WALL STREET JOURNAL JANUARY 5, 2011 Covert Action Makes a Comeback Once in disrepute, secret warfare is now embraced even by the Obama administration to fight terrorism and weapons proliferation. By MAX BOOT We’re in an era of “covert action.” That phrase went into disrepute in the 1970s, when Congress’s Church Committee exposed hare-brained CIA
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UK Catholic School now 95% Muslim UK Catholic School now 95% Muslim cmr ^ | December 28, 2010 | PATRICK ARCHBOLD Posted on Tuesday, December 28, 2010 4:22:12 PM by NYer Via Weasel Zippers we found this sad, but ultimately unsurprising story. (Daily Star) – A CATHOLIC school faces being taken over by a mosque
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JANUARY 4, 2011 Egypt’s Prison of Hate You know a country is in trouble when it blames shark attacks on the Mossad. By BRET STEPHENS Following the New Year’s Eve massacre of a score of Coptic Christian worshippers outside a church in Alexandria, Egyptians are wasting no time fingering the likely culprit. “With careful consideration,”
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2011 looks grim for progress on women’s rights in Iraq Men view a Baghdad display that warns that women who don’t wear the hijab, or traditional Muslim head covering, will be punished in the afterlife. The display, which depicts women engulfed in flames, was erected by Islamist leaders as part of what many women see
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Egypt’s Rigged Elections Mubarak shows contempt for the ‘Cairo Effect.’ Jennifer Rubin December 20, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 14 The Obama administration consulted last month with outside policy experts and former officials about promoting democracy in Egypt. Given that Egypt rigged its November 28 legislative elections, it seems the
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http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com AQAP Looking To Attack U.S. Food Supply? Posted By Mike Levine On December 21, 2010 @ 12:41 AM In Terrorism | 25 Comments John Brennan speaks in Washington, Dec. 17 The group behind last year’s failed Christmas Day bombing and the recent attempt to send two explosives-laden packages to the United States may be
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Only Yesterday A president remembers what some have forgotten. Philip Terzian November 22, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 10 Decision Points by George W. Bush Crown, 512 pp., $35 The president left the White House with abysmal approval ratings, and a war which had begun well—enjoying widespread support and historic
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Pretentiousness Kills Lessons from the corrupt prosecution of Geert Wilders Sam Schulman November 22, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 10 Since January, the Dutch politician Geert Wilders, Beach Boy-haired founder and leader of the Freedom Party (PVV), has been on trial in Amsterdam for inciting hatred against Muslims and Holland’s
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Deadly Gossip The culture of leaking grows to ominous proportions. Lee Smith December 13, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 13 Many here in the United States have been quick to dismiss the significance of the State Department cables released by WikiLeaks as little more than foreign policy gossip. Unfortunately, this
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Stuxnet versus the Iranian nuclear program. Jonathan V. Last December 13, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 13 Last week Mahmoud Ahmadinejad acknowledged that Iran’s uranium enrichment program had suffered a setback: “They were able to disable on a limited basis some of our centrifuges by software installed in electronic equipment,”
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