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Posted by David Gerstman on June 05, 2013 8 Comments
1) Talkin’ Turkey Claire Berlinski provides the recent background for the foment going on in Turkey: Of late, almost every sector of the electorate has felt unease about one part or another of Erdoğan’s agenda. Restrictive new alcohol legislation, rammed through parliament, as usual, with...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 04, 2013 2 Comments
On May 23 I wondered Will Qusayr be Hezbollah’s Stalingrad? It’s hard to know what really is going on, with pro-Assad forces claiming great progress while rebel supporters claim they are hanging on and receiving reinforcements.  There has been a mostly futile attempt to gain...

Posted by David Gerstman on May 31, 2013 14 Comments
In October 2009, Charles Krauthammer critiqued President Obama’s foreign policy in a Weekly Standard article Decline is a choice: Indeed, as he made his hajj from Strasbourg to Prague to Ankara to Istanbul to Cairo and finally to the U.N. General Assembly, Obama drew the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 30, 2013 8 Comments
By most accounts, Hezbollah’s large-scale intervention combined with unending supplies of weapons and advisors from Iran and Russia have helped Assad turn the tide against the rebels. Until that intervention, and even in the initial weeks, it looked like the rebels would hold on in Qusayr after...

Posted by David Gerstman on May 06, 2013 4 Comments
1) The Israeli “message” Why is it that threats against Israel are regularly downplayed by the media? ‘Everywhere an #Iranian embassy exists, they plan terror on #Jews, #Israelis‘ ow.ly/kJZlH — Israel Hayom English (@IsraelHayomEng) May 6, 2013 Typical of this phenomenon is the headline Airstrikes...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on April 29, 2013 8 Comments
Previously, we brought you reports on the Boston Marathon bombings investigation and details into the lives of the suspects, first in The Lives of the Boston Bombers: What We Do and Don’t Know and then in a follow-up, New Developments in the Boston Marathon Bombings...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on April 26, 2013 22 Comments
There have been several new developments today in the Boston bombings case. Authorities are searching a landfill for a laptop believed to be tied to the Boston Marathon bombers, according to CNN. Information from Dzhokhar Tsarnaev himself, plus other leads, spurred authorities to look through...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on April 23, 2013 3 Comments
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) is another bill that is currently moving through Congress.  It was first introduced in November of 2011, but failed to pass the Senate after a successful House vote in April 2012. It was reintroduced this past February...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 23, 2013 50 Comments
Can I call ’em or what? On Sunday, I wrote about how the media and left-blogosphere were trying to move the Boston Bombing narrative to focus on what is wrong with how we treated the bombers as immigrants and away from the problem of Jihadism, Politically...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 22, 2013 34 Comments
No one cares about the skin color of the Boston Marathon Bombers except to push back against people like David Sirota of Salon.com who infamously hoped that a “white American” was responsible, and others in the media and left-blogosphere who were hoping that another Timothy McVeigh-looking person was the perp....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 21, 2013 33 Comments
Surely this could not be actually true. At best “reportedly” true? https://twitter.com/lamblock/status/325390139868205057 But alas, it was: Statement of the Ambassador of the Czech Republic on the Boston terrorist attack 19.04.2013 / 21:27 As many I was deeply shocked by the tragedy that occurred in Boston...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on April 20, 2013 15 Comments
A few hours before he would be shot and killed by law enforcement, Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev called an uncle with whom he had not spoken in about two years.  During that call, he asked his uncle for forgiveness. From USA Today (via...
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