Even the Coast Guard is out there… Semper Paratus!

DUBAI, April 11 (Reuters) - Three boats approached a U.S. Navy vessel at high speed in Gulf waters on Thursday but stopped after it fired a flare, the U.S. Fifth Fleet said.
The incident followed a confrontation in January, when the United States said Iranian boats aggressively approached three U.S. Naval ships and warned that [...]

While we debate… remember who is out there defending Freedom…

US Enemy Combatant Detention system under fire…

An excellent post in the SCOTUS blog today about the US detention system… I recommend it:
The first civilian court review of the military’s four-year-old system seeking to justify detention of terrorism suspects produced a skeptical response to three of the government’s key legal defenses of that system. In a hearing on April 4 that ran [...]

World Bank in D.C. this weekend

WASHINGTON (AFP) — World economic leaders here this weekend took steps to alleviate the worst financial shock in decades and a food price crisis that is sparking deadly unrest in developing countries.
In three days of meetings that ended Sunday, finance ministers and central bankers grappled with the credit squeeze and inflation emergencies against the backdrop [...]

Talking to Evil - Why Carter shouldn’t be talking to HAMAS

Washington, D.C. (Rightcommentary.com): HAMAS is a terrorist organization. According to the US Department of State’s Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) list, HAMAS was “[f]ormed in late 1987 as an outgrowth of the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. Various HAMAS elements have used both political and violent means, including terrorism, to pursue the goal of establishing [...]