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Jimmy Carter: Into the Flood Again

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

I’m old enough to remember Jimmy Carter’s presidency.  I know why he was a one term president, though you might never surmise it, given the media’s molding of him into an elder statesman.  Partially because as a super-duper delegate, there’s hope in some quarters that he might have the juice to get the Hillary Clinton campaign to [...]

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Did the Iranians Seed the New NIE?

Thursday, December 6, 2007

Very insightful, though chilling analysis by James Lewis over at the American Thinker.  His main thesis is an examination of what is means if General Ashgari is a double agent.
So — what happened between the National Intelligence Estimate of 2005 and today’s NIE to give the US intelligence community “high confidence” to confirm an end [...]

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Dr. Paul Pillar and the 2007 Iran NIE – Small Consolations

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

An attention-grabbing quote in the NY Times article regarding the new, revised NIE on Iran’s quest for nuclear arms.
Paul R. Pillar, another member of the National Intelligence Council in 2005, said it was a “fair point” to criticize intelligence agencies for overstating their confidence in the judgments of the 2005 estimate. But he said the judgment [...]

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Bob Cesca: Back to the Future

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Here’s one for the “don’t question my patriotism, but I’ll certainly question yours” files.
I live and work in Houston, Texas, where true and effective mass transit does not exist, and never will. We simply do not have the population density nor the nice compact city footprint that makes mass transit work.  I lived in NYC for [...]

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Tehran Times on al-Zarqawi’s Death

Friday, June 9, 2006

The Tehran Times has this to say about the death of al-Zarqawi’s death and its implication for neighboring Iraq.
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Interesting.
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Iranian Nukes: How Certain is Certain?

Thursday, February 9, 2006

Although the Danish cartoon “crisis” has dominated the news over the last week or so, there has also been a lot of news out of Iran, especially since the IAEA gave up and decided to refer the question of Iran’s nuclear program to the UN Security Council.Most of the coverage here and in other paces [...]

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Mohammed Cartoons: Iran’s New Cartoon Contest

Wednesday, February 8, 2006

In a perfect allegory for the current global ongoing game of tit for tat, Reuters and the Washington Post report that Iran’s largest news daily, Hamshari, has introduced a new contest for cartoonists using the Holocaust as its theme. Each of the 12 winners gets two gold coins, worth approximately $140 each, in addition to getting [...]

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Iran: Accelerate Nuke Program, and Work for World Peace

Tuesday, February 7, 2006

It’s been a very strange day for  Iranian news; the Iranians have ended all voluntary cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Commission and announced that they will start uranium enrichment and will not allow any further surprise inspections. The Washington Post quotes Iran’s Foreign Minister Hamid Reza Asefi as saying that the door to negotiations is [...]

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