ELI LAKE: ALQAEDA LINKED TO ISRAELI BUS AMBUSH

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/22/al-qaeda-linked-to-israeli-bus-ambush/ U.S. intelligence agencies are investigating reports that al Qaeda-aligned groups played a key role in the deadly commando-style attack near the Israeli resort town of Eilat last week. A U.S. government assessment of the incident Thursday concludes that either the Palestinian group Popular Resistance Committees or the Gaza-based Army of Islam (or Jaish al […]

ANDREA BILLUPS: MUSLIMS OPPOSED TO A MICHIGAN BILL OPPOSING “FOREING LAW” INTHE US

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/22/muslims-see-foreign-law-bill-as-attack-on-shariah/ DETROIT — A national drive against citing “foreign” laws in U.S. courts – one that critics say is a veiled attack on Islamic Shariah law – has reached the state with the nation’s largest concentration of Muslims. The Michigan bill, which mirrors “American Laws for American Courts” legislation introduced in more than 20 other […]

ANOTHER WEEK IN THE RAMADAN BOMBATHON…SEE NOTE PLEASE

http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/ AND THIS TALLY DOES NOT COUNT THE ROCKETS AND ATTACKS AGAINST ISRAEL….RSK Weekly Jihad Report Aug 13 – Aug. 19  Jihad Attacks: 48  Allah Akbars: 8  Dead Bodies: 303  Critically Injured: 594

JOHN PHELAN: BIG GOVERNMENT DESTROYED A HEALTHY SOCIETY AND CREATED AN UNDERCLASS AND UK RIOTS

http://www.thecommentator.com/article/384/why_did_the_uk_riots_happen_because_big_government_has_destroyed_a_healthy_society_and_created_an_underclass To describe the rioting that took place in the UK recently as “anti-social” sounds so anodyne as to be redundant. Neighbourhoods were terrorized. Buildings were burned. And people were killed. But it still conveys an essential point. One of the most noted aspects of the riots was the fact that the rioters were destroying […]

DIANA MUIR APPLEBAUM: TOO MANY MUSEUMS…..(AMEN)

http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/content/module/2011/8/23/main-feature/1/too-many-museums Although the paint is still wet on Philadelphia’s National Museum of American Jewish History, an announcement has just been made of a planned National Museum of the Jewish People on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., steps from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and not far from both the Lillian and Albert Small Jewish Museum  and the […]

HE HAS A WAY WITH WORDS:’ IRANIAN PREZ SAYS NATIONS MUST GET RID OF “INFECTED ZIONIST TUMOR”

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/08/irans-thug-in-chief-says-nations-can-get-rid-of-the-infected-tumor-of-the-zionist-regime.html Goodness knows he’d love to use radiation against what he calls a “tumor.” “Iranian President Calls for Muslims’ Massive Turnout on Quds Day,” from Fars News Agency, August 22: TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad urged the worldwide Muslim community as well as non-Muslim countries to stage massive participation in the International Quds Day […]

LACHLAN MARKAY LIBYAN CONSTITUTION…SHARIA IS THE SOURCE

http://origin.blog.heritage.org/2011/08/22/libyan-draft-constitution-sharia-is-principal-source-of-legislation/ The dust has not yet settled over the Libyan capital of Tripoli since rebels took control over the weekend. But already, a draft constitutional charter for the transitional state has appeared online (embedded below). It is just a draft, mind you, and gauging its authenticity at this point is difficult. There is also no […]

ANDREW BOSTOM: LIBYA MADE SAFE FOR SHARIA?

http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2011/08/22/the-new-libyan-zabibah-stan-made-safe-for-sharia/  The New Libyan Zabibah-stan: Made Safe for Sharia? Zabibah [2]–prominent [3]* Libyan “rebel” spokesperson Mustafa Abduljalil, born in 1952 in Al Baida, one of the first cities to rise against Gaddafi, studied law and Islamic jurisprudence in Benghazi before embarking on a legal career that culminated in his appointment in 2007 as Qaddafi’s “minister […]

FINALLY A CANDIDATE WHO CHALLENGES TORT LAWYERS: RICK PERRY:ED MORRISEY

Trial lawyers prepare for war against Perry li82-18.members.linode.com/trial-lawyers-prepare-war-against-rick–perry  Texas has successfully implemented tort reform on the state level, saving businesses billions of dollars in the long run, and Rick Perry deserves a significant amount of credit for its conclusion.  He pushed through a final 2003 reform act that made Texas a model for tort reform, […]

YORAM ETTINGER: PRE-EMPTION….NOT RETALIATION

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=375 The recent surge in Palestinian terrorism behooves Israel to revisit the fundamentals of counter-terrorism. For example, the most effective defense against terrorism – operationally, financially and morally – is not retaliation and a limited, surgical offensive, but a comprehensive, decisive, sustained and disproportionate preemptive ground offensive, which aims to obliterate terror infrastructures and capabilities, […]