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8:54 AM, Jul 2, 2011 • By THOMAS JOSCELYN
June was the deadliest month in Iraq for U.S. forces in more than two years, with 15 servicemen killed. Jay Solomon of the Wall Street Journal explains why: “The U.S. has attributed all the attacks to Shiite militias it says are [sic] are trained by the [Iranian] Revolutionary Guards, rather than al Qaeda or other Sunni groups that were the most lethal forces inside Iraq a few years ago.”
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 5:21 PM, Jun 28, 2011 • By STEPHEN F. HAYES
Lieutenant General John Allen told the Senate Armed Services Committee today that the Afghanistan decision President Obama announced last week was not among the range of options the military provided to the commander in chief. Allen’s testimony directly contradicts claims from senior Obama administration officials from a background briefing before the president’s announcement.
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 Jul 4, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 40 • By WILLIAM KRISTOL
The mass email from BarackObama.com evaded our spam filter and made it into our inbox at 1:03 a.m. on June 24. What was Jim Messina, Barack Obama’s campaign manager, urgently telling us as we slept?
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12:52 PM, Jul 1, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPERThe AP reports that the latest flotilla has been prevented from sailing to Gaza by Greek authorities:
Greece on Friday banned ships heading to the Gaza Strip from leaving Greek ports, and a vessel carrying several dozen American protesters which left port without permission was ordered to return.
Read more... 1:13 PM, Jun 30, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPERInterested in supporting the Palestinians in Gaza? Support Israel, which provides tons of aid and support to the Palestinians. The Israel Defense Forces has a short video, explaining how it actually works:
Read more... An energy policy test.10:39 AM, Jun 30, 2011 • By HENRY SOKOLSKI
In Western Europe, Fukushima’s power reactor disaster has produced a loud round of anti-nuclear power reactions. Germany says it will phase out atomic power by 2022, and the Swiss insist they will shutter their reactor fleet by 2034.
Read more... 9:34 AM, Jun 30, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPERRepublican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann criticized President Obama's plan to withdraw troops from Afghanistan yesterday in an interview with NPR's Mara Liasson.
Read more... 8:07 AM, Jun 30, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPERSteve Hayes, with Charles Lane and Charles Krauthammer, last night on Fox News:
Read more... 3:26 PM, Jun 29, 2011 • By ANNE BAYEFSKY
On Tuesday, the United Nations again made itself an international laughing stock – except perhaps to the American taxpayers who continue to foot 22 percent of the bill – by appointing North Korea chair of the U.N. Conference on Disarmament. That would be the same North Korea that, according to an article this week by Senator John Kerry, head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has “twice tested nuclear weapons…is developing missiles to carry them…has built facilities capable of producing highly enriched uranium for more nuclear weapons” and has defied a U.N. arms embargo by exporting weapons and sensitive technologies to rogue regimes.
Read more... 2:21 PM, Jun 29, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPERGeneral Jack Keane, earlier today on Fox News, blasted President Obama for prematurely withdrawing from Afghanistan:
Read more... 10:56 AM, Jun 29, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPERAs thousands protest in the streets, Greek lawmakers "approved a controversial package of tax hikes and spending cuts, helping clear the way for $17 billion in international emergency loans needed to stave off a possible default," the Washington Post reports.
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