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Wimping Out in Paris
President Obama is over there in Paris where the blood of 130 innocents slaughtered by Islamic extremists last month is barely dry. He's on a continent where millions of people and their governments are on edge, waiting for the next cafe to be sprayed with machine gun bullets. So what great presidential thing does he do? Does he issue a ringing call for the leaders of Western Civilization to follow him in an all-out war to exterminate the barbaric Islamic terrorists? Are you kidding?
Climate Talks Reveal Progressivism's True Hypocrisy
What do you call it when elites fly their private jets to an international climate change conference to forge a deal with despots that caps American prosperity without our consent? You call it progressivism. It's estimated that 50,000 carbon-spewing humans participated in the Paris climate conference. But while President Barack Obama was taking his working dinner at the three-Michelin-star L'Ambroisie, public protesters were banned from protesting in the aftermath of the Islamic terror attacks. Liberté? Not so much.
What 'Doesn't Happen in Other Countries'?
Obama forgets Paris while discussing mass shootings.
Grateful for What They Hate
The Paris attacks have occasioned a wide-ranging debate about what they mean and how to respond, involving Islam and its role, military strategy and, oddly enough, how Muslims in New Jersey reacted to Sept. 11 (thanks, Donald Trump). It's all very interesting and, for the most part, quite important. At bottom, though, the import of the Paris attacks is not complicated: ISIS terrorists are enemies of our civilization.
Dumb Responses to the Paris Attacks
The recent attacks in Paris have inspired various half-baked proposals to prevent terrorism in the United States. Here are four of the dumbest.
Britain's Climate Change: Slashing Wind, Solar Subsidies
A bold move just in time for the Paris climate summit.
Winners, Losers and Leaders
President Obama's reaction to the horrible terrorist attacks in Paris has been strange — and disturbing. Instead of rallying the country and calling for the United States to lead the fight to wipe out the Islamic State, what did he do first? He took pot shots at Republicans for their reluctance to open our borders to thousands of Syrian refugees. He even said some Republicans were helping ISIS recruit new fighters by suggesting that the United States should give preference to Christian refugees over Muslims. We're stuck with Obama and his failed leadership for another 13 months.
The Left-Wing Mind
The Paris attacks exposed not only the vulnerabilities of free societies and weaknesses in our immigration, refugee and security policies, but also the insanity of the left-wing mind. For example, Secretary of State John Kerry suggested [Tuesday] that there was some "rationale" behind the January attacks on the Charlie Hebdo headquarters.
We're Not Islamophobic, Mr. Obama, We Just Don't Want to Get Blown Up
Republican and Democratic governors are thwarting President Obama's plan to move thousands of Syrian refugees into your neighborhood. It is a prudent measure to take — especially in the aftermath of the Islamic terrorist attack in Paris. And it is especially prudent now that ISIS has warned that America will be next. "We need to take ISIS at their word," Franklin Graham wrote on Facebook. "Their goal is world domination. They want to control us — they want to destroy us."
Obama Stubbornly Sticks to Script on Islamic State
According to legend, if not actual historians, Harold Macmillan was once asked what he most feared could derail his agenda. The British prime minister allegedly said, "Events, my dear boy, events." Macmillan may never have actually said it, but the quote endures because it gets at a fundamental truth of politics (and life). Facts on the ground can deliver a fatal blow to one's most cherished plans.
No, It Is Not Un-American to Prefer Christian Refugees to Muslim Refugees
On Friday, Muslim terrorists murdered 129 people in Paris. At least one of the ISIS perpetrators apparently entered Europe as a "refugee" from Syria — he was found with a refugee ID. ISIS has already claimed that they have infiltrated the Syrian refugee population to the tune of thousands of terrorists. On Monday, President Obama announced that it would be purely un-American for Westerners to ban unvetted Muslim immigrants from the Middle East while allowing Christian targets of genocide to enter the West. He called such an idea "shameful," while passionately calling for Americans to "open our hearts" to more refugees. He praised bordering countries Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon for taking in hundreds of thousands of refugees; Obama said that showed their "belief in a common humanity."
Obama's Lecture on Shame
An angry president went after his enemies [Monday], passionately denouncing those who suggested that if we are going to take more Syrian refugees, they should be Christians. "[T]hat's shameful. That's not American. That's not who we are. We don't have religious tests to our compassion," he said. In fact, Obama's refugee policy does appear to have a religious test — one that seems to discriminate AGAINST Christians. At the beginning of the Syrian civil war, 10% of the population was Christian, but only 2.4% of the Syrian refugees are Christian. How can this be?
Obama Gets Testy in Turkey With the Press
After seven years of media adoration, President Obama was stunned and prickly. At a press conference in Antalya, Turkey, American reporters kept asking him why he was declaring his anti-ISIS strategy was working, when clearly it isn't. NBC's Chuck Todd found Obama "extremely defensive and almost not yet realizing that many of the reporters in that room, they're channeling the public in this case."