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What Gordon G. Chang says: Pakistan, as consequential as it may be, is not America’s most important external-agenda item. That honor goes to either Russia or China, which have the most potential to either support or undermine the international community. . . . Yet Pakistan, which often acts to further Beijing’s objectives, is more of [...]

BART officer has some explaining to do: And now Bellaire (suburb of Houston), Texas: Tolan happens to be the son of a former major league baseball player, and is in the early stages of his own pro baseball career. The police department initially denied racial profiling played a role, but has now stopped talking about [...]

Noah Pollak: I don’t know about you, but if I was a television news producer or a newspaper editor, I would make sure my reporters understood one thing very, very clearly about covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: there is an entire cottage industry among the Palestinians of faking and staging scenes of victimization, and of inventing [...]

As only Victor Davis Hanson can put it: For just one week we should ban the verb “stimulate” and the noun “stimulus” — and substitute instead the more honest “borrow,” or “print,” or “debt”; as in “The government plans to borrow another $1 trillion for the economy,” or “The administration today decided to print another [...]

These photos will make you ill. Commenter sums it up nicely: I assumed no community would tolerate this craziness, that like ours, would do everything possible to denounce their ideas, denounce their presence. And now this. I am stunned at the pace of this meltdown. Why are these people not being run out of town [...]

He will be missed. UPDATE: Mark Steyn remembers: Every issue, Father Neuhaus pulled an array of surprising and often apparently trivial items from the world’s media and addressed the deeper currents running underneath. . . . The underlying, and nascently totalitarian, assumption is that everything in the society belongs to the state and should be [...]

No, this does not happen overnight, but the salami approach has been repeated throughout history. But, I leave the exquisite description to Bill Whittle: Cut those cords of love of and pride in country – as the elites have cut them in every civilization before us – and from your seat on the moon you [...]

Not that our media seem to care: That begs the question – why? Hate to sound conspiratorial, but could it have anything to do with his skepticism over global warming?

Say it ain’t so O: The incoming Obama administration is prepared to abandon President Bush’s doctrine of isolating Hamas by establishing a channel to the Islamist organisation, sources close to the transition team say. I cannot say Ugh loudly and often enough. . . . UPDATE: Allahpundit notes the flip flop: I wrote about this [...]

Hugh Hewit: If the world is serious about ending the wars of the Middle East, they will condemn Hezbollah/Iran immediately and loudly and in such a way as to signal that they will not attempt to restrain Israel if the rockets continue. That’s deterrence. Iran’s network of allies are gearing up, not backing down. (See [...]