Friday, April 16, 2010
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Taxpayers Foot State Department's Liquor Bill
The Washington Times reports that "months after President Obama urged federal agencies last year to cut wasteful spending, the U.S. Department of State paid $3,814 to fill an order of Jack Daniel's whiskey for gratuities at one of its many overseas embassies The booze buy wasn't unusual. Last year alone, the State Department sent taxpayers tabs totaling nearly $300,000 for alcoholic beverages — about twice as much compared to the previous year, according to an analysis of spending records by The Washington Times. The purchases, small and large, included $2,483 to pay for 'assorted spirits for gratuities to vendors' at the U.S. mission to the United Nations in New York, and $9,501 in 'Christmas gratuities' of whiskey and wine at the U.S. Embassy in South Korea."
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Hezbollah Admits Syria Is Sending The Terror Group Scuds
The Jerusalem Post reports that Hezbollah "sources confirmed Thursday that the terror group received a shipment of Scud missiles from Syria, the Kuwaiti paper Al-Rai reported. According to the report, the missiles were claimed to be old and unusable. Hizbullah also accused Israel of blowing the incident out of proportion in order to provoke a media ruckus. The sources added, 'Our organization has many surface-to-surface missiles spread across all of Lebanon, in case Israel attacks the country again.'" Tweet
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Senator Joe Lieberman: "Thank God" Political Momentum Now With Republicans
The Hill reports that "it's a good thing that voters have moved against the prospect of one-party control of Congress for decades, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said. Lieberman, an Independent senator who caucuses with Democrats, acknowledged momentum for the GOP and said that independents had become alienated from Democrats, who control both the House and the Senate."
"There were a lot of people, particularly Democrats, who were declaring after the 2008 election that we were beginning a period of Democratic dominance that would go on for decades," Lieberman said during an interview with the conservative Newsmax magazine. "Now, all of a sudden, the momentum is with the Republicans. And that's — thank God — that's the way people have spoken, you know? That's our democracy."
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Iranian Official: Iran One Month Away From Joining "Nuclear Club"
Ynet reports that "Iranian Atomic Energy deputy chief Behzat Sultani said Tuesday that the Islamic Republic will join the 'nuclear club' within one month and added, 'No country will consider attacking it after that.' He provided no further details. Sultani added that 70% of the Arak nuclear reactor has been completed."
Reuters reports that U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates was asked about this and said: "I don't believe it."
"I think that most estimates that I've seen, haven't changed since the last time we talked about it, which is probably at least a year, and maybe more," Gates told reporters on a flight to South America.
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Monday, April 12, 2010
Senator Joe Lieberman: Dropping "Islamic Extremism" Term Is "Orwellian And Counterproductive"
The Hill reports that "Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) on Sunday called the administration's proposal to avoid the term 'Islamic extremism' in national security references 'absolutely Orwellian and counterproductive.' Lieberman revealed on 'Fox News Sunday' that he had sent a letter to the president's top counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, saying in part: 'The failure to identify our enemy for what it is, violent Islamist extremism, is offensive and contradicts thousands of years of accepted military and intelligence doctrine to know your enemy.' The chairman of the Homeland Security Committee said the letter was the product of him growing 'so frustrated' with the White House over the terminology issue. He said the Defense Department omitted references to 'violent Islamist extremism' in its report on the massacre at Fort Hood." Tweet
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