One man seals the fate of Israel on his Leftist whim? Jerusalem Post: It is inevitable that Iran will produce nuclear weapons, as things stand, US President Barack Obama said on Monday, in an interview with The New York Times. Seeming to indicate his administration was now resigned to a future including a nuclear-armed Iran. [...]
Agencie France Presse: Israel Tuesday began distributing millions of protection kits against biochemical warfare, Deputy Defence Minister Matan Vilnai announced, stressing the campaign was not linked to any imminent threat. “We have equipped ourselves with millions of protection kits against biological or chemical warfare, and a massive distribution programme for the population started today,” Vilnai [...]
Agencie France Presse: An aide to Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said that the Islamic republic will strike Tel Aviv with its missiles if it comes under attack, Fars news agency reported on Tuesday. “If the enemy takes its chance and fires a missile towards Iran, the dust from an Iranian missile strike [...]
Y-Net: Israel’s long-term future is in danger if Mideast peace cannot be achieved, Jordan’s King Abdullah warned in an interview with The Wall Street Journal that appeared online. “I think the long-term future of Israel is in jeopardy unless we solve our problems,” the monarch, who was to leave for Washington Saturday for US President [...]
Mail Online: Two women have been arrested after they allegedly tried to smuggle their dead relative on to a passenger plane. The corpse was pushed in on a wheelchair – complete with sunglasses – to try to fool staff at the check in desk
BAGHDAD (AP) – Baghdad’s top military spokesman is blaming al-Qaida in Iraq for a series of massive explosions at apartment buildings across Baghdad, Today’s attacks killed at least 34 people. Maj. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi, an spokesman for Baghdad’s operations command center, said after the blasts Tuesday “we are in a state of war with the [...]
Times Online: A bizarre creature, dubbed the “oriental yetiâ€, has baffled scientists after emerging from ancient woodlands in remote central China. The hairless beast was trapped by hunters in Sichuan province after locals reported spotting what they thought was a bear. One hunter, Lu Chin, said: “It looks a bit like a bear but it [...]
The bed where Eugene Terreblanche was murdered VENTERSDORP, South Africa (AP) – Whites and blacks faced off angrily in song Tuesday in front of a heavily guarded South African courthouse before the first hearing of a teenager and another farm worker who have allegedly confessed to killing a white political activist and farmer. Police officers [...]
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Editorial by Roger L. Simon of Pajama’s Media: I don’t know about the rest of you, but I found Anne Kornblut’s report in the Washington Post — “Obama’s 17-minute, 2,500-word response to woman’s claim of being ‘over-taxed’†— to be deeply disturbing. Although I disagree with most of Barack Obama’s policies, I took no pleasure [...]
ABC News: Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele’s comment on “Good Morning America” today that he and President Obama have a slimmer margin of error because of their race was dismissed by the White House as “silly.” RNC Chairman denies accusations that he is a liability to the Republican Party. “Well, I think that is [...]
MONTCOAL, W.Va. (AP) – An explosion rocked a remote coal mine with a history of safety problems Monday, killing 12 workers and trapping 10 others thousands of feet underground. Rescuers early Tuesday were making their way to the area the workers were believed trapped at Massey Energy Co.’s sprawling Upper Big Branch mine, where the [...]
HAVANA (AP) – Cuba has released photos of one-time exile cause celebre Elian Gonzalez wearing an olive-green military school uniform and attending a Young Communist Union congress. Gonzalez, now 16 with closely cropped black hair, is shown serious-faced with fellow youth delegates during last weekend’s congress at a sprawling and drab convention center in western [...]
Politico: Former Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-Ariz.) told POLITICO on Monday that Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is trying to “encourage amnesia†by claiming that he never considered himself to be a “maverick.†Hayworth was responding to a quote in a Newsweek story in which McCain — who embraced the “maverick†label during his presidential run — [...]
Damage to Fourth Avenue in Anchorage, Alaska, caused by the magnitude 9.2 Good Friday Earthquake in 1964. Big One’ Quake Could Devastate California Despite State’s Preparations Fox News: When it comes to a devastating earthquake in California, the question isn’t if, but when? What magnitude would qualify as “big one,” and what would the resulting [...]
