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February 2010

TWO GREAT WEALTH DESTROYERS: ROBERT GOTTLIEBSEN

http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Rudds-three-way-battle-pd20100203-2ARWT?OpenDocument&src=kgb Commentary Robert Gottliebsen Two great wealth destroyers Prime Minister Kevin Rudd needs to read up on history. The last Labor Prime Minister to undertake a vigorous attack on a major industry in the lead up to an election was Ben Chifley who, prior to the 1949 election, tried to nationalise the banks. That might […]

NEWT GINGRICH: DEFICIT HAWKS VERSUS DEFICIT PEACOCKS

  NEWT WILL BE IN IOWA? COINCIDENCE? YOU DECIDE…RSK February 3, 2010 · Vol. 5, No. 05   check out this clever video to see the “freeze” in action). By pretending to be budget cutters, deficit peacocks engage in an old liberal trick. They promise future spending cuts while approving massive current spending. Then, later, they […]

MAJOR NEW NATURAL GAS FIND OFF COAST OF ISRAEL

YID With LID: MAJOR NEW Natural Gas Find Off Coast of Israel   http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2010/02/major-new-natural-gas-find-off-coast-of.html MAJOR NEW Natural Gas Find Off Coast of Israel As an Oilman, Moses is making a comeback. For decades some have been complaining if Moses had only made a right turn after he led the Israelites across the Reed Sea the […]

BEN SHAPIRO: THE DICTATORIAL, DEMOGOGIC NATURE OF OBAMA’S SPEECH

http://townhall.com/Common/PrintPage.aspx?g=bd84ab23-01d0-4241-8090-dfb32bf5cdbe&t=c Obama’s Philosophically Fascist State of the Union Address Ben Shapiro Wednesday, February 03, 2010 There sure is something different about President Obama. Usually, the State of the Union address is a laundry list of proposals spiced with sycophantic applause and dipped in an admixture of boredom and bravado. It is rarely a statement of […]

VIEWS, NEWS FROM TOM GROSS…BUT SEE NOTE PLEASE

From: Tom Gross WHAT HAS GOTTEN INTO TOM GROSS? UNLESS HE MEANS JORDAN WHAT “VIABLE, INDEPENDENT PALARAB STATE” IS POSSIBLE? HAS HE BEEN SMOKING A PEACE PIPE?…RSK Subject: Less Mideast “peace processing” please (& Berlusconi: “Let Israel join the EU”) * Hamas operative Mahmoud Mabhouh, who died in Dubai, was a key coordinator for smuggling […]

BRIDGE SHOULD KEEP TIME HONORED NAME…COULD NOT AGREE MORE

Bridge Should Keep Time Honored Name No Offense to RFK By Henry J. Stern February 2, 2010 There is a subject which we have wanted to write about for over a year, but put off to see whether the passage of time would bring fresh insights or a new point of view on the question. […]

INAPPROPRIATE USE OF THE GENEVA CONVENTION: ELI HERTZ

Inappropriate Use of the Fourth Geneva Convention February 2, 2010 | Eli E. Hertz In advising that Jewish settlements are illegal, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) went beyond its own mandate from the General Assembly without being asked to do so. In paragraph 120 of the Court’s opinion [Advisory Opinion July 9 2004), the […]

THE PALARAB STATE PUSH AND THE NUCLEAR THREAT TO ISRAEL: L.R. BERES

The New Palestinian Statehood Push and the Nuclear Threat to Israel By Louis René Beres Posted February 2, 2010 Louis René Beres is a professor of political science at Purdue University and the author of many books and articles dealing with international law, strategic theory, Israeli nuclear policy, and regional nuclear war. In Israel, he […]

MELNIE PHILLIPS ON CLIMATE ZEALOTS

Not waving but drowning TUESDAY, 2ND FEBRUARY 2010 The climate change zealots continue their free fall into utter ridicule. Yesterday, the government’s former Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir David King, told the Independent that the highly sophisticated hacking operation that led to the leaking of hundreds of emails from the Climatic Research Unit in East Anglia […]

A NEW CONTRACT WITH AMERICA: ROGER KIMBALL

A New Contract With America Posted By Roger Kimball Remember the Contract with America [1]? That was the pact that Newt Gingrich and some of his pals put together during the campaign of 1994. Some people think it won the Republicans the House that year. Why? Chiefly because it demonstrated an awareness of fiscal reality […]