White House Conference on Terrorism

President Obama opened this week’s White House Conference on Violent Extremism with a speech about community-based counter-radicalization efforts, and his Administration is being roundly mocked for its refusal to use terms like “Muslim terrorism” or “Islamism.” The mockery is deserved. Foreign policy is not a Harry Potter tale of good versus He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. And war cannot be won against an enemy…

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Baker Reversal

It was bound to happen sooner or later. You may remember the sad story of Jack Phillips in Colorado at Masterpiece Cakeshop who declined to bake a wedding cake for two homosexuals. The court ruled he unlawfully discriminated against the gay couple by refusing to sell them a wedding cake. Now that state will have to rule on another case…

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ISIS Atrocities

Islamic State terrorists have burned to death 45 people in the western Iraqi town of al-Baghdadi, local authorities said Tuesday. A local police chief, Col. Qasim al-Obeidi, told BBC News that he believed some of those murdered belonged to security forces. He said he did not know exactly who those killed were or why they were burned to death. Al-Obeidi’s…

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Beheadings

What is the Islamic State? Where did it come from, and what are its intentions? The simplicity of these questions can be deceiving, and few Western leaders seem to know the answers. In December, The New York Times published confidential comments by Major General Michael K. Nagata, the Special Operations commander for the United States in the Middle East, admitting…

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Regulating the internet

Late last year, President Obama called on the Federal Communications Commission to enact far-reaching regulations that would grant the federal government unprecedented control over the internet. The concept of “net neutrality” is based on Internet Service Providers (ISPs) treating all internet traffic “equally.” However, Obama has advocated for far more than is needed to achieve this concept by calling on…

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Threats that pop up

A Virginia school district has decided to scrap a policy that allowed it to interrogate Christian homeschool teenagers and their parents about their religious beliefs. Last November Douglas Pruiett and his wife received a letter from Goochland County Public Schools about the district’s requests for religious exemptions for homeschool students. Under the updated rules, once a child turns 14-years-old, the…

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Legislation

A piece of legislation labeled HB 503 is barreling its way through the Alabama State Legislature. It is commonly referred to as “The Tim Tebow Bill” across Alabama. That’s not because of the way its supporters have lowered a shoulder in an attempt to see the measure reach Gov. Robert Bentley’s desk. Tebow was the Heisman Trophy winner and National…

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Marriage vs Poverty

There’s a lot of talk among the Left these days about inequality. President Obama says income inequality is “the defining issue of our time.” His State of the Union address advocated government programs to address it. And inequality comes up as experts attempt to analyze 50 years of a ‘War on Poverty.’ Income inequality is actually a necessary part of…

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Brian Williams and Selective Outrage

If Brian Williams, the anchor and face of NBC News, goes, others should march right out the door behind him. Williams, in 2003, filed a report about his experiences in Iraq. He accurately reported that a helicopter an hour in front of his took fire from an RPG. But over the years the story morphed into Williams claiming that his…

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The War Irresolution

Obama wants Congress to endorse his hesitant anti-ISIS strategy. Napoleon famously said that in warfare if you vow to take Vienna—take Vienna. President Obama ’s version of that aphorism might be—on the way to Vienna stop to summer in Salzburg, only use air power, and if the fighting isn’t over in a couple of years call the whole thing off….

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Tactics Against Scott Walker

The amazing muroid hind anatomy of Rattus norvegicus may be the product of eons of mind-bendingly complex Darwinian refinement, but I still don’t give a rat’s ass what Scott Walker thinks about evolution. And neither does anybody else. Not really. Governor Walker, making the rounds in London as part of his plan to relocate from Madison to Washington — the…

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