“Christmas Day” on The Daily Caller

LOS ANGELES (AP) — CBS and fans of “Two and a Half Men” don’t have to fret about subtracting Charlie Sheen from TV’s top-rated sitcom. (more)

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This past week, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) provided remarks to the Heritage Foundation as Protect America Month kicked off. Outlining the ongoing threats facing the United States, Rep. Cantor emphasized two issues of pressing importance: global nuclear proliferation and domestic and foreign terrorism. (more)

Sadly, by now we’re all used to it. A white Christian male in his mid 40s, fueled by talk radio and a summer spent wandering aimlessly through a morass of tea parties, fills his SUV with explosives and tragedy ensues. What has led him to this point? Is it his inherent, unavoidable, racism? Could it be that this simpleton’s inability to understand the Republican Party’s wise move to the center has left him so blinded with rage that violence seems to be his only recourse? It’s impossible to say—largely because conservative terrorist attacks have – (more)

New videos produced by al Qaeda in Yemen show the accused underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab and others in his training class firing weapons at a desert camp whose targets included the Jewish star, the British Union Jack and the letters “UN.” (more)

More than 30 privacy and civil liberties groups are asking the Department of Homeland Security to suspend the use of full body imagers at airports, saying there is evidence that privacy safeguards don’t work and the devices are not effective. (more)

Two Sundays ago, I boarded an Air Canada flight from Quebec to Toronto. After going through standard screening procedures (bags through X-ray, me through magnetometer), I was comforted by the uniformity and business like way that our northern cousins conducted air security. Just another flight, just another screening. Then, I landed in Toronto and everything changed. (more)

Charlie Sheen will be charged with felony menacing and misdemeanor assault for allegedly putting a knife to his wife’s throat and threatening to kill her on Christmas Day, according to a report Thursday night. (more)

Wole Soyinka, the first African winner of the prize, claimed the Nigerian student who tried to blow himself up over Detroit on Christmas Day, was radicalised during his time at University College London. (more)

The family of the Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a jetliner on Christmas Day helped persuade the suspect to cooperate with U.S. investigators, an administration official said yesterday. (more)

Passengers using Heathrow and Manchester airports have been told that from today they will not be allowed to board their flights if they refuse to submit to full-body scans. (more)

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has blamed failings by Nigerian leaders for increasing “radicalization” among young Nigerians. (more)

In a second round of hearings on the attempted Christmas day airline bombing, Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) opened with a sympathetic defense of National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair’s candidness in last week’s hearing. (more)

Two top senators urged the Obama administration on Monday to transfer the suspect in the failed Christmas Day airline bombing to the Pentagon, blasting the Justice Department for reading him his Miranda rights and treating him like a common criminal. (more)

“National Dems failed to aid Coakley until too late,” read the headline of a memo seeking to shift blame away from the Martha Coakley campaign and onto Washington. That such a memo was prepared is not altogether surprising. That the campaign was willing to send such a memo in the final hours of the election, however, suggests Democrats knew Coakley’s stunning loss was fait d’accompli and are poised to spend the next 11 months pointing fingers at each other. (more)

When asked whether he should have been consulted on the treatment of the “underpants bomber” who attempted an attack on a Detroit-bound jet, National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair answered in a word: “Duh.” (more)

“You’re asking us to find a needle in a haystack,” complained one Homeland Security type on TV. It is hard to know which one of 500,000 names on a “watch list” will be the one who makes a move to kill thousands of Americans. (more)

Seattle-Tacoma International Airport officials recently interrogated and handcuffed Army Green Beret-turned-reporter Michael Yon because he refused to tell them how much money he makes. (more)

Given Christmas Day’s attempted terrorist bombing of a plane bound for my hometown of Detroit, Americans are concerned about their security.  Given the Obama Administration and its Democrat Congress’ fiscal irresponsibility, Americans are concerned about their prosperity and, indeed, their very sovereignty over their servant government.  For just as its refusal to recognize our security is through strength not surrender, the Left equally refuses to accept our prosperity is from the private sector not the public sector.  The result is evident in record spending, deficits, debt, epidemic unemployment and a debt threat to our national security. (more)

President Barack Obama’s bid to shift his focus to employment and the economy took on more political urgency Friday with news the U.S. shed an additional 85,000 jobs last month. (more)