February 18, 2008 – 8:23 am
Monday. The start of a new work week. Time to do your best, get busy, impress the bosses. How ’bout a beer? No beer needed to understand this by Rich Galen Last year, after the uproar over the so-called “warrantless wiretaps,” the Congress passed the “Protect America Act” which made some minor adjustments to FISA […]
February 17, 2008 – 8:12 pm
Via Al Jazeera through the DU Syrian officials are reported to have detained suspects said to be connected or involved in the killing of Imad Moghaniyah, a senior commander of Hezbollah, in Damascus on Tuesday. According to the state-run Al Watan newspaper, “suspects of various Arab nationalities have been arrested”. I guess we’ll see.
February 17, 2008 – 1:12 pm
Why do we really need FISA to allow U.S. intelligence agencies to surveille electronic messages, such as email and phone calls, between people who are not citizens of the United States, and, as such, are not covered by the Constitution? Even if they are in the United States. Seems kinda silly, doesn’t it? We used […]
February 16, 2008 – 2:15 am
Well, not in so many words (via Little Green Footballs) Mette Vestergaard, a committee official, confirmed the cancellation. “The Iranian ambassador asked the Foreign Policy Committee to condemn the drawings. They can’t and they won’t,†she said without giving more details. Excellent! Some Europeans with cajones.
February 14, 2008 – 12:10 pm
The very definition of useful idiot Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan joined a protest Wednesday seeking the support of Egypt’s first lady in ending a military trial of members of the country’s largest Islamic organization. Under the watchful eyes of dozens of black-clad and helmeted anti-riot police, some 50 heavily veiled wives and children of 40 […]
February 14, 2008 – 9:30 am
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February 13, 2008 – 10:22 am
The Devine Miss MM calls for a reprint of the Mohammed cartoons on this second anniversary. Can do! Click the photo for full size Check Captain Ed, he has lots more on the subject. More: check out the ultra-awesome, and fatwa friendly, graphic at snapped shot.
February 13, 2008 – 8:18 am
Morning, y’all, Jebediah Murphy here with some of that truthiness stuff. And the truth is, this couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy A senior Hezbollah commander suspected in some of the highest-profile international terrorist attacks of the last 25 years has died in an explosion in Syria, Hezbollah TV said Wednesday. Imad Mughniyeh died […]
February 12, 2008 – 4:50 pm
What happened? The Senate voted Tuesday to shield from lawsuits telecommunications companies that helped the government eavesdrop on their customers without court permission after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. After nearly two months of stops and starts, the Senate rejected by a vote of 31 to 67 a move to strip away a grant of […]
February 12, 2008 – 4:23 pm
No bad deed goes unpunished The acting director of a Baghdad psychiatric hospital has been arrested on suspicion of supplying al-Qaeda in Iraq with the mentally impaired women that it used to blow up two crowded animal markets in the city on February 1, killing about 100 people. Iraqi security forces and US soldiers arrested […]
