Somalia exports trouble

Kenya has stopped regular flights to and from Somalia, the Jawa Report notes. Somalia possesses the capability to involve every single one of its neighbors in violence; the U.S., the U.N. and the Euros have simply acquiesced in this.

Tehran reacts to Argentines' pursuit of justice

Noted at Dhimmiwatch: Argentine propagandists, beware!A top Iranian prosecutor demanded an arrest warrant be issued for Argentinian judges and prosecutors, state radio said, after Argentina demanded the arrest of Iranian officials over the bombing of a Jewish centre....

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US vetoes yet another anti-Israel Security Council resolution

What is there to say?  The United States has had, once again, to veto an unjust Security Council resolution that would have 'convicted' Israel of intentionally wicked violence against the Palestianians.  U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said the Arab-backed draft...

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Warrantless wiretaps unlikely to be OK'd

Senate Democrats, emboldened by Election Day wins that put them in control of Congress as of January, say they would rather wait until next year to look at the issue. "I can't say that we won't do it, but there's no guarantee that we're going spend a lot of time on...

Assad has submitted to Tehran?

It is difficult to credit the gist of the AsiaNews report, based in large part on Amir Taheri's essay in Monday's New York Post, viz. that Bashar al-Assad has in effect submitted to Tehran's hegemony.  The possibility of mass conversions of the Alawi (the Sunni sect to...

Great news, dismal news

Four significant pro-life measures failed yesterday, according to CNA.  Seven  ought of eight states, where such measures appeared on the ballot, adopted constitutional amendments defining traditional marriage; the question in Arizona is still too close to...

Three constitutions: two minimalist, one not

At Brussels Journal, Hjðrtur Guðmundsson makes a point about what constitutions ought to be purposed to do: the fundamentals, not the derivative minutiae.