http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jun/21/taliban-waits-out-obama/ President Obama is expected to announce tonight the first phase of withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, making good on his self-imposed July 2011 deadline. The White House will contend that this is being done from a position of strength, but the Taliban will spin it as an ignominious U.S. retreat. This week, outgoing […]
Fading LegacyYelena Bonner and Andrei Sakharov were giants. Why do so few Russians remember them? BY DAVID E. HOFFMAN | http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/06/20/fading_legacy In 1989, Mikhail Gorbachev permitted elections for the first popularly elected legislature in Soviet history. The Communist Party still dominated, but about a third of the seats in the 2,250-member chamber were open, and […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/270101/five-points-perry-s-favor-kevin-d-williamson Five Points in Perry’s Favor Reasons to hope he throws his hat in the ring “3. He’s a conservative before he’s a Republican, and he was a conservative before he was a Republican. Perry, who first held office as a conservative Democrat, chaired Al Gore’s Texas presidential team in 1988, back when Gore was […]
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/michele-bachmann-does-founding-mothers-and-the-rest-of-us-proud/ I’m wont to laugh at liberal women who love to talk up our Founding Mothers, and how those evil, spotlight-hogging white men sliced and diced all the patriot women right out of our history books. Liberal women love to take this tack when shoring up their own spotlight-hogging contributions to our current politics. But […]
Technocracy Isn’t Policy http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ The celebration of the Arab Spring is built on faith in the redemptive ability of enhanced communications technologies to create a transparent global culture. To the true believers on the New York Times editorial page, it is axiomatic that cultural revolutions driven by communications technologies will be liberal. That anything which […]
http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1824/How-Many-Isnt-the-Question.aspx The debate over Afghanistan — which this week comes down to how many troops Barack Obama will announce he is withdrawing from that wretched country beginning in July through 2012 — is being conducted with a blindfold and earplugs on. The discussion centers on, obsesses over whether the promised “drawdown” will be “only 5,000 […]
Home Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger “Second Thought: US-Israel Initiative,” Jerusalem, Israel Another Wave of Acquisition of Israeli Companies Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: US-Israel Initiative” Straight from the Jerusalem Boardroom #153, June 21, 2011 1. Intel plans a $4.8BN expansion of its Israeli operations, applying for a $600MN grant from the Israeli government. Since 1999, Intel […]
The Missing Money – Page 1 – Thomas Sowell – Townhall Conservative http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2011/06/21/the_missing_money The Missing Money Thomas Sowell, Townhall.com One of my earliest memories of revulsion against war came from seeing a photograph from the First World War when I was a teenager. It was nothing gory. Just a picture of a military officer, in […]
http://www.spme.net/cgi-bin/articles.cgi?ID=8127. “I am in Norway on business for my product and written on a wall I read, ‘Down with Israel.’ I think, ‘What did Israel ever do to Norway?’ I know Israel is a terrible country, but after all, there are countries even more terrible. There are so many terrible countries-why is this country the […]
Abbas’ Fake Honor Killing Outrage Posted By Phyllis Chesler URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/06/22/abbas-fake-honor-killing-outrage/ Last month, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas “scrapped the laws” which guaranteed “leniency” for honor killers. Family honor will no longer be a mitigating factor in such cases. On the West Bank and in Gaza, such barbaric murders of girls and women routinely […]
