TARIQ RAMADAN: EXTREMIST IN ACADEMIC ROBES COMES TO TOWN…ROBERT SPENCER

Religious Scholar”? Posted By Robert Spencer Visit Jihad Watch [1] Chicago Tribune reporter Manya Brachear has kindly written to me to alert me to this article. In her email to me she invited Jihad Watch readers to comment at her Tribune blog [2] on this story, so have at it — why shouldn’t News Real […]

ROBERT N. KRENTZ: ARIZONA BORDER WAR CASUALTY

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=529591 Robert N. Krentz, Border War Casualty Posted 04/07/2010 06:30 PM ET Illegal Immigration: An Arizona rancher is murdered while patrolling his ranch. A gaping hole in the border fence and footsteps back to Mexico tell the tale. When will we put the National Guard back on the border? Robert N. Krentz Jr., 58, scion […]

THT SENSE OF ENTITLEMENT…I WANT MY FREE M.D.

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=529592 ‘I Want My Free M.D.’ Dependency: The Democrats’ reform bill had hardly become law before doctors and insurers began getting calls asking about free health care. The growing sense of entitlement is disheartening, to say the least. ‘Where do we get the free ObamaCare, and how do I sign up for that?” That’s what […]

FRED LEDER; A PROPOSAL FOR PEACE…FROM THE CT. JEWISH LEDGER

——————————————————————————– The Real Two-State Solution: Let the people choose By Fred Leder Published: Wednesday, April 7, 2010 1:06 PM EDT Has there ever been a country whose very existence has been subject to more intense scrutiny than Israel? Other considerations aside, there is one thing that should be apparent to any objective observer: everything proposed […]

SAME OLD “NEW PEACE PLAN” PRESCRIBED SUICIDE

Obama weighs new peace plan for the Middle East By David Ignatius Wednesday, April 7, 2010 Washington Post Despite recent turbulence in U.S. relations with Israel, President Obama is “seriously considering” proposing an American peace plan to resolve the Palestinian conflict, according to two top administration officials. “Everyone knows the basic outlines of a peace […]

OBAMA’S MUSE …DALIA MOGADEH…BY LEE SMITH

http://www.tabletmag.com/news-and-politics/30018/respectfully-yours/ Respectfully Yours Dalia Mogahed may be the most influential figure guiding the Obama Administration’s Middle East outreach. But does the approach she champions actually work? By Lee Smith | 7:00 am Apr 7, 2010 | Print | Email / Share The most important person shaping the Obama Administration’s Middle East message isn’t Hillary Clinton, […]

OBAMA IS NOT THE PROBLEM….GOTTAREAD

http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com Obama is Not the Problem We’re on the mailing lists of several American conservative groups, and every day their emails come rolling in with a steady drumbeat of Obama… Obama… Obama… Obama, the Socialist. Obama the Marxist. Obama the Muslim-appeaser. Obama the late-term abortionist. Obama the destroyer of the American economy. And on and […]

BARRY RUBIN ON SANCTIONS: THE FARCE DEEPENS

The Obama Administration and Sanctions on Iran: The Farce Deepens By Barry Rubin* http://www.gloria-center.org/blog/2010/04/obama-administration-sanctions For more than a year I have repeatedly pointed out that the Obama Administration’s strategy of increasing the level of sanctions against Iran has been a mess. Deadlines set by the U.S. government for September and then December weren’t met. Even […]

A LETTER TO IRISH FOREIGN MINISTER MICHEAL MARTIN

Posted: April 7, 2010 12:04 PM Dear Irish Foreign Minister Micheál Martin Dear Foreign Minister Martin, I’m an admirer of Ireland, a country whose charm, culture, and beauty have all captivated me. And, as a Jew, I always identified with William Butler Yeats’ famous quote, “Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which […]

OBAMA’S TERMS OF ENDEARMENT FOR ISRAEL: ELLIOTT ABRAMS

Published on The Weekly Standard (http://weeklystandard.com)  Terms of Endearment BY Elliott Abrams April 7, 2010 1:05 PM “Obama to Impose Terms on Israel” is the headline you didn’t read on David Ignatius’s column in the Washington Post today. The story ran under the title “Obama’s Mideast Plan,” which Ignatius describes as “proposing an American peace […]