For Those of You That Took the NIE Seriously….

JPOST- Iran tested a newly-developed ballistic missile on the day of the Annapolis conference, Channel 10 reported Wednesday.

The Ashoura missile has a range of 2,000 kilometers and is capable of reaching Israel, US Army bases in the Middle East

LGF:

Palestinians continue to attempt to commit random murder with barrages of rockets, even as they pretend to talk “peace:” Israeli-Palestinian peace talks resume.

JERUSALEM – The highly anticipated renewal of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians got

The New York Times is reporting:

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 —New York Times- A new assessment by American intelligence agencies concludes that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and that the program remains frozen, contradicting judgment two years ago

In the past few months, Ron Paul has dramatically raised the profile of libertarianism inside the Republican Party. My small-l libertarian friends seem more comfortable describing themselves as such, even though they’ll go out of their way to disassociate themselves

McQ at Q&O:

I have to say, this is an unexpected development.

In a rare attack on Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a hardline newspaper has accused him of behaving immorally towards his political rivals.

The Islamic Republic daily, close to

Dale Franks, this morning notes that while Ron Paul has come out with a statement about racism. And Dale, analytical type that he is, parses the statement out and finds it wanting:

Mr. Paul seems to be making the old

Well, now….. Just a few hours before Hillary Clinton is to face both the press and her opponents for the Democratic Nomination, ABC news is asking some interesting questions, which will doubtless play heavy tonight:

Three recipients of controversial 11th-hour

 Sarah el Deeb,  Associated Press

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Gaza’s Hamas rulers issued an edict Wednesday banning journalists from working in the coastal strip unless they submit to sweeping press restrictions, and it said it would soon impose new

Is Ron Paul Anti-Israel?

Yes. 

The more I read Joe Klein the more I’m convinced the guy is working at being stupid. Nobody could come by his level of stupid, naturally. When he opens with this, you know it’s going to be brainless:

I’m puzzled

Chief UN nuclear watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei is mad,  from AFP:

Mohamed ElBaradei accuses Jewish state of ‘taking the law into its own hands’, says ‘if countries have information that another country is working on a nuclear-related program, they should

An interesting discussion has popped up over that bombing of a nuclear target in Syria by Israel. One instance of this was at Hot Air:

Why did Israel hit the reactor now if they were comfortable enough with it for

That site that Israel bombed, was apparently correctly identified in the news reports that we all saw last evening.  This is a before and after shot:

As to the official reaction of Syria, Bruce McQuain makes an excellent point:

Seems

Mike Potenra, at The Corner:

Anti-Iraq War blogger Mark Shea is trying to drive a wedge between U.S. evangelicals and Israel, by posting a video on his website that he hopes will shock us into realizing that Israel is just

Those who don’t learn from history, become Democrats.

Here’s the truth about the Vietnam war.

Many years after the Vietnam War, General Vo Nguyen Giap, the North Vietnamese military commander, wrote,”if it were not for the disunity created by…stateside protest,