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Terror attack on U.S. ‘certain,’ Senate told

The five senior leaders of the U.S. intelligence community told a Senate panel Tuesday they are “certain” that terrorists will attempt another attack on the United States in the next three to six months. The warning came during the annual threat briefing to Congress in response to questions from Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat and the chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, who asked, “What is the likelihood of another terrorist-attempted attack on the U.S homeland in the next three to six months? High or low?” “An attempted attack, the priority is certain, I would say,” said Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair, a retired admiral. Four other intelligence agency leaders who appeared at the hearing with Adm. Blair said they agreed with the assessment. [Thank God we have a fumbling rookie in the White House and some seriously incompetent morons heading up Homeland Security and the Justice Department! I’m left wondering what the odds are this “for certain” terrorist attack happens oh, sometime just before the November elections which would make it (them) just in time for Obama to sign an executive order suspending the elections and the Constitution…ed]

Yemeni tankers OK’d in harbor

The Coast Guard said yesterday that it will allow tankers carrying liquefied natural gas from Yemen into Boston Harbor despite concerns about the cargo coming from a country that has been called a haven for terrorists. The decision, which means LNG ships could begin arriving in Everett later this month, drew immediate condemnation from Mayor Thomas M. Menino, a longtime critic of allowing LNG shipments through the harbor. He accused the Coast Guard of putting profits ahead of people. “This is all about helping a commercial enterprise,’’ Menino said in an interview. “I’m about helping protect people’s property and lives. They’re saying they will be as safe as any other LNG ship. I say they’ll be as unsafe as any other LNG ship.’’ [Correction: OBAMA has made the decision to allow these shipments NOT the Coast Guard. We have OCEANS of natural gas just waiting to be tapped right here in this country and that effort would bring hundreds of thousands of jobs related to the industry to the American people. Why in the HELL are we importing this stuff from a country well KNOWN to be a safe haven for terrorists?…ed]

KSM will never get a civilian trial

Though New York City will apparently be spared the unnecessary expense and disruptions of a civilian trial of Khalid Sheik Mohammed & Co., President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder are threatening to take the show on the road to some other unfortunate locale. But mark our words, it won’t happen. KSM and his cohorts will be tried in a military commission at Guantanamo Bay — because the administration has made it almost impossible for them to get a fair trial in a civilian court. In a typical criminal case, the government says very little outside of court, and what it does say in public is limited to a plain-vanilla recitation of the accusations with liberal use of the word “alleged” before the charges, as well as a reminder that everyone is innocent until proven guilty. This is for good reason: A defendant has a right to a fair trial, and pretrial publicity that is unduly prejudicial will deny the defendant that right. [Dana Perino, co author of this article and former George W. Bush press secretary, points out how this administration has hopelessly tainted the jury pool thereby forcing Obama to reverse his stupid decision to try ‘KSM’ in a civilian court…ed]

What We Lost While Abdulmutallab Clammed Up

The White House yesterday leaked the news that the Christmas Day bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, had begun cooperating with FBI interrogators last week. The Washington press corps quickly declared victory for the Obama administration and suggested that the news vindicated the decision to read Abdulmutallab his Miranda rights just 10 hours after he was detained and after just 50 minutes of questioning. It’s good news that Abdulmutallab is talking. But he started talking five weeks after the attack. Intelligence is perishable. The U.S. government passed on an opportunity to interrogate him at a time when his al Qaeda sponsors in Yemen probably thought he was incapable of talking. And the the fact that he is cooperating now should not obscure the gross mishandling of the incident by the Obama administration. [Had a Republican administration fumbled this situation as badly as this one has the lamestream media would be ALL OVER IT. When their guy puts the entire country in peril because of his unbelievably stupid handling of the underwear bomber all we get are crickets. When not IF a grip of innocent Americans are slaughtered before the year is out, their blood will be on one man’s hands…ed]

What exactly did Bush and Cheney do wrong?

