“Vengeance, boycotts, retaliation … this clash with Islam could cost dearly.” Don’t resist Islamic supremacism! It might make the Islamic supremacists angry! More on this story. “Europe unites to deplore Swiss ban on minarets,” by Charles Bremner for Times Online, November 30 (thanks to Kris): The Swiss and European establishment…
Act of war. “Five British sailors taken hostage in Iran,” from the Daily Mail, November 30 (thanks to Kris): Five British sailors are being held hostage in Iran. The Foreign Office confirmed that a racing yacht owned by Sail Bahrain and crewed by five British sailors was detained by the…
Honduras Election is a win for freedom. Hopefully the truth will win out over misconceptions.
Five Star Unafraid Comedy returns to SNL as they lambaste the presumptuousness and cocky naivete of President Barack Obama. The skit involves a recent Joint Press Conference in Beijing with Obama and President Hu Jintao.
Naturally, assuming the lead role, Obama (who else?) opens the conference with his typical, arrogant, oratory, and dictates to Jintao [...]
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Op-Ed Columnist – A Generation in the Balance – NYTimes.com.
‘He talks too much,” a Saudi academic in Jeddah, who had once been smitten with Barack Obama, recently observed to me of America’s 44th president. He has wearied of Mr. Obama and now does not bother with the Obama oratory.
He is hardly alone, this academic. In the endless chatter of this region, and in the [...]
A heavily armed SWAT team stormed a Seattle home today where they thought they had cornered the suspect in the slaying of four police officers at a coffee shop, only to find out that he was not in the house and still on the loose.
via Suspect in officer killings eludes law in Seattle | freep.com [...]
The Pentagon is gearing up for a significant troop deployment as we near the official announcement tomorrow night of President Obama’s new Afghanistan strategy, which he delivered to his top advisors in a Sunday meeting at the White House.
After all the media hoopla generated by a very public disconnect between Gen. Stanley McChrystal and the [...]
Can the United States win the war in Afghanistan? The antiwar left has long held the war is unwinnable. Now some conservatives are arguing that President Obama’s weakness and indecision forecast American failure–and that, if we’re going to fail, we should just get out now.
We would be the last to defend Obama’s indefensible dithering. But [...]
