NO IT’S NOT SWITZERLAND….SEE PICS OF WOMEN VOTING IN KABUL

Afghan women in burqas hold up their ballot papers as they queue outside the polling station to vote for their parliamentary candidate. Kabul, Afghanistan. 18/09/10. An Afghan woman votes for her parliamentary candidate. Kabul, Afghanistan. 18/09/10.

DAVID ‘THE SURGEMASTER” PETRAEUS OPENS UP TO DER SPIEGEL…”IT’S NOT GOING TO BE SOME SORT OF SWITZERLAND”

Interview with ISAF Commander Petraeus http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,druck-718285,00.html We’re Not Going ‘To Turn Afghanistan Into Any Sort of Switzerland’ Troops, money and a plan were long lacking in the battle against the Taliban in Afghanistan. In a SPIEGEL interview, ISAF Commander David Petraeus, discusses these failures with unusual frankness. The general says he is concerned about the […]

FRONTPAGE INTERVIEW: RAHEEL RAZA MUSLIM OPPONENET OF THE GZ MOSQUE AND TARIQ RAMADAN

A Badge of Muslim Courage: Raheel Raza Posted By Jamie Glazov http://frontpagemag.com/2010/09/20/a-badge-of-muslim-courage-raheel-raza/print/ Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Raheel Raza, a leading Muslim reformer, award winning writer, professional speaker, diversity consultant, documentary film maker and interfaith advocate. A founding member of the Muslim Canadian Congress, she is the author of Their Jihad . . . Not […]

IN BELL, CALIFORNIA SHI’ITE MUSLIMS ACTIVE IN CIVIC LIFE

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704644404575482001778588866.html In One City, an Islamic Center Unifies California Town’s Muslims, Plunging Into Civic Life, Provide Home for Movement to Oust Officials Amid Salary Scandal By TAMMY AUDI BELL, Calif.—Infuriated residents of this small southern California city made a national name for themselves when they ousted three municipal officials after revelations of six-figure salaries. Lesser […]

FOUAD AJAMI: RAUF AND ISLAM’S ENCOUNTER WITH AMERICA

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703743504575493711825224290.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop By FOUAD AJAMI From his recent travels to the Persian Gulf—sponsored and paid for by the State Department—Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf returned with a none-too-subtle threat. His project, the Ground Zero Mosque, would have to go on. Its cancellation would risk putting “our soldiers, our troops, our embassies and citizens under attack in the […]

THE DEATH OF MEDICAL PRIVACY: DR. ARIE FRIEDMAN…..SEE NOTE

http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/09/the_death_of_medical_privacy_1.html THE DEATH OF PRIVACY BUT THE BIRTH OF PHYSICIANS LIKE FRIEDMAN WHO KNOW ABOUT NATIONAL POLICY AND CONTRIBUTE TO THE DEBATE BRILLIANTLY….RSK The Death of Medical Privacy By Arie Friedman, MD As I have read through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA, aka ObamaCare), I have been repeatedly struck by […]

WHO IS REP. MIKE PENCE? ED LASKY KNOWS

http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/09/the_mike_pence_i_know.html By Ed Lasky Indiana Congressman Mike Pence was on fire over the weekend at the Values Voters Summit in Washington. This was a conservative crowd, and they found a candidate to rally behind. They showed their enthusiasm in a very American way: a straw poll that put Pence at the top of their preferred […]

COLIN POWELL DEFENDS ILLEGALS….”THEY FIX HIS HOUSE”….SEE NOTE

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/sep/19/powell-tells-of-illegals-working-on-his-house/print/ THIS IS SO OUTRAGEOUS….LINDA CHAVEZ’S NOMINATION WAS NIXED AS SEC. OF LABOR BECAUSE SHE HARBORED AN IMMIGRANT WOMAN, AND THE FORMER SEC. OF STATE AND US GENERAL ADMITS LAWBREAKING? RSK Powell tells of illegals working on his house “They’re all over my house, doing things whenever I call for repairs, and I’m sure you’ve seen them […]

JENNIFER RUBIN: READING THE POLITICAL TEA LEAVES…THREE POSTINGS ALL GOOD

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/category/contentions?author_name=rubin Sunday, Sep 19 Reading the Palin Tea Leaves Jennifer Rubin – 09.19.2010 – 9:51 AM Reading the Palin tea leaves is about to become a daily obsession. Each visit and speech elicits a new round of speculation. She went to Iowa — she’s running! But she “spent little of her time with them. She did […]

RAY FRANK….THE FIRST WOMAN TO SPEAK FROM THE PULPIT IN A SYNAGOGUE IN SPOKANE, WASHINGTON…ONE HUNDRED TWENTY YEARS AGO

http://www.jidaily.com/702UU RAY FRANK….THE FIRST WOMAN TO SPEAK FROM THE PULPIT IN A SYNAGOGUE IN SPOKANE, WASHINGTON…ONE HUNDRED TWENTY YEARS AGO…..RSK Lessons from “A Lay Sermon by a Young Lady” Journalist Ray Frank made her name as a “latter-day Rebecca.” She was the first Jewish woman to preach from the pulpit in America and was known […]