The Department of State (DoS) official who went on Al-Jazeera this weekend and handed terrorists there yet another propaganda coup has put out a written apology. Alberto Fernandez called US policy in Iraq arrogant and stupid during an interview with Al-Jazeera on Saturday, sparking some pretty serious condemnation, including right here on HoodaThunk?‘s pages. That, [...]
Captain Ed over at CQ has posted on a column in the New York Times where their public editor has now admitted that the Times blew it when it decided to publish the details of a national-security program where terrorist cash was tracked via the Swift financial transfer program. CQ quotes the column from the [...]
From Fox News: Offering an unusually candid assessment of America’s enterprise in Iraq, a senior U.S. diplomat said the United States had shown “arrogance” and “stupidity” in Iraq, but warned that failure in the violence-ridden Arab nation would be a disaster for the entire region. In an interview with Al-Jazeera aired late Saturday, Alberto Fernandez, [...]
In my quest to pick up the game of golf the last month has represented something of a setback. A medical issue that knocked me out for a couple of weeks, uncooperative weather and general business stuff have all conspired to keep me off the driving ranges and, certainly, off of the golf course. Yesterday, [...]
One of our local newspapers, the Loudoun Times-Mirror, has a front page story that’s touted as Part 1 of a 2-part look “at the people in our community who come from, or have roots in, Latin America.” Part 2, they claim, will deal with “legal issues, immigration control, and law enforcement.” The story is titled [...]
This, ladies and gentlemen, is where the nanny-state and escalating lawsuit culture is taking us. An elementary school in Attleboro, Mass. has issued a decree banning tag and other “unsupervised chase games” during recess. Just pathetic, is what this is. Hat Tip: Power Line
One of the things that’s been going around in the computing field since the movie War Games was shown has been the phenomenon of users writing down their passwords and leaving them in places they can be easily found. This simple act constitutes the most common form of security breach and, in most case, circumvents [...]
Some Apple video iPods apparently left the factory between 12 September and today carrying a Windows virus. Apple says it’s less than 1% of the total shipped and that iPod nano, shuffle, and their Mac OS X are unaffected. They also confirm that the video iPods now shipping are clear. Make sure those anti-virus programs [...]
I have family in Ohio and spent many years of my life there when I was *cough* years old. While I’ve been in Virginia for almost 2 decades now I’ve kept in touch with the local politics out there. The one, overriding thing I can say about the state’s politics out there is that Governor [...]
The warning — the central government’s first response to the U.N. measures approved last weekend — came as the U.S. nuclear envoy began his visit to South Korea by saying Pyongyang should pay a high price for its reckless behavior. The North broke two days of silence about the U.N. resolution adopted after its Oct. [...]
