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September 26, 2008
Firefighters’ Developing Role in Counterterrorism
September 25, 2008
Dining with the Enemy
Among the lessons to be learned from the meltdown on Wall Street: Change is not always for the better. And even institutions that appear big, strong and permanent can collapse in a New Yor...
September 25, 2008
A Clear And Present Nuclear Danger
Wall Street's meltdown has almost swept it from the news, but right now Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has on her hands a diplomatic debacle in North Korea that may ultimately prove eve...
September 24, 2008
Winner Takes All
The greatest analyst of power in the last 500 years, the Florentine Nicolo Machiavelli, made a basic distinction between those who ruled and those who governed. He insisted that legitimate power...
September 22, 2008
A Proper Welcome
To: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President Islamic Republic of Iran Tehran Dear Mr. President, I’m writing to you about death, one of your favorite themes. Your adul...
September 12, 2008
Intercepted Letters from al-Qaeda Leaders Shed Light on State of Network in Iraq
Yesterday, Center for Terrorism Research (CTR) adjunct fellow Bill Roggio posted an...
September 12, 2008
From Russia with, Well … Not Much
Following Syrian President Bashar Assad's recent visit to Russia, and on the heels of the Russian military assault in Georgia, there was a flurry of commentary by regime-sanc...
September 10, 2008
Machiavelli on Modern Leadership
Niccolo Machiavelli, one of the eminent minds of the Italian Renaissance, spent much of a long and active lifetime trying to determine and understand what...
September 10, 2008
Tocqueville on American Character
In 1831, Alexis De Tocqueville, a twenty-six-year-old French aristocrat, spent nine months travelling across the United States. From the East Coast to the frontier, from the Canadian border to Ne...
September 9, 2008
The Iranian Time Bomb
This book exposes the radical agenda and terrorist activities of the mullahs who run Iran, and offers an action plan for responding. The first salvo was the attack on the American Embass...
September 9, 2008
The War Against the Terror Masters
The War Against the Terror Masters is a must-read guide to the terrorist crisis. Michael A. Ledeen explains in startling detail how and why the United States was so unprepared for the September 1...
September 9, 2008
Freedom Betrayed
This is the Age of the Second Democratic Revolution. Inspired by the values of the American Revolution, supported and advanced by American military power and a remarkable generation of democratic...
September 3, 2008
Al Qaeda’s Surge in Algeria
Over the course of the last few weeks, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has undertaken a surge operation of its own, so to spea...
August 31, 2008
Five killed in al Qaeda safe house strike in South Waziristan
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August 31, 2008
“Lebanonization” and “Global Reach”
Quick, someone call Augustus Richard Norton to urge him to contest the following reports. For Norton has assured us over the years that Hezbollah has been "Lebanonized" and did not have "global r...
August 31, 2008
Re: re: Rick on Palin
I don’t often disagree with Peter, but there is nothing elegant about Rick’s assertion that “Conservatives love Palin because she has a Downs baby and an M-16.” It&r...
August 31, 2008
We Need a New Base?
An always thoughtful reader writes: Rick also misses something here: “You would have thought the base was energized by being in a war. If not, perhaps we...
August 30, 2008
The Fun Begins
Until today, this presidential campaign has been a grinding experience to watch. It has been mostly about getting to know Barack Obama, who whether on world speed-tour, or columned stage, Berlin...
August 30, 2008
Coalition forces target Hezbollah Brigades in Baghdad
Coalition special operations teams captured three Hezbollah Brigades operatives during raids inside Baghdad. The captures are the latest in an effort to dismantle the Iranian-backed terror group...
August 30, 2008
Pakistan declares Ramadan cease-fire
The Pakistani government declared a cease-fire in the Taliban-controlled tribal areas bordering Afghanistan during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Offensive military operations in the...
August 29, 2008
Obama Reax to Palin
The more I think about it, the more stupid that graceless statement by the Obama camp seems. McCain went out of his way last night to congratulate Obama and salute the legacy of Martin Luth...
August 29, 2008
Foreign Affairs Experience
K-Lo, I understand your correspondent’s gut reaction, but a lot of the experience talk is overblown when it comes to foreign affairs. John O’Sullivan is the expert on this, but...
August 29, 2008
Obama: “In Washington the call this: ‘You are on your own'”
YES! That used to be the greatness of America: I WANT TO BE ON MY OWN. Now, somehow, it's a problem -- that if the government is not holding your hand, helping you work it...
August 29, 2008
Big Wind No Rain
I don’t think this is rose-tinted earplugs: LAME. This is a very weak candidate. As I’ll argue in a piece for tomorrow, there’s no question Hillary would be th...
August 29, 2008
Re: In All Seriousness
Man, I wish I'd said that....
August 29, 2008
The Promised Land of the Free Lunch
Something splendid did happen at Invesco Field Thursday night. Race is no longer a bar to nomination for the American presidency. The pity is that this historic occasion deserved a far better can...
