http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1163/Questions-for-Gen-McChrystal.aspx Questions for Gen. McChrystal  Diana West Commander-on-the-Ground becomes Commander-on-the-Hill as Gen. Stanley McChrystal testifies before Congress today. A few questions, just to break the ice: Q: Sir, you wrote the following the folllowing in your initial Afghanistan assessment: A more forceful and offensive StratCom approach must be devised whereby INS are exposed continually for […]
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/12/07/insiders-asking-of-mcconnell-whats-the-strategy/ Posted by Erick Erickson (Profile) Since coming to Capitol Hill, current Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has been recognized by some in the media as a master strategist when it comes to playing the legislative rules for all they’re worth. But, with amendments to the Obama government health care takeover sailing through the Senate almost […]
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2009/December/Controversial-Speaker-Welcomed-at-Ft-Hood/ Controversial Islamic Speaker Welcomed at Ft. Hood By Erick Stakelbeck CBN News Terrorism Analyst December 08, 2009 WASHINGTON — The U.S. military is facing criticism for bringing a controversial Islamic speaker to Fort Hood. The criticism comes just one month after a radical Muslim’s shooting spree at the fort that killed 13 soldiers. Dr. […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.4956/pub_detail.asp Exclusive: Troubling Aspects of the President’s Plan for Afghanistan Presidential Policy: Does It Make the Grade?, James Carafano, PhD Without question, the top news in national security last week was President Obama’s decision on his strategy for Afghanistan. He made the announcement in an address to the nation last Tuesday. Also without question, the […]
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=514615 GWOT: The arrest of a Danish cartoon terror plotter for an even more lethal role in 2008’s Mumbai terror attack reminds us the war on terror is global. So why is this being treated as a mere law-enforcement matter? David Copeland Headley, 49, a Pakistani-American resident of the north side of Chicago, was arrested […]
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,druck-665843,00.html A Great Debate Are Germans Allowed to Criticize Israel? Germany’s relationship with Israel has never been easy. How much criticism from Germany is allowed? And at what point does it become anti-Semitic? SPIEGEL reporters Erich Follath and Henryk M. Broder conducted a heated debate on this thorny German issue in the following exchange of […]
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/5610546/the-temple-of-science-denial.thtml 7th December 2009 I listened to the treatment of anthropogenic global warming on the BBC Today programme this morning with utter disbelief. First they had on the Climate Change Secretary (sic) Ed Miliband, who backed up Gordon Brown’s embarrassingly ignorant and fatuous sneer at ‘behind-the-times, anti-science, flat-earth climate sceptics’ by stating: The overwhelming consensus […]
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091208/wl_mideast_afp/mideastdiplomacyeujerusalem EU says Jerusalem ‘future capital of two states’ BRUSSELS (AFP) – European Union foreign ministers agreed on Tuesday that Jerusalem should be the capital of both Israel and a future Palestinian state, as part of a negotiated settlement, EU diplomats said. The foreign ministers, meeting for a second day of talks in Brussels, adopted […]
http://www.hudsonny.org/2009/12/will-america-make-it.php by William Katz Editor, Urgent Agenda Will America Make It? We are a nation in trouble. And we are making that trouble worse for ourselves. On November 5th an Army doctor with the rank of major walked into a health center at Ford Hood, Texas, murdered 13 soldiers and civilians, and wounded two dozen […]
EDITORIAL: Reckless ‘endangerment’ for breathing http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/08/reckless-endangerment-for-breathing//print/ Hey, you over there, stop breathing so much. You’re endangering the rest of us. Or at least that’s what the Environmental Protection Agency would have you believe. The EPA officially ruled yesterday that carbon dioxide (CO2) is a dangerous pollutant subject to government regulation even without benefit of new […]
