by Drew Zahn

One of the FBI's former top experts on Islam has announced that President Obama's pick to head the Central Intelligence Agency, John Brennan, converted to Islam years ago in Saudi Arabia.

As WND has reported, former FBI Islam expert John Guandolo has long warned that the federal government is being infiltrated by members of the radical Muslim Brotherhood. But Guandolo now warns that by appointing Brennan to CIA director, Obama has not only chosen a man "naïve" to these infiltrations, but also picked a candidate who is himself a Muslim.

"Mr. Brennan did convert to Islam when he served in an official capacity on the behalf of the United States in Saudi Arabia," Guandolo told interviewer and radio host Tom Trento.

"That fact alone is not what is most disturbing," Guandolo continued. "His conversion to Islam was the culmination of a counterintelligence operation against him to recruit him. The fact that foreign intelligence service operatives recruited Mr. Brennan when he was in a very sensitive and senior U.S. government position in a foreign country means that he either a traitor ... [or] he has the inability to discern and understand how to walk in those kinds of environments, which makes him completely unfit to the be the director of Central Intelligence."

Brennan did indeed serve as CIA station chief in Riyadh in the 1990s and today holds the official title of Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism. On Jan. 7, Obama nominated Brennan as the next director of the CIA, though he has yet to be confirmed.

"Are you kidding me?" Trento balked at Guandolo's allegations. "The head of the CIA is a Muslim? For real? ... Are you sure?"

"Yes I am," Guandolo asserted. "The facts of the matter are confirmed by U.S. government officials who were also in Saudi Arabia at the time that John Brennan was serving there and have direct knowledge. These are men who work in very trusted positions, they were direct witnesses to his growing relationship with the individuals who worked for the Saudi government and others and they witnessed his conversion to Islam."

'Non Compos Mentis' on Guns

February 8, 2013

"Speak seldom, but to important subjects, except such as particularly relate to your constituents, and, in the former case, make yourself perfectly master of the subject." --George Washington

White House photo

We often use the term "non compos mentis" to describe particularly outlandish pronouncements made by NeoComs or other "useful idiots" of the Left. The words are Latin for "not of sound mind," or, in short, insane. To be sure, that sums up all of so-called liberalism, but there are some subjects that seem to bring out the craziness more than others. The Second Amendment is one of them.

Last weekend, in an effort to portray Barack Obama as friendly to firearms, the White House backed up his boast of going skeet shooting "all the time" with a dubious photo of President "Skeeter" out at the range. (There's even an action figure now.) We soon outlined the reasons for our skepticism and then proceeded to have some fun at the president's expense, but the larger point is that the White House wants to marginalize as crazy any gun owners who call him on the gimmickry. Of course, we're not the ones who aren't of sound mind.

Many Beltway leftists have never held or fired a gun, much less actually know what they're talking about when it comes to the tools themselves or making policy regarding them. One of the most laughable examples is when Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) infamously described a barrel shroud as the "shoulder thing that goes up." Yet for a leading proponent and author of federal firearm legislation to be this ignorant is incredibly dangerous to Liberty.

Some insanity never ends. Joe "Non Compos Mentis" Biden, who after Newtown led the White House crisis exploitation team on gun policy, virtually threw out the Second Amendment when he said Wednesday, "It is clearly within the right of the government to determine what type of weapons can be owned by the public."

On the contrary, that's exactly what the Second Amendment is there to prevent.

Biden also lamented that 1,600 people have been killed by guns since Newtown. He didn't mention that 3,300 children will be killed by their own mothers today alone through abortion.

Meanwhile, when gun control doesn't actually reduce violence -- and it very rarely does -- leftists scramble for ways to explain it. White House adviser David Axelrod struggled this week to account for Chicago's shocking murder rate (42 already this year at the time of his comments), claiming that it's because "all around us are areas with weak laws and with very lax background checks and a lot of illegal guns flow into this city." Technically, he's correct: Guns used in Chicago crimes are often bought outside the city. But that's because there aren't any gun stores in Chicago. Criminals don't generally succeed in buying from licensed gun dealers, either. And Axelrod doesn't explain the low crime rate in surrounding communities.

Politicos aren't the only ones spouting crazy talk. Singer Tony Bennett showed an astounding ignorance of history when he said that if we don't enact strict gun control, it will be "the kind of turn that happened to the great country of Germany, where the Nazis came over and created tragic things and they had to be told off." Memo to Tony: If Germany's Jews had not been disarmed, millions of them might not have been slaughtered by their own government.

