From CNSNews.com: In the first ever U.N.-mandated self-assessment of America’s human rights record, the Obama administration has informed the world body that it remains committed to closing the detention center at Guantanamo Bay and to “fixing our broken immigration system.” A report delivered to the U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva on Friday and [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: Following billion dollar bailouts and stimulus packages, the Administration is hoping to find “savings” elsewhere in the federal budget. One of its targets is defense. According to Defense Secretary Robert Gates, the “gusher” of defense spending “has been turned off, and will stay off for a good period of time.” His [...]

From HumanEvents.com: In a stunning revelation at an Arizona town hall meeting this past Friday, Republican Senator Jon Kyl told his constituents that President Obama privately insisted that he will not secure the border until amnesty for illegal aliens passes first. According to Kyl, Obama argued that Democrats would lose their bargaining chips for any [...]

From Right Wing News: A shockingly unsurprising and completely unexpectedly expected report Just weeks after the failed car bombing of New York’s Times Square, the Department of Homeland Security says “the number and pace of attempted attacks against the United States over the past nine months have surpassed the number of attempts during any other [...]

From FOX News: As federal authorities continue to investigate the failed Times Square car bombing, New York lawmakers are lobbing accusations at the Obama administration of “short-changing” anti-terror funding there. Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y says the Department of Homeland Security is giving the city $111 million for mass transit security, a 27 percent cut from [...]

From Telegraph.co.uk: It is not only New York’s early evening theatre-goers who have reason to be thankful for the incompetence of the man who attempted to blow up Times Square. Barack Obama’s reputation for being a lucky president has been further enhanced – he might, after all, have been dealing with the horrific aftermath of [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: Ryan Mauro, an intelligence analyst with the Asymmetric Warfare and Intelligence Center, flags this new video by the Russian company Concern Morinformsystem-Agat selling its Club-K Container Missile System. Mauro reports: The system allows a weak nation to strike the land and sea targets of a superior force by placing cruise missiles into [...]

From The New York Times: The Pentagon on Monday will release long-classified statistics about the total size of America’s nuclear arsenal, part of an effort to make the case that the country is honoring its treaty commitments to shrink its inventory of weapons significantly, senior administration officials said Sunday. The American initiative will be cast [...]

From Michelle Malkin: As you know, the Sage of 1600 Pennsylvania took a snippy shot at Sarah Palin yesterday over his nuclear policy: “I really have no response,” he told ABC News. “Because last I checked, Sarah Palin’s not much of an expert on nuclear issues.” Someone get him a skin thickener, stat. It’s funny. Not [...]

From NewsMax.com: Leading national security expert Frank Gaffney has a few choice words for President Barack Obama’s policies on the production and use of nuclear weapons: “reckless,” “dangerous,” “irresponsible,” “ill-advised,” “very risky,” and “catastrophic.” Gaffney, founder and president of the Center for Security Policy, also tells Newsmax that Obama is taking “considerable risks” with Americans’ [...]

From World Net Daily: A week ago today, third-generation Arizona rancher Rob Krentz was murdered on his ranch 15 miles from the Mexican border. Border Patrol and sheriff’s deputies followed the assailant’s tracks back to the border. It may be too much to hope that our national self-delusion about border security on the cheap also [...]

From World Net Daily: A former member of Congress says last weekend’s shooting death of an Arizona rancher on his own land is what will happen more and more unless America takes back its own borders – even as President Obama makes promises that ultimately could reward those who break federal laws to gain entrance [...]

From CNSNews.com: President Barack Obama, in his first public comments on the attempted bombing of a U.S. airliner traveling from Amsterdam to Detroit, described the suspect as “an isolated extremist,” despite reports that the 23-year-old Nigerian had been trained in Yemen, a country he visited twice. The Associated Press, quoting a Yemeni government official, said [...]

From Michelle Malkin: Scroll for updates… President Obama is scheduled to make a public statement this afternoon on the Christmas Day jihadi attack at around 3pm Eastern. Sure bet: He won’t use the word “jihad.” Via AP: The White House says President Barack Obama is preparing to make his first public statement on the Christmas [...]

From Pajamas Media: At ThreatsWatch.org, Steve Schippert and Clyde Middleton have dug up the bizarre and unsettling issuance of an executive order recently signed by President Barack Obama. Executive Order — Amending Executive Order 12425, signed December 16 and released a day later, grants the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) rights on American soil that [...]

From NewsMax.com: A “miracle on Christmas Day” prevented nearly 300 people from being killed by a terrorist attack aboard a transcontintental flight, but failure to connect the dots could be the United States’ Achilles heel, U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman told Fox News Sunday. Lieberman, the top senator on the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, [...]

From CNSNews.com: President Barack Obama — a wartime president who has just ordered 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan — was greeted by anti-war protesters and banners in Oslo, Norway, on Thursday. The Associated Press reported that posters around Oslo feature a campaign image of Obama reading “Change?”  The posters refer to Obama’s expansion of the [...]

From NewsMax.com: William R. Polk, an author, Middle East expert, and relative of America’s 11th president, James K. Polk, warns that America is ensnared in Afghanistan and ought to get out immediately. The former foreign policy adviser for Dennis Kucinich’s presidential campaign tells Newsmax “we don’t have any plan about what we should be doing.” [...]

From PrisonPlanet.com: According to the CDC, swine flu infections have already peaked, and the pandemic is on its way out. Peak infection time was the middle of October, where one in five U.S. children experienced the flu, says the CDC. Out of nearly 14,000 suspected flu cases tested during the week ending on October 10, [...]

From CNSNews.com: Even though the Border Patrol now reports that almost 1,300 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border is not under effective control, and the Department of Justice says that vast stretches of the border are “easily breached,” and the Government Accountability Office has revealed that three persons “linked to terrorism” and 530 aliens from “special [...]