August 11, 2011 * VIDEOS * TODAY’S HOT PICKS * 1. VIDEO: Rep. Peter King [R] Requests Investigation of ‘Administration-Sanctioned’ Bin Laden Film, Intended for 2012 Election Period Release 2. U.S. Economic Confidence Plunges in Past Two Weeks: Weekly economic confidence is at -53 in early August — **its lowest point since March 2009** 3. […]
Did Marx Get It Right? Posted By Ben Shapiro URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/08/11/did-marx-get-it-right/ Karl Marx predicted in Das Kapital that capitalism would destroy itself. He believed that capitalism created two classes: the bourgeois upper classes and the proletariat lower classes. Capitalism couldn’t help itself, Marx thought, from growing the latter. Eventually, it would create a […]
http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2011/08/nyt_searches_for_the_leader_of_the_anti-shariah_movement_finds_me_instead.html I was featured, complete with pictures (and online video), in a 2,000+ word New York Times article about the anti-sharia movement in this country, written by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Andrea Elliot, which appeared in the Times’ July 31st Sunday edition, front page, above the fold. Impressive, no? Unfortunately, Ms. Elliot exposed herself as biased […]
Nicholas Kristof Blames Israel First Posted By Mark Tapson http://frontpagemag.com/2011/08/11/nicholas-kristof-blames-israel-first/ KRISTOF MADE AN OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY ON GONGO….GENOCIDE, FAMINE, UNENDING WAR….BUT THIS IS WILLFUL BLINDNESS ON THE MIDEAST AND ISRAEL….I GUESS HE HAS TO KEEP HIS JOB IN THE NYTIMES…..RSK In a predictably one-sided recent opinion piece ironically entitled “Seeking Balance on Mideast,” New York […]
Time Magazine Joins the Jihad Posted By Robert Spencer http://frontpagemag.com/2011/08/11/time-magazine-joins-the-jihad/print/ So what else is new? Is anyone doing anything else these days? Still, I think it important to answer as many as I can of these and show the truth. “When Slogans Beget Slaughter,” by Ishaan Tharoor, was published by Time Magazine on August 6: […]
Obama and the Big, Messy, Tough Democracy Posted By Rick Richman URL to article: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/obama-and-the-big-messy-tough-democracy/ Earlier this month, explaining how the fierce-urgency-of-now became the intense-need-for-patience, President Obama effectively blamed the system — not him and his big ideas. Speaking on August 3 to a DNC event in Chicago, he said [1]: When I said, “change […]
Afghan Helicopter Attack is Obama’s Fault By Pamela Geller Page Printed from: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2011/08/afghan_helicopter_attack_is_obamas_fault.htm It came to light Monday that the thirty elite American troops who were killed when their helicopter was attacked in Afghanistan were lured into a trap by the Taliban. An Afghan official said, “Now it’s confirmed that the helicopter was shot down […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904140604576498840323097396.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop So this is a taste of what it will be like when the American superpower starts shrinking. Enjoying it yet? Washington is not America, and so optimism is possible. Out in the country, some states are showing with their public-pension reforms that government flexibility in the face of economic crisis is possible. A Washington […]
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4107560,00.html Tehran’s municipal council has decided to name a street after an American activist who was killed by an IDF bulldozer in Gaza Strip in 2003.The report in Thursday’s edition of Hamshahri, a daily affiliated with the municipality, said the council decided to name the street Rachel Aliene Corrie. The pro-Palestinian activist from Washington state […]
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/581079/201108101852/500-Billion-New-Reasons-To-Invalidate-ObamaCare.htm WILL THE DEFICIT REDUCTION COMMISSION HAVE THE GUTS TO DO THIS WITHOUT PAUL RYAN?…..RSK A few hundred billion dollars here, a few hundred billion dollars there — sooner or later we’re talking about the real cost of Barack Obama’s new socialized medicine monstrosity. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi once said that “we have to […]
