It seems that the Turkish army has said that it will do everything necessary to to defend Turkey’s secular system.| MORE ›

Heh. Ali seems to have received quite some, umh, not so friendly comments, after criticizing Islamist(‘s supporting) organization CAIR.

Is China moving in to the direction of the Dutch?

With China’s carbon footprint expected to outsize America’s within a year, officials in Beijing appear to be backing away from their view that global warming is a Western problem that developed countries must solve.

While still insisting on their right to industrialize hundreds of millions of Chinese out of poverty, Chinese leaders are showing the first tentative signs of readiness to accept mandatory emissions-reductions targets.| MORE ›

Andrew Sullivan‘s Quote for the Day:
“When a newly revitalized al-Qaeda carries out a 9/11-scale attack, you will own that one,” – Senator Kit Bond, yesterday, to his Democratic colleagues in the Senate.

A great OP-ed over at The Jewish Daily Forward by Nathan Jeffay about the decision of the British National Union of Journalists to boycott Israel.

The first thing I did after I started working as a staff reporter at the London-based Jewish Chronicle was to join the National Union of Journalists. Those dependable union reps, I was told, would safeguard my every interest.| MORE ›

Red State’s Jeff Emanuel reports from Iraq.

Some great original blogreporting.

Why hasn’t the Pentagon asked me? to visit Iraq, I wonder.

I mean, I am an honorary American.

It’s a good read, go and check it out.

The Houston Chronicle reports:

A package left at a women’s clinic that performs abortions contained an explosive device capable of inflicting serious injury or death, investigators said today.

“It was in fact an explosive device,” said David Carter, assistant chief of the Austin Police Department.| MORE ›

The political ideology I adhere to, conservatism, believes that one should always look at the history, culture and traditions of a country and should not implement too many changes, too fast.

In that light, isn’t it completely wrong for the West to try to spread democracy throughout the world? If we do, we ignore how democracy came into existence in the West – that it was a incredibly long process.| MORE ›

Yes Chris, we take global warming very seriously:

It’s the new climate change dilemma: finding alternatives for oil and gas without doing more harm than good.

In the rush to develop biofuels, forests are burned in Asia to clear land for palm oil, and swaths of the Amazon are stripped of diverse vegetation for soya and sugar plantations for ethanol.| MORE ›

The Saudis have arrested 172 terroristsmilitants. Some of the reportedly “had trained abroad as pilots so they could fly aircraft in attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil fields.” The Interior Ministry ‘issued a statement saying the detainees were planning to carry out suicide atttacks against “public figures, oil facilities, refineries … and military zones” _ some of which were outside the kingdom.’

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