I know where I’ll be on Tuesday! John Bolton is a-talkin’ on ‘Protecting National Sovereignty in the Age of Obama.’ The bill of indictment: The Obama Administration appears to be more interested in encouraging this trend than in protecting our sovereignty. Despite the Climategate Scandal, the United Nations and the Obama Administration continue to seek [...]

New Gaslight Anthem track. Good to stream, especially if you watched the bill signing. Although the “When it was over/ I woke up alone” line might better apply to this.

I can’t for the life of me figure out why I thought of this song after reading this story. Why the British think the U.S. is going to spend an iota of energy “pressuring” Israel over the Dubai assassination is a mystery to anyone who’s spent 30 seconds over the last 60 years observing the [...]

I’m reading it now, hoping to finish it on a plane this weekend, and it’s every bit as good as Abu Muqawama says it is. “You did not even leave me the marshmallow rainbows!” “I am… familiar with your daughters.” Yes, you’ll be quoting from it after you read it.

I guess it was during some boring moment in September 2008 in COP Zormat when I was chilling with the interpreters ahead of riding along with the Hooligans that I asked one of them what he thought of candidate Obama. I wasn’t fishing for a quote or anything like that – Afghan individual’s perception of [...]

Hustler’s gambit: when the mark starts paying, raise his interest rate. And Lindsey Graham is hustling. According to the Post, now he wants a “grand bargain” over terrorism detentions — which is to say, allowing them fewer procedural and substantive rights to contest their detentions and plead their cases — with the White House in [...]

Maybe this will clarify my earlier point about Tzipi Livni. She’s a right-of-center Israeli politician who speaks about peace as the fulfillment of a Zionist dream and the maintenance of a democratic state — with its demographically correlative obligation to divest Israel of Palestine — as central to the Zionist project. She does so without [...]

As I type, Chuck Schumer is talking to the AIPAC conference. He recounted a story about how in the 1980s, he and his wife hosted a dinner party featuring Benjamin Netanyahu, then the Israeli ambassador to Washington. For some strange reason, Netanyahu explained Israeli price controls by shaking up a bottle of soda and spraying [...]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 225-10 March 22, 2010 DOD Identifies Army Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Spc. Robert M. Rieckhoff, 26, of Kenosha, Wis., died March 18 in Baghdad, of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked his unit with rocket-propelled grenade fire. He [...]

This Yaakov Katz piece is an opus of misunderstanding and presumed conclusion. You can’t exactly say Katz’s characterization of Gen. Petraeus’ Israel/Mideast testimony is “wrong,” because it’s a characterization and therefore not something one can strictly be “wrong” about, the idea that Petraeus “dropped his bombshell about Israel” is clue number one that we’re in [...]