not good
From AEI (h/t The Corner):
News has surfaced that the Yemeni government intends to build a terrorist rehabilitation center with an $11 million grant from the United States within the next three months. Reuters reported on January 27, 2010 that the terrorist rehabilitation center will house Yemeni detainees returning from Guantanamo Bay.[1] Currently, Guantanamo Bay is home to 91 Yemeni detainees. Yemen is home to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) – the al Qaeda franchise that deployed Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to conduct the Christmas Day attack in the skies over Michigan. Recent experience with the better-funded Saudi rehabilitation program and the Yemeni security forces raises serious questions about the reliability of any such Yemeni effort.
I’ll try to remain calm. $11 million grant out of US taxpayer pockets — headed to Yemen. To “rehabilitate” terrorists. As that sage John McEnroe often said… YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS! Previous posts have questioned the success of the Saudi program. There isn’t a track record of former terrorists to point to in Saudi Arabia that would suggest that our tax dollars would be well spent in other countries duplicating this program, and especially in Yemen, which has become another terrorist haven. This madness must stop.
things to be happy about
We have a new Republican Senator from Massachusetts.
ObamaCare is in jeopardy, and blue state Democrat Senators / Congressmen could be in danger of losing their jobs in 2010.
Air America pulls the plug.
Not a bad few developments this week. Let’s keep going in this direction.
brown wins
Congratulations to Senator-elect Brown. Nice win in one of the bluest of blue states in the nation. Who would have thought that Massachusetts of all states would possibly save us from ObamaCare? Amazing.
With that said, this is another case of a generally unappealing Democratic candidate, who demonstrated how out of touch she was with the [...]
non- political slightly deep thoughts
1) Jay Leno must have incriminating pics of NBC execs. I can think of no other reason why NBC is picking Leno over Conan, especially because they were the ones who chose Leno’s successor in the first place. And BTW, I think Conan is an obnoxious frat boy with annoying hair, but once [...]
terrorist rehab – massive fail
ABC News (h/t Cliff May, NRO):
The leader of the al Qaeda group that claimed responsibility for trying to blow up a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day was released from the Guantanamo Bay prison for terrorists on the condition that he be sent to a terrorist rehab center in Saudi Arabia. The rehabilitation of terrorist Said [...]
unintentional comedy
Courtesy of the LA Times:
that’s a scary proposition
CBS newsman Bob Schieffer says that “Real security is built on trust in the government.” He actually wrote that! Read it here.
Trust in the government. That’s a scary proposition if you really think about it. The more bureaucracy you add to deal with a potential crisis, the more likely it is that the potential crisis [...]
jumping off the bandwagon
President Obama is in big trouble. He’s lost Maureen Dowd over his response to the recent failed terrorist attack.
While this growing skepticism by the mainstream media and a few responsible libs is welcome, it might have been helpful to have some of that during the 2008 election. No matter which candidate won this election, we [...]
rules and other stupid things
Some new failed jihadist won’t be seeing his 72 virgins.
Not yet anyway. How fortunate those people on that Northwest flight are that the guy didn’t quite have the procedure down for detonating the explosive and that their fellow passengers and airline crew members took the initiative to deal with the threat. This won’t always be the case. Someday the United States may have [...]
flawed concept
Reason’s Jacob Sullum says there should be no fundamental right to health care.
A right to health care thus requires the government to infringe on people’s liberty rights by commandeering their talents, labor, and earnings. And since new subsidies will only exacerbate the disconnect between payment and consumption that drives health care inflation, such interference is bound to increase [...]
