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"Bush Doctrine: the United States had the right to secure itself from countries that harbor or give aid to terrorist groups. including the controversial policy of preventive war, which held that the United States should depose foreign regimes that represented a potential or perceived threat to the security of the United States. And a policy of spreading democracy around the world, especially in the Middle East, as a strategy for combating terrorism. Some of these policies were codified in a National Security Council text entitled the National Security Strategy of the United States published on September 20, 2002.[5]" Obama Doctrine:...

While I'm not exactly on 'pins and needles' here as we await the new strategy, there is always a slight chance that a new NSS (executive Branch) might facilitate a National Defense Strategy (SecDef) and National Military Strategy (CJCS) that better integrate and coordinate the role of the military with ALL instruments of national power to achieve our Nation's objectives. Then again, since the Quadrennial Roles and Missions Review and Quadrennial Defense Review were to be 'consistent' with the National Security Strategy, yet we are just now getting a new NSS .......... guess we'll have to wait and see. Schuehle...

Radical Academic Credos Bethany Stotts, January 6, 2010 For supporters of David Horowitz’s student Academic Bill of Rights, academic freedom is about protecting vulnerable students from indoctrination at the hands of radical professors. However, one DePaul University professor recently argued that Horowitz’s conception of academic freedom promotes a “distinctly right-wing agenda” and “contains within it a backhanded insult to the intelligence of the students he is purporting to protect.” “If the professors listed in Horowitz’s The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America were as silly and irresponsible as Horowitz suggests, why would any student enroll in their courses?” asked Professor...

Conn. Sen. Chris Dodd expected to announce retirement, sources say WaPo (Just a teaser right now) ^ | January 5, 2009 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2421954/posts [North Dakota Dem] Senator Byron Dorgan Will Not Seek Re-Election Fox News Posted on January 5, 2010 6:18:20 PM EST by Freedom_Isn't_Free http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2421744/posts Ritter is not running for re-election as Colorado's governor (Rat jumps sinking ship) Denver 9 News ^ | 01/05/2010 | Staff Posted on January 5, 2010 10:26:50 PM EST by catnipman http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2421905/posts 21 House Seats moving towards GOP (2010 predictions) Rothenberg Report ^ | Jan 5, 2009 | Stu Rothenberg http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2421904/posts 2010 Situation Grows More...

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(VIDEO) Anyone with half an ounce of intellectual honesty admits that the Obama Stimulus (Porkulus) plan has been an abysmal failure. Never failing to let a good crisis go to waste, the politicians went to great lengths to sell the biggest political boondoggle of all-time! The video below, courtesy of Naked Emperor News, captures these snake-oil salesmen (or, to be PC, "salespeople") peddling their fiscal insanity and deception. After watching this, you may be interested in viewing the Interactive Map of Obama's Phony Stimulus Jobs, as well as the short, 1948 video that features "Dr. Utopia", and is entitled, Make...

SNIPPET: "Over the past few weeks, in the aftermath of the Anwar al-Awlaki’s rise to mainstream media prominence, I’ve been asked by several journalists to identify and discuss the role of the influential ‘online celebrity shaykhs.’ At the top of my list of Western jihadist clerics has been a guy known as Shaykh Abdullah al-Faisal. Well, turns out, he’s not just at the top of my list. This Jamaican-born fire-breathing jihadist cleric whose spent time in UK prison for incitement to terrorism was just arrested in Mombasa, Kenya for preaching in Kenyan mosques."

SNIPPET: "From today’s Times Online: “Suicide bomber kills 70 at Pakistan sports event” A suicide bomber drove a vehicle packed with explosives on to a field during a volleyball tournament in northwest Pakistan today, killing at least 70 people. Police said that at least 65 people were wounded and some 20 houses destroyed in the attack." SNIPPET: "Now how does Adam Gadahn’s video earlier this month in, “The Mujahideen Do Not Target Muslims” at all fit with attacks on people watching volleyball games? Seems to me that al-Qaida is either suffering from “acute disconnected from reality syndrome” (a la Stalin...

Today's edition of LINK TV, vile Arab/leftist propaganda brought to you by the Annenberg Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Wallace Global Fund, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Shei'rah Foundation, Open Society Institute (the notorious George Soros), John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Otto Haas Charitable Trust, and Park Foundation. In the war of ideas, these manure packaged as journalism is seen in 29 million homes in the US and 280 million people including 21 Arab countries all over the Middle East. Today's clip features "Is War on the Horizon?/Tension in Gaza/...

