Family Security Matters Briefings - Week of 9/22/08

Jihad and the Growing Surrender of American Counterterrorism
By Jeffrey Imm

In the "stealth Jihad" war of ideas over the past year, one American institution after another has signaled its willingness to surrender to the advocates of Islamic supremacism – our homeland security, our military, and our law enforcement. Islamic supremacist groups have "guided" such American government organizations to create a "terror lexicon" that excludes "Jihad," to promote "progress" over "liberty," to blackball those who would confront the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic supremacists, to "train" our law enforcement, and to openly promote engagement with Islamic supremacist organizations as part of counterterrorism tactics. [more...]


An Important Message from HarveyKushner.com
By Harvey Kushner

Our partners at FamilySecurityMatters.Org have published the 2008 National Security Presidential Voter Guide. We at HarveyKushner.Com realize that many voters are concerned about the economy. The turbulence that is Wall Street impacts us all. As the folks at FSM state: "Like it or not, the next American President will be a wartime President, having to confront the most lethal threats, ever, to America." We agree and urge you to go to the Voter Guide and study it carefully. Please print copies for yourself and your friends. [more...]


House Democrats Embrace Drilling! Kind Of. Sort Of. Not Really...
By Gregory D. Lee

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi led the charge and rallied her troops to stop any notion the Republicans have of expanding oil drilling in an effort to make the country less dependent on foreign crude. She and her cohorts abandoned Washington, turned off the lights and shut the microphones off at the Capitol building, leaving Republican lawmakers literally standing in the dark talking to each other about the importance of expanding domestic oil drilling. What a difference a few weeks makes. [more...]


Current Credit Crunch Harbinger of Worse Things to Come?
By Colonel Kenneth Allard (U.S. Army, ret.)

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in receivership. Bear Sterns and Lehman Brothers going belly-up while AIG gets a government bailout to avoid even more chaos. And you thought Gordon "Greed-is-good" Gecko was only a fictional movie character? Personally, I'm glad to be living light years away from Wall Street as a transplanted Texan, where we long ago produced two people who had exactly the right idea about banks: Bonnie and Clyde. [more...]


McCain's Consistent Prescience Financial Sector Crisis Calls for Proven Leadership
By Nicholas Guariglia

In 1982-'83, as a rookie in Congress, John McCain publicly opposed President Reagan sending U.S. forces to Beirut. Shortly thereafter, Hezbollah destroyed their barracks, killing more than 240 Marines. Reagan withdrew from Lebanon and McCain, to his dismay, was proven right.In the early 1990s, McCain stood alone against isolationist Republicans and implored President Clinton to intervene to stop ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and Kosovo. Years later, with McCain's lonely support, Clinton finally took the advice and brought stability to the Balkans. [more...]