The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Associated Press: Bias? What Bias?

Strictly neutral and objective: Israeli naval commandos stormed a flotilla of ships carrying aid and hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists to the blockaded Gaza Strip on Monday, killing nine passengers in a botched raid that provoked international outrage and a diplomatic crisis. Dozens of activists and six Israeli soldiers were wounded in the bloody predawn confrontation […]

Hellfire Missile 1, Shaikh Sa’id al-Masri 0

ABC’s Jake Tapper reports another U.S. victory: US officials tell ABC News that al Qaeda’s No. 3 — Mustafa Ahmed Muhammad Uthman Abu al-Yazid, known as Shaikh Sa’id al-Masri and Mustafa Abu al-Yazid – has been killed. Al Qaeda released a eulogy of Shaikh Sa’id tonight, officials said. . . . US officials believed him […]

It Was Not ‘Violence-Violence’

by Smitty (via Memeorandum) Andrew Sullivan treats us to the Full Whoopi in relating the IDF raid on the Gaza flotilla, emphasis mine: A simple point. The violence by the activists is pretty abhorrent. These are not followers of Gandhi or MLK Jr. But the violence is not fatal to anyone and it is in […]

Israel Update: Prime Minister Netanyahu Cancels White House Meeting

Not giving Obama another chance to snub him: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has canceled plans to meet U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington on Tuesday, an Israeli statement said, in the wake of a deadly Israeli raid on Gaza-bound ships. “Netanyahu decided to cut short his visit to Canada and return to Israel early,” […]

Flotilla of Fools vs. Israeli Navy

Like a scene straight from the pages of Jean Raspail’s The Camp of the Saints, a group of activists calling themselves the “Freedom Flotilla” have attempted — and evidently, failed — to break the Israeli blockade of Hamas-held Gaza: The Israeli Navy made its first contact with a flotilla carrying hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists and […]

VIDEO: Canadian Blogger Assaulted by Anti-Israel Union Thug at Protest

Blazing Cat Fur was doing video of an anti-Israel protest in Toronto when he was attacked by Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Union official Ali Mallah: Blazing Cat Fur points out that Mallah is “vice president of the virulently anti-semitic Canadian Arab Federation.”

In Canada, It’s Called ‘Research’

At least that’s what the defense lawyer called it. The prosecution called it child pornography: The former director of B’nai Brith Quebec, Bill Surkis, has pleaded guilty to child pornography charges after agreeing to a plea bargain. . . . In return for a guilty plea to charges of possessing and accessing child pornography, the […]

Dalai Lama: ‘I’m a Marxist’

Which might explain why he’s so popular in Hollywood: TIBETAN spiritual leader the Dalai Lama says he’s a Marxist, yet credits capitalism for bringing new freedoms to China, the communist country that exiled him. “Still I am a Marxist,” the exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader said in New York, where he arrived today with an entourage […]

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