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Under rule by oligarchical collectivists, the progressive future is certain; it is the past that keeps changing. For example, on Thursday night Obama had said that the reason he didn't appreciate that people were upset by the Muslim atrocity in San Bernardino is that he hadn't been watching enough cable TV. But within a few hours, he had no longer said it:

New limits are being imposed on media access to the detention center at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the commander of the military's Southern Command said Thursday, outlining rules that will limit what journalists can see and how often they can visit the already highly restricted site. Journalists will be allowed to visit the center on tours that will be organized once per quarter, lasting no more than a day, and they will no longer be able to visit inside the two detention center camps where a majority of the 107 current prisoners are held, Marine Corps Gen....

The decision to refer the case of Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl to a general court martial on charges of desertion by Gen. Robert B. Abrams, the head of Army Forces Command at Ft. Bragg, N.C., shows there remains at least one general not cowed by President Obama's purge of command officers deemed insufficiently subservient to his policies of appeasement and unilateral disarmament. As Breitbart reported: Bergdahl, who was kidnapped by the Taliban following his abandonment of a forward operating base in Afghanistan, was charged this year with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. If charged with the latter, he could potentially...

Democratic Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton spoke Tuesday at the University of Minnesota to outline her strategy for keeping the United States safe and preventing future terror attacks. Thumbs up or thumbs down.

Donald Trump is being called racist because he believes Muslims should be denied entrance into the U.S. Is that a racist move or a national security move? Should it also be considered that it's not racist if terrorists can't enter and kill the people of color who also live in America?

In a particularly fiery commentary Monday night, Glenn Beck charged the United States government with "harnessing" the Islamic State for its own gain. "The president prefers ISIS contained. Why?" the show host asked on The Glenn Beck Program. "Because they are a pawn in their own documents for him to get what he wants: Assad out and to have a proxy war with Iran and Russia. It is shocking, it is infuriating, it is damn near criminal, but it is the truth according to their own documents." The documents Beck was referencing is a recently released Department of Defense document...

The Republican establishment has been leading the way in their non-stop attacks on Donald Trump, and it is clear they aim to try and also destroy Ted Cruz as well if he becomes any sort of number one contender and have already been firing salvos at him. It is clear, and they have as much said so, they would rather have Hillary Clinton as president than either Trump or Cruz, and will do anything to see her elected if it appears Trump or Cruz will become the nominee. Non-stop for a week and continuing into this Sunday is their relentless...

Nazi comparisons in politics should not be thrown around lightly, but as one Jewish website noted; when a politician suggests following the actual path of the Nazis, it is time to be bold. It is for that reason, that over 10,000 American Jews have signed a “registry” to fight back. The rhetoric from GOP front-runner Donald Trump has been growing increasingly more alarming and dangerous each day. From calling for a “registry” to track Muslims to proposing an outright ban on Muslim immigrants — the former reality television star appears to have actually crossed the line into total fascist demagoguery...

Today the Sydney Morning Herald published yet another article by their Islamic poster boy Waleed Aly. The comment preceding the post on facebook said, "This isn't really a conversation about Islam. It's too transparent politically, and theologically illiterate – for that. The more interesting story here is one of a collapsing brand of politics." The irony is' that quote came from Waleed Aly himself in an attempt to criticise Tony Abbott and Donald Trump. Yet it far more accurately describes Waleed and every other Islamic apologist given air time in the media. So come on Waleed' let's talk about Islam....

Taliban fighters aren't just making gains on the battlefield: They're also bleeding away a revenue source that is crucial for Afghanistan to pay for its military without US help. The Afghan government will earn about $30 million in 2015 from its mineral sector for the third straight year, far short of a previous projection of $1.5 billion, according to Mines and Petroleum Minister Daud Shah Saba. That's also a quarter of what smugglers -mostly linked to the Taliban and local warlords -earn annually selling rubies and emeralds, he said.

The Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Screening Coordination in the Department of Homeland Security had one job Thursday: answer questions about the review of Syrian refugees. She couldn’t do it. “I would like to see if you could give us some numbers, so that the committee and the American people have this information,” Ohio U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, co-chairman of a joint subcommittee hearing on “Terrorism and the Visa Waiver Program,” told senior DHS employee Kelli Ann Burriesci yesterday. In a 5 minute exchange posted to YouTube, he questioned: “How many Syrian refugees have entered the United States...

