PHARAOHS AND FAIRY TALES http://www.steynonline.com/content/view/3722/26 Scott Erb emails: Dear Mark, I find it odd that you’d see a secular protest of millions of Egyptians against a tyrant to be “dark.” This is what America stands for — our ideals are winning. The Islamic extremists have not caught on with the Arab youth. Moreover, these changes […]
http://www.steynonline.com/content/view/3727/26 WHERE’S THE MUSCLE? At the New York Conservative Party conference in Albany the other week, I was asked about the party’s role in state politics. I replied that in a multiparty system it’s very important to have some sort of force to the right of the right-of-center party – to arrest the tendency of the […]
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ The Miseducation of America The last two years have been another reminder that education is not equivalent to competence, intelligence or experience, let alone wisdom, as an administration of people who have hardly held actual jobs outside of academia have proven that they are very good at assigning blame and conducting internal rivalries, and […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/feb/15/obama-admin-to-cancel-voice-of-america-china-broad/ VOA radio broadcasts to China signing off, while Beijing boosts propaganda….Bill Gertz The Obama administration will cancel shortwave radio broadcasts by Voice of America into China this year, as Beijing is expanding its propaganda operations in the United States and around the world. ” China is about to launch 60 U.S. affiliates for its […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/feb/15/1-ice-agent-fatally-shot-1-is-wounded-in-mexico/ 1 US immigration enforcement agent fatally shot, 1 is wounded in Mexico Attacked while driving by unknown gunmen Jerry Seper One U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent assigned to an attache office in Mexico City was killed and a second agent wounded when shot Tuesday afternoon by unknown assailants while driving on a highway […]
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/563304/201102151900/Capitalism-Kills-AIDS.htm Capitalism Kills AIDS Posted 02/15/2011 07:00 PM ET Medicine: Has anyone noticed the 800-pound gorilla called AIDS hasn’t been in the room for years? It’s disappeared from the political radar because Big Bad Pharma tamed it. A new peer-reviewed medical report describes in detail how the pharmaceutical industry turned HIV-AIDS from a death sentence […]
http://townhall.com/columnists/dickmorrisandeileenmcgann/2011/02/16/a_budget_deadlock_will_defeat_obama,_but_a_compromise_might_save_him/print A Budget Deadlock Will Defeat Obama, But a Compromise Might Save Him By Dick Morris and Eileen McGann So what happens if the cuts proposed by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers, R-Ky., prove unacceptable to the Senate and the president? What if there is no […]
http://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2011/02/16/michelle_obama_first_lady_of_junk_science While her husband may have paid lip service to ending the abuse of science for “politics or ideology,” first lady Michelle Obama gave herself a super-sized waiver. Two of her showcase social engineering campaigns — tax preferences for breast-pumping working mothers and expanded nutrition labels — are based on distorting or dismissing the prevailing […]
http://www.tvsquad.com/2011/02/15/lara-logan/?icid=main%7Chtmlws-main-n%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk1%7C201559 Many of the scenes broadcast from Egpyt in recent days have been joyful, but events took a horrific turn for CBS News correspondent Lara Logan on Feb. 11, the day that former president Hosni Mubarak resigned. CBS News has issued a statement saying on that day, Logan was physically and sexually assaulted by members […]
Report: Petraeus to be relieved of command in Afghanistan before end of year? « Hot Air http://hotair.com/archives/2011/02/15/report-petraeus-to-give-up-command-in-afghanistan-before-end-of-year/ Report: Petraeus to be relieved of command in Afghanistan before end of year? AllahPundit, Hotair.com Most of the story’s behind a firewall. All I can give you is this: General David Petraeus, the most celebrated American soldier of […]
