April 28, 2010 Is Arizona Racist? Joseph Levin Arizona recently passed the nation’s strictest law vis-a-vis illegal immigrants. It was signed last week by the governor and enjoys wide support among voters in Arizona. The law has been panned nationally as motivated by “racism,” but a look at the poll numbers coming out of Arizona […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/apr/30/calling-in-the-clowns-to-reform-wall-street/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_must-read-stories-today: Wesley Pruden ANALYSIS/OPINION Henry Kissinger once observed that it was too bad that Iran and Iraq couldn’t both lose their war with each other. It’s tempting to apply that to the principals in the faceoff between the U.S. Senate and Goldman Sachs. Who could choose between the arrogance of, say, “Fabulous Fab,” the Goldman […]
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=531811 Â Viewpoint Too-Big-To-Fail Fannie And Freddie Are Dodd-Frank Model For Reform By REP. ED ROYCEÂ Posted 04/29/2010 06:15 PM ET “I do think I do not want the same kind of focus on safety and soundness that we have in OCC (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency) and OTS (Office of Thrift Supervision). I […]
Terrorism, Witch Hunting the CIA, and National Security Posted By Frontpagemag.com Editors’ note: At the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s Santa Barbara Retreat this past weekend, one of the panels featured John Yoo, Marc Thiessen, and Andrew McCarthy in a fascinating and candid conversation about the effort on the part of Left-legal activists and Democratic Party […]
 Click here: A Tale Of Two Westministers: 28 and 35 Years Later – Maggie’s Farm http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/14313-A-Tale-Of-Two-Westministers-28-and-35-Years-Later.html Thirty-five years ago, South Vietnam fell to the communist North. Twenty-eight years ago, President Reagan addressed the British Parliament at Westminister in his famous “Ash Heap of History†speech, to where tyrants will be sent by those valiantly defending […]
My Peace Plan: An Israeli Victory by Daniel Pipes National Post April 29, 2010 http://www.danielpipes.org/8309/my-peace-plan-an-israeli-victory [DP note: The title is slightly changed] This month, Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak declared that Israel must withdraw from Palestinian territories. “The world isn’t willing to accept — and we won’t change that in 2010 — the expectation that […]
BRITANNIA WAIVES THE RULES: EDWARD ALEXANDER REVIEWS ANTHONY JULIUS’S ” TRIALS OF THE DIASPORA: A HISTORY OF ANTISEMITISM IN ENGLAND” (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2010) By Edward Alexander April 27, 2010 Britannia Waives the Rules Anthony Julius, Trials of the Diaspora:A History of Antisemitism in England. (Oxford University Press, 2010> In a famous letter of 1838 […]
nro blogs Thursday, April 29, 2010 Arizona Law: Perfectly Legal … But Will It Work? [Andy McCarthy] The first good critique I have seen from a doubter of the Arizona law comes from my friend Bill West, who used to be a top federal immigration official in Florida. Bill agrees with me that there is […]
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/04/29/accused-terrorist-omar-khadr-delays-hearing-at-guantanamo/ GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba – Accused war criminal Omar Khadr initially did not show up for the second day of his pretrial hearing Thursday because of what his lawyers described as severe pain in his left eye. The absence of Khadr, a 23-year-old Canadian citizen captured in Afghanistan and charged with murder, conspiracy and support […]
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/04/29/taliban-gaining-strength-in-afghanistan-pentagon-says/ Taliban Gaining Strength in Afghanistan, Pentagon Says Posted: 04/29/10Filed Under:Afghanistan, Military 92 Comments + Join the discussion »TEXT SIZE:AAAPRINT SHARE Despite major recent offensives by coalition forces against the insurgency in Afghanistan, the Taliban is gaining strength and expanding its reach and influence, according to a new Pentagon report. The assessment says the Taliban’s […]