Drudge Report: Going Rogue: An American Life by Sarah Palin Chapter Four; Section 8, pages 255-257 By the third week in September, a “Free Sarah†campaign was under way and the press at large was growing increasingly critical of the McCain camp’s decision to keep me, my family and friends back home, and my governor’s [...]
CNS News: Twenty years ago this week, the Berlin Wall fell, opening a door to freedom for millions of East Germans who had lived under communism for nearly 50 years. But as a new report documents, much of the major U.S. media coverage of the Berlin Wall, and the subsequent downfall of Soviet communism, failed [...]
Times Online: Two leaked classified cables from the US Ambassador in Kabul voicing grave concern about sending more American troops to Afghanistan have exposed open conflict inside President Obama’s national security team over his war strategy. The contents of the cables, passed to The Washington Post and The New York Times yesterday by three officials, [...]
Times Online: At least 37 BBC executives earn more than the Prime Minister, it was revealed yesterday, as the corporation disclosed the scale of its senior salaries for the first time. The broadcaster said that its 107 “most senior decision makers†earn £22 million a year and said that the disclosures made it the nation’s [...]
FrumForum: At a gathering last night of intelligent young conservatives, I was defending the point that the TARP and some kind of fiscal stimulus had been absolutely essential last year – that otherwise the world economy might have plunged into Depression – and that conservative organizations like the Heritage were right and courageous to have [...]
BRUSSELS – An Iranian opposition leader said Thursday that the country is making sweeping changes to its security apparatus in an effort to consolidate the power of the elite Revolutionary Guard. Maryam Rajavi, head of the National Council of Resistance of Iran — a Paris-based umbrella opposition group — said the alleged changes and accompanying [...]
ABC News: Accused Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan may have exchanged e-mails with a radical, jihadist cleric in Yemen, but the devout Muslim also tried to be nice to the neighbors in his Killeen, Texas apartment complex — including one who allegedly vandalized his car. Hasan was charged Thursday with 13 counts of premeditated [...]
Daily Mail: A sniffer dog that went missing in action after a battle in Afghanistan has been found safe and well after more than a year in the desert. Sabi the black Labrador was with a joint Australian-Afghan army patrol when it was ambushed by Taliban militants in September 2008. Nine soldiers were wounded in [...]
NEW YORK (AP) – Federal prosecutors Thursday took steps to seize four U.S. mosques and a Fifth Avenue skyscraper owned by a nonprofit Muslim organization long suspected of being secretly controlled by the Iranian government. In what could prove to be one of the biggest counterterrorism seizures in U.S. history, prosecutors filed a civil complaint [...]
CNS News: When asked where specifically the Constitution authorized Congress to mandate that individuals buy health insurance, Sen. Jack Reed (D.-R.I.) said that he “would have to check the specific sections†but said that it was like making people “sign up for the draft.†“Specifically where in the Constitution does Congress get its authority to [...]
ABC: “Today’s first base is kissing … plus fondling this and that. Second base is oral sex. Third base is going all the way. Home plate is learning each other’s names.” So wrote Tom Wolfe in his 2000 book “Hooking Up” — a term that describes a wide range of coupling from making out to [...]
