Chemicals delivered using surface-to-surface rockets over wide area in several locations....
A lot of attention is focused on Jihadist elements fighting in Syria, and the more "secular" Assad regime. The most underreported aspect of the civil war is that it's not just a civil war, it's a grand power-play by Iran to keep control of Syria as...
Mideast Media Sampler 09/16/2013: Never really intended, Putin gave him a way out....
New rules will apply in NJ to football games and other high school sports that utilize referees, aimed at eliminating unsportsmanlike trash talk. Players and attendees will now be required to abide by expanded restrictions on certain conduct and speech, and in some cases, use of specific...
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Death Panels by a thousand cuts....
Jeffrey Goldberg makes several points similar to the points I made in my post last night, The Deal: In order to remove the threat of Bashar Assad, we have to save Bashar Assad. Goldberg writes, New Syria Agreement Is a Big Victory. For Assad: A couple of...
Mideast Media Sampler 09/15/2013...
On Friday we asked: Which was worse: Middlebury 9/11 flag-grabbing or Oberlin racism hoax? It arose from the actions of Anna Shireman-Grabowski, a Middlebury student, who felt compelled to destroy a 9/11 memorial on campus by trashing thousands of small American flags, each one representing a...
James Rosen of Fox News sketched the image below while waiting for Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to appear before reporters. Rosen tried to parlay it into an exclusive interview, but no luck, via AP: Then Fox News television correspondent James Rosen reached over and handed Lavrov a...
Which are you more likely to survive? Another from Bill in the St. Petersburg area: Guns and abortion Guns may kill people but abortion definitely does...
Mandy covered this morning the outline of the "principles" agreed upon by the U.S. and Russia for Syria to end its possession of chemical weapons. The deal, announced as we were waking this morning, is being spun a variety of ways. It holds the promise of removing...
As many Legal Insurrection readers know by now, Jim Hoft (Gateway Pundit) has been in the hospital for some time. He's undergone several procedures to date and still has a long road to recovery ahead of him. Jim is a friend to many of us in...
Well this is bit of a calamity. A Google Street View car driver crashed into a vehicle, then crashed into a second vehicle after fleeing the driver from the earlier crash. He fled again and then crashed into a parked truck. All while driving one...
As in other countries, many children in this country unfortunately face death and violence as well. So, today, I am offering some items that have come across my screen that show American Justice at is finest and which involve children. One of the most heart-wrenching stories...
The Facebook page of Iran's Foreign Minister was reportedly hacked, according to the Associated Press. Details of what exactly was posted and how the account was accessed weren't immediately clear, but reports indicate the message was a comment about Iran's 2009 election. From the Associated Press: The...
The US and Russia reached an agreement on a plan for Syria to turn over its chemical weapons. https://twitter.com/AP/status/378824698844688384 From the State Department's Framework for Elimination of Syrian Chemical Weapons: Taking into account the decision of the Syrian Arab Republic to accede to the Chemical Weapons Convention and...
