October 23, 2012 – 9:24 am
I’m not going to write a whole lot about the debate, since I only saw a few snippets, being at a friends house watching the Bears-Lions game, and John Hawkins does a good job of breaking it all down. Two interesting ones I did hear (while walking in the kitchen for a beer or food, […]
October 22, 2012 – 8:11 pm
The Weekly Standard’s Stephen F. Hayes has 20 question for POTUS If the president really wants to level with the American people, here are some questions he needs to answer. 1. Were there references to Libyan security threats in the President’s Daily Brief (PDB) during the three weeks before the attacks in Benghazi? 2. If […]
October 21, 2012 – 8:12 am
Before we get to that, the lead pull over at Memeorandum is a NY Times story about Iran supposedly agreeing to one on one talks with the US The United States and Iran have agreed for the first time to one-on-one negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, according to Obama administration officials, setting the stage for […]
October 18, 2012 – 8:10 am
Chucking them under the bus, or reality? We certainly know that the State Department screw the pooch royally, in that they wanted a low key security presence in Libya, and particularly the Benghazi Consulate, depending upon a local militia group, the February 17 Martyrs Brigade (which supposedly has links to the same group that attacked […]
October 15, 2012 – 1:22 pm
Much like liberals, Islamists are very much into “tolerance” (via Jihad Watch) (Telegraph) Thousands of Muslims have pledged a series of protests against Google HQ for a “hateful and offensive” anti-Islam video, saying they now live in an “age of mockery”. A protest by 10,000 Muslims outside the offices of Google in London today is […]
October 15, 2012 – 8:20 am
The Washington Post’s Jackson Diehl thinks so Mitt Romney and congressional Republicans are doing their best to portray the assault on the U.S. Consulate in Libya and its aftermath as a signal foreign policy disaster for Barack Obama. But my bet is that when historians look back on Obama’s mistakes in the last four years, […]
October 14, 2012 – 8:08 am
Just remember, “Bin Laden is dead (true, thank you) and al Qaeda is on the path to defeat (mule fritters)” (Reuters) Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri said a film made in the United States mocking the Prophet Mohammad showed Washington was waging a “crusader Zionist war” against Muslims and he called for more protests outside […]
October 13, 2012 – 7:55 am
I supposed they’re there to protect the diplomats from drinking too much rum and avoid gun wielding pot growers if the diplomats take a drive up into the mountains (CNS News) When terrorists attacked the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11 of this year and killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans, […]
October 8, 2012 – 1:04 pm
Anyone surprised? (NY Times) One brother joined the global jihad against the West under the nom de guerre Abu Yahya al-Libi. He rose to become Al Qaeda’s brightest star and second in command, until an American drone strike killed him in Pakistan four months ago. The other brother, Abdel Wahab Mohamed Qaid, was the first […]
October 5, 2012 – 9:06 am
OK, he didn’t call Obama a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure, but, dog whistle, you know? (Fox News) Mitt Romney, fresh off what by most accounts was his victory Wednesday night in the first debate with President Obama, said in a Fox News interview that the deadly consulate attack in Libya was a “tragic […]
