Iraq: Throwing good money after bad

I received this message today from Don Erickson, a consultant writing from Iraq: Once I get home, I will be more happy to give you a firsthand account of what I have seen over here. For example, the US rebuilding effort had an Iraqi contractor who was hired to build…

Ralph Peters: Terrorizing terrorists – NYPOST.com

As the administration fiddles and fumbles with its soft- on-terror policies at home, one Obama-blessed campaign abroad is hitting al Qaeda and its franchises hard: the drone war. Drones work. They kill terrorists. Important terrorists. And we don't have to squabble about where to put their shredded bodies on trial. For all the billions poured [...]

Geithner’s New York Fed Pushed AIG To Keep Sweetheart Deals Secret – Huffington Post

An arm of the Federal Reserve, then led by now-Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, told bailed-out insurance giant AIG to withhold key details from the public about overpayments that put billions of extra tax dollars in the coffers of major Wall Street firms, most notably Goldman Sachs. The sordid tale unfolds in a series of e-mails [...]

Washington Post Columnist Renders a Curious Paen to the Past

Well, the holidays are over, we’re back from vacation, and we know you all missed us. So you know what that means. That’s right, the Birkels are back. We’re rested, ready, and raring to go. So, without further ado, on to what you came here for.
With more and more Democrats sticking fingers in the air [...]

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Dave Barry’s year in review: 2009 – MiamiHerald.com

It was a year of Hope — at first in the sense of “I feel hopeful!” and later in the sense of “I hope this year ends soon!”It was also a year of Change, especially in Washington, where the tired old hacks of yesteryear finally yielded the reins of power to a group of fresh, [...]

Five U.S. Muslims ask for asylum in Pakistan in name of jihad — Pakistan court says no

It isn’t a crime in Pakistan to wage jihad. But the Pakistani court, perhaps mindful of all those American billions (not that anything could really jeopardize them), punted. “Pak court rejects asylum petition for 5 American Muslims,” from the Press Trust of India, December 24 (thanks to James): LAHORE: A…