Justice restrains lawyers in Panther inquiry Jerry Seper The Washington Times Wednesday, December 16, 2009 http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/16/justice-restrains-lawyers-in-panther-inquiry/ The Justice Department has told the federal attorneys who filed a civil complaint against the New Black Panther Party for disrupting a Philadelphia polling place last year not to cooperate with an investigation of the incident by the U.S. […]
Update: 1LT Michael Behenna: Diana West  http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1177/Update-1LT-Michael-Behenna.aspx Scott and Vicki Behenna write in with an update on the ongoing and even promising efforts to free their son Michael, whom I have written about here and here. They write: Merry Christmas to the many friends and supporters of Michael, An update about Michael is difficult because this […]
http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2009/12/15/this-week-in-conservative-media-climate-change-denier-in-the-spotlight.aspx Newsweek – Tuesday, December 15, 2009 This Week in Conservative Media: Climate-Change Denier in the Spotlight Eve Conant Marc Morano, the longtime spokesman of climate change skeptic Sen. James M. Inhofe, left his perch on the Hill earlier this year to start up ClimateDepot, a Web site devoted to aggregating every scrap of information […]
http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1178/Some-Things-Arent-Debateable.aspx Some Things Aren’t Debateable Written by: Diana West Hey, Arlington educators: Debate this! — The story below is typical of what happens, as I argue in The Death of the Grown-Up, in a society when there are no boundaries: Nothing is beyond the pale. Fortunately, not absolutely everyone agrees. Bravo to the citizen who […]
THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE Totalitarian Sentimentality By Roger Scruton from the December 2009-January 2010 issue Conservatives recognize that social order is hard to achieve and easy to destroy, that it is held in place by discipline and sacrifice, and that the indulgence of criminality and vice is not an act of kindness but an injustice […]
Exclusive: The Escher President – Series 4: Year-End Review Bill Siegel It might seem that Obama is “smart” but how does one explain the absolute extremes into which Obama is leading us? Bill Siegel  The Escher President Series (see here, here and here) attempts to describe the experience of many of those non-supporters as […]
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Murder by Lawfare – How Liberal Lawsuits are Taking American Lives The thirteen US soldiers murdered at Fort Hood were killed by the bullets fired by Malik Nidal Hassan, but there were those who helped Nassan fire his bullets, who did everything but hold his gun and pull the trigger for him. The initial […]
SPIEGEL ONLINE’s Climate Countdown Organizational Breakdown in Copenhagen AFP Thousands of delegates and journalists had to wait hours in the cold on Monday in order to pick up their credentials to be allowed in to the climate conference. Conference organizers have known for months huge crowds would show up to the climate summit in Copenhagen. […]
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,druck-667141,00.html Climate Talks in Copenhagen Riots Outside, Chaos Inside DPA Danish riot police lining up in front of the counter-culture compound Christiania. Monday was not a banner day in global efforts to come up with an agreement to slow climate change. Talks were suspended for hours as a number of developing nations walked out. Outside […]
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/MUMA-7YQ2WR?OpenDocument&RSS20=18-P UNRWA launches new Refugee Registration Information System to improve refugee services Source: United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) East Jerusalem, 09 December 2009 – UNRWA has launched its new Refugee Registration Information System (RRIS). The digital centralised system has been developed as part of ongoing reform […]
