Blog

My running commentary on events: local, national, and international. Areas of special interest include Israel, Iraq, and dissidents in the Muslim world.

Wikileaks Exposes Reality That Gulf States Fear Iran, Not Israel

November 29, 2010

Is anyone actually surprised by anything released by Wikileaks? Apparently, one of the site’s revelations is that leaders and diplomats from Gulf Arab countries like Saudi Arabia and Bahrain have approached the U.S. and asked ...

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Stop the Bomb Asks: Who Will Stand Up for the German Journalists? + Update: United Against Nuclear Iran Threatens Boycott of Marriott

November 26, 2010

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Last Monday, Stop the Bomb, a coalition of German activists and intellectuals who protest the German government’s and German corporations’ cooperation with the Iranian regime, held a protest outside a Courtyard Marriott Hotel in...

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Escaped Slave Warned U.S. Re: bin Laden in the 90’s; Now Warns of South Sudan “Ticking Time Bomb”

November 22, 2010

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Thanksgiving Day update: Disappointing news from Washington D.C., as Simon Deng received an update that the Sudan Peace and Stability Act, sponsored by Senator John Kerry, is “on hold.” Kerry’s office did not share the...

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My Question for John McCain: What About Iraqi Liberals?

November 21, 2010

At last weekend’s Foreign Policy Initiative conference in Washington D.C.: I asked Senator John McCain a two-part question. First, I asked if he was concerned about corruption in Iraq’s government.

Second, I asked him if he was...

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John McCain on Sunday: We should Do More to Help the People of Iran

November 17, 2010

Senator John McCain forcefully criticized President Barack Obama’s governance at this year’s forum of the Foreign Policy Initiative, a Washington-based think tank.

McCain, appearing at Sunday’s forum, specifically...

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George W. Bush: “I’m Optimistic Democracy Will Prevail” and “I Harbor No Resentment Toward the Media”

November 12, 2010

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Bill O’Reilly interviewed former President George W. Bush today to coincide with the release of “Decision Points,” Bush’s memoir of his years in office. Most interesting were Bush’s comments about Iraq and...

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Andrew McCarthy: We Could Not Successfully Get Terrorists Without Help of Muslim-American Patriots & Chilling News: Top Terrorist Al-Awlaki Trained U.S. Muslim Chaplains at Pentagon

November 9, 2010

6026_200_150.jpgRadical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born terrorist on the CIA’s kill or capture list who yesterday released a tape calling for the death of Americans and is considered one of al Qaeda’s top ideologues,...

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Dershowitz Versus Horton on Lawfare: Real Threat or Illusion?

November 9, 2010

From Jewish World Review

by HEATHER ROBINSON

Rhetorical sparks flew in Manhattan as Alan Dershowitz, Felix Frankfurter professor of law at Harvard University, and Scott Horton, contributing editor of Harper’s magazine, sparred on the subject of Lawfare, or the alleged systematic...

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Dershowitz Vs. Horton on Lawfare: Real Threat or Illusion?

November 6, 2010

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Rhetorical sparks flew in Manhattan Friday as Alan Dershowitz, Felix Frankfurter professor of law at Harvard University, and Scott Horton, contributing editor of Harper’s magazine, sparred on the subject of Lawfare, or the...

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Speak Up to Save Mother of Two from Hanging in Iran

November 3, 2010

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Today the Iranian regime is planning to execute, by hanging, a 43-year-old mother of two whose plight at the hands of Iran’s radical Islamist government has prompted an international outcry.

In September I wrote about this woman,...

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