http://townhall.com/columnists/richgalen/2011/08/30/perry_leads_on_all_fronts/print National polls measuring support during the primary season are suspect because we don’t have national primaries. We have state-by-state primaries and caucuses. A national poll measuring support five months ahead of the first caucus is beyond suspect. It is meaningless. Having started out with that warning let me make another assertion: No matter how […]
http://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2011/08/31/screw_up,_move_up,_cover_up_the_fast_and_furious_edition/print There are now enough Operation Fast and Furious officials playing hide-and-seek in the Obama administration to fill a “rubber room.” That’s the nickname for taxpayer-subsidized holding pens, such as the ones in the New York City public schools, where crooked employees are separated from the system and paid to do nothing. Perhaps the White […]
http://www.lohud.com/article/20110830/NEWS02/110830004/Dispute-sends-scores-police-Playland-park-reportedly-closed RYE — A melee broke out Tuesday afternoon at Playland Amusement Park when Muslim visitors became angry that the park was enforcing its ban on headgear by prohibiting the women from wearing their traditional head coverings on some rides. Police from at least nine agencies converged on the park beginning at 3 p.m. after […]
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0811/glick083011.php3?printer_friendly http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Will the Egyptian military be permitted to remilitarize the Sinai? Since Palestinian and Egyptian terrorists crossed into Israel from Sinai on August 18 and murdered eight Israelis this has been a central issue under discussion at senior echelons of the government and the IDF. Under the terms of the Egypt-Israel peace treaty, […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.10278,css.print/pub_detail.asp N.B.: National Reviewtitle is “Making Believe: our terrorism non-policy”; in addition, this text differs in many small ways from the published version. With trumpets and drum rolls, the White House in early August released a policy paper on methods to prevent terrorism, said to have been two years in the making. Signed personally by […]
A Deity Goes into Retirement Tibetans Face Uncertainty in Post-Dalai Lama Era http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,782329,00.html By Erich Follath in Dharamsala, India The Dalai Lama has officially retired from politics, claiming he wants to live as a “simple monk.” It’s a watershed moment for Tibet, amid fears of Chinese meddling and controversy over the new generation of leaders. Meanwhile […]
http://frontpagemag.com/2011/08/30/%e2%80%9ci%e2%80%99ve-got%e2%80%a6islamophobia%e2%80%9d/print/ ‘I’ve Got…Islamophobia!’ I tried poring over the new Think Progress report, but it didn’t help. The paranoid delusions kept recurring. I tried exercise, listening to soft music before going to bed, thinking only pleasant thoughts. And still, late at night, the dreadful fantasies came back. I went to a doctor in Beersheva. Though he’s […]
Liberating Libya for Jihadists Posted By Bruce Thornton URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/08/30/liberating-libya-for-jihadists/ The fall of Muammar Gaddafi is making some in the West giddy with the usual “Arab Spring” wishful visions of democracy and freedom flourishing throughout the Muslim Middle East, even as the last binge of democratic intoxication, the fall of Egyptian strongman Hosni […]
@ElBloombito — the fake Twitter account parodying Mayor Bloomberg’s attempts at Spanish during Hurricane Irene — has gone viral.
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/275818 The last time Republicans were roundly condemned as anti-science, it was for their resistance to destroying human embryos for stem cells. Their crude religiosity supposedly blocked imminent leaps ahead in medical progress. Then-vice-presidential candidate John Edwards went so far as to predict in 2004 that because of “the work we will do when John […]
