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Getting It Wrong on Terrorism

January 31st, 2010

By Tom Carter Michael Hayden is a retired U.S. Air Force general and former Director of both the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency.  He has a column today in The Washington Post that anyone who cares about the war on terror should read.  Hayden begins with the specific case of the Christmas Day [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: CIA, Hayden, interrogation, Miranda, NSA, terrorists, trials
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Obama’s State of the Union

January 31st, 2010

By Tom Carter A number of the President’s critics have opined that he didn’t say anything new in the State of the Union Address and mainly tried to rally Democrats to support him.  To the contrary, I think three important aspects of the address are pretty clear. The first is what he actually proposed.  Politico [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Congress, DADT, health care, Obama, SOTU, Supreme Court
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We’ve Come a Long Way

January 30th, 2010

By Larry Ennis How many reading this will remember the old crank telephones that hung on the wall? I remember the crank phone my Grandpa Cole had at his farm in Lamar County, Alabama. Cole was not the telephone type, and he was tight with his money to boot. The old man was pretty well-off [...]

Articles written by Larry Ennis
Tags: computer, Facebook, MySpace, technology, telephone, Twitter
Categories: History, Life, Science | Comments (0) | Home

Spirit Stalled

January 29th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin On January 26th, 2213 days into its mission, NASA declared the Mars rover Spirit, with 1-2 wheels inoperative and the rover itself stuck in a drift, a “stationary research station.”  It isn’t dead yet; rover drivers will attempt to orient the rover in such a way as to take maximum advantage of the lessening winter sun while conducting stationary [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: exploration, JPL, Mars, NASA, Opportunity, rover, space, Spirit
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The Church and the Holocaust

January 29th, 2010

International Holocaust Remembrance Day, created in 2005 by a UN General Assembly resolution, coincides with the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp by Soviet forces on January 27, 1945. This is the third of a series of three articles being re-published to observe this solemn day of remembrance. By Tom Carter There has long been speculation about [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Catholic, Church, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jews, Pius XII
Categories: History, Politics | Comments (2) | Home

Second Time Around

January 28th, 2010

By Larry Ennis  President Obama gave his first State of the Union address last night, effectively beginning his second year in office. The speech wasn’t anything special in my opinion. A little less arrogant but far from humble, Obama in effect offered little but a promise to do better. He mainly tried to get his [...]

Articles written by Larry Ennis
Tags: Brown, Democrats, Massachusetts, Obama, SOTU, Tea Party, transparency
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Auschwitz and the Holocaust

January 28th, 2010

International Holocaust Remembrance Day, created in 2005 by a UN General Assembly resolution, coincides with the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp by Soviet forces on January 27, 1945. This is the second of a series of three articles being re-published to observe this solemn day of remembrance.  By Tom Carter The Auschwitz complex consisted of [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Auschwitz, death camp, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jews
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TwiCrimes

January 27th, 2010

By Amber So, I’m guessing you’re wondering what the title of this article means. I’m a big Twilight fan, and Twilight fans are called TwiFans. Since Twilight, people have gone a little crazy and become obsessed with it (including me). But some TwiFans are a lot crazier than others, and they commit “TwiCrimes.” On June [...]

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Tags: Rob Pattinson, twicrimes, TwiFans, Twilight
Categories: Arts, Life, News | Comments (12) | Home

Remembering the Holocaust

January 27th, 2010

International Holocaust Remembrance Day, created in 2005 by a UN General Assembly resolution, coincides with the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp by Soviet forces on January 27, 1945.  This is the first of a series of three articles being re-published to observe this solemn day of remembrance.  By Tom Carter The Auschwitz concentration camp was formally liberated [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Auschwitz, death camp, International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Categories: History, Politics | Comments (3) | Home

Not Melting After All

January 26th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin In 2007, the International Panel on Climate Change issued a dire warning that the Himalayan glaciers will have disappeared by the year 2035 due to the scourge of global warming.  This assertion worked wonderfully to fuel the climate change activists into thinking that everybody needed to chip in to “Please help the world” [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: climategate, environment, glacier, global warming, Gore, IPCC, Pachauri
Categories: News, Politics, Science | Comments (3) | Home

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

January 25th, 2010

By Tom Carter Richard Socarides was a special assistant to President Bill Clinton and the senior White House adviser on gay rights from 1997 to 1999.  In yet another fusillade of friendly fire from his own base, Mr. Socarides just took aim at the President in Ask Obama About Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell in The Wall Street Journal. Many [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Congress, DOD, don't ask don't tell, gay rights, Military, President
Categories: History, News, Politics | Comments (3) | Home

Like It or Not

January 24th, 2010

By Larry Ennis The election of Scott Brown to the Massachusetts Senate seat previously held by Ted Kennedy marks the beginning of a major turn-around in our political system. This reversal didn’t come about overnight. There were ample warning signs, but the Washington crowd has long ago stopped fearing the voters. Many of them (both [...]

