I’m happy for the rebels in Libya and those who support them. All of Libyans, really. They’re free from a tyrant who has oppressed them for 30 years. Just a week ago, they seemed to be dead in the water. Even 48 hours ago, it seemed that Gadhafi’s forces would be successful in pushing them back from Tripoli. Yet, now it appears that the rebels may have won.

For those rebels who truly want a free and democratic society, I congratulate them, and wish them well. I think that the nations of the Middle East and Northern Africa are ultimately better under pluralism. I think everyone is ultimately better off with leaders who don’t want to murder the rest of the world for not following their beliefs, and I realize that democracy just gives another chance to let that happen.| MORE ›

If there is one thing most of us can agree on, whether we’re liberal or conservative, it’s that we don’t want the federal government tracking us.  So I’m happy to share this except from a hearing Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) had last Tuesday with the NSA’s top lawyer, Matthew Olsen.| MORE ›

Tonight President Barack Obama announced a plan for the withdrawal of the 33,000 “surge” troops he ordered to Afghanistan in 2009. 10,000 of the troops will be home by the end of this year, and 23,000 more will return by September of next year.| MORE ›

Once again, President Obama’s law enforcement approach to terrorism has allowed another threat to slip by, and this time it may be a mistake with fatal consequences.

Earlier tonight, NORAD released a statement that it was tracking an unidentified flying object over Eastern Europe, and which appeared to be taking a westerly track.| MORE ›

Yesterday, Ed Morrissey wrote an article over at Hot Air criticizing the Obama administration’s plans to create an indefinite detention system for untriable terrorists:| MORE ›

A recently released report by Seton Hall University reviews an August 2008 report by the U.S. government that concluded three detainees housed at the Guantanamo Bay facility in Cuba committed suicide by hanging in June 2006.  According to the report:

There is no explanation of how each of the detainees, much less all three, could have done the following:| MORE ›

I used to have a annual series on my old blog called “Independence Week,” where I would post only positive news and other positive content. With all of the negativity in the world, and especially in politics, a little bit of positivity can be a good thing to have once in a while.

I haven’t done it since starting here, but I’d like to bring it back again, and this time include everybody.| MORE ›

You can be sure that whenever a political figure is referring to how old a law is, they think it’s out of date. Such is the case of White House Spokesman Eric Schultz, who spoke to the NY Times yesterday (emph. mine):| MORE ›

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Obama’s Plan and the Key Battleground
By George Friedman

U.S. President Barack Obama announced the broad structure of his Afghanistan strategy in a speech at West Point on Tuesday evening. The strategy had three core elements.| MORE ›