Why the new airport security measures won’t stop future bombing attempts.
Does America Have AIDS?
December 28, 2009 By Leave a Comment
AIDS: A severe immunological disorder caused by a virus resulting in a defect in immune response that is manifested by susceptibility to opportunistic infections.
Fox and Friends kicked off this morning’s summary of world news headlines with the following four stories:
Twenty people were killed and sixty injured in a bombing in Karachi, Pakistan, during a procession [...]
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Jeffrey Goldberg: In Defense of Janet Napolitano – Atlantic
December 28, 2009 By 6 Comments
Yes, I know Napolitano said something exceedingly stupid yesterday (and has now retracted it) but here’s the problem with criticism of Napolitano — she’s been on the job for less than a year. The attacks of 9/11 took place more than eight years ago. For most of that period, it was the Bush Administration in [...]
Feds assess terror watchlists after airline attack – AP
December 28, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Federal authorities met Monday to reassess the nation’s system of terror watchlists to determine how to avoid the type of lapse that allowed a man with explosives to board a flight to the U.S. even though he was flagged as a possible terrorist. A senior U.S. intelligence official said authorities were reviewing the procedures that [...]
Security System Failed, Napolitano Acknowledges – NYTimes.com
December 28, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The secretary of homeland security, Janet Napolitano, said Monday that the thwarted bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner represented a failure of the nation’s aviation security system, not the success she and other administration officials had portrayed in comments over the weekend. via Security System Failed, Napolitano Acknowledges – NYTimes.com.
Security reviews under way after airliner attack – AP
December 27, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Investigators piecing together a brazen attempt to bring down a trans-Atlantic airliner said Sunday the suspect tucked a small bag holding his deadly concoction on his body, using an explosive that would have been easily detected with the right airport equipment. His success in smuggling and partially igniting the material on Friday’s flight to Detroit [...]
U.S. official blasts Israel envoy’s ‘unfortunate’ J-Street remarks – Haaretz
December 26, 2009 By 1 Comment
Remarks by Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, against the liberal Jewish lobby J Street were “most unfortunate” according to Hannah Rosenthal, head of the U.S. administration’s Office to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism. In an interview with Haaretz in Jerusalem, where Rosenthal was the administration’s envoy to the Foreign Ministry’s Global Forum for [...]
Big Government: LA Times Defends Commie Ornaments
December 25, 2009 By Leave a Comment
L.A. Times Art Critic Defends White House Commie-Chic Xmas
by Publius
Over at the L.A. Times today, art critic Christopher Knight went after Big Government for reporting on the White House Christmas tree ornaments and the man, Simon Doonan, tapped to oversee the decorations for the White House. Knight’s objection to Big Government’s coverage of the administration’s decision to inject left-wing [...]
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Blockade Iran Now! No More Deadline Extensions
December 24, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad has rejected a year-end deadline set by the Obama administration to a nuclear deal brokered through the United Nations:
They say we have given Iran until the end of the Christian year. Who are they anyway? It is we who have given them an opportunity.
If they don’t change their attitude and language [...]
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Ahmadinejad dismisses US deadline for nuclear deal – AP
December 22, 2009 By Leave a Comment
TEHRAN, Iran – Iran’s president on Tuesday dismissed a year-end deadline set by the Obama administration and the West for Tehran to accept a U.N.-drafted deal to swap enriched uranium for nuclear fuel. The United States warned Iran to take the deadline seriously. via Ahmadinejad dismisses US deadline for nuclear deal – Yahoo! News.
