http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20101027_wikileaks_and_culture_classification?utm_source=SWeekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=101028&utm_content=readmore&elq=0d2994f4eae34a9488f3cfc808ebbcea WikiLeaks and the Culture of Classification October 28, 2010 | 0853 GMT PRINT Text Resize: ShareThis By Scott Stewart On Friday, Oct. 22, the organization known as WikiLeaks published a cache of 391,832 classified documents on its website. The documents are mostly field reports filed by U.S. military forces in Iraq from January 2004 […]
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/28/books/28klopp.html In Writings of Obama, a Philosophy Is Unearthed By PATRICIA COHEN When the Harvard historian James T. Kloppenberg decided to write about the influences that shaped President Obama’s view of the world, he interviewed the president’s former professors and classmates, combed through his books, essays, and speeches, and even read every article published during […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/251237/retired-o-connor-still-making-trouble-andrew-c-mccarthy October 28, 2010 4:00 A.M. Retired O’Connor Still Making Trouble Ex-Justice helps Ninth Circuit overturn vote-fraud law A divided Ninth Circuit panel ruled on Tuesday that Arizona’s Proposition 200, adopted by the people of the state in 2004 to protect the integrity of elections, is invalid. Prop 200 requires voters to provide proof of […]
Middle East Chaos Jennifer Rubin – 10.27.2010 – 12:04 PM It is not simply that Iran is moving steadily toward membership in the nuclear powers’ club. It is not only that the UN is plotting to carve up Israel. No, these are symptoms of an underlying problem: the U.S.’s retreat from the Middle East and […]
http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1562/David-B-Harris-RCMP-Following-A-Peculiar-Road-to-Counterradicalization.aspx Vlad Tepes has posted a string of pieces collectively entitled, “The Imam Always Gets His Man: Why Royal Candadian Mounted Police Outreach Isn’t Working,” that tells us that the same suicidal institutional mindset we saw on display recently among Homeland Security and FBI officials here and here addles the security institutions of our neighbors […]
PA Chairman Abbas holds up map of “Palestine” that erases Israel by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik “President Abbas holds up a stone model of the map of Palestine.” [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Oct. 26, 2010] During a visit to Bethlehem this week, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas held up a stone model of the map […]
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/6419029/the-open-society-and-its-enemy.thtml The open society and its enemy Melanie Phillips Wednesday, 27th October 2010 For several years now, the billionaire Soros has been effectively bankrolling the global campaign for the legalisation of drugs through his Open Society organisation. His influence in undermining western understanding of the crucial role of the law in containing the terrible individual and […]
http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2010/10/27/the-kamikaze-obamanomics-of-john-maynard-keynes/#more-8841 The Kamikaze Obamanomics of John Maynard Keynes By Gamaliel Isaac, on October 27th, 2010 History is repeating itself because the Obama administration is repeating failed Keynesian policies. President Obama revealed the Keynesian underpinnings of his economic policies in his first prime time press conference when he said: It is only government that can break […]
________ David Isaac David_Isaac@shmuelkatz.com www.shmuelkatz.com Twitter: DavidAIsaac Perceived Dependence Syndrome By David Isaac “There exists … among many Americans, a conviction of Israeli dependence. What is worse, many Israelis have a sense of dependence; worst of all, it is a sense that exists also among Israeli leaders.” (Shmuel Katz, “Surrender to Washington”, The Jerusalem Post, […]
NRO — The Corner Our 9/11 war dead are not “shaheeds”[1] October 27, 2010 3:40 P.M. By Andy McCarthy Out of respect for our men and women in harm’s way, I have tried, since an exchange[2] late last year with Pete Hegseth, to pipe down about our increasingly dubious overseas contingency operations in Afghanistan and […]
