EDITORIAL: Mission accomplished in Iraq - Washington Times
President Obama was granted an opportunity to give a victory speech about Iraq on Tuesday, courtesy of George W. Bush. He mentioned President Bush in passing, essentially damning him with faint praise. If Mr. Bush had followed Mr. Obama's strategic recommendations in 2007, the war in Iraq would have been lost years ago.
EDITORIAL: Bombs away in three days - Washington Times
Israel's long-anticipated attack on Iran's nuclear program may come as soon as Friday. Yesterday, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton said Israel had eight days to strike Iran's nuclear facility at Bushehr before it would become operational.
EDITORIAL: No time for Islam - Washington Times
In a severe case of clock envy, Saudi Arabia has erected a nearly 2,000-foot-high timepiece intended to stake a symbolic claim for Mecca as the world's center.
Stephen Hawking Warns That Aliens May Be Like Us
Photo via the Telegraph For Stephen Hawking, one of the world's most renowned scientists, there's little doubt that life exists elsewhere in the universe.
EDITORIAL: Obama's Islamic America - Washington Times
President Obama says Islam has always been part of America, which raises the question, does the president know something about American history that we don't?
EDITORIAL: The 9/11 mosque - Washington Times
The area around the former World Trade Center is a sacred space. It is a place where thousands of Americans' lives were taken by the purveyors of a hostile ideology based on Islam.
EDITORIAL: America, everybody's friend - Washington Times
The world hurts, America responds. Recent floods in Pakistan have killed at least 1,500 people and affected millions more. The United States is rushing aid to the scene, and hopefully this time the people of Pakistan will remember who their friends are.
EDITORIAL: A Wikileak too far - Washington Times
Word is out that the Wikileaks classified-document dump contains reports naming Afghans who have been cooperating with Coalition forces. This is the kind of information that can get people killed. It also raises the data release to a new level of criminality.
Chris Hedges: Calling All Future-Eaters - Chris Hedges' Columns - Truthdig
We sit passive and dumb as corporations and the leaders of industrialized nations ensure that climate change will accelerate to levels that could mean the extinction of our species. Homo sapiens, as the biologist Tim Flannery points out, are the "future-eaters." - 2010/07/19
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We sit passive and dumb as corporations and the leaders of industrialized nations ensure that climate change will accelerate to levels that could mean the extinction of our species. Homo sapiens, as the biologist Tim Flannery points out, are the "future-eaters." - 2010/07/19
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - House of Representatives Republican leader John Boehner said on Friday the high unemployment rate shows the need for President Barack Obama to work with Republicans to extend Bush-era
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Of all the possible ways to refer to our uptight president, "dude" is not the first one that springs to mind. Comedian Jon Stewart changed all that Wednesday night, and President Obama was not amused.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A conciliatory White House said on Thursday it was willing to negotiate with Republicans on tax cut extensions, but Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell took a hard line against compromises with President Barack Obama in a new Congress.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans, emboldened by their big mid-term elections wins, are mulling backing a temporary extension of Bush-era tax cuts, which would tee up the issue to use against President
Cisca Zarmansyah : If Republic was really serious about cutting the budget, the opportunity was already obtained in 2002, when they controlled almost all the government's joints in Washington.
A much subdued President Obama admitted yesterday that he took a "shellacking" in the midterm elections. Despite that meek concession, he doesn't appear to have gotten the order voters sent: Cease and desist. The Obama agenda has become a zombie, dead but continuing to walk among us.
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Cisca Zarmansyah: Obama has the right ideal about taxes, and some rich people agree with it being unfair. Here's a link, check it out what a billionaire says about it: http://www.counterpunch.org/scorse10082010.html
Conventional wisdom suggests the 2010 midterm election was a referendum on the economy. That's not all it was. The public's distaste of Democrat-controlled government is much more profound.
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Cisca Zarmansyah: Chef media "liberal" America: To Mr. President with Love
Congressional Democrats are poised to lose the largest governing majority in a generation. The House certainly will return to Republican control after only four years, and the Democrats' 60-seat Senate supermajority effectively will be reduced to a tie.
Tonight, Republicans will watch the election returns hoping for an upset takeover of the U.S. Senate. And if President Obama has any sense, he will be rooting for the GOP as well.
Reports emerged over the weekend that Afghan President Hamid Karzai was accepting "bags of cash" from Iran. Tehran responded with its usual red-faced bluster: "The embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran strongly dismisses [these] false, ridiculous and insulting allegations." The story amounted to "
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Monday his office receives cash in bags from Iran, but said it is a transparent form of aid that helps cover expenses at the presidential palace, and that the United States makes similar payments.
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CieL- FreYa Ceastle: Even the Iranian officials claimed that they had been providing intelligence data to the US when it invaded Afghanistan in 2001.
Cisca Zarmansyah : By geopolitical, Tehran is benefited. Because the two neighboring countries (Iraq and Afghanistan) that have the potential to threaten, are now "benign". Its impact is the influence of Shiite Islam to West Asia, Central and South became increasingly widespread. On the other hand, Afghanistan could support Iran's nuclear program. :: ► http://www.eurodialogue.org/The-Persian-Alliance-and-Geopolitical-Reconfiguration-in-Central-Asia
www.eurodialogue.orgBy Roman Muzalevsky August 5 marked the fourth occasion in the last four years that the leaders of the Persian-speaking countries of Iran, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan convened, this time in Tehran, to chart the future of their trilateral cooperation.
