http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/18/obamas-worst-nightmare/ President Obama can see the writing on the wall: His days in the White House are numbered. This is the real meaning of Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s entry into the Republican presidential race. The GOP now has a candidate who can not only defeat Mr. Obama, but crush him. For months, the mainstream media […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/18/oklahomas-fallin-resists-obamacare/ Having already rejected a multimillion-dollar federal grant because of a fear of entangling regulations, Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin said in an interview she hopes to keep President Obama’s health care law at bay while cultivating her state’s own path to expanded insurance coverage. Under pressure from conservatives, the Republican governor declined a $54 million […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/18/mcdonnell-state-ends-fiscal-2011-545m-surplus/ TOO BAD VIRGINIA LAW MAKES THIS MAN A ONE TERM GOVERNOR….HE HAS A STERLING RESUME BUT GENERATED NO HEAT FOR THE GOP PRESIDENTIAL CASTING COUCH…..RSK RICHMOND — Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell announced Thursday the commonwealth ended fiscal 2011 with a $545 million surplus, but urged lawmakers to set aside $30 million of the windfall […]
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/military-admits-360-mill-in-taxpayer-money-lost-to-taliban-criminals-in-afghanistan/ WASHINGTON (The Blaze/AP) — Has America been funding her enemies? That’s what the results of a new report seem to indicate. After examining hundreds of combat support and reconstruction contracts in Afghanistan, the U.S military estimates $360 million in U.S. tax dollars has ended up in the hands of people the American-led coalition has spent […]
http://townhall.com/columnists/dianawest/2011/08/19/afghans_use_us_outpost_for_target_practice/print On the Afghan border with Pakistan, in Paktika province, is a tiny, isolated and primitive American outpost called Combat Outpost (COP) Margah. What happened there last fall never penetrated mainstream consciousness, but on Oct. 30, American forces were surprised by a wee-hours attack by hundreds of unusually sophisticated fighters who were “armed to the […]
http://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2011/08/19/smacking_down_progressives_of_pallor/print Is there anything more condescending than a porcelain-skinned Hollywood liberal who attempts to show her presumed solidarity with minorities by referring to them as “people of color”?Yes, there is: Two porcelain-skinned liberals attempting to show their allegiance to “diversity” by attacking “people of color” who happen to disagree with their radical politics. Such an […]
http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2011/08/blood-in-the-streets.php Israeli military preparedness follows a depressing pattern. The IDF does not change its assessments of the strategic environment until Israeli blood runs in the streets. In Judea and Samaria, from 1994 through 2000, the army closed its eyes to the Palestinian security forces’ open, warm and mutually supportive ties to terror groups. The military […]
http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2011/08/18/mainstream-american-muslim-%E2%80%9Cjurisprudence%E2%80%9D-on-dogs/ Mainstream American Muslim “Jurisprudence” on Dogs In follow-up to the wrenching story [1] related yesterday about Wiley, a cruelly brutalized Afghan mutt—treated in accord with doctrinal [2] and historical [1] Islamic attitudes towards dogs—I discovered the fatwas (reproduced below) on dogs and dog ownership, from the mainstream American Muslim font of Islamic “jurisprudence,” the […]
Annals of the Arab Spring: Obama Administration Backs Muslim Brotherhood in Syria http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/274969 Before running off on his latest vacation, at the conclusion of his three-day, publicly-funded campaign swing, President Obama boldly called for Bashar al-Assad to step down — in the midst of what is the Iran-backed Syrian president’s brutal, months long repression of […]
Another Tack: Red flags in Tel Aviv (II) –Mapai memories So sweet is the enticement of deluxe revolution, requiring no risk or real effort, just lots of self-applied ego massages, outdoor happenings, free entertainment and nonstop media hype.We can all feel like heroes by just coming out to hear mediocre renditions by opportunistic crooners who […]
