THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS’S SEVEN SCORE AND SEVEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/blog/id.6399/blog_detail.asp WOW!!! NO TELEPROMPTER….RSK Gettysburg Address’s seven-score-and-seven-year anniversary Happy 147th birthday, Gettysburg Address! Using fewer than 300 words (the exact number differs depending on the transcript), Lincoln summed up the war, and America’s reason for fighting, in just a few minutes. The brevity of the speech didn’t dull its impact — the iconic opening line […]

PLEASE READ ABOUT AN AMERICAN HERO…ATHLETE AND VETERAN LOUIS ZAMPERINI

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703514904575602540345409292.html The Defiant Ones In her new book, the author of ‘Seabiscuit’ turns to the unimaginable ordeal of an Olympic athlete and WW II hero. Because of her own debilitating illness, they struck a special bond. By STEVE ONEY With a fringe of white hair poking out from under a University of Southern California baseball […]

GERMANY ON ALERT FOR TERRORISM…

Threat Revealed: Terrorists Believed to Be Planning Attack in Berlin – SPIEGEL ONLINE – News – International http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,730236,00.html It would be an attack on the very heart of democracy. SPIEGEL has learned that terrorists may have been planning an attack on the Reichstag, the home of the German parliament and one of the most popular […]

ABUSE OF FOREIGN WORKERS IN SAUDI ARABIA….INDONESIAN MAID KILLED AND DUMPED IN GARBAGE

http://en.news.maktoob.com/20090000528612/Body_of_Indonesia_maid_found_in_Saudi_garbage/Article.htm?utm_campaign=Day-Newsletter&utm_medium=Main-News1&utm_source=Day-Newsletter&utm_content= JAKARTA – Indonesia demanded an investigation Friday into reports that a domestic worker was allegedly killed by her employer in Saudi Arabia and thrown into dumpster — the second case of maid abuse to emerge this week. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was speaking to reporters after a Cabinet meeting called to discuss the need to […]

THE MONTHLY TOLL: PROSECUTING CHRISTIANS AND IGNORED BY THE WORLD

Produced by Political Islam.com Publisher: Bill Warner; Edited by Asma Marwan And what do the UN, the Media, European Union, Council of Churches, the US government and other government agencies do about these appalling acts of violence by Muslims? Mostly nothing! They are too busy appeasing the Muslim world and condemning Israel! Bulletin of Christian […]

JEFF JACOBY:TSA ONE STEP BEHIND THE TERRORISTS…SEE NOTE PLEASE

http://www.jeffjacoby.com/8377/tsa-one-step-behind-the-terrorists JEFF JACOBY frankly Tyrrell’s comment ““welcome a soothing pat-down . . . especially if the patter-downer is a cute little number on the order of, say, Sarah Palin” is dumb, arrogant,and flippant”…..and no one is saying the obvious…this is what we are reduced to doing because we don’t profile…..rsk NOT EVERYONE has reacted the […]

THE TEA PARTY IS HERE TO STAY….CHRIS ADAMO

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.7963/pub_detail.asp Lame Duck Washout Demonstrates Tea Party Resilience Christopher Adamo The 2010 post-election “Lame Duck” session of Congress is officially underway, and represents a brief period of time in which America could conceivably be in the greatest peril of its existence. With nothing else to lose in the immediate aftermath of this year’s mid-term elections, […]

THE REAL PROBLEM WITH CHARLIE RANGEL: STAR PARKER

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.7964/pub_detail.asp Rangel Merely Symptom of Bigger Problem Star Parker New York’s Charlie Rangel, convicted of eleven ethics violations — the most ever found against any member of Congress — was resoundingly re-elected, getting 80 percent of his district’s vote. After 40 years representing these folks, you can’t conclude he was an unknown commodity. Granted, the […]

ANDREW McCARTHY:HOW SHOULD TERRORISTS BE TRIED?

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/253644 How Should Terrorists Be Tried? Neither military commissions nor civilian courts are right for the job, but a compromise option is there for the taking. Omar Khadr is an al-Qaeda terrorist who killed one American soldier and maimed another. In a military-commission proceeding, he was permitted to plead guilty in a deal that capped […]

GERMAN PEACE ACTIVISTS’ LEDERHOSEN IN A KNOT OVER ISRAELI RAILWAY

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,730090,00.html German Rail Under Fire for Controversial Israeli Project By Juliane von Mittelstaedt “Peace activists have strongly criticized a planned high-speed rail line in Israel that will cut through the West Bank and deprive Palestinian communities of land. A subsidiary of Germany’s national rail operator apparently helped plan the line, and critics claim they must have known […]