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The Middle East Democrat Senator Menendez has been extremely critical of this president’s Iran “negotiating” policy.  As with all his other “negotiations,” the other side comes out ahead – they just get more time to shorten the breakout time for nuclear capability.  Now Congress is going forward with a bill to ratchet up sanctions against Iran if yet another "deadline" slips -- kicking the can down the road is what Obama does best. Obama says the bill will be harmful to negotiations, and he'll veto it.  There may be enough non-Kool-Aid-drinking Democrats to override his veto. Krauthammer on Iran’s growing dominance of the Arab world:  http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/charles-krauthammer-irans-emerging-empire/2015/01/22/c3098336-a269-11e4-903f-9f2faf7cd9fe_story.html?wprss=rss_charles-krauthammer And here’s an even bleaker picture of the Arab world, painted by a Lebanese intellectual:  http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/01/charlie-hebdo-

Following close on the heels of the N. Korean terrorist attack on our freedom of expression, now we have a terrorist attack in Paris on the press.  A group assassination of 11 in an editorial board meeting of “Charlie Hebdo,” a satirical weekly magazine that pokes fun at everything, including Islam, with cartoons also depicting Mohammed.  The 3 masked perpetrators, who also killed a Muslim policeman, shouted the usual “Alahu Akbar!” and reportedly told a bystander to tell the press they were from Al Qaida of Yemen (some think they are desperate to regain the limelight from ISIS), and were avenging the honor of the prophet Mohammed.  1 terrorist turned himself in, and 2 others were on the run for 2 days, then took a hostage and went out in a blaze of gunfire.  An associate took several hostages in a Paris Jewish grocery store, to gain release of his fellows, and killed 4 before being killed.  Some are calling it the French 9/11.  They are in shock that something like this could hap

In this Post: 1. “Senate” Enhanced Interrogation Report 2. Cuban Re-normalization & Prisoner Exchange 3. North Korean Cyber-Terrorism and Censorship 4. “What do we want?  Dead Cops!  When do We Want It?  Now!!” “Senate” Enhanced Interrogation Report The report on CIA enhanced interrogations under Bush was by no means bipartisan – it was solely the Democrat caucus.  No witnesses were called, nor did any experts testify.  The purpose was ostensibly to “restore U.S. moral authority.”  The timing is suspect following the Democrat slaughter in the midterm elections -- it seemed more a dying/desperate gasp of the lame duck Senate Democrat majority.  A last chance to get in another lick at Bush and the GOP, and divert attention from the 2014 Democrat losses, and Obama’s unpopularity, while they still had the bully pulpit.  “Moral authority?”  This administration has killed 2400 suspects, including hundreds of collateral civilians, with drones.  Some of them very