during the election obama promised on multiple occasions to close the guantanamo bay detention facility currently being used to house detainees in the war on terror. heres an example of what he said i have said repeatedly that i intend to close guantanamo and i will follow through on that. ive said repeatedly that america doesnt torture and im going to make sur......
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the obama administration is about to discover that the terrorists detained at guantanamo are there for good reason. by thomas joscelyn weekly standard on sunday november 16 cbs newss 60 minutes broadcast the first interview with presidentelect barack obama. the exchange touched on a wide range of topics from obamas distaste for college footballs comput......
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thomas joscelyn weekly standard clear and present danger the obama administration is about to discover that the terrorists detained at guantnamo are there for good reason. on sunday november 16 cbs newss 60 minutes broadcast the first interview with presidentelect barack obama.......
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detainees at guantanamo bay in 2002. dpa photo. clear and present danger was originally published as the cover story for the dec. 1 edition of the weekly standard. on sunday november 16 cbs news 60 minutes broadcast the first interview with presidentelect barack obama. the exchange touched on a wide range of topics from obamas distaste for college footballrsq......
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for the last six months terrorism expert tom joscelyn has been studying the thousands of pages of unclassified information that have been made available about the approximately 250 terrorists and terrorist supporters still held prisoner at guantanamo bay. he begins his report on that review in the current weekly standard . during the presidential campaign barack obamas pledge to clos......
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my weeklong discussion with bart gelman and others about barts book on the cheney vice presidency ended today. the participants represented an eclectic group of cheney bashers. fortunately all of them were civil and some of their commentary was insightful. for the most part my debate was with bart over two issues 1 is his book anticheney and 2 is it fair. ......
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ht michael goldfarb msnbc ran the following video of alaska governor and former republican vice presidential nominee sarah palins pardoning of a turkey and subsequent postpardon press conference i ask you the gentle and notsogentle readers of this hole in the wall what if anything was wrong with it note there is a poll embedded within this pos......
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the weekly standary by bill roggio the pakistani militarys reaction to the unmanned u.s. predator airstrikes in its northwest would be funny were it not that al qaeda is plotting their next attack on the west from there. supposedly outraged over the u.s. violations of its sovereignty the army has conducted exercises to shoot down the predators . the elements of army air defe......
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interesting overview and the conclusions have been born out after reading books by former officers of the ussrs armed forces one in particular comes to mind written major in a red army guards armored unit posted in east germany during the cold war men attempting to distil alcohol from anti freeze etc. tanks painted up and nice and shiny that didnt run. severe lack of spare parts etc. i ......
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... muslim country in two years. as pope benedict commented afterwards a long path has been traveled and there is still a long way to go. a very long way indeed. httpwww .weeklysta ndard.com conten...5 822stktc. asp emphasis by poster. v......
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good morning. rawls and an antiabortion argument . one man and a prediction . some links . the new insight dashboard i have to say on the old insight and i hear on the prius as well the instantaneous mileage feedbacks ability to optimize ones driving habits does as much if not more for mileage than the technology in the car. a collapse . afg......
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uncle pat wants to know who killed detroit experimental governing your moms. al franken steals more votes operation chaos 2 electric boogaloo mike huckabee has been a baaaaad christian debating robert gates ......
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a brief world news roundup for 21 november 2008. united states the americas cnn a federal judge ordered the release of five guantanamo bay detainees thursday saying the government failed to show that they were enemy combatants. judge richard leon issued the order in the case of six detainees who were challenging their detention. jurist us army prosecutors said wednesday......
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a roundup of recent recount tidbits the strib on why republicans may claim we wuz robbed the resurgence of the ritchie8 217saco mmie attack norm colemans forced hockey metaphor and more. star tribune editorialpage editor scott gillespie says al franken just might win the race but a large number of americans will believe the recount was rigged . why because t......
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um hold that new cold war reuben johnson has an encouraging look at the res urgent82 21 russian military. not quite the force for evil they used to be. and remember this is after several years of crazyhigh gas prices funding putins expansion. more 823041 ......
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the wildfire rumor of the transition so far whether obama will pick hillary clinton as secretary of state. political junkies are speculating about machiavellian strategizing in the clinton and obama camps about the possible effect on clintons chances in 2012 or 2016 and oh yeah even about whether the choice would be good for the country. heres a hint of the range of conversati......
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certainly it is encouraging to see members of congress the presidentelect and the rest of us take such a strong interest in health care. we have been waiting a long time for the chickens to come home. although senator baucus stated that his call to action was not a legislative proposal nor does it include all of the concerns that need addressing it does give us a clear insight as t......
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goldfarb on the blogging left the democratic party and the left won a stunning victory in this election and while they should be savoring it and most are a few are busy trying to settle old scores. its pathetic but its also cause for some optimism these people are a cancer on the democratic party that even a landslide victory couldnt cure. maybe. but if yoursq......
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neocon shill mary katharine ham calls convicted felon alaska senator ted stevens uncle ted . gag pretty lady dumber than a box of rocks though.......
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last week the un population fund released its state of world population 2008 report. individual chapters are available here . the entire report is available here pdf. there is a host of data in it but ill point out a couple things about russia. first from pdf page 89 the infant mortality total per 1000 live births is 16. for comparison for the ......
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yesterday i directed hit runners attention to reason foundation policy analyst shikha dalmias proactive case against picking the awful eric holder as presidentelect barack obamas attorney general. now that we know that the awful former sen. tom daschle ds.d. is going to be obamas health and human services jefe its time to look again what dal......
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in todays journal newt gingrich and peter ferrara argue that instead of barack obamas hodgepodge of tax credits we should have a straightforward middleclass tax cut that lowers the 25 percent bracket to 15 percent. it would also be nice they note to cut taxes for everyone else as well and to lower corporate rates and capital gains rates. but in the current political c......
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yesterday in an exceedingly strange new respect i noted noemie emerys column on hillary clinton. emery traced the evolution of the respect at least some conservatives accorded hillary clinton as she found her footing opposing barack obama in the course of this years democratic primary campaign. paul mirengoff dashed some water on emerys salute to ms. hillar......
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interesting takes from home and abroad failure is not an option by victor davis hanson we all remember the advice about failure we received from our parents and teachers. if at first you dont succeed try try again. learn from your mistakes. failure breeds success. two wrongs no right by alvaro vargas llosa in congos war th......
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talibaddie snuffed out in pakistan hogs now porting jdams awesome historys six most lethal aircraft squids getting their moneys worth out of lantflt an open letter to the cno hey even islams got rednecks. john noonan......
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