George Soros Handicapping American EnergyBy Ed Lasky http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/03/george_soros_handicapping_amer.html George Soros has been a brilliant investor over the years. As befits many hedge fund operators, he uses leverage to magnify his returns. But in his case, leverage has a double meaning. Leverage can refer to the debt Soros assumes when he makes his investments. But it […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704615504576172771412494708.html?mod=WSJ_newsreel_opinion By SETH LIPSKY What she tells them is they can “join millions of other union members in a commonsense movement” to help fight “for budgets that share the burden in a truly fair way and for commonsense reforms that take power away from vested interests like union bosses and big business lobby groups, and […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704150604576166362512952294.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop The Decline of U.S. Naval Power Sixty ships were commonly underway in America’s seaward approaches in 1998, but today there are only 20. We are abdicating our role on the oceans. By MARK HELPRIN Last week, pirates attacked and executed four Americans in the Indian Ocean. We and the Europeans have endured literally thousands […]
http://www.jidaily.com/QReqj The Emir of NYU NYU president John Sexton has been promised a blank check to duplicate his university on a desert island in Abu Dhabi. The expansion will leave both campuses flush with petrodollars. But to many faculty, the deal amounts to a sellout. By Zvika Krieger Published Apr 13, 2008 John Sexton’s office, […]
http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/content/module/2011/3/2/main-feature/1/follow-the-money Follow the Money By Alex Joffe The prestigious London School of Economics (LSE) is shocked—shocked—to discover that Muammar Qaddafi is a very bad man. So the once venerable institution is diverting some of the $2.5 million pledged through Qaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam into a scholarship fund for Libyan students. As for the Ph.D. bestowed […]
http://www.jidaily.com/fTJc Following the Foreign Money by STANLEY KURTZ With the data now public, let the targeted research and reporting begin. Through Freedom of Information Act requests and discussions with officials at the Department of Education, I have obtained a comprehensive list of gifts originating in foreign countries to American colleges and universities (as reported under […]
Americans Maintain Broad Support for Israel U.S. adults nearly four times as likely to side with Israelis as with Palestinians by Lydia Saad http://www.gallup.com/poll/146408/Americans-Maintain-Broad-Support-Israel.aspx PRINCETON, NJ — Americans’ views toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict held fairly steady over the past year, with a near record-high 63% continuing to say their sympathies lie more with the Israelis. […]
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bshapiro/2011/03/01/corrupt-government-hollywood-complex-worsens-with-mpaa-appointment-of-chris-dodd/ Corrupt Government-Hollywood Complex Worsens With MPAA Appointment of Chris Dodd by Ben Shapiro The relationship between the federal government and Hollywood is corrupt and dirty. In essence, Hollywood liberals go easy on liberal politicians – in fact, their entertainment routinely stumps for liberal causes — and in return, the politicians give handouts to Hollywood. […]
Arab Spring 2011 – Hopes and Fears Posted by D.L. Adams http://bigpeace.com/dladams/2011/03/02/arab-spring-2011-hopes-and-fears/ The attention of the world is focused now on the Arab world. We are watching a fault line cracking; decades old political constructs of tyranny and abuse are being challenged and overturned across the Arab Muslim world. When the upheavals have ended what […]
http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/ “Forget the Jewish Thing”: Assange’s Alleged Conspiracy Theory! Private Eye is a satirical British fortnightly magazine that has been around since the 1960s. It exposes secrets, corruption and hypocrisy in public figures and public bodies, national and local. Despite what one might think, it is not biased to the Left, but writes about figures […]
