Yemeni forces storm al-Qaida hideout, vow to eliminate group that claimed airline attack By AHMED AL-HAJ and DONNA ABU-NASR Associated Press Writers SAN’A, Yemen December 31, 2009 (AP) Yemeni forces raided an al-Qaida hideout and set off a gunbattle Wednesday as the government vowed to eliminate the group that claimed it was behind the Christmas [...]

Are U.K. Colleges and Mosques Breeding Grounds for Extremist Islamic Ideology? By AMMU KANNAMPILLY LONDON, Dec. 31, 2009 The case of Umar Farouq Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian man accused of attempting to set off a bomb on a Detroit-bound plane, has thrown a spotlight on British universities and mosques and what some critics claim is a [...]

Dec 30, 2009 The CIA on Wednesday rejected accusations that it failed to share vital information with other US intelligence agencies that might have helped prevent last week’s attempted plane bomb attack. The intelligence agency rejected charges that it possessed, but failed to disseminate, information about Nigerian suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab that might have led [...]

Dec 28, 2009 NBC’s interview with David Goldman has drawn a scathing review from the Society of Professional Journalists’ Ethics Committee. The panel says it’s “appalled” because NBC News chartered a plane for Goldman and his son, Sean, to fly from Brazil to the United States. They were reunited after a five-year custody battle, and [...]

Dec 29, 2009 The good news for Senator Ben Nelson is that he doesn’t have to face Nebraska voters until 2012. If Governor Dave Heineman challenges Nelson for the Senate job, a new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey shows the Republican would get 61% of the vote while Nelson would get just 30%. Nelson was reelected [...]

Dec 30, 3009 By DEB RIECHMANN KABUL (AP) – A suicide bomber at a base in Afghanistan’s volatile east killed eight American civilians, U.S. officials said, the worst loss of life for Americans in the country since October. Four Canadian soldiers and a journalist were killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan’s south, NATO said. [...]

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December 30, 2009   by Michael Medved The biggest political lesson of 2009 connects directly to the best political news about 2010, and both factors should help inspire conservatives to sweeping and historic victories in the year ahead. The most significant message from all the confusion and controversy of the year now concluding is that [...]

December 30, 2009   by Thomas Sowell The only thing healthy about Congress’ health insurance legislation is the healthy skepticism about it by most of the public, as revealed by polls. What is most unhealthy about this legislation is the raw arrogance in the way it was conceived and passed. Supporters of government health insurance [...]

By Ken Blackwell (Archive) · Wednesday, December 30, 2009 “Ever since Teddy Roosevelt first called for reform in 1912, seven presidents — Democrats and Republicans alike — have taken up the cause of reform time and time again,” President Obama said in a statement hailing the Christmas Eve Senate vote to take over 1/7 of [...]