John Tabin
The New York Times reports: WASHINGTON – A Somali man accused of ties to two Islamist militant groups was captured by the American military in April and interrogated for months aboard a navy ship without being warned of his Miranda…
Tony Badran of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies writes: Earlier this week, a group of Syrian dissidents were allowed to hold a meeting at the Semiramis Hotel in Damascus. The US Department of State made a point to praise…
Jonah Goldberg highlights a report from the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency about Congressman Dennis Kucinich, currently in Damascus, praising Bashar Assad to the skies. Kucinich has issued a statement (which the @RepKucinich Twitter account seems to be tweeting at…
Jim noted this morning that the Pawlenty team is spinning their candidate’s poor showing in the latest Des Moines Register poll with comparisions to Mike Huckabee, who was also far behind at this point in the race. Huckabee caught on…
Religion News Service (syndicated to the Huffington Post) reports: JERUSALEM (RNS) Jews and Israelis, or passengers carrying any non-Islamic article of faith, will not be able to fly code-share flights from the U.S. to Saudi Arabia under Delta Air Line’s…
Brian Bolduc at National Review gets a new statement from a Delta spokesman regarding the deal with Saudi Arabian Airlines that I discussed last night (emphasis added): Delta Air Lines does not discriminate nor do we condone discrimination against any…
I’ll have more in the morning on Obama’s speech announcing troop withdrawals from Afghanistan, but for now I’d just like to question one bit of conventional wisdom that seems to be settling in. Sen. Lindsey Graham says “Petraeus loses, Biden…
President Obama isn’t terribly concerned with winning wars. In his speech last night, Obama talked about “our effort to wind down this war,” “responsibly end[ing] these wars,” and “tak[ing] comfort in knowing that the tide of war is receding.” He…
President Obama is giving a speech on Wednesday announcing his decision on how quickly to reduce the number of US troops in Afghanistan. Marc Ambinder reports: Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of coalition forces in Afghanistan, would endorse a presidential…
Last night I speculated that reports of General Petraeus’s preferred timetable for drawing down the number of troops in Afghanistan would be a pretty good indicator of what Obama will say tomorrow; an hour later I saw today’s LA Times…
