Quick, take a shot as guessing who said this: “Society cannot allow the private sector to do whatever it wants…”. If you said Hillary Clinton, I can’t blame you. That was my first impulse, too, given that she’s never shied away from the socialist taglines before. But no, it’s the left’s Current Favorite Socialist and [...]
General John Abazaid is a former US commander in Iraq who spent most of his time pretty much ignoring the Iranian weapons, money, and men flowing into his theater of operations. Now, he’s joined the crowd who believes that a nuclear Iran is really no big deal and that Mad Mahmoud and the Mullahs can [...]
Howard Kurtz has an interesting column that explains, I think, the problem with modern journalism Capturing reality is harder than it seems. As Army Gen. David Petraeus’s long-awaited testimony last week failed to sway the debate over the war, partisans on both sides castigated the media for what remains a blurry picture of Iraq. Why, [...]
Uniters, not dividers. KUT, Iraq — American commanders in southern Iraq say Shiite sheiks are showing interest in joining forces with the U.S. military against extremists, in much the same way that Sunni clansmen in the western part of the country have worked with American forces against Al Qaeda. Sheik Majid Tahir al-Magsousi, the leader [...]
For those of you who have been faithfully reading Robert Jordan’s “The Wheel of Time” series for the past 17 years in the hopes that you will come to the end of the story, you’re not going to like this news story. Jordan has passed away of a rare blood disease at the age of [...]
Mark Steyn is hitting the nail right on the head yet again. Why do radical imams seek to convert young Canadian, British and even American men and women in their late teens and twenties? Because they understand that when you raise a generation in the great wobbling blancmange of Deval Patrick-style cultural relativism – nothing [...]
James Pethokoukis, writing for the US News and World Report, reminds us that one of Osama bin Laden’s big goals for 9/11 was to destroy the American economy. That was, in fact, one of the reasons he targeted the World Trade Center. So how’s he doing? Well, it’s not looking good for Team Islamist. Since [...]
The Washington Post hunted around and found a Muslim family who is suffering as a result of 9/11. The narrative is clear: Americans are a bunch of racist hard-hearts. Oh, and “anti-Muslim backlash”. Don’t forget that. For Samira Hussein and her family, the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks began at 6:45 a.m. yesterday [...]
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