“There’s no longer a serious risk that southern Somalia could become a jihadi operational deployment facility. It already is.”

Indeed. The Somali jihadists have already threatened Kenya, Uganda and Burundi, and even Israel, and will eventually attempt an attack outside of Somalia. All of this activity points ultimately to the global nature of the jihadist agenda, above and beyond what are all too often written off as “regional” or…

The Rare Sightings of Tipper Gore

Catching a glimpse of Tipper Gore these days is about as rare as seeing a family of polar bears frolic in the Arctic. Unless of course, you’re a deadhead in DC. No, not the ones in the White House, those who attend Grateful Dead concerts. If so, you might have caught the performance of the [...]

Daily Beast names Jon Stewart ‘the Left’s #1 Journalist’

A few years ago, in my occasional role as professional “book doctor,” I tried and failed to get my liberal New York author-client to ease off the whole “Jon Stewart is the Walter Cronkite of America’s youth” thing.
It’s so played out, I told him. Stewart’s numbers are one tenth those of Rush Limbaugh’s, making the [...]

The TGIF toothy-grinned tweet: Not So Fast PBS

There are some things that I opt not to write about, especially if I don’t feel well-schooled enough on the subject matter to offer intelligent, insightful comment.
For lefties Messers Eric Boehlert and Karl Frisch at Media Matters that doesn’t seem to be much of an issue today.  Frisch wrote and Boehlert retweeted:
What say you Fox [...]

Joe Klein Unhinged: Attacks Jewish Magazine For “Bullying” And “Half-Crazed Macho Crusaderism”

Time Magazine columnist Joe Klein has expanded the targets of his venom.  Not content with insulting the Tea Party Movement, Fox News,  Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, and the average American “dodo,” Klein is now going after the state of Israel and its supporters.
Klein has recommended that Obama should “engage” Hamas, the terrorist thugs running Gaza, [...]

Obama Meets Dalai Lama, and China Is Quick to Protest

WASHINGTON — President Obama met with the Dalai Lama on Thursday, welcoming the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader to the White House for a low-profile meeting that nonetheless raised the hackles of China. The two men spoke about democracy, human rights and the need to preserve Tibet’s religious identity and culture — all issues that, predictably, [...]

The Left’s Top 25 Journalists – The Daily Beast

Given that almost four times as many American journalists identify themselves as “liberal” than as “conservative” (thanks, Pew, for that little detail), our exercise in tagging the 25 most influential journalists who sit somewhere to the left of center on the political aisle was considerably more complex than the one last week in which we [...]

Malaysian women say caning for adultery was “good” for them

Of course, as they’re already under the thumb of Sharia enforcers, they can’t be sure of what might happen if they said anything else. An update on this story. “Malaysian women say caning “good” for them,” by David Chance for Reuters, February 18: KUALA LUMPUR – Three Malaysians who became…

U.K.: Judge calls jihad defendants “intoxicated by the evil of terrorism”

Terrorism is a method, not an ideology; hence, it’s the ideology that ought to be of interest, but, you know, we’re not supposed to talk about that. “Three accused ‘intoxicated by the evil of terrorism’,” from BBC News, February 18: Three men “intoxicated by the evil of terrorism” trained in…

From the Interviews of David Horowitz: February 19, 2010

– In Depth, CSPAN
Tune in tomorrow for Part 6 of this interview.
Part 1 here.
Part 2 here.
Part 3 here.
Part 4 here.
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