Jan LaRue: Do You Trust Obamacare Analysts to Connect Your Medical 'Dots'?

By |2010-01-14T00:00:04-05:00January 14th, 2010|

Think of the Christmas "just wait 'til I get my Hanes on you" bomber as a deadly disease in your body next time the topic of Obamacare is raised. Despite having all the information needed, the U.S. government failed to catch the al Qaeda-trained terrorist, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, before he boarded the Detroit-bound plane with a high explosive hidden in his underwear.

ACLU Loses Big on a War-Fighting Decision

By |2010-01-11T13:08:41-05:00January 11th, 2010|

Over the objections of the ACLU and allied lawyers, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a Yemini man who joined the Taliban and Al-Qeada to fight against US-led opponents could be detained at Gitmo prison indefinitely. This decision is binding on all federal courts unless altered by that whole Court, or reversed by the US Supreme Court.

Some of the facts for this article, but not all of the legal conclusions, come from a website called Leagle, reporting on recent decisions. One concerning detainees at Gitmo was just handed down by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, which hears the cases challenging detentions […]

Ken Klukowski: Our President Is Not Protecting Us

By |2010-01-06T11:00:54-05:00January 6th, 2010|

President Obama's team has scared the nation over the past week with pronouncements so crazy they leave you breathless. But worse still are the decisions they've made, decisions that show America is in danger, and that those charged with protecting us are failing to treat this life-and-death struggle as the war that it really is.

Ken Blackwell: The Left Goes to War Against Science, Surrenders on Terror

By |2010-01-06T10:50:27-05:00January 6th, 2010|

Two ongoing trends I chronicled during 2009 highlight an ironic situation: Leftists remain tough on their domestic political opponents, while lax when it comes to our real common enemies. As we recently saw with the Christmas airplane-bombing attempt, leftists seem bent on treating terrorists with kid gloves, insisting they receive rights normally reserved for U.S. citizens (even when this means failing to extract timely information that might save lives).

Ken Blackwell: President Obama: How About Bowing to Reality?

By |2010-01-05T10:36:25-05:00January 5th, 2010|

The editor of the New Yorker was once asked about the hip, cool, insider writing that graced his journal. Didn't its stylish prose go over people's heads? "We don't write it for the little old lady from Dubuque," he replied. Not pitching your case to the little old lady from Dubuque, Iowa, became a hallmark of modern sophisticated liberalism--a liberalism more characterized by point-of-view than by policy point papers. So when the New Yorker's Christmas week number hit newsstands, it was bound to attract attention.

Newt Gingrich and Peter Ferrara: A Vision for Prosperity

By |2010-01-04T11:45:22-05:00January 4th, 2010|

America is careening in overdrive in exactly the wrong direction, and the American people know it. All across this nation, people crave a new vision of leadership to restore traditional American prosperity and the American Dream, which they rightly see slipping away.

Peter Ferrara: Washington Knows Best

By |2010-01-04T11:25:27-05:00January 4th, 2010|

This column originally appeared on The American Spectator website on December 30, 2009.

The health policy atrocity that Washington Democrats are now finalizing represents an ugly new turn in American politics. From almost the founding of the Republic, we have seen demagogues seek to sway public opinion in their favor with crass arguments appealing to base motives in the electorate, from racism to class warfare to xenophobia. But that is NOT what we are seeing in Washington today, on issues from health care to “global warming” to federal deficits, spending, taxes, welfare, energy, and beyond.

What we are seeing in Washington today is much worse. […]

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