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I once asked, What if Obama cant lead? The answer after Paris is painful In his mem­oir, Le­on Pan­etta ar­gued that for all of Barack Obama's strengths, he is miss­ing an es­sen­tial in­gredi­ent of lead­er­ship. He lacks "fire," wrote Obama's former CIA dir­ect­or and Pentagon chief. "The pres­id­ent re­lies on the lo­gic of a law pro­fess­or rather than the pas­sion of a lead­er." Obama has proved Pan­etta right again and again dur­ing his pres­id­ency, but nev­er more dan­ger­ously so than with his shoulder-shrug ap­proach to IS­IS. Obama called it a "J.V. team" be­fore it star­ted be­head­ing Amer­ic­ans. He said it...

Serious stuff here folks as Benjamin Netanyahu warned Obama, warned the P5+1, and warned John ‘Swiftboat’ Kerry before any of them agreed to that ridiculous deal last month in Geneva… warned them that Iran cannot ever be trusted…but did they listen…in a word…NO. And now Iran’s hard-line lawmakers…lawmakers who oppose the deal reached in Geneva and who are being fueled on by their war-mongering mullahs in response to a planned but NOT yet passed or implemented legislation by US Senators to actually add additional sanctions…have drafted a bill to increase the country’s level of uranium enrichment to 60%…a level that...

North Korea has sent a fax to South Korea threatening to attack “without notice” in response to anti-Pyongyang rallies held on the second anniversary of Kim Jong Il's death earlier this week, South Korea’s largest news agency reported Friday. According to Yonhap news agency, the North's powerful National Defense Commission sent the message to South Korea's National Security Council through on Thursday. The youngest son of Kim Jong Il succeeded his late father in 2011, becoming the third member of his family to rule the unpredictable and reclusive communist state. NBC News was unable to independently verify the report. The...

(CNSNews.com) – The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), spent $823,200 of economic stimulus funds in 2009 on a study by a UCLA research team to teach uncircumcised African men how to wash their genitals after having sex. The genitalia-washing program is part of a larger $12-million UCLA study examining how to better encourage Africans to undergo voluntary HIV testing and counseling – however, only the penis-washing study received money from the 2009 economic stimulus law. The washing portion of the study is set to end in 2011. “NIH Announces the...

President Obama’s car came to a halt in Israel yesterday, reportedly because it had been filled with the wrong kind of gas. “This is a metaphor for his Middle East policy—he’s been running on the wrong kind of fuel,” said Heritage expert James Phillips. The Obama Doctrine—the President’s approach to foreign policy—has been one of talks, sanctions, and seeking international agreements. But his tactics have led to some sorry outcomes. As Heritage’s Luke Coffey put it, “After almost four years of his presidency, not only is America’s standing in the world weaker; the world is also more dangerous than before.”...

Al-Qaida in Algeria The Republic of Mali is a landlocked nation in Northwestern Saharan Africa. Mali is divided into eight regions and has a population of 15 million. The main sources of income for the nation are fishing and agriculture though it is one of the largest producers of gold on the African continent. Since 1992 the country was stable until a coup d’état in March 2012 removed the government and suspended the constitution, claiming that the nation’s President did little to quell a rebellion by a separatist group which was sidelined by al Qaeda trained Islamic terrorist Ansar Dine...

(CNSNews.com) – It took them three weeks to get there, but an FBI team investigating a deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi finally reached the eastern Libyan city on Thursday, spending “a number of hours” there before leaving again. Pentagon spokesman George Little told a press briefing a small military support mission had accompanied the FBI personnel, providing “logistic and security support,” including transportation, in consultation with the Libyan authorities. He repeatedly declined to get into specifics about the mission, saying “we may need to replicate it in the future, and I wouldn’t want to tip off the...

Waking up this morning, I had a ton of e-mail in my inbox, but one really stood out. It was a fundraising e-mail for Barack Obama. Yes, even after his dismal debate performance against Mitt Romney, Obama was back to fundraising. But his e-mail message was one of the strangest I've seen. First, let's start with the subject line. Again... this was an e-mail from Barack Obama's campaign. Supposedly, these are not a bunch of amateurs. Yet the subject line was simply: Hey. That's it. Just "Hey." They might have well just said Yo! Then, we have the e-mail itself....