Today the federal government is largely dedicated to compelling men and women to subsidize ideas they disbelieve and abhor. The Founders thought the people should shape their government, but today the government spends billions shaping its people (and importing new ones, when the existing populace proves resistant to “change.”)
According to an analysis published at Rudaw, the Islamic State’s books include $80 million per month in revenue from taxes, confiscating property, drug smuggling, oil sales, selling electricity to captive populations, kidnapping for ransom, and even old-fashioned banditry, such as bank robberies.
According to the NYT, Democrat proposals include the creation of an “ISIS czar,” which sounds like something that would come out of a satirical parody of Democrat national-security deliberations. I know – let’s create some new slots in the bureaucracy! That always fixes things! We already have a position to handle ISIS, kids. It’s called “The President of the United States.” The problem is the occupant of the office, not its job description.
Because it has caused a great deal of controversy (to put it mildly), it seems appropriate to quote the “Donald J. Trump Statement On Preventing Muslim Immigration” in full:
Investigators have discovered a deposit of $28,500 made to the account of Syed Farook about two weeks before the San Bernardino jihad attack. It may prove to be further evidence of premeditation – and, depending on where the money came from, possible evidence of collusion.
In the wake of the Paris and San Bernardino terrorist attacks, there has been increased pressure on social media companies to take down Islamist material to interfere with their recruiting efforts, but the companies are also worried about allegations of censorship.
The latest CNN/ORC poll shows that just 16 percent of adults strongly support President Barack Obama’s plan to bring thousands of Syrian refugees into the United States, while 43 percent are strongly opposed.
The Obama White House has scarcely been able to get through a public statement since the San Bernardino jihad attack without tut-tutting Americans for being unreasonably frightened of Islamist terrorism.
Dr. Sebastian Gorka explained this apparent ideological dissonance by noting that ISIS grew from al-Qaeda, and despite their current, occasionally violent rivalry, there is still ideological connective tissue between them.
A photograph of Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik arriving in the United States as a couple for the first time, dated July 27, 2014, has surfaced. It was taken in the customs area at Chicago O’Hare International Airport and obtained by ABC News, which did not go into detail about how it came by the image.
While the world waits to see if the tension between Turkey and Russia escalates, Turkey has also become embroiled in a dispute with the Iraqi government that has the potential to become more serious: Turkish troops have been crossing the border into Iraq without permission.
San Bernardino jihadi Syed Rizwan Farook’s father, who is also named Syed Farook, gave an interesting interview with the Italian newspaper La Stampa, in which a few interesting bits of family history popped out.
“California Attack Has U.S. Rethinking Strategy on Homegrown Terror,” read the Saturday headline at the New York Times. Like everything else the Obama Administration does, it’s nothing but media spin.
CNN, which broke speed records turning the San Bernardino story into gun-control propaganda, began to grudgingly admit Thursday that there must be just a spot of terrorism involved, in a report that must be read verbatim to be properly appreciated.
The Left has gone stark raving mad since the San Bernardino shootings.
Doctors have long worried about the evolution of a disease that would defeat antibiotic treatments. There are now two such “superbugs” on the medical radar screen, and one of them is spreading through the United States.
Finally, at a campaign event in New Hampshire, a woman in the audience managed to ask Hillary Clinton the question that has been on many minds: “You recently came out to say that all rape victims should be believed. But would you say that about Juanita Broaddrick, Kathleen Willey, and Paula Jones? Should we believe them as well?”
Beneath all the furious arguments and billion-dollar politics of the climate change debate lies a core assertion: human industry is pumping more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which is raising the temperature of the Earth, in a way that will harm all living things.
A news agency supportive of the Islamic State claimed on Friday that the San Bernardino terror attack was carried out by ISIS operatives.
San Berardino jihadis Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik took some steps to clean up their online footprint before launching the attack.
The latest atrocity from the Islamic State is a video showing children – boys who look about ten years old, referred to by ISIS as the “Cubs of the Caliphate” – executing prisoners in Syria. Five of the murders are carried out with pistols, but the sixth is a knife beheading.
Yet another in a very long string of state and national polls shows that “climate change” is not a high priority for voters, and they haven’t paid much attention to the latest climate confab in Paris, which had a carbon footprint bigger than a thousand normal Americans living average lives for an entire year.
The Chinese government claims it has identified and arrested the hackers who breached the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, stealing information on over 20 million federal employees and contractors in history’s largest data raid.
According to an interview with the head of the Kurdish Red Crescent at Rudaw, the latest horror unleashed by the Islamic State is a plague of flesh-eating bacteria, spreading rapidly through rural Syria due to the jihadis’ habit of littering the streets with corpses.
On Thursday afternoon, the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department said at a press conference on the attack carried out by Sayed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik that a dozen pipe bombs were discovered in the garage of their Redlands home, on top of the bomb recovered at the scene. Tools for constructing more bombs were also recovered.
