ROGER KIMBALL; WHAT SHOULD THE PRESIDENT DO? FOR STARTERS HOW ABOUT AN APOLOGY?

Obama: time for an apology Posted By Roger Kimball URL to article: http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2011/08/07/obama-time-for-an-apology/   What should the President do Monday? I think Amilya Antonetti, Chairman & CEO of AMA Productions has it right. In a not-to-be-missed interview [1] with Neil Cavuto (h/t Instapundit [2]), she boiled it down to one word: “Apologize.” He should say […]

The Rick Perry I Know by Matthew Dowd….

http://nationaljournal.com/politics/the-rick-perry-i-know-20110805?print=true Texas Gov. Rick Perry, elected to the Texas Legislature in 1984, came to be known as one of the “Pit Bulls,” who sat in the lower pit of the House Appropriations Committee and bitterly fought spending increases. In 1986, I was running the Texas Democratic Party primary, and in walked an attractive rancher who […]

MARK STEYN: RAISING THE DEBT CEILING AND LOWERING THE ABYSS

http://articles.ocregister.com/2011-08-05/news/29859879_1_debt-ceiling-boehner-obama-standard-poor-s On Thursday, in honor of Barack Obama’s 50th birthday, the Dow dropped 10 points for every year he has walked among us. It was the ninth-largest drop in history. We should be relieved he wasn’t turning 80. The markets are apparently concerned that the entire global economy may be “stalling.” You don’t say? Observant […]

IN OLD MOROCCO: THE TRAGEDY OF SOLICA HATCHUEL A YOUNG WOMAN BEHEADED FOR REFUSING TO CONVERT TO ISLAM….see note please

Solica Hatchouel, Jewish Martyr In Old Morocco http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/ THE IMAGE IS ON THE COVER OF ANDREW BOSTOM’S BOOK “THE LEGACY OF ISLAMIC ANTI-SEMITISM” AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON SOL HATUEL IS DETAILED HERE: http://www.andrewbostom.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=26&Itemid=48   On her tomb in Fez, Morocco, beneath an elaborate Hebrew inscription, there is an epitaph in French for the martyred Mademoiselle […]

CAN THIS BE TRUE? US GOV’T LET CARTEL SMUGGLE DRUGS FOR INTEL? BOB OWENS

What? Gov’t Let Cartel Smuggle Drugs in Exchange for Intel? Posted By Bob Owens URL to article: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/what-govt-let-cartel-smuggle-drugs-in-exchange-for-intel/   A Sinaloa drug cartel member is claiming [1] that the federal government allowed the cartel to smuggle cocaine into the United States in exchange for intelligence information about rival cartels. Attorneys for Jesus Vicente Zambada-Niebla claim that […]

DAVID SOLWAY: ANTI-SEMITISM…THE SAME OLD LIES SINCE 200 B.C.

Anti-Semitism: The Same Old Lies Since 200 B.C. Posted By David Solway URL to article: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/anti-semitism-the-same-old-lies-since-200-b-c/   When it comes to Israel and the Jews, the defamatory impulse never dies. The Iranians and their supporters claim there was no Holocaust. The Jews just made it up. Or if some magnanimously concede that the Holocaust did […]

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 […]