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John L. Work, a retired detective and writer and good friend who blogs here, and often about the threat Islam poses to Western-style liberty, has taken jihad to the next level -- the thriller novel. In "A Summons to Perdition," which is a Kindle Original available at Amazon, John taps his hero, J.D. Welch -- coincidentally also a retired detective and veteran of two previous detective novels (available as Kindle Originals) -- for one final case in this series. HIs mission is to help find a missing college freshman who has disappeared with her Egyptian lover -- one of a...

Former Reagan Administration Assistant Secretary of Defense Frank Gaffney featured the syndicated Washington Examiner columnist and author Diana West on his January 11 Secure Freedom radio show. West’s book, The Death of the Grown-Up: How America’s Arrested Development Is Bring Down Western Civilization, makes the case that our national preoccupation with youth culture, pop culture, eternal adolescence, and not growing old are disabling our abilities to deal with the very real threats to our continued existence as a free society. Following are portions some of West’s responses to questions posed by Mr. Gaffney: 1) On the recent dismissal from command...

Over at GatesofVienna Baron Bodissey, with his thanks to Vlad Tepes for the YouTube work, has posted a clip from a Norwegian TV interview with English Defense League leader Tommy Robinson. There are subtitles and a transcript of the Norwegian parts of the dialogue. Here’s a link to the GatesofVienna site: http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2011/01/today-its-luton-tomorrow-its-your-town.html#more It is worth noting that the Norwegian television crew treacherously filmed and broadcast the license plate number of one of the EDL members’ cars and revealed Tommy’s real name. Here’s the transcription, as is, from the GatesofVienna piece: Transcript: 00:00 The rise of radical Muslims groups also means...

Via Drudge Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has officially announced the junking of the Bush-era electronic virtual fence that was supposed to seal our border with Mexico by means of radar, cameras, drones and other techno-magic. It was too expensive and it doesn’t work like it’s supposed to work. ABC news’ report on Napo’s briefing did not reveal how many millions of tax dollars we have already poured into the technology that was somehow supposed to do better than building a real fence, backed up with some armed U.S. troops. But fear not, America. Napolitano promised us an alternate plan,...

With thanks to Gates of Vienna Vice President Joe Biden was in Palistan a couple of days ago, assuring all citizens there that the United States is “not the enemy of Islam.” Right. We’re just trying to be good, loyal dhimmi. http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iMtvD1Iv6XC_ri_-UxQ_yR8_Omdg?docId=CNG.478db1a8bb2eaee6da55d7204a937cf9.9c1 “…”There are… some sections in Pakistani society and elsewhere that suggest America disrespects Islam and its followers,” Biden told reporters at the prime minister’s residence. “We are not the enemies of Islam and we embrace those who practise that great religion in all our country,” he added…” Indeed. Ramadan celebrations at the White House (begun during the Bush...

With thanks to Michael Savage Newly-elected Florida Republican Congressman Allen West says he’s not going to quiet down anytime soon. This is one member of our legislative branch who actually has a grip on what we’re facing with the world-wide jihad movement. And he’ll tell you straight like it is. Here’s a story from the Palm Beach Post, featuringWest telling all of the poltically correct soft-speakers that he’s just doing it like Barack Obama did it during the 2008 presidential campaign: http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/state/west-decries-opportunism-in-wake-of-arizona-shooting-1178953.html “U.S. Rep. Allen West, R-Plantation, criticized “political opportunism” in the wake of Saturday’s shooting of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle...

In case you’ve missed it, there’s a lot of anger-management therapy talk going on about calming down the heated political oratory in this deeply divided nation. The reasoning behind the calls for muting our tongues is that the vocalized anger might cause people to commit crimes of violence. Balderdash, says I. Rightist Rush Limbaugh has been targeted for his hot political rhetoric. So has Michael Savage. But, here’s a heated analogy replete with a violent allusion from the current President, himself. I despise what he’s done to the country and I vehemently disagree with him and I’ll vote for the...

Here’s a don’t-miss from Gates of Vienna: With thanks to Vlad Tepes. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, Infidels of the world, Baron Bodissey proudly presents six minutes and sixteen seconds of magical video footage from The Islamic Awakening Conference, featuring British salafi Abu Mounisa. I’m not going to waste your time with my editorial commentary. Get to it. Click the link and let’s have some no-holds-barred this is how it’s really gonna be straight-shootin’ Sharia-talk: http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2011/01/replacing-system-with-islam.html This guy doesn’t dance the dance. He gives it to us straight from the hip. Here’s what the Baron says: “This is one...

Via DrudgeReport: In an ironic and most sinister development, the long arm of Attorney General Eric Holder and the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has reached out to the sovereign nation of Iceland in the criminal investigation of Wiki-Leaks honcho Julian Assange. Among several others who are the subjects of a Court Order demanding that Twitter turn over some pretty extensive personal information on its subscribers is one member of Iceland’s Parliament – Birgitta Jonsdottir (photo to left). The DOJ basically wants access to all of Jonsdottir’s Twitter communications with Mr. Assange – and all of her personal financial...

In November of 1862, Abraham Lincoln fired Union Army General George McClellan following a victory over Robert E. Lee’s greatly outnumbered Confederate forces at Antietam, which was one of America’s most costly and bloody battles of the Civil War. The best estimates are that there were over twenty-two thousand casualties in one day of fighting. Lincoln took the action after McClellan refused to pursue Lee’s fleeing army. On April 11, 1951 President Harry Truman fired General Douglas Mac Arthur, based upon matters of insubordination and open disagreements about foreign policy. MacArthur had called for an attack on China during the...

