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Monthly Archives: December 2006
Top Taliban Commander Killed
Good news from Afghanistan: Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Osmani, described as one of the Taliban’s top military commanders and one of Mullah Omar’s three closest associates, was killed by an airstrike earlier this week, along with two companions. Osmani was the Taliban’s top military commander in southern Afghanistan and is said to be the highest ranking member of that organization to die in the past five years. Via Power Line News. »
Pants, socks, trailer, trash: The OIG report
Over at Pajamas Media Richard Miniter has posted the OIG Sandy Berger report here. Richard’s editorial note on the report focuses on the pertinent questions: What was role of Omar Bashir, President of the Sudan, and his relationship to Berger and President Clinton during the days when he offered to cooperate in the capture of Osama Bin Laden? What was in the ten to twenty pages of notes Berger is »
The mullahs at war
Yesterday Michael Ledeen posted another installment of his continuing comments on the Iranian war against the West in general and the United States in particular: “The mask comes off the mullahs. Again.” This installment is based on Con Coughlin’s Telegraph column: “War on two fronts in Afghanistan.” I turned to Ledeen’s Pajamas Media blog Faster, Please! looking for a comment on Judge Lamberth’s decision yesterday finding Iran partially responsible for »
Zawahiri Drones On…
…and on. You could say that Zawahiri is a blowhard, but that would be a disservice to the blowhards of the world. He’s really in a different league. The complete text of Zawahiri’s latest video tape, released a couple of days ago, is here. But, hey–I read it all, so you won’t have to. There are a few interesting bits. There is a lot of emphasis on Sharia as the »
Extreme makeover
Nancy Pelosi will throw herself a four-day party to celebrate her ascension to House Speaker. And, as the Washington Post explains, she’s going to use the coronation to try to shed her image as a San Francisco Democrat. According to the Post, Pelosi “is planning events that will highlight select parts of her personal life while muting her liberal voting record and ideology.” Pelosi’s plans include visits to Catholic churches »
I’m sad to say, he’s on his way
As Scott notes below, Columbia University, in response to rioting associated with the appearance of a speaker with strong anti-illegal immigration views at an event sponsored by its Young Republicans, apparently has adopted new procedures to encumber the hosting of “controversial” speakers on campus . Meanwhile, Joe Malchow reports that Dartmouth has invited calypso singer Harry Belafonte to be the keynote speaker at its Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Celebration. »
Partial Justice
Drudge is reporting that rape charges against the Duke lacrosse players will be dropped, but kidnapping and “sexual offense” charges will remain. No details yet. How the DA hopes to get a conviction on those charges (or any others), given the history of the case and the accuser’s shredded credibility, is anyone’s guess. One might speculate that the prosecutor is trying to keep the case from collapsing altogether both for »
Lee Bollinger’s Columbia update
A reader has forwarded the update sent within the past hour by First Amendment maven and Columbia University President Lee Bollinger to the Columbia University community on the free speech issues that have roiled the campus since the disruption of the College Republicans’ event with Jim Gilchrist early this fall: Dear fellow members of the Columbia community: Now that final exams have concluded, I would like to bring everyone up »
“Nuts!”
Sixty-two years ago three German armies totaling a half million men caught advancing U.S. forces in the Ardennes region of Belgium and Luxembourg by surprise and initiated the events that resulted in the Battle of the Bulge. Thanks to the unbelievable endurance, bravery and sacrifice of the American forces that slowed the German advance sufficiently for General Patton to bring the Third Army to bear, the Battle of the Bulge »
The Wag Time Pet Spa Conspiracy and more
Murray Waas is an investigative reporter whose politics tilt left but whose reporting is, I believe, widely respected for its straight shooting. At the Huffington Post he tells a troubling story about himself, his betrayal by a former research assistant, Washington’s City Paper and his ordeal as a cancer survivor: “The Wag Time Pet Spa Conspiracy…and a cancer survivor’s right to respect.” »
CNN has a lot to learn about Keith Ellison
Yesterday on CNN’s Situation Room Wolf Blitzer interviewed Minnesota Fifth District Rep.-elect Keith Ellison on the statement made by Rep. Virgil Goode: “If American citizens don’t wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration, there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Koran.” CNN covers the controversy generated by Rep. Goode’s comment in “Ellison: Lawmaker has a lot to learn »
Is Everybody a Criminal?
My wife introduced me to Martha Stewart some years ago, and I became a fan. I owe many good dinners and miscellaneous household improvements to Martha. So I was sympathetic when she was criminally prosecuted. Her prosecution paralleled Scooter Libby’s, in that she was indicted for misleading investigators who were looking into a purported crime with which she was not charged. Martha never would have been prosecuted but for her »
Worthless? Part Two
Earlier today, I mentioned that E.J. Dionne had delivered a thoughtful (and I would add excellent) lecture on the relationship between traditional media and blogs, along with other openly opinionated new media forms. The occasion was the Theodore White Lecture at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center. The first part of the lecture focuses on White and will be of interest to folks like me who read “The Making of the President” books »
London Bracing for Terror Attack
According to ABC News, British law enforcement officials say it will be a “miracle” if the holidays pass without an al Qaeda attack: British police have been quietly carrying out a series of key arrests as they continue to track at least six active “plots” tied to what they call “al Qaeda of England.” “It is not a matter of if there will be an attack, but how bad the »
And Speaking of Free Speech…
One of its most principled defenders and most effective practitioners is Alan Dershowitz. Over the years, I have disagreed with Dershowitz about most things, but his unwavering commitment to free speech–even in an academic environment–and his tireless unraveling of the endlies calumnies thrown at the state of Israel are far more important than those disagreements. Currently, he is taking on the execrable Jimmy Carter, and it is, as you would »
Score One for Free Speech
A three-judge federal court panel took another bite out of McCain-Feingold today, ruling unconstitutional, as applied to the case before it, that provision of the statute that prohibits corporations and others from engaging in »
Divided Loyalties
A troubling story from Afghanistan: a British corporal who serves as interpreter for Gen. David Richards, the commander of all Nato forces in Afghanistan, has been charged with spying on behalf of Iran. Cpl. Daniel James is of Iranian descent and speaks fluent Pashtun. This paragraph in the Telegraph‘s story struch me: Neighbours at his »
