http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304314404576413943178618516.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop If it’s Thursday it must mean that Europe is out with another scheme to delay its eventual reckoning with Greek insolvency. This one comes courtesy of France and is, no surprise, tailor-made to help French and German banks. Unfortunately it leaves Greece in a worse fiscal position and increases risk to European taxpayers and […]
Hugo Chavez back on TV after surgery in Cuba http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9O5KH100&show_article=1 CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – Hugo Chavez has reappeared in photos and videos on state television, chatting with Fidel Castro in Cuba after a prolonged seclusion following surgery that has left Venezuelans guessing about their president’s health.The images aired Tuesday night were the first to be […]
http://bigpeace.com/dwest/2011/06/30/chinese-crackdown-docs-leaked-to-danish-paper/ —It’s not that anyone believes Chinese dictator — sorry, “premier” — Wen Jiabao when he says, as in London this week, “tomorrow’s China will be a country that fully achieves democracy, the rule of law, fairness and justice.” Obviously, this is just the sugar to make the medicine go down. But the economic prostration […]
HILLARY’S GIFT TO ROME: LADY GAGA Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is quoted as saying that the State Department was “instrumental in sealing the deal” for Lady Gaga to appear at the June 11 Euro Pride concert in Rome. Catholic League president Bill Donohue responds as follows: The Obama administration has U.S. troops fighting in […]
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ The two streams in American politics are not liberal vs conservative, they can be roughly defined as “Leave Me Alone” vs “Make It Better”. Leave Me Alone seeks personal independence, self-reliance and freedom from interference. Make It Better believes in the progressive betterment of society through regulation, intervention and education. Most people associate the […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.9843,css.print/pub_detail.asp In The Netherlands, a European country least likely to generate good news, Geert Wilders, the outspoken Dutch politician who was on trial for “hate speech,” was acquitted of having committed the alleged crime. We are patiently waiting for such news to emanate from other least likely European countries that are also beset by masses […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.9847/pub_detail.asp International law has ceased to be international. Where it used to be about relations among states, it is nowadays about human rights violations within states – which suits its practitioners down to the ground, as it gives them virtually unlimited jurisdiction. For hundreds of years, we operated on the basis of the clearly understood […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.9851/pub_detail.asp The General Henry Knox Museum is honoring a representative of Al-Jazeera, the channel associated with various terrorist organizations, on July 28 on the stage of The Strand Theatre in Rockland, Maine. The museum says that an intimate Gala dinner and reception will follow at 7:30 p.m. at Camden National Bank’s historic Spear Block location […]
http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2011/06/the_obamayyad_of_barry_hussein.html The Obamayyad of Barry Hussein By James Lewis Jimmy Carter and his National Security Advisor, Zbig Brzezinski, are personally responsible for the Islamic radicalization of the Middle East — by pulling the Persian rug out from our loyal ally, the Shah of Iran, and letting mass-murdering thug Ayatollah Khomeini take over a country of […]
WaPo adopts Palestinian vocabulary in ‘news’ report Leo Rennert Page Printed from: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/06/wapo_adopts_palestinian_vocabulary_in_news_report.html In Palestinian parlance, use of violence to injure or kill Israelis is not portrayed as an act of terrorism, or even as a violent attack. Instead, Palestinians call such bloody aggression by the pleasant-sounding euphemism of “resistance.” Hamas propaganda maintains that its entire […]
