Now Iran Wants a Seat on the UN Human Rights Council Posted By Claudia Rosett Yes, you read that right. While beating, jailing, raping, torturing and murdering its dissidents, Iran’s Islamic regime is now campaigning for — what else? — a seat on the UN Human Rights Council. The Tehran government that brought us the […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/15/nuclear-iran//print/ EDITORIAL: Nuclear Iran THE WASHINGTON TIMES Iran has emerged as a nuclear state, and there is nothing the United States can do about it. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced Thursday that Tehran has the capability to produce weapons-grade uranium but has no intention of building atomic bombs. “At the present time, we have the […]
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=521101 For ‘Conformo-Radicals’ It’s Cool To Think Just Like Everyone Else By MARK STEYN A man asks for a plastic bag at the supermarket checkout. Next thing you know, his head’s slammed against the counter, and he’s being cuffed by the Green Police. “You picked the wrong day to mess with the ecosystem, plastic boy,” […]
Friday Afternoon Roundup – The Fall of the House of Kennedy http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Witnessing the end of the Kennedy era is a little like seeing the fall of the Berlin Wall. The retirement of self-destructive Kennedy scion, Patrick Kennedy, will now mean that for the first time in a long time, there will be not a […]
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Â The Temperature at Which Global Warming Freezes Wednesday afternoon, the sky over New York City was a falling sheet of white. Temperatures had dropped sharply and the blizzard was underway. But nowhere in the city was the blizzard more pronounced than in Central Park, which had been designed in the 19th century to […]
President Obama’s address by video Saturday to the U.S.-Islamic World Forum in Doha, Qatar: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/02/13/president-obama-addresses-us-islamic-world-forum In it, he announces “that I am appointing my Special Envoy to the OIC [Organization of the Islamic Conference] —Rashad Hussain. As an accomplished lawyer and a close and trusted member of my White House staff, Rashad has played a […]
February 14, 2010 India police: Pune bomb likely meant for Chabad House By Anshel Pfeffer, Haaretz Correspondent and AP Explosion in Pune restaurant popular with foreigners near famed meditation center kills 9, wounds 53. A bomb tore through a crowded cafe popular with foreigners on Saturday in the city of Pune in western India, killing […]
Cut! Cameron blasts Israel boycotts BY HILARY LEILA KRIEGER, JPOST CORRESPONDENT 12/02/2010 WASHINGTON – Oscar-winning filmmaker James Cameron has strongly condemned efforts to boycott Israeli artists after his name was wrongly added to one such recent petition. “To suppress a gathering of artists, from afar, through boycott or any other means of exerting pressure, is […]
National Review Online Andrew C. McCarthy NR Contributing Editor February 12, 2010 4:00 P.M. http://article.nationalreview.com/424948/no-compromise-on-enemy-combatants/andrew-c-mccarthy No Compromise on Enemy Combatants We’re winning because we should be winning. Imagine the Yanks are beating the Mets 12–0 in the eighth inning (I know — not hard to imagine). Now, imagine if the Mets approach the Yanks and […]
Hamas leader warns of new war with Israel involving entire region 12 February 2010 The exiled Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal has warned that if a new war broke out with Israel it would not be limited to the Gaza Strip but involve the wider Middle East. In an interview with the Arab newspaper ‘al-Hayat’, which […]
