http://www.theblaze.com/stories/philly-councilwoman-will-retire-for-one-day-collect-a-478k-pension-and-return-on-monday/
Philadelphia is known as the city of brotherly love and, apparently, paying out massive pensions to public employees who will continue working for the city.
Marion B. Tasco, who has been described as being “politically savvy,” will retire from her sixth term as councilwoman, collect $478,057, and then be sworn in on Monday to serve her seventh term, Catherine Lucy and Chris Brennan of the Philadelphia Daily News.
How does she get away with this?
http://michaelcutler.net/ Here is my most recent commentary for the CAPS (Californians for Population Stabilization) website. I have often noted that President Abraham Lincoln eloquently summed up the sort of government that our constitution established- “A Government of the People, By the People and For the People.” Today it is nearly impossible to find evidence […]
http://www.nypost.com/p/blogs/capitol/dennis_ross_discredited_diplomat_VzRtZiZGuZgs8u7lEixzCJ
Discredited diplomat Dennis Ross is Mr. Chutzpah
Obama’s former Iran advisor Dennis Ross has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that is entitled “On Iran, Pressure Works.” It should have been called “Chutzpah” instead. After all, Ross was the main mouthpiece for a policy that wasted years engaging with Iran, then weakly sanctioning Iran and now claims to favor “pressuring” Iran but without using force.
The plain fact is that Ross’s championing of engagement with Tehran has only served Iran’s purposes and as even Ross now admits, the Iranians are closer than ever to having a nuclear weapon.
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=2421
PA youth magazine that glorified Hitler now promotes elimination of Israel
Zayzafuna, a magazine for Palestinian youngsters, had its UNESCO funding pulled last month after it published an essay glorifying Hitler • This month, Zayzafuna publishes two full-color maps of “Palestine” with Israel completely eliminated • Also published is an essay praising legacy of Yasser Arafat.
http://frontpagemag.com/2011/12/30/womens-rights-and-double-standards/
Well, it seems the Obama team lately was running short of things over
which to bash Israel and so it decided that the treatment of women in
Israel is something that needs condemnation. Led by Hillary Clinton,
the Obama administration thinks that Israel does not treat its women
nicely or respectfully enough. This is the same Hillary Clinton who
never had much to say about the treatment of women in the Clinton
White House. Other administration bashers of Israel joined the feeding
frenzy.
http://www.prudenpolitics.com/index.php/pruden/full_column/more_than_malarkey_in_the_strait
It isn’t saber-rattling by Iran that’s making noise in the Middle East, but rhetoric-rattling. Nobody does it better.
The latest purveyor of big malarkey is the chief of the Iranian navy, who would execute the Iranian threat to close the Strait of Hormuz in answer to the Western sanctions against Iran for its work on a nuclear weapon.
“Closing the Strait of Hormuz for Iran’s armed forces is really easy,” he says, “or as Iranians say, it will be easier than drinking a glass of water.” (Those witty Persians.) Then, in deference to the real world, he added a caveat: “But right now, we don’t need to shut it.”
Al-Qaeda Relocates to Africa
“If You Said You Were a Christian, They Killed You”
http://www.hudson-ny.org/2714/al-qaeda-nigeria-boko-haram
BIN LADEN LIVED IN KHARTOUM DURING THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION AND MADELEINE ALBRIGHT AND CLINTON REFUSED SUDAN’S OFFER TO CAPTURE HIM….RSK
Nigerian Christians are under attack. On Christmas day, the Islamist group Boko Haram targeted churches in Nigeria’s capital, killing 40 innocent people. Boko Haram — literally “Western Education is a Sin ” — opposes whatever comes from the West, such as education, culture and science, and considers Christians as an obstacle to building an Islamic caliphate.
Boko Haram has recently increased its attacks against Christian Nigerians, who make up 48.2% of the country’s population. Last November, of Boko Haram killed 150 Christians and bombed 11 churches. “It was a direct attack against Christians. Members of Boko Haram asked: ‘Are you a Christian or a Muslim’ If you said you were a Christian, they killed you. […] I saw someone who was slaughtered like a lamb in front of a church,”said a representative of the Christian Association of Nigeria.
According to the Nigerian newspaper, Sunday Tribune, Nigerian intelligence believes that the intensification in the activities of Boko Haram is aimed at putting the group in advantageous position to secure the leadership of “Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.” A report in the hands of the Nigerian government allegedly confirms that after the killing of the U.S.-born Al-Qaeda top leader ,Anwar Al-Awlaki, in an air strike in Yemen by a joint CIA-U.S. military operation, Al-Qaeda is seeking to relocate from the Arabian Peninsula to Africa.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/151218 Report: US Pushing Israel to Free Barghouti The Obama administration wants Israel to release arch-terrorist Marwan Barghouti so he can run for election. The Obama administration is trying to convince Israel to release arch-terrorist and mass-murderer Marwan Barghouti. According to the Hamas-aligned Al Quds daily, Washington views Barghouti as its preferred candidate for Fatah […]
http://townhall.com/columnists/dianawest/2011/12/29/is_russia_covering_up_real_cause_of_plane_crash/print
‘Tis the season for media list-mania, and (true confession) I always am mildly surprised upon viewing Top 10 story lists to find that I’ve forgotten some humdingers. Osama bin Laden was killed in 2011?
In fact, given a tally of my own columns, jihad is the top story of 2011, just as it has been since at least 2001. Not that the media see it that way, of course; they see the spread of Islam’s law and call it “diversity” in the West or “Arab Spring” in the Middle East. They are blind to its implications, they apologize for its depredations and, in general, they commit professional malfeasance by misrepresenting the facts. Then again, at least they cover it.
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.1685/pub_detail.asp Christian couple and their one-year-old baby are shot dead by Muslims [DAILY MAIL] Iraq surge’s advocates fear gains will be lost Fragile democracy at risk, they warn [WT] The U.S. Fifth Fleet said it would not allow any disruption of traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, after Iran threatened to stop ships moving through […]