Articles written by Larry Ennis
Tags: Democrats, FDR, liberal, progressives, Scott Brown, socialism, tea parties
Categories: History, News, Politics | Comments (4) | Home

Never Forget (Update)

January 23rd, 2010

By Brianna Aubin (This article was originally published on January 21, 2010. The update includes videos at the end of the article.) In It Can Happen Here I pointed out that socialism, along with its brother doctrines of fascism and communism, have killed too many people in too many revolutionary seas of blood to be [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: collectivism, freedom, Glenn Beck, Holocaust, mass murder, socialism
Categories: History, News, Politics | Comments (6) | Home

Criminal Trials for Terrorists

January 23rd, 2010

By Tom Carter Dan Miller, an attorney and a former Army JAG officer, has written two articles at Pajamas Media on the Obama Administration’s policy of trying some foreign terrorists as common criminals in federal courts.  These articles very effectively combine legal reasoning and common sense to refute any argument in favor of criminal trials for terrorists.  I highly recommend [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: enemy combatants, KSM, Miranda, Moussaoui, rights, terrorists, trial
Categories: Military, News, Politics | Comments (1) | Home

King for a Day, Part I

January 21st, 2010

By Brian Bagent How do we disentangle ourselves from the Gordian Knot that can characterize what has become many of our foreign affairs, especially what is going on in the Middle East?  How can we reduce unemployment back to an acceptable level of 3-5% and sustain it indefinitely?  How can we reduce our staggering $12,000,000,000,000 debt [...]

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Tags: deficit, drilling, environment, Middle East, oil, production, unemployment
Categories: Economics, Politics | Comments (4) | Home

Never Forget

January 21st, 2010

By Brianna Aubin In my last post I pointed out that socialism, along with its brother doctrines of fascism and communism, have killed too many people in too many revolutionary seas of blood to be regarded as anything but pure, naked evil.  Unfortunately, with the notable exception of the Holocaust, a lot of this past has been [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: collectivism, freedom, Glenn Beck, Holocaust, mass murder, socialism
Categories: History, News, Politics | Comments (3) | Home

It Can Happen Here

January 21st, 2010

By Brianna Aubin Right now, a lot of people are celebrating that Scott Brown was elected to the Senate in Massachusetts, thereby breaking the supermajority of the Senate Democrats who seem so utterly determined to shove “reform” down our throats whether we want it or not.  These people span many viewpoints and both sides of [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: communism, conservative, fascism, liberal, progressive, socialism
Categories: History, Politics | Comments (7) | Home

Christian Rifles and Crusaders

January 20th, 2010

By Tom Carter My list of the dumbest things I’ve heard of has gotten quite long over the years, and I’ve just made a new entry.  As I was making my daily scan of the Drudge Report, I came across a headline that I couldn’t pass up.  The Drudge link leads to an ABC News report, U.S. [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Christian, crusader, Islam, Muslim, rifle sight, Sepoy, Trijicon
Categories: Military, News, Politics | Comments (19) | Home

Brown Wins in Massachusetts

January 19th, 2010

By Tom Carter About eight minutes ago (about 10:05 pm EST), CNN called the Massachusetts Senate race for Scott Brown, the Republican, with a margin of 52% to 47%.  Martha Coakley, the Democratic candidate, has conceded. All things considered, this is the equivalent of a political nuclear explosion.  It’s going to be fun watching the [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Brown, Coakley, election, Massachusetts, Senate
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The Massachusetts Referendum

January 19th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin Tomorrow morning, health care, the Democratic party, and Obama’s agenda are going to come up for a vote.  They’re going to come up for a vote in Massachusetts, a state where Kennedy held a Senate seat for 47 years and a Republican has not been elected since 1972.  That the race is [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: Coakley, Democratic, health care, Massachusetts, Republican, Scott Brown
Categories: News, Politics | Comments (6) | Home

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