Certainly these leftists aren't heeding George Washington's advice to "speak seldom" and, when you do, "make yourself perfectly master of the subject."

Some final notes:

By way of rebutting the three stooges above, "universal background checks" enjoy more popular support than any other proposal. But we offer this caution: By statute, information obtained in a background check is not retained by agencies that do those checks. If new legislation doesn't contain that disposal provision, it would be a big hole that could become the "Universal Confiscation List." Think post-Katrina New Orleans. The government could then truly determine what we may own, and more of the nation could become like Chicago -- or worse.

Speaking of background checks, the FBI reports that the number experienced a significant drop in January. While it may appear that the rush to buy guns before a ban is abating, the real reason is simply that there's nothing left on the shelves to buy. "Skeeter" sure has earned his Gun Salesman Emeritus badge.

Some are suggesting that Dianne Feinstein's Defensive Weapons Ban will go nowhere, but we believe that Obama will continue expending a lot of political capital to ensure that he isn't embarrassed by its total defeat. The Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony this week as legislation begins moving forward. Some expect a bill that includes everything but the ban on defensive weapons, as it would be more likely to pass without that. But House Democrats have introduced their own version of Feinstein's bill, complete with a ban on semiautomatic rifles.

Banning guns is central to the NeoCom agenda -- they can't subjugate the people when the people are armed. We strongly suggest that you keep pressure on your legislators, because this fight isn't over -- by a long shot.

This Week's 'Alpha Jackass' Award

"[I]f there's even one thing we can do to keep our children and our community safe -- [if] there's just one step we can take to prevent more families from feeling what they feel after they've lost a loved one -- we've got an obligation to take that step." --Barack Obama, still stumping for gun control on nothing but emotion

So he's trying to deflect the fact that AR-15s and other defensive weapons are responsible for very few deaths. They are, first and foremost, designed for defending Liberty, which is why the NeoComs want them outlawed.

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On Cross-Examination

Amid the hysteria on guns, two stories saw better light this week, while a third one broke. First, recall the man who last August wounded a security guard at Family Research Council national headquarters. He chose his targets, which included three other organizations, because he found information on the Southern Poverty Law Center's website listing them as "hate groups." The latter organization is infamous for slapping the "hate group" label on any organization with which it disagrees. Remember leftist outrage at Sarah Palin's PAC for putting election "targets" on congressional districts not long before Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot in Tucson in 2011. Now? Not a word.

Second, in the even more famous case of George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin, still more evidence has surfaced that Zimmerman was not the racist portrayed by the Leftmedia and Barack Obama. In fact, Zimmerman had a black business partner, helped black kids in the neighborhood and, as a registered Democrat, supported Obama in 2008 because, in the words of his brother Robert, "the president's club had been a club of white men since our founding." Zimmerman, who still sports tire tracks from the Obama Express, apparently personifies this truth: When it comes to Obama supporters, black trumps Latino, and thug trumps gun owner.

Third, former Los Angeles police officer Chris Dorner allegedly went on a shooting rampage this week, murdering one officer and two civilians, as well as wounding two more officers. As we go to press, he is still at large. Dorner, also a Navy veteran, was fired from the department in 2009 for making false statements, and now claims he is seeking to punish corruption within the LAPD. What is often missing from media coverage, however, is the part of his manifesto announcing that he's pro-Obama, pro-Hillary for 2016, pro-gun control and anti-NRA.

Government and Politics

News From the Swamp: Sequester Politics

The White House missed its legally mandated deadline this week to submit a budget proposal to Congress. Shocking, we know. According to the law, the executive branch must propose a budget the first Monday in February, but for the fourth time in five years, Barack Obama failed to do so. There's no clear indication just when the Obama administration might fulfill its duty, assuming it's even on their to-do list, but there is a litany of excuses as to why they're late.

The president's number-crunchers claimed that the task is too daunting. Crafting a $4 trillion budget can't be easy, but the deadline for submission is well known, writing the budget is an annual process and the administration has months to do it. Yet his team acts like they were caught unaware by the volume of work to be done and the time frame in which to do it.

