15 Years @ War
The WTC bombing was radical Islam's declaration of war against the United States.
National Reconnaissance Office
Top Democrats Spout Nonsense on Intelligence Reform
Fear is not caused by administration rhetoric; we are genuinely less safe.
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Will the State Department Side with American Terror Victims or Yasser Arafat?
As Abbas brags about Fatah's terror legacy, we wait and watch.
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Think You’re Paying Too Much at the Pump?
The Saudis beg to differ. Reuters reports: Saudi Arabia’s oil minister said on Sunday the kingdom had slashed output by 800,000 barrels per day in March d...
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The Senate and the No-Fly Zone: The Legend Begins
Out of extremely thin air, the Obama administration is now conjuring the narrative that Congress actually did approve a Libyan no-fly zone before President Barack Obama signed onto the project wi...
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What Would We Do Without the Arab League?
Little publicized fact: Right up until the Arab League suspended Libya’s participation, due to Gaddafi’s highly visible slaughter of his own people, which country held the annually ro...
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On the NRO Libya Editorial, I Respectfully Dissent
I respectfully dissent from Wedesday’s NRO editorial, which urges that the United States go to war with Libya. The editorial doesn’t put it that way. Indeed, it doesn&r...
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A Realistic Democracy Project
John Bolton’s essay in Standpoint (flagged in the NRO web briefing) is terrific. Assessing the tumult in the Middle East, Egypt in particular, he argues for a careful, realistic promo...
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Re: Re: Willful Blindness, Etc.
James Clapper is the director of national intelligence, so he must know what he’s talking about. I mean, who are you going to believe? DNI Clapper or the Muslim Brother...
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El Baradei and the Al Qaqaa Affair
I’d all but forgotten this — but Powerline remembered: El Baradei achieved his greatest renown in connection with the pre-war weapons inspections in Iraq, which he hea...
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A More Civil and Honest Public Discourse?
President Obama last week refuted – clearly and commendably -- those who have been attempting to exploit the bloodbath in Tucson to smear conservative polemicists and law-abiding gun owners...
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Wrong on Rauf
Imam Feisal Rauf, the cleric behind the provocative Ground Zero Mosque (GZM) project, as one critic put it, “is no moderate. He presents himself as a peacemaking Islamic Gandhi, but he is i...
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Hypocrisy on Stilts
On the New York Times Bloggingheads site (linked here on NRO), Adam Serwer of The American Prospect makes the case that conservatives, because of their rhetoric, were complicit in the Tucson shoo...
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No War? Or a Just War?
Some interesting responses to my NRO piece on “The War Against the Christians.” An academic, a man of the left, wrote to say that I was pushing a “paranoid right-wing fantasy.&r...
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Vanity Fair Game
Filmmakers get to take dramatic license. Reporters really shouldn’t. But when it comes to Joseph C. Wilson IV and Valerie Plame, the mainstream media, as much as Hollywood, insist on market...
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Missile Malpractice
Show me where in the Constitution it says the government — created by the people in order to serve the people — is empowered to mandate that those selfsame people buy health insurance...
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Better Late Than Never on “Able Danger”?
Five years ago, I called fo...
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Obama Pal Rashid Khalidi Back in the News for Aiding Hamas
President Obama’s good friend, former PLO mouthpiece Rashid Khalidi, is back in the news. He has signed an appeal for funds to outfit another ship that, like the “peace flotilla,&rdqu...
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An Arab Neo-Con?
Eli Lake of the Washington Times reports: The United A...
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Sea Hunt
A video about the Gaza flotilla incident, "Maritime Martyrs: The Truth about the Mavi Marmara," was produced by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) for internal uses. A copy has been made available t...