As I noted several days ago, it is not only Republicans — but Democratic and media establishment figures as well — who clearly crave the preservation of the Bush/Cheney approach to Terrorism and civil liberties. When Bush’s popularity collapsed to historic lows, political and media elites pretended for awhile to object to his administration’s fear-based and radical policies as extremist and an assault on “our values.” But that was all just such a transparent pretense. In those few instances where Obama has rejected the Bush/Cheney template, the outrage and hysteria from Democratic and media voices is pervasive, and is growing louder. Just look at these illustrative incidents. [Wow looky here. A bunch of liberals are now looking back to the Bush/Cheney days with longing eyes now that they realize their ‘messiah’s’ policies are going to get a bunch of Americans killed, perhaps even some of them or their family members…ed]

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The Obama Spell Is Broken

The curtain has come down on what can best be described as a brief un-American moment in our history. That moment began in the fall of 2008, with the great financial panic, and gave rise to the Barack Obama phenomenon. The nation’s faith in institutions and time-honored ways had cracked. In a little-known senator from Illinois millions of Americans came to see a savior who would deliver the nation out of its troubles. Gone was the empiricism in political life that had marked the American temper in politics. A charismatic leader had risen in a manner akin to the way politics plays out in distressed and Third World societies. There is nothing surprising about where Mr. Obama finds himself today. He had been made by charisma, and political magic, and has been felled by it. If his rise had been spectacular, so, too, has been his fall. [If you read nothing else today, grab this one for sure…ed]

Deficit of Trust: Most Voters Don’t Believe President’s Assertions About Economy

During his State-of-the-Union address Wednesday night, President Obama spoke about a deficit of trust between the American people and political leaders. New Rasmussen Reports polling on the president’s speech shows just how deep that trust deficit has become. The president in the speech declared that his administration has cut taxes for 95% of Americans. He even chided Republicans for not applauding on that point. However, just 21% of voters nationwide believe that taxes have been cut for 95% of Americans. Most (53%) say it has not happened, and 26% are not sure. Other polling shows that nearly half the nation’s voters expect their own taxes to go up during the Obama years. The president also asserted that “after two years of recession, the economy is growing again.” Just 35% of voters believe that statement is true, while 50% say it is false. Obama claimed that steps taken by his team are responsible for putting two million people to work “who would otherwise be unemployed.” Just 27% of voters say that statement is true. Fifty-one percent (51%) say it’s false. [He’s a liar and the American people, even some who were all goo goo eyed over the guy a year ago, are finally starting to realize it…ed]

Salesman Obama: Nobody’s buying it

President Obama comes to Nashua today to try to sell New Hampshire on his sudden, post-Scott Brown commitment to job creation, deficit reduction and spending restraint. He can speechify all he wants, but the people aren’t buying it, and for good reason. The President is plainly and obviously not telling the truth. He said his health care reform would let us keep our current health care plans. It didn’t. He said (at a stop in Dover a year and a half ago) that no one earning less than $250,000 a year would see “any” tax increase. He then raised cigarette taxes and pushed a new energy tax and a tax on health benefits, among others. [Ouchy. Looks like the previous Rasmussen article was spot on…ed]

Obama’s SOTU speech scores readability of an eighth grader, two grades below GWB

Former Presidents George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan did not have it easy when it came to critics attacking their intelligence, while President Obama, Former Vice – President Al Gore, and Former President Bill Clinton have been hailed as brilliant. Here is an interesting nugget of new information, though. President Obama blamed himself for not being able to communicate his message properly to Americans, but a new analysis of the president’s State of the Union speech, brings to light why Mr. Obama could be having problems in this area. President Obama’s State of the Union speech was ranked fourth to the lowest since FDR’s first SOTU speech in 1934, says Smart Politics, a blog of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs.: “Text of Obama’s Address has a readability score for an average 8th grader – two grades lower than George W. Bush’s Addresses and the historical average for modern presidents.” [No wonder he got that nice bounce after the speech. His lamebrained supporters might have actually been able to understand some of what he said since he tried to keep it at their level…ed]

Obama’s got real trouble at home

Even in this winter of President Obama’s discon tent, things appear likely to get much bleaker for him before they get any better. The first casualties were Democratic governors who fell in New Jersey and Virginia. Then it was Camelot, seized by the enemy in Massachusetts. These Republican encroachments deep in Democratic territory appeared almost effortless. Obama’s pleas on behalf of Democratic candidates — words of gold just one year ago — fell like millstones around their necks. [The money lines come at the end of the article. Funny stuff indeed…ed]

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Haiti Aid Efforts Go Awry in the ‘Convoy to Nowhere’

