June 27, 2014 – 3:36 pm
It’s so simple! (Slate) Could there be a connection between climate change and the emerging conflict in Iraq? The short answer is a qualified yes, according to Frank Femia of the Center for Climate and Security, a Washington-based policy institute advised by senior retired military and national security leaders. He explained in a phone interview: […]
June 23, 2014 – 11:00 am
Obviously, MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski was heavily intoxicated, or perhaps was hanging with Maureen Dowd in Colorado, when she decided to ask Obama a tough question. Well, more than likely, she was attempting to give Obama a way to hit some talking points (Mediaite) In an interview pre-taped Friday but aired on Morning Joe Monday morning, […]
May 31, 2014 – 12:15 pm
Ooh, yeah! All right! We’re splodin’: I wanna splod’ it wid you. We’re splodin’, splodin’, And I hope you like splodin’, too. Ain’t no rules, ain’t no vow, we can do it anyhow: I’n’I will see you through, ‘Cos everyday we pay the price with a little sacrifice, Splodin” till the splod’ is through.
May 24, 2014 – 8:03 am
If only was something available for State Department weenies to do research on people they endorse (Washington Free Beacon) The State Department’s Counter Terrorism (CT) Bureau promoted on Friday a controversial Muslim scholar whose organization has reportedly backed Hamas and endorsed a fatwa authorizing the murder of U.S. soldiers in Iraq. The CT bureau on […]
May 20, 2014 – 7:04 am
Obama’s Big Libyan Adventure is working out so well! (CNN) The U.S. military has doubled the number of aircraft standing by in Italy if needed to evacuate Americans from the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, Libya, CNN has learned. A decision to evacuate as violence in the Libyan capital grows is “minute by minute, hour by […]
May 17, 2014 – 7:40 am
I don’t think I’ve actually chimed in about #HashTag diplomacy yet. I will say, it’s not always a bad thing, if it is followed up with real world action. Alas, so much of the use of hashtags is simply to allow someone to say “hey, look at me, I Care!” And then move on. Found […]
May 14, 2014 – 8:45 am
So claims her human rights attorney (CNS News) A 15-year-old girl who witnessed the murder of her father and teenage brother at the hands of Boko Haram terrorists says she decided to tell her story after the group kidnapped almost 300 schoolgirls last month in the same village in northern Nigeria where she grew up. […]
May 11, 2014 – 8:55 am
Aaaaaaand, we finally have a winner. Whenever something happens, one can expect some Warmist to blame “climate change” as the cause, or at least one of the causes, of the happening. Here’s the UK Guardian’s Dr. Nafeez Ahmed Behind the rise of Boko Haram – ecological disaster, oil crisis, spy games Islamist militancy in Nigeria […]
April 30, 2014 – 3:44 pm
But if you mention the brutality of islamists, you’re an Islamiphobe (Daily Beast) Public crucifixions are mostly ceremonial these days, staged rituals that some Christian communities enact as part of their Easter observance. But the real thing may be returning to Syria. Two men were reportedly crucified in Raqqa on Tuesday, their bloody corpses displayed […]
January 20, 2014 – 8:03 am
Don’t forget, al Qaeda is on the run, and we aren’t supposed to worry about this tiny, itty bitty subset of Islam. Heck, even mentioning it is surely Islamophobic (ABC News) Citing a new “surprise package” for Russia and Olympic spectators, Islamist militants in the North Caucasus Sunday launched a new threat to the Sochi […]
