http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.4956/pub_detail.asp Exclusive: Troubling Aspects of the President’s Plan for Afghanistan Presidential Policy: Does It Make the Grade?, James Carafano, PhD Without question, the top news in national security last week was President Obama’s decision on his strategy for Afghanistan. He made the announcement in an address to the nation last Tuesday. Also without question, the […]
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=514615 GWOT: The arrest of a Danish cartoon terror plotter for an even more lethal role in 2008’s Mumbai terror attack reminds us the war on terror is global. So why is this being treated as a mere law-enforcement matter? David Copeland Headley, 49, a Pakistani-American resident of the north side of Chicago, was arrested […]
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,druck-665843,00.html A Great Debate Are Germans Allowed to Criticize Israel? Germany’s relationship with Israel has never been easy. How much criticism from Germany is allowed? And at what point does it become anti-Semitic? SPIEGEL reporters Erich Follath and Henryk M. Broder conducted a heated debate on this thorny German issue in the following exchange of […]
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/5610546/the-temple-of-science-denial.thtml 7th December 2009 I listened to the treatment of anthropogenic global warming on the BBC Today programme this morning with utter disbelief. First they had on the Climate Change Secretary (sic) Ed Miliband, who backed up Gordon Brown’s embarrassingly ignorant and fatuous sneer at ‘behind-the-times, anti-science, flat-earth climate sceptics’ by stating: The overwhelming consensus […]
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091208/wl_mideast_afp/mideastdiplomacyeujerusalem EU says Jerusalem ‘future capital of two states’ BRUSSELS (AFP) – European Union foreign ministers agreed on Tuesday that Jerusalem should be the capital of both Israel and a future Palestinian state, as part of a negotiated settlement, EU diplomats said. The foreign ministers, meeting for a second day of talks in Brussels, adopted […]
http://www.hudsonny.org/2009/12/will-america-make-it.php by William Katz Editor, Urgent Agenda Will America Make It? We are a nation in trouble. And we are making that trouble worse for ourselves. On November 5th an Army doctor with the rank of major walked into a health center at Ford Hood, Texas, murdered 13 soldiers and civilians, and wounded two dozen […]
EDITORIAL: Reckless ‘endangerment’ for breathing http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/08/reckless-endangerment-for-breathing//print/ Hey, you over there, stop breathing so much. You’re endangering the rest of us. Or at least that’s what the Environmental Protection Agency would have you believe. The EPA officially ruled yesterday that carbon dioxide (CO2) is a dangerous pollutant subject to government regulation even without benefit of new […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/08/obamas-buggery-czar//print/ The media is trying to keep this story in the closet, but it’s important not to wink at all the serious problems surrounding President Obama’s controversial “safe schools czar,” Kevin Jennings. Mr. Jennings is the moral malefactor who gave a speech about how he merely advised a 15-year-old high-school sophomore who was having sex […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/08/pruden-saving-world-from-copenhagen-crackup//print/ OPINION/ANALYSIS: Al Gore, a closet T.S. Eliot. Who knew? Harry Reid, channeler of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Who could have guessed? The heat of a globe that won’t continue warming, despite all that Al can do, is getting to these guys. Are we watching a Democratic crackup? President Obama is on his way to the […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/08/obama-czar-was-highly-paid-chief-of-legally-troubl//print/ Obama health ‘czar’ worked at legally troubled health firms Chuck Neubauer Nancy-Ann DeParle, one of President Obama’s chief advocates for the health care reform bill wending its way through Congress, earned more than $6.6 million as a paid director for health care firms, some of which were targeted in government investigations or whistleblower lawsuits […]
