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July 6, 2008 Suicide bombing outside Lal Masjid in Islamabad kills 19 A suicide bomber killed 19 Pakistanis, including 15 policemen, in an attack outside a police station in Islamabad. More than 40 Pakistanis were reported wounded. "Most of the inj... July 6, 2008 US forces kill 20 Taliban on Pakistani border US forces killed 20 Taliban fighters during airstrikes in Nangarhar province today in the latest in a series of attacks along the Pakistani border. The US military targeted "a la... July 6, 2008 Re: Is There Legitimate Doubt About Obama’s Eligibility to be President? A reader alerts me that AJ Strata has looked carefully at the Obama citizenship story and says it is nonsense.... July 5, 2008 Pakistan suspends Khyber operation, peace negotiations underway The Pakistani government has halted military operations in the tribal region of Khyber and has opened up negotiations with extremist groups in the region. "The operation has been... July 5, 2008 NYTimes & Obama: Which Is It? My buddy TigerHawk has some insightful fun laying out the possible reasons why the Gray Lady is in a snit (at least for public consumption) over Obama’s flip-flops:... July 5, 2008 Getting FISA Wrong . . . Again A federal court in California has dismissed a civil lawsuit that alleged surveillance violations against a Muslim charity the government has formally designated as supporter of al-Qaeda and other... July 3, 2008 Afghan Army kills 25 Taliban after ambush in the northwestern province of Badghis The Afghan National Army killed 25 Taliban fighters after being ambushed and fighting a 10-hour battle in the northwestern province of Badghis. The attack in Badghis is the latest in a se... July 3, 2008 The Supremes’ Wayward Child-Rape Decision After consultations with our Bench Memos crew, I've updated this morning's... July 3, 2008 RE REFINING ON IRAQ I, for one, will not criticize Obama if he is moving to the right on Iraq. Iraq is the most important front in the global war being fought by our jihadist enemies. They have told us so – an... July 3, 2008 Dick Morris on the Supremes’ Gun Case I generally enjoy Dick Morris’s insights about politics because, even if you don’t agree with him, he is a master tactician. But when he writes about law, he is often out of his... July 3, 2008 Re: Iran Blinks? Jonah, while I don't doubt your reader is right, I suspect what the mullahs want is the North Korea deal which, at least in the Norks' case, seemed to be available right now. Maybe if t... July 3, 2008 Morris on Combatants Continuing his critique of the Supremes (see my last post on this), Dick Morris focuses on Boumediene, the enemy combatants decision. He starts out with some critical information, but when... July 3, 2008 Pakistan pulls punches in Khyber operation The Pakistani government continues to claim success during the current operation against extremist groups operating in the tribal agency of Khyber. The military and government claim the T... July 3, 2008 Re: “America’s Days Aren’t Numbered” And not to suck up to the boss, but Rich’s column on Washington’s Continental Army and the Declaration is also an excellent Fourth of July pick-me-up in these depressing days.... July 3, 2008 The Supreme Court’s Phony Consensus Against Capital Punishment for Child Rape I wrote an article yesterday describing, among other things, that a major premise of the Supreme Court’s rationale (in Kennedy v. Louisiana) for invalidating Louisiana’s death penalty... July 3, 2008 “Hitler Tamed by Prison. Released on Parole…” No joke. In a terrific column on the seductive delusions of appeasement, Barry Rubin of Israel’s Gloria Center highlights the headline above, from an article published Dec. 21, 1924, in the... July 3, 2008 Willful Blindness Andrew C. McCarthy takes readers back to the real beginning of the war on terror--not the atrocities of September 11, but the first bombing of the World Trade Center in February 1993 when radical... July 2, 2008 Military Commissions: Going … going … gone No, it ain’t over yet, but the fat lady is clearing her throat. Reuters reports that federal juges in the District of Columbia are organizing themselves to deal with the floo... July 2, 2008 Re: I Am Who Am? Or … ? K-Lo, I'm just glad you never went through one of those 'The Artist formerly known as Prince' phases -- I don't even have one of those thingies on my keyboard.... July 2, 2008 Panama Court Overturns Pardons in Alleged Castro Murder Plot Fox in Washington has the story -- h/t John Williamson.... July 2, 2008 Iraqi forces detain Sadrist leaders, uncover Special Groups headquarter in Amarah Iraqi forces detained four senior Sadrists members of the Maysan provincial council on Wednesday in the latest series of aids targeting senior Sadrist leaders in the former Mahdi Army bas... July 2, 2008 UNICEF’ s World-Class Hypocrisy Were hypocrisy an Olympic sport, UNICEF would qualify for the top ranks of the UN’s star-studded team. Recently, UNICEF cut all ties to an Israeli businessman, Lev Leviev, because of what R... July 2, 2008 The War of Ideas From Afghanistan and Iraq to Europe and the U.S., we are engaged in one of the most heated wars of all time. In this incisive book, terrorism expert Walid Phares shows that the most important bat... July 1, 2008 US repels Taliban attack on the Pakistani border The US military and Afghan National Army fought yet another major engagement in eastern Afghanistan along the border with Pakistan. An estimated 33 Taliban were killed in a battle in the... July 1, 2008 Re: Curse You Lopez! Jonah, it's worse than that for one-note tunes like us. Some day the Lopez posts will be studied like Picasso's Blue and Rose periods, or the Beatles John songs -v- Paul songs -v-... July 1, 2008 Ex-Guantanamo detainee suicide bomber fought at Tora Bora On the morning of March 23, 2008, an Easter Sunday, a massive blast rocked