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A few days ago, James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence, admitted in a Washington hearing that Col. Gaddafi would win the civil war in Libya.   Clapper was promptly slapped down by the Obama Regime and became the butt of any number of denigrating comments by commentators on the web and on radio, TV, and the printed press. 

He also said, in answer to a question from a politician in that same hearing, that China was the most immediate threat to America.   The problem is -- Clapper made what is known as a political gaff in our nation’s capital.  He told the truth.  

It is not everyday that Congress breaks a major taboo and, in so doing, performs a real service to the nation.  Last Thursday, however, was one such day: Representative Pete King (Republican of New York) demonstrated impressive leadership in convening and conducting a four-hour-long hearing on "extremism" in the American Muslim community. 

For his efforts, the Homeland Security Committee's chairman was subjected to tremendous personal attacks and partisan sniping - the wages of taboo-busting.  While those responsible for inflicting such slanderous criticism claim, in the words of one group, to have "defeat[ed] a major threat of Islamophobia," the real story is that Mr. King began a conversation about an issue that has long been deemed politically untouchable.  He also established that there is, indeed, a problem of "extremism" within the American Muslim community.

For a President seeking a second term, Obama continues to act as though he really intends to be a one-term President.  He is the most “tone-deaf” of any president in recent memory when it comes to hearing what the people of America are shouting at the top of their lungs. 

We are all familiar with the expression about Social Security being the “third-rail of politics.”  One touch and you are dead.  There is truth to that.  But – there is another “untouchable” for a President of the US – and Obama just grabbed it with both hands.  The right of the people to own and bear arms. There is nothing more American than owning and carrying a firearm… nothing. 

America’s BIGGEST political donor is not corporate America, bankers, Insurers or Wall Street. It is the National Education Association, which gave over $56 million in campaign donations in the 2008 election cycle alone, and American Federation of Teachers, which gave over $12 million in 2008. Combined, these two teachers unions gave over $68 million in 2008, ALL of it to Democrats.

Still trying to figure out why Democrats are desperate to save the public sector unions?

Democrats scramble to prop up public sector unions not on behalf of teachers or students, but rather on their own behalf, as the NEA is the single largest political donor in America today and they give almost 100% to DEMOCRATS! In short, without millions in campaign funding from the national teachers union, teachers would be better off, but Democrats would be in DEEP trouble!

Next Panel Must Hear Activists

While watching yesterday's hearing on Capitol Hill on the radicalization of American Muslims, I could not help being moved by the painful testimony of Melvin Bledsoe. His son, Carlos Bledsoe (Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad), is the young man who murdered one person and wounded another at an army recruitment center in Arkansas after coming under the influence radical Islamic ideology. Bledsoe's testimony itself was enough to warrant the calling of such a hearing, despite the hysterical cries predictably heard from the CAIR, MAS, MPAC and ISNAs of the world and their friends in the left-leaning political class.

Maybe you’ve heard this one. What do you get when fourteen Democrat Senators go AWOL from their jobs in Wisconsin? You get fiscal responsibility, the tools to balance an out-of-control budget and a boatload of evidence that the Progressive Left is prone to violence and thuggery over process. Thank you very much and goodnight. Be sure to tip your waiters, waitresses and bartenders on the way out. You’ve been great.