Month: July 2013

. Quite a change in rhetoric for Hariri, eight years ago he blamed all bombings on Assad and Syria intelligence. Hariri blames Israel for Beirut suburb bombing BEIRUT (Daily Star) July 9, 2013 – Former Prime Minister Saad...

A US intel contractor.  An eager and responsible kid given access to highly classified documents.*  Said “kid” was shocked and appalled at what he saw.  So, he took photographs.  Lots of them....

So, based on Jeremy Peters’ reporting in the New York Times, it looks like the Senate Democrats have coalesced around a strategy that will kill the filibuster for presidential appointees, but not for judicial nominations....

. Rabia al-Adawiya square: Indeed an attack on the barracks by armed men (Informed Comment) – However, it also seems likely that there was in fact an attack on the barracks by armed men. Some accounts say that they were...

The people who swoon over Ron or Rand Paul because they agree with them on one subject or another really ought to come to terms with the true nature of the Paul family. They have always been neo-confederates or Lost Causers, and...