Yemen still wedded to child marriages http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/24/yemen-still-wedded-to-child-marriages//print/ Heather Murdock THE WASHINGTON TIMES SAN’A, Yemen | Thirteen-year-old Sally al-Sabahi stood outside the courthouse earlier this month fiddling with her smudged, half-polished nails. She was hoping to get a divorce, but her husband did not show up. When Sally was 11, her father married her to 23-year-old […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/24/closure-of-gitmo-prison-postponed//print/ Closure of Gitmo prison postponed Larry Margasak ASSOCIATED PRESS The Guantanamo Bay prison may not close until 2011 because it will take months for the federal government to buy an Illinois prison and upgrade it to hold suspected terrorists. Congress must first appropriate money for the takeover of the Thomson Correctional Center and the […]
Long history of vote-trading on Capitol Hill http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/24/hill-history-replete-with-vote-deals//print/ Stephen Dinan As it has come down in history, President Andrew Johnson’s narrow escape from being the first president convicted on impeachment charges in 1868 depended on the honorable doings of Sen. Edmund Ross of Kansas. But David O. Stewart, author of “Impeached,” a book looking at […]
December 23, 2009, Santa Harry’s Sleigh Full of New Health Taxes This is a massive picking of citizens’ empty pockets. By Deroy Murdock Temecula, Calif. — While hastily ramming his 2,457-page, $2.5 trillion Obamacare package through the Senate before Christmas, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) must see himself as Saint Nick. High atop his […]
Letting The Cat Out of the Bag marilyn penn politicalmavens.com Throughout the presidential campaign, and especially after Sarah Palin came on the scene, liberal Jews used the issue of abortion as a prime reason for voting for Obama. Even those people who claimed to be avidly pro-Israel were willing to ignore the candidate’s long history […]
Perpetuate The COP15 Agenda: Climate was the vehicle to achieve one-world socialist government and total control of the population Obama Led The Total Failure of World Leadership in Copenhagen By Dr. Tim Ball http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/18148 World leaders participated in a scandalous conference in Copenhagen. Officially it was Conference of the Parties (COP) 15 to monitor progress […]
From the America Interest January – February 2010 issue: The Open Hand, Slapped Richard Perle A friend as troubled as I am at President Obama’s mounting misadventures in foreign and security policy said, “I hope he knows what he’s doing.†I hope he doesn’t. I hope he doesn’t because I prefer the alternative explanation: that […]
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MGY3MTI4YTRjZmYwMGU1ZjZhOGJmNmQ0NmJiZDNmMDY= Why Does Interpol Need Immunity from American Law? [Andy McCarthy] You just can’t make up how brazen this crowd is. One week ago, President Obama quietly signed an executive order that makes an international police force immune from the restraints of American law. Interpol is the shorthand for the International Criminal Police Organization. It […]
DECEMBER 24, 2009…WSJ  Kerry Floats Plan to Visit Tehran White House Wouldn’t Oppose Trip, First by Top U.S. Official in 30 Years, to Chagrin of Iran’s Opposition  By JAY SOLOMON WASHINGTON — Sen. John Kerry has suggested becoming the first high-level U.S. emissary to make a public visit to Tehran since the 1979 […]
The following document was presented by Eli Hertz at the meeting of the Board of Governors of the American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists on December 3, 2009 in Washington D.C. The “Mandate for Palestine” is the Best Reply to “Occupation” Dear friend, Have you ever asked yourself why during the period between 1917 […]
