Friday Afternoon Roundup – The Fall of the House of Kennedy http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Witnessing the end of the Kennedy era is a little like seeing the fall of the Berlin Wall. The retirement of self-destructive Kennedy scion, Patrick Kennedy, will now mean that for the first time in a long time, there will be not a […]
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Â The Temperature at Which Global Warming Freezes Wednesday afternoon, the sky over New York City was a falling sheet of white. Temperatures had dropped sharply and the blizzard was underway. But nowhere in the city was the blizzard more pronounced than in Central Park, which had been designed in the 19th century to […]
President Obama’s address by video Saturday to the U.S.-Islamic World Forum in Doha, Qatar: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/02/13/president-obama-addresses-us-islamic-world-forum In it, he announces “that I am appointing my Special Envoy to the OIC [Organization of the Islamic Conference] —Rashad Hussain. As an accomplished lawyer and a close and trusted member of my White House staff, Rashad has played a […]
February 14, 2010 India police: Pune bomb likely meant for Chabad House By Anshel Pfeffer, Haaretz Correspondent and AP Explosion in Pune restaurant popular with foreigners near famed meditation center kills 9, wounds 53. A bomb tore through a crowded cafe popular with foreigners on Saturday in the city of Pune in western India, killing […]
Cut! Cameron blasts Israel boycotts BY HILARY LEILA KRIEGER, JPOST CORRESPONDENT 12/02/2010 WASHINGTON – Oscar-winning filmmaker James Cameron has strongly condemned efforts to boycott Israeli artists after his name was wrongly added to one such recent petition. “To suppress a gathering of artists, from afar, through boycott or any other means of exerting pressure, is […]
National Review Online Andrew C. McCarthy NR Contributing Editor February 12, 2010 4:00 P.M. http://article.nationalreview.com/424948/no-compromise-on-enemy-combatants/andrew-c-mccarthy No Compromise on Enemy Combatants We’re winning because we should be winning. Imagine the Yanks are beating the Mets 12–0 in the eighth inning (I know — not hard to imagine). Now, imagine if the Mets approach the Yanks and […]
Hamas leader warns of new war with Israel involving entire region 12 February 2010 The exiled Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal has warned that if a new war broke out with Israel it would not be limited to the Gaza Strip but involve the wider Middle East. In an interview with the Arab newspaper ‘al-Hayat’, which […]
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/boot A Bipartisan Terror Trial Posted by Max Boot on February 12, 2010 @ 11:24 AM It’s nice to know that, according to the Washington Post [1], “President Obama is planning to insert himself into the debate about where to try the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001,†although this raises the obvious question […]
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,druck-677078,00.html Karl Bernd Karwasz “Banned, Destroyed, Obliterated. Your Freedom came through Murder,” reads this sign by far-right protesters at last year’s anniversary of the Dresden bombing. Far-Right Gears Up to Mourn Dresden Bombing By Steffen Winter The German far right traditionally stages a march on Feb. 13 of each year to commemorate the bombing of […]
Taliban Wants to Exchange U.S. Soldier for ‘Lady Al-Qaeda’ Posted By Annie Jacobsen Last week, a jury in a New York federal court convicted Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui [1] on two counts of attempted murder. In 2008, while detained in Afghanistan, Siddiqui grabbed a rifle and fired at Army officers and FBI agents. Now, in […]
