The Treasury Dept. announces that they're freezing the funds of five groups believed to support the terrorist group Hamas and the funds of six "top Hamas leaders." Why did we wait until after the latest bus bombing before doing this?
The Treasury Dept. announces that they're freezing the funds of five groups believed to support the terrorist group Hamas and the funds of six "top Hamas leaders." Why did we wait until after the latest bus bombing before doing this?
My side hurts. Tapped says we need help in Iraq with troops from countries such as .... France. A moral pygmy like Rep. Bob Ney might be pleased he got french fries banned from the House cafeteria, but Tapped bets your average soldier sweating it out in Tikrit right now would trade Ney's infantile sense […]
At least, that's what the Mexican consulate here in San Diego seems to be saying. Mexican officials filed a formal complaint with the Border Patrol yesterday after agents arrested a Mexican family on their way to the Mexican consulate in San Diego. According to the consulate, the five family members were within a block of […]
The inestimable Victor Davis Hanson, over at National Review Online, lays out the case that Bush's foreign policy is not a radical new imperialism, but a return to equilibrium resulting from more than two decades of disuse. Rather than enacting a sudden and dangerous departure from American moderation, instead we are in effect correcting the […]
You can find the text of his remarks here. A few choice quotes: There never has been a time when the power of America was so necessary or so misunderstood, or when, except in the most general sense, a study of history provides so little instruction for our present day. ... The spread of freedom […]
Yes, I know. It's an oxymoron, but this report from London's Daily Telegraph chaps my hide. President Jacques Chirac negotiated a secret deal to protect Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb general accused of Europe's worst atrocities since the Second World War, according to evidence submitted to the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague. […]
The Wall Street Journal has another update on our coddling of the duplicitous Saudis. Newt Gingrich is right that there needs to be a revamping of the State Department -- it needs to realize that it serves U.S. interests first.
In a brief reference in this story about education in Turkmenistan, the Associated Press refers to the mythical trans-Afghan pipeline that, according to cartoonist and nut-job Ted Rall, was the reason for our invasion of Afghanistan. The trend worries diplomats and others. Turkmenistan — sitting amid Iran, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan — is in a […]
Zachary Barbera over at Voice from the Commonwealth, has a suggestion that we offer Cuban dictator Fidel Castro a straight-up trade, 1 for 1, of Hollywood leftists in return for the freedom of the journalists and human rights activists listed below. Now, while I'm sure that there are plenty of Castro-loving Hollywood liberals that qualify, […]
While the world's attention was focused on the war in Iraq, Cuban "president" Fidel Castro took the opportunity to imprison many advocates of democracy on the spurious charge that they were American agents. The following table was published in Sunday's San Diego Union-Tribune, but did not appear on the paper's Web site. (I know, I […]