DANIEL GREENFIELD: IS OBAMA OUR GORBACHEV?

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ He was a youthful leader with a law degree elected on the promise of reforms that would revitalize a world power trapped in the economic doldrums by its bureaucracy and huge debt. His approach of international engagement attempted to break through his country’s global isolation by forging new ties and treaties with old enemies. […]

DAVID ISAAC: STAYING THE COURSE

http://shmuelkatz.com/wordpress/?p=744 Golda Meir famously quipped that Moses led the Jews to the one place in the Middle East without oil. It’s ironic then that Israel Energy Initiatives’ office is located at 1 Golda Meir Boulevard in Jerusalem. Last month the energy company pulled its first shale sample from the Zoharim drilling site southwest of Beit […]

LATE AND LAME: BENNY MORRIS RESPONDS TO KARSH….SEE NOTE PLEASE

Page Printed from: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2011/07/my_response_to_efraim_karsh.html BENNY MORRIS WAS AMONG THE FIRST AND MOST VICIOUS  OF HOME GROWN ISRAEL BASHERS TO THE DELIGHT OF ISRAEL’S ENEMIES….THIS IS A VEILED ACCUSATION OF ETHNIC CLEANSING WHICH HE REITERATES….“I wrote, in Righteous Victims (1999), that Zionism was a “colonizing and expansionist ideology and movement … intent on politically, and even […]

Bodyguard who killed Karzai’s brother was trusted CIA contact before being recruited by Taliban

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/07/bodyguard-who-killed-karzais-brother-was-trusted-cia-contact-before-being-recruited-by-taliban.html Bodyguard who killed Karzai’s brother was trusted CIA contact before being recruited by Taliban He “been working closely with US Special Forces and the CIA before he was recruited by the Taliban.” How is it that the Taliban were able to recruit him? When he went to work for the CIA, didn’t they determine […]

Israel: Since the Egyptian revolution, “the IDF believes Hamas has smuggled in three times the amount of explosives it brought into Gaza in all of 2010”

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/07/israel-since-the-egyptian-revolution-the-idf-believes-hamas-has-smuggled-in-three-times-the-amount-o.html Israel: Since the Egyptian revolution, “the IDF believes Hamas has smuggled in three times the amount of explosives it brought into Gaza in all of 2010” Gaza’s jihadists are only using the ceasefire as Islamic law intends it: to regroup and re-arm for the next round. “IDF doesn’t view rocket attacks as real escalation,” […]

AND IN IRAQ SURGEISTAN: 2010 “WORST YEAR FOR CHRISTIAN MINORITY

http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2011/07/17/post-surge-iraq-2010-%E2%80%9Cworst-year%E2%80%9D-for-small-christian-minority/ Post-Surge Iraq: 2010 “Worst Year” for Small Christian Minority Posted By Andrew Bostom On July 17, 2011 David “What have you done to win Iraqi hearts and minds today [2]?” Petraeus’s Legacy of Post-Surge “Success” General David Petraeus continues to receive plaudits for the “successful surge” in Iraq—based upon his credo [3], “What have […]

DID COIN BEAR A FRUIT OR TWO IN PETREAUSTAN YESTERDAY? DIANA WEST

http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1845/Did-COIN-Bear-One-Fruit-or-Two-in-A-stan-Yesterday.aspx RTT News reports: A NATO soldier, shot dead while on patrol in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, has been identified as British. “An individual wearing an Afghan National Army uniform turned his weapon against International Security Assistance Force service members in southern Afghanistan today, killing one service member,” an International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) press release […]

EERILY ALIKE: LAURA INGRAHAM JUXTAPOSES CARTER AND OBAMA SPEECHES

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/318855.php SAME POMPOUS BLATHER

DAVID MAMET’S TRAGIC VISION: LOU MARANO

David Mamet’s Tragic Vision By Lou Marano   http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | David Mamet’s understanding of drama unlocked secrets unrelated to the theater. During a lifetime of creative achievement, the acclaimed playwright, screenwriter, and film director had seen how an audience could surrender part of its rationality for two hours in order to enjoy an illusion. But […]

GOVERNORS RICK PERRY (TX-R) AND NIKKI HALEY (SC-R): BREAK THE SPEND AND BORROW CYCLE

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/break-the-spend-and-borrow-cycle/2011/07/13/gIQAYYtZEI_story.html By Rick Perry and Nikki Haley, As governors of states whose residents, like all Americans, are desperate for the restoration of fiscal responsibility in Washington, we are proud to have signed the “Cut, Cap and Balance Pledge” amid the debate over once again raising the federal debt ceiling. We oppose an increase in the […]