Kim Jong-il’s regime is even weirder and more despicable than you thought. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine
Here are the two most shattering facts about North Korea. First, when viewed by satellite photography at night, it is an area of unrelieved darkness. Barely a scintilla of light is visible even in the capital city. […]

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US raises stakes on Iran by sending in ships and missiles | World news | The Guardian
The deployment comes after Obama’s attempts to emphasise diplomacy over confrontation in dealing with Iran – a contrast to the Bush administration’s approach – have failed to persuade Tehran to open its nuclear installations to international controls. The White […]

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Researchers identify command servers behind Google attack
VeriSign’s iDefense security lab has published a report with technical details about the recent cyberattack that hit Google and over 30 other companies. The iDefense researchers traced the attack back to its origin and also identified the command-and-control servers that were used to manage the malware. …
“The source IPs […]

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Petition to Move KSM Trial From NYC
Coulter and Pataki Join Huckabee, Forbes, Gingrich, Levin, Romney and 60,000 Others on Nation-Wide Petition
Over the weekend former New York Governor George Pataki and best selling author and columnist Ann Coulter joined more than 70,000 American’s in signing HUMAN EVENTS and RedState.com’s petition urging General Eric Holder to reverse […]

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and closer.
How long (or short) before this kind of widget (from a French company, called Parrot) gets substantially smaller - and gets used for surveillance in all kinds of settings (including by domestic big-city cop-shops?
Go and look at the videos, either in the linked story or on the company’s site - this thing can already […]

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I wonder if this:
KCBS - Another Suspicious East Bay Car Fire
Has anything to do with this:
“Youths” torch over 1,000 cars across France overnight - Jihad Watch

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The War After Armageddon
Ralph Peters has donned his techno-thriller hat, labored mightily, and written an amazingly silly book. And I don’t know why.
The premise is interesting: A war against jihadi Islam, with the action taking place mostly in the middle east. We are told that the conflict erupts when Muslim terrorists explode nukes […]

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14 terror suspects mistakenly kill themselves - CNN.com
Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) — Fourteen suspected terrorists died Tuesday night when the bus they rigged with explosives blew up prematurely, police said.
The explosion occurred as the suspects were riding the bus in the province of Kunduz, said police chief Abdul Raziq Yaqobi.
Yaqobi said the suspects wanted to attack […]

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While Europe Sneered by Bruce Bawer, City Journal 5 January 2010
In her Monday post, Hege suggested that if all the influential newspapers in Europe had published the Danish cartoons, “it would have been much more difficult to build up the increasingly brutal climate we see now all over Europe: the fact that people are not […]

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Once upon a time I promised to review Angelo Codevilla’s latest book:
Advice to War Presidents: A Remedial Course in Statecraft
But instead, I think I will just post excerpts as the spirit moves me, and let you decide for yourself whether you might want to read the rest.
Here we go:
Diplomacy is the verbal representation of a […]

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When you have a gutless pussy in the White House?

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58% of US voters are rational.

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Electromagnetic Pulse Protection - EMP - Futurescience.com
A 2008 study by Metatech found that the time required to obtain a replacement for any one of the 370 or so largest transformers in the United States was 3 years. In a solar superstorm that affects vulnerable areas of the entire world, delivery times could easily be […]

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Hijab in Bolivia - Mona Charen - The Corner on National Review Online
On Wednesday, November 24, Iranian demands that female nurses don the hijab in response to Iran’s providing $1.2 million for funding of the new El Alto city hospital in Bolivia sparked a national outcry among women’s rights advocates within Bolivia.
And did the […]

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Clinton says Pakistanis now see a growing threat - Yahoo! News
WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says Pakistanis have experienced a change in attitudes about fighting terrorism as they see a growing threat to their own nation.
Clinton tells CBS’ “Face the Nation” that Pakistan’s civilian and military leadership have had a significant change […]

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Remembering WW2 Vets on Pearl Harbor Day - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

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Lest we forget, Pearl Harbor vets’ children pick up torch
December 7, 1941, was supposed to be Ken Adams’ day off from the Navy. He had planned to tour Hawaii with his friend, but instead he spent the morning shooting at a sky full of dive bombers. His friend burned to death in an explosion.
Sixty-eight […]

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I just listened to some scumbag commentator on the Commie Broadcasting System, who managed to unlatch his lips from the Obamember long enough to disgorge supposed wisdom. “Executing Khalid Sheik Mohammad without a trial runs into a small obstacle - the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees everybody the right to a fair trial. Apparently […]

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How the KSM Trial Will Undermine the Law - Jonah Goldberg - The Corner on National Review Online
. Some day when a guy gets convicted on a two bit federal charge thanks to the KSM rules that will no doubt result from this trial, we will have Eric Holder and his liberal and libertarian enablers […]

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Is America at war, or not?
Are we at war – or not?
For if we are at war, why is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed headed for trial in federal court in the Southern District of New York? Why is he entitled to a presumption of innocence and all of the constitutional protections of a U.S. citizen?
Is it […]

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Obama Loses, Fort Hood Victims Win
Rep. Judge Stone (R-TX) seems to have defeated early dem leadership efforts to kill this. Obama has got to fuming - it opens the door for greater scrutiny of the terrorist-act-committed-by-a-nonterrorist.
Here’s the press release:
WASHINGTON, DC) – Army and civilian personnel who were wounded or killed in the shooting attack on […]

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Age of cyber warfare is ‘dawning’
Cyber war has moved from fiction to fact, says a report.
Compiled by security firm McAfee, it bases its conclusion on analysis of recent net-based attacks.
Analysis of the motives of the actors behind many attacks carried out via the internet showed that many were mounted with a explicitly political aim.
It […]

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Roger’s Rules » Where are the Purple Hearts? Some Truths About Fort Hood
New Yorkers, too, will be able to rest more easily now that the Obama administration has decided to remove 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other terrorist conspirators from the jurisdiction of the military and hand them over to a New York […]

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Power Line - Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to Get His Day In Court
Ask yourself this question: suppose that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s trial results in an acquittal or a hung jury. Would the Obama administration really let him go? If so, they are crazy. If not, why are they holding the trial?
As political theater designed to appease […]

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The Politics of Fort Hood by Jonah Goldberg on National Review Online
For instance, it seems likely that Obama has already suffered a rhetorical defeat. Whatever his faults, President Bush got to say one thing that the American people always appreciated: After 9/11, he kept us safe from a terrorist attack on the homeland. If Hasan […]

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