LFTC - Letter From The Capitol

Happy Memorial Day & Thanks to Our Heroes

Watch this video of America's most-decorated American air crew....

Letter from the Capitol, LFTC, 9/11, National Security, Foreign Policy

US Proliferation Sellout: Iran's Moscow Exception

The Washington Post details Iran sanction loopholes we gave Russia.....

Korean Crisis: South "Resets"

South Korea has reset relations by re-designating the North its "principal enemy"....

Saudi Arabia: A Blow for Women's Rights!

Cheers for the Saudi woman who recently belted a religious thug-cop!  "You go, girl!"

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"Nuclear Zero" Fantasies

As Russia blocks inclusion of its advanced missile defense system from UN Iran sanctions, and a nuclear North Korea's dictator sinks our ally's ship, Hudson Institute scholars Douglas Feith & Abram Shulsky detail the serial fantasies in President Obama's "nuclear zero" vision.  If our Euro-President solves all the world's major problems, be able to find every clandestine nuke sitting in a cavern a mile below the surface, put (UN?) chimps on Mars....

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Nuclear Overkill Misconceptions

An NY Times op-ed claims we can safely reduce our nuclear arsenal to 311. MEGA-DON'T!....

Nuclear Proliferation Annals: Israel's South African Venture

The Guardian (UK) reports on evidence of a former Israel - South Africa nuclear connection....

Financial Reform: Can Markets Survive the Chris & Barney Show?

Yesterday The Fenton Report posted my article on why the financial reform bill cannot be trusted.

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President Obama's West Point Address & Danny Pearl Fatuity

President Obama's May 22 West Point graduation address is laden with lofty words.  It is hard to swallow as he appeases Iran, Russia & Syria, shoves Israel into a Palestinian-tilted bargain, slights the UK & Canada, grovels at the UN, and spends America towards permanent bankruptcy.  Mark Steyn shows the fatuity of Obama's see-no-Islamic evil remark re beheaded reporter Daniel Pearl.

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Union Thugs Break Law, Helped by DC, MD Cops

Last week Service Employees International Union (SIEU) thugs trespassed on private property, terrorized a teenager, while cops not only watched--they helped.  Here's how....

Immigration: A Congressman's Answer to President Calderon

This video clip (5:08) of Tom McClintock (R-CA) aptly answers the Mexican President's appalling address to Congress.

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North Korea: The South Answers

South Korea is cutting trade ties & declaring its waters off-limits to North ships.  Good, but too late....

Mapp & Miranda: Tales from America's Crime Spree Crypt

TAS published a superb article Friday on the history of the Mapp v. Ohio (1961) exclusionary rule & the Miranda v. Arizona (1966) custodial interrogation rule, that reveals the awful cost of such rules to society....

IRAN's Russian Nuclear Enablers & America's Surrender

Russia waters down new UN sanctions & brokers the Brazil/Turkey/Iran deal undermining same; Germany stops an illegal shipment en route to Iran via Russia; Kissinger predicts sanctions will fail, & we surrender....

Immigration: Razing Arizona

Sarah Palin smacks Team Obama officials for (a) dissing a 17-page immigration law they have not read, and (b) a State Dept. diplo-dope raising Arizona's law with the Chinese as a US human rights violation--this to a massive rights violator.  Next: Just what is President Obama's border policy?....

CHINA: Regional Naval Domination Near Certain

Author-soldier Mark Helprin explains why China is likely to dominate the Western Pacific in a decade.  It then will annex Taiwan & unravel America's Asian alliances.  Defense maven Daniel Goure urges Team Obama to sell Taiwan the 66 F-16s it desires to buy.  But F-16s are not nearly enough, as Helprin shows.

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Europe: Statism Ends, But Not States

Daily Telegraph UK pundit Janet Daley sees welfare statism ended by the UK election result.  George Will sees European states very much alive....

Lena Horne, 1917 - 2010: Song & Sadness

Last week the great singer Lena Horne passed on at 92.  Her career traced race in America, as her art transcended it....

Afghanistan: Karzai's Double-Cross

We put Hamid Karzai in as Afghan President, and what does he do?  H let's his brother help kill our soldiers...

Nuclear Proliferation's Progress

On the nuclear proliferation front, the news just gets worse--and figures to get even worse....

Miranda Rule: Can It Cover All Cases After 9/11?

In 2000 the Supreme Court declined to overturn the Miranda rule, 34 years after its adoption.  In light of 9/11, was the Court wrong to re-affirm the rule?

Pirates: Blue-Water Rafting

Anne Applebaum notes a practical solution for Somali piracy: releasing pirates on small rafts to make their was hundreds of miles to shore.  Call it "blue-water rafting."

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Campbell's Class at CNN

Read Campbell Brown's farewell CNN statement and regret there aren't more like her in today's TV world.

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Kagan: Jumper Justice?

Enjoy this remembrance of Elena Kagan's Supreme Court clerkship days from two fellow clerks.  Then share Terry Eastland's concern about Kagan's belief that some books should be banned via campaign laws.

