Western powers believe that Iran is running short of the raw material required to manufacture nuclear weapons, triggering an international race to prevent it from importing more, The Times has learnt. Diplomatic sources believe that Iran’s stockpile of yellow cake uranium, produced from uranium ore, is close to running out and could be exhausted within months. Countries including Britain, the US, France and Germany have started intensive diplomatic efforts to

I’m sure none of us is sociopathic enough to laugh at this. Bush in Iraq, though . . . that was hilarious.

Two firms funded with over $100 million in earmarks from the Democratic Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, John Murtha, were raided and temporarily shut down yesterday by the FBI and IRS. Surprised that you didn’t hear about such big news? Well, it did manage to hit page A6 of the Wall Street Journal today (U.S. Raids Contractors Aided by Murtha): Federal agents raided two small Pennsylvania defense contractors that

MSNBC host Chris Matthews suggested Friday that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) may not have the reading or writing ability needed to complete the book she is reportedly shopping. The Los Angeles Times reported Friday that Palin is seeking an $11 million advance for her memoir and has hired high-powered Washington attorney Robert Barnett to broker the deal. Teasing a segment on the book during his show “Hardball,” Matthews said:

if Frodo can’t cast ring into Cracks of Doom. (Interviewed by Gaia)

After Obama’s 160 million dollar inauguration, lefties are still yammering on about the sinister secrets of Sarah Palin’s campaign wardrobe: Despite the Republican National Committee’s promise to donate Sarah Palin’s $180,000 campaign wardrobe to charity, word has it the Alaska governor’s clothes remain stuffed in trash bags at RNC headquarters, NewMajority has learned. While Palin followed through on her promise to return her controversial wardrobe after the election, it seems

Illinois’ embattled but defiant governor turned to the history books to describe the emotional strain on him and his family, comparing his arrest last month to Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. “Dec. 9 to my family, to us, to me, is what Pearl Harbor Day was to the United States,” Gov. Rod Blagojevich told The Associated Press in an interview Thursday. “It was a complete surprise, completely unexpected. And just

and the Dutch. “The Freedom Party (PVV),” read yesterday’s press release, “is shocked by the Amsterdam Court of Appeal’s decision to prosecute Geert Wilders for his statements and opinions. Geert Wilders considers this ruling an all-out assault on freedom of speech.” The appalling decision to try Wilders, the Freedom Party’s head and the Dutch Parliament’s only internationally famous member, for “incitement to hatred and discrimination” against Islam is indeed an

In the statement he made on signing the executive order to close Guantanamo. Apparently, the WaPo’s Dana Priest didn’t get the memo. Later on, though he was reading from a prepared statement in the first case, he perhaps has caught himself enough to refer instead to “the ongoing struggle against violence and terrorism.” So, maybe it’s not a war. Maybe it’s just an “ongoing struggle.” Scrappleface: The CASE against terror

Patterico outlines the LA Times’ repetition of hooey: In a story about the Messiah’s Crackberry, the L.A. Times tells us: Even if [Obama] won’t be scanning his own groceries or buying his own milk — former President George H.W. Bush was portrayed as out of touch with those markers of American life — he may be in casual contact with friends who are. The paper neglects to mention the fact