The Corner

by Walter Alarkon - 07/25/08 9:13 AM ET

Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.) deserves credit for getting an amendment adopted to a House intelligence bill that would require the Department of Homeland Security to continue using terms like jihadism, Islamofascism and mujahideen and therefore ending the departments campaign to stop using them, writes Andy McCarthy. Before Democrats get too excited about the polls showing Barack Obama in the lead, they need to remember that their candidates often led surveys during the summer before fading in November, writes Peter Kirsanow.

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