Scott Lewis hoped to deliver more than one million meals to Haitians on Wednesday via a 15-truck convoy brimming with beans and rice. Instead, “It was the convoy to nowhere,” Mr. Lewis said. Well after dusk, the 52-year-old founder of a U.S. disaster-relief organization had barely delivered any food, other than some bags left at a missionary hospital, and a few more bags that got looted from the convoy as it crawled along crowded streets. Trucks conked out. Communication with the U.S. military broke down. Traffic snarled the streets. Hungry crowds made handing out food unsafe. [Haiti is an absolute mess. There is no leadership, no organization no one in charge. We have thousands of troops over there and there is no clear mission for these soldiers. The lamestream media has been hammering George W. Bush for years over Katrina even though the Democrat mayor of New Orleans and the Democrat Governor of the state at the time are the people who should have been held responsible for the lack of preparedness and the ensuing calamity. Think they’ll report on Obama’s Katrina with the same fervor?…ed]

U.S. suspends medical evacuations from Haiti

The U.S. military said on Friday it has stopped flying Haitian earthquake victims to the United States for medical attention following concerns by some state governments about who will pay for the treatment. “At this moment in time, yes, the flights have stopped,” said Navy Captain Kevin Aandahl, a spokesman for the U.S. Transportation Command, which manages the military’s medical emergency airlifts. “We have to have a destination to bring them to,” Aandahl said, citing media reports Florida had told the U.S. government that the state needed help paying for the care. “If Florida isn’t taking them … and I can’t confirm this, but I think Georgia has made a similar statement, so if we can’t bring them anywhere for treatment, then they’re staying in Haiti.” [Can you imagine the outcry if a Republican president ordered a halt to medical evacuations of Haitians to the U.S. over financial concerns? That said, why in the hell hasn’t the REST of the world stepped up to help these people? Hello socialist Europe, anybody there?…ed]

Americans arrested taking children out of Haiti

Haitian police have arrested 10 U.S. citizens caught trying to take 33 children out of the earthquake-stricken country in a suspected illicit adoption scheme, authorities said on Saturday. The five men and five women were in custody in the capital, Port-au-Prince after their arrests on Friday night. There are fears that traffickers could try to exploit the chaos and turmoil following Haiti’s January 12 earthquake quake to engage in illegal adoptions. One of the suspects, who says she is leader of an Idaho-based charity called New Life Children’s Refuge, denied they had done anything wrong. The suspects were detained at Malpasse, Haiti’s main border crossing with the Dominican Republic, after Haitian police conducted a routine search of their vehicle. Authorities said the Americans had no documents to prove they had cleared the adoption of the 33 children — aged 2 months to 12 years — through any embassy and no papers showing they were made orphans by the quake in the impoverished Caribbean country. [Millions of children in THIS country have issues they could use some help with so why are these idiots screwing around in Haiti?…ed]

Obama’s Deaf Ear May Cost His Success

This week, Obama showed himself once again to be out of touch with both Americans and with the current debt situation in the United States. He spoke of the determination, optimism, and fundamental decency in Americans that lives on and yet he seemed to suggest that that meant Americans would be determined to pass his health care reform and massive entitlement expansion. If Obama wants his presidency to be a success and for our economy to turn around, he will need to learn the lessons of the recent elections. To regain his footing with the American people, he will have to do more than institute a delayed, short-term, token spending freeze and acknowledge that the key to pulling us out of this recession lies with the innovation and motivation of the American people—not with yet another expensive program. [Obama, like most recent presidents, is nothing more than a puppet of the small group of people who really run the planet in the shadows. He will do their bidding regardless of what the American people want. They found a perfect person for the job as Obama has the type of arrogant ego that allows him to go about his business without empathy or humility…ed]

Presidential Sins. Because of a trio of mistakes by Obama, Democrats’ hold on Congress is increasingly precarious.

Having given himself “a good, solid B-plus” for his first year in office and declaring he would “rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president,” President Obama has a lot of people, even in his own party, wondering what on earth constitutes a good performance to his way of thinking. Jimmy Carter is the only president in over a century who failed to win re-election after taking over from the other party. That presidents usually get re-elected is of little solace to Democrats bracing for losses that could be comparable to the epic midterm election defeats of 1958, 1974, 1982, 1994, and 2006. [It’s going to take one helluva performance for him to climb outta the hole he’s dug just to become a one term mediocre president…ed]

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