OBAMA AND THE SECURITY COUNCIL OF THE UN:TO VETO OR NOT TO VETO: VICTOR SHARPE

http://www.thejerusalemconnection.us/blog/category/victor-sharpe “America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the best hope for the world.” The above words were written by Dinesh D’Souza but they are not the […]

JOHN BERNARD: AFGHANISTAN STRATEGY CHANGE NEEDED

http://letthemfight.blogspot.com/ Afghanistan Strategy Change Needed; Making the Case Much of the discussion about war strategies, ROE, nation building and the like has been steeped in one side or the other denouncing existing strategies or defending them. All of it is based on intelligence reports and analyses by third parties trying to untangle the seeming conflicting […]

ROGER KIMBALL: WHY DOES THE ACU WELCOME SUHAIL KHAN?

http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2011/01/24/why-does-the-acu-welcome-suhail-khan/ Why Does the American Conservative Union Welcome Suhail Khan? Posted By Roger Kimball The annual meeting of CPAC [1], the American Conservative Political Action Conference, is just around the corner. It’s a big deal, attracting some 10,000 conservatives to the nation’s capital each year. The roster of speakers is a who’s who of conservative […]

FORGETTING ABOUT THE SAVIOURS OF OUR COUNTRY: FRANK GAFFNEY

http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/p18627.xml Forgetting about the ‘Saviors of Our Country’ By Frank Gaffney, Jr. In 1892, Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem about the paradigmatic British soldier, Tommy Atkins, and his paradigmatic treatment at the hands of an indolent democratic society that takes him for granted – until he is needed.  It read in part: “For it’s Tommy this, […]

A FRENCH INTIFADA: NIDRA POLLER

A French Intifada by Nidra Poller http://www.meforum.org/2822/french-intifada A process described by some as the Islamization of Europe, by others as the failure of Europeans to integrate Muslim immigrants, has reached a breaking point in France. One of the most troubling manifestations of this discord is the development of a particular type of violence that is […]

THE STATE DINNER PIANO TUNE A DISPLAY OF CONTEMPT….THOMAS LIFSON

China announces its real foreign policy (updated) http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/01/china_announces_its_real_forei.html  Thomas Lifson “The Americans are so dumb that they don’t even know when we insult them in their inner sanctum of power. Laugh at our enemy.” In the context of Chinese culture, the state dinner piano  tune scandal is a particularly troubling insult — for what it […]

REFORM HAS DIFFERENT MEANING FOR THE WEST AND FOR ISLAM: JOEL GILBERT

Joel Gilbert http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.8501/pub_detail.asp “By Western standards, reform means the adoption of secular, Western democratic methods of government. For Islamists, reform means exactly the opposite – the removal of secular government institutions borrowed from or imposed by the West, and the restoration of the Koran as the sole authority in Islamic countries.” As debates rage in the […]

AMIL IMANI: NEVER MIND THE BOMB….BEWARE OF ISLAMOFASCISM

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.8498/pub_detail.asp Never Mind the Bomb, Beware of Islamofascism Amil Imani The National Intelligence Estimate regarding Iran’s bomb project had stirred a great deal of controversy. Some say that there is now reason to abandon the war posturing and start negotiating a live-and-let-live deal with the Mullahs, since they have “abandoned” their quest for the bomb. […]

ALAN CARUBA:HATING INFIDELS

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.8496/pub_detail.asp Hating Infidels Alan Caruba The Holocaust of the last century is remembered for the mass murder of Europe’s Jewish population, an estimated six million who perished. In total, an estimated eleven to seventeen million Europeans, Jews and Christians, died in the Nazi concentration and death camps or were murdered outright in their homelands. Records […]

GOVERNOR CHRISTIE: MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.8506/pub_detail.asp More Than Meets The Eye Gadi Adelman Chris Christie, former U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, the poster child of the Republican party, a true conservatives conservative. People everywhere were asking if we would run for President in 2012. Chris Christie was sworn in as New Jersey’s 55th Governor on January 19, […]