http://www.melaniephillips.com/the-bbcs-secular-inquisition I am open-mouthed. The BBC Trust is recommending that its journalists ditch balance for propaganda. A report being published today has apparently decided that the BBC no longer needs to interview man-made global warming sceptics because there is a consensus on this issue that the theory is true. Its conclusions are said to be […]
Enduring Legacy of a Failed Flotilla Posted By P. David Hornik URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/07/20/enduring-legacy-of-a-failed-flotilla/ On Tuesday the Israeli navy intercepted the Dignite al Karama, a French ship of about fifteen radical leftists and others headed straight toward the Israeli maritime blockade of Gaza (reports here and here). The Dignite was also the last remnant […]
Hacks: The Left’s Lilliputians Try to Take Murdoch Down Posted By Mike McNally http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/hacks-the-lefts-lilliputians-try-to-take-murdoch-down/ Carl Bernstein wonders if this will be Rupert Murdoch’s Watergate [1]. The UK Guardian says Fox News could be finished [2]. As Murdoch’s opponents in the U.S. try to capitalize on the British phone-hacking scandal, to hear some of the more […]
MILLER: Gang of squish The latest debt-ceiling offer is even worse than Obama’s tax-and-spend bid http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jul/19/gang-of-squish/ The Senate’s “Gang of Six” is back, this time with a surprise plan that would preserve Washington’s big-spending ways. Within an hour of the bipartisan group’s announcement of a breakthrough framework for hiking the debt ceiling, President Obama walked […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jul/19/former-nsa-official-says-mismanagement-continues-a/ Former National Security Agency whistleblower Thomas A. Drake says continuing mismanagement and malfeasance have turned the nation’s premier electronic spy agency into “the Enron of the U.S. intelligence community.” Mr. Drake, whose federal criminal case concluded last week, said in an interview with The Washington Times that he thinks management failures at NSA related […]
Steyn on the World http://www.steynonline.com/content/view/4271/ HAPPY WARRIOR from National Review The other day, Abdul Qadir Fitrat, the governor of Afghanistan’s central bank, fled the country. The only wonder is that there aren’t more fleeing. Not Afghans; central bankers. I mean, you gotta figure that throughout the G-20 there are more than a few with the […]
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.d6302f5fdf47380d57e991a1d3bf4851.391&show_article=1 Israel commandos on Tuesday boarded a French yacht heading for Gazain defiance of its naval blockade, and escorted it to shore after what the military said was an uneventful takeover.An army spokesman confirmed the interception of the MV Dignite/Al Karama took place without violence and said that the crew and passengers were put on […]
Zogby’s “Arab Attitudes” Polls The U.S. Flunks as Obama Under-Delivers by Adam Daifallah http://www.hudson-ny.org/2282/zogby-arab-attitudes-polls The results of Zogby International’s occasional “Arab Attitudes” polls are as predictable as snow in winter: every time, the results show the Arab world is unhappy with America. Conducted by the Arab American Institute (AAI), Arab Attitudes 2011 reveals that “after […]
Obama’s Defense Cuts by Taylor Dinerman http://www.hudson-ny.org/2275/obama-defense-cuts The Obama administration is reportedly pushing for yet another $100 billion in Defense cuts, on top of the more than $500 billion in cuts to the ten-year defense spending plan the White House is already planning to enact — ensuring that there will be few — if any […]
Rick Perry’s Christianity is Good for America By Ben Shapiro http://townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/2011/07/20/rick_perrys_christianity_is_good_for_america/print For those who couldn’t tell from my name, I’m a Jew. Not only am I Jew, I’m an Orthodox Jew. I pray three times a day to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. I keep kosher. I wear phylacteries in the morning, and […]
