MOSCOW (AP) – Russia is considering sending a spacecraft to a large asteroid to knock it off its path and prevent a possible collision with Earth, the head of the country’s space agency said Wednesday. Anatoly Perminov said the space agency will hold a meeting soon to assess a mission to Apophis, telling Golos Rossii [...]
Politico: Former Vice President Dick Cheney accused President Barack Obama on Tuesday of “trying to pretend we are not at war†with terrorists, pointing to the White House response to the attempted sky bombing as reflecting a pattern that includes banishing the term “war on terror†and attempting to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center. [...]
Join me tonight for what is clearly going to be a very intense episode of “The Jihadi Killer Hour”.
Financial Times: Republicans have seized on the Christmas Day attempted terrorist attack as evidence that Democrats are weak on national security issues, as they seek to bolster their credentials ahead of next year’s Congressional elections. As the Obama administration’s investigation into how a suspicious Nigerian man was able to carry explosives onto a US-bound aircraft [...]
The Washington Times: VIENNA, Austria — Iran is close to clinching a deal to clandestinely import 1,350 tons of purified uranium ore from Kazakhstan, according to an intelligence report obtained by the Associated Press on Tuesday. Diplomats said the assessment was heightening international concern about Tehran’s nuclear activities. Such a deal would be significant because [...]
I really hope that no bailout comes. I wonder if it’ll start the race riots all over again? LA Times: Reporting from Sacramento – Facing a budget deficit of more than $20 billion, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is expected to call for deep reductions in already suffering local mass transit programs, renew his push to expand [...]
Politico: UPDATE 2: A false report of a man wielding a machine gun near the Capitol led to a nearly one-hour lockdown of the sparsely populated complex on Tuesday afternoon, a highly placed law enforcement source tells POLITICO. The incident, which took place at around 3:25 p.m., began when a bus driver got in an [...]
CNS News: Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) did not say specifically where in the Constitution Congress is given the authority to require that every American buy health insurance, as both the Senate and House health care bills mandate. However, Brown did reference the “same part of the Constitution†that allows for Medicare. At the U.S. Capitol [...]
The Star Bulletin: A former Manoa resident sent President Barack Obama an old photo of the two of them taken while they were third-grade classmates at Noelani Elementary School, requesting an autograph more than six months ago. He recently received the autographed picture back, as well as a personally signed thank-you note. Scott Inoue, now [...]
World Net Daily: A little-discussed executive order from President Obama giving foreign cops new police powers in the United States by exempting them from such drudgery as compliance with the Freedom of Information Act is raising alarm among commentators who say INTERPOL already had most of the same privileges as diplomats. At David Horowitz’s Newsreal, [...]
Veterans Today: I have worked in electronics, both communications and security systems for decades. The industry is full of magic, satellites that can read license plates, not just from space but inside parking garages and tell you the sex of the baby you may not know you are carrying yet. Industry people, us and terrorists, [...]
National Review Online: Iran has come to a test of strength between the regime and the people. At this point, the outcome is uncertain. All sorts of unquantifiable factors like the character and will of leaders are in play, as well as unforeseeable interventions, for instance from the military or the Revolutionary Guards, plain accident, [...]
FOX News: The radical Yemeni-based cleric connected to two violent plots in the U.S. has “gone operational,” a senior U.S. official told Fox News, suggesting Anwar al-Awlaki is becoming an increasingly significant figure in Arabian Peninsula terror networks. Al-Awlaki was thought to have been killed in an air strike by Yemeni forces last week, but [...]
CNN: On August 28, the Saudi Arabian deputy minister of interior, Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, survived a bombing attack launched by an al Qaeda cell based in Yemen, Saudi Arabia’s southern neighbor. Abdullah Hassan al Asiri, the would-be assassin, a Saudi who had fled to Yemen, posed as a militant willing to surrender personally to [...]
So the Palin’s, in the interest of the well being of a one year old baby, understandably requested that the MSM respect their privacy and not turn their child custody battle into a media circus, and what does MSNBC go and do? Turn it into a media circus. Not only that, but the request to [...]
It never went away, the administration chose to lie to you in order to make Bush look bad: they said it didn’t exist, going so far as to ban the term from all govenrment agencies, including the Pentagon. They can deny it no more. Times Online: Hundreds of al-Qaeda militants are planning terror attacks from [...]
