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September 2010

GENERAL PIERRE-MARIE GALLOIS….99 RIP…THE LAST OF THE “OLD SOLDIERS”

General Pierre-Marie Gallois, RIP General Pierre-Marie Gallois, RIP by Srdja Trifkovic September 2nd, 2010 General Pierre-Marie Gallois, who died on August 23 in Paris at the age of 99, will be remembered primarily as the architect of France’s nuclear deterrence doctrine in the 1950s. He was the last in a long line of European geopolitical […]

COOL OUT EVERYBODY…THE GLOBAL WARMING CONSENSUS HAS MELTED

http://www.nypost.com/f/print/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/meltdown_of_the_climate_consensus_G0kWdclUvwhVr6DYH6A4uJ MATT PATTERSON….NYPOST If this keeps up, no one’s going to trust any scientists. The global-warming establishment took a body blow this week, as the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change received a stunning rebuke from a top-notch independent investigation. For two decades, the IPCC has spearheaded efforts to convince the world’s governments that man-made […]

THE GROOUND ZERO MOSQUE: WHAT AMERICANS CAN LEARN FROM ISRAEL

The Ground Zero Mosque — What Americans Could Learn from Israelhttp://danielgordis.org/2010/09/03/the-ground-zero-mosque/ Posted By Daniel Gordis The Jerusalem Post September 3, 2010 In its basic form, the Ground Zero mosque debate boils down to a conflict between two competing values – American freedom of religion versus the sensitivities of the families of the victims of 9/11. […]

SARAH HONIG: THE TERRORIST NEXT DOOR IN BROOKLYN

http://www.sarahhonig.com/?p=665 Another Tack: From Brooklyn to Park Place A couple of weeks ago Kathy, my fellow alumna of New York’s High School of Music and Art (renamed the LaGuardia High School for the Arts), sent me an update on a column I devoted (some two years back) to our much-belated reunion. The next day roughly […]

What can Israel-Palestinian Peace Talks Achieve?

What can Israel-Palestinian Peace Talks Achieve? http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.7248,css.print/pub_detail.asp As the latest round of Israeli/Palestinian peace talks begin today, it is hard not to feel deep cynicism. We have seen such events being presented to the world as big media events, but the hope, like the media hype, diminishes at every occasion. The most memorable rapprochement happened […]

Middle East Peace Talks: Déjà Vu all over again all over again

http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2010/09/01/deja-vu-all-over-again-3/?print=1 Middle East Peace Talks: Déjà Vu all over again all over again Roger L Simon Middle East peace talks to resolve the so-called Israeli-Palestinian crisis have been coming and going most of my adult life and I’m no spring chicken — free range or otherwise. And now here they are again! But this time, […]

IMAM RAUF IN HIS OWN TROUBLING WORDS: ILYA FEOKTISTOV

http://frontpagemag.com/2010/09/01/the-ground-zero-imams-troubling-texts/ The Ground Zero Imam’s Troubling Texts Ilya Feoktistov It’s now clear to most Americans that while Imam Feisal Rauf has the right to build his mosque wherever he desires, his decision to build it near Ground Zero is grossly insensitive, to say the least, and flies in the face of his reputation as a […]

IT’S MILLER TIME IN ALASKA…SEE NOTE PLEASE

http://frontpagemag.com/2010/09/02/its-miller-time-in-alaska/ I HOPE HIS DESERVED VICTORY DOES NOT GIVE PALIN UNDERVED ASPIRATIONS FOR THE WHITE HOUSE….SHE COULD BE A REAL SPOILER AND THERE ARE GOOD GOP CANDIDATES TO CONSIDER….RSK BY RICH TRZUPEK Joe Miller’s stunning victory over Lisa Murkowski to win the Alaska’s GOP primary for the Senate is remarkable on many levels, yet the […]

WHY MODERATES ARE SCARCE IN ISLAM:JOSHUA GILDER

oh puleez…another wishy washy column. Some Moslems are moderate but the religion is not. It’s central tenet is jihad…just ask experts like Robert Spencer, Andrew bostom, Ibn Warrack, Wafa Sultan et.al……rsk http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/245415 Why Islamic Moderates Are So Scarce It goes back to a ninth-century theological dispute. As past statements of Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf continue […]

THE NEW YORK TIMES BLAMES THE VICTIMS IN LATEST MASSACRE OF ISRAELIS

New York Times blames the victims for Beit Hagai massacre Leo Rennert http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/09/new_york_times_blames_the_vict.html When it comes to differentiating between Israeli settlers and Hamas terrorists, the New York Times displays more sympathy for the latter than for the former — as is quite apparent from its Sept. 1 coverage of the killing of four Israeli civilians, […]