http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/280173 Crisis of Decadence A society can live on the accumulated capital of a glorious inheritance for only so long. When the think-tank chappies ponder “decline,” they tend to see it in geopolitical terms. Great powers gradually being shunted off the world stage have increasing difficulties getting their way: Itsy-bitsy colonial policing operations in dusty […]
Coptic Church Construction and Egyptian Muslim ‘Emasculation’ Andrew G. Bostom Page Printed from: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/10/coptic_church_construction_and_egyptian_muslim_emasculation.html Traditional Islamic religious authorities regard church construction, or any display of non-Islamic religions as “emasculating” of Muslims. No wonder Egypt’s Copts face such travails. Because it was excerpted in Bat Ye’or’s pioneering The Dhimmi, I obtained Moshe Perlmann’s (1975) complete translation […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203914304576631020381779948.html?KEYWORDS=RICK+PERRY Perry Looks to Energy to Recharge Economy PATRICK O’CONNORTexas Gov. Rick Perry sought to reinvigorate his presidential bid Friday by outlining a plan to boost domestic energy production, a proposal he predicts would create more than a million jobs. In his first major policy address since joining the race in August, Mr. Perry called […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/280184 Breaking Tehran Iran is at war with us, and we must win. The Islamic democracy project is nothing if not beguiling. From Clinton’s Orwellian “peace process” through Bush’s cloying “freedom agenda” to Obama’s contortion of an Islamist ascendancy into “the Arab Spring,” the dream teems with self-congratulation, so much so that its debilitating downsides […]
Inevitably, Romney Declared ‘Inevitable’ Posted By Rick Moran URL to article: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/inevitably-romney-declared-inevitable/ One of the reasons the Republican Party enjoys any popularity at all is because it is as comfortable as an old shoe: predictable, safe, conservative, and welcoming of those Americans who believe in old-fashioned values like overt patriotism, nuclear families, faith in God, […]
http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2011/10/white-house-aint-got-no-class-and-thats.html?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=c49598ad67-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN The White House Ain’t Got No Class (And That’s a Good Thing) In a surprise move the White House dropped today one of the more budget busting provisions of the Obamacare legislation, called the CLASS Act (Community Living Assistance Services and Supports), it was designed to provide people with long term in-home care. The […]
Rick Perry Unveils Energy Plan to Get Government Out of the Way and Get America Working Again Posted By Bryan Preston URL to article: http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/10/14/rick-perry-unveils-energy-plan-to-get-government-out-of-the-way-and-get-america-working-again/ The Texas governor is out of the gate with the first part of his economic plan, concerning energy: Though our president has labeled Americans as soft, I believe our people […]
EPA’s CO2 Endangerment Finding is Endangered By S. Fred Singer http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/10/epas_co2_endangerment_finding_is_endangered.html In a narrow 5-4 decision in 2007, the US Supreme Court, authorized the EPA to consider the greenhouse gas CO2 as a ‘pollutant’ under the terms of the Clean Air Act — provided EPA could demonstrate that CO2 posed a threat to human health […]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-scapegoat-strategy/2011/10/13/gIQArNWViL_story.html The scapegoat strategy What do you do if you can’t run on your record — on 9 percent unemployment, stagnant growth and ruinous deficits as far as the eye can see? How to run when you are asked whether Americans are better off than they were four years ago and you are compelled to […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/280181/friday-news-dump-were-another-war-andrew-c-mccarthy http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2011/10/obama-dispatches-100-troops-to-uganda/1?csp=34news President Obama has notified Congress that he has unilaterally decided to begin sending what will eventually be about 100 combat troops to jump into the war in … Uganda. The objective is “the removal of Joseph Kony from the battlefield.” Kony heads up a faction called the Lord’s Resistance Army, a terrifying militia […]
