The unarmed soldiers at Fort Hood were sitting ducks. The armed citizens of Israel are not. A very relevant article posted on the blog China Confidential makes the comparison:

Israelis Baffled by News of Defenseless US Soldiers

Many Israelis want to know: why didn’t the soldiers attacked by a U.S. Army major-turned-terrorist return fire?

When a Muslim goes, well, Muslim in Israel he is typically shot to death by someone–say, a reserve soldier–within seconds of screaming “Allah Akbar.”

In contrast with the Israeli experience, it took 10 minutes before a civilian police officer at Fort Hood was able to shoot and stop Muslim fanatic Nidal Malik Hasan.

How could that happen? How could so many people trained in the strategies and tactics of modern warfare be so defenseless?

The answer–and this may astonish many Americans–is that the victims were unarmed. U.S. soldiers are not allowed to carry guns for personal protection, even on a 340-acre base quartering more than 50,000 troops.

So it goes in brain-dead, liberal America….

Israelis, who have had to combat terrorism all their lives, are not afraid of guns. They are an armed people, ready, willing, and able to defend themselves and their country.

Unlike indoctrinated Americans, paralyzed by fear and political correctness, Israelis understand that people, not guns, kill people….

Several other websites copied this material without attribution, presenting the material as their own work. Whether done through dishonesty or simply ignorance, this is a practice that we here at American Daughter abhor.

Now this excellent post is making the rounds via viral email, and all credit to the original author is missing. For those of our readers who have not seen it, we urge you to visit the website China Confidential and read the whole piece.

Parts of your body may be harvested without your consent, even while you are still alive. That is the plan of Barack Obama’s “regulatory czar” Cass Sunstein to solve the problem of getting enough human organs to meet the need for transplants.

A fellow blogger has written an outstanding article on this looming danger. We urge our readers to visit Jolly Rogers and read

Body Parts

As we contemplate Obama’s destruction of our country, sometimes it helps to laugh. Visit Truth & Consequences and check out the clever picture that Jim Simpson posted:

Just Another Guy in the Neighborhood

We found a new blogger who has posted a terrific evaluation of Obama’s first months in office. From A PATRIOTIC ROTTWEILER:

I’ve concluded that not only was Barack Obama too inexperienced to be President, but he also appears to be incompetent as an executive, more-than-just-politician-level-dishonest and a bit of a narcissist (if not a fascist). He seems to have little understanding of American history, her dreams, or her tremendous potential for risk-taking, self-correction and innovation. He and Michelle have turned out to be quintessential Ivy League “Oppression Studies majors” with (carefully concealed) “attitudes.” Obama seems, above all, to be a Community Organizer with shakedown credentials and extraordinary speaking ability….

The list is a stunner, written by a corporate CEO. Go visit the patriotic German pooch and read all of this post — BEST EVALUATION OF OBAMA’S REIGN.

We have discovered a wonderful flow chart to help you determine whether you are a racist! Brilliantly done by the moogrogue at MISSOURAH.com, it is called Obama Criticism Flow Chart.

Begin here: Do you disagree with President Obama? >>

No. I support the President. >>

Congratulations. You are a principled, well-informed participant in our democracy.

You get the idea. In order to be a racist, it is generally necessary to be a Republican. Go visit MISSOURAH and read the whole thing.

Time magazine’s September 20 issue carries a picture of FoxNews talk show host Glenn Beck on the cover. It is not a flattering picture — he is sticking his tongue out. But then his clownish style of reporting does provide many moments when such an image can be captured. Here’s the cover:

Regardless of style, he is almost alone in doing the investigative journalism that is essential to an informed electorate. Professional artist Suzy Rice has redrawn the cover to reflect the real contribution that Glenn Beck is making to saving our American vision of government from creeping socialism. Visit Suzy’s blog and compare her cover to this one. The link will open ABOVE this post, so you can put the two browser windows side-by-side. Go to:

“I THINK THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW WHAT THEIR PRESIDENT REALLY BELIEVES” – SO SAYS GLENN BECK, SO SAY I