DANIEL GREENFIELD: LIBERAL RAGE AND BILE AIMED AT AMERICAN GRASS ROOTS

Cannibals, Vampires and Terrorists– Oh My! http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Joe Biden has compared the Tea Party to terrorists. Maureen Dowd compared them to cannibals and vampires. Then having run out of mythical monsters, or monsters they believe are mythical, there was nothing to do but roll out a few more articles about the Republican Party being taken […]

WORDS FAIL HIM SO GORE CALLS ALL CHALLENGES “BULL…T” CLIMATE DEPOT RESPONDS

Gore Unhinged! Loses it on skeptical claims: ‘It may be volcanoes.’ Bullshit! ‘It may be sun spots.’ Bullshit! ‘It’s not getting warmer.’ Bullshit!’ — Climate Depot Responds!  Climate Depot’s Point-By-Point Rebuttal to Gore’s Highbrow Scientific Arguments  By Marc Morano  –  Climate Depot Former Vice President Al Gore sounded a defeated tone and lamented the utter failure of the […]

DIANA WEST: THE TUNNEL VISION OF THE COIN BOTS (BOTCH?)

http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1866/The-Tunnel-Vision-of-the-COIN-bots.aspx “At the very end of this story lies the money quote on the thunking bankruptcy, military and political, of the American strategy in Afghanistan. It is the bankruptcy of Petraeus-McChrystal-Bush-Obama-Petraeus “population-centric COIN,” as Brig. Gen. Lewis Craparotta of Task Force Leatherneck still calls it, and no, it hasn’t been phased out.” From this week’s […]

DIANA WEST: MEANWHILE BACK IN NORWAY….A WITCH HUNT

http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1867/Meanwhile-Back-in-Norway.aspx Gates of Vienna carries a chilling  update from the erudite and prolific Norwegian blogger Fjordman, some of whose vast body of work was cut and pasted into mass murderer Breivik’s so-called manifesto. In the wake of a frenzy in Norway to identify the anonymous Fjordman, which has closely resembled a witch hunt, the 36-year-writer […]

JOSEPH RAGO: OBAMA AND THE NARCISSISM OF BIG DIFFERENCES…SEE NOTE PLEASE

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903454504576486752134553990.html?mod=djemEditorialP Obama and the Narcissism of Big Differences ‘He becomes visibly agitated. . . . He does not like to be challenged on policy grounds,’ says the House majority leader of the president. IN SIMPLER LINGO….THE PRESIDENT BEHAVES LIKE A SPOILED BRAT…RSK Whatever the rhetoric that preceded this week’s deal, the debt-ceiling debate was never […]

CUBA UPHOLDS PRISON SENTENCE FOR U.S. CONTRACTOR ALAN GROSS

Cuba upholds imprisoned American’s 15-year sentence http://www.kansascity.com/2011/08/05/3059898/cuba-upholds-imprisoned-americans.html HAVANA | Cuba’s highest court Friday upheld a 15-year prison sentence for a U.S. contractor charged with crimes against the state for distributing satellite telephone equipment to Jewish groups in Havana. The ruling leaves Alan Gross, 62, without another opportunity for appeal. He has spent 1 1/2 years […]

NUCLEAR DETERRENCE AND ENEMY RATIONALITY:By LOUIS RENÉ BERES AND JOHN T. CHAIN

http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=232731# What if Iran’s leaders do not consistently value Iran’s national survival more highly than any other preference? Nuclear deterrence is a game that even sane, rational governments may have to play, but there can be no assurance that enemies will always be rational. This presents a grave security problem, because the entire logic of […]

JEFF JACOBY: ENERGY INDEPENDENCE IS A PIPE DREAM

‘Energy independence’ is a pipe dream by Jeff Jacoby The Boston Globe  http://www.jeffjacoby.com/10071/energy-independence-is-a-pipe-dream LATE LAST MONTH, President Obama announced new automobile fuel-efficiency standards that will require cars to achieve an average of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025. Vehicle fleets currently average 27 miles per gallon, so the new target would boost fuel efficiency by […]

JANET LEVY ROSS: THE JIHAD AGAINST THE ARMENIAN, ASYRIAN AND GREEK CHRISTIANS

The Jihad Against the Armenian, Assyrian, and Greek Christians By Janet Levy See also: The Persecution of Christians in the Middle East In Germany, where Holocaust denial is punishable by up to five years in prison, Stuttgart University recently capitulated to pressure from resident Turkish Muslims and canceled an event entitled, “Persecution, Expulsion and Annihilation of Christians […]

ANDREW McCARTHY: CHRISTIE’S “CRAZIES”….GOTTAREAD

THIS GOVERNOR IS CLEARLY NOT THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE LINCOLN TUNNEL…..RSK http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/273865 Christie’s ‘Crazies’ Sharia is not a figment of our imagination. This “sharia-law business is crap . . . and I’m tired of dealing with the crazies!” So blustered Chris Christie. Bluster is the New Jersey governor’s default mode. It has certainly served him well. […]