– FrontPage Magazine – http://frontpagemag.com – Appeasing the Muslim Brotherhood Posted By Nonie Darwish When President Obama spoke to the Muslim world in Cairo last June, a large portion of his guests were leaders and members of the Muslim Brotherhood. The speech was designed to please them more than supporting the reformist movement in Egypt […]
A Disgraceful Evening at Cooper Union Posted By David Horowitz On Sunday, C-Span ran the Cooper Union panel with Tariq Ramadan, grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood and — until recently — banned from America for funding terrorists and working with their networks. On the platform were Slate’s Jacob Weisberg, the moderator, and […]
EDITORIAL: Obama’s secret shame THE WASHINGTON TIMES At last week’s nuclear summit, President Obama said it is a vital U.S. national security interest to reduce conflict, “because whether we like it or not, we remain a dominant military superpower, and when conflicts break out, one way or another, we get pulled into them.” Our question […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/apr/20/lawmakers-demand-fort-hood-data/print/ Senators issue Fort Hood subpoenas Stephen Dinan Saying they feared a possible government cover-up, two senators issued subpoenas Monday to two of President Obama’s Cabinet secretaries, ordering them to turn over documents related to the fatal shootings at Fort Hood, Texas, last year. Sen. Joe Lieberman, chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/apr/20/pruden-wont-anybody-here-read-the-constitution/print/ PRUDEN: Constitution, anyone?Wesley Pruden ANALYSIS/OPINION: The House of Representatives takes up legislation this week to grant voting rights to the residents of the District of Columbia, and among all the contentious voices there’s none to speak up for the Constitution. That’s because the contending parties have devised a squalid little game of “you scratch […]
http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2010/04/20/the_limits_of_power When I first began to study the history of slavery around the world, many years ago, one of the oddities that puzzled me was the practice of paying certain slaves, which existed in ancient Rome and in America’s antebellum South, among other places. In both places, slave owners or their overseers whipped slaves to […]
Protesting the Protesters by Cal Thomas http://townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2010/04/20/protesting_the_protesters?page=full “I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration, somehow you’re not patriotic, and we should stand up and say, ‘We are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration.’” Was that a […]
Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Libya Joins the Jihad Against Switzerland BY Olivier Guitta Normally placid, neutral Switzerland has been going through a rough couple of years. First there was financial scandal, when Swiss banking giant UBS was caught helping U.S. clients evade taxes. Then came intense international pressure to overturn the country?s banking […]
Lieutenant Colonel Allen B West (US Army, Retired) Greetings Wheels on the Road (WOTR) readers, fellow South Floridians, and all Americans, time for another monthly political assessment. There are so many thoughts running through my brain but they all come back to the events of Thursday, 15 April 2010….Tax Day. On that day I had […]
National Review Online: Are We Still an Ally of Israel? Who Knows? V Victor Davis Hanson In a recent Gallup poll, 85 percent of Republicans and only 48 percent of Democrats supported Israel rather that the Palestinians. What to make of it? The hard Left’s multiculturalist furor at Israel has made enormous inroads into the […]
