Obama official: MLK would love our wars!

If Martin Luther King Were Alive Today, He'd Be Just Like Me
You know all those articles that purport to say what George Orwell would believe if he were alive today, in which Orwell turns out to have had a change of heart on every significant subject where the author disagrees with him? You can do that to Martin Luther King too: If Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today, would he understand why the United States is at war? Jeh C. Johnson, the Defense Department's General Counsel, posed that question at today's Pentagon commemoration of King's legacy...

Global Reach
Oh! It's true bay bee! Talking 'bout Imperial m"Hammedism's shock Troops of the world's very first global Terrorist org, able to raise, recruit and train fanboys via the interwebses and in certain hoods. "...Al Qaeda today has four faces. The first is familiar: the core group that includes Bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman Zawahiri. From its base in the badlands along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, this nucleus still provides strategic direction to both the group itself and to the worldwide jiha...

Military commission prepares to recommend that women be allowed in combat roles (Daily Caller)
Read more stories from The Daily Caller Giffords making miraculous recovery, can move arms and legs Military commission prepares to recommend that women be allowed in combat roles TheDC on TV: Jamie Weinstein discusses Health Care on the RT's 'Big Picture with Thom Hartmann' U.S. Chamber of Commerce will support eliminating tax Loopholes, chairman says How the Mental Health system failed Jared Loughner, despite Arizona's lenient commitment standard A draft report by the Military Leadership Di...

Al Qaeda's tentacles
Al Qaeda has just released the latest in its series of how-to guides for Jihadists in the West who want to Murder without the bother of flying to Pakistan to be trained. This time, the offering is an English-language manual explaining in detail how to build a bomb, and it demonstrates how nimbly Al Qaeda has adapted to become the world's first truly global Terrorist Organization, able to recruit and train fanatics on the Internet as well as on the ground. Almost 10 years after the most devastati...

What Weve Learned from WikiLeaks
As the U.S. government continues to try to shut down Wikileaks — preferably, it seems, without having to actually charge Assange or the website with an actual crime — it’s important not to forget how much we’ve learned through WikiLeaks’ efforts.  Here is a (partial) list created by Greg Mitchell, who has been keeping a daily log of all things Wikileaks at The Nation: § The Saudis, our allies, are among the leading funders of international Terrorism. §...

Memorial service for late US diplomat Holbrooke (AFP)
WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Barack Obama and senior US officials gather for a memorial service Friday honoring Richard Holbrooke, the Veteran US diplomat who helped end the war in Bosnia. Holbrooke, who was also tasked with bringing peace to Afghanistan, died in Washington on December 13 after suffering a torn aorta. He was 69. The public memorial service for Holbrooke is scheduled to take place at the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in the US capital, officials said. Dign...

Bordentown fire company mourns member, a U.S. soldier, killed in Afghanistan
At the volunteer fire company in Bordentown, the news of Ben Moore's death weighed heavy on Thursday as members recalled the lighthearted young man who had grown up at the station. Moore had been part of the Hope Hose Humane Volunteer Fire Company No. 1 since age 16 and enlisted in the U.S. Army about a year and a half ago. This week, the private first class, a 2006 graduate of Bordentown Regional High School, was killed in Afghanistan. He and other members of his unit were reportedly trying to ...

Obama speech recalls Reagan
Two weeks after President Barack Obama returned from a Hawaiian Vacation spent reading a 900-page biography of Ronald Reagan, he delivered a Speech in Tucson, Ariz., Wednesday that incorporated, but didn’t parrot, the gilded, common-touch oratory of the 40th president. The pageantry and patter of the Oval Office that came so naturally to Reagan and Bill Clinton haven’t come quite as easily to Obama, an electrifying campaign performer who is finally mastering the intimate, idiosync...

Three Fort Drum soldiers killed by explosive in Afghanistan
Three Fort Drum Soldiers were killed Wednesday in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan, when their unit was attacked by an improvised Explosive Device. They were Staff Sgt. Omar Aceves, 30, El Paso, Texas; Cpl. Jarrid L. King, 20, Erie, Pa., and Spc. Benjamin G. Moore, 23, Robbinsville, N.J. All were combat engineers with the 693rd Engineer Company, 7th Engineer Battalion, who deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in May 2010. Staff Sgt. Aceves joined The Army in February 2005 and was stat...

Three fallen Fort Drum soldiers named
Three Fort Drum Soldiers were killed Wednesday in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan, when their unit was attacked by an improvised Explosive Device. They were Staff Sgt. Omar Aceves, 30, El Paso, Texas; Cpl. Jarrid L. King, 20, Erie, Pa., and Spc. Benjamin G. Moore, 23, Robbinsville, N.J. All were combat engineers with the 693rd Engineer Company, 7th Engineer Battalion, who deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in May 2010. Staff Sgt. Aceves joined The Army in February 2005 and was stat...

Desensitizing Americans To Violence
Since the early days of the American Revolution, the Military methods of desensitizing people has taken on a life of it's own. I remember reading that after the Revolutionary War they found many muskets and rifles among the dead, which had several "loads & shots" still stuffed in the barrel; the gun never fired. It appeared that Soldiers were not keen on shooting their enemy; their friends, their countrymen and neighbors, and they would load their guns over and over again. There appeared t...

Holbrooke "proving very hard to replace"
World leaders are arriving in Washington to attend Richard Holbrooke's memorial service at the Kennedy Center Friday, which President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are both due to attend. Among those attending will be Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry and Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, who worked closely with Holbrooke on Bosnia, where Bildt served as the first U.N. high representative. Holbrooke, meanwhile, is &quo...;

Biden returns home
Published: Jan. 13, 2011 at 11:18 PM A prosperous and democratic Iraq is the "single best thing" the United States could want in the region, Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday in Baghdad. UPI/Roger L. Wollenberg BERLIN, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- U.S. Vice President Joe Biden left Ramstein Air Base, Germany, Thursday night for Washington after visiting Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq. In Baghdad, on his last stop before jetting back to the United States, Biden visited with U.S. Troops at Camp...

