News You Need to Know 29Dec09
- Iran Lashes Out at West Over Protests – NYTimes.com
Iranian authorities continued arresting hundreds of opposition members and accused the United States and Britain on Tuesday of orchestrating the violent demonstrations that rocked the capital and other cities on Sunday.
via Iran Lashes Out at West Over Protests – NYTimes.com. - William McGurn: Obama Puts the Dis in Dissident – WSJ.com
Here’s a timely New Year’s resolution the president might do well to deliver to his National Security Council: “When it comes to nasty regimes that brutalize their people, we will never again forget that the most powerful weapon in a president’s arsenal is a White House photo-op.”The December headlines remind us that we have no [...]
- Jon Rowe Gives Insight on the Founders in Grabar vs Swindle Marijuana Debate
My friend Jon Rowe, a libertarian blogger and college professor, has written a thoughtful post responding to my debate with Mary Grabar on marijuana legalization, conservatism, and the counterculture.
Over the years I’ve found Jon’s blogging on the founding to be tremendously erudite and engaging. If you haven’t been following his writing then you really should.
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In a flip-flop worthy of John Kerry (I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it), Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told airline passengers that the security system was working just fine before conceding that there was a major break down in the system on Christmas Day. But for a bungling terrorist [...]
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- Afghan soldier kills American soldier, wounds two Italians
This should surprise no one, although it cannot be explained by the conventional and dominant analysis. In that view, the hearts and minds of Afghan soldiers would be won, and they would not turn on their allies. No one in Washington is examining the jihad doctrine that would actually make…
- Flight 253 jihadist “was a devoted Muslim who took his religion seriously”
This WaPo weeper tries to paint the Flight 253 jihadist as a poor, lonely boy, but what comes through loud and clear is that he was a very serious and devout Muslim. How is it that someone so committed to Islam could have misunderstood Islam so thoroughly as to think…
- Modern, moderate Morocco expels five Christian evangelists
Moral equivalence alert: when was the last time a Muslim preacher was expelled from a Western country for proselytizing? “Morocco: Five Foreign Evangelists Expelled,” from ANSAmed, December 29 (thanks to Insubria): (ANSAmed) – RABAT, DECEMBER 29 – Five Evangelist foreigners (two South Africans, two Swiss and one Guatemalan) have been…
- Shame On You, Fox Nation
News Hounds, a self anointed media ‘watchdog’ web site, whose sole purpose is to catch Fox News in a blooper, is due an apology. Those erstwhile media critics brought up a valid point in their recent story which criticized Fox Nation for reporting a news item from David Horowitz’s NewsReal Blog: Sen. Baucus In [...]
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- From the Pen of David Horowitz: December 29, 2009
But, in the end, this is not really about me. It is about the state of our country, and about students at our universities who are forced to face down a hostile and sometimes violent mob in order to put on these events. It is about the fact that a movement with fascist overtones has [...]
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- Spencer: Flight 253: The Failure of Counterterrorism
In the lead story in Human Events today, I discuss the abject failure of our national approach to counterterror: The chief lesson of the attempted jihad attack on Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day is that our entire anti-terror strategy is a huge and abject failure….
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