It appears the final count down is approaching. Islam is at war with the non Muslim World, the average American seems now to understand, we have at least one potential leader that knows this and willing to fight it. Watch and share this video which gives you in their own words (muslim leaders and major clerics) what we are now seeing.

Critics of Donald Trump’s proposal to prohibit Muslims from entering the United States need to keep in mind that the United States is involved in a war with a group that is attempting to get all Muslims to join its unholy crusade. War sometimes forces national leaders to take actions to defend the nation that they would not otherwise consider. During World War II President Franklin Roosevelt ordered the bombing of German cities even though he knew innocent children would likely be killed.

A former Department of Homeland Security agent says that an investigation he was conducting into a fundamentalist Islamic group operating in the U.S. may have helped stop San Bernardino jihadi Syed Farook had the government not shut down his probe. During an interview with Fox News' Megyn Kelly on Thursday, Philip Haney said that in 2012 as an agent with U.S. Customs and Border Protection's National Targeting Center, he opened an investigation into a Sunni Islamic group called, Tablighi Jamaat, a subset of the fundamentalist Deobandi movement. But Haney said that just a year into the investigation it was shut...

Haney, in an interview Thursday night with the Fox News Channel's Megyn Kelly, said that about a year into their investigation, the Homeland Security's Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties and the State Department shut down his efforts for fear of profiling Muslims. The kicker is this: The monitoring could have prevented the recent San Bernardino, California, terror attack committed by Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik, he said. In addition to shuttering the program, Haney said feds destroyed 67 of his team's records. He noted that a Southern California mosque that Farook attended is part of the movement his...

After the latest Paris terror attack, French President Hollande swore he’d go after radical Muslims who pulled off the mass slayings. Now, we’re learning what he meant by that. As HotAir reports: “[T]he French have kicked in the doors on 2,235 homes and taken 232 people into custody or placed them on house arrest.” In the sleepy French town of Lagny-sur-Marne, just 18 miles from Paris …French police went to the local mosque where they found: The Salafist mosque in Lagny-sur-Marne, about 30km east of the French capital was closed down by police on 2 December. In subsequent raids the...

Foreigners have no right to emigrate to the United States. How many immigrants we want to take in, and who those immigrants should be, are issues decided by us in our sole discretion, through our political process. This has always been the law, and has always been the fact. But there are ominous signs that the Democrats may be trying, surreptitiously, to effect a radical change in these basic principles of American sovereignty. Senator Pat Leahy proposed, in the Senate Judiciary Committee, an amendment to Title 18 of the U.S. Code, which provided as follows:

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: We continue to learn even more and more about the San Bernardino Two and what is beginning to look more and more like a terrorist cell. Looks like it was a terrorist cell. And can I tell you something else, folks? I'm getting a little wary... In fact, I have been wary of this since it was first used to explain all of this, and I'm referring to the term "radicalized." Everybody is now saying, "Oh, yeah, the San Bernardino Two? They were 'radicalized.'" Marco Rubio was talking about it last night on Megyn Kelly's show on...

The desperation grows. Donald Trump has now reached his highest point in polls, garnering 35 percent in the latest CBS/New York Times poll. The second place contender, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) trails by a longshot at 16 percent; establishment favorite-nouveau Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) clocks in at just 9 percent, while former establishment favorite Jeb Bush is down at 3 percent. Establishment Republicans have now entered a state of open panic, with Karl Rove writing, "Donald Trump would be the dream opponent for the Democratic Party. We'll see in the next four months whether that matters to Republicans." The establishment...

A new poll suggests that a plurality of Americans favor a temporary ban on Muslim immigration like the one proposed by Republican front-runner Donald Trump. The survey by conservative-leaning Rasmussen Reports found that 46 percent of likely voters would favor a policy preventing Muslim immigrants from entering the country until tighter screening procedures can be implemented, while 40 percent would oppose such a measure. Among likely Republican voters, 66 percent would support the ban, while 24 percent would oppose it. Just 30 percent of likely Democratic voters would favor the proposed ban, while 55 percent said they would oppose it....