Failed Nigerian airplane bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab got a US visa, wasn't on Homeland Security's no-fly list, and got only the briefest notation on its terrorist suspect watch list even after his father warned the US that he was a threat. Abdulmutallab is suspected of having some connection to a...

Pope Benedict XVI's decision to press harder to make Pope Pius XII a saint is not a hostile act against Jews, it's an abomination. The Vatican's mute silence on the Holocaust under Pius's watch aided and abetted it. The Vatican added more insult to Pius's disgraceful World War II silence...

President Obama's repeat lecture to black critics that blacks shouldn't expect anything special from him is disingenuous at best, and an insult at worst. Here are two quick political reality checks. He would not have won the White House if he had not won Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida...

Time Magazine's editors got a jump on April Fools Day when they named Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke its Person of the Year. Here's what Bernanke did since he took over the Fed in 2006 to earn the laughable award. He winked and nodded at the fraudulent AIG, JPM, and Bear...

House Democrat Michael Capuano shocked House Democrats at their weekly Caucus meeting recently when he flatly told them they're screwed. Capuano was being charitable. They aren't screwed. They screwed themselves. And it wasn't just the Democrats abysmal cave to Obama on Afghanistan, or their even more abysmal failure...

The instant the allegation was made that Tiger Woods had a mistress the predictable happened. The media and public gloat over the tumble of a superstar was on with a vengeance. His name, image, the derailing of his march to golf immortality, the back peddle of sponsors from him, and...

Getting the world's richest and poorest nations to cut a deal on climate control that both sides can live with has never been easy. This was evident again when Sudanese ambassador Lumumba Stanislaus Dia Ping who represents 130 countries in a bloc called the Group of 77...

The Congressional Black Caucus got another painful reminder that President Obama is not black President Obama. In a press interview Obama bluntly said that he would not propose any special initiatives for blacks. Obama's sharp retort was in direct response to questions about how he'd solve a glaring problem...

Chuck Heath's quip that his daughter Sarah Palin skipped out on her studies after one semester at Hawaii Pacific College because she didn't feel comfortable around so many Asians was intriguing not because of its blatant racism. The intrigue was that Palin didn't deny she said it. In...

In his Afghan war speech at West Point and in other interviews and statements President Obama has bristled at any comparison between his Afghanistan escalation and the Vietnam War. He's right, but not in the way he means. The universally accepted view is that Vietnam is the ultimate poster...

Only the most hopelessly naïve, star struck or a true believer could have ever thought that President Obama would not dump massive numbers of fresh troops into Afghanistan the first chance he got. He said or strongly inferred that escalation of the Afghan war was in his cards on two...

Beat em' when they're down and beat em' again for good measure before they can get up. The beat down supposedly is not the American way of dealing with those who are down. The ground rules radically changed the moment Tiger Woods did life threatening damage to...

The great hope was that President Obama would have the courage and political sense to do what JFK did forty six years ago. Kennedy told the generals 'no' to their demand for escalation in Vietnam. It wasn't easy. The Pentagon had drawn up plans for the massive military ramp up,...

There was never doubt the moment General Stanley McChrystal flatly told President Obama last summer that the US must deploy up to 45,000 more troops in Afghanistan that'd he heed his command. The Pentagon had officially spoken through McChrystal. With the rare exception of JFK's pushback against the...

Glenn Beck loves every minute of the Beck bash. In recent days he's gotten a rock star mob welcome in South Carolina and Washington. He'd get the same fan mob turnout in dozens of other cities that he chose to travel to. His ratings have soared through the roof. He's...

Sarah Palin called on Kenyan witch hunting Bishop Thomas Muthee to help jump start her campaigns for governor and later for the White House. Muthee it may be remembered made headlines when he took his crusade to purge witches from Kenya to Palin's one time Wasilla Assembly of God...

A year from now voters and the media will take stock of President Obama's mid-term performance. When they do four things will leap out as major Obama administration mistakes, and they're all linked.
Forgetting the economy. During the campaign Obama took to heart the political...

In September 2008, Oprah Winfrey was the reigning queen of daytime TV chatter. She flatly said no to any talk about then Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin gracing her set. Oprah made no effort to square having then presidential candidate Obama on her show twice with her cold shoulder...

What difference could it possibly make whether Michelle Obama's approval rating plunged over 10 percent in the past couple of months, or that she even has any approval ratings? To make things look even worse, the November Gallup Poll that punched out her diminished ratings compared her ratings to Laura...

President Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, key House and Senate Democratic and Republicans, and most importantly the major pharmaceuticals and private insurers know one thing, and they've known it from the start of the health care debate. And that's that the Senate, not the house,...