http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/2/freshmen-republicans-help-ensure-that-tea-partys-v/?page=all#pagebreak As the final vote on raising the government’s borrowing limit approached Tuesday, Republican after Republican took to the Senate floor to attack the bipartisan deal. The one unifying theme: Most were freshman, newly elected with the support of the tea party movement, and showed no qualms about bucking their own party’s leaders who wrote […]
Smearing the Tea Party by Jeff Jacoby http://www.jeffjacoby.com/10045/smearing-the-tea-party DID VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN slander Tea Party Republicans by saying they “acted like terrorists” in the protracted debate over raising the federal debt ceiling? To use such language would be contemptible, especially in the wake of Anders Breivik’s twin massacres in Norway and just weeks before […]
Stop the Islamization of America: New Pamela Geller book shows how to defend America from the stealth jihad Stop the Islamization of America: A veteran freedom fighter pens groundbreaking guide to defending our nation An insightful and innovative new book offers the fruit of a veteran national activist’s years of experience fighting back against Islamic […]
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=45244 Yet another jihad mass murder at Fort Hood in Texas was narrowly averted last week, and its perpetrator, a Muslim soldier in the U.S. Army named Naser Abdo, was defiant. Accused of plotting to construct bombs and detonate them in a crowded restaurant full of soldiers from Fort Hood, Abdo admitted his guilt in […]
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/08/uk-muslim-prison-inmates-believed-to-be-planning-massive-attack-staff-nearly-lost-control-after-frid.html U.K.: Muslim prison inmates believed to be planning “massive attack,” staff nearly lost control after Friday prayers The excuse du jour for the threat of violence is a desire for revenge after bin Laden’s death, though they weren’t exactly a group of pacifists up to that point, either. “Muslim Boys gang are ‘planning massive […]
Apocalyptic Thinking Leads to the Apocalypse By Ben Shapiro http://townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/2011/08/03/apocalyptic_thinking_leads_to_the_apocalypse/print We were told over and over again that if America didn’t raise her debt-ceiling, the financial roof would come tumbling down about our ears. We were told that the consequences for our credit rating would be disastrous. We were told that the stock market would […]
China’s New Aircraft Carrier Program Regional Ambitions – or Global? by Taylor Dinerman http://www.hudson-ny.org/2298/china-aircraft-carrier China’s first aircraft carrier, named, according to reports, the Shi Yang after the Chinese Admiral who first conquered Taiwan, will sail soon on its first cruise. According to a Chinese Government spokesman, it will be used for “scientific research, experiment and […]
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=269 Contrary to conventional wisdom, the Palestinian issue is not a primary Middle East concern. Pro-Western oil-producing Persian Gulf leaders are traumatized by the lethal Iranian nuclear threat, by a raging Arab street of their own and by a potential Iraqi earthquake in the aftermath of the U.S. troop withdrawal. The pro-Western Hashemite regime in […]
Russia’s Muddy Mediation in Libya Daniel Vajdic http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/russia-s-muddy-mediation-libya_581923.html Last month President Obama called his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, to “discuss a range of bilateral and international issues,” according to the White House, and to formally back Moscow’s arbitration in Libya. Meeting with Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov a day later in Washington, D.C., Obama reiterated […]
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/print-friendly/39062 As a youth, I was fascinated to read about the travels of Marco Polo who, in 1275, had journeyed from his home in Italy to distant China. That was no mean feat in the thirteenth century, even though Alexander the Great had taken his Greek army as far as the Punjab in India, fighting […]
