Tag: middle east

A new revelation from the Snowden files does open a degree of insight into what has been happening. It's just not the insight that Snowden nor Greenwald may have anticipated.

Glenn Reynolds, aka Instapundit, has seriously lost it: WHY BARACK OBAMA SHOULD RESIGN. Just for the record, this is what it looked like for a man who made a film that made the Obama Administration uncomfortable: Here’s the key bit: “Just after midnight Saturday morning, authorities descended on the Cerritos home of the man believed […]

Here’s what you see right now on Drudge: Get that? The feds are going after a Christian! Talk about bullshit headlines, this one takes the cake. As you can guess, the filmmaker Drudge is talking about is the one behind that anti-Islam movie that has sparked all the outrage. Here’s what the article says: A […]

In a week where al Qaeda has been back on the tip of everyone’s tongue, comes news of bomb threats shutting down the University of Texas: The University of Texas has evacuated all campus building after receiving phoned-in threat that multiple bombs had been placed on campus. Officials say no bombs have been found. An […]

Mitt Romney was looking for a reason to attack Barack Obama on the grounds of foreign policy. He knew that after the killing of Osama bin Laden and the ending of the war in Iraq that he needed a silver bullet, and he now got it. It turns out that Mitt Romney was behind the […]

The video that has sparked all the outrage in the Middle East is coming under having scrutiny, even from the White House: A top White House official has blasted as “truly abhorrent” the anti-Islam film which appears to have triggered an outpouring of violence against U.S. diplomatic posts in Egypt and Libya. Speaking to an […]

In an interview with ABC, President Obama gave his views of opening the U.S. oil reserves to combat high oil prices: “We are monitoring the situation very closely. The strategic petroleum reserve was designed for when oil actually shuts off,” Obama told ABC. “The reserves, I think, are something that we’ve got to be very […]

Just got this breaking news alert from the Washington Post: Gen. David H. Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, fell ill at the witness table during a Senate hearing Tuesday and had to be escorted from the room. Petraeus was listening to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) express concern about the direction […]

Something interesting is happening that isn’t getting much attention. There seems to be a growing fracture in the GOP over how President Obama is handling the situation in Iran. On one side you have people like John McCain complaining that we aren’t meddling enough in the election, then on the other side Republicans like Mel […]

So it turns out that a member of Congress was targeted for some NSA spying: And in one previously undisclosed episode, the N.S.A. tried to wiretap a member of Congress without a warrant, an intelligence official with direct knowledge of the matter said. The agency believed that the congressman, whose identity could not be determined, […]