Iran Defense Exercise is a Bust
Not equal to defense function From the word go on Sunday, Nov. 22, Iran’s five-day drill demonstrated that its air force and air defense units were unequal to their mission of keeping the skies over its nuclear sites clear of incoming strike aircraft, DEBKAfile‘s military and Iranian sources report. This was quickly borne in on […]
U.S. Recognizes Honduran President-Elect, But Regional Leftists Balk
By Patrick Goodenough, International Editor Honduras’ President-elect Porfirio Lobo at a press conference in Tegucigalpa on Monday, Nov. 30, 2009. (AP Photo) (CNSNews.com) – The Obama administration said Monday it recognized the outcome of Honduras’ presidential election, but it stressed that an end to the country’s political crisis would require further steps, including the reinstatement […]
Germany Will Not Allow Tehran to go Nuclear
A nuclear-armed Iran is unacceptable, Germany’s new Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said on his first official visit to Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Guido Westerwelle, of the Free Democratic Party, also urged quick resumption of Middle East peace talks, with a two-state solution as the goal. Meeting Monday in Jerusalem with his Israeli counterpart, Avigdor […]
The Swiss Ban on Minarets: A Possible Turning Point
by Daniel Pipes November 30, 2009 Cross-posted from National Review Online: The Corner Zurich’s main train station had many posters in favor of the minaret ban. Credit: Arnd Wiegmann On one level, the vote to ban minarets in Switzerland is a triviality. The constitutional amendment does not ban mosques, it does not pull down the […]
Hypocrisy of Hollywood Takes the Private Jet to Copenhagen
Taking the private jet to Copenhagen Any celebrity flying the green flag needs glittering eco-credentials. But how do they justify the fleet of customized planes, the luxury homes and the posse of servants? Hypocrisy is the vice we find hardest to forgive, but it’s also the one we most enjoy discovering in others. And nothing […]
Train crash leaving 25 dead believed to be terror attack
Nov 29, 09– Relatives of the victims killed in the Moscow-St. Petersburg train crash have identified 24 bodies. The procedure continues. At least 25 people died and 95 were injured when the train derailed on Friday night. 12 people from the train are still missing, the Emergency Situations’ Ministry stated Sunday evening. Earlier the whereabouts […]
Swiss vote to ban Islamic minarets
GENEVA – Swiss voters approved a move to ban the construction of minarets in a Sunday vote on a right-wing initiative that labeled the mosque towers as symbols of militant Islam, projections by a widely respected polling institute showed. The projections based on partial returns say Swiss swung from only 37 percent supporting the proposal […]
Bernanke Says Limiting Fed Independence Would ‘Impair’ Economy
Nov. 29 (Bloomberg) — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said curbing the central bank’s authority to supervise the banking system and tampering with its independence would “seriously impair” economic stability in the U.S. “A number of the legislative proposals being circulated would significantly reduce the capacity of the Federal Reserve to perform its core […]
White House Security Lapse a Disgrace
By: Ronald Kessler The fact that party crashers were allowed into a White House State Dinner without being on the guest list is emblematic of the Secret Service’s corner cutting detailed in my book, “In the President’s Secret Service: Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect.“ It’s clear […]
CA Atty. Gen. Offer Incoherent, Troubling Answers Regarding Currupt ACORN
CALIFORNIA– On Tuesday November 24th, the day after Big Government broke the story revealing tens of thousands of documents containing sensitive material had been unceremoniously dumped in a trash bin behind the San Diego ACORN office, Attorney General Jerry Brown appeared on Talk Radio KABC’s Peter Tilden Show. Considering this document dump occurred just a […]
Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis
By James Simpson It is time to cast aside all remaining doubt. President Obama is not trying to lead America forward to recovery, prosperity and strength. Quite the opposite, in fact. In September of last year, American Thinker published my article, Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis. Part of a series, it connected […]
