http://www.prudenpolitics.com/index.php/pruden/full_column/flying_high_with_the_gaffe_patrol These are high times for the Gaffe Patrol. A “target-rich environment,” as the old-timers in Vietnam called it, invites every pilot with “unexpended ordnance” under his wings to shoot down everything he sees moving. Sometimes the Gaffe Patrol just can’t miss. Rick Perry was such a juicy target after the Republican debate that even […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903703604576588694049254486.html Mr. Buffett’s Tax Secrets The least he can do is show Americans why he pays so little. Warren Buffett has forcefully injected himself into the U.S. political debate, with President Obama using the billionaire’s anecdote that he pays a lower tax rate than his secretary as a bludgeon in favor of raising taxes on […]
http://townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/2011/09/27/paying_the_dead/print There isn’t much about dysfunctional government that shocks me anymore, but this story did. According to a report by the Office of Personnel Management and reported in Ed O’Keefe’s “The Federal Eye” column in the Washington Post, our government has been sending checks to dead people. “In the last five years,” O’Keefe writes, “the […]
http://townhall.com/columnists/sandyrios/2011/09/26/at_least_perry_has_an_excuse/print Pundits seem hell bent on singling out a dismal performance by Governor Rick Perry on Thursday night’s FOX/Google debate, which was the most watched debate in history—proving voters are paying attention in record numbers as the economics tighten. Nine Republican candidates took the stage, but only one took the hearts of Florida’s Straw Poll […]
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2011/09/replacement-theology.html In the Washington Post’s “On Faith” section, a story asks; ‘Judaism without God? Yes, say American atheists’. You can have Judaism without G-D, much as you can have an “On Faith” section without anything to have faith in. It’s all a matter of definition. If you define Judaism by its covenantal document as a […]
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ If nothing else, Elizabeth Warren’s campaign for Commissar of Massachusetts deserves to be credited for getting at the heart of the issue. And the issue is private property. Is there such a thing as private property? According to the Warrens, private property is a false construct. Property is generated, maintained and protected through the […]
http://www.mideastoutpost.com/ OCTOBER 2011 OUTPOST ISSUE #247: PUBLISHED BY AMERICANS FOR A SAFE ISRAEL 41st Year of Publication WILLIAM MEHLMAN: ANARCHY AT TURTLE BAY http://www.mideastoutpost.com/archives/william-mehlman-anarchy-at-turtle-bay.html Barring a zero-hour capitulation by Israel to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ insistence on the 1949 Arab-Israeli armistice lines and a renewed halt to Jewish construction in Judea and Samaria as […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/278300 RICK PERRY IS A BUMBLING DEBATER….SO WHAT? HE HAS IDEAS AND A RECORD AND HE STANDS BY HIS PRINCIPLES WHILE THE OTHERS NIP AT HIS HEELS…..STAY TUNED….RSK Orlando, Fla. — Florida voters may have closed the door on a Presidency 5 straw-poll victory for Rick Perry, but they haven’t shut the window on the […]
Grover Norquist’s New Muslim Protégé Posted By Kenneth R. Timmerman URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/09/26/grover-norquists-new-muslim-protege/ [Editor’s note: See David Horowitz calling out Grover Norquist and Suhail Khan here. See also Frank Gaffney exposing both Norquist and Khan’s troubling connections.] “To illustrate the danger of the first approach of evil habit, the Arabs have a proverb, ‘Beware […]
A Disaster in the MakingPosted By Ben Shapiro URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/09/26/a-disaster-in-the-making/ For purposes of clarification, let us spell out the typical justifications for creation of a state. The justification for Israel, for example, was fourfold: Israel was the historic homeland of the Jews from which they had been expelled, but had never stopped […]
