On January 7, 2010, in the wake of the Fort Hood massacre and the attempted Christmas Day passenger jet bombing, President Barack Obama appeared finally to start taking U.S. counterterrorism strategy seriously. "We are at war," he declared in a White House speech, "against al Qaeda, a far-reaching network of violence and hatred that attacked us on 9/11, that killed nearly 3,000 innocent people, and that is plotting to strike us again. And we will do whatever it takes to defeat them."

This was a complete about-face from Obama's position ten months earlier. Shortly after he took office, he ditched the "war on terror" term as too emblematic of previous Bush administration policies. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano elaborated in Germany's Spiegel where she preferred to speak of "man-caused disasters," not terrorist attacks, and pledged to abandon the "politics of fear."

Right Side News reports from the Federal Bureau of Investigation

1. Chicago: Chicago Resident David Coleman Headley Pleads Guilty to Role in Terrorism Conspiracies in India and Denmark

David Coleman Headley, a U.S. citizen of partial Pakistani descent, pleaded guilty to a dozen federal terrorism charges, admitting that he participated in planning the November 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, as well as later planning to attack a Danish newspaper.

Right Side News reports from the U.S. Marshal's office..

March 19, 2010 - Cathy J. Jones, United States Marshal for the Southern District of Ohio, Springfield Police Chief Steve Moody, and Montgomery County Sheriff Phil Plummer announce the arrest of Derrick Lamont Caldwell after a two day man hunt covering both Clark and Montgomery Counties. Caldwell, a registered sex offender in Montgomery County, was wanted in Springfield for 2 counts of robbery and is also a suspect for an alleged abduction and assault that occurred in Springfield last week.

(Washington, DC March 18, 2010) The American public will once again be treated to the spectacle of thousands of illegal aliens brazenly demanding amnesty for having violated U.S. immigration laws. "The March for America," slated for Sunday March 21 on the National Mall, is expected to bring thousands of illegal aliens and their supporters to Washington, followed by lobbying visits to Capitol Hill on Monday.