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Update: 11/19 9am…Holder hedges on GOP request for disclosure/recusal information…

Attorney General Eric Holder, Team Obama’s Dirty Dozen (get your trading cards here)
If you’ve been paying attention, you already know all about AG Eric Holder and his DOJ staff’s national security conflict of interest as senior partner with Covington & Burling — the prestigious Washington, D.C. [...]

Hey, you know how President Obama constantly carps about having inherited all the nation’s worst problems? Well, there’s one problem he did indeed inherit from the Bush administration — but it’s a problem he won’t acknowledge because it indicts the wretched excesses of the Left. The problem is Washington’s tolerance fetish. The path to [...]

Scroll for updates…7:39am Eastern press conference…Ft. Hood officials disclose that the murder victims included 12 soldiers and 1 civilian…first responder heroine who shot Hasan is in stable condition…witnesses still being interviewed “all through the night”…they confirm that Hasan was wearing his uniform…

I was traveling to Wichita for a speaking event/fundraiser (which I’ll tell you more [...]

This Friday, Sept. 25, the organizers of “Islam on Capitol Hill” hope to bring thousands of Muslims to Washington, D.C. The program for the “Day of Islamic Unity?”
*The Athan will be chanted on Capitol Hill, echoing off of the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument and other great edifices that surround Capitol Hill
*Thousands of Muslims from [...]

You will be fascinated — among other reactions — by the latest statement issued by the Obama DOJ, issued yesterday after the president’s Cairo speech.
No, it’s not a statement condemning the jihadist in Arkansas who targeted our troops or the Bronx jihadi plotters who targeted Jews, infidels, and our troops.
It’s a statement “to protect American [...]

Scroll down for updates…meet the Muslim domestic terrorist suspect, Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad…Where is Obama’s denunciation of the attack?

Holy crap: A shooting at an Arkansas Army recruiting center has left one recruiter dead and one wounded. Pray for the families, please:
One Army recruiter was killed Monday and a second was wounded in a shooting at [...]

The US embassy in Yemen received a warning about this pending attack hours before gunmen drove by and fired shots:
Unknown gunmen opened fire at a checkpoint outside the U.S. embassy in Yemen on Monday, hours after the mission said it received a threat, but a Yemeni official said no one was hurt.
“Police are chasing the [...]

al Qaeda has released a video love letter (er, hate letter) from two Gitmo recidivists to the rest of the world as President Obama prepares to import a boat load of detainees into American civilian courts.
Sealed with a kiss-off:
Two former Guantánamo Bay detainees now appear to have joined Al Qaeda’s Yemeni branch, which released a [...]

A good friend writes:
[A]s nearly 100 of the remaining detainees are Yemenis, reflecting that country’s refusal to assure security for repatriated Yemenis, note that AG nominee Eric Holder is a senior partner with Covington & Burling, a prestigious Washington, D.C. law firm, which represents 17 Yemenis currently held at Gitmo. From the C & [...]

This morning on Fox & Friends I talked about President Obama’s Gitmo closure plans and the perils of jihadi recidivism:

As an exclamation point on my argument, read this:
The emergence of a former Guantánamo Bay detainee as the deputy leader of Al Qaeda’s Yemeni branch has underscored the potential complications in carrying out the executive order [...]

Scroll for updates and links to the lame and lamer liberal responses to this post…
Before we fully launch into the action-packed first week of 2009, I want to provide you with a year-end wrap-up of original blog reporting on this site and across the conservative blogosphere. Why? Well, over the weekend, a few bloggers on [...]

Finally, some national security news to cheer:
A U.S. judge refused to release two Guantanamo terrorism suspects on Tuesday and upheld the government’s authority to keep them, after ordering freedom last month for five prisoners whose case led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling.
Federal District Court Judge Richard Leon said in two separate rulings the government [...]

“He just started shaking and he collapsed.”

Remember the Cole.

A car bomb exploded at the US embassy in Yemen this morning. AP reports:
A car bomb targeting the U.S. Embassy hit the front gate of the compound in Yemen’s capital on Wednesday, causing unspecified casualties, a U.S. spokesman said.
Ryan Gliha, the embassy spokesman, told The Associated Press by telephone that there was a second [...]

Deported “Al Qaeda first stringer” is holding his Ohio-born children in Yemen.

Touchy.

But for Jane Novak’s blogging, it might have been worse: they wanted to kill him.

Funny, she doesn’t look Jawish.

Are you ready for March Madness? As I noted at Hot Air last month, the Religion of Perpetual Outrage is gearing up for the debut of Dutch politician Geert Wilders’ anti-Islam mini-documentary, “Fitna”–which is reportedly set for completion sometime today. (Go to the Fitna The Movie site for more info.) Combined with the recent [...]

Is Yemen playing games?

Our “friends” in Yemen.

Stopping dodgy North Korean freighters: a LOST cause?

Never forget.

Bloggers blew the whistle.

How do you say “Don’t let the door hit you on the way out” in Arabic?

A madrassa grows in Brooklyn. With t-shirts.

Earlier this month, the US released 16 Saudis from Guantanamo Bay. A total of 77 Saudis have been freed from detention. If you shared my “Uh-oh” reaction, then you will not be surprised by this latest report in The Age (via Andrew Bolt) about freed Gitmo detainees taking up arms and resuming jihad. According to [...]

War on terror? What war on terror?

An anthology of poetry from Guantanamo Bay detainees is about to be published. What rhymes with despicable?