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Obama is his least inspiring when he’s talking about combating terrorism

Although it’s too late to hope President Obama will change his approach to Islamic terrorism, there was an expectation he would say something new after Monday’s Pentagon briefing. Otherwise, why bother going public with a routine update? Why, indeed? After…

Obama’s gone from bad to wuss

As the days of the Obama presidency dwindle down, bad actors everywhere are in a rush to grab what they can. After all, they are not likely ever again to get such a weak president as Barack Obama, and they…

ISIS has a vision for victory, Obama doesn’t

The stirring speeches of yesteryear inspired us then, and still do. In times of grave danger, great leaders rallied their nations with appeals to duty and visions of victory. “With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of…

Forget Cuba or health care reform, Obama’s real legacy is Middle East nukes

President Obama recently sat down for a long, wide-ranging interview with Thomas Friedman, the New York Times’ premier columnist and multiple Pulitzer Prize winner. It was supposed to be an elevated discussion between two intellectuals about the weighty foreign policy…

ISIS demanding $30 million to free Christian hostages, Assyrian source says

ISIS men destroy various Christian symbols in Nineveh, Iraq. EXCLUSIVE – Islamic State militants are demanding up to $30 million in ransom to release the hundreds of Christian hostages in Syria, according to an officer within the Assyrian leadership. In…