2007.09.18 Politics and National Defense Roundup Contributed by Bill Faith
Can we really desert them now?
Today's must read:
Bryan Preston (H/T: )
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Bryan Preston
If you’ve been reading or listening to , you’ve been learning about these plans for years now. But I’d venture to say that most people are just now learning of the , which include replacing the Constitution with sharia law. The plans have been introduced as evidence in the ongoing Holy Land Foundation trial, in which the Council on American Islamic Relations has been named an unindicted co-conspirator. ...
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Joseph Myers
The on-going Holy Land Foundation trial has established important facts about the resident domestic Islamic jihad threat inside the United States. Although evidence brought forward in documents and testimony has explosive implications for US Homeland Security, the intelligence community, and every American citizen, relatively little media attention has been paid to it. ...
See also:
Quick hits:
Michelle Malkin: from Jason Mattera of , teaming up with Hot Air TV, who asks the Democrat congressman whether he will apologize to the exonerated Haditha Marines: ...
Michelle Malkin: My expectations of the Bush administration are so low now, it’s hard to get worked up anymore when the White House abandons conservatives in its futile quest to appease Democrats. But I am moved to agree with of Powerline that the decision to pass up Ted Olson for Attorney General in favor of Schumer-approved nominee Michael Mukasey was an especially dispiriting “act of preemptive surrender.” ...
Michelle Malkin
Who’s playing politics with the war? :
Democrats are not expected to take up President Bush’s war spending request until November, giving them time to calculate their next move and see if Republican support for his policies deteriorates.
The delay in passing the bill, which Bush says is needed by Oct. 1, is likely to intensify the standoff between the Democratic-controlled Congress and Bush, who says at least 130,000 troops are needed in Iraq through next summer.
The Democrat White Flag strategy is to punish the troops just when the counterinsurgency/surge measures are showing signs of success: ...
Kowtowing to the illegal alien lobby, and a looming showdown over the federal consent decree.
Jack Dunphy
In previous columns (, , , and ) I have written on the absurd lengths the city government of Los Angeles has gone to in acquiescing to the demands of illegal aliens. The illegal-alien lobby would of course be powerless were it not for its many sympathizers at all levels of government, and now some in the management of the Los Angeles Police Department have again demonstrated they can be just as nakedly partisan as even the most shameless of politicians. ...
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Contributed by Bill Faith on September 18, 2007 at 12:19 AM |