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Adriaan Zef : The Muslims shouldn't fall twice in the same hole. History proves just how awful betrayal of this group to the highly respected by the Muslims themselves. Indeed, responding to America's fighting between Iranian is a dilemma. But, certainly it doesn't mean that doesn't support Iran means helping the US. Perhaps the best alternative is to break away from them and give support to the struggle of Mujahideen in Iraq and Afghan, which clearly fighting for Islam.
Cisca Zarmansyah : The US remains skeptical.
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The Wikileaks organization has morphed from a relatively harmless aid to government whistleblowers into a threat to U.S. national security. It should be treated accordingly.
A lot of women want to get married. They want the wedding, the cake, the dress, the works. But some women could do without one irritating wedding’s element:
With her stunning body and sultry charm, Russian spy Anna Chapman made easy prey of the men of America. To this day, they insist that what they had with her was special.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dan Choi, a former Iraq war veteran discharged in July for being openly gay, returned to a New York City recruiting station on Wednesday to complete his application to re-enlist in the Army.
RIVERSIDE, California (Reuters) - A federal judge tentatively refused Monday to let the Pentagon reinstate its ban on openly gay men and women in the U.S. military while the government appeals her decision declaring the policy unconstitutional.
SEDRUN, Switzerland (Reuters) - Swiss engineers drilling the world's longest tunnel broke through the last section of rock on Friday, crowning more than a decade of work.The 57.1-km (35.5-mile) rail
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Workers celebrate after a drill machine broke through the rock at the final section of the construction site for the world's longest train tunnel, operational at the end of 2017.
As part of a regular series showcasing a city, Reuters photographers take us around France's capital of Paris.
CieL- FreYa Ceastle Het is gewoon niet een klein ding als mensen betrokken zijn. Als hij of zij laat zien dat ik de zorg over iets. Als het zeker is, moeten we iets doen. Dit is meer dan alleen houden van de kansel te spreken of gordijn lezingen. Zondag toespraak hield, ik genoeg in mijn leven.
Mark Twain once joked that Richard Wagner's music was "better than it sounds." Obama administration officials say in all seriousness that the economy is better than it seems, if only people were smart enough to get it.
The exact dimensions of the Democrats' rout are not yet clear, but we do know that Americans who embraced "hope and change" two years ago are now rejecting the change they were given.
Israel has approved an amendment to its citizenship law by which those seeking to become naturalized citizens will take an oath of allegiance to Israel "as a Jewish and democratic state."
Over 100 years ago, Columbus Day was known as Discovery Day. President Benjamin Harrison's Discovery Day proclamation in October 1892 asked the people of the country to "cease from toil and devote themselves to such exercises as may best express honor to the discoverer, and their appreciation of the great achievements of the four completed centuries of American life.
Surprisingly, Rep. Anthony Weiner, New York Democrat, seems scarily elusive this campaign season. Mr. Weiner has been representing New York’s 9th Congressional District since 1999, and one wonders if frustration with liberal Democrats in Congress may have reached Mr. Weiner’s neck of the woods this time around.
Islamists say the Koran is destined to rule America. In fact, the Muslim takeover of the White House is not just an unfolding action plan but a directive from Muhammad himself.
News spread at light speed this week that the United Nations appointed an official greeter for aliens visiting Earth. Malaysian astrophysicist Mazlan Othman, head of the U.N. Office for Outer Space Affairs, was given the task of shaking the hands, claws, tentacles, antennae or other appendages (if any) of extraterrestrials who decide to drop in.
Lyndon Johnson's "secret war in Laos" long has been a touchstone for liberal indignation over America's history of covert conflicts. Leftist critics, however, have been remarkably silent over the growing secret war in Pakistan. This war should escalate.
(Sept. 24) -- Stephen Colbert took his faux-conservative shtick to Capitol Hill today, and I have to say, he brought the House down. I don't mean that in the showbiz sense of having killed on stage.
Comedian Stephen Colbert's appearance before a House panel on farm jobs and illegal immigrants made a mockery of one of the most contentious issues of the election season. In playing host to this display, Democrats proved their self-destructive instincts are alive and well.
JIANGMEN, China (Reuters Life!) - It may look like a lark, but growing numbers of students are flocking to the China Birdman contest, launching themselves off a 10-meter cliff to test their engineering skills and home-made flying machines.
When it comes to war fighting, the United States is second-rate and always has been, according to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. "The United States has never entered a serious war, and has never been victorious," Iran's president said on Tuesday.
Whispers around Capitol Hill are the Defense Authorization bill was never meant to pass. Tuesday’s cloture vote in the Senate on the annual Pentagon budget went down in a 56 - 43 vote. The two Arkansas Democrats Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor both crossed party lines and voted with Republicans.
You can't burn a Koran in a crowded theater, and Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer suggests that to placate foreign extremists, Koran burning might be banned everywhere else in America too.
On Sept. 11, 2001, radical Islamic terrorists committed the most deadly and destructive foreign attack on U.S. soil. Nine years later, the American people are being told that the country overreacted to the whole thing.
At Tuesday's daily press briefing at the State Department, Department Assistant Secretary P.J. Crowley discussed the attacks of 9/11 and compared terrorists who attacked the United States to a Gainesville Pastor who plans to burn Korans this September 11th.
Those who are upset over the plan by the Dove World Outreach Center to burn copies of the Koran on Sept. 11 now know how the opponents of the Ground Zero Mosque feel.
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