DAVID SOLWAY: AN UNHOLY MARRIAGE

An Unholy Marriage Posted By David Solway http://frontpagemag.com/2011/04/25/an-unholy-marriage/print/ One of the most profound conundrums of our time is the passionate love affair carried on by the young inheritors of the liberal and presumably enlightened West with the totalitarian specimens of the Arab Middle East. They tend to be meltingly soft on Islam—the “religion of peace”—and, […]

THE BLOODY STREETS OF SYRIA: RYAN MAURO

http://frontpagemag.com/2011/04/25/the-bloody-streets-of-syria/ The Bloody Streets of Syria Posted By Ryan Mauro At least 120 civilians were killed by the Syrian regime this weekend as the anti-government protests become stronger each passing Friday. The gross human rights violations have been decried by international human rights groups and spectators in the West, leaving many to openly wonder why […]

RICK PERRY’S TENTH COMMANDMENT: KEVIN D. WILLIAMSON

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/265309 Rick Perry’s Tenth Commandment Kevin D. Williamson From the Apr. 4, 2011, issue of NR. ‘If Jeb Bush’s name were Jeb Smith, he’d be the next president of the United States,” says Texas governor Rick Perry, and then there’s a long pause in the conversation to let pass the unspoken corollary: “And if Rick […]

THE WHITE HOUSE WANTS A LIST

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704570704576275341529251056.html?mod=WSJ_newsreel_opinion The White House Wants a List Want a federal contract? Show politicians the money. Here’s another reason to think the 2012 campaign is underway with a vengeance: If a company wants a federal government contract, from now on it will first have to disclose if the company or its executives gave more than $5,000 […]

GREAT NEWS! THE CLIMATE TORT GOES DOWN…EVEN LIBERAL JUSTICES CAN’T ABIDE IT

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704658704576274930992503832.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_AboveLEFTTop How unconvincing is the green legal doctrine of the climate tort? So much so that not a single Justice seemed persuaded when the Supreme Court heard oral arguments last Tuesday—even some of the liberals questioned the theory with Scalia-like vigor. In American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut, a group of state attorneys general are […]

ARGENTINA’S “PRESIDENTA” KIRCHNER’S TERRIBLE POLICIES

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703387904576279021758835928.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_BelowLEFTSecond Kirchner Copies Peron’s Model MARY ANASTASIA O’GRADY The government fines independent economists who predict inflation above 10%. Argentine President Cristina Kirchner has not yet declared herself a candidate in the October presidential election, but her government and her party—the Kirchner wing of the Peronists—are already in full campaign-mode. In recent weeks “la presidenta” has […]

MRS. ASSAD PROFILED THIS MONTH IN VOGUE….SEE NOTE PLEASE

WOULD THEY HAVE DONE A SPECIAL ON HOW CHIC EVA BRAUN LOOKED IN SPITE OF THE RIGORS OF BUNKER LIFE?….RSK http://www.vogue.com/vogue-daily/article/asma-al-assad-a-rose-in-the-desert/ Asma al-Assad, Syria’s dynamic first lady, is on a mission to create a beacon of culture and secularism in a powder-keg region—and to put a modern face on her husband’s regime.

DR. ASSAD MEET DR. MENGELE: ROGER SIMON

http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2011/04/24/dr-assad-meet-dr-mengele/ http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/pjm-exclusive-more-video-from-syrias-great-friday-uprising-content-warning/ In more proof, if any were needed, that liberals are the reactionaries of our time, it was only weeks ago that Hillary Clinton was calling Bashar al-Assad a “reformer” and Vogue magazine was proclaiming his wife a “rose in the desert.” The president himself has no real values, only vague notions received from […]

JEROLD AUERBACH: PALARAB BABY KILLERS

http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/04/palestinian_baby_killers.html Palestinian Baby Killers Jerold S. Auerbach For demented cruelty there are no precedents, even among Palestinian terrorists, for the recent slaughter of three Israeli children (and their parents) in Itamar. Their targets, 11 and 4 year old brothers and their 3-month-old baby sister, were stabbed and slashed while asleep in their beds. Just before […]

THE SULTAN: BAD ASSUMPTIONS LEAD TO BAD POLICIES

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ What is so terribly interesting about bad governments is that they are as self-deceiving as they are deceptive. The straightforward clarity of Orwell’s Oceania with its apparatchiks who knew exactly what the system was about and how evil it was, is woefully lacking in our own apparatchiks who assemble the most ridiculous plans out […]