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A day after New York man’s plan to recruit ISIS militants here in the U.S. was thwarted, Australian counterterrorism police conducted raids in suburbs throughout Sydney’s suburbs, and arrested 15 people suspected of planning terrorist acts. The plan was a

A Georgia-based group investigating voter fraud says it has documented 25 fraudulent voter applications out of approximately 85,000. The numbers are fueling a war of words between two sides in the ongoing investigation. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Investigators backed away Wednesday

Sam Harris had some harsh words for President Obama after his speech last week, the one in which he declared, “ISIL is not Islamic.” Harris, one of the outspoken new atheists, wonders when, if ever, the truth about Islam will

In an appearance on CBS This Morning, Wednesday, a spokesman for the family of slain journalist Steven Sotloff repeated the charge that his parents were threatened by the Obama administration as they looked for ways to free their son from the Islamic

During his address to the nation last week President Obama said that ISIS “is not Islamic.” Yesterday NY Times’ columnist Thomas Friedman undercut the President’s claim, albeit without ever pointing out that Obama got it wrong. Friedman’s piece is titled

In response to Rep. Cummings: Maxwell Never Mentioned Sifting by State Dept. (Update: Sharyl Attkisson on Rep. Cummings’ Denial): I’ve been somewhat lukewarm towards the Ray Maxwell revelation about Hillary Clinton’s operatives scrubbing the Benghazi documents, not because I doubt

In response to Muslims Will Support Muslims Over Infidel-Led Mission Against ISIS: As it happens, this morning the new Iraqi prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, just made a big show of announcing that Iraq doesn’t want or need foreign troops to

With both a nod to the younger set and also continuing to portray Alaska Democrat Mark Begich as one of them, as in D.C., not us to Alaskans, Alaska Republican Dan Sullivan is out with a new ad featuring an

Despite wishful thinking by Democrats and some media outlets that Democrat Bruce Braley had somehow righted the ship in Iowa, a new Quinnipiac poll just out indicates otherwise. Ernst closes the traditional Democrat gender gap among women down to 50

To hear the incessant liberal bleating about the Koch Brothers – Senator Harry Reid commandeers the floor of the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body at least once a week to rail against them, secure in the knowledge his targets can’t sue

For months, the GOP consulting class has been relentlessly and primarily beating the ObamaCare drum despite calls from the grassroots and news outlets, most especially Breitbart News that the ground was shifting and it was time to broaden the message.

Per a report in the Washington Post, “Republicans are far more enthusiastic than Democrats to vote this fall and that gap will likely mean a major GOP turnout edge.” The analysis is based upon several recent polls and while the

It should be noted that the poll is from Democrat-aligned Public Policy Polling but if the numbers prove out, the establishment GOP that threw everything it had at propping up an aging Pat Roberts in Kansas during a bruising primary

A new poll by the Kansas City-based Remington Research Group shows that the vast majority of St. Louis residents disapprove of the way the media handled the Ferguson story. 73% of those surveyed said the media actually made things

As Obama’s presidency continues to lose steam and weaken, are you surprised that the Clintons are now making a push to fill the presidential void Obama appears to be leaving? As reported by Caleb at Redstate, who echoed what Jeff Dunetz

In response to First U.S. degrade-and-destroy attack on ISIS lands… near Baghdad: Let me repeat myself. Muslims, regardless of whether they are Shia or Sunni, will not take part in an infidel-led war against their own people. Because of this,

I sat in on a political science class in college for a few sessions. I wanted to try something different. I was buried (quite happily) in literature, art history, and film, but figured I’d give something brand new a shot.

[Several important updates below. Skip to the last one for my attempt to untangle this knot.] Ray Maxwell reportedly told Congress about the State Department’s sifting of Benghazi documents a year ago. However, ranking member of the House Oversight Committee

In response to “Human Rights Foundation Chair Explains Why Allies Don’t Trust Obama“: Kasparov is right, of course. The message blasting out of the Obama White House, louder than almost any message ever sent by a President, is: This man

I guess the first step toward persuading ISIS that they’re a pack of doomed losers staggering around on the “wrong side of history” is to prevent them from wiping out what’s left of the Iraqi government. According to the

In Alaska, Dan Sullivan’s campaign is out with a new ad, “Pure Washington,” hitting Democrat Mark Begich. The Sullivan for U.S. Senate campaign released their latest web ad, “Pure Washington.” The ad highlights how career politician Mark Begich repeatedly says

The Obama administration’s struggle to gather a viable coalition to help the United States beat back ISIS has not gone unnoticed by world chess champion and Human Rights Foundation chair Garry Kasparov, who says he proclaimed that Obama’s credibility was

SkyBridge Capital’s Anthony “Mooch” Scaramucci, one of Romney’s biggest Wall Street backers in 2012, thinks that Mitt’s still in position to run under certain conditions. He predicts that “Romney would ultimately end up running if other establishment favorites like former

As we approach the November mid-term elections, voters “remain frustrated and unhappy” with the Obama economy. According to Politico, “By every measure in the survey, a gloomy mood still pervades the electorate when it comes to kitchen-table issues.” That can’t

One need only Google Rove and ObamaCare to see how loudly and consistently Republican strategist Karl Rove has been pushing it as the issue to run on in the mid-term elections. Rove even took to the pages of the Wall

Considered to be one of the largest Catholic universities in the United States, Barry University, which is nestled in Miami Shores, Florida, hosted an interfaith memorial service to remember the victims of the 9/11 terror attacks. According to Laura Loomer,

After President Obama announced that he would seek the assistance of Arab nations to “destroy” the terror group ISL, or ISIS, the State Department is now saying that these Arab nations “could participate in non-lethal ways against any air campaign”

With two individuals beheaded by Islamic State group ISIS, journalists James Foley and Steven Sotlof, having ties to New Hampshire, the issue of confronting the terrorist group has emerged as a major one in the Senate race in New Hampshire. The

Although he declined to comment on any specific commitments made by nations participating in the administration’s “broad coalition” to fight the Islamic State, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest did say today that it is “coming together very nicely.” At

Last week, I mentioned a pair of cute Austrian teenage girls who had joined the disturbing trend of young women either born in the West, or raised most of their lives in Western countries, running off to join ISIS. (I