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<p>The US president's national security strategy is to highlight homegrown terrorism for the first time, an adviser to Barack Obama says.</p> <p>John Brennan said the document being unveiled on Thursday explicitly recognised the threat posed by "individuals radicalised here at home".</p>

While it cannot be proven, there is little reason to doubt that many on the Left are disappointed that the Times Square bomber didn't turn out to be the "white male" he was originally identified as. This allegation may be wrong, but it is made on the basis of compelling evidence.There is a perfectly clear pattern on the Left -- the normative Left, not just the "far" Left -- that denies the obvious when it comes to Islamic terrorism. Take, for example, Maj. Nidal Hasan, who murdered 13 fellow soldiers and tried to murder the 32 others whom he wounded...

In May of 2009, Elena Kagan, as US solicitor general, filed papers with the US Supreme Court encouraging it not to listen to arguments in a lawsuit against the Saudi Arabian government. The suit was filed by thousands of family members and victims of the 9/11 terror attacks on the US.

Franklin Graham, Honorary Chairman of the National Day of Prayer Task Force, 2010, tells the gospel truth... YouTube Video On This Page ...but he need not be so pessimistic about our future, if Americans are willing to wake up and "repent," i.e., turn to the truth, and yield ourselves to it (hence, the word under-stand). That is how to truly become aware and strong. And people who do this will fulfill the responsibilities with which God charges them. Those who are Sovereign Citizens of America will carry out our responsibilities to govern our nation and influence our culture. For example,...

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There was no joy in liberal land when the prime suspect in the Times Square bomb plot turned out to be a Pakistani-American. The right-wing terrorist boogeyman vanished. Leftist racial and ethnic profiling failed again. The widely distributed videotape of a lighter-complected suspect near the attack scene - almost universally reported as a "white man" - raised expectations in some quarters that this could be the work of right-wing extremists, maybe even - oh dare it be hoped? - a Tea Party Republican.

Meet Faisal Shahzad. As a wannabe mass murderer, he is kind of a zero. Then again, so is his political hero: President Obama. You see, Mr. Shahzad meets all of the criteria for the modern day Democrat; 1) He was from overseas. Just like George Soros, that awful Huffington Puffington woman, Markos Moulitsas of the Daily Kos and, quite frankly, our President, Faisal's connection to the US was rudimentary at best. 2) Faisal was an anti-Bush zealot. The Wall Street Journal reports that the alleged terrorist spoke out passionately about one issue: his hatred of President Bush. Who did he...

Pakistan-Born Shahzad Faced Foreclosure in Connecticut and Disliked President Bush; an Invisible Man at His University Faisal Shahzad was losing his Connecticut home to foreclosure, disliked President George W. Bush, and was an almost invisible presence at the American university where he earned two degrees. Those are some of the details in the still-emerging portrait of the man who authorities say has implicated himself in the botched Times Square bomb plot. Mr. Shahzad was born in Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province, according to Pakistan's U.S. embassy. He worked at a Connecticut marketing firm until 2009, the same year he became a...

Chris Matthews, on Tuesday's Hardball, brought on two former CIA officials to discuss the latest terror attack, and the MSNBC host agreed with Tyler Drumheller that the most recent attacker was motivated by his house being foreclosed on and also agreed with Robert Baer who feared another attack could lead to "The Tea Party being strengthened" which could lead to "people blaming the White House for a situation it didn't create." Baer also hit Matthews' sweet spot of talking points when he went on to warn that the last successful terror attack "got us into a war in Iraq we...

Various politicians and members of the media blamed the "right-wing" for the failed New York car bomb terrorist attack, now they are afraid of "racism" against Muslims. Monday, May 3, 2010: Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY): "Whether the guy who did this, or the people who did this were with some Islamic terrorist group or whether they were some right-wing nut group or whether they were by themselves, in one sense it doesn't matter." CNN Terrorism analyst Peter Bergen says its probable the Times Square car bomb attempt was by a "right-wing" terrorist. MSNBC's Chris Matthews and NBC News Terrorist Analyst...

