http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/housing-diminishing-returns-and-opportunity-cost The Fed’s policies of keeping interest rates at zero and buying mortgage-backed securities are intended, we’re assured, to bolster the housing market by making it cheaper for buyers to borrow money. With mortgage rates under 4% and a trillion (soon to be two) dollars of dodgy mortgages transferred from the banks’ tottering balance sheets […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/the-next-inheritance?f=puball What then will the next administration inherit from the current one? What does 2012 look like compared to 2008 in the foreign policy arena?The next administration will most definitely face the prospects of an Iranian nuclear weapon “sooner rather than later”. At the same time, the administration will find making the case for taking […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/the-vilification-of-freedom-of-speech Slate joined the tut-tut mob of dhimmified American pundits and commentators by endorsing the abridgement of the First Amendment, at the behest of thin-skinned, super-sensitive Muslims, in its September 25th article, “The Vile Anti-Muslim Video Shows That the U.S. Overvalues Free Speech.” Slate is proof that the Internet isn’t wholly a refuge from the […]
ClimateDepot.com (Also see: NASA finally admits it Arctic cyclone in August ‘broke up’ and ‘wreaked havoc’ on sea ice — Reuters reports Arctic storm played ‘key role’ in ice reduction — NASA: ‘The cyclone remained stalled over the arctic for several days…pushing [sea ice] south to warmer waters where it melted’) It’s Official: Antarctic Sea […]
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Controls/SendFriend.ashx?print=1&type=1&item=12249 Prologue to Nuclear War in the Middle East? It is an immobilizing question, a query that was once only whispered: Could certain Iranian leaders, including President Ahmadinejad, be seeking nuclear weapons in order to deliberately bring about an apocalyptic “end of days?” Might these leaders be planning a religiously-mandated and possibly nuclear Final Battle […]
Israel, ‘Palestine,’ and the Law Of War (First of two parts) For the moment, at least, a state of Palestine does not exist. Historically, of course, such a country has never existed. Nonetheless, current supporters of Palestinian statehood (sometimes Jews as well as Arabs) have discovered substantial practical benefit in persistently referring to Israel and […]
Morsi’s message Egypt’s new leader Mohamed Morsi is proving to be a cunning communicator, at least so far as what he puts across to undiscerning Western ears. He manages to sound exceedingly moderate and reasonable, while enunciating unreasonable, indeed radical demands that must be met or else. He in effect says that “it’s my way […]
http://pjmedia.com/blog/geller-agonistes-%E2%80%94-truth-in-advertising-about-the-jihad-against-israel/ http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2012/09/30/geller-agonistes-truth-in-advertising-about-the-jihad-against-israel/ All of us who cherish Western free speech, particularly when it elucidates irrefragable truths, owe an enormous debt to journalist and author, Pamela Geller [4]. With courageous tenacity, and unflappable poise (listen [5] to former New York Governor David Paterson’s own eyewitness account of her appearance at the New York Metropolitan Transportation [MTA] […]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/30/hugo-chavez-says-hed-vote_n_1927024.html?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl1%7Csec3_lnk3%26pLid%3D213163 CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has weighed in on the U.S. presidential race, saying he prefers President Barack Obama. “If I were American, I’d vote for Obama,” Chavez said in a televised interview that aired Sunday. The Venezuelan leader called Obama “a good guy” and said if the U.S. president were a […]
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/09/criminalizing_the_defamation_of_islam.html Nothing prompts the hundreds of ordinarily feuding and fighting sects of Islam to come together like the slightest disrespect shown to the founder of their religion or their religious sanctity. With the slightest hint from their vested-interest clergy and politicians, mobs of Muslims pour into the streets in a frenzy, burning things, destroying buildings, […]
