Blackwater: Is the State Dept Acting to Counter White House Policy?

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 —NY TIMES- State Department investigators offered Blackwater USA security guards immunity during an inquiry into last month’s deadly shooting of 17 Iraqis in Baghdad — a potentially serious investigative misstep that could complicate efforts to prosecute the

Chief UN nuclear watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei is mad,  from AFP:

Mohamed ElBaradei accuses Jewish state of ‘taking the law into its own hands’, says ‘if countries have information that another country is working on a nuclear-related program, they should

So that our readers will not be under informed on earthshaking events, I will pass along word from the United Nations that 2008 will be the international year of the potato.

No, really. at first, this kind of thing would

I commented the other day about this resolution about Turkey, and genocide, by suggesting that there was no way that the Democrats could be this stupid by accident, and that therefore it had to be intentional.  Neal Boortz this morning

Dan Drezner:

Last week I asked which major party was going to be more trade-friendly.Yesterday, Hillary Clinton provided part of the answer. The Financial Times’ Edward Luce summarizes:

Hillary Clinton, frontrunner for the Democratic party’s presidential nomination,

Rochester, NY—12-19-01 21:21Hrs-

Back on the 13th of September , a mere day and a half following the attack on America, I pinned the fault for this happening, squarely on the shoulders of one Bill Clinton, for having done the

Ray Robison over at the American Thinker has posted an encouraging report, that you will most likely not see in the mainstream media for another six months:

There are signs that the global Islamic jihad movement is splitting apart, in

After a busy weekend, I’m just now starting to get caught up on things.  One of the things I noticed was that on Friday James Joyner posted this:

All signs point to France rejoining NATO’s military structure more than forty

In true Washington Post style, Bitsblog has been banned in Burma.   Michelle Malkin has the story.

As I noted the other day, Burmese bloggers have been crucial whistleblowers and eyewitnesses to history-supplying the world with round-the-clock coverage and photos

So, the KosKids love Ahmadinejad.

No secret, this.

But when you see them admit it, and post their love of the man publicly….

I know I’m a Jewish lesbian and he’d probably have me killed. But still, the guy

I got a rather annoying note in mail this morning, complaining about the frequency with which MSNBC was replaying the tapes from 9/11.

Right now MSNBC is re-running NBC’s coverage from the attacks of 9-11. The whole thing. Look a

PJM Groningen: Make no mistake: newly-elected conservative European leaders did not win their elections because they are pro-American, they won despite it, says PJM correspondent Michael van der Galien.

Yes, well, forgive me, but that sounds an awful lot like

Mexcan President Felipe Calderon declared that the United States of America does not exist as sovereign nation, and has not right to control her own borders.   Traci Carl, Associated Press:

“Where there is a Mexican, there is Mexico.”

Taking

Ouch….

BAGHDAD (AP) – Iraq’s embattled prime minister lashed out at American critics Sunday, saying Sen. Hillary Clinton and other Democrats who have called for his ouster should “come to their senses” and stop treating Iraq like “one of their

As regards the betting pools that have popped up for when Fidel Castro begins his stay in one of the few places I can think of that warmer than Cuba, I’ll add my comments.
Rumors and indications notwithstanding, there’s no