Ramadan’s Exclusion
Tariq Ramadan, the Swiss Muslim celebrity academic and British government adviser who teaches at Oxford, is complaining again of his exclusion from the United States, where he was unable to take up a...
View ArticleParis Art Woes
An old saying in Europe goes that British people “take their pleasures sadly”; an update might add that the French take theirs violently. On the night of October 6, known locally as the “Nuit Blanche”...
View ArticleSmart Drawdowns
Sometimes I despair of this administration. After three and a half years of fumbling, the president in late 2006 finally made a courageous if overdue decision to send more troops to Iraq. The payoff...
View ArticleAnalysis For Dummies
In China’s Great Cultural Revolution, landlords and other capitalist roaders were paraded through the streets wearing dunce caps. The 20,000 analysts in the U.S. intelligence community whose job it is...
View ArticleEnough with the Yemen Terrorist Pipeline
The Obami are a stubborn lot. Even new and troubling evidence regarding the inanity of releasing dangerous Guantanamo detainees cannot shake them from their fixation with closing the facility....
View ArticleAnother About-Face?
In a remarkable and entirely welcome reversal, the Eric Holder Justice Department has retreated in its effort to pursue ethics charges against Bush administration lawyers who authored memos on enhanced...
View ArticleYoo and Bybee Cleared, Justice Department’s Shoddy Investigation Exposed
The Justice Department has finally closed a sorry chapter in its history — the attempt to criminalize the work of Department lawyers who rendered legal judgment on the use of enhanced interrogation...
View ArticleRe: Yoo and Bybee Cleared
More reviews are coming in for the work of the OPR lawyers who doggedly pursued John Yoo and Jay Bybee for two years. A 14-page letter dated January 19, 2009 is available, authored by Former Attorney...
View ArticleYoo Gets the Last Word
John Yoo is entitled to dance a jig on the grave of Eric Holder’s credibility. And he does. He sums up the ludicrous witch hunt conducted by the Office of Professional Responsibility, which examined...
View ArticleUh Oh, Here Come the “Smart” Sanctions
Whenever diplomats use the word ”smart” these days, something dumb is going on. From the START-signing ceremony, AP reports: Looming over the celebration was Iran, which in the face of international...
View ArticleObami’s Latest Israel Gambit Flops
Once again, the Obami’s bullying has come to naught. Bibi Netanyahu and his government are not amused nor persuaded by the Obami onslaught over Jerusalem housing permits or the suggestion that an...
View ArticleWhat Did Eric Holder Know and When Did He Know It?
From the beginning of the New Black Panther Party scandal, the Obama Justice Department insisted that the decision to dismiss a case of egregious voter intimidation was made by career attorneys. Now we...
View ArticleObama’s Anti-Israel Bullying Continues
The New York Times reports on the opening of the proximity talks, with two nuggets of news confirming that for all its “charm,” the Obami’s anti-Israel assault is going full steam ahead. First, the...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
The Democrats are in trouble: “If voters think the economy’s gotten worse under a Democratic President they’re going to vote Republican. Add in the Democrats’ enthusiasm issues and you have the formula...
View ArticleCan’t Anybody Here Play This White House Game?
The breaking news is that the national security adviser, General James Jones, has resigned and is being replaced by his deputy, Thomas Donilon. There had been speculation Jones could not possibly...
View ArticleRE: So How’s the Bribe-a-thon Going?
Not all that well. For starters George Mitchell isn’t even in the region. I wondered why and e-mailed State Department spokesman PJ Crowley. He replied: “His deputy, David Hale, was in the region last...
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