Not dead yet (darn it), but seems it’s close as Castro has “temporarily” transferred his control of Cuba over to his younger brother:
“HAVANA - Fidel Castro temporarily relinquished his presidential powers to his brother Raul on Monday night and told Cubans he underwent surgery.
The Cuban leader said he had suffered gastrointestinal bleeding, apparently due to [...]

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From just their work so far Scooter Libby’s lawyers strike me as brilliant. This is further proof of that:
“WASHINGTON –Former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby wants a memory expert to explain how he — and prosecution witnesses — may have different recollections of their conversations about a CIA officer’s identity.
In a court [...]

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Via the Washington Post more details on the Grand Jury that is convening to investigate the leaks of the NSA Surviellance program as well as the CIA prison leak.
“A federal grand jury in Alexandria is investigating unauthorized leaks of classified information and has issued a subpoena to a fired National Security Agency officer who has [...]

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With more evidence coming out over the weekend that Hezbollah hides among the populace while shooting Katusa rockets Israel, and additional questions arising from the timing of the building’s collaspe, I’m wondering.
Did Hezbollah rig the building to implode? It’s a question I’ve had all weekend and I’m not alone in suspicions as AJ Strata [...]

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Via the Sunday Sun - an Aussie paper, photos that show Hezbollah mixing with the populace, dressed in civilian clothes, using civilians as shields.
“The images, obtained exclusively by the Sunday Herald Sun, show Hezbollah using high-density residential areas as launch pads for rockets and heavy-calibre weapons.
Dressed in civilian clothing so they can quickly disappear, the [...]

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Powerline Blog has the information about yet more evidence that Iraqi WMD was moved to Syria before the US went in.
Israeli Lieutenant General Moshe Yaalon back in 2005 told the New York Sun:
“He transferred the chemical agents from Iraq to Syria”.
We also know that Saddam’s agents on the Syrian border helped the operation go smoothly, [...]

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American Thinker’s Clarice Feldman notes on the Plame/Wilson lawsuit:
“Prominent Duke University Law Professor Erwin Chemerinsky was interviewed again by Professors Hewitt and Eastman and continues to show a complete ignorance of the facts of the case, in which he serves as counsel.
Most significantly, he has ignored all the evidence of Plame’s role in sending [...]

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Rep. “Dollar Bill” Jefferson won a small victory yesterday, but it’s a real small victory. He gets to look at the documents seized in the constitutional raid on his office.
“A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that prosecutors may not examine documents seized from Rep. William J. Jefferson’s Capitol Hill office until the congressman has [...]

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Mel an antisemitic? They say when you’re drunk you say the things you really mean. I don’t know. Back in my firewater days I said a lot of things I know I didn’t mean - sometimes I still do.
I’m not a real fan of Mel, but I liked his Passion of the [...]

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Not all liberals are clueless on issues of National Security. Alan Dershowitz in an op-ed in the Washington Times make the case for the appointment of John Bolton and it’s quite good.
“As a liberal Democrat, I listened carefully to the opposition voiced by many Democratic senators to the nomination of John Bolton as our [...]

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