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The Foreign Policy seminar saved the best for last (more video here) and we got to hear about Iraq from Judith Yaphe, Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University and Qubad Talabani, representative of the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq to the United States. These two have been involved on many levels in the ongoing path Iraq is taking from despotism to democracy. They know each other quite well and that was obvious as they laughed together and got testy from time to time. What they did very well was to give us a look under the hood at what the Iraqis think about their country and how it can handle it's own business. Qubad Talabani was very diplomatic when asked about the aspirations of the Kurds for their own state and he said outright that it was not a "stated" goal of his people. But the fact that it is not stated, doesn't make it any less a reality the Kurds desire a state. He talked hypothetically about how a...

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Fox/AP…Mullen Stresses Urgent Need for Troops in Afghanistan Take your time Sun Tzu Obama…I mean, what’s the rush? If you wait until the “pull out date”, I think, maybe, could be, pretty sure, you won’t have to send them at all, Oh great war leader. This is what our brave and honorable will face…. The nation’s highest-ranking military [...]

One of Iraq's most effective dead tango makers, got taken out by the bad guys. BAGHDAD (AP) - He compared al-Qaida in Iraq to wolves, urging that the terrorist group be crushed since he believed its members would never reject violence. But the wolves got to the Iraqi insurgent fighter first. He did a ton of damage to the murderous bastards who tried to destroy his country and his kinsmen. "It is better to kill al-Qaida's members because it is no use to reform them," al-Fahal said in a recent interview with Al-Arabiya TV. He was paraphrasing a religious saying that there is no use in trying to reform wolves—instead, they must be killed. And kill them he did. In his interview, al-Fahal claimed he killed more than 250 al-Qaida terrorists: 200 Iraqis and 50 Arab foreign fighters. < He will be tough to replace, but they must and they must never waver. Sheepdogs do what sheepdogs must, they kill wolves.

I hate to break this to you, but the whole goal of the cap and trade plan isn’t to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide. It’s to level the economic playing field. Not my words, by the way. Those are the words of former French President Jacques Chirac. EU Environment Commissioner Margot Wallstroem said the Kyoto [...] Related posts:Carbon Tax To Be Imposed On Newborns?Emissions Rise in Home of Kyoto ProtocolMcCain’s Cap and Trade Plan Would Hurt the U.S.

This gave me a chuckle: "Today 56 newspapers in 45 countries take the unprecedented step of speaking with one voice through a common editorial," announces that editorial, produced by London's Guardian. "We do so because humanity faces a profound emergency. Unless we combine to take decisive action, climate change will ravage our planet" blah blah blah, etc. To put it another way, this is such a dire emergency that the editorial boards of 55 newspapers (including, in this country, the Miami Herald) cannot be troubled to write a word about it. Is it really that "unprecedented"? It's only a few months since 56 newspapers in at least four countries spoke with one voice by copying out the same misquote of me from page one of The New York Times, for which the Times subsequently issued a correction, but only after The Irish Times had done so, blaming it on their gullible reporter copying it out of The New York Times. Anyway, that's not the bit that made me chuckle. This was: The Guardian...

MUSLIMS KILLING MUSLIMS in Gaza. It happens all the time but doesn’t get any press coverage by the Western media. That’s OK, let them kill each other. RELATED VIDEOS: Muslims vs Muslims Posted in Muslims vs Muslims

Today marks the day when the Japanese Navy attacked the United States Navy Pacific Fleet docked at Pearl Harbor in 1941 which led to the United State declaring war on the Empire of Japan and Nazi Germany. Incidentally it is also my youngest daughter Lily’s birthday, she turned 10. 2,402 sailors, Marines and soldiers (they [...]

That's crazy-talk, I just saw the Mahdi, he was hiding behind a TelePrompTer.... Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claims the United States is attempting to thwart the return of mankind's savior, according to reports from Al Arabiya, a television news station...

The Competitive Enterprise Institute has posted the following it their site: The Environmental Protection Agency today finalized its finding that greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health and welfare and therefore must be regulated under the Clean Air Act. CEI announced that it will file suit in federal court to overturn the endangerment finding on [...] Related posts:Competitive Enterprise Institute Takes Al Gore and Other Global Warming Proponents to Task in Ad CampaignRon Paul Has $3,000,000 BankrollKnow Nothing Global Warming Naysayer or Not, I like this Guy

The rivalry between Glasgow soccer giants Celtic United and Rangers is among the fiercest in all of world soccer. That's because, in addition to the intercity aspect, the rivalry has a religious dimension - Celtic is the Catholic team; Rangers is for Protestants. I've always tilted towards Celtic; not for religious reasons but because for a few years I occasionally watched Celtic matches with members of a club of Celtic supporters. The club consisted mostly of dour Scotsmen, made all the more dour by the fact that Rangers were in the process of winning nine straight championships. Now I have a new reason to support to Celtic. Last week Celtic played the Israeli club Hapoel Tel Aviv in Glasgow. Before the match, as Evelyn Gordon reports, the Scottish Trade Unions Congress urged Celtic fans to wave Palestinian flags during the match in "solidarity with suffering Palestinians." The club responded by issuing a statement that its stadium was "no place for a political demonstration," and...

President Shimon Peres (86), will today launch his own YouTube channel in the presence of Chad Hurley, one of the founders of the website, who has come to Jerusalem for the occasion. Peres' office has made it known that the intention is to release a selection of his speeches and activities, as well as to relay press conferences he attends via internet. As his office also divulges, the head of

(IsraelNN.com) Likud Member of Knesset Ofir Akunis said Monday that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu promised him that Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria would see changes soon. Interviewed on Arutz Sheva's Hebrew news journal, Akunis said that Netanyahu was most suitable for leading the country, not just now but for a long time.Akunis added that while he did not like the construction freeze

As we have noted many times, the United States is the only country in the world that deliberately fails to develop its own energy resources. Other than instituting price controls, this is the single most destructive economic policy that a country can pursue, which is why no one does it except us. Brazil has one of the world's most dynamic economies and is pursuing petroleum development on a grand scale. The Washington Post reports: Everything about the shipyard here is colossal -- the 4,000-man workforce, the billions sunk into it in capital costs, the half-finished 10-story-high production platforms. But then, so is the challenge facing Brazil's state-controlled energy company, Petrobras: developing a group of newly discovered deep-sea oil fields that energy analysts say will catapult this country into the ranks of the world's petro-powers. The oil pools are 200 miles out in the Atlantic and more than four miles down, under freezing seas, rock and a heavy cap of salt. Petrobras,...

From Facebook: I commend Interior Secretary Salazar’s decision today to conditionally approve drilling at three exploratory wells in the Chukchi Sea off the northwest coast of Alaska; it’s a decision that’s been a long time coming. The area north of the Arctic Circle contains some of the world’s richest oil and gas reserves. U.S. Geological Survey researchers estimate that it contains 1.6 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 83 billion barrels of undiscovered oil. The international community recognizes the potential of Arctic off-shore drilling; it’s about time our government allowed us to compete with them by developing these rich reserves in an environmentally responsible way. As I said last April in my testimony before the Secretary during a federal hearing in Anchorage, “Alaska’s oil and gas resources can and should be a major part of the implementation of any creditable energy plan for our nation. Alaska has proven that these resources can be developed safely, but Arctic...