http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,druck-740820,00.html BY ULRIKE PUTZ Tunisian media have witnessed an abrupt and jarring change: After years of oppressive censorship, all restrictions have vanished. Newspapers report freely, journalists work through the night — and it seems as if every Tunisian wants to talk politics. “Castles in France, Bank Accounts in Switzerland, Real Estate in Argentina!” screams a headline on the front […]
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/a-case-of-possession/ Posted By David Solway In all the years I’ve been following the political scene on this continent, I’ve rarely come across anything as reprehensible as the liberal-left reaction to the shooting of Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Make hay when darkness reigns (or never let a crisis go to waste) seems to be the working […]
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110122/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_palestinians_facebook_insult By DALIA NAMMARI, Associated Press Dalia Nammari RAMALLAH, West Bank – A Palestinian reporter tagged in a Facebook image that mocked the Palestinian president said Saturday he faces trial for insulting a public figure despite already being detained for more than 50 days. Mamdouh Hamamreh said security forces detained him in September, just hours […]
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9KSU7KO0&show_article=1 Potential kingmaker in Lebanon supports Hezbollah By ZEINA KARAM BEIRUT (AP) – A potential kingmaker in Lebanese politics threw his support Friday behind Hezbollah, a major boost to the Shiite militant group that brought down the country’s Western-backed government last week. Walid Jumblatt, the influential leader of the Druse sect, refused to say exactly […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/257667/ryan-will-deliver-sotu-repsonse-andrew-stiles Ryan Will Deliver SOTU Response By Andrew Stiles GOP leadership has selected House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) to deliver the Republican response to President Obama’s State of the Union address next week. From the statement announcing the selection: Last year – in an unprecedented failure – Congressional Democrats chose not to […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/257700 — Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R., Utah) is chairman of the Subcommittee on National Security, Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations, as well as a member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Keep Guantanamo Open, Mr. President Until the administration can articulate a coherent and convincing policy for closing Guantanamo, it should remain […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/257699 Back in Commission The president gives in on military commissions, grieving his cheerleaders. President Obama is relenting on military-commission trials, and the New York Times is, shall we say, chagrined. The administration’s retreat can be chalked up to the political climate proximately created by two developments. The first is Congress’s prohibition against the transfer […]
Gaza Defender Hired To Teach Middle East At Brooklyn College http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/16376-Gaza-Defender-Hired-To-Teach-Middle-East-At-Brooklyn-College.html here is one friend’s response “There is an alarming turn of events at Brooklyn College. Could one teach American history objectively if one only taught about slavery without a mention of the founding principles or its participants? Could one teach about World War 11 mentioning only […]
http://www.meforum.org/2821/palestinians-online During the past decade, Washington has repeatedly failed to gauge the extent of Palestinian anti-peace sentiments with devastating consequences. The July 2000 Camp David summit triggered the worst wave of Palestinian violence since 1948 (euphemized as the “al-Aqsa Intifada“); the Palestinian parliamentary elections of January 2006 led to a victory for the Hamas Islamist […]
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Friday Afternoon Roundup – Rising Above the Attacks There’s a great deal of talk on conservative blogs about that infamous CNN poll finding that quite a few people tied Palin’s bullseye map to the Loughner massacre. There have been a number of polls that have gone both ways, which indicates mostly that the people […]