August 29, 2008
Pakistani forces thwart triple suicide bombing attack
Pakistani paramilitary forces from the Frontier Corps repelled a deadly Taliban suicide attack on a military camp near the Kohat Tunnel. Three suicide vehicles were used in the attack, G...
August 29, 2008
Would help the scoop …
if Carl Cameron did not keep calling her SUSAN Palin....
August 29, 2008
FOX: It’s Palin
They say it’s confirmed by high campaign officials....
August 29, 2008
Well Done, Sen. McCain
His Maverickness drives us crazy, and we’ve — I’ve — complained plenty about any number of cases in point. So I just want to say thank you, Sen. McCain, on this one....
August 29, 2008
No Obama News? What about the Fairness Doctrine?
It is outrageous that McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin for Veep has overwhelmed Obama campaign news after that historic, moving celebration of change and hope last night. I, for one, wi...
August 29, 2008
Palin Pros & Cons
I think Peter really nailed the biggest upside here: “she has thrilled the GOP’s conservative base, which can now in good conscience give itself to the McCain candidacy with enthusias...
August 29, 2008
Yet Another Message to the Army
An excellent editorial from NOW Lebanon on Hezbollah's latest murderous attack against the Lebanese army. At best, Hezbollah must accept the fact t...
August 29, 2008
Ramesh’s Critics
Jon Chait writes about Obama declining to “invok[e] the craziest people you’ve ever known, including those whose radical views you don’t share and never have shared.”...
August 28, 2008
Kudos to Stanley
Stanley was grace under fire. Between trying to shout him down and trying to get the Justice Department to intimidate other critics (Michelle Malkin has more, here), the Obama campaign is g...
August 28, 2008
More On Stanley on the Milt Rosenberg Show
More idiocy from Obama callers. They call with their talking points, do not refute a single fact Stanley has written or otherwise publicized, and they ask, “How can you possibly expec...
August 28, 2008
Stanley on Milt Rosenberg Show
The pro-Obama callers on the Milt Rosenberg show are a riot. In the last few minutes, two called to scald Milt for having Stanley on without having an Obama rep on to give the counterpoi...
August 28, 2008
Harry Reid: Offshore Drilling is “snake oil” and “quackery”
Quite a convention speech from the majority leader. [H/t John McCormack at the Standard.] I love how the Democrats keep selectively citing their new favorite oil man, T. Boone Pickens. ...
August 28, 2008
More on the Obama Campaign’s Mugging of Stanley Kurtz
Over at NRO’s Media Blog, Guy Benson has an in-studio eyewitness account of what happened to our friend Stanley Kurtz on Milt Rosenberg’s radio show last night. I provided some...
August 28, 2008
Fighting intensifies in Pakistan’s Northwest
The security situation in northwestern Pakistan continued to deteriorate as Taliban and government forces clashed in South Waziristan and Bajaur. The Taliban also conducted a successful attack on...
August 28, 2008
Change (And A Few Dollars) You Can Believe In
From the Washington Post: Sen. Barack Obama sought more than $3.4 million in congressional earmarks for clients of the lobbyist son of his Democratic running ma...
August 28, 2008
Re: Can We Not Go Here?
Maybe McCain can point out that Carter’s presidency was America’s POW time — and no one but Obamaniacs will want to milk it....
August 28, 2008
Lanny, Bill & Chuck
Enjoying this Schumer story too much does not make you a bad person, I promise. From Matt Continetti at the Standard (from Slate’s Christopher Beam)....
August 28, 2008
What Do You Mean Obama’s An Empty Suit? Had Napoleon Written Memoirs At This Age?
Classic Krauthammer, on Obama’s coronation on Mount Olympus: What’s the finish? Maybe Obama’s got Zhang Yimou to do the hidden-rope trick, and...
August 28, 2008
Re: Living in the Past
OK, Pete. I admit it: if Jethro Tull was opening for Obama, I would have gone. Now stop waterboarding me! ...
August 28, 2008
Oh No, Not the Leak!
OK, I agree that it would be stupid for the McCain campaign to leak the Veep choice in a way that seemed to rain on Obama’s parade. Fine. But Alan Colmes just asked a McCain cam...
August 28, 2008
Jay Question
We are so lucky to have Jay here, I can't resist. Jay, doesn't this seem so tiny? When I was a kid, getting intoxicated by politics, I remember rounds of votes, drama, Humph...
August 28, 2008
Biden Question
If he’d gotten it done the night before, would the coach send him out there the next night?...
August 27, 2008
They’ ll Have Nuclear Bombs, But Why Worry? ‘ We’ ll Have Universal Healthcare
With all the charm of Lady Macbeth at the castle banquet, Hillary has had her say (in which she lavished more praise on the late Bill Gwatney and Stephanie Tubbs Jones than she did on Barack Obam...
August 27, 2008
Pakistani military repels Taliban assault on South Waziristan fort
A sketch map of North and South Waziristan. Map from The Khyber Gateway. Click to view. The Pakistani military repelled a Taliban assault on a fort in the lawless South Waziristan...
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