Despite escaping one major ambush, Lord Freud cannot have been looking forward to Amendment 59, moved by the Bishop of Ripon and Leeds. A short amendment; Clause 94, page 63, line 25, after “benefits” insert “with the exclusion of child benefit” it addressed issues of child poverty, as the Bishop noted, The Government’s assessment of

Israel's Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein announced today that the Government of Israel will not seek to prosecute MK Hanin Zouabi (Balad) and other leftists who took part in the Gaza flotilla in 2010. Zouabi and others were aboard the Mami Mamara in 2010 along IHH members who prepared an ambush and attacked the IDF Naval Commandos who boarded the ship after it attempted to break the Gaza bl...

Is there any relief from the news ambush? Brian Groom finds time for a stab at 10 random things to cheer us up

A cracking post by Ambush Predator about the iniquity of squatters' rights, and the squatters' smugness. Were they going out to work each week to earn their keep? Somehow I doubt it. Anyway, read and enjoy.

Two leading academics who have formally complained to the Scottish Parliament over their treatment by MSPs at a hearing have been accused of trying to deflect attention away from their "dodgy" research.

Duty, honor and country personified.Exactly what we need in Congress. The incident he's talking about bears revisiting.It happened in Taji, Iraq, on August 20, 2003, where LTC West was the commander of the 2nd Battalion, 20th Field Artillery Regiment. Army interrogators had learned that an Iraqi policeman connected to the Mahdi Army had information about a planned ambush of West and his unit....

A second ambush was set in the Silwan neighborhood in Jerusalem targeting a Jewish woman and her daughter.Here's a news report from Israel's Channel 2.(hat tip Carl via the Elder of Ziyon: Anyone who thinks these are just a few kids throwing rocks out to look at the damage that was done and the sheer size of some of the missiles and reflect what might have happened if they had connected ...

"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with me, Shall be my brother..." Take a minute to honor a brave man. Staff Sgt. Robert J. Miller, killed in action on January 25, 2008 will be the seventh service member to receive the Medal of Honor during operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. During an ambush in the Afghan village of Barikowt, near the Pakistani border S...

An Israeli couple was ambushed on the roads by 'Palestinians' in the second attack in two days. The attack took place at Rimonim Junction, near the Israeli settlement of Kochav Hashachar and east of the West Bank city of Ramallah. Again, this is another area where the IDf removed checkpoints under US pressure as a gesture towards Palestinian Authority capo del Ramallah Mahmoud Abbas. Pol...

Déjà vu all over again as Yogi Berra once said...when Israel maintains the checkpoints and claps down on the 'Palestinians' they have no terrorist attacks. When ever they make concessions and talk peace, the attacks commence and there are dead Israelis who pay the price. Two men and two women between the ages of 25 and 40 - one of them pregnant - were murdered in an ambush ...