 500,000 Iranian Centrifuges Tehran ups the ante again as diplomacy goes nowhere.  Mohamed ElBaradei caps his contentious and ultimately failed 12-year stint as head of the International Atomic Energy Agency today, having spent many years enabling Iran’s nuclear bids only to condemn them in his final days in office. Mr. ElBaradei combined his […]
Climate Change and Melting Glaciers Nepal’s poor have more pressing problems. By BJøRN LOMBORG Global warming has captured the attention of politicians around the world. The following article is part of a series leading up to the December United Nations conference in Copenhagen on how ordinary people in different countries view the issue: Nine years […]
  The Arabs Have Stopped Applauding Obama .A foreign policy of penance has won America no friends. By FOUAD AJAMI ‘He talks too much,” a Saudi academic in Jeddah, who had once been smitten with Barack Obama, recently observed to me of America’s 44th president. He has wearied of Mr. Obama and now does not […]
Somali Pirates Hijack Saudi Oil Tanker Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya — Somali pirates seized a tanker carrying crude oil from Saudi Arabia to the U.S. in waters off East Africa, an official said Monday, in an attack that could pose a possible environmental or security threat to the region. The Greek-owned Maran Centaurus was hijacked […]
Health bills fail to block illegals from coverage http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/30/health-bills-fail-to-block-illegals-from-coverage//print/ Stephen Dinan Hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants could receive health care coverage from their employers under the bills winding their way through Congress, despite President Obama’s explicit pledge that illegal immigrants would not benefit. The House bill mandates, and the Senate bill strongly encourages, businesses […]
CRU’s Tree-Ring Circus Who peer-reviews the peer-reviewers? By Mark Steyn My favorite moment in the Climategate/Climaquiddick scandal currently roiling the “climate change†racket was Stuart Varney’s interview on Fox News with the actor Ed Begley Jr. — star of the 1980s medical drama St. Elsewhere but latterly better known, as is the fashion with members […]
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6936328.ece Climate change data dumped Jonathan Leake, Environment Editor SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based. It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in […]
after hoof and mouth disease killed Uruguay’s cattle herds…the mainstay of their economy, the former democracy ruled by “roundtable” leaders was plunged into poverty and bloody terrorism led by the new president….rsk Former rebel leader is Uruguay’s president-elect By MICHAEL WARREN, Associated Press Writer Michael Warren, Associated Press Writer 1 hr 2 mins ago MONTEVIDEO, […]
The Jew from Kuwait My Muslim background left me unprepared for this shocking discovery. by Mark Halawa Growing up in Kuwait, I had the best of everything. My father owned a successful construction company, and provided us five children with amenities like piano lessons, swimming, calligraphy and trips all over the world. Although we were […]
IS THERE A CONTEST FOR TRAITORS IN SOME BIZARRE ISRAELI “REALITY SHOW?”….RSK http://frontpagemag.com/2009/11/30/sheltering-extremism-by-paul-shindman/ by Paul Shindman Jerusalem – Dr. Neve Gordon of Israel’s Ben Gurion University is known as one of the most radical academic Palestinian sympathizers. However, his activities appear to have peaked this year with a call for an anti-Israel boycott, and revelations […]
