http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/273516/re-taxing-questions-sperlings-right-ryans-wrong-andrew-c-mccarthy Re: Taxing Questions — Sperling’s Right, Ryan’s Wrong After reading K-Lo’s post about Rep. Paul Ryan’s response to White House adviser Gene Sperling, I took a look at the Bipartisan Agreement To Add $7 Trillion To The Deficit Act of 2011– er, I mean the Budget Control (Ahem) Act of 2011 — to try […]
Stealthily Orchestrating a Pro-Islamic Stance Marilyn Penn http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.10084/pub_detail.asp “A stout man who wears antique wire-rimmed glasses and a thick, white-streaked beard, Mr. Yerushalmi has a seemingly inexhaustible appetite for the arguments his work provokes.” Andrea Elliott, “Behind An Anti-Sharia Push” NYTimes 7/31/11 on David Yerushalmi “A bearish man with a soft bearded face, Mr. Shata struck […]
http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2011/08/baying-down-alarms-against.html Baying Down Alarms Against The “Apocalyptically-Inspired Enemy”: The Illiberal Liberals of the West In Front Page magazine David Solway has written a perceptive and timely article entitled “Islamophilia and Judeophobia,” examining the Western liberal establishment’s “venereal attachment to Islam and its tandem resilement of Israel and Jews,” its “schmoozing with terrorists,” and its “demonization […]
http://news.yahoo.com/three-police-killed-baghdad-liquor-store-blasts-102329909.html Violence in Iraq has declined from its peak in 2006 and 2007, but attacks remain common. A total of 259 Iraqis were killed in attacks in July, the second-highest figure for 2011. Successive bombings targeting an alcohol shop on Baghdad’s western outskirts killed three policemen at the beginning of the holy Muslim fasting month […]
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/343/one_man_s_crime_is_not_enough_to_sanitise_radical_islam Why the crimes of Anders Breivik do not wipe Islam’s slate clean. Can one man’s actions bring a faith into disrepute? It is hard to know exactly what motivated Anders Breivik before his appalling massacre of the innocents on July 22nd. His rambling, Mein Kampf style manifesto contains an unbridled assault on Islam, multiculturalism […]
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ In the budget debate, government amateurs took on government professionals. And the professionals won. This is only to be expected. Professionals usually have the inside track in whatever field they’re in. Not only do they hold the higher ground, but they know all the loopholes and how to shape the dialogue. In most fields, […]
Abdo’s Loyalty to Muslims Always Meant Disloyalty to Americans Posted By Raymond Ibrahim URL to article: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/abdo%e2%80%99s-loyalty-to-muslims-always-meant-disloyalty-to-americans/ To anyone familiar with Muslim doctrine, Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo’s actions — from refusing to deploy to Afghanistan lest he kill fellow Muslims to plotting a terror attack to kill fellow Americans — make perfect sense and accord […]
The Evil of Benevolence Posted By Herbert London URL to article: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-evil-of-benevolence/ How is it that after the expenditure of trillions of dollars, the percentage of poor people in the United States is largely unchanged? Does the rate of reproduction among poor people exceed the assistance government provides? Are illegal aliens entering the United States […]
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 […]
