An interesting development in conservative Senate politics: The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza reports that Sen. Jim DeMint, a South Carolina Republican working to back conservative candidates, will endorse Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams as the eventual replacement for Kay Bailey Hutchison.
As Todd Gillman reported Monday, DeMint's political action committee [...]
Armed with steel clubs, electric batons, pepper spray and tear gas, members of the Basij [...]
The inquiry [...]
Everything about the shipyard here is colossal -- the 4,000-man workforce, the billions sunk into it in capital costs, the half-finished 10-story-high production platforms.
But then, so is the challenge facing Brazil's state-controlled energy company, Petrobras: developing a group of newly discovered deep-sea oil [...]
As sea levels swell and storms intensify, the Dutch [...]
Operation "Cobra's Anger," which involves 900 U.S. Marines and [...]
The Merida Initiative, signed by President George W. Bush and Mexican leader Felipe Calderón in 2007, promises Black Hawk helicopters, night-vision goggles and drug-sniffing dogs, as well as a more robust crime-fighting partnership between the United States and Mexico. So far the [...]
As a result, said BP chief executive Tony Hayward, "the picture has changed dramatically."
"The United States is sitting on over 100 years of gas supply at the current rates of consumption," he said. Because natural gas emits half the greenhouse [...]
I posted the following comment to the RealClimate website on This thread. It was a challenge for the website to 'come clean'. They moderate comments and did not deign to allow this comment to get published:
Prof Mann had a letter to the editor in the Washington Post this Sunday, [...]
President Obama has offered Pakistan an expanded strategic partnership, including additional military and economic cooperation, while warning with unusual bluntness that its use of insurgent groups to pursue policy goals "cannot continue."
The offer, including an effort to help reduce tensions between [...]
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I guess the Washington Post has graduated from the "Some say/Others say" school of journalism (via Montgomery's story) ...
Optimists say the $848 billion [...]
Iran has reorganized its naval forces to give operational control of the strategic Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz to the naval component of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the paramilitary organization that is playing an increasingly central role not only in Iran's military [...]
Yemen's handling of former Guantanamo detainees and accused extremists in its own jails has raised fears that sending detainees back to this nation, the poorest in the Arab world, might only create more militants determined to attack America.
Disputes over the fates [...]
Instead, there is a soft, warm welcome for the dozens of young men and women reporting to Officer Candidates School at Quantico Marine Base in Virginia.
Arriving in polos and khakis, they check in [...]
is matched only by the editorial page stupidity of the Washington Post, where Fred Hiatt et al give Sessions a column to hypocritically vent.There is no god and I am his prophet. [...] Two weeks before President Obama visited China, two senior White House officials traveled to Beijing on a "special mission" to try to persuade China to pressure Iran to give up its alleged nuclear weapons program.
If Beijing did not help the [...]
LEGALIZE FREEDOMA Hezbollah political official and his son-in-law sought this year to smuggle 1,200 machine guns from the United States to the militant Islamist group via Syria, according to indictments made public Tuesday against 10 men in federal court in Philadelphia.
Hassan Hodroj and Dib [...]
The group asserted responsibility for four powerful bombings that [...]
After decades of mistrust and sometimes betrayal, Mexican and U.S. authorities are increasingly setting aside their differences to unite against a common enemy. According to interviews in Washington and Mexico City, the two countries are sharing sensitive intelligence and computer technology, military [...]
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