February 19, 2010 In today’s Political Diary A Newsweek profile of Taliban kingpin Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar last summer called him “America’s New Nightmare.” Maybe he’ll turn into our new intelligence gold mine. His capture this month in Pakistan is easily the most important event of its kind since 9/11 mastermind Khaled Sheikh Mohammed was […]
An excellent kill By BENNY AVNI Last Updated: 4:43 AM, February 19, 2010 NY POST It looked a bit like a low-bud get Jason Bourne movie, but it was real: The police chief in the gulf emirate of Dubai this week walked reporters through camera footage of the Jan. 20 assassination of a top Hamas […]
Another Tack: ‘Dam butlab dam’  only for some By SARAH HONIG Jerusalem Post 19/02/2010 jpost.com As in yesteryear, so in the 21st century, it’s axiomatic that Arabs have the right to inflict incalculable harm on Jews, but the Jews’ attempts to deflect such blows are evil, outrageous and deserving of merciless punishment. Terrorist arms […]
http://politicalmavens.com/ MARILYN PENN Amy Bishop, the trigger-happy professor who killed three of her colleagues in the Biology Department and seriously injured three others is sorry for what happened. Her lawyer claims that she has no recollection of these very recent events but she’s sorry nonetheless. It’s not clear whether Amy remembers killing her brother twenty-five […]
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/  Friday Afternoon Roundup – There is No End to the Jihad  It’s completely unsurprising that the mainstream media is trying to connect Joe Stack’s fatal flight into an IRS building with the Tea Party movement or some sort of nebulous right wing extremism. The problem is that Stack’s own publicly available manifesto is […]
SPIEGEL ONLINE UN Climate Chief Throws in the Towel De Boer Will Be a Hard Act to Follow By Christoph Seidler A climate agreement looks remote following the chaos of the Copenhagen summit and now United Nations climate chief Yvo de Boer has thrown in the towel. UN chief Ban Ki-moon is on the lookout […]
NRO — The Corner Saturday, February 20, 2010 Attorney General Mukasey and Deputy Attorney General Filip Shredded OPR’s Misconduct Allegations Against Bush Lawyers [Andy McCarthy] The Justice Department last night released the Office of Professional Responsibility’s report clearing Bush-era attorneys of professional misconduct. The baseless claims of ethical lapses stemmed mostly from 2002 legal opinions […]
http://www.nypost.com/f/print/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/nuclear_countdown _mAoh5EZJHtdBznCnDMo74H Nuclear countdown By RALPH PETERS Last Updated: 10:02 AM, February 20, 2010 The UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency now not only admits that Iran’s at work on nuclear warheads, but acknowledges that Tehran never stopped working on them — despite no end of pleas, pledges and promises. Burned by its miscall on Iraq’s […]
CPAC Day 2 – Jihad: The Political Third Rail by Mark J. Koenig (All photos provided courtesy of Pamela Geller – see her coverage of this event here) While the agenda for day 2 of the CPAC conference featured a long list of additional conservative speakers and panel discussions, I will be focusing here on […]
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=521652 Viewpoint The Biggest Abdication By The West Since The 1930s By MARK STEYN View Enlarged Image News from around the world: In Britain, it is traditional on Shrove Tuesday to hold pancake races, in which contestants run while flipping a pancake in a frying pan. The appeal of the event depends on the potential […]
