Who are we funding? The darker side of British foreign aid http://www.thecommentator.com/article/342/who_are_we_funding_the_darker_side_of_british_foreign_aid_The British government must do more to ensure that the foreign aid it donates is not misspent for sinister purposes. The actions of the Palestinain Authority are a case in point. Foreign aid: contributing to peace or prolonged conflict? Just a few weeks ago […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/3/us-eats-most-debt-limit-one-day/ U.S. debt shot up $239 billion on Tuesday — the largest one-day bump in history — as the government flexed the new borrowing room it earned in this week’s debt-limit increase deal. The debt subject to the statutory limit shot way past the old cap of $14.294 trillion to hit $14.532 trillion on Tuesday, […]
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/burqa-babes-in-the-big-house-romeo-and-juliet-in-kabul/?print=1 Burqa Babes in the Big House: Romeo and Juliet in Kabul Posted By Phyllis Chesler Forced, arranged marriage is a heartbreaking and soul-crushing Islamic reality. Yes, I know: tribal concepts of family honor and Arab desert customs take pride in the fact that they are able to break each individual’s will in the service […]
http://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2011/08/04/spare_us_the_sermons,_mr_president/print So spare us any more of the bottled piety, Mr. President. Instead, just make the argument to the public that borrowing $4 billion a day is still necessary and sustainable — and explain how it came to be that this post-recession recovery on your watch is the weakest since World War II. During the […]
http://townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/2011/08/04/tea_party_terrorists According to the website Politico, Vice President Joe Biden agreed “with a line of argument made by Rep. Mike Doyle (D-Pa.) at a two-hour, closed-door Democratic Caucus meeting” that congressional tea party members “acted like terrorists” in the way they stood against attempts to raise taxes and force spending reductions as part of the […]
Raymond Ibrahim: “Christian Terrorism”? http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/08/raymond-ibrahim-christian-terrorism.html In light of the Norway terrorist attack, and as expected, the hail of religious relativism has begun—the idea that, if a “Christian,” such as Breivik, commits terrorism, then it is folly to assert that certain Muslim doctrines inspire violence and terror: all becomes relative. A recent AP report titled “‘Christian […]
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/08/secretary-of-state-clinton-says-state-department-will-coordinate-with-oic-on-legal-ways-to-implement.html Moving rapidly to criminalize telling the truth about how Islamic jihadists use the texts and teachings of Islam to encourage violence and supremacism. Free Speech Death Watch Alert, and an update on this story: “OIC/Islamophobia: OIC Observatory warned since 2009 against the growth of the extreme right in Europe, Washington plans to host a […]
New Muslim ‘Reality’ Show Is Anything But by Raymond Ibrahim http://www.hudson-ny.org/2314/muslim-reality-show The American TV network TLC recently announced that it is making a reality series following the lives of Muslims living in America. The program—called “All American Muslim”—will follow five Muslim families in Dearborn, Michigan, hoping to expose the “misconceptions and conflicts” they face “outside […]
Muslim Countries Financing Jihad in Spain by Soeren Kern http://www.hudson-ny.org/2320/financing-jihad-in-spain “The irony (or maybe not) is that all of the Muslim countries supporting Jihad in Spain also support the Alliance of Civilizations, a post-modern initiative proudly launched by Spain’s Socialist Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero in 2005 as a way to “bridge the divide” […]
Palestinian ‘Head of State’ at the U.N. — Get Ready for the Statehood Steamroller By Anne Bayefsky http://www.eyeontheun.org/ Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/08/03/palestinian-head-state-at-un-get-ready-for-statehood-steamroller/#ixzz1U3E8Cyyu The United Nations showed its hand this week and sent out a provisional list of speakers for the opening session of the General Assembly in September listing the speaker from “Palestine” as “H.S.” or […]
