A VERSION OF THIS APPEARS IN THE WASHINGTON TIMES AUGUST 22 Daddy’s sugar bowl empties It’s our tradition to control, like Erich Honecker and Helmut Kohl, remember him from the Ukraine to the Rhone. Sweet home uber alles, Lord, I’m coming home.yah Come on, Sugar Daddy, bring me home. — ‘Hedwig and the Angry […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/19/obama-made-them-hate-us/ A new Zogby poll, “Arab Attitudes, 2011,” has revealed that President Obama’s charm offensive in the Arab world has failed. After he promised to restore America’s international reputation, not only does the Arab world hate America more under Mr. Obama than it did under President George W. Bush, it even hates Mr. Obama – […]
http://mobile.thehill.com//news-by-subject/defense-homeland-security/177639-ten-years-after-911-report-details-gaps-in-intelligence-networks Nearly 10 years after the 9/11 attacks U.S. intelligence agencies are still struggling to strengthen the information sharing networks that broke down in 2001, according to the latest report by the Congressional Research Service (CRS). “Counterterrorism requires the close coordination of intelligence and law enforcement agencies, but there remain many institutional and procedural issues […]
http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Opinion/Article.aspx?id=234359 The most common question I get asked by Americans and Israelis alike since making aliya one year ago is a uniformly incredulous and perplexed “Why?” Fair question. After all, I’m not remotely religious; had a relatively successful career back in New York City; a luxury apartment on the 26th floor in a whiteglove, marble-floored, […]
http://spectator.org/archives/2011/08/19/putting-american-back-to-work/print Hey Rick Perry, Mitt Romney, Michele Bachmann, here’s your chance! President Obama, in his usual graduate seminar fashion, has promised to come back after Labor Day with his plan to “create jobs.” We all know where this is going — spend more government money, strengthen union regulations, raise the minimum wage, dig the deficit hole […]
When ‘inconsequential’ means ‘better’ by Jeff Jacoby http://www.jeffjacoby.com/10157/when-inconsequential-means-better http://www.jeffjacoby.com/10133/making-washington-inconsequential PART ONE TO MANY LIBERALS, Rick Perry’s audacious pledge to make Washington, DC, as “inconsequential in your life as I can” is tantamount to a pledge to bring back the Dark Ages. Commenting on Twitter as the Texas governor announced his presidential candidacy last weekend, […]
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/147009 Video: Angry Egyptians Break into Israeli Embassy Compound: by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu More than 2,000 angry Egyptians broke down barriers at Israel’s embassy in Cairo, burned Israeli flags and raised the Egyptian flag. More than 2,000 angry Egyptians broke down barriers at Israel’s embassy in Cairo, burned Israeli flags and raised the Egyptian flag, […]
http://news.yahoo.com/egypt-recalls-ambassador-israel-over-ambush-083600043.html CAIRO (AP) — Egypt said Saturday it would recall its ambassador from Israel to protest the deaths of at least three Egyptian troops killed in a shootout between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian militants who had launched a deadly attack on Israel from Egyptian soil. The decision sharply escalated tensions between the neighboring countries, whose […]
The Imperial Presidency http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/275101 European royals make do with a less lavish lifestyle than the supposed citizen-executive of a so-called republic. Rick Perry, governor of Texas, has only been in the presidential race for 20 minutes, but he’s already delivered one of the best lines in the campaign: “I’ll work every day to try to […]
On Rick Perry and Purity http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/08/19/on-rick-perry-and-purity/ Obviously, Josh Trevino has the better argument here. At the moment, Perry is well positioned to be the candidate who can combine Bachmann’s charismatic conservatism with Romney’s experience and organization. Of course, at the end of the day, it is Perry’s record of job creation may be what puts […]
