Dec 26 2009

Learning from Hannah Rosenthal

Barack Obama’s appointed head of the State Department anti-anti-Semitism office is one Hannah Rosenthal. Like other Obama administration diplomats, Rosenthal has apparently decided that her real battle should be against Israel. Rosenthal made waves in Israel this week when she criticized Israel Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren for failing sufficiently [...]

Oct 17 2009

General Jones Flipped Here

Consider this post an addendum to our last, Gen. Jones Scoffs at Afghanistan “Surge” - Just Like Failed Iraq “Surge!”.
Scott Johnson at Power Line points us to a Michael Goldfarb post on the Weekly Standard blog revealing an astonishing decision by our ancient enemy, President Barack H. Obama’s National Security Advisor, Gen. Jim Jones.
As a [...]

Oct 1 2009

Very Bad News For America

Foreign Policy Initiative co-founder Bill Kristol appeared on last night’s Hugh Hewitt’s radio show, where he said that he now believes “for the first time that Obama will not accept General McChrystal’s recommendation in Afghanistan.” As though that’s not bad enough, he floated a very well-sourced rumor that Secretary Gates will be out by the [...]

Aug 25 2009

Rep Peter King on Holder: ‘You wonder which side they’re on’

Ben Smith at Politico has some hard-hitting quotes from Rep Peter King:
A “furious” Rep. Peter King, the hawkish, maverick Long Island Republican, blasted a “disgraceful” Eric Holder for opening an investigation of CIA interrogators and chided his own party for what he described as a weak response to the move in an interview just now [...]

May 28 2009

Playboy journalist gets a ‘buzz’ from being waterboarded

He made a dollar a second bet he could make it 15 seconds, doesn’t make it, but says he got a buzz out of it.
Michael Goldfarb writes at NRO:
Playboy journalist Mike Guy got himself waterboarded last month but I missed the video — probably because it doesn’t confirm everything the left already knew to be [...]