04-12-11: White House shows signs it looks at national security as a distraction rather than a priority…(Plus:Terrifying New Tsunami Video)

Operation Cast Lead II Mark Silverberg The belief that genocidal, messianic regimes like Hamas can be bribed or cajoled into denying their rationale for existence - destroying Israel - is the height of folly. Policy Reversals and Delays, and Budget Bluster Presidential Policy: Does It Make the Grade?, James Carafano, PhD Slow to reverse track on terrorist trials, playing politics with the troops, the White House shows signs that it looks at national security as a distraction rather than a priority. * VIDEOS * TODAY'S HOT PICKS * 1. Shocking! Girls Selling Lemonade to Raise Money for a Hospitalized Toddler Were Robbed 2. Video: Ed Schultz: Democrats Took Over in January 2009 3. Video: Pop Music to Religious Programming, U.S. Media Ignores Egypt's Descent into Extreme Islamic Politics 4. Video: Chris Matthews: Paul Ryan's (R) Medicare Plan Will 'Kill Half the People Who Watch My Show' 5. Video: Donna Brazile (D) - Fearful Whites Are Why the Dems Don't Do Better With White Voters 6. Video: Trump Will ‘Probably' Run as Independent If He Doesn't Win GOP Nomination 7. Video: MSNBC's Mika: If Rich White Men Don't Contribute More We Will See "Class Warfare" 8. Video: Pigford Blues: The Curious Case of Dr. John Boyd & the John Boyd Institute 9. Video: Administration ‘Regrets' 2006 Vote Against Raising Debt Ceiling 10. Video: Terrifying New Tsunami Footage Surfaces of Villagers Trying to Outrun Wave A Bit of History Never Goes Amiss Victor Sharpe This "bit of history" can clarify for some people the confusion they feel when their only source of news about the Middle East and the Israel-Palestinian conflict comes from biased media. D.C. Metro Bomb Plotter Pleads Guilty Steve Emerson A Virginia man admits his part in a plot to bomb Washington subway stations. He aimed to kill as many Americans as possible. Rediscovering Alexander Hamilton Herbert London A new documentary biopic presents the life - and death by duel - of Alexander Hamilton, America's First Treasury Secretary, who helped to bring the nation into the modern age. Déjà Vu Again and Again and Again Bob Smith The budget battles between thrifty conservatives and high-spending progressives have gone on in Congress for years, but the debt has continued to increase... Today's Hot Topics We choose, you peruse. 1. Appeals court stops Ariz. immigration law (WT) 2. Japan Nuclear Disaster Put on Par With Chernobyl (NYT) 3. Romney takes first official step towards running for president (CNN) 4. Libyan refugees will come to Jersey (THE US REPORT) 5. Missouri Democrat Attorney General Says He Opposes ObamaCare - Urged A Federal Judge To Invalidate The Central Provision Of The New Health Care Law (REUTERS) 6. Pro-Israel Penn State Students Assaulted for Putting up ‘Palestinian Wall of Lies' (COLLEGIAN) 7. Not One Mile of Border Secure, Texas Sheriff Says (CNS) 8. Town Bans Tea Party Signs in Public Park 9. Gas prices in 'firing range' of ALL-TIME HIGH (CNN) 10. Suspect in Border Patrol agent's 2009 slaying arrested in Tijuana (LAT) Vin's Notes on Islamism: Part Seven Documenting Islamist incursions around the globe. Vin Ienco Revenge, Koran burning and murder, attacks upon Israel, not to mention the Quislings and useful idiots for Islam running rings around western liberal democracies. From a Midnight Ride to Bataan Military History, W. Thomas Smith, Jr. Commemorating this week's anniversaries of defining events in American Military History. CSI Mexico: Secret Mass Grave Discovered in Tijuana Shocks Police Jim Kouri, CPP Mexico's drug cartels have terrorized a nation. Along with the thousands known to have been killed, there are more than 5,000 "disappeared" persons. Some have now been found. American Muslim Group Expands Mosque-Synagogue Twinning to Latin America The Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report The Islamic Society of North America expands its links in Latin America, while Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood members protest the French veil ban. Nuclear Power: Fears and Facts Paul Driessen Fukushima's lessons for America's already safe nuclear plants. Click here to sign up for FSM's e-mail updates!