As Sarah Palin’s popularity grows so do the number of blogs about Palin, or perhaps Palin’s popularity grows due to the number of blogs available. These blogs now play a vital role in delivering news and information about Sarah Palin and conservative thought that has been abdicated by the mainstream media in the United States.

The Obamites Fold Their Tents and Slink Off: Facing a Stronger Foe. January 2, 2010, 7:47 am By Bruce Karlson The “stronger foe” referenced above is Honduras. As is obvious, its strength is not in force of arms, population, or economic clout. The Hondurans and their recent president, Roberto Micheletti, had spine, commitment, and principle. Obamites, and Democrats in general, are unfamiliar with these attributes and usually simply pay obeisance to or pay off dictators of all persuasions. It should be noted that said dictators need not have their fiefdoms off shore. Andrew Stern of the SEIU, the current head...

Abdelmutalib's Act of War By Walid Phares SNIPPET: "In the Arab world there is a saying: “Take their truth from their crazies.” I didn’t think it would fully apply in geopolitics until I heard Libya’s dictator, Moammar Qadhafi, claiming on al Jazeera few years ago that Bin Laden had acquired intercontinental missiles. The “crazy boy,” as the late Egyptian President Sadat used to call him, argued sarcastically that al Qaeda has developed an unstoppable weapon: human transoceanic missiles (Sawareekh bashariyya abira lil qarrat). He meant by that Jihadists who were committed to istishaad (martyrdom) by blowing up commercial jets over...

Wednesday, December 30, 2009 Tea Party Members of KCAP endorse Proft, Lowery, Hultgren [Illinois primary] from KCAP KCAP consisting of 300 Kane County affiliated precinct committeemen candidates, after completing thorough research assignments, agreed at their endorsement meeting Tuesday night that Proft is their choice for Governor citing aspects of his ‘policy revolution,’ focus on K-12 education and stand up posture as critical to leading the state. Judge Lowery, in the senate race, got the affirmation as the conservative with the genuine record and gravitas to strike an important contrast with Kirk in the primary and clearly provide the best...

"Best (er, worst) of 2009: Hate mail edition" By Michelle Malkin December 31, 2009 12:24 PM SNIPPET: "Language warning, as always, as we head into the sewer for a year-end reminder of the depths of liberal intolerance for your humble “big mashed up bag of meat with lipstick:”"

ONLY CONGRESS KNOWS FOR SURE...CONGRESS SCOFFS, SHRUGS, AND SPINS, WHEN ASKED ABOUT OBAMACARE'S CONSTITUTIONALITY How depressing it is to hear the contorted logic, from our leaders in Congress, when asked to site the portion of the Constitution that gives the federal government authority to force a citizen to purchase a health insurance policy...

The name of Anwar al-Awlaki has sprung up in another terrorist attack. The Cleric who corresponded with, and encouraged Major Hasan the Fort Hood terrorist, played a similar role with Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Burnt-Balls-Bomb-in-Briefs terrorist. The Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner had his suicide mission personally blessed in Yemen by Anwar al-Awlaki, the same Muslim imam suspected of radicalizing the Fort Hood shooting suspect, a U.S. intelligence source has told The Washington Times. The intelligence official, who is familiar with the FBI's interrogation of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, said the bombing suspect has boasted of...

Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today released its 2009 list of Washington’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians.” The motto of Judicial Watch is "Because no one is above the law". The list, in alphabetical order, includes...

Americans for Limited Government (ALG) today released the voting records of some 90 Blue Dog and what it dubbed “so-called moderate” House Democrats on what ALG President Bill Wilson called “some of the most controversial votes of 2009.” “So-called Blue Dog ‘conservative’ Democrats in the House have long touted their caucus as being fiscally-responsible, but what emerges from an analysis of their voting records is a pack of lapdogs who have voted largely in lock-step with their more radical counterparts in House leadership,” said Wilson...

Amazingly, these Obama lies, or to put it mildly, "broken promises", all are from the same speech given during his 2008 presidential campaign. When I first saw the title of this video, I assumed that the lies were snippets taken from several speeches, then sliced together. When I watched it, I realized that they were rifled off, one right after the other. Can you imagine what the press reaction would have been if George W. Bush had rattled off this many lies?...

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