Today we commemorate a tragic anniversary. On this day 16 years ago, radical jihadists, who had found safe harbor under Taliban rule in Afghanistan, viciously attacked our nation in the calm hours of the morning.

The terrorists hijacked four commercial jets and used them as missiles to destroy symbolic national targets. They succeeded in destroying the two World Trade Center towers in downtown Manhattan, colliding into the western façade of the Pentagon, and deliberately crashing a flight of passengers (which was likely headed for the U.S. Capitol building) into a field in Somerset County, PA.

Referencing Roosevelt’s description of the attacks on Pearly Harbor, many Americans have regarded the date of September 11th, 2001 as a day that ‘lives on in infamy.’

Peaceful Muslims were immediately looked upon with suspicion. The terrorists claimed their terrible deeds were done in God’s name. All nations came together to rebuke this evil assertion. The God who created humankind would never tolerate the murder and slaughter of innocents.

The attacks also seared into us a new understanding of global order: America’s national security was vulnerable and threatened by an evil force that could find safe haven in certain parts of the globe. As a result, we found a new responsibility – to make it clear to international actors that they could not tolerate members this evil within their borders. America entreated its global allies to help us in our cause.

Today, we have reached a disconcerting impasse. We no longer enjoy the moral clarity we did 16 years ago. Most individuals within our society’s elite feel it is impolite or uncivil to discuss or name the ideology of our enemy.

Consequently, we lack a necessary tool to combat our foe – language. This leaves us without the ability to assemble or articulate a moral consensus about what caused the attacks 16 years ago. Consequently, we have been able to engage this enemy on a tactical level only rather than on the critical strategic level necessary to excise it from human society.

Earlier this year, I introduced an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act in the House Armed Services Committee commissioning the Department of Defense to prepare a report to study the main tenants of our enemies so that we can begin to combat them strategically. Because my amendment contained the word Islam, nearly all Democrats and just enough Republicans voted against the language. How is it we are not able to study nor willing to name an enemy that our country has spent 16 years, hundreds of billions of dollars, and the blood of our noblest citizens fighting?

The 9/11 attackers were not mentally ill, they were not underemployed, they were not vigilantes exacting justice on the West because of our history of imperialism. No, the jihadist murderers attacked innocents because they believed a false thing to be true: that the Creator would look favorably upon them for their violence, that they were transcendentally justified, that they were doing the will of God.

No one mourns or loves the victims of 9/11 more than the God who created them.

As long as this spectrum of violent jihadists exists within the human family, killing innocents in the name of orthodox Islam, they will be a threat, first and foremost to Muslims, but also to Christians, Jews and all believers/non-believers alike.

America will lead the world in routing these foes. Even now, the Trump Administration is destroying ISIS as an army occupying land. However, the ideology that animates the vast majority of terrorism in the world today is still on the march. For the sake of our children and future generations, it remains our task to identify this evil creed and proceed to destroy it and its manifestations strategically, tactically and completely. We ask anew that all nations of the world join us in that critical task.

Trent Franks is a Republican congressman representing the 8th district of Arizona in the U.S. House of Representatives.

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As the media focused on President Donald Trump’s stunning debt-ceiling deal with Democrats last week, the president quietly moved forward with his plan to reshape the judiciary by submitting 16 judicial nominees to the Senate for confirmation.

Listed in a White House statement published Thursday, the nominees included a litany of conservative firebrands such as current deputy White House Counsel Gregory G. Katsas, a former clerk of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and a veteran of former President George W. Bush’s Justice Department.

Some media outlets did take notice of the move, although it was rather buried under news of the debt-ceiling deal as well as coverage about Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. Still, here’s what some pundits had to say:

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“Greg Katsas has a long an illustrious career both in government and private practice and is a widely respected Supreme Court advocate,” Carrie Severino of the conservative Judicial Crisis Networktold CNN. “While I expect the Democrats will try to put partisan politics first, it’s hard to overlook his impressive qualifications and his commitment to the rule of law.”

Even the hardcore intellectual conservatives at National Review were impressed by Katsas’s nomination.

