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Ft. Hood terror attack: Reading between the lines of the Congressional “investigation”

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has concluded its investigation into the Ft. Hood terror attack and – as is usually the case with government “investigations” – you have to read between the lines to get the real story. We’ll get to that in a moment. First, the official story, via CNN:.....   [Read More]

Yes, we should fear the Muslim Brotherhood

Andrew C. McCarthy has a detailed, must-read write-up today at National Review on the Muslim Brotherhood, the “opposition group” that The Powers That Be in the Obama administration are secretly but rightly concerned could possibly gain a foothold in the Egyptian government in the aftermath of the anti-Mubarak protests currently taking place in Egypt.   Excerpts:.....   [Read More]

The greatest country ever? No brag, just fact.

American liberals and people outside the United States often roll their eyes in patronizing sufferance when an American, such as Senator-elect Marco Rubio (R-FL), states that the USA is the greatest country in the history of the world. It’s dismissed as naive and provincial, a chest-thumping nationalism about as out of date in a transnational world as the horse and buggy after the coming of the auto......   [Read More]