http://www.thecommentator.com/index.php/article/245/instant_view_italy_calls_for_halt_to_hostilities_in_libya_is_gaddafi_going_to_beat_nato_ News has just broken that Italy is calling for a halt to the military campaign in Libya. Franco Frattini, Italy’s foreign minister, was quoted by Agence France Presse (AFP) as urging “an immediate humanitarian suspension of hostilities” in remarks to the Italian parliament. Italy’s commitment to the operation has been looking shaky all week […]
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/06/attempted-honor-killing-in-ny-muslim-arrested-in-brutal-stabbing-of-his-13-year-old-cousin.html This is an attempted honor killing — the media covers up such crimes for fear of insulting Islam. Just ask Fatima Abdallah. Cousin arrested in brutal stabbing of 13-year-old Henrietta girl (hat tip Petrena) By: Berkeley Brean, Thalia Hayden | WHEC.comAn arrest has been made in the brutal stabbing of a 13-year-old Henrietta girl. […]
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?print=yes&id=44329 Now that 20 states are considering legislation to outlaw Islamic law (Sharia), Islamic supremacist advocacy groups in the U.S—particularly the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)—have launched an energetic media campaign to whitewash Sharia and gull Americans into believing that it is as benign as a game of dominoes. To that end, Nezar Hamze, […]
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/06/ibn-warraq-westminster-institute-conference-may-25-2011-fighting-the-ideological-war-strategies-for-1.html Ibn Warraq: Westminster Institute Conference [May 25, 2011]: Fighting the Ideological War. Strategies for Defeating al-Qaeda. (Part 2) Westminster Institute Conference [May 25, 2011]: Fighting the Ideological War. Strategies for Defeating al-Qaeda. by Ibn Warraq Part I here. A ranking US Defense Department official, speaking at a recent conference: “We are not at war […]
MILLOY: Supremes retreat from climate panicRuling returns environmental rules to politicians, not courts http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jun/21/supremes-retreat-from-climate-panic/ THUS FAR NONE OF THE GOP CANDIDATES WITH THE EXCEPTION OF BACHMANN AND NEWT HAVE TACKLED THIS ISSUE…RSK The Supreme Court dealt Al Gore, the Environmental Protection Agency and other believers in alarmist climate science a surprising and severe blow this […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jun/21/taliban-waits-out-obama/ President Obama is expected to announce tonight the first phase of withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, making good on his self-imposed July 2011 deadline. The White House will contend that this is being done from a position of strength, but the Taliban will spin it as an ignominious U.S. retreat. This week, outgoing […]
Fading LegacyYelena Bonner and Andrei Sakharov were giants. Why do so few Russians remember them? BY DAVID E. HOFFMAN | http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/06/20/fading_legacy In 1989, Mikhail Gorbachev permitted elections for the first popularly elected legislature in Soviet history. The Communist Party still dominated, but about a third of the seats in the 2,250-member chamber were open, and […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/270101/five-points-perry-s-favor-kevin-d-williamson Five Points in Perry’s Favor Reasons to hope he throws his hat in the ring “3. He’s a conservative before he’s a Republican, and he was a conservative before he was a Republican. Perry, who first held office as a conservative Democrat, chaired Al Gore’s Texas presidential team in 1988, back when Gore was […]
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/michele-bachmann-does-founding-mothers-and-the-rest-of-us-proud/ I’m wont to laugh at liberal women who love to talk up our Founding Mothers, and how those evil, spotlight-hogging white men sliced and diced all the patriot women right out of our history books. Liberal women love to take this tack when shoring up their own spotlight-hogging contributions to our current politics. But […]
Technocracy Isn’t Policy http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ The celebration of the Arab Spring is built on faith in the redemptive ability of enhanced communications technologies to create a transparent global culture. To the true believers on the New York Times editorial page, it is axiomatic that cultural revolutions driven by communications technologies will be liberal. That anything which […]
