Here are the Blogs in the z - Andy McCarthy category.
Thursday, 14 February 2008
Sen. McCain, Hanging Curve Ball Over Here -- Might Want to Take a Swing
Yesterday, Sen. McCain did the right thing and voted in favor of the Senate bill overhauling FISA and preserving our ability to collect intelligence against the enemy.
Sen. Obama voted against it. Mind you, the bill — which is chockablock with too many terrorist protections and thus far
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Posted on 02/14/2008 6:32 AM by Andy McCarthy
Tuesday, 12 February 2008
Finally, Something on which to Agree with Palestinian Officials
Over the years Palestinians have killed many people in terrorist attacks — including some Americans. Some of those Americans have sued and won under a 1990 law passed by Congress, and the result is hundreds of millions of dollars in judgments.
Now, the Palestinian Authority is pleading
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Posted on 02/12/2008 2:08 PM by Andy McCarthy
Tuesday, 12 February 2008
Advice for Senator McCain: No Return to September 10th
Sen. McCain recently gave an interview to the German publication Spiegel. [H/t: Laura Ingraham.] It is disturbing on several levels (justifying, I think, a number of the concerns I raised last week, here). But for present purposes, here's what he had to say about the Gitmo enemy
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Posted on 02/12/2008 2:01 PM by Andy McCarthy
Thursday, 17 January 2008
Before We Turn the Page on the War ...
It's worth noting an alarming development that is the latest indicator of an increasingly dangerous situation.
On his superb site, The Long War Journal, Bill Roggio reports that the Taliban has overrun Pakistani government forces and captured a fort in Sararogha, a South Waziristan town on the
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Posted on 01/17/2008 7:05 AM by Andy McCarthy
Tuesday, 15 January 2008
Beirut -- New Chapter, Same Book
Hezbollah announced its arrival in 1983 with an attack on the U.S. embassy (months before the more famous attack on the marine barracks), and attacks against U.S. diplomatic, intelligence and military personnel were a commonplace in the years that followed. I recounted the sorry history, here.
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Posted on 01/15/2008 2:17 PM by Andy McCarthy
Thursday, 27 December 2007
Benazir Bhutto: Killed By The Real Pakistan
A recent CNN poll showed that 46 percent of Pakistanis approve of Osama bin Laden.
Aspirants to the American presidency should hope to score so highly in the United States. In Pakistan, though, the al-Qaeda emir easily beat out that country’s current president, Pervez Musharraf, who polled at
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Posted on 12/27/2007 1:16 PM by Andy McCarthy
Friday, 21 December 2007
Judicializing Warfare
The folly of pretending that wars can be fought and won despite the imposition of ever-expanding legal protocols is the theme of my article this morning on the CIA tapes controversy.
At the Jerusalem Post, the irrepressible Caroline Glick is on the same theme, with more concrete and alarming comments
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Posted on 12/21/2007 3:53 PM by Andy McCarthy
Friday, 21 December 2007
Kimberley Strassel's Column on Huck
Posted on 12/21/2007 3:30 PM by Andy McCarthy
Friday, 21 December 2007
Remember When This Was A Real War?
The controversy over interrogation tapes destroyed by the CIA is a farce rich in high-dudgeon hypocrisy. It is the latest act in our square-peg, round-hole experiment in judicializing warfare — in intruding the non-political branch into the quintessentially political realm of national defense.
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Posted on 12/21/2007 7:21 AM by Andy McCarthy
Wednesday, 19 December 2007
Border Enforcement Democrat-Style: No Money for the Fence ... But $10 Mil for the Lawyers
Michelle Malkin points us to this Cybercast News Service report that, though House Democrats gutted the funding for the fence the government has promised to build to show us all how serious it is about border enforcement, their massive appropriations bill manages to ensure that lawyers representing
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Posted on 12/19/2007 7:52 AM by Andy McCarthy
Monday, 17 December 2007
Giuliani's Qualifications
At his blog on NRO, David Frum offers an answer to the question about what makes Rudy Giuliani stand out as uniquely qualified among the other GOP candidates to be commander-in-chief. (Like David, I also support Rudy.)
I will have more to say about this in a bigger piece, but I would respectfully
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Posted on 12/17/2007 4:41 PM by Andy McCarthy
Tuesday, 11 December 2007
Iraq Rejects Permanent U.S. Bases: Adviser
Reuters: Iraq will never allow the United States to have permanent military bases on its soil, the government's national security adviser said, calling the issue a "red line" that cannot be crossed.
"We need the United States in our war against terrorism, we need them to guard our border
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Posted on 12/11/2007 11:17 AM by Andy McCarthy
Saturday, 8 December 2007
Feeling Mark Steyn's Pain
At his website, Roger's Rules, our friend Roger Kimball observes this morning that, though publication of my book is still weeks away, already libel tourism is rearing its ugly head.
