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January 2010

ONE MO’ TIME: THE LONGEST RUNNING HEADLINE

FLUSH WITH THE “SUCCESS” OF ALL HIS FOREIGN POLICY INITIATIVES, THE NOBELISTA STRIKES AGAIN……RSK http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100108/wl_mideast_afp/mideastdiplomacyus WASHINGTON (AFP) – The Obama administration on Friday begins a flurry of high-level talks aimed at reviving Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, after its Middle East diplomatic debut fell flat last year. Accompanied by Middle East envoy George Mitchell, Secretary of State […]

WHATEVER ELSE YOU CALL IT…..IT’S JIHAD…..ROBERT SPENCER

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?print=yes&id=35095 The Westergaard Attack: It’s All the Same Jihad Despite the mainstream media’s best efforts to cover up the jihadist elements in both attacks, informed Americans know that Major Nidal Hasan murdered thirteen Americans in a jihad attack at Fort Hood in November, and that another Muslim, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, tried to explode Northwest Flight […]

WHITE HOUSE BACKS INTEL APPOINTEE WHO TOOK A “SKI PASS” DURING CRISIS

White House backs intel agency appointee http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jan/08/white-house-backs-counterterrorism-center-chief//print/ SEE: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/01/07/2010-01-07_antiterror_chief_took_ski_pass_remained_on_slopes_after_christmas_bomb_attempt.html Eli Lake The White House is defending Michael Leiter, the Bush appointee who heads the agency charged with integrating terrorist threat information, as Congress prepares its own oversight hearings into the failed airline terrorist attack on Christmas Day. In the coming weeks, Congress will begin its […]

GOOD IMITATION OF A MAN GETTING A LATE EDUCATION; WES PRUDEN ON OBAMA

PRUDEN: There’s no penalty for sleeping on the job Wesley Pruden http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jan/08/theres-no-penalty-for-sleeping-on-the-job//print/ If it’s true, as Dr. Johnson famously told us it was, that the prospect of hanging focuses the mind in a wonderful way, maybe the prospect of facing angry voters sharpens a politician’s instincts (if not necessarily his mind). After first treating the […]

ARAB PALESTINE: ONLY DEATH IS WORTH LIVING FOR

Palestine — where only death is worth living for http://politicalmavens.com/index.php/2010/01/07/palestine-where-only-death-is-worth-living-for/?print=1 By Rachel Raskin-Zrihen (bio) The Palestinians – the supposedly less radical ones no less – have named a public square after a terrorist who killed nearly 40 people about 30 years ago. The Palestinian argument is that it’s OK to glorify a murderer because there […]

WARPED PRIORITIES: MARILYN PENN

http://politicalmavens.com/ Marilyn Penn Who’d have thunk that California’s show-biz governator would turn out to have so much more common sense than the billionaire third term mayor of New York City. Action-man Scharzenegger has proposed reducing the amount of money spent on prisons and re-directing it to the higher education system; towards that end, he will […]

REALITY BITES UNCLE SAM: DR. JOEL FISHMAN

Joel Fishman Makor Rishon 8 January 2010 Reality Bites Uncle Sam: Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel’s enemies based their propaganda war on several big lies, namely that Israel was the aggressor in the war, that there is such a thing as a Palestinian people who are the oppressed victims of Israel, that Zionism […]

DON’T BE LULLED INTO THINKING OBAMACARE CAN BE REVERSED…..GOTTAREAD

http://spectator.org/archives/2010/01/07/thermopylae-for-health-care/print The American Spectator “The truth is that Obamacare is a care rationing, proxy death-paneling, taxpayer-abortion-funding, unconstitutionally individual-mandating, vast-bureaucracy creating, incredibly high taxing, free enterprise hobbling, doctor-patient-relationship interfering, medical-device denying, flexible savings-account destroying, trial-lawyer gift-wrapping, union-boss mollycoddling, medical price-increasing, job-killing, sinister power-grabbing, American republic-undermining mound of legislative plutonium.” Thermopylae for Health Care By Quin Hillyer […]

U.K. UNIVESITIES OFFER CONDUCIVE ENVIRONMENT FOR JIHADISTS

OPINION EUROPE JANUARY 7, 2010 British Radicalization Studies The U.K.’s universities offer the most conducive environment an Islamic extremist could inhabit outside Waziristan. By DOUGLAS MURRAY Shortly after he tried to bring down flight 253 to Detroit on Christmas Day, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab became the fourth former head of a British university Islamic Society (ISOC) […]

LEFT TURN ON J STREET AND FOLLOW THE SIGNS TO FAILURE

http://bestjewishnewsny.com/2010/01/06/j-street-leads-obama-to-failure/ J Street Leads Obama To Failure Time magazine has a piece summing up Obama’s year of failure regarding Israel and the Palestinians. We know that everything wrong in Washington is Bush’s fault (How long did FDR keep blaming Hoover before Roosevelt took responsibility? How long did Lincoln keep blaming Buchanan?), but the cold fact […]