Cleric's opponents plan gathering, too
The Christian Action Network and PRB Films are to host a public screening of a new documentary that opposes the construction of a Muslim center -- Park 51 -- in Lower Manhattan. The film is titled "Sacrificed Survivors: The Untold Story of the Ground Zero Mega-Mosque." "We're fighting a war, and it's not just in Afghanistan, and it's not just in Pakistan, or Iraq -- it's right here in America," said Andy Sullivan of New York City, founder of the 9/11 H...

JFK library opens 1st online presidential archive
The John F. Kennedy library is now the first Presidential Library to make all of its documents available online. “His time is becoming part of history, not living memory, and we need to reach across the generations in new ways,” JFK’s daughter Caroline Kennedy said as she unveiled the online archive during a visit to the National Archives in Washington. Archivists at the Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston worked for four years on the $10 million project, starting with all ...

Sadr's followers demand Biden stay away from Iraq
NAJAF, Iraq | Fri Jan 14, 2011 7:55am EST NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - Followers of Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr took to the streets on Friday after prayers to condemn a visit by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and demand U.S. forces leave the country. Around 2,000 supporters of the fiery anti-American cleric demonstrated in the town of Kufa, chanting anti-U.S. slogans a day after Biden paid his first visit to Iraq since Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki was reappointed. "In our Protest, we dema...

Is a Muslim Sit-Com the Answer to Our Problems?
Posted by David Solway on Jan 14th, 2011 and filed under Daily Mailer, FrontPage. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed. CBS anchor Katie Couric recently went on record deploring the “Bigotry” and “seething hatred” that Muslims are supposed to be facing in the U.S., and proposing a “Muslim version of the Cosby Show” as a remedy to this lamentable situation....

Fresh protests after Tunisian leader pledge
Thousands of Tunisians demanded the departure of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in marches in the capital and other towns Friday, a day after he pledged to not seek another term to end growing unrest. "No to Ben Ali, the uprising continues," hundreds shouted in a march down the main boulevard in central Tunis, Avenue Bourguiba, as police stood watch, AFP reporters said. In demonstrations in other towns, including western Sidi Bouzid where a wave of Protests was unleashed mid-December, thousan...

Pakistani militant fight leads to polio spike
Tiny Shamsa is a Victim of the war against Islamist Militants in northwest Pakistan, but it wasn't bullets or bombs that paralyzed her right leg. The 18-month-old contracted polio after fighting blocked vaccination teams from reaching her village. In a country with no shortage of alarming statistics, here is another: Pakistan was the only country in 2010 to record an increase in cases of the crippling disease — 138, up from 89 in the previous year, according to World Health Organization fi...

Daily brief: Zardari to meet Obama in DC
Presidential meetings The presidents of the U.S. and Pakistan, Barack Obama and Asif Ali Zardari, are scheduled to meet today in Washington as Zardari is in town to attend a memorial service for the late Obama Administration Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Amb. Richard Holbrooke, and economic reforms in Pakistan are reportedly at the top of the agenda (Dawn, CNN, McClatchy, CBS, CNN). Afghanistan's security and Pakistani Military operations in North Waziristan are also likely to be discusse...

Pakistani militant fight leads to polio spike
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Tiny Shamsa is a Victim of the war against Islamist Militants in northwest Pakistan, but it wasn't bullets or bombs that paralyzed her right leg. The 18-month-old contracted polio after fighting blocked vaccination teams from reaching her village. In a country with no shortage of alarming statistics, here is another: Pakistan was the only country in 2010 to record an increase in cases of the crippling disease — 138, up from 89 in the previous year, according to W...

Kris To Join Seattle-Based Patent Company
Assistant Attorney General David Kris is joining Seattle-based Intellectual Ventures, a technology investment company headed by former Microsoft Corp. executive Nathan Myhrvold . Kris, who oversees the National Security Division, will be the firm’s General Counsel, according to people familiar with his plans. Intellectual Ventures, reportedly backed by $5 billion in investment funding, is what critics call a “Patent troll” that buys up patents and sues other companies for infri...

Obama has been mugged by the reality of Gitmo
Just two days after his inauguration, President Obama signed an Executive Order calling for the closing of Guantanamo Bay detention facility within one year. Nearly two years later, it remains open. Why did the administration fail to meet its goal? The truth is that Obama's order was driven by ideology, not reality. His left-wing base insisted that Guantanamo be shuttered. But he and his staff knew little about the facility. It took a full year for a Task Force to review the government files o...

Obama's speech seen by more than 30M
More than 30 million Americans watched President Obama's eulogy Wednesday for the Victims of the Arizona shooting, according to new Nielsen numbers. Total audience: 30,773,369. That's about 1.5 million more than those who watched Obama's Aug. 31 remarks about the withdrawal of U.S. combat Troops from Iraq; it's about 1.3 million less than the number who watched the president's Speech on the Gulf Coast Oil Spill back on June 15. Wednesday's audience was dwarfed by the most-watched Obama Speech w...

Sen. Bennet: Education's a civil right
Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet is continuing his emphasis on education during a Speech to mark the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. Bennet says he'll talk about schools Friday at the annual Business Social Responsibility Awards Luncheon in Denver. The luncheon honors the slain Civil Rights leader. Bennet is a former superintendent of Denver Public Schools. The Democrat says he'd like to help craft National Education policy in the Senate. The senator toured an Elementary School in Colorado Springs e...