The first video is an interview of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg with Katie Couric. Here, the liberal gun control advocate Bloomberg tries to blame this terrorist attack on someone who is not happy with the health care bill. Would that be a Tea Party person, Mr. Mayor? The second video/audio is the voice of MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer, wishing out loud that it wasn’t an islamic terrorist. She states, “There was part of me that was hoping this was not going to be anybody with ties to any kind of Islamic country”. Well, I hate to disappoint you, Contessa….but it...

Faisal Shahzad gave the impression of a quiet family man, raising two small children with his wife in Shelton, Conn. and telling neighbors he worked on Wall Street. Now the Pakistani-American is accused of trying to detonate a homemade car bomb in New York City's bustling Times Square. Authorities have brought terrorism and mass destruction charges against him, saying he has confessed to receiving explosives training in Pakistan. Shahzad was expected to appear in court Tuesday. CBS News reports that officials intend to arraign Shahzad Wednesday morning in Manhattan Federal Court before a U.S. magistrate. Shahzad has been talking to...

MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer told a radio host today that she’s disappointed the Times Square terrorist is a Pakistani-American Muslim. Why couldn’t it just be an angry white male? That would make things so much easier for the jihadi-supporting left. The Radio Equalizer reported this from today’s Stephanie Miller Show: GatewayPundit has the audio

From House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D/MD, today has said that the President Barak Obama White House has been much sucessful in fighting terrorism then his predecessor, former President George W. Bush.

Attorneys who formerly represented al Qaeda members detained at Guantánamo now labor at the Justice Department representing the United States and shaping policy regarding treatment of those detainees. Yet the attorney general refuses to disclose the names of those who worked closely on detainee matters before joining the Obama administration.In mid March in Senate testimony, Attorney General Eric Holder (whose former law firm Covington & Burling likes to tout its work for Guantánamo detainees and who personally filed an amicus brief on behalf of attempted “dirty bomber” Jose Padilla, which he failed to disclose at his confirmation hearings) proclaimed...

President Obama should launch a campaign to “to expose Islamist terror attacks on fellow Muslims,” House Republican Whip Eric Cantor told a conservative audience during a national security policy speech Tuesday morning, “instead of apologizing to the Arab world.” “Every time the Taliban blows up innocent Muslim women and children in Pakistan or al-Qaida strikes in Iraq or in any other Arab country, we must broadcast to the world the faces of the victims and point out their killers,” Cantor said at Tuesday’s “Protect America Month” lecture series sponsored by the Heritage Foundation. “In the battle of ideas, we win...

For attempting to blame the Times Square bombing on an ObamaCare opponent.

It appears that it wasn't only media types such as MSNBC's Contessa Brewer who were disappointed that the Times Square bombing suspect turned out to be a Muslim. They were joined by virtually the entire leftwing blogosphere in their frustration that the suspect wasn't a tea party activist or a member of a "rightwing" militia group. Before the identity of the bombing suspect was made known, Kossack "waterboard sean" conducted a poll on who the perpetrator could be. And here are the hilarious results of that poll (I am using Kossack terminology here): An al Qaeda terrorist ---4%An American sympathetic...

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) on Tuesday said the Obama administration has been more successful in combating terrorism than its predecessor. “We're tough on terrorists. That’s our policy. That’s our performance. And, in fact, we've been more successful,” Hoyer said at his weekly press availability. Former President George W. Bush’s presidency was dominated by the issue of terrorism, and Bush’s vice president, Dick Cheney, has taken several shots at Democrats and President Barack Obama for endangering national security. Hoyer’s remarks Tuesday appeared designed to counterattack Republicans looking to the attempted bombing Saturday in Times Square as evidence that Democrats...

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) on Tuesday said the Obama administration has been more successful in combating terrorism than its predecessor. “We're tough on terrorists. That’s our policy. That’s our performance. And, in fact, we've been more successful,” Hoyer said at his weekly press availability. Former President George W. Bush’s presidency was dominated by the issue of terrorism, and Bush’s vice president, Dick Cheney, has taken several shots at Democrats and President Barack Obama for endangering national security.