Roger's take on this tactic of intimidating writers and publishers is characteristically incisive, and it should be
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Posted on 12/08/2007 9:47 AM by Andy McCarthy
Thursday, 6 December 2007
Huckabee & Drumond
While governor of Arkansas, Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee pushed for the release of convicted rapist Wayne Drumond who subsequently raped and killed two more women. ABC has coverage here, here and here.
Huckabee's defense is that Bill Clinton (pardoner extraordinaire) and another Democrat
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Posted on 12/06/2007 9:15 AM by Andy McCarthy
Wednesday, 5 December 2007
NIE Report: The Israelis Are Not Persuaded
From the Washington Times:
Israeli officials yesterday disputed the conclusions of Monday's surprise U.S. assessment of Iran's nuclear program, citing "clear and solid intelligence" that Iran is continuing to develop nuclear weapons to threaten Israel and Europe.
"We have no doubt,"
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Posted on 12/05/2007 12:26 PM by Andy McCarthy
Tuesday, 4 December 2007
Iranian Nukes and the NIE
A well deserved skeptical eye cast by Tom Joscelyn at the Standard, here. At Contentions, Norman Podhoretz and Max Boot weigh in. Gabe Schoenfeld is also Connecting the Dots.
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Posted on 12/04/2007 9:03 AM by Andy McCarthy
Monday, 3 December 2007
HRC: But Barack, that doesn't square with what you said in KINDERGARTEN. And don't even get me started on your THIRD GRADE essay ...
Even for we who have observed the Clintons closely for years, this has to be a new dimension of bizarro. Hillary Clinton, in the course of determining that it's in her interest to make the campaign about personal integrity, has further decided to impeach Barack Obama's honesty on the basis
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Posted on 12/03/2007 4:50 PM by Andy McCarthy
Monday, 3 December 2007
What Islamic Extremists Are Extreme About Is Islam
"At a time when Islam is under siege from Muslim extremists and extremists from the Far Right in Europe and America, the judiciaries of Sudan and Saudi Arabia have managed to reinforce the vilification of Islam..." -- John Esposito and John Voll
The problem for Esposito, Voll and other
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Posted on 12/03/2007 7:52 AM by Andy McCarthy
Wednesday, 28 November 2007
Other, er, Youths Seem To Be Equally Unhappy in Gaza and the West Bank
The NYTimes reports 100,000 in Gaza protested the Annapolis Peace conference. One of the youths, a "Hamas protester in Gaza, Asma al-Fayoumi, 17, said: 'There is a division among Palestinians. There are those after food, life, those that are materialistic, like [Palestinian President Mahmoud]
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Posted on 11/28/2007 12:56 PM by Andy McCarthy
Wednesday, 28 November 2007
More on those Fatah Moderates
From the Washington Times:
Abu Haroon, a black-clad bearded militant from the Fatah-affiliated Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, placed a Kalashnikov automatic rifle in the hands of his nephew. The rifle was twice as big as the child. "Remember, as I may not be coming back: Learn to use this against
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Posted on 11/28/2007 12:53 PM by Andy McCarthy
Thursday, 8 November 2007
SSSSHHHHHHH ... Don't Tell Anyone: Al Qaeda Has Been Routed in Baghdad
The Newspaper of Record has the story today ... on page A-19.
... And even there, the Times can't bring itself to say we won. The report is headlined, "Militant Group Is Out of Baghdad, U.S. Says." They left — not we kicked their ass out.
... And neither can the Gray Lady
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Posted on 11/08/2007 6:39 AM by Andy McCarthy
Wednesday, 7 November 2007
Bret Stephens on Waterboarding & WW-II
Also not to be missed is Bret Stephens piece from yesterday (up on OpinionJournal.com, here). Same issue as Dershowitz wrestles with: Are those posturing over waterboarding serious enough to be trusted with safeguarding the nation?
Bret, drawing from a recent essay in Commentary by Algis
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Posted on 11/07/2007 7:22 AM by Andy McCarthy
Wednesday, 7 November 2007
Alan Dershowitz on Democrats & Waterboarding
Prof. Dershowitz, renowned civil libertarian, has an important op-ed in the WSJ this morning which should be bracing for his fellow liberal Democrats who have used the waterboarding controversy to posture for their hard-Left base at the expense of their national-security credentials.
After noting
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Posted on 11/07/2007 7:05 AM by Andy McCarthy
Friday, 2 November 2007
Democrats & Torture
As I discussed in this article a few days ago, Judge Mukasey seems to be the only person required by Democrats to call for a categorical ban on all coercive interrogation tactics.
This morning, the Wall Street Journal recounts these comments by Sen. Chuck Schumer in 2004:
I think there are
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Posted on 11/02/2007 1:22 PM by Andy McCarthy
Friday, 2 November 2007
The United Kingdom of Europe
The House of Lords has once again resorted to the European Convention on Human Rights to undermine British national security. As the Daily Telegraph reports, the Law Lords have ruled that 18-hour-a-day home detention for terror suspects subject to control orders is a human rights violation.
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Posted on 11/02/2007 1:18 PM by Andy McCarthy
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