Dec
31
2009
Smoking Gun II Update At End! Very Important Updates Below! Today we are gaining more and more clarity on the missteps that led up to a Nigerian Jihadist, who was armed with a powerful and sophisticated stealth bomb and trained by al Qaeda in Yemen, coming seconds away from inflicting a Christmas Day Massacre on […]
Dec
30
2009
I hate it when I am right on matters of life and death, when the conclusion is we could see a lot more death in our immediate future. I took a lot of heat when President Obama came to office hoping he would succeed. I did this because I knew his failure would have dangerous […]
Dec
30
2009
I knew it would not take too long before deep sources inside the intel community would start to spill the beans about changes the liberal Obama administration made to our national security apparatus that were the likely (and I emphasize that for now) cause for terrorists having more success in hitting us in 2009 than […]
Dec
30
2009
It finally happened – as so many of us predicted it would. The Flight 253 bomber has lawyered up and gone silent after only alluding to future attacks against America are on the way: The Washington Post reports that the would-be Christmas bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, remains in a Detroit prision where, after initial debriefings by […]
Dec
30
2009
Well, now we know how bad our defenses have atrophied since just after 9-11, and probably since President Bush left office. It seems the Somalis were able to detect and stop a similar airline bomb plot just last month: MOGADISHU, Somalia – Officials say a Somali national tried to board a commercial airliner in Mogadishu […]
Dec
30
2009
Welcome RCP Readers – you may want to check out this update in a later post where a State Department source confirms my suspicions. – end update You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to know the liberal leaning Obama administration came into DC with the intent of undoing as much of President Bush’s […]
Dec
29
2009
I knew the Democrats were heading for political self destruction in 2010 and 2012 – but I had no idea it was going to be this bad. Here is the latest Rasmussen poll for the Nebraska Senate seat held by long time incumbent Ben Nelson (D): Dave Heineman (R) 61% Ben Nelson (D) 30% Some […]
Dec
29
2009
The finger pointing going on right now in the aftermath of the barely missed Christmas Day Massacre on Northwest Flight 253 is dizzying. The State Department is blaming the National Counter Terrorism Center for not revoking Abdulmutallab’s visa, and I am sure the NCTC is going to question why the State Department didn’t tell them […]
Dec
29
2009
When faced with a critical challenge I guess some people just need to feel like they are doing something, so they concoct useless and inane gestures to make it seem like they are doing their job. Then there is the whole ‘fool the people’ gambit as well, where you try and simply snooker people into […]
Dec
29
2009
Mr. President – You have been measured; You have been weighed; And you and your team have been found wanting: A Nigerian Muslim’s attempt to blow up an airliner landing in Detroit on Christmas Day has Americans much more concerned about the dangers of another terrorist attack. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds […]