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Rasmussen Poll: Worst Day Ever for Obama’s Presidential Approval Index Numbers

Could it be that dead horse of a horrible health care bill that Dear Leader keeps beating to cross some fictional finish line that is making his approval index among American voters drop more than it has ever dropped?

Or is it his ineptitude on understanding how the free market works? Or is it his coddling of Islamic jihadists?

Or is it the denial of AGW da... read more

Make Your Voice Heard
President Obama is coming to St. Louis on Wednesday to push his “angry mob unpopular” nationalized health care bill.
President Obama and Missouri Democrats including Senator Claire McCaskill, Governor Jay Nixon and Russ and Robin Carnahan want to ram their toxic health care bill down your throat but THEY DON’T HAVE THE GUTS TO FACE THE PUBLIC!
Pelosi is trying to bring this to the floor for a vote in the coming days…and is strong-arming all the moderate dems into voting for Obamacare Socialized Medicine – and Federally Funded AbortionRead more at gatewaypundit.firstthings.com
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Rasmussen Poll: Worst Day Ever for Obama’s Presidential Approval Index Numbers… Minus 21 and Overall 56% Disapproval

Minus 21, not looking good for POTUS, but this graph doesn’t tell the whole story | Rasmussen presidential approval index, March 10, 2010

I caught this short article on American Thinker
it’s true — today IS Obama’s worst approval index day in the Rasmussen Reports polls

Worst EVAH.

Approval trends for POTUS
NRO: Pass It To Find Out What’s In It Read more at www.frugal-cafe.com
 

McCarthy Has It Right… Andy McCarthy, that is…

Being a military lawyer assigned to defend a particular serviceman, or to defend a particular terrorist detained before a military commission, is distinguishable from volunteering pro bono on behalf of yourself and your law firm on behalf of a terrorist detainee. McCarthy also considers just how wonderful for our nation those pro bono lawyers for al Qaeda terrori... read more

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In a great post at NRO, Andy McCarthy corrects Lindsey Graham.
Here’s Graham:

“I’ve been a military lawyer for almost 30 years, I represented people as a defense attorney in the military that were charged with some pretty horrific acts, and I gave them my all[.]… This system of justice that we’re so proud of in America requires the unpopular to have an advocate and every time a defense lawyer fights to make the government do their job, that defense lawyer has made us all safer.”

Here’s McCarthy:

“This is specious. ‘The unpopular’ are not ‘required’ to have ‘an advocate’ if (a) “the unpopular’ include war prisoners seeking to challenge their status as enemy combatants (or unprivileged belligerents) and (b) by ‘advocate,’ Graham means a lawyer. In fact, Sen. Graham was a sponsor of the Military Commissions Act which not only endorsed a system that did not provide counsel for detainees but further (and quite properly) sought to deny those detainees access to the federal district courts.”

Read more at www.weeklystandard.com
 

500 Christians Slaughtered In Nigeria With Machetes!

UN chief Ban Ki-moon and Washington led calls for restraint on Monday after the slaughter of more than 500 Christians in Nigeria, as survivors told how the killers chopped down their victims.

Funerals took place for victims of the three-hour orgy of violence on Sunday in three Christian villages close to the northern city of Jos, blamed on members of the mainl... read more

March 8, 2010
Jim Hoft
On early Sunday morning Muslim herders attacked Christian villagers in Nigeria with machetes.
500 Christians were slaughtered.

Villagers in central Nigeria buried dozens of bodies, including those of women and children, in a mass grave on Monday after attacks in which several hundred people were feared to have been killed. (Reuters)

ITN has video from the Jos, Nigeria.
(Warning: graphic)

Some of the bodies had been charred. Some had slash marks across their faces. One young victim was found to be scalped and few others were found with cut off hands and legs.

The Muslim hackers shouted “Allah Akhbar” (God is Great) before breaking into homes and hacking the Christians to death.

The AFP reported:

Previously:
Nigerian Muslim Herders Attack Christians With Machetes; 300 Dead

Read more at gatewaypundit.firstthings.com
 

Iran For Dummies (and Democrats)

Additional reading for dummies (and Democrats):

• Iran launches missile production line

• New Iranian missile launch pad revealed

• Germany and rearmament

Oh, and enjoy the Oscars.

Amplifyd from directorblue.blogspot.com
Iran is Persia. Iran is derived from the word Aryan. Iranians aren’t Arabs, they’re Indo-Europeans. Iranians don’t speak Arabic, they have their own unique language, Farsi. Iran is home to one of the world’s oldest continuous major civilizations. The first Iranian dynasty formed during the Elamite kingdom in 2800 BCE. Iranians are not ancestors of desert nomads. Iranians did not sit around in tents collecting camel dung until the West discovered there was oil under their butts and afterward sit around in Mercedes collecting camel dung. Iranians are a proud, militaristic people capable of great sophistication whose Islamist rulers hate Israel, America, the West and other Muslims too. They’re building their armed forces and nuclear weapons to prove it.
Dan from New YorkRead more at directorblue.blogspot.com
 

Obama to Retreat on KSM/Gitmo Detainee Civilian Trials…For Now

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National security flip-flop

I want to take you back to November 13, 2009, less than four short months ago.

As I noted the day the news broke, it was a Friday. The president was flying off to Asia. Congress was not in session. It was the perfect time to drop a bombshell on the American people. Here is what I wrote at the time:

We’re not going to sit down and shut up about the reckless, security-undermining Obama 9/10 agenda and conflict-of-interest-ridden AG Eric Holder.

Call them out.

Well, another Friday is upon us. President Obama will be flying off to Asia in a few weeks. Congress is tied up with health care

AG Eric Holder, meet the undercarriage of Barack Obama’s bus. Thumpity-thump, via WaPo:

Read more at michellemalkin.com
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President Obama’s advisers are nearing a recommendation that Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, be prosecuted in a military tribunal, administration officials said, a step that would reverse Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.’s plan
Khalid Sheik Mohammed, who says he was the primary planner of 9/11, was set for federal trial.
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Obama Advisers Will Recommend Tribunals for 9/11 Plotters

But it appears that the KSM decision could be part of a swap with Congress for funding to close Guantanamo Bay and transfer remaining detainees to a facility on American soil

Obama advisers set to recommend military tribunals
http://bit.ly/aIIhQQ

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The Washington Post reports that the president’s advisers will soon recommend that Khalid Sheik Mohammed and other 9/11 plotters be prosecuted via military tribunals and not civilian courts as recommended by Attorney General Eric Holder.

The president’s advisers feel increasingly hemmed in by bipartisan opposition to a federal trial in New York and demands, mainly from Republicans, that Mohammed and his accused co-conspirators remain under military jurisdiction, officials said. While Obama has favored trying some alleged terrorists in civilian courts as a symbol of U.S. commitment to the rule of law, critics have said military tribunals are the appropriate venue for those accused of attacking the United States.
Administration officials say the decision could come before President Obama’s Indonesia trip on March 18 (allowing it to coincide with a final vote on health-care reform?)

Full story here.

Read more at corner.nationalreview.com
 

The Saudi-Led Arab Lobby’s Undue Influence

and continues to entrain decision-makers in Washington, DC.

King Abdullah pulled out all the stops for Hillary Clinton’s February visit:

RAWDAT KHURAYIM, Saudi Arabia — The king of Saudi Arabia had Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton over for a friendly lunch Monday here at his desert camp, northeast of Riyadh. In a gesture of informality, Ki... read more

Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal donated $20 million each to Harvard and Georgetown Universities “to promote interfaith understanding.” For Georgetown, the gift was the second-largest ever received. Cornell University, Stanford University, and Texas A&M University are partnering with a Saudi university, lured by one of the world’s largest supercomputers (guess where the money for that came from).

