Taliban's New Combat Tactic: Duping Children Into Planting Bombs

June 15, 2009

The Taliban gives rupees to 12 year old boy to deliver a bag. It explodes. “In a macabre new tactic, Taliban militants have begun paying children to plant lethal bombs in Pakistani cities.” “I was excited to get 50 rupees,” said Ishaq. “That’s more than I earn the whole week.” Don’t forget their Miranda rights.

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Peretz: What Obama's Cairo Speech Got Wrong About the World

June 15, 2009

Martin Peretz asserts: “real history is the telling and interpretation of actual happenings. It is specific, concrete, particular; it eats analogies and commonalities for breakfast; and it requires what used to be called knowledge–correct facts and warranted interpretations of them.” He argues President Obama had little of any of this in Cairo.

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Netanyahu Sets Israel's Terms For Palestinian State

June 15, 2009

In landmark speech, Israel sets the framework for conversation, dismissing the US’s call for ending settlement expansion. “Mr. Netanyahu’s closest aides have been saying for months that they have two over-arching pre-conditions: a public Palestinian acceptance of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people, and a complete demilitarisation of any future Palestinian entity.”

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Highest Paid Actors: You Paid Handsomely for Spielberg and Ford to Bugger Your Childhood

June 15, 2009

Forbes lists Hollywood’s top ten earning actors for 2008. In order: “Harrison Ford, Adam Sandler, Will Smith, Eddie Murphy, Nicolas Cage, Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, Jim Carrey, Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp.” Eddie Murphy at four?!? American moviegoers, you have no one to blame but yourselves, and your horrible, horrible taste.

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Judge: Memo Author John Yoo Can Be Sued by Terrorist Padilla

June 15, 2009

San Francisco Judge Jeffrey White says government lawyers can be held liable for what the president does on their advice. White ruled Yoo’s memos “set in motion a series of events that resulted in the deprivation of Padilla’s constitutional rights…Like any other government official, government lawyers are responsible for the foreseeable consequences of their conduct.”

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White House Agrees: Yes, Iranian Election Was Rigged, But We'll Still Work With Them

June 14, 2009

“Presumably the thinking here is that public outrage in Iran will weaken the mullahs’ hand against the U.S. and force them to accept some grand bargain, in which case Obama’s basically offering them legitimacy in exchange for denuclearization.” Ever been in one of those relationships where everybody just gets jerked around?

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Obama's Spending Plans Worry Those Who Don't Have Four Years Til Their Next Election

June 14, 2009

Responding to worries from Capitol Hill, “the White House has become increasingly concerned that President Obama’s spending plans, which would require $9 trillion in government borrowing over the next decade, could become a political liability that defines the 2010 midterm elections.” Kent Conrad concedes it’s an “unsustainable course.”

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Revolt in Iran

June 14, 2009

Supreme Leader Khameini has officially endorsed the Ahmedinejad victory, meaning that the revolt going on in Iran at this moment is not a revolt within the system, but against it. Mousavi is no longer just another politician, but he has by his actions become an enemy of the Islamic Republic — a republic in name only — and the protesters today have joined with him in this action. This is not the sort of thing that the ruling authorities will forget or forgive. There will be consequences, and they will almost assuredly be bloody.

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Video: Raw Footage of Post-Election Unrest on the Streets of Iran

June 13, 2009
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Tehran's Streets Full of Violent Protests as Election Disputed

June 13, 2009

The reported re-election of Ahmadinejad has been rejected by the United States. His opponent, Mousavi, is under house arrest. Several high-ranking clerics are reportedly protesting the election. One Iranian bystander comments: “This time they went too far. They just want to eliminate ‘republic’ and turn this into an Islamic dictatorship.”

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