TagsTagsInteresting numbers for the President’s first SOTU speech, from a CBS News-Knowledge Networks poll: Poll: 83% of Speech Watchers Approve of Obama’s State of the Union Proposals. A large majority of Americans who watched President Obama’s State of the Union Address generally approve of the proposals he outlined in his ...
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It’s clear that the State of the Union speech has become a performance, and not just by the President; all the politicians in the audience are performers too, and everything they do during the speech is under the microscope: Alito’s State of the Union moment. Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. ...
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Here’s an open thread for pondering, debating, arguing, and bare knuckle brawling in the aftermath of President Obama’s first State of the Union speech.
President Obama’s first State of the Union address is scheduled to begin in about two minutes; here’s the live video courtesy of Hulu.com. Hulu Video
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Here’s an open thread as we wait for President Obama’s State of the Union speech at 6 pm Pacific, 9 pm Eastern. Thanks to Hulu.com, I’ll have live embedded video of the speech as it happens.
Michael B. Oren, author of the terrific book Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East, will be the new Israeli ambassador to the United States—and that’s excellent news. For insight into Oren’s thinking, I highly recommend the book linked above, and also the series ...
Here’s your cheerful five-year forecast from the Department of Homeland Security. WASHINGTON — The terrorism threat to the United States over the next five years will be driven by instability in the Middle East and Africa, persistent challenges to border security and increasing Internet savvy, says a new intelligence assessment ...
The New York Times’ Freakonomics “blog” is having a little contest: A Six-Word Motto for the U.S.? Imagine my surprise to find that out of almost 700 comments, the vast majority are competing for the most downbeat, defeatist, self-hating motto possible. It’s kind of amazing how much negativity can be crammed ...
Too often it seems that US government officials are either ignorant or dismissive of the many-leveled threat from radical Islam; but Rep. Sue Myrick, R-N.C., has her eyes wide open. Investor’s Business Daily interviews the founder of the House Anti-Terrorism/Jihad Caucus: Congressional Paul Revere Warns Nation About Islamofascist Threat. IBD: ...
LGF, Radical Islam, Terrorists, Islam, United States, Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR, Islamofascism
Islamic advocacy groups have forced the LAPD’s counterterrorism branch to back down. LOS ANGELES (AP) - A police plan to map out Muslim communities, a proposal that civil rights groups sharply criticized as racial and religious profiling, has been shelved, a police spokeswoman said Wednesday. The LAPD planned to have its ...
LGF, Radical Islam, Terrorists, Islam, United States, Los Angeles, Police
The counter-terrorism bureau of the Los Angeles Police Department announced a plan to compile a map of Muslim communities, and the usual Islamic advocacy groups and unindicted co-conspirators and the ACLU are pitching the expected fit: Anger at LA police plan to ‘map’ Muslims. LOS ANGELES (AFP) — A plan ...
LGF, Radical Islam, Terrorists, Islam, United States, Los Angeles, Police
Again the US government reaches out to the wrong people: FBI’s Latest Outreach Outrage. As reported in the Detroit Free Press (see: Detroit’s FBI chief: Violence extremism cuts across religions), two top FBI officials from that office “spoke to about 50 Muslims inside the Islamic Organization of North America, or ...
Dr. Rusty is shining light on a web of American jihad supporters, including Sarfaraz Jamal of ClearGuidance infamy, now running the Islamic Network discussion forum: The Web of American Bloggers and The Terrorists They Facilitate.
LGF, Radical Islam, Terrorists, Islam, United States, Internet
An interesting piece by Walid Phares lays out some idealistic alternatives to the Saudi arms deal. So what should the US advise the Saudis to do instead of spending hugely on arms? First, if no serious political change is performed in Arabia, the 20 billion dollars’ worth of weapons would most likely ...
LGF, Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, Theocracy, Islam, United States, Arms Deal
Speaking in the world center of Wahhabism, the home country of most of the 9/11 hijackers, Imam Yahya Hendi of Georgetown University said the September 11 attacks helped Muslims to gain strength in the United States. RIYADH, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Muslims are steadily improving their position in U.S. society, contrary ...
LGF, Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, Theocracy, Islam, United States, Yahya Hendi
Iran’s madman president tells the world to stay tuned for a big announcement soon: Iran: Nuclear announcement coming in April. TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) — Iran’s controversial president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday his country will make an announcement in April about new nuclear achievements. Reports surfaced last fall that Tehran was trying to ...
Iran, Ahmadinejad, Nuclear Weapons, Islam, Nuclear Proliferation, United States
Iran’s head Ayatollah is threatening the United States with terrorist attacks around the world: Iran to hit U.S. interests if attacked. TEHRAN, Iran - Iran’s supreme leader said Thursday that if the United States were to attack Iran, the country would respond by striking U.S. interests all over the world — ...
Iran, Ahmadinejad, Nuclear Weapons, Islam, Nuclear Proliferation, United States
Kenya says they’ve detained two American Muslims who were fighting for the Islamic Courts in Somalia—and one brought his 9-year old child with him: Kenya Holding 2 Americans As Suspects. (Hat tip: Ringo.) MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Two Americans were among at least 10 foreigners caught by Kenyan police at the ...
Somalia, Radical Islam, Al Qaeda, Shari'a, Jihad, UK, United States, Child Abuse
Another thread for the State of the Union speech, as President Bush addresses the oil issue and Nancy Pelosi’s eyelids are clocked at about 100 BPM (Blinks Per Minute).
The President’s 6th State of the Union address is just about to start. Here’s a transcript of the speech: SOTU, January 23, 2007.
Here’s a first open thread to discuss the State of the Union speech. Jules Crittenden isn’t the President’s speechwriter, but he wrote a good speech anyway: The State of the Union is a Disaster. There will be live webcasts at the White House web site and at C-SPAN. UPDATE at 1/23/07 5:28:26 pm: For ...
A new paper issued by an influential Dubai think tank suggests that Gulf states may be prepared to back a US military strike on Iran. The paper, written by GRC program director, Dr. Christian Koch, makes it clear that the Gulf States view Iran as an existential threat and the paper ...
Iran, Ahmadinejad, Nuclear Weapons, Islam, Nuclear Proliferation, United States, Dubai
The Fox News documentary Hezbollah Inside America is starting in just a few minutes. Here’s an open thread... UPDATE at 1/20/07 6:00:45 pm: I have to say congrats to Fox News and David Asman on this one; an excellent show with new information, including a memorable interview with a weeping deported Hizballah ...
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Here’s a show on Fox News that promises to be enlightening: Hezbollah Inside America. (Airs today at 8 pm ET.) (Note: I always spell the name of this terror gang as “Hizballah,” because it shows the meaning of their name: “The Party of Allah.”) The shocking answer to that question unfolds this ...
Hizballah, Lebanon, Hesbollah, Hizbullah, United States, Militant Islam
Absolutely disgusting. Condoleezza Rice pandering to a Holocaust-denying thug like Mahmoud Abbas—and Abbas has the sheer gall to throw it right back at us: Abbas: No ‘temporary’ Palestinian state. RAMALLAH, West Bank - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday that he opposes the establishment of ...