Press Secretary Jay Carney spun the White House's negligence by blaming Republicans for submitting "a highly partisan budget." What Carney refused to note is that House Republicans are the only ones actually making serious budget proposals. Every Obama budget that has been submitted to Congress has been overwhelmingly rejected (last year's version received zero votes), and the Democrat Senate hasn't passed a budget in four years. Carney suggested that reporters instead focus on "substance over deadlines." And by substance, he means bright, shiny objects like gun control and immigration that are meant to distract Obama's media lapdogs.

While staying busy not producing a new budget, Obama is also playing sequester politics in calling for Congress to stop the automatic budget cuts scheduled to hit March 1. On that date, the sequester will begin taking slices out of defense and domestic non-defense spending, adding up to $1.2 trillion in "cuts" (read: reductions in the rate of growth) over the next 10 years. These cuts have already been avoided once, but they were never supposed to become reality at all. The idea behind Obama's sequestration proposal (yes, it was his idea) was to create automatic spending "cuts" so scary that Republicans would have no choice but to strike a deal -- since it's worked so far.

Yet Democrats have made reaching a budget deal virtually impossible. They won't even consider touching entitlements, the primary drivers of the deficit. In fact, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) insists that no cuts will be made until Republicans agree to even more tax hikes. That was Obama's position during the fiscal cliff drama, and Republicans were foolish to ever believe that caving in on a $600 billion tax hike would satisfy the NeoComs' ravenous appetite for your money. Indeed, it only took six weeks for Obama to say, "[T]here is no doubt we need additional revenue."

We should note that we can thank the graduated income tax that turned 100 years old on Feb. 3 for this runaway government spending. The 16th amendment was ratified in 1913, and the federal government hasn't stopped growing since. On December 16th, 1773, "radicals" from Boston, members of a secret organization of American Patriots called Sons of Liberty, boarded three East India Company ships and threw 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor. This iconic event, in protest of oppressive taxation and tyrannical rule, is immortalized as "The Boston Tea Party." It was launched in response to a three-pence tax on each pound of tea. Goodness, how times have changed.

The BIG Lie

"The American people need to understand that it's not as if we've done nothing for the debt. $2.6 trillion -- $2.6 trillion already we've made in cuts. And all those cuts have come from non-defense programs." --Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV)

Again, those "cuts" are merely reductions in the projected rate of growth over the next 10 years. Oh, and by the way, Reid's number includes the massive tax hikes Democrats forced through at the beginning of the year. Debt reduction? Hardly.

Hope 'n' Change: ObamaCare Predictions Keep Coming True

The Department of Health and Human Services released a new set of regulations last week meant to alleviate concerns that the ObamaCare contraception mandate violates religious liberty. A federal court ordered HHS to rewrite the rules after a lawsuit brought by two colleges demonstrated the violation of their First Amendment rights. The new regulations were carefully crafted to cater to the plaintiffs in this particular case, but they do nothing to address the broader concerns of religiously affiliated organizations or private business owners.

The original contraception mandate allowed that religious organizations claiming special status under the Internal Revenue Code could be exempt from the mandate if it violates their beliefs. The exemption, however, did not extend to Catholic charities, hospitals and schools, and the new regulations still don't solve this problem, much less for Christian-owned businesses like Hobby Lobby. Instead, insurance companies are still required to provide free contraception coverage directly to employees rather than through the businesses and organizations themselves. In the long run, of course, religious institutions will still pay for the coverage because the insurance companies will raise their premiums in order to provide the "free" services.

In other ObamaCare news, HHS claimed that it will cut a relative handful of unnecessary health care regulations from the books, saving $3.4 billion over five years. Practically, this cut means little in a $2.7 trillion health care economy, and it won't put a dent in the burden of ObamaCare, which already weighs in at 13,000 pages of regulations.

The Congressional Budget Office piled on even more bad news about ObamaCare, noting that the law will cause seven million people to lose their employer-based insurance, twice the original estimate. It makes even bigger the lie that Obama used to sell the law in the first place: "If you like your coverage, you can keep it." The CBO also noted that the insurance options in the marketplace will be narrower than originally anticipated, that Medicaid is unprepared for the influx of new enrollees and that ObamaCare subsidies for the insurance exchanges will cost $1 trillion through 2022, or 29 percent higher than projected just one year ago. The law's total cost will now be $1.3 trillion over a decade instead of $1.1 trillion, and instead of the "roughly $900 billion" that Barack Obama himself originally promised. Finally, the law will cost 127 million man-hours per year for compliance.

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