So much has been said about Chuck Hagel since being nominated for Secretary of Defense that it’s hard to keep track of it all. But Dan Friedman, a reporter for the New York Daily News, has admitted to stirring one rumor: The revelation could have doomed President Obama’s nomination of Chuck Hagel to be secretary […]
Today’s wingnutopia outrage of “why to hate Hagel” is brought to you buy that bow-tie wearing dweeb, Tucker Carlson’s, conspiracy tabloid, The Daily Caller: A pro-Hezbollah, pro-Hamas candidate for the Iranian presidency, a man linked to Iranian-controlled front groups, brought former Republican Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel to speak at Rutgers University in 2007, according to […]
The big international news over the holiday weekend was Israel raiding a Turkish Flotilla that was delivering humanitarian aide to Gaza. This of course has become a really big story, resulting in enormous pressure on the U.S. to walk that fine line between two allies. The Obama administration isn’t jumping to any conclusions, rightfully so, […]
This morning Michael Steele was quick to seize on any chance of slamming President Obama’s winning of the Nobel Peace Prize and even used it to drudge up a very old meme – the celebrity mantra: “The real question Americans are asking is, ‘What has President Obama actually accomplished?’ It is unfortunate that the president’s […]
The Guardian is reporting that the Obama team has signaled they may open some low-level diplomacy with Hamas: The incoming Obama administration is prepared to abandon George Bush’s doctrine of isolating Hamas by establishing a channel to the Islamist organisation, sources close to the transition team say. The move to open contacts with Hamas, which […]
That is something the wingnuts have been bolstering lately; “the insurgency is standing up to al Qaeda”. While it is true, they fail to mention the other part of that equation. The Guardian has published an article explaining this (and repeating what the left has been saying): Seven of the most important Sunni-led insurgent organisations […]
It sure didn’t take long for Jill Carroll to get slammed by the right. Here is a nice little piece of hate-blogging by Debbie Schlussel: Why are so many people who claim to be patriotic Americans so overjoyed that Jill Carroll was freed, yet hardly a peep when American contractors and others were freed? Here’s […]
Interesting story here from ThreatsWatch stating that al-Qaeda has a presence in Palastinian Territories: With the latest release of yet another global message from al-Qaeda’s Ayman al-Zawahiri, there is certainly much to comb over. On its surface, it appears primarily a repeat of calls for more jihad, with merely new causations and motivations. What stands out as […]