LA Sheriff’s Department has Muslim public affairs unit, but no comparable units for other religions

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/07/la-sheriffs-department-has-muslim-public-affairs-unit-but-no-comparable-units-for-other-religions.html LA Sheriff’s Department has Muslim public affairs unit, but no comparable units for other religions Sheriff Baca Update. “LA Sheriff’s Department Has A Muslim Public Affairs Unit,” by Amy Alkon for Men’s News Daily, July 11 (thanks to Kenneth): LA Sheriff’s Department Has A Muslim Public Affairs Unit [.] It’s paid for with public […]

DAVID MALPASS: THE DEBT OUTLOOK IS STARK

http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/davidmalpass/2011/07/13/debt_outlook_stark/print Congress and the President are down to the wire on cutting a debt limit deal. The President’s goal haqs been to sound fiscally conservative, make clear the August 2 deadline, point to the need for a combination of spending cuts and tax increases, and encourage more discussions.     It’s still possible that the two parties will […]

BEN SHAPIRO: OBAMA PLAYS CHICKEN

http://townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/2011/07/13/obama_plays_chicken/print There is a climactic scene in the movie “Rebel Without a Cause,” in which two enemies play chicken. The sullen hero, Jim (James Dean), races toward a cliff against the bully Buzz (Corey Allen). Whoever jumps out first is deemed a “chicken.” This week, President Obama decided to play chicken. He’s so committed to […]

JOHN STOSSEL: DAVID MAMET’S CONVERSION

http://townhall.com/columnists/johnstossel/2011/07/13/david_mamets_conversion/print Hollywood mocks capitalism, which seems odd because the people who make movies are such aggressive capitalists — competing hard to make money. But Hollywood’s message is that capitalism is shallow and cruel. Take the 1992 movie “Glengarry Glen Ross” (based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning play). It’s about cutthroat real estate salesmen who work for […]

SRDJA TRIFKOVIC: THE GREEN, GREEN ARAB SUMMER PART ONE

http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/category/srdja-trifkovic/news-views/ http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/2011/07/08/the-green-green-arab-summer-1/ The Green, Green Arab Summer: I by Srdja Trifkovic • July 8th, 2011 • In the U.S. mainstream media the developments that have followed the misnamed “Arab Spring” have been curiously under-reported. The reason seems clear: In recent weeks those developments have taken a clear turn away from Western-style democracy, pluralism, tolerance, respect […]

CONNECTICUT JEWISH LEDGER EDITORIAL: ISRAEL’S NEW ENERGY RESOURCES A BLESSING AND A CURSE

      Blessing and Curse: Israel’s new energy resources.     Jewish lore has long defined Jewish misfortune as beginning when Moses took the Jewish people into the land of Cannan instead of east of the Jordan River towards the Saudi Arabian Peninsula with all of its vast oil wealth. But the two recent […]

FRANK GAFFNEY: ENERGY FREEDOM NOW!!

Energy Freedom Now By Frank Gaffney, Jr. http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/index.xml Mark Twain is usually credited with the quip that “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.”  The same is certainly true of our dependence on foreign, and often unfriendly, sources of energy – particularly when gas prices soar and every American feels the pinch. […]

LIFE MAGAZINE ON ISRAEL IN 1967….MUSTREADTHIS

http://www.maggiesnotebook.com/author/maggiesnotebook/ http://docstalk.blogspot.com/2011/07/life-magazine-on-israel-in-1967.html Israel and their previous borders have been a topic of great interest and angst for the past couple of weeks. We know the Progressive line that Israel is an occupier, but did you know that as late as 1967 the American viewpoint, as plainly expressed by Life Magazine, was much, much different? And […]

DIANA WEST: PETRAEUS WATCH

http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1841/Petraeus-Watch.aspx   Petraeus Watch Written by:Diana West 7/11/2011 9:08:00 AM   Gen David Petraeus: “No country has suffered more from Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida than Afghanistan.” That comment from a June interview with Military Times stopped me cold. Partly, it was the pat sweep of the superlative. But it was also the gratuitousness of […]

PRESIDENT OBAMA DONATES $100 BILLION TO THE UNITED NATIONS: PAUL L. WILLIAMS

http://www.aim.org/guest-column/president-donates-100-billion-to-the-united-nations/ President Donates $100 Billion to the United Nations Posted By Paul L. Williams The U. S. State Department yesterday announced that the Obama Administration has agreed to contribute $4 billion to the United Nations Global Fund to fight AIDs, Tuberculosis, and Malaria from 2011 to 2013. The $4 billion represents a 38% increase over […]