Last Thursday the Lawfare Project, a non-profit founded by attorney Brooke Goldstein to confront “lawfare,” held a conference that assembled a remarkable constellation of legal lights to examine the ways jihadists are attempting to hijack Western legal systems—and to fight back, legally.

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In the election’s aftermath, Mithal al-Alusi, an Iraqi Parliamentarian up for re-election, told a member of the Australian media he thanks former U.S. President George W. Bush and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Here is what he said:

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Late last month, the Dhaka home of Bangladeshi journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, publisher and editor of that country’s largest weekly newspaper, The Weekly Blitz, was broken into. Police in Dhaka have done nothing to investigate the incident.

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During this week of uprising that left 12 pro-democracy protestors dead in Iran, the sister of Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi, a human rights attorney and activist, was detained by the Iranian government because of her sister’s human rights work, according to Ebadi.

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This Christmas Day, the Jerusalem Post features my piece on Iran’s nuclear program, specifically the warnings of Iraqi Parliamentarian Mithal al-Alusi, who says it is possible that Iran is only weeks away from nuclear capability.

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Columnist Amir Taheri reports in this week’s Wall Street Journal that Iran’s pro-democracy movement is “deepening and growing.”

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“Those who are prone by character or temperament to seek sharp and clear-cut solutions of difficult and obscure problems, who are ready to fight whenever some challenge comes from a foreign Power, have not always been right. On the other hand, those whose inclination is to bow their heads, to seek patiently and faithfully for peaceful compromise, are not always wrong. On the contrary, in the majority of instances they may be right, not only morally but from a practical standpoint. How many wars have been averted by patience and persisting goodwill! Religion and virtue alike lend their sanctions to meekness and humility, not only between men but between nations. How many wars have been precipitated by firebrands? How many misunderstandings which led to wars could have been removed by temporising! …

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Just watched this video clip from FOX News of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani discussing the impending trial of high level al Qaeda operatives, including 9/11 master planner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, in New York City.

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Is it ethical to for Israel to make a prisoner exchange with Hamas, a body that denies the right of Israel to exist?

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Today The American Spectator features my piece on anti-jihadist Muslim Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury on its front page.

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I’m not sure if that is the case or if New Jersey and Virginia voters are simply spooked about the economy, or to what extent those two possibilities overlap. But as reporter and analyst Philip Klein pointed out tonight on the American Spectator’s site, traditionally, New Jersey is democratic. The state has not gone Republican in a Presidential election since 1988, and has not had a Republican governor since 1997. Significantly, Obama has made numerous recent visits there to campaign for the democratic incumbent, John Corzine, to no avail. So this election of Republican McDonnell is an upset.

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Yes, there is such a thing as a pioneering Muslim anti-jihadist, and last week I got the excellent opportunity to spend time  with one.

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Bob Trask is a uniquely American spiritual philosopher and self-help teacher who hails from the Pacific Northwest. For over three decades, he has been spiritual guide, author, and counselor to thousands. In his recently published book, “Romancing the Soul” Trask expands his vision of the “Trask Triangle,” a paradigm he developed in his first book, “Living Free.”

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I just saw Michael Moore’s new movie (I know, I know. But I value keeping an open-mind). Moore’s creativity and humor have decreased roughly in proportion to his ever-increasing dogmatism. A good comedian, after all, needs the capacity to step back and lighten up; genuine stridency and urgency to force a perspective is at odds with comedy.

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Ilan Berman’s new book,“Winning the Long War, Retaking the Offensive Against Radical Islam,” (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2009) catalogues American successes and failures to defeat radical Islam post-9/11. In its quiet, detailed, meticulously researched way, it is a powerful call to action in the war against radical Islam—especially the war of ideas.

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In anticipation of tomorrow’s meeting among U.S. diplomats, their Russian, Chinese, and European counterparts, and Iranian officials, analyst Michael Rubin points out in today’s New York Daily News that “engagement is a tactic, not a strategy.” He urges President Obama to realize that, while military action against Iran should be a last resort, the United States should begin making military preparations.

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Tonight in his speech on health care, President Obama acknowledged the values of self-reliance, rugged individualism, love of freedom, and healthy skepticism of government which, held dear by so many Americans, make the U.S. such a remarkably successful country. But I did not hear much in his speech–or in the ghostly outlines of a plan that he delineated–that honored those values.

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Commentator Thomas Sowell does a great job in his column this week unpacking the misguided and dangerous thinking behind the Scottish government’s foolish and immoral decision to release Abdel Baset al-Megrahi — the Libyan terrorist whose bomb sent 270 innocent people to their horrific deaths over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.

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Today MomLogic.com features my article, co-written with Jennifer Ginsberg, about the evil of Kim Jong-il’s widespread human rights abuses in North Korea. While Americans are justifiably thrilled that Euna Lee and Laura Ling have been spared, we should not allow their release to turn into a propaganda victory for Kim Jong-il.

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On Friday Philip Klein of The American Spectator did a great job of highlighting leftist hypocrisy in his appearance on MSNBC.

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Today my co-author Jennifer Ginsberg and I have a piece on the cover page of MomLogic.com about Sarah Palin’s courageous choice to have Trig.

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Today the much-anticipated hangout session between Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Sgt. James Crowley of the Cambridge police department, brokered by President Obama, will take place.

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Just wanted to share this piece, which my friend Jennifer Ginsberg and I published today on MomLogic.com, defending Sarah Palin. Judging from the comments, it would appear a non-partisan audience can recognize the media’s excesses in attacking this woman and her family.

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Back in 2003, I had the opportunity to interview then-author, now Minnesota Senator Al Franken for Heeb magazine. I found his take on America’s relationship with Saudi Arabia to be interesting; likewise he had some provocative things to say about how Arab governments have neglected the Palestinians. I recall that when I asked him about the education of Palestinian children — and whether he felt liberals should question U.S. taxpayer resources going to fund the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA) while it uses teaching materials in Palestinian schools that glorify suicide “martyrdom,” he cut the interview short. Below is the full text.

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Well, it’s been a little over a week since Sarah Palin announced she will resign as Alaska’s governor, and to the extent she has sought any coverage in national media, it is to weigh in on a serious issue, which is more than can be said of her critics.

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Today the Center for Security Policy’s web site features my discussion with attorney, human rights activist, and filmmaker Brooke Goldstein about her film, “The Making of a Martyr.”

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The media and blogosphere are exploding with speculation about former Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s reasons for deciding to leave office midway through her first term as Alaska’s Governor. Is it due to personal problems, some kind of scandal, or simply weariness of being the media’s punching bag, and seeing her family thus abused, not to mention the high cost of legal bills accrued defending herself from ethics complaints in her home state that have been determined baseless?

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Just wanted to share this recording of my appearance last week on SecureFreedom Radio discussing Bangladesh’s Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury.

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Regarding the security of Israel, the United States, and the free world Stephens said, “Assurance does not lie in diplomacy … or a military strike. The only way we will have security is if the nature of the regime changes.”

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