The Norwegian Finance Minister is backing a boycott on Israeli goods in Norway:Ms Halvorsen voiced support for a campaign of solidarity with the Palestinians, due to be launched by her Socialist Left party this month.
From the jail cell of Saddam Hussein:They tried in Iraq and failed badly.Saddam HusseinJanuary 4, 2006″They know militarily they can’t win this,” (1-5-06)The Army is “broken, worn out” and “living hand to mouth.”The U.S.
The very day Rep.
Kuwaiti women now outnumber men on the voter rolls:THE newly enfranchised women of Kuwait have been added to the voter rolls, and the country now has more women voters than men.
Mary Katherine Hamm at Hugh Hewitt recalls the soulless 47 years of Castro’s reign in Cuba.
Human Rights Watch said today that they have recently learned through credible anonymous sources that the CIA has a secret prison in a third European country:Human Rights Watch did not identify the third country but said it was one of the 25 members of the European Union.
The Prime Minister’s has suffered lower body paralysis and is now unconscious.
This article could have been written by Robert Mayer, Will Franklin, The Anchoress, or A.
You could see this one coming…
This was supposed to be where democrats made up their ground on Republicans.The “Culture of Corruption” campaign was supposed to leapfrog them back into control of Congress.
The Church bells are playing a different song this morning in Tallmansville, West Virginia.The St.
Apparently, there was a reason Emily Miller was upset the day she cut off Colin Powell during a Tim Russert interview.
Two members of the “Axis of Good”- minus Fidel Castro – met in Venezuela today.
27 Sudanese were killed in a small park on Friday night in Cairo.
With a busy year ahead, Condoleezza Rice enjoys nearly a two-thirds approval rating.U.S.
Is Bush seeing a “Murtha Factor” in his approval ratings?According to Real Clear Politics, George Bush’s approval ratings have increased from around a lowly 36% range to an average rating of 46% today.
Radical Islamic groups in the Palestinian Territories declared their truce over with Israel on the new year even though in 2005, a year of peace, they carried out 2,990 attacks:As Islamic Jihad, the Popular Resistance Committees and Fatah’s Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades announced an end to their self-declared truce of January 2005, under which they pledged to refrain from attacking Israeli targets, an annual summary of terror activities for 2005 released by the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) on Sunday revealed that a total of 2,990 attacks were launched against Israeli targets.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad insisted that Israel is inherently Anti-Muslim in nature and compared Zionism to fascism today:He also said that Israel was the result of European “ethnic cleansing”.
Referees give Gators a gift,…
Texas Rainmaker notes the governor of Louisiana has herself a pretty new office to manage the next hurricane disaster from.
In the early morning hours of Friday, December 30, 2005, as many as 20,000 Egyptian riot police swinging clubs swept into a tiny Cairo park to evict 2,000 or so Sudanese squatters.
Iraq has seen an army of at least 280 suicide bombers killing at least 2750 people, mostly Iraqi civilians, since the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom.Suicide bombings as classified on Iraq Body Count increased from:* 8 in 2003* 59 in 2004* 213 in 2005!But despite the surge in suicide bombings, daily spikes of violence in Iraq has decreased since the War is Iraq began.Each spike is a day that saw a large number of Iraqi fatalities.
After a slight setback from the announcement of a federal investigation into the security leaks released against advisement of the president, the New York Times is leading its next offensive against national security today.Muslim Scholars Were Paid to Aid U.S.
Betsy’s Page posted the Mark Steyn narrative on Arnold’s recent snit with Austrian officials.
Last year, arsonists torched over 10,000 cars and 200 businesses.Riot policemen protect themselves from bottle-throwing at the bottom of the Eiffel tower during clashes following new year celebrations in Paris January 1, 2006.
** The ACLU calls Bush a Liar in their full page New York Times ad and then omit a critical line from his speech!
Masked gunmen stormed into the Gaza beachfront UN club and blew up the drinking hall.
The story today in the Washington Post is that US military deaths in Iraq nearly matched the year before.Military death toll in Iraq 844 in 2005844 brave men and women from the US were lost in Iraq in 2005, 848 were lost in 2004.These statistics were taken from Iraqi Coalition Casualty Count.As Glenn Reynolds wrote this morning, 2005 was a “decidedly mixed year”.
World welcomes 2006.Fireworks at the world’s tallest building, Taipei 101, celebrating the New Year.
