Report: Donald Rumsfeld has revealed that Saddam Hussein took out a $60 million hit on his daughters in revenge for the slaying of his two sons. The ex-U.S. Secretary of Defense said that the former Iraqi dictator offered the bounty
It appears that 2011 will continue to be another challenging year for many looking to sell their home, particularly given a glut of inventory sure to be on the market from an increase in foreclosures. That’s just the latest hurdle,
So an entertaining film comes out about a woman who bucks up against societal norms in the early seventies, puts career over family, and still comes out a winner — sounds like someone’s flirting with Oscar! Strangely, it doesn’t earn
Obama campaign fundraiser and bundler Cynthia Stroum was appointed Ambassador to Luxembourg for her support. She has now resigned and is returning to private life. The Associated Press reports that she was an amazing prima donna and particularly nasty to
While many Americans will park in front of their televisions to watch football on Super Bowl Sunday, others will tune in just to see the commercials. Unknown to most Americans, one commercial will be seen only by members of the
Josh Brolin sounding ridiculously defensive over a two-year old movie on Jimmy Kimmel: “They want to criticise it because you think it’s Oliver Stone, it’s Josh Brolin, who people perceive as very, very left wing, which I’m not necessarily. They
Something interesting happened at Auschwitz in recent days. It appears that the former death camp was visited by a group of religious leaders, including the largest Muslim contingent known. According to a media account of the event, ” The delegation,
As the protests in Egypt have raged on now for more than a week, President Obama and members of his administration continue to practice restraint in their communications and careful selection of the words that are spoken. Hillary Clinton has
As the cliche goes, there are no coincidences in politics. Obama fundraiser group Code Pink just happened to have arrived in Cairo last week for the group’s ninth visit there in two years as part of its campaign to undermine
During the summer of 2009, the British were fighting hard for Sangin. They were always outnumbered by Taliban and terrain. Casualties were high. Today, US Marines are paying in blood for the very same ground because, in part, they gave
As Egypt’s much-anticipated moment of crisis arrived and popular rebellions shook governments across the Middle East, Iran stands as never before at the center of the region. Its Islamist rulers are within sight of dominating the region. But revolutions are
It’s hardly a spoiler to say the couples at the heart of today’s romantic comedies will end up smooching before the screen fades to black. And, in most cases, prepping for their wedding day. Today’s Hollywood product teems with liberal
The Egyptian multitudes on the streets of Cairo are a stunning sight. With their banners calling for freedom and an end to the reign of President Hosni Mubarak the story these images tell is a simple one as old as
Well this is an interesting turn of events. Journalists who have dealt with Assange describe him as a man who skips around like a child, doesn’t always wash and is sensitive and volatile. Bill Keller, executive editor of the New
Bob Woodruff is a reporter for ABC News who focuses on environmental issues. Woodruff’s career is the sort which convinces Americans to invest their trust in his reporting. Unfortunately, Big Journalism has learned that Mr. Woodruff has been doing much
The “authoritatively” Jew-hating late Muslim Pope, Sheikh Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi, with the witless Karen Hughes Female genital mutilation–sanctioned by Shafiite Islamic Law–remains rampant (97% of women thus mutilated) in Egypt In follow-up to my earlier posting about widespread Egyptian Muslim
The George Soros funded Media Matters has been waging a months-long attack on Glenn Beck trying to brand the commentator as a card carrying anti-Semite. Perhaps before making false charges against Beck, Media Matters should examine its own house of
Some of the Western press is treating the riots in Egypt as a blessed event. “A new Egypt is likely to emerge from Revolution that seeks not Islam but Freedom,” gleefully proclaims the New York Sun. At the other extreme,
Ahmadinejad imagines a “world without America.” Nearly a decade after the attacks of 9/11, Americans remain terribly confused as to the nature of the terror threats we face. A jarring collection of disparate daily events appears to make little overall
Most countries that resulted from the Colonial Era are not like the United States or Canada. The native populations were not replaced, and many had to resort to varying levels of civil unrest to achieve independence. As I said in
Today the Egyptian regime faces its gravest threat since Anwar Sadat’s assassination 30 years ago. As protesters take to the street for the third day in a row demanding the overthrow of 82-year old President Hosni Mubarak, it is worth
The president twice referred to Afghanistan when clearly talking about the situation in Iraq.
HuffPo reports: WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans stand behind President Barack Obama’s strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan, according to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), which will prevent the war from becoming a “domestic political football” like the war in Iraq.
The “fix” to securing our border was supposed to be SBInet, a high-tech integrated system that was supposed to blanket the area with sensors, camera and radar. Now, the Department of Homeland Security has figured out that…ah, well, terrain might
We reported earlier that Lauren Booth, sister-in-law of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, had converted to Islam. Now she is touring Muslim countries with a radical group called Viva Palestina demanding that her in-law by tried for the invasion
