http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.9894/pub_detail.asp The Fourth of July, a Day for Barbecues and – Global Warming? Peter Gadiel Ah, the Fourth of July holiday! It has passed for this year, but the joys of it remain in our memories: burgers & steaks on the barbecue, the NY Times op-ed page, Harvard scholars, global warming. What more could one ask for […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.1769,css.print/pub_detail.asp 1. White House’s Economists: ‘Stimulus’ Has Cost $278,000 per Job 2. VIDEO: Rush Limbaugh’s Independence Day speech to Joplin, Missouri 3. VIDEO: L.A. Times: Current Congress is Least Productive in Recent Years 4. VIDEO: Juan Williams: Media Matters ‘Trying to Ruin People’s Lives’ 5. VIDEO: ‘Wahhabis of American Gov’t’: MSNBC’s Matthews Likens GOP to […]
Remembering Pre-Obama America Posted By David Solway URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/07/07/remembering-pre-obama-america/ It is pretty much common knowledge by this time—except to his diehard supporters—that President Barack Obama is ill-equipped to occupy the highest office in the country. The only campaign promise he has not broken is the pledge to “fundamentally transform” America, which he has […]
Illiberal Immigration http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/271209 The old liberal ideal of a racially blind, melting-pot society is dead. Recently, in symbolic fashion, spectators of Mexican ancestry in Pasadena’s Rose Bowl did not merely cheer on the Mexican national soccer team in a game against the U.S. national team — such nostalgia would be natural and understandable for recent […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/271154 Surveying the Muslim World The curse of living in interesting times Most observers seem to be wearying of the Arab Spring, just as it is becoming interesting. The idea of a democratic contagion that would suddenly sweep away centuries of autocratic misrule and replace it with Tocquevillean civic-mindedness was too far-fetched for all but […]
http://pajamasmedia.com/barryrubin/2011/07/06/why-is-the-u-s-in-libya-good-question/?singlepage=true Listening to President Barack Obama talk about the administration’s Libya policy is a strange experience. He makes various arguments justifying the war there along the lines of: dictator Muammar Gaddafi is a bad guy, he has killed a lot of Americans in the past, and he was threatening to kill his own people so […]
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/what-to-look-for-in-a-presidential-candidate/?singlepage=true HMMMM…..IS THERE A PERRY IN OUR FUTURE? RSK Recently, I examined what not to look for in a presidential candidate in a previous piece. The question now becomes: what should conservative voters look for in a Republican nominee? Obama has shown electing a president to be far easier than electing one who will govern […]
http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=1&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=442&PID=0&IID=7797&TTL=What_Are_the_Palestinians_Planning_after_September What Are the Palestinians Planning after September? Pinhas Inbari What the Palestinians really envisage after September is to exploit a UN endorsement of statehood to legitimize an escalation of the conflict. After having the 1967 lines recognized so as to negate the results of the Six-Day War, they plan to seek recognition of the […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303544604576430062425482934.html?mod=WSJ_newsreel_opinion Videogames that allow a “player” to sit in front of a monitor for hours—and hours—obliterating realistic images of people are a protected form of “free speech.” Thus sayeth the Supreme Court last week, 7-2. On First Amendment grounds, the decision overturned a California law forbidding the sale to minors of violent videogames, generally called […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303365804576429852703978020.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLETopOpinion Some legal observers would like to be rid of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Associated Press reported over the weekend. These aren’t conservatives who find her too activist but liberals who find her too old and worry that if she doesn’t get out soon, a Republican president will get to replace her: Ginsburg could […]