Going Cold Turkey Posted By David Solway One of the major questions confronting Western strategists and politicians today has to do with the political direction in which Turkey, a presumed ally and Western lynchpin in the Middle East, seems to be heading. Is it the beacon nation it has long been assumed to be, a […]
http://townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2010/02/26/health-care_humdrum?page=full Health-Care Humdrum by Jonah Goldberg The longest week I ever spent was the six hours I spent watching Thursday’s health-care summit. The better angel of my nature says that this confab is a wonderful spectacle of democracy. Serious men and women airing serious disagreements in a (relatively) respectful and substantive manner. Huzzah for democracy. […]
http://townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2010/02/26/oba-kabuki_a_box-office_bomb?page=full The Oba-Kabuki health care show at Blair House kicked off with a big lie on Thursday morning — and it all went downhill from there. The taxpayer-funded infomercial backfired by exposing the president’s thin skin, the Democrats’ naked disingenuousness and the ruling majority’s allergies to political and policy realities. Responding to Sen. Lamar Alexander’s […]
Still Following The “Road Map” To Chaos: “Palestine,” Terror And Regional Nuclear War By: Louis René Beres President Obama, imprisoned by clichés, still seeks to follow the so-called “Road Map” to Middle East peace. At the core of this fictionalized cartography is a deceptively pleasing image of two states, one Arab, the other Jewish, living […]
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Â The Dead Road of Socialism It is no news to anyone that the world can often be unfair, that families lack the things they need and that people suffer and die unnecessarily in ways that could be avoided. The fundamental question is do we respond to such situations by working together on an […]
HIS MEMORY IS A BLESSING FOR AMERICA…ALL VETERANS OF EVERY WAR ARE AMERICA’S GREATEST GENERATION….RSK One of Nation’s Most Highly Decorated Soldiers Laid to Rest http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,587338,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a4:g4:r2:c0.000000:b0:z5 Â Courtesy: www.michaelyon-online.com Ret. Colonel Robert L Howard One of the nation’s most highly decorated veterans was being laid to rest on Wednesday. Ret. Colonel Robert L Howard, a Medal […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.5594/pub_detail.asp Exclusive: Who Is Smuggling Somali Aliens Into the U.S. – And Why? Michael Cutler I was recently sent an alarming article entitled “Va. man accused of helping smuggle Somalis into U.S.†It details how a 35-year-old man, Anthony Joseph Tracy, facilitated the illegal entry of some 270 aliens who are citizens of Somalia. Somalia […]
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100224/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq_al_sadr_s_comeback Anti-American bloc gains ground ahead of Iraq vote By HAMZA HENDAWI and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA, Associated Press Writers Hamza Hendawi And Qassim Abdul-zahra, Associated Press Writers Wed Feb 24, 2:42 pm ET BAGHDAD – The political movement of Iraq’s best-known anti-American cleric has emerged as a major contender in next month’s national elections, raising the […]
He was selected by Princess Diana as her legal representative in her divorce from Prince Charles. He represented Deborah Lipstadt, successfully defending her, with Richard Rampton QC, against a libel suit brought against her by Holocaust denier David Irving. He is a senior consultant for the London law firm Mishcon de Reya. Julius is known […]
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/5799641/dubai-the-mystery-deepens.thtml A man of rare courage Thursday, 25th February 2010 I have been following for some time the remarkable journey of Mosab Hassan Yousef, about whom I wrote here last year. Yousef, the son of a Hamas leader, renounced not just terrorist violence but his family and his faith to become a Christian and move […]