the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. Eight kilometers away at Forward Operating Base Marez, the US Military Transit... July 1, 2008 Oil-for-Food Lawsuit Today, Cash-for-Kim Complaints Tomorrow? Almost five years after Kofi Annan lauded the UN Oil-for-Food program while declaring it over and done with, the vast ensuing scandal continues to ooze and bubble through the U.S. courts. With th... July 1, 2008 DC Circuit’s Opinion in Enemy Combatant Case Issued I wrote this article last week about the decision of the DC Circuit overruling the milit... July 1, 2008 Poland Go Bragh! Following the Irish rejection of the EU constitution, Poland is demurring. President Lech Kaczynski’s approval is required as a last step under Polish law, and he has determined it wo... July 1, 2008 Commission Trial for Cole Bomber? Don’t Bet On It. The Times reports that Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, long suspected as being the main al-Qaeda operative behind the bombing of the destroyer, the U.S.S. Cole, that killed 17 members of the American Na... July 1, 2008 Re: Today Is a Good Day Today is a very good day, and I’m very proud to be in this extraordinary company and tradition. My first official act will probably be an article on why K-Lo is a much more d... July 1, 2008 From Eurabia to Londonistan: It Could Happen Here The disappearance of England, and Europe, continues apace. The Telegraph reports (italics mine): Muslims have complained over a police advert featuring a puppy sitting in an office... July 1, 2008 Future Jihad This Foreign Affairs bestseller from MSNBC terrorism expert Walid Phares allows a frightening look into the future of jihad. Phares--who has served as an expert with the Justice Department, brief... June 30, 2008 Biting Words from John Bolton The web briefing points to Amb. Bolton's piece in the WSJ today on the administration's awful North Korea capitulation. The wind-up is especially biting: The only good news is that ther... June 30, 2008 Obama: “I will never question anyone else’s patriotism in this campaign” How admirable! The only other 'anyone' in this campaign is John McCain. He's not gonna question McCain's patriotism? What a tremendous concession! Tune in tomorrow when Obama... June 30, 2008 UN World Food Program Hearts Robert Mugabe No matter how bad you think the UN is, there’s always something worse. This morning the UN came out with a press release about the UN’s World Food Program hustling more food to Kim Jo... June 30, 2008 Iraqi Security Forces Five Year Plan: An updated projection In August 2007, the Projected Iraqi Security Forces Five Year Plan (end-2012), a rough estimate of the end-state for Iraqi forces, was published. Additional information and details have sin... June 30, 2008 Re: Tortured Strategy Life is too short to waste seconds I can never get back looking up anything said by Wesley Clark. But did the general really say he didn’t think that McCain’s service as a... June 30, 2008 In Pictures: Extremist leaders in Pakistan’ s Khyber agency The Pakistani military has launched an operation against extremist groups in the Khyber agency. On June 29, the military said it was directly targeting the local extremist groups of Ansar-u... June 30, 2008 Iraq: Gee, Thanks for Everything — Now Turn Over Your Soldiers So We Can Prosecute Them If this story in the NYTimes is true, it is a disaster in the making. ... June 29, 2008 Keeping Score: My Favorite Day in a Long Time Tomorrow will be 36 years since my dad died (at 38). Even though I’m now 11 years older than he was when he died, I still miss him every day. One of the great joys we shared was... June 29, 2008 Pakistani military advances in Khyber The military operation in Pakistan's tribal agency of Khyber completed its second day. The military said the operation is limited in scope, while the Taliban have again threatened to attack... June 29, 2008 Blowing up insurgents’ old hut sends signal that Tarmiyah area is more secure Nathan Webster is an independent journalist who embedded with the US Army in Tarmiyah in Salahadin province, Iraq. Nathan is providing reports from Tarmiyah for The Long War J... June 29, 2008 The Argument for Divorce Back in February, Walid Jumblat made critical statements in an interview with Future News Channel. Jumblat spoke of the need for an "amicable divorce" between Hezbollah and the rest of Leba... June 29, 2008 Relative peace in Baghdad remains fragile as troops carry out counterinsurgency plan BAGHDAD, IRAQ: It's near noon on a Friday in Northeast Baghdad and the neighborhoods the U.S. military calls Muhallahs 535 and 734 are quiet. It's the weekend, and many adults are... June 29, 2008 Putting the EPA in Charge of Every Breath You Take? Even the control freaks who ran the Soviet Union never got around to trying to regulate every breath exhaled by their fellow citizens. But that’s where America seems to be h... June 28, 2008 Pakistan’s inconclusive military operations against the Taliban The Pakistani military operation in the tribal agency of Khyber is the latest offensive against the Taliban in northwestern Pakistan since the government assaulted the extremist Red Mosque... June 28, 2008 Pakistan strikes at Taliban in Khyber agency The Pakistani government has launched an operation targeting the Taliban in the Khyber tribal agency along the Afghan border. The operation is led by the paramilitary Frontier Corps and pol... June 27, 2008 Taliban rampage in Pakistan’s Swat district The Taliban has launched a series of attacks against political opponents and the infrastructure in the scenic northern district of Swat in Pakistan. The attacks occurred as the government a... June 27, 2008 North Korea Blows Up Wrong Symbol North Korea’s government invites TV crews to come film the demolition of a cooling tower at its aging Yongbyon nuclear plant (note: there is no invitation for them to freely roam the...

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