Jeanette Pryor
Images of Nazi or Soviet atrocities always provoke surreal astonishment, “How could people let this happen to themselves? Didn’t they see the signs, hear the insane speeches? Why didn’t they die fighting this?”
Watching Matt Damon’s The People Speak, I ask myself, “Are we there yet?” read more…
In the introduction to Unholy Alliance, David Horowitz explains that his book is about:
“The political Left in America, its problematic allegiances with Islamic radicals, its influence in the Democratic Party, its opposition to the war in Iraq, and its impact on the War on Terror.”
On December 7, 2009, speaking to Major Garrett of Fox News following his briefing with White House Press Secretary, Shepard Smith asked,
“The government of Afghanistan lost the hearts and minds of the people, so they turned to the Taliban. What in the world is to make us think that the people are going to follow their government once we hand this over to them?â€
In 1969 a brilliant law student stood in a park in Chicago and gave a speech about Vietnam. Her friends burned flags and hurled obscenities at the U.S. Military. The United States fell prey to this Marxist propaganda, and millions of our fellow human beings were slaughtered or enslaved when we abandoned the Vietnamese people.
Forty years later, a brilliant lawyer from Chicago, now our President, stood before the U.S. Military and gave the same speech about Vietnam. He did outline his plan for the War in Afghanistan, but Obama’s most important message for our soldiers at West Point was an echo from the park, from the Days of Rage: read more…
Run Away! Run Away!
The first twenty minutes of President Obama’s speech at West Point found me in a state of shock. His clear and forceful justification for our presence in Afghanistan, sound identification of the enemy, the Taliban and not just Al Qaida, and the declaration of his intention to commit the necessary troops to
“disrupt, dismantle, and defeat Al Qaida and the Taliban…â€
initially left nothing I could honorably criticize.
That Obama felt the need to disparage, delegitimize, and distance himself from the War in Iraq was unfortunate and unrefined, though not unexpected. Apart from this, I was beginning to feel somewhat guilty for having rushed to judgment before the speech. Then the perfume of the rhetoric and the impression of decisiveness began to evaporate and I was left considering the actual plan on the table. read more…
Democratic Women and Battered Wife Syndrome: The Party Beats Me, But I Love It Anyway!
If I were a registered Democrat, I would look back over the past year and a half and admit that it’s time for therapy. I would confide to my therapist that, as a woman, my choice of a political party was the equivalent of dating the narcissist from hell – I gave everything for the Party, and got nothing in return.
To all who joined the Democratic Party because you thought this party cares about women, it’s time for intervention! Paradoxically, exploitation and manipulation of women seem to be the preferred Democratic tactics used to secure their support. The big red flag should have been when the Party picked Joe Biden, the quintessential “Old White Guy†to balance the ticket once Obama won the nomination. Though Hillary Clinton received only 300 fewer delegates in the Primary than Obama, making her the choice of almost half her party, she was not even vetted for Vice President. This anguish was only heightened by John McCain’s choice of a bright, successful woman, Sarah Palin, to run as Vice President for the Party that supposedly oppresses women. read more…
Books are the mind’s feast even when they are controversial. While Americans gathered to thank God for our beloved country, I spent much of Thanksgiving seeing America through the eyes of a man who detests her. William Ayers, author of Fugitive Days, is a professor at the University of Chicago. His resume includes organizing violent anti-War riots in the 1960s and 70s and, as part of the militant Weather Underground, helping to bomb the Pentagon.
“Everything was perfect the day I bombed the Pentagon. It was ground zero for war and conquest, organizing headquarters of a gang of murdering thieves, a colossal stain on the planet, a hated symbol everywhere around the world.â€
The Lewis and Clark Pledge: Exchanging the Rotten Christmas Gift We’re Getting from the Democrats
While you’re enjoying Thanksgiving, Ebenezer Reid will be chuckling to himself that, in exactly a week, the Senate will vote for Americans to pay for health care according to their abilities and have it rationed to them according to their Government’s dictates.
Republicans who only read the Cliff Notes version of Animal Farm or who think that Solzhenitsyn is a brand of caviar will go cheerily about like Scrooge’s nephew telling us not to worry and go off to a warm and bright holiday at home leaving us, Bob Cratchit-like, with the new lump of socialized medicine in the coal scuttle. read more…
Everything I Need to Know About Khalid's Ground Zero Trial, I Read in "Going Rogue"
When I wrote my first article, “Everything I Need to Know About ACORN, I Learned From Sophie Scholl,†my brilliant husband raised an eyebrow. When I followed with, “Everything I Need to Know About Sarah Palin, I Learned From Sir Ernest Shackleton,†he raised both and said, “Is this a new way to analyze news, find two things that have absolutely nothing to do with each other and twist them together?†I understood that this sort of Cirque de Soleil-journalism might get old quickly, but after staying up most of the night reading Going Rogue, I am going to indulge in one last juxtaposition.
The Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Trial in New York will be, in its very essence, a fight to the death between the American values extolled by Sarah Palin in her bestseller, Going Rogue, and the radically transformed America dreamt of by the“Unholy Alliance“ of leftist Americans and their Islamic Jihadi counterparts. In his book by that same marvelous title, David Horowitz, the founder of The Freedom Center, recalls the reaction of the Left to the patriotism that unified Americans following 9/11: read more…
On February 1, 2002, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of September 11, cried “allahu akbar,†seized a young American journalist by the hair, and slit his throat. The writer’s name was Daniel “Danny†Pearl, the South Asia Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal. This brilliant reporter and fiercely loved husband, soon to be a father for the first time, was beheaded, cut into ten pieces and flung into a shallow grave because he was an American journalist, just like you.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s religious and political convictions are identical to those publically professed by Terrorist Nidal Hasan. Both believed themselves justified by their radical Islamic faith.
Many of you spent the past ten days weaving a veil of deception to conceal the true face of Hasan. Instead of exposing a brother-in-arms of Danny’s butcher, you fabricated a PTSD victim in need of Prozac and Oprah. This is perhaps a good time for you to quietly watch the video of Danny’s beheading. It is time to consider if you want to use your talents to legitimize those who think that severing the heads of journalists is a duty of faith.
The urgent reason for this introspection is that, having done the bidding of Barack H. Obama in the matter of the Ft. Hood Attack, your next assignment is going to be to sell the American public on Danny’s murderer, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, as he and four of his friends have been invited by the president to visit New York City where they will be tried as simple criminals, not Terrorists, provided with criminal defense attorneys, and a nice view of the New York skyline, for future reference.
Frank Gaffney, Former Secretary of Defense and President of the Center for Security Policy, expressed his outrage concerning this newest step taken by Obama to banalize the threat of Radical Islam when he spoke on Fox and Friends on November 13th: read more…
There was some obvious irony in Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich gleefully informing Greta Van Susteren that the final vote tally in New York’s 23rd Congressional District might award the House Seat to Conservative Doug Hoffman, in spite of all Newt’s efforts. Speaking during his “On the Record,†interview, Gingrich stated:
“They (the Conservative Party on election night) were given bad information. They’d done far better in Doug’s key county. As the absentee ballots come in, it keeps getting narrower and narrower.â€
Greta situated the significance of Hoffman’s supposed loss perfectly when she linked it to the dramatic Health Care Reform vote in the dead of night on November 7th.
“What bothers me the most in this is that he (Bill Owens) was not certified as the winner. The Speaker of the House and every Democrat member of Congress wanted to rush him in and have him sworn in on Friday solely for the reason that he could vote on the next day (on the Health Care Bill.) In a huge rush to quick, quick, quick jam this down our throat.†read more…
Eight years ago, a young father boarded United Flight 93, waving good-bye to his two sons and lovely pregnant wife, Lisa. Shortly after the plane took off, three radical Islamic Jihadists hijacked Todd Beamer’s plane and forced the passengers to the back of the aircraft.  Phone calls made to family told of the horror in New York and Washington D.C. The stewardess, the businessmen, the young girl all looked at each other. They knew they were being flown to a high-profile destination and would plunge to their deaths, killing everyone in their path.
The seamless movement by which the group passed from grasping their peril to declaring their independence is breathtaking. They wasted no time hoping for another reality, they did not lie to themselves. They accepted that, if they did not resist with the very core of their being, they and many others would perish.  So they fought and saved, perhaps, thousands of lives, though they themselves did die. Todd Beamer, who never lived to hold his baby girl, breathed the Counter-Terror battle cry of 9-11 America, “Let’s Roll.â€
On November 5, another Radical Jihadist, Nidal Malik Hasan, hijacked Ft. Hood Military Base and slaughtered fourteen Soldiers and an unborn baby, while wounding thirty others. Every American knew the truth the moment they heard that a man yelling “Allahu Akbar†had opened fire on fellow soldiers, the man was an Islamic Terrorist and this was 9-11.
Instead of an immediate reaction from the White House and Homeland Security, at the very least some assurance that a plan was ready to go into effect the second absolute confirmation of Jihad was obtained, the Presidential message was to “not rush to judgment.†read more…