Charming (as a snake is charming) Saudi ambassador to the US Adel al Jubeir (appointed 2007) has been shaping the American dialog since 9-11. As the Saudi foreign policy advisor he was Time’s Person of the Week in December 2002, was guest on Charlie Rose in 2003, charmed CNN’s Wolf Blitzer in 2004 and captivated Blitzer again in 2005, was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the University of North Texas in 2006, hosted a glittering reception at the Saudi’s American embassy in 2007, mesmerized Christian and Jewish leaders with an interfaith conference in 2008Read more at frontpage.americandaughter.com
 

GOP Reps.Want Charges Against SEALs Dropped

Reps. Dan Burton, R-Ind. and Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif. are holding a news conference Thursday with McCabe and more than a dozen retired Navy SEALs and other special forces personnel.

Burton and Human Events, a conservative publication, have gathered petitions with more than 150,000 signatures demanding that the charges be dropped against the men.

The SEALs... read more

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The SEALs — Special Warfare Operators 2nd Class Matthew McCabe and Jonathan Keefe and Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Julio Huertas — were part of a team that in September 2009 captured Ahmed Hashim Abed, the Al Qaeda terrorist behind the murder and mutilation of four Blackwater USA contractors in Fallujah in 2004. 

Two Republican lawmakers are seeking to have charges dropped against three Navy SEALs facing court-martial for accusations of abusing a terror suspect arrested for an ambush killing of U.S. contractors in Iraq. 

The contractors’ bodies were burned and left hanging from a bridge. The image came to symbolize the rise of Al Qaeda in Iraq and the brutality of the enemy Americans face there.

McCabe is accused of punching Abed in the stomach and giving him a bloody lip during the arrest.

Read more at www.foxnews.com
 

Exclusive: Unknown DOJ Lawyers Identified

Before joining the Justice Department, Jonathan Cedarbaum, now an official with the Office of Legal Counsel, was part of a "firm-wide effort" to represent six Bosnian-Algerian detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, according to the web site of the firm WilmerHale.

Alongside Cedarbaum in the Office of Legal Counsel now is Karl Thompson, who while working for the fir... read more

Fox News has uncovered the identities of the seven lawyers.
Tony West

Tony West

The video by the group Keep America Safe, which dubbed the seven lawyers “The Al Qaeda 7,” is the latest salvo in a lengthty political battle.

For several months, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has led an effort to uncover politically-appointed lawyers within the Justice Department who have advocated for Guantanamo Bay detainees or other terror suspects.

“The administration has made many highly questionable decisions when it comes to national security, ” Grassley said in a recent statement. “[Americans] have a right to know who advises the Attorney General and the President on these critical matters.”

An extensive review of court documents and media reports by Fox News suggests many of the seven lawyers in question played only minor or short-lived roles in advocating for detainees. However, it’s unclear what roles, if any, they have played in detainee-related matters since joining the Justice Department.

Read more at liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com
 

Zazi: Genome of the Homegrown Jihadist … Walid Phares

Zazi had discussions with al-Qaeda leaders about target locations, including subway trains in New York City."

These facts describe the path of an indoctrinated young man in America to become a weaponized Terrorist overseas. Note that during all that time that Jihadists trained by al Qaeda were still not detected in the U.S. The question is, how many similar Za... read more

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U.S. Jihadist who admitted links to this Terror group and detailed his war mission against the homeland. This case deserves high level analysis.

4. Decision to wage Jihad: “Zazi admitted during the guilty plea allocution, he and others agreed to travel to Afghanistan to join the Taliban and fight against United States and allied forces (…), they were recruited by al-Qaeda after arriving in Peshawar.” This statement shows that Zazi and his companions have already made the decision, based on their previous indoctrination, to join the Taliban, then al Qaeda - meaning an ideological machine is creating the Jihadists here in the U.S., before the graduates decide to join the ship of their choice. 

5. Training and reinserting: The statement said “al-Qaeda transported Zazi and others to the Waziristan region of Pakistan and trained them on several different kinds of weapons, asked them to conduct suicide operations in the US.Read more at www.aim.org