November 13, 2009 The audacity of extremism By James Lewis Audacity is supposed to be a talent in great generals — at least some of them. That’s where the phrase comes from: “L’audace, l’audace, toujours l’audace!” It’s attributed to the Kaiser Friedrich der Grosse, to Georges Danton, (one of the big head-choppers of the French […]
AP Source: Gitmo 9/11 suspects to NY for trial By DEVLIN BARRETT, Associated Press Writer Devlin Barrett, Associated Press Writer 2 mins ago WASHINGTON – Self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be sent to New York to face trial in a civilian federal court, an Obama administration […]
Medicalizing Mass Murder Charles Krauthammer Friday, November 13, 2009 WASHINGTON — What a surprise — that someone who shouts “Allahu Akbar” (the “God is great” jihadist battle cry) as he is shooting up a room of American soldiers might have Islamist motives. It certainly was a surprise to the mainstream media, which spent the weekend […]
The Coming Climate Dictatorship Control: The House and Senate climate bills contain a provision giving the president extraordinary powers in the event of a “climate emergency.” As chief of staff Rahm Emanuel says, a crisis is a terrible thing to waste. If you thought the House health care bill that nobody read has hidden passages […]
AARP’s Tacit Support For Medicare Cuts Shorts Seniors It Supposedly Represents http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=512224 By GRACE-MARIE TURNERPosted 11/12/2009 06:14 PM ET Clearly something must be up with the AARP. Why else would the nation’s largest lobbying organization, sworn to protect the interests of senior citizens, watch silently as Congress plans to cut Medicare spending by $400 billion […]
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=512318 Financial ‘Reform’: Sen. Chris Dodd’s proposed overhaul would replace the Federal Reserve with a “super regulator” to oversee the banking and financial industries. Will it work? Consider the source. Along with fellow Democrat Barney Frank, now chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Dodd, who heads the Senate Banking Committee, has done as much […]
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/11/fitzgerald-major-nidal-hasan-must-be-nuts.html Fitzgerald: Major Nidal Hasan must be “nuts” I have heard on the radio, and read, a new theme about Nidal Malik Hasan. Now it is not so much “Islam has nothing to do with it” as – well, yes, come to think of it, Major Nidal Malik Hasan gave that lecture so nicely illustrating, […]
Fitzgerald: Islamic heretics? Really? http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/11/fitzgerald-islamic-heretics-really.html “We are at war…with Islamic heretics” — from an article in the Los Angeles Times by Judith Miller and David Samuels Now we all know what a Christian heresy is. It is a belief that is held by some who call themselves Christians that has been characterized or defined as […]
NAHHH. SOMBER SPEECHES ARE EASY FOR A WORLD CLASS ACTOR….RSK http://frontpagemag.com/2009/11/13/fort-hood-obamas-wake-up-call-by-larry-elder/ LARRY ELDER “He sounds like President Bush,†I said to myself. President Barack Obama somberly spoke at the memorial service for the 13 killed during the Fort Hood shooting rampage. The President movingly praised the valor and selflessness of those who gave their lives, […]
Friday, November 13, 2009 Natural gas surge, Is it a pipe dream? Patrice Hill Climate change legislation in Congress appears to be based in part on the optimistic view that the United States has a plentiful supply of natural gas and would push businesses to switch to gas from coal, critics say, even before the […]