Via Drudge Report And with thanks to Diana West. Here’s an Orwellian story from The Wall Street Journal that should tighten the jaws of any thinking American with even the most rudimentary understanding of the rules of the World of Islam. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has decided to send in an additional 1,400 combat Marines into Afghanistan to do……..I’m not sure what they’re going to do and I don’t know if Gates does, either. From the WSJ: “WASHINGTON—Defense Secretary Robert Gates has decided to send an additional 1,400 Marine combat forces to Afghanistan, officials said, in a surprise move ahead...

Thanks to Michael Savage. Well, if anyone had any remaining doubts about Arnold Schwarzenegger’s political leanings, you can rest easy. He’s commuted the prison sentence of the son of a leftist political crony, former Democrat California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez. Nunez’s son, Esteban Nunez, was convicted in the October 2008 death of a San Diego State University student. According to the Los Angeles Times’ story, Esteban Nunez and three friends, all of whom were intoxicated, attacked the victim Luis Santos when he refused to allow Nunez et al entry to a fraternity party. Nunez’s friend, Ryan Jett, was convicted of...

From Gates of Vienna: If you thought that Adolf Hitler was a fanatical speaker (and he was unquestionably one of history’s most adept orators at arousing emotional responses from his audiences) you must see and hear this debate among British Imam Anjem Choudary, former terrorist Walid Shoebat, and Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad. There is no better way to get a grip on the condescending hatred that Islam has for the World of Infidels than to listen to and watch this five minutes of Muslim vitriol, in particular from the Syrian-born Bakri Muhammad. The debate was hosted on ABN TV. The...

Here are New Year’s greetings from the peaceful World of Islam to Christendom, replete with death and dismembered bodies strewn about the street. With thanks to MichaelSavage.com: A New Year’s Eve Christmas service ended with the deaths of at least twenty-one and injuries to at least seventy-nine in Alexandria, Egypt, as a bomb detonated just outside the church – following threats by Muslims to “attack Egypt’s Christians”. The link to Maggie Michael’s AP story is here: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110101/D9KFKCV80.html “ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (AP) – A powerful bomb, possibly from a suicide attacker, exploded in front of a Coptic Christian church as a crowd...

With thanks to Doug Powers over at Michelle Malkin’s site Hey. Want to know why we’re headed toward losing this War against the forces of Islam – the same ones that declared eternal war on the World of Infidels way back in the 7th Century? Watch this CBS video clip, featuring Katie Couric as the host, with Mo Rocca as a guest, in a discussion on the alleged terrible bigotry and hate that Katie says America has exhibited toward Muslims (I removed their stuttering in my transcription): http://michellemalkin.com/2010/12/31/katie-couric-maybe-we-need-a-muslim-version-of-the-cosby-show/ KC: I also think sort of the chasm between, or the bigotry...

This morning conservative Denver talk-radio host Peter Boyles had Andy Martin, AKA the King of the Birthers, on the morning show. Martin presents a credible case in support of his belief that Barack Obama’s father was actually Frank Marshall Davis. This interview is well-worth a listen, if you have a spare half-hour or so. Here’s the link to 630KHOW, where you can click on the 7:00 a.m. icon: http://www.khow.com/cc-common/podcast/single_podcast.html?podcast=fullshow_boyles.xml Here are the summaries of a few of Martin’s beliefs and theories about Obama’s origins: 1) Obama looks very much like Frank Marshall Davis. (I’ve posted all three of their photos...

Via Michelle Malkin: Here’s a good piece by Doug Powers, commenting on the Washington Post’s Ezra Klein’s belief that the Constitution isn’t understandable because it was written over one hundred years ago. You’ve got to see this video, if you haven’t already: http://michellemalkin.com/2010/12/30/constitution/ Where do these journalistic jamokes like Klein come from, anyway? Who hires them? Who needs them? I can read – even the English that was written a few centuries ago – really. But here’s what Ezra says on MSNBC’s The Daily Rundown regarding the Republicans’ intention to read the entire Constitution aloud after the new Congress is...

The Muslims are at it again over the caricatures of Mohammad that were published during 2005 in Denmark’s daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten. Five men have been arrested in connection with a plot to force entry into the Jyllands-Posten building and kill as many people as possible. Un-named in the Breitbart story, the jihadi assassins arrested in Denmark were as follows by nationality: One is from Iraq, one from Sweden, one is from Tunisia, one is a Lebanese expatriate. The fifth man, who was arrested in Stockholm, is from Tunisia. Here’s the link to the copyrighted Breitbart report: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.c0a719d0daf7352ff943520a2d71d930.8a1&show_article=1 Remember, folks, this...

Via WorldNetDaily, MSNBC’s Crhis Matthews is now calling for the Obama camp to release his long-form birth certificate to put an end to the Natural Born Citizen controversy that has swirled about for over two years. Here’s the link to the video of Matthews’ show last night: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=244765 It’s not that Matthews is a doubter of the President’s bona-fides. He’s actually a self-described enemy of the so-called “birthers”, who question Obama’s origins and the life narrative he’s presented in his two books. The basis for his topic last night is the April 2010 New York Times poll which revealed that...

With thanks to Gates of Vienna Hawaii’s leftist Governor-elect, Neil Abercrombie, says he is going to “torpedo” the birther conspiracy theories that question the Constitutional eligibility of Barack Hussein Obama to hold office. And by golly, he’s found a couple of willing partners in the major media to help him with the cover-up – The Los Angeles Times’ Michael Mimoli and Ken Dilanian. Their distortion-filled coverage of Abercrombie’s noble quest to keep the Big Question unanswered was published on Christmas Eve: http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-obama-birthers-20101224,0,3744847.story “Reporting from Honolulu — Neil Abercrombie knew Barack Obama’s parents when the future president was born here in...