“(A) Judge Katsas would have a consistent judicial philosophy, one in line with Trump’s promises,” wrote contributing editor Shannon W. Coffin, adding that the president’s choice in Katsas was a veritable “Trump home run.”

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If approved, Katsas would serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Likewise, Ryan Wesley Bounds would serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, and Elizabeth L. “Lisa” Branch would serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit.

With conservatives such as these running the circuit and appellate courts, the president would stand a far higher chance of being able to move ahead with his agenda, which explains the liberal reaction to these awesome nominations.

As reported by The Huffington Post, radical leftist organizations have begun “pressuring members of the Senate Judiciary Committee to slow down the confirmation process for federal judges, thereby limiting how many President Donald Trump can seat.”

Obstruction, in other words — a cornerstone of so-called Democrat “leadership.”

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“Tell the Senate Judiciary Committee: No lifetime judicial appointments for a white supremacist in chief with no respect for the Constitution or the rule of law,” wrote Credo, one of the radical groups leading the mission against the president’s nominees.

Correction: Obstruction and insanity.

These people are completely bonkers, which is why Democrat congressional leaders would be wise to ignore them. Of course, some Democrats are just as crazy and delusional as they are, so who knows what’ll happen.

H/T The Daily Caller

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On this weekend’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” the House Freedom Caucus’ Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) said he did not think President Donald Trump’s debt ceiling deal with Democratic was not a “good deal for the American taxpayer.”

Jordan said, “No I don’t think this was a good deal for the American taxpayer. We didn’t do anything to address the underlying 20 trillion debt problem.”

He continued, “I don’t think it’s good for the American taxpayer. I don’t think it’s good for the American people.”He added, “When you

He added, “When you just raise the debt ceiling and don’t anything to address the underlying problem — I mean this is like your kid in college who has your credit card and he spending more than he takes in and he’s already piled up a lot of debt and he gets to say for the next three months I’ve got unlimited borrowing authority — I think if that was your son or my son we would have a problem with that.”‘

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On his glorious return to Sunday morning television, Senator John McCain chose to use the occasion to stick it to President Trump by adopting the Democrat party orthodoxy on climate change.

This while millions of Americans are on the brink of losing everything that they have – and possibly their lives – as monster Hurricane Irma roars up the west coast of Florida.

I must admit, it’s a new low for even a morally bereft, reprobate war criminal and traitor like McCain.

McCain breaks with Trump: We must address our changing climate https://t.co/1PLa6gw9IE http://pic.twitter.com/lHzxDrxA2q

— The Hill (@thehill) September 10, 2017

Via The Hill “McCain: ‘We have to understand that the climate may be changing’”:

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Sunday said it’s important to understand the climate may be changing.

“There is things happening with the climate in the world that is unprecedented,” McCain said on CNN’s “State of the Union” when asked a question regarding why Republicans act as if climate change is not real.

McCain stressed the importance of nuclear power.

“It’s the cleanest, cheapest, in many ways, source of power,” he said.
“We have to understand that the climate may be changing and we can take commonsense measures which will not harm the American people.”

McCain’s comments come as Hurricane Irma on Sunday begins to hit Florida. The Category 4 hurricane is bringing 130 mph winds and is expected to move up Florida’s west coast.

The day that those who will soon join the ranks of victims are on the edge of being left homeless and broke, it is a despicable time for scoring cheap political points because of a hard on for Trump.

At this very minute, this humble author is among the people in one of those Florida shelters where I sit along with terrified children, weeping women and confused and crying pets as the worst day of our lives awaits.

Most of us may literally have nothing but the clothes on our backs come daylight tomorrow, not that a creepy cancer ridden ghoul like McCain gives a rats ass about them.

It’s all parasitic politics and all the time and the only ones worse are his media enablers who will descend en masses after the danger has passed to feed off the pain of the survivors like the vile buzzards that they are.

This will be the golden opportunity for the climate Nazis who will add the additional insult to the storm’s victims to reboot Obama’s globalist policies that are about to be resurrected.

My personal dislike for this charlatan is well known but today I really hope that the glioblastoma that is eating McCain’s brain works as slowly and painfully as possible before the rotten old prick becomes worm food.