davidl on December 28th, 2007

Victor Davis HansonPromoted, from comments.

We live in dangerous times and we need a leader who can make rational and sober assessments of the real world.   Sadly for us, we a have gaggle of candidates in both parties who either are

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Eric Florack on December 13th, 2007

LGF:

Palestinians continue to attempt to commit random murder with barrages of rockets, even as they pretend to talk “peace:” Israeli-Palestinian peace talks resume.

JERUSALEM – The highly anticipated renewal of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians got

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davidl on November 15th, 2007

carter-peanut.jpg Sarah el Deeb,  Associated Press

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Gaza’s Hamas rulers issued an edict Wednesday banning journalists from working in the coastal strip unless they submit to sweeping press restrictions, and it said it would soon impose new

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davidl on November 12th, 2007

Ironic, Daily Mail (UK):

Gunfire killed at least six people and wounded 80 today at a Fatah memorial rally for Yasser Arafat attended by hundreds of thousands of supporters of the defeated faction in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.

A sea

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Say Anything:

Despite all their protestations of piety and clean living as well as their condemnation of anything they deem to be “Unislamic” it seems that our friends from the Religion of Peace have a keen desire to dive right

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Eric Florack on November 7th, 2007

Alan Dershowitz, guesting at the WSJ today:

dershowitz.jpg Consider, for example, the contentious and emotionally laden issue of the use of torture in securing preventive intelligence information about imminent acts of terrorism–the so-called “ticking bomb” scenario. I am not now talking

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Eric Florack on October 25th, 2007

That site that Israel bombed, was apparently correctly identified in the news reports that we all saw last evening.  This is a before and after shot:

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As to the official reaction of Syria, Bruce McQuain makes an excellent point:

Seems

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It must be a bear being part of the mainstream media these days.  Must also be a major problem for liberals, but then again that’s kind of a repetition, isn’t it?

The Gateway Pundit is running a brilliant piece today

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Eric Florack on October 6th, 2007

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

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Eric Florack on October 2nd, 2007

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

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Eric Florack on September 26th, 2007

NEW YORK (AP) – Democrat Barack Obama says he probably wouldn’t have invited Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak at Columbia University but would be willing as president to meet with the Iranian leader as a way to protect U.S. interests. “The

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Eric Florack on September 25th, 2007

The mail I received last evening, following my comments on Ahmadinejad, and the comments of Ezra Klein, are of a piece. Supposedly, I’m a coward for not wanting him to speak. McQ seemingly has thought about this, however, and has

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Eric Florack on September 20th, 2007

A rather startling comment from Jawa Report, this morning:

We won the war, so Iraqis have finally come to believe. Only on the streets of Europe and America is there really a question over “if” we can win.

Again:

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Eric Florack on September 19th, 2007

The Jerusalem Post

 Proof of cooperation between Iran and Syria in the proliferation and development of weapons of mass destruction was brought to light Monday in a Jane’s Defence Weekly report that dozens of Iranian engineers and 15 Syrian

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davidl on September 14th, 2007

Dennis Kucinich travels to Syria to trash President Bush and laud Basser Assad.   See the YouTube video.

Syria has built nuclear installations,  according to Ynet News:

Washington official says Israeli surveillance shows possible Syrian nuclear installation stocked by

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