitt Romney than in condemning the 7th-century barbarian jihadists who attacked a US embassy and consulate,...
View ArticleFirst lady is clueless about national security, too
TweetNew York banned large soft drinks today as part of what the AP calls the “war on obesity.” First Lady Michelle Obama is totally on board. On today’s Dr. Oz show, she reiterated her contention that...
View ArticleWas our consulate attacked with our own weapons?
TweetIn 2011, President Obama ordered the Libyan rebels to be supplied with arms, including anti-tank rockets and mortars. The Saudis were apparently persuaded to act as go-betweens, actually...
View ArticleNever forget
TweetFourteen years ago this morning, we watched in horror as people jumped a thousand feet to their deaths because it was better than the alternative. Later that day, we learned that the heroic...
View ArticleFifteen years have passed, but we must never forget
TweetFifteen years have passed since that awful September 11th morning. Many millennials have no meaningful recollection of it, and apparently their parents and teachers did nothing to inform and...
View ArticleNever forget, and teach those too young to remember
TweetSixteen years have passed since that awful September 11th morning. That means most of this year’s college freshmen were two. They have no memory of what happened to the Twin Towers of the World...
View ArticleSeventeen years ago today
TweetSeventeen years have passed since that awful September 11th morning. Virtually all of today’s college students, and even recent grads, didn’t see what happened to the Twin Towers of the World...
View ArticleEighteen years ago today
TweetEighteen years ago this morning, in the words of Rep. Ilhan Omar, “some people did something.” On September 11, 2001, barbarians with box cutters — primitive 7th-century savages who could never...
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