2007.09.18 Politics and National Defense Roundup
Contributed by Bill Faith
Hot Air TV: Vigil at Walter Reed
Bryan Preston (H/T: Michelle Malkin)
Read the rest of Bryan's post here.
The Muslim Brotherhood’s plans to
seize the US become trial evidence
Bryan Preston
If you’ve been reading Jihad Watch or listening to Robert Spencer, 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 Muslim Brotherhood’s long term goals in the US, 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. ...
*** Homeland Security Implications of the Holy Land Foundation Trial
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:
Democrats will hold war funding hostage
Michelle Malkin
Who’s playing politics with the war? You tell me: 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: ...
We Don’t Need No Stinking License
Kowtowing to the illegal alien lobby, and a looming showdown over the federal consent decree.
Jack Dunphy
In previous columns (here, here, here, and here) 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. ...
Obama girl salutes the troops
Background here.
|
