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For people too busy to have taken in the entirety of Obama’s Cairo speech, Pundit & Pundette analyze quite a bit of it. I’m not going to judge the speech in its entirety, though, until I read it for myself. And I doubt I will find it the unmitigated disaster they find it to be. Stacy McCain has made a theme out of fisking David Brooks, and I think Brooks is every bit the tool McCain thinks he is. In this piece, Brooks tries to make a point about how much “smarter” Obama is in handling terror-related security issues and, unwittingly, I think, says mouthfuls about the critics of President [...] Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew McCarthy, who prosecuted the 1993 World Trade Center bombers, has declined an invitation from the Obama administration to participate in “roundtable” ostensibly meant to help formulate legal standards for treatment of terror detainees. His letter to attorney General Eric Holder has popped up all over the conservative blogosphere, but Flopping Aces sums [...] The Indian Ocean island of Mayotte, with a population of 186,000, just voted to become a “fully-fledged part of France,” which will require it to abandon some of its local legal customs. With a 61% voter turnout, the vote wax more than 95% in favor of the change in status. According to Newsweek: So concludes NRO’s editorial last month regarding the executive orders concerning Gitmo and other anti-terrorism measures that President Obama signed two days after his inauguration: Ladies and gentlemen, I bring you . . . torture. Catching a few minutes of President Bush’s press conference this morning — and just a very few minutes — I again had to ask him through the television “Why didn’t you day this before? Why haven’t you defended yourself before now?” And I thought mostly of the attacks against him for supposedly ignoring the constitution [...] Just read over at Michelle’s how the “Fort Dix Five,” who were convicted today of conspiring to murder American soldiers at Fort Dix, were brought to the attention of authorities by a Circuit City employee who viewed their training video when they dropped it off to be converted to DVD. The Supreme Court has agreed to review the case of Ali al-Marri, who has been held in military detention as an enemy combatant for five years. Marri was legally in the U.S. when he was detained, and wasn’t designated a combatant until he was about to face trial on unrelated charges. At issue is [...] He wrote in yesterday’s NYT that he wants to see Pakistanis protesting the Mumbai attacks as stridently as they protested the Danish Mohammed cartoons. You know, take it to the streets: marches, chants, banners, etc. Might be worth it, based on the reactions of some Bollywood stars to the Mumbai terrorist attacks. We might be able to make it worth India’s while by throwing in some future acting draft picks and a director to be named later. var addthis_pub = ‘deucegeary’; 
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