http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ (The following is an adaptation and expansion of my talk at the Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors event in LA, Spun out: Watch Dog Media Bites Lap Dog Media, on the importance of New Media.) When people ask me how I got into New Media, I tell them it began with the New York […]
New Conservative-led British government’s MidEast policy likely to be more of the same, but dangers from the Liberal Democrats http://www.robinshepherdonline.com/new-conservative-led-british-governments-mideast-policy-likely-to-be-more-of-the-same-but-dangers-from-the-liberal-democrats/#more-2657 So, with Conservative leader David Cameron having been appointed as Prime Minister on Tuesday evening and with the Liberal Democrats under Nick Clegg having agreed to join the Conservatives in a coalition government, here, in […]
http://www.robinshepherdonline.com/egypt-to-end-1967-state-of-emergency-allowing-greater-room-for-muslim-brotherhood/#more-2651 Egypt to end 1967 State of Emergency, allowing greater room for Muslim Brotherhood An interesting story is developing in Egypt where, according to Sky News, the government is planning to end the State of Emergency that was initially imposed after the country’s defeat in the 1967 war. Sky quotes unnamed “sources†as saying the […]
May 12th, 2010 12:43 am http://pajamasmedia.com/claudiarosett/here-comes-the-uns-libyan-blights-council/?singlepage=true Here Comes the UN’s Libyan Blights Council Libya on the United Nations Human Rights Council? That sounds nuts. But this is the UN. By Thursday evening, with the Obama administration apparently AWOL on this outrage, it may be a done deal. The United Nations General Assembly is due to […]
REVIEW & OUTLOOK MAY 13, 2010 Surveillance and Shahzad Are wiretap limits making it harder to discover and pre-empt jihadists?The debate about the Times Square bomb plot has focused, so far, on what happened after Faisal Shahzad’s detonator fizzled. Should Congress make marginal changes to Miranda procedures, and the like? The more urgent question in […]
OPINION MAY 13, 2010 The Treasury-Financial Complex The Dodd bill is perfectly designed to create the largest and most powerful crony system in history. By CLIFFORD S. ASNESS AND AARON BROWN Whatever your views on financial reform—whether you want the government to crack down on bankers or to disentangle itself from financial markets—you should fear […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/13/arizona-governor-now-targets-ethnic-studies/print/ AZ governor now targets ethnic studies Valerie Richardson Arizona Republican Gov. Jan Brewer, already under fire for approving the nation’s toughest illegal immigration law, has again run afoul of liberal activists, signing a bill Wednesday that targets ethnic studies programs in schools that critics say unfairly demean white Americans. The law, which takes effect […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/13/group-wants-equal-restroom-access-for-women/print/ Thursday, May 13, 2010 Group wants equal restroom access for women Stephen Dinan Add equal bathroom access to life, liberty, happiness and the other things the government wants to make sure American citizens enjoy. Some call it “potty parity,” others label it “porcelain proportionality” — but a bipartisan group in Congress, braving potential public […]
ELENA KAGAN: A PICTURE EMERGES…WILL CONGRESS QUESTION THIS? RSK Kagan, Obama, and the Harvard Legacy of Literary Fraud By Jack Cashill When Barack Obama’s two faculty mentors at Harvard Law got in trouble for plagiarism, they were rescued by Dean Elena Kagan. In 1989, Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe hired first-year Harvard law student Barack […]
May 13, 2010 Kagan’s good deed J.C. Arenas Thus far we are rightfully questioning Elena Kagan’s qualifications to serve on the Supreme Court, but if it’s true that a good deed never goes unnoticed, then perhaps there is an explanation for her potential ascension to the nation’s highest court. During the announcement for her nomination, […]
