HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY

There will be “light and lively” postings during the holiday weekend. I wish you all a happy Independence Day. It is also the anniversary of Israel’s epic rescue of hostages in Entebbe on July 4th, 1976 which happily coincided with our Bicentennial. It’s great to be American……rsk

THE QUOTE OF THE DAY: JULY 2, 1776…..ADRIAN MORGAN AT FAMILY SECURITY MATTERS

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.6632/pub_detail.asp Quote of the Day – July 2, 2010 FSM: Quote of the Day “The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as […]

IN THE UK: DECRIMINALISING CRIMES AGAINST ISRAELI INTERESTS: ROBIN SHEPHERD

http://www.robinshepherdonline.com/anti-semitic-juries-in-the-uk-may-start-decriminalising-crimes-committed-against-israeli-interests/#more-2919 Anti-Semitic juries in the UK may start decriminalising crimes committed against Israeli interests The eminent Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz frequently provides a useful analogy about Israel’s predicament in the tribunals of international law. It is analogous, he argues, to the position that black people faced in the American south of the 1930s. The […]

THREE CHEERS FOR DIANA WEST: A PROFILE IN JOURNALISM

Dear e-pals and ruthfully fans: Now that the best and most courageous and strategically brilliant general since Wesley Clark has taken over the Taliban rumble, there is a lot of buzz about “rules of engagement” from all quarters. Even the warriors who defended Petraeus of Arabia when Diana exposed the Centcom report that determined that […]

PAM MEISTER: REWRITING HISTORY ON IMMIGRATION?

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/obama-and-immigration-rewriting-history/ Obama and Immigration: Rewriting History? Posted By Pam Meister This week, while shilling for “comprehensive immigration reform” (aka amnesty for illegal aliens), President Obama cited the famous poem “The New Colossus” ( “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”) written by Emma Lazarus in 1883. For one whose […]

CALL IT PANTHERGATE? THE DOJ SLIMES WHISTLEBLOWER…..ROGER SIMON

http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2010/07/01/doj-slimes-whistleblower-adams-in-panthergate-case/ DOJ Slimes Whistleblower Adams in Panthergate Case Posted By Roger L Simon Call it Panthergate, call it what you will. The Department of Justice (or its minions) is already attempting to slime its whistleblower J. Christian Adams — the attorney who recently resigned from the Department over its abandonment of the New Black Panther […]

THE ESPIONAGE TRAIL….

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703571704575341633816865778.html?mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTTopStories By EVAN PEREZ Constance Flavell Pratt/Associated Press In this courtroom sketch, Tracey Lee Ann Foley, left, and her husband, Donald Heathfield, third from left, are depicted with Mr. Heathfield’s attorney Peter Krupp, second from left, at a bail hearing in federal court in Boston, Thursday. The alleged Russian secret agent who posed as a […]

RALPH PETERS: CAN PETRAEUS DITCH HIS OWN DOCTRINE?

The big problem is not just COIN…it is the failure to name the real enemy….Jihad….an imperialist faith driven bloodlust that has no capital but a major hold on all the Moslem nations of the Middle East with cheerleaders in Malaysis, Indonesia, Chechnya…..etc. rsk http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/the_petraeus_challenge_yLnS52rZ4RkQsW7xJfPiXN We’re failing in Afghanistan. Confirmed yesterday as our new commander there, […]

OBAMA’S UNREQUITED APOLOGIES: JOEL MOWBRAY

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jul/1/obamas-unrequited-apologies/ Friday, July 2, 2010 Obama’s unrequited apologies President’s efforts to soothe Muslim anger only make it worse by Joel Mowbray When failed Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad pled guilty last week, his courtroom tirade provided yet another reminder that the foe we face has just as much hostility for President Obama’s America as it […]

ASSIMILATION AND THE FOUNDING FATHERS: MICHELLE MALKIN

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jul/1/obama-alienates-gop-over-immigration-bill/ Michelle Malkin Assimilation and the Founding Fathers In his immigration speech on Thursday, President Obama heralded America as a “nation of immigrants” defined not by blood or birth, but by “fidelity to the shared values that we all hold so dear.” If only it were so. Left-wing academics and activists spurned assimilation as a […]