http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ It’s Not the Hasbara, It’s the Reality Posted: 11 Aug 2010 08:30 PM PDT Hasbara or Pro-Israel PR has become the great obsession of Pro-Israel activists and the Israeli government. One article calls for Israel to spend as much effort on communicating its message, as it does on its defense budget. Another castigates the […]
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,710268,00.html DPA Contestants in Malaysia’s ‘Imam Muda’ Reality TV show, which uses the American Idol format to search for a Muslim role model. Malaysia’s ‘Imam Idol’ A Reality Show’s Search for a Muslim Role Model By Nicola Abé It’s like American Idol. Except in this Malaysian reality TV show, the goal is to find a […]
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100050412/the-stunning-decline-of-barack-obama-10-key-reasons-why-the-obama-presidency-is-in-meltdown/ The stunning decline of Barack Obama: 10 key reasons why the Obama presidency is in meltdown By Nile Gardiner The last few weeks have been a nightmare for President Obama, in a summer of discontent in the United States which has deeply unsettled the ruling liberal elites, so much so that even the Left […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704216804575423641955803732.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories By MIRIAM JORDAN One in 12 babies born in the U.S. in 2008 were offspring of illegal immigrants, according to a new study, an estimate that could inflame the debate over birthright citizenship. Dozens of U.S.-born children and their undocumented parents traveled to Washington last month to demonstrate against deportations of illegal immigrant parents. […]
Click here: Irony: $26-Billion Bailout To States Helps Pay For Illegal Immigration – Maggie’s Farm http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/15182-Irony-26-Billion-Bailout-To-States-Helps-Pay-For-Illegal-Immigration.html Wednesday, August 11. 2010 Irony: $26-Billion Bailout To States Helps Pay For Illegal Immigration The financial burden on the states of illegal immigration is among the arguments for the Arizona law that increases local enforcement of federal immigration laws. […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/aug/11/no-time-for-islam/print/ Giant clock symbolizes religion’s expansionist aspirations By THE WASHINGTON TIMES .In a severe case of clock envy, Saudi Arabia has erected a nearly 2,000-foot-high timepiece intended to stake a symbolic claim for Mecca as the world’s center. Islamic scholars have proposed that the Royal Mecca Clock Tower supplant the observatory in Greenwich, England, to […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/aug/11/ex-ill-rep-rostenkowski-dies-82/ IN 1988 ROSTENKOWSKI ACTUALLY SUPPORTED AND HELPED FORMULATE A VERY GOOD HEALTH CARE PLAN…THE REAGAN MEDICARE CASTASTROPHIC COVERAGE ACT…..IT INCLUDED A VERY MINOR RISE IN MEDICARE FEES FROM SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS…..ROSTENKOWSKI WAS VICIOUSLY ATTACKED BY AARP…..ONE WOMAN ACTUALLY STABBED HIM WITH AN UMBREALLA AND A GROUP OF ANGRY SENIORS ALMOST OVERTURNED HIS CAR…..TOO BAD….IT […]
Gore concedes on climate this year http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/26437 Gore concedes on climate this year Steve Milloy, CFP.com Speaking about the likelihood of climate bill being passed by Congress in 2010, Al Gore told a conference call of supporters tonight that, “this battle has not been successful and is pretty much over for this year.†Gore bitterly […]
http://politicalmavens.com/ The Gray Lady’s Veil By Marilyn Penn In a front page article about the Ground Zero Mosque in Wednesday’s Times (8/11/10), reporter Anne Barnard manages to incorporate the following loaded phrases: volatile post 9/11 passions and politics; combustible debate…characterized by powerful emotions and mistaken information…and a national political climate in which no preparation could […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704901104575423463411360770.html By DANIEL HENNINGER TOLERANCE AT GROUND ZERO If there is a silver lining in the fight over Manhattan’s “Ground Zero Mosque,” it is to see that the events of September 11, 2001 remain strong in the public mind. Thus it is affirming, in an ironic way, to see partisans on the left and right […]