http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/apr/25/haley-barbour-pulls-out-2012-presidential-race/print/ Republican Haley Barbour announced Monday he will not run for president in 2012, saying he does not have enough “fire in the belly,” and will instead finish his term as Mississippi governor. “I will not be a candidate for president next year,” he said. “This has been a difficult, personal decision, and I am […]
Saudi Proposal King Suggested Chips Could Be Implanted in Gitmo Inmates http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,759012,00.html King Abdullah himself came to the meeting with his own idea. “I’ve just thought of something,” the King said, according to the cable. The cable continues by stating that the King “proposed implanting detainees with an electronic chip containing information about them and […]
Barack Obama Is Too Much Like Jimmy Carter, Says… Nation Columnist Eric Alterman? Posted By Calvin Freiburger http://www.newsrealblog.com/2011/04/25/barack-obama-is-too-much-like-jimmy-carter-says-nation-columnist-eric-alterman/print/ Conservatives frequently make unfavorable comparisons between Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter, but it’s a rarer occurrence to see leftists do the same. So when a lefty zealot like Eric Alterman does precisely that in his latest Daily […]
Obama’s Syria Confusion Posted By Stephen Brown http://frontpagemag.com/2011/04/26/obamas-syria-confusion/print/ Syrian President Bashar Assad upped the stakes in the bid to save his regime on Monday when he launched an attack on the city of Daraa involving hundreds of troops, backed by tanks and snipers, to crush the anti-government uprising, killing at least 11 people. These latest […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.9347,css.print/pub_detail.asp Vin’s Notes on Islamism: Part Nine Documenting Islamist incursions around the globe. Vin Ienco On the 12th Of February this year, after 18 days of revolution, President Hosni Sayyid Mubaraks rule of 29 years was over. After some reservations, he decided to listen to the swelling and determined populace and step down from power. […]
Peter King vs. Eric Holder Why did the Justice Department never indict CAIR? BRIAN BOLDUC http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/265576 The clock is ticking for Eric Holder. On Monday, Rep. Peter King (R., N.Y.) sent the attorney general a letter asking why the Justice Department declined to prosecute the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Muslim-American organization, in a […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.9340/pub_detail.asp Writing in the pages of the Chronicle of Higher Education, Paul Mattick, a professor at Adelphi University, attempts to explain capitalism’s failure in an article entitled, “Capitalism’s Dismal Future.” Presumably its future is a continuation of its past. As Professor Mattick notes, “Capitalism has been around for so many generations now, proving its vitality […]
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=43147 To restrict Jones’ right to protest in front of a mosque is to send the signal that violent intimidation works, and that those who killed people in Afghanistan because of Jones’ Koran-burning have achieved their ultimate goal: to make Islam immune from criticism because every potential critic will be afraid to speak out. That […]
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/04/poll-over-half-of-egypt-wants-to-end-the-peace-with-israel.html Poll: Over half of Egypt wants to end the peace with Israel I tried to tell you. “Poll: Over half of Egypt wants end to Israel peace,” by Paul Schemm for AP, April 25 (thanks to Nichole): CAIRO (AP) – More than half of all Egyptians would like to see the 1979 peace treaty […]
If the United States Eliminates Lots of its Nuclear Weapons, Everyone Else Will Too, Right? by Peter Huessy http://www.hudson-ny.org/2071/united-states-eliminates-nuclear-weapons And then over time we can eventually get to zero, right? At least that is what has been argued for the 65 years of the nuclear age by the proponents of what is now known as […]
