FOX News:
Lance Cpl. Josef Lopez still suffers from injuries he began experiencing in Iraq three years ago — injuries caused not by bombs or guns but by a military-administered smallpox vaccine he got before he left the United States.
The shot, which the military strongly encourages troops to get, triggered a rare bad reaction in [...]
Slate Magazine:
When it comes to any issue that involves Islam, President Obama starts with an advantage and a disadvantage. The advantage is that he’s seen as sympathetic to Muslims. The disadvantage is also that he’s seen as sympathetic to Muslims.
With a Muslim name, African Muslim ancestry on his father’s side, and the experience of growing [...]
BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraq announced the arrests of dozens of military and security personnel over the attacks on government buildings in Baghdad that killed 155 people, the Iraqi capital’s military spokesman said Thursday.
Maj. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi told The Associated Press that 11 army officers and 50 security officials have been taken into custody over Sunday’s [...]
BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraqi security forces blocked streets around the capital Monday and conducted intense searches at checkpoints as authorities investigated the massive security failure that allowed two truck bombs to strike what was supposed to be one of the city’s safest areas and kill 155 people.
The country’s worst attacks in more than two years [...]
Creeping Sharia:
If you don’t want your kids to become Westernized, why come to live in the West? A better, more affluent, and safe Western life? hat tip Larry
Faleh Hassan Almaleki reportedly threatened his daughter for becoming ‘too Westernized.’
(KFYI) Peoria police are looking for a Glendale man who allegedly ran over his 20-year-old daughter and another [...]
WBZ-TV:
A man from Sudbury was arrested Wednesday on federal terrorism charges for allegedly planning attacks inside and outside the United States – including a plot to attack people at a mall.
THE ARREST
27-year-old Tarek Mehanna was taken into custody at his parents’ home in Fairhaven Circle by federal agents and Sudbury police early this morning. [...]
Wall Street Journal:
The Obama administration has said it intends to try several of the prisoners now detained at Guantanamo Bay in civilian courts in this country. This would include Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and other detainees allegedly involved. The Justice Department claims that our courts are well [...]
GENEVA (AP) - The Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at President George W. Bush leaned back in his chair and soaked in the round of applause.
This was not Baghdad or Damascus or Beirut. This was Geneva, where Muntadhar al-Zeidi was given a hero’s welcome Monday far warmer than the subdued reception in his own [...]
Enter ACTIVISTS
NRO:
I try to keep up to speed on Islamic law, but it’s more complicated than I’d thought. For example, women are supposed to be “modest” in public. But that’s no reason not to make them disrobe in the street and shake their breasts:
A hardline Islamist group in Somalia has begun publicly [...]
FOX News:
Halloween night at Hugh Hefner’s not-so-humble abode will still be filled with all the usual suspects - scantily-clad costumed women, bopping blonde bunnies, a Haunted House and Hollywood’s hottest stars.
But while the 31st of October itself isn’t an official Hugh Hefner party, for this year its going to be even more special as the [...]
SYDNEY (AP) - Five men were convicted Friday of plotting a terrorist attack by stockpiling bomb-making instructions and purchasing explosive chemicals in Australia’s largest terrorist conspiracy.
A jury deliberated for a month before finding the men guilty of conspiring to commit acts in preparation for a terrorist attack. Each face a maximum sentence of life in [...]
Politico:
Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s eldest daughter Liz will launch a new group aimed at rallying opposition to the “radical” foreign policy of the Obama administration which it says has succeeded only in undermining the nation’s security.
The new group, Keep America Safe, will make the case against President Barack Obama’s moves to wrench America away [...]
Monday Update: Continued due to weekend site shutdown for server migration.
You’ll need an Amazon.com account to log-in here, so if you have one, great, if not it’s easy to set up, and if you’d rather use a different method, there is the snail mail, and at least one other system which will be set up [...]
Washington Post:
It is a sign of our weird political moment that the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama will probably hurt him among some of his fellow citizens.
His opponents are describing the award as premature. The deeper problem is that the Nobel will underscore the extent to which Obama is a cosmopolitan [...]
