From the Cato Institute blog: People who go to dangerous places … shouldn’t expect to be rescued from danger at the expense of the U.S. taxpayer. Absolutely. We should end the American taxpayers' never-ending rescue of Israel immediately. Oh, wait. That post isn't...
Thank you for the insight, Jim. Remember too what effect the April 1996 Qana massacre had on one Osama bin Laden, who made particular mention of the Qana Massacre in his first "Fatwa" against the U.S. in August 1996. As intelligence reporter James Bamford explained to...
Ha'aretz's military affairs expert Ze'ev Schiff is pleased as punch that the green light the U.S. has given will last "for a week or two, and possibly more," provided Israel doesn't make a "brutal mistake in the fighting." He has in mind how the Qana massacre...
Ever notice that when the Israeli government murders someone, they call them a "militant"? Now, Hamas suicide bombers and riflemen are "terrorists," but what exactly is a "militant"? It seems that if those they killed were "terrorists," they would say so. I'm sticking...
Background on the significance of the Litani River from new blogger Margaret Griffis: In order to end the current hostilities between Israel and the Hezbollah, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert relayed to Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi the following conditions...
FBI wanted Padilla's help, not arrest "'I didn't want to arrest him,' said Special Agent Russell Fincher said. 'I needed his cooperation.' ... "He said the agency had hoped Padilla could provide information about an al-Qaida plot to detonate a radioactive device, or...
Antiwar website Truthout has been hacked by altering their home page and locking up their server. Their site is down but they expect to be back up soon. You can check out their blog (which is still up and running) for updates.
When the IDF brings Jesus back, I hope he really is the Rambo Messiah of Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell. And I hope he runs into Christopher Hitchens. (Hey, I gotta get something out of Armageddon.)
14,000 Iraqis killed in 2006 (6000 in May and June) For women: "In some Baghdad neighborhoods, women are now prevented from going to the markets alone. In other cases, women have been warned not to drive cars or have faced harassment if they wear trousers. Women have...
Terrorist: A young girl looks out the window from a bus carrying people fleeing the Israeli bombardment, at the Lebanese-Syrian border at Masnaa. Another Lebanazi: A girl, who was injured by Sunday's Israeli air strike, is treated in Jaball Amel hospital in the...
