J. Peter Pham, director of the Nelson Institute for International and Public Affairs at James Madison University and an academic fellow of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, on the growing threat taking shape in Somalia.  From the WSJ, “The New Taliban” (subscription only): On June 5, an armed Islamist group, the Union of Islamic Courts, took control of Mogadishu, Somalia’s largest city, after heavy fighting against “warlords” representing

Behind the curtains here at protein wisdom, a team of highly trained military specialists is hard at work trying to correct the server optimization problem that is causing my site to crash repeatedly.  In the mean time, I sit and wait and laugh as they put themselves in such cyber peril—like the vile, presumptuous CHICKENSERVERFIXERHAWK that I am… Dance for DADDY, IT boys!

What follows is an excerpt from a June 18 transcript of “Meet the Press,” featuring a Tim Russert interview with Rep John Murtha (D-PA) that I’m hoping somebody will please translate for me.  Because I’m afraid I don’t speak Murtha—which I’d previously assumed was a variant of English, but after reading the transcript, I’m no longer sure about even that much: MR. RUSSERT: You say redeploy. Again, Mr. Rove challenges

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From Time, an excerpt from a new book by Ron Suskind: Al-Qaeda terrorists came within 45 days of attacking the New York subway system with a lethal gas similar to that used in Nazi death camps. They were stopped not by any intelligence breakthrough, but by an order from Osama bin Laden’s deputy, Ayman Zawahiri. And the U.S. learned of the plot from a CIA mole inside al-Qaeda. These are

Here are a few practical questions to consider as we hope for the best and prepare ourselves for the worst:  does al Qaeda in Iraq believe that any public exploitation of the death and/or torture of American soldiers is likely to help their cause—either in terms of recruiting or in terms of winning the support of Iraqis?  More importantly, will it?  Similarly, how are Americans likely to react to any

From the “Saddam Dossier,” FOXNews: In this second of a three-part examination of a newly-released document captured in Iraq, [former member of the CIA-directed Iraq Survey Group (ISG) Ray] Robison offers further evidence that in 1999 the Taliban welcomed “Islamic relations with Iraq” to mediate among the Taliban, the Northern Alliance and Russia, and that the Taliban reciprocated with an invitation to Iraqi officials to visit Afghanistan. The document appears

—Meh, I suppose I could spin you all some elaborate tale about why the little guy has decided to cool his heels this weekend, but the truth is, his heart is just not in it. And as the old saying goes, trying to dance when your heart’s not in it is like trying to bowl in a suit of armor while a rival knight keeps poking at you with one

Good discussion between Tammy Bruce, Michelle Malkin, and Eric Umansky on this week’s PJMedia Blog Week in Review.

Johnson:  “You realize that most of you are going to die soon, right? And that you’ll likely be quite alone and stewing in your own days-old waste when you kick?  Sorry, but the time has come to speak out. The soul of the nation is at stake—AND I FOR ONE WILL NO LONGER BITE MY TONGUE JUST TO SPARE YOU A BIT OF INCONVENIENT TRUTHINESS!”*