OPINION: GLOBAL VIEW JANUARY 4, 2010, 10:44 P.M. ET Our Incompetent Civilization Sometimes we have to choose between evils. By BRET STEPHENS When does a civilization become incompetent? I’ve been mulling the question in a number of contexts over the last year, including our inability to put a stop to Somali piracy, detain a terrorist […]
Dems look to skip formality on health bills Jennifer Haberkorn http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jan/05/democrats-look-to-skip-formality-on-health-bills//print/ Democratic leaders are looking to forgo a formal, public conference to merge the House and Senate’s health care overhaul bills, giving Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the White House free rein to hammer out the final measure behind closed […]
HANDING IT OVER WITH A TONGUE THAT CLEAVES TO THE PALATE AND A WITHERED HAND….THEY WILL FORGET JERUSALEM….RSK http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100105/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_palestinians Israel approves east Jerusalem building project By AMY TEIBEL, Associated Press Writer Amy Teibel, Associated Press Writer 1 hr 34 mins ago JERUSALEM – Israel has approved construction of four new apartment buildings in disputed east […]
US embassy says it is reopening in Yemen By LEE KEATH, Associated Press Writers Lee Keath, Associated Press Writers 1 hr 41 mins ago SAN’A, Yemen – The U.S. Embassy in Yemen reopened its doors Tuesday after a two-day closure, saying successful Yemeni counterterrorism operations have addressed the threat that prompted the measure. The embassy […]
SORRY VD HANSON…WE ARE THE CHICKENS WHO REFUSE CONTINUALLY TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT ISLAM IS BENT ON OUR DESTRUCTION…..NOT “RADICALS” OR “FASCISTS” BUT THE KORAN DRIVEN ENEMIES WHO NOW ROAM FREELY WITHIN OUR NATION PREACHING THEIR HATEFUL IDEOLOGY IN MOSQUES, JAILS, AND, INCREASINGLY, IN THE UNIVERSITIES…..ENABLED BY OUR MULTI-CULTI CIVIL LIBBIES…..RKS http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=517009 Chickens Of ’09 Coming […]
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=517022 Why Do We Put Our Lives In The Hands Of Those Whose Failures Are Manifest? By ERNEST S. CHRISTIAN AND GARY A ROBBINS(*) No matter who he is, the president of the United States has far too many powers over our lives and livelihoods. So do members of Congress. Even if the holders of […]
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=517004 Mayo Vs. Medicare Posted 01/04/2010 07:11 PM ET Health Reform: President Obama suggested last summer that the Mayo Clinic was the model for government medical care. On Monday, the Mayo Clinic in Arizona stopped taking Medicare patients. Now what? If the nonprofit Mayo Clinic is “what works,” as the president believes, then it’s clear […]
Collaborators in the War against the Jews: Ian Lustick – by Steven Plaut “There is no winning this war, because the war on terror is the enemy.†— Ian Lustick [1] Three years ago, the tenured left at DePaul was attempting to force the university into granting tenure to the anti-Semitic embarrassment Norman Finkelstein [2], […]
Freed Guantánamo inmates are heading for Yemen to join al-Qaeda fight – Times Online  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6975971.ece  Freed Guantánamo inmates are heading for Yemen to join al-Qaeda fight  Said Ali al-Shihri, Ibrahim Suleiman al Rubaish (ID not confirmed); Abdullah Saleh Ali al Ajmi; and Abdullah Mahsud Tom Coghlan At least a dozen former Guantánamo […]
http://townhall.com/columnists/DianaWest/2009/12/18/how_a_surge_fails_us,_part_1 http://townhall.com/columnists/DianaWest/2009/12/29/the_surge_and_success,_part_ii http://townhall.com/columnists/DianaWest/2009/12/31/victory_in_iraq_really_%5Bpart_3%5D Part 1 The main reason the “surge” in Afghanistan is on is because the conventional wisdom tells us the “surge” in Iraq “worked.” The problem is, the Iraq surge did not work. Yes, the U.S. military perfectly executed its share of the strategy — the restoration of some semblance of calm to […]