Letter from the Capitol, LFTC, Supreme Court, Conservative Politics

Nuclear Arms: Stockpiles & Security

ON May 3 the US released an official fact sheet on the US nuclear weapon stockpile as of Sept. 30, 2009....The facts starkly rebut those who see the US fueling a nuclear arms race....

Mideast: Russia Runs, America Stumbles

Mideast maven Barry Rubin surveys Russian Mideast advances, while America bashes...Israel.  Dumb & dumber.

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IRAN: Nuclear Checkmate?

Iran fakes out the West, AGAIN!  When the Washington Post & New York Times agree on this, THAT's NEWS!....

Arizona: Trumping the Race Card

Watch this riveting YouTube clip of a truly wise Latina confronting illegal immigration at a Tucson City Council meeting (4:42).   There is more....

New START Treaty: Obama's Clandestine Concession

The Heritage Foundation reports disturbing news about a concession on missile defense covertly given Moscow by Team Obama....

Radical Islam: Holder Holds Out

Watch this YouTube clip of A-G Eric Holder trying to avoid fingering radical Islam as a factor (2:06) in the Times Square bombing, at a House hearing last week.  You can't make this stuff up....

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Arms Control: Moscow Tugs US; US Tugs Allies

The Gray Lady recently reported that some NATO members want the remaining few hundred US tactical nuclear weapons removed from Europe, with or without reductions from the Russians.  And there is worse news....

Kagan: Obama's Senate & Marshall's Miranda

This Sen. Obama on Harriet Miers clip (0;40) applies to Elena Kagan, who equally lacks judicial experience.  A WSJ op-ed asks if Kagan shares her mentor Justice Thurgood Marshall's absolutist view of the Miranda rule, rejecting the public safety exception used by those interrogating the Times Square bomber and supported by A-G Eric Holder.

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Market Crash Dive: Financial Doomsday Augury?

The recent monster market mini-crash exposes serious flaws in the world trading system.  Why we should expect more like it....

Times Square Bomber: Intel Lessons

Bush A-G Judge Michael Mukasey expertly shows why intel should take prime place in terror cases, and how leaks hurt.  A WSJ editorial notes that in 2009 surveillance warrant applications fell to their lowest level since 2003.

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Kagan Ka-Boom: Supreme Court Should Rule Based Upon Legislative Motives

The First Bombshell: Kagan argued that in First Amendment speech cases the Supreme Court should examine governmental motives in deciding them....

Kagan & the Court: Elitist Entitlement

Scholar James Piereson exposes the "diversity scam" re Elena Kagan's Supreme Court nomination....

Pakistan: Hillary's Finest Hour

Extra! Extra!  Hillary says the RIGHT THING re Pakistan!!!!!....

Ground Zero Mosque?

The NY Daily News reports on plans proceeding to erect a 13-story mosque near Ground Zero....

Islam's "Nowhere Men" Bring Jihad

Islam scholar Fouad Ajami sees Pakistan exporting "nowhere men" who brought terror to London & Times Square....

Greek Mythology & Reality in A.D. 2010

A Washington Post op-ed from two financial policy mavens offers us five myths about the Greek debt crisis, that Americans should understand....

Offshore Oil: "Drill, Britain, Drill!"

Good news overseas, bad news back home, on the offshore oil front....

America's Space Mystery: X-37B Unmanned Space Shuttle

The Daily Mail Online reported the April 23 launch of America's super-secret X-37B space plane.  There is more: secret satellites, according to an April 24 Daily Mail Online X-37B follow-up story.   The Pentagon will not say what the vehicle is designed to do.  Nice to know we can keep some secrets.

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NEWS REPORTS: Elena Kagan is Obama's Next Supremo

MSNBC reported first that Solicitor-General Elena Kagan will be nominated today to the Supreme Court.  What should the GOP do?....

Navy SEAL Trial Acquittals: Who Really Won?

A New York Post editorial entitled "Seals 3 Pentagon 0" neatly sums up the folly of letting a terrorist take three of America's finest fighters off the battlefield for 8 months. Terrorists can rejoice despite the acquittal....

IRAN's New York UN Dinner Party

A US envoy attends Iran dinner for Security Council members while Iran thumbs nose at UN sanctions....

Times Square Bomber: Nagging Questions

NRO's Andy McCarthy, ace terror prosecutor, wonders why the Justice Dept. filed a public complaint that alerts possible confederates (if any), when the law does not so require, and fears that politics is at work....

Times Square Bomber: Risks of Contracting With Amateurs

The essay below, "Uncomfortable Truths and the Times Square Attack", is well worth a read.  This report is republished with permission of STRATFOR"....

Obama's Yin/Yang Mideast Policies

The Washington Post reports that Iran is making leaps in centrifuge technology, the foundation for enriching uranium to fuel a nuclear bomb:

Israel & India: "Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship"

Historian Walter Russell Mead analyzes the blossoming ties between Israel & India. It is a tale to reckon with....

V-E Day + 65: A Remembrance

Paul Kengor, author of two books on the Reagan years, dredges up a neglected story: the brutal Soviet occupation of East Berlin, symbolized by our victorious ally's mass rapine & murder, and even running Buchenwald as a concentration camp.  A sober reminder of the company we kept in WW-II....