New York Slimes Misfires

First the New York Slimes beathless headline, article by Mark Mazzetti and Scott Shane:

C.I.A. Had Plan to Assassinate Qaeda Leaders

The text of the article:

WASHINGTON — Since 2001, the Central Intelligence Agency has developed plans to dispatch small

Kim Jong Il, North Korea’s leader, has life-threatening pancreatic cancer, a news report said on Monday, days after fresh images of him looking gaunt spurred speculation that his health was worsening following a reported stroke last year, reports AP

From the New York Post.   The parents of Mayara Rodrigues Tavares, pictured in the red dress above, are just a wee bit upset about how their daughter is being depicted.    Her mother, Lucia Rodrigues:

“Why are they looking at

A single picture can be worth more than a NGO  produced 2:47 video.  First the video:

Hat tip video:  News Junkie

Now for the picture:

Hat tip photo:   Darleen Click, Protein Wisdom.

Suffice to say, the chicklette is part

Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit, opines:

SO, TECHNICALLY, IT WOULD BE WRONG TO CALL THE PLAN “SOPHOMORIC:” “In the depths of the cold war, in 1983, a senior at Columbia University wrote in a campus newsmagazine, Sundial, about the vision of

The democratic portions of the goverment of Honduras have acted to preserve their constitution and oust a wanna be dictatator for life, Mel Zelaya.    So which side does President Barack Obama’s Secretaray of State take?   The same side as Hugo

Eric, do we need to file a formal complain in Persian?   Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has stolen our thunder.   Ahmadinejad has taken to mocking the one, fren Andy Barr, Politico:

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad compared Obama on Thursday to former President

Steven Dinan, Washington Times:

The White House has rescinded the invitations to Iranian diplomats to attend July 4 celebrations at U.S. embassies around the world.

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said nobody from Iran RSVPed to come, and

The polite leftist explanation for Obama’s lack of serious response to the events in Iran has been that such a response would allow Iran’s tyrannical leaders to blame the United States for the revolution currently occurring there.  There’s only one

We have a revolution in Iran.

Hat tip photo: Gateway Pundit.

Hat tip photo:   Gateway Pundit.

• Unlike Peter Arnet, it is beyond my capacity to analyze a war in real time
• To BobbyGibbs, this is not robust debate.
• This

Doctor Krauthammer today makes a great point about Obama’s response to the Iran situation:

…. this incipient revolution is no longer about the election. Obama totally misses the point. The election allowed the political space and provided the spark for

Even the Egyptian Government gets it from the June 18, 2009. in Al-Ahram (Egypt),

“Events in Iran have followed in close succession since the announcement that fundamentalist candidate Ahmadinejad was elected to a second term in the presidential elections. Between

Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post:

And where is our president? Afraid of “meddling.” Afraid to take sides between the head-breaking, women-shackling exporters of terror — and the people in the street yearning to breathe free. This from a president who

The state is shooting her citizens in Iran, and all the one can promise is business as usual, Anne Gearan, Associated Press: 

“We will continue to pursue a tough, direct dialogue between our two countries, and we’ll see where

There is a nascent cry for freedom, the natural yearning of all men, in Iran, video:

Hat tip:  Michelle

More, Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit:

Madness! Obama Administration Silent As Iranian Students Are Slaughtered in Streets– Announce They Will Negotiate