http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,druck-674390,00.html  SHARIA THE CHIC OF ARABY  Banning the ‘Burqa’ France’s Quest to Maintain its Secular Identity Six months after President Sarkozy declared the burqa and niqab “not welcome” in France, a parliamentary committee has recommended banning full veils. Does the proposal send a clear signal to Muslims in Europe, or is it a […]
http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2010/01/27/the-most-interesting-thing-about-the-sotu/ The Most Interesting Thing About the SOTU The most interesting thing about the State of the Union – a particularly drab speech by an increasingly drab and peevish man – was the absence of Hillary Clinton from the audience. I know there is an excuse – she had an important meeting in London – […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jan/28/cbo-chief-warns-of-long-slow-recovery//print/ CBO chief warns of long, slow recovery David M. Dickson The director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office had little but bad news on the economy for Congress. The pace of the U.S. economic recovery will be “slow in the next few years,” and the unemployment rate will average 10 percent through the end […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704094304575029331665110908.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_BelowLEFTSecond#printMode “The Democrats will ride their, and Mr. Obama’s, 70-year-old national-entitlement dream straight to November, and over the cliff.” Why ObamaCare Isn’t Flying It was foolish of President Obama to think he could reform 16% of the nation’s economy. By DANIEL HENNINGER This is the sound of President Obama’s health-care reform bill crashing to earth: […]
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/janetdaley/100024083/obamas-state-of-the-union-damaged-but-unrepentant/ Obama’s State of the Union: damaged but unrepentant By Janet Daley It was a difficult call: should he go for contrition or proud intransigence? Admit that he had misjudged the national mood, or refuse to give in to what he would characterise as Republican dirty tricks? In the end, Barack Obama veered more toward […]
HAMAS TARGETED CIVILIANS IN ISRAEL LONG BEFORE ISRAEL’S STRIKE NOT “DURING”…A POX ON THEM AND MOST PARTICULARLY ON GOLDSTONE…….RSK http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100128/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictgazaunhamasrights/print HRW claim Hamas ‘did target civilians in Gaza war’ 52 mins ago GAZA CITY (AFP) – Human Rights Watch on Thursday rejected Hamas claims that the Islamists did not target civilians during Israel’s devastating Gaza […]
SOTU: Dangerous Weakness [Anne Bayefsky] President Obama’s message in the State of the Union address confirmed that he is tone deaf to the grievous threats that exist to American national security and incapable of changing course before those dangers become a terrible reality. The catastrophe of nuclear proliferation had finally made it to the top […]
Even his welcome suggestion about nuclear energy and clean coal (contrary to his campaign promise to kill the coal industry) and off shore drilling was an obfuscation since he knows very well that his energy czar and secretary will continue their battle against all those initiatives…..rsk http://article.nationalreview.com/423101/statist-quo/the-editors January 28, 2010 12:16 A.M. Statist Quo Everything […]
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/sugihara.html  Chiune and Yukiko Sugihara In the course of human existence, many people are tested. Only a few soar as eagles and achieve greatness by simple acts of kindness, thoughtfulness and humanity. This is the story of a man and his wife who, when confronted with evil, obeyed the kindness of their hearts and […]
Detiphing Hebron By DAVID WILDER 27/01/2010 The past two weeks witnessed massive attacks aimed at Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon as a result of his “infamous” meeting with Turkish Ambassador Ahmet Oguz Cellikol. The meeting was purported to be an Israeli diplomatic scolding following airing of a Turkish television show which allegedly portrayed IDF soldiers […]
