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July 8, 2008 Re: Bush v. Jefferson At his Pajamas Media website, Roger Kimball has a characteristically interesting take on the incident Andrew referred to earlier -- involving President Bush's speech writers editing Presiden... July 8, 2008 Re: Refined Refinements Yuval, of all the very interesting things in your post, the most interesting is Obama’s inadvertent admission that the notion of him “trying to look centrist” is fraudulent and... July 8, 2008 Caroline Glick To echo Michael (which is always a smart move), Caroline is as good and fearless as it gets in analyzing the Middle East, the Israeli/American relationship, and the nature of the war. I esp... July 8, 2008 Lebanon’s Militia Wars Lebanon's civil war was a complex, multisided battle whose implications still shape the country's politics today. This article analyzes the forces involved domestically and the course o... July 8, 2008 String of bombings rock Karachi One day after a suicide bomber killed 19 Pakistanis, including 15 policemen, in the capital of Islamabad, a string of bombings rocked the southern port city of Karachi. One civilian was k... July 8, 2008 Achille Lauro Terrorist Released in Italy One of the Palestinian terrorists who hijacked the Achille Lauro in 1985 — among other things, shooting and killing 69-year-old, wheelchair-bound Leon Klinghoffer before tossing him overboa... July 8, 2008 Cordesman: “U.S. Won’t Let Israel Attack Iran” The Jerusalem Post reports that Anthony Cordesman, the former Pentagon official and current analyst for ABC, made the remark during a meeting with Israeli defense analysts held by the Institute o... July 8, 2008 Obama’s Clarification Iowahawk understands what Obama is saying. ... July 8, 2008 Venezuela Supports Hezbollah The Washington Times reports that a top diplomat in Hugo Chavez’s government has been designated by the U.S. Treasury Department as a facilitator of the Hezbollah terrorist organization.&nb... July 7, 2008 Punishing Mugabe, Steps 1 & 2 Meeting in Japan, the leaders of the G-7 industrial powers (plus Russia, with which President Clinton made it the G-8) are stymied over how to punish Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe, who is this m... July 7, 2008 For the Glass Houses File The Detroit News reports that City Council President Pro Tem Monica Conyers, wife of House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) is under investigation by the FBI for bribery in connection with... July 7, 2008 41 killed in Kabul suicide strike at Indian embassy Kabul was rocked with a major attack on Monday. A suicide car bomber hit the outside wall of the Indian embassy in a crowded neighborhood in Kabul on Monday, killing 41 people and woundin... July 7, 2008 Re: The Undecider Rich, it’s good to see that Dan Benjamin and other top Clinton officials have become such sticklers for orderly process and gut-check decisions. It wasn’t always so. Re... July 7, 2008 Re: Obama’s Abortion Spin Ramesh, good stuff on that John McCormack post (which usefully updates what Ramesh, Yuval and Jen Rubin have done in the way of analysis). But I have to confess I laughed when I first read... July 7, 2008 Answering Peter Robinson Peter, over the weekend I watched your Uncommon Knowledge interview with Philip Bobbit — parts beyond what you asked me to take a look at. Prof. Bobbit is plainly a thoughtful guy but... July 7, 2008 Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Central Planning At the G-8 meeting now underway in Japan, the talk is all about targets. Double aid to Africa. Funnel resources as directed under the UN’s 8 millennium development goals, to be met by the y... July 7, 2008 The Afghanistan-Pakistan Theater: Militant Islam, Security and Stability What is the optimal strategy for the United States and its allies to pursue in Afghanistan? Observers across the political spectrum agree that military operations alone are not enough to secure A... July 7, 2008 Kabuki Diplomacy The G8 began coherently enough in 1975 as a vehicle for leveraging the combined political and economic strength of its members in pursuit of their common interest. The six largest... July 6, 2008 Victory in Iraq … Yawn Al Qaeda’s being crushed in Mosul, its last holdout in Iraq. You need to go to the British press to learn about it. Here’s from the Times of London [h/t TigerHawk]:... July 6, 2008 Good for the Washington Post The Post, which supports the result in the Supreme Court’s Kennedy v. Louisiana decision invalidating the death penalty for rape, concedes (in an editorial yesterday) that the case should b... July 6, 2008 Iraqi forces pursue Mahdi Army in Baghdad Clashes broke out in the Sadr City district in northeastern Baghdad after Iraqi forces detained a senior Sadrist leader, an Iraqi news outlet reported. Iraqi soldiers and police... July 6, 2008 Is There Legitimate Doubt About Obama’s Eligibility to be President? I had not caught up until today with this apparent controversy over whether the Hawaii birth certificate proffered by Obama’s campaign is a forgery and whether there are legitimate question... 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...

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