The Other McCain

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

Russia: 15 Killed in Suicide Bombing

A female bomber at a train station: More than a dozen people were killed Sunday when a blast ripped through a railway station in the southern Russian city of Volgograd in what authorities say was an attack carried out by a suicide female bomber. If confirmed, the presumed attack will prove to have been the […]

Four U.S. Troops Released in Libya

The post-“Arab Spring” anarchy continues: Four American military personnel assigned to the United States Embassy in Tripoli, Libya, were detained Friday and then released after being held for hours by the country’s Interior Ministry, American officials said. The four were believed to have been reviewing potential evacuation routes for diplomats when they were detained, according […]

Egypt Is Ahead of Us

Is our State Department paying attention? Egypt’s military-backed interim government declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization Wednesday, intensifying its campaign of arrests and prosecutions targeting its members and tightening the noose on the group’s network of charities and businesses. The unprecedented executive decision likely ends any chance of reconciliation between the government and the […]

#SouthSudan: Words Aren’t Enough

UN investigators discovered a mass burial in rebel-held Bentiu, South Sudan. #SouthSudan http://t.co/2F8nMYrCcI — Aaron Myracle (@synthaaron) December 24, 2013 There has been relatively little conservative commentary on the crisis in South Sudan. Part of this could be explained by low expectations: Anarchy in Africa is not exactly unusual, and why should this particular episode […]

Today’s Ray Of Hope: Baal Going On Enforced Diet, Film At 11

— compiled by Wombat-socho From Operation Rescue (h/t Jeff Quinton on Facebook): Operation Rescue has concluded an exhaustive survey of abortion clinics in the U.S. and is pleased to announce that it has documented a record number of abortion clinic closures in 2013, during which time 87 surgical abortion clinics halted abortions. From the Grauniad […]

The Sudden #SouthSudan Crisis

"@GeorgeMonbiot: #SouthSudan could become another Rwanda, without a massive and immediate peacekeeping effort. http://t.co/9Z0S31bMyh" — Tom Ogola (@ogolat) December 23, 2013 What is stunning about the situation in South Sudan is how rapidly it has spun completely out of control: Eight days after a mutiny in South Sudan’s capital signaled the start of “unrest” (as […]

#SouthSudan: It’s Civil War Now

#SouthSudan maps shows location of latest clashes, @UN civilian shelters, oil concessions via @AFPAfrica pic.twitter.com/VJi65RHYNb #jubacrisis — Leanne B (@leelee_bee) December 23, 2013 There has been a lot of verbal tiptoeing among journalists writing about the crisis in South Sudan, said to be “on the verge” of civil war, etc. But the country’s former vice […]

Obama to #SouthSudan: Good Luck

The news gets worse and worse out of #SouthSudan http://t.co/5DaJKf0lgr — Jenn Warren (@jennwarren) December 22, 2013 Readout of President Obama's Updates on #SouthSudan: pic.twitter.com/O25nJ4NJS7 — @NSCPress (@NSCPress) December 21, 2013 If you expected any determined U.S. action to end this civil war, my condolences on your Nobel Peace Prize disappointment: “This conflict can only […]

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