Betrayal of an ally. “Israel recoils as US backs nuclear move,” from Reuters, May 30 (thanks to Benedict): Washington’s unprecedented backing for a UN resolution for a nuclear-free Middle East that singles out Israel has both angered and deeply worried the Jewish state although officials are cagey about openly criticising…
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Robert | May 31, 2010 | Posted in
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Obama gives the green light to offshore drilling, but does it go far enough?
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Rich Trzupek | April 5, 2010 | Posted in
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Plagued by multiple serious scandals, Rep. Charles Rangel has stepped down from his post as chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee. The move, which Rangel said was “temporary,” came after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told the congressman that he did not have enough votes to survive an expected Republican challenge to his chairmanship. To view a [...]
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John Perazzo | March 3, 2010 | Posted in
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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…
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Marisol | February 19, 2010 | Posted in
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Iran’s clerical rulers, who succeeded in suppressing widespread demonstrations last week by blanketing Tehran with security, are escalating a cyberwar to combat the increasingly powerful role of the internet in mobilising their opponents. Visitors to the website of the main challenger in last June’s disputed presidential election were greeted by an image of the Iranian [...]
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Jacob Laksin | February 15, 2010 | Posted in
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“If you have a better idea, show it to me.” That was President Barack Obama’s challenge two weeks ago to House Republicans regarding health-care reform. He has since called for a bipartisan forum, not to start over on health reform but to “move forward” on the “best ideas that are out there.”The best ideas out [...]
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Jacob Laksin | February 9, 2010 | Posted in
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Alleging torture when no torture has taken place is a move straight out of the Al-Qaeda playbook. When Al-Qaeda operatives are jailed, they are told to claim that they have been tortured. From the Al-Qaeda playbook: 1. At the beginning of the trial, once more the brothers must insist on…
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Robert | February 5, 2010 | Posted in
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PARIS – French authorities have denied citizenship to a man who forced his French wife to wear a face-covering veil, saying he had rejected national values of secularism and gender equality.The government has been speaking out strongly against head-to-toe veils, and is moving toward banning them in public after a long public debate over French [...]
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Jacob Laksin | February 4, 2010 | Posted in
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With tanking poll numbers, his key policy initiative in shambles, and once impenetrable Democratic seats feeling the strange, terrifying prospect of competition, there seems to be a tragic-yet-inescapable truth about our super-cool, genius president who was once “sort of God”:
Frankly, it kind of sucks to be Barack Obama right about now.
The President isn’t out of [...]
Geert Wilders reacts to the Amsterdam’s District Court’s disallowing of all but three of his witnesses. “Reaction to the decision in the pre-trial review,” from his new Geert Wilders Trial website, February 3: Geert Wilders: No fair trial The Amsterdam District Court apparently doesn’t want to hear the truth about…
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Robert | February 3, 2010 | Posted in
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