WISHTATA, Libya (AP) — Libyan fighters launched a two-pronged assault Friday on one of the last towns to resist the country’s new rulers, clashing with Moammar Gadhafi’s supporters inside Bani Walid as a weeklong standoff dissolved into street-to-street battles, the revolutionary forces said. (more)
With The Daily Caller approaching its first birthday (the site was launched on January 11, 2010), I thought it would be appropriate to recount the 20 most interesting Daily Caller op-eds of 2010 (according to me). Collectively, these op-eds garnered hundreds of thousands of page views and over ten thousand Facebook recommendations (though, due to a Facebook glitch, the Facebook recommendations for most Daily Caller articles that were published before December 10th have disappeared. You’ll have to trust me on this one.) The articles are listed in no particular order. (more)
A fresh European Arrest Warrant has been issued by the authorities in Sweden where he is wanted for questioning over claims of sexual assault. (more)
Could the man on Interpol’s most wanted list also be Time’s Person of the Year? (more)
Interpol, the international police organisation, has issued a global arrest warrant for WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange, as the activist website continued its US diplomatic cables leaks today. (more)
If ever the American Medical Association deems ‘en masse paralyzing confusion’ a pre-existing condition warranting treatment, I have a hunch the tab for national health care may soar north. In the immortal words of Joe Biden (I love that guy), the passage of health care reform is a ‘big fu#*ing deal’. No doubt. But is it a good deal? (more)
The news may be reminiscent of this Onion piece from way back in 2006 to some armchair counter-terror historians, but the arrest of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in a joint CIA-Pakistani operation in Pakistan is widely seen among experts and officials as a major victory as U.S. troops continue their push into southern Afghanistan. (It’s worth noting that a Taliban spokesman in Afghanistan pulled a Baghdad Bob and told The Associated Press that Baradar was still free, though he provided no evidence.” (more)
LYON, France (AP) — Interpol’s No. 2 official says big-money payoffs from pirate attacks off the Horn of Africa don’t yet appear to have reached terror groups like al-Qaida. (more)
In a recent article in the now openly leftwing Newsweek, reporter Michael Isikoff accused one of us, former Speaker Newt Gingrich, of being part of the “wacky conspiracy wars” ignited by the Obama presidency. And what was our “wacky” conspiracy theory? Suggesting that elevating an international police force above the American Constitution and laws may be damaging to American civil liberty. (more)
