Displaying posts published in

July 2010

GATES AT THE BARBARIANS….REACTING TO WIKITREASON

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/7917955/Wikileaks-Afghanistan-Taliban-hunting-down-informants.html Wikileaks Afghanistan: Taliban ‘hunting down informants’ The Taliban has issued a warning to Afghans whose names might appear on the leaked Afghanistan war logs as informers for the Nato-led coalition. By Robert Winnett in Washington Published: 7:00AM BST 30 Jul 2010 United States Secretary of Defense Robert Gates Photo: REUTERS In an interview with […]

SPECIOUS ARGUMENT AND SLEIGHT OF HAND: ANDREW McCARTHY

http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/233720 Arizona Immigration Decision By Andy McCarthy Posted on July 28, 2010 3:07 PM On a quick read, the federal court’s issuance of a temporary injunction against enforcement of the major provisions of the Arizona immigration law appears specious. In essence, Judge Susan Bolton bought the Justice Department’s preemption argument — i.e., the claim that […]

PEACEFUL PALARAB ROCKETS FIRED AT ASHKELON

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100730/wl_nm/us_palestinians_israel_violence ASHKELON, Israel (Reuters) – A rocket fired by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip struck the Israeli coastal city of Ashkelon on Friday, causing damage but no injuries, officials said. The rare attack on the southern city, which was likely to elicit a military response from Israel, came after months of quiet following Israel’s […]

THE POST AMERICAN PRESIDENT: AN INTERVIEW WITH PAMELA GELLER

The Post-American Presidency URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2010/07/30/the-post-american-presidency/ Posted By Jamie Glazov Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Pamela Geller, founder, editor and publisher of the popular and award-winning weblog AtlasShrugs.com. She has won acclaim for her interviews with internationally renowned figures, including John Bolton, Geert Wilders, Bat Ye’or, Natan Sharansky, and many others, and has broken […]

ISRAEL’S ENDURING STRENGTH: DAVID HORNIK

Israel’s Enduring Strength URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2010/07/30/israels-enduring-strength/ Posted By P. David Hornik Israel scored surprisingly – perhaps – high in the newly published Gallup poll [1] ranking countries for their citizens’ happiness levels. Israel came in tied for eighth along with Canada, Australia, and Switzerland. Only the four Scandinavian countries – Denmark, Finland, Norway, and […]

KISSINGER’S GUILT: DAVID ISAAC

http://shmuelkatz.com/wordpress/?p=138 By David Isaac Recently declassified White House transcripts (featured in an editorial in the Israeli daily Haaretz) show former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger blaming Israel for the problems in the region, accusing Israel of being “deliberately provocative” and attempting “to create maximum commotion in the Middle East.” In the newly released documents […]

YORAM ETTINGER: IRAN…DELUSION VS. SOLUTION

Iran – Delusion vs. Solution Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought” YnetNews, July 29, 2010 http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3926519,00.html Western policy-makers grow increasingly-reconciled to co-existence with a nuclear Iran. They assume that, notwithstanding the radical rhetoric, the Iranian leadership is pragmatic, cognizant of its limitations, unwilling to expose its people to devastating Western retaliation and considering nuclear capabilities as a […]

CAROLINE GLICK: SEE NO EVIL

http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | It’s springtime for Jew haters. I am sorry I wrote this column. Because an audience that demands an explanation of why evil is evil is an audience that has already sided with evil. This week Oscar winning conspiracy theorist Oliver Stone joined Helen Thomas and Mel Gibson in the swelling ranks of out-of-the-closet […]

RALPH PETERS: THE FORGOTTEN SOLDIERS

http://www.nypost.com/ Forgotten soldiers By RALPH PETERS July 29, 2010 If we needed yet another example of Washington’s self-absorption, we sure got it with the WikiLeaks dump of classified data on AfPak. Government officials promptly freaked about the political consequences. The rush to insist that “there’s nothing new here” and that the leaks “really don’t change […]

THE WAR ON SENIORS….CUTS IN COVERAGE AND INCREASE IN PREMIUMS!

Dear Policy Patriots – The War on Seniors. If you’re on Medicare or if you soon will be, the future doesn’t look great. You and 46 million Americans just like you are going to shoulder more than half the cost of health reform through reductions to Medicare spending. And you will bear additional burdens through […]