THE SELF RIGHTEOUS HAPLESSNESS OF ERIC HOLDER

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=527780 The Self-Righteous Haplessness Of Eric Holder By MICHAEL GERSONPosted 03/18/2010 06:59 PM ET Attorney General Eric Holder is controversial on the left for preserving much of the Bush administration’s legal structure for conducting the war on terror. He is controversial on the right for overturning portions of that structure in ways that seem both […]

REMORSELESS DECLINE….MARK STEYN

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=527933 What Democrats Have ‘Deemed’: Remorseless, Ever-Faster Decline By MARK STEYN View Enlarged Image Last Thursday, the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board voted to set up a committee to examine whether condoms should be required on all pornographic film shoots. California has run out of money, but it hasn’t yet run out of […]

ISLAM’S TENUOUS CONNECTION TO JERUSALEM: ELI HERTZ

Jerusalem Islam’s Tenuous Connection   Eli E. Hertz March 19, 2010 Despite 1,300 years of Muslim Arab rule, Jerusalem was never the capital of an Arab entity, nor was it ever mentioned in the Palestine Liberation Organization’s covenant until Israel regained control of East Jerusalem in the Six-Day War of 1967. Overall, the role of […]

Assailing friends, ignoring adversaries….Joel Mowbray

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/03/blame-israel-first-mindset//print/ Friday, March 19, 2010 Diplomatic storms spread fears of fallout Assailing friends, ignoring adversaries by Joel Mowbray When Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton addresses the annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on Monday, the setting, overall message and applause lines will be mostly the same as during other recent […]

THE SULTAN ON OBAMA’S BETRAYAL OF BRITAIN

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Will Obama’s Betrayal of Britain Cause a Second Falklands War? While the lion’s share of the attention over the last two weeks has been drawn by the Obama Administration’s political campaign against Israel on behalf of Arab-Islamic terrorists, there are worrying developments arising out of the Falkland Islands, which threaten a repeat of […]

PETRAEUS CHANNELING WALT AND MAYBE MEARSHEIMER TOO: DIANA WEST

  http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1324/Gen-Petraeus-Channeling-Walt-If-Not-Mearshimer.aspx     Gen. Petraeus: Channeling Walt (If Not Mearshimer)? Mar 18 Written by: Diana West Thursday, March 18, 2010 7:04 PM    There is an intensifying debate over how exactly Gen. David Petraeus regards Israel. (I have written about it here, here  and here.) On the one hand are the general’s words — […]

PAM MEISTER: AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS IN THE WORKS

Exclusive: Amnesty for Illegal Aliens in the Works – Again Pam Meister Congress just doesn’t give up. Despite the American people having made their wishes known quite clearly back in 2007, yet a new plan to legalize illegal aliens is in the works.     The long-awaited framework, written by Sens. Charles E. Schumer, New […]

MELANIE PHILLIPS: AMERICA LOCKS ITS OWN CHAINS

  America locks its own chains Thursday, 18th March 2010 To read the British media on the Obama/Israel crisis is to enter a different moral universe and sphere of reality. In the US, as I wrote yesterday, there has been enormous upset over the fight that Obama so egregiously picked with Israel over the supreme […]

WES PRUDEN: INTO THE TWILIGHT…NANCY PELOSI AND HER COHORTS

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/19/the-democrats-descend-into-the-twilight-zone/print/ PRUDEN: Into the twilight zone Wesley Pruden OPINION/ANALYSIS: Nancy Pelosi has scheduled a vote for Sunday, maybe to vote by not voting. The president has canceled his trip to Asia and the atmosphere in Washington grows surreal and surrealer. The speaker yearns to be a suicide bomber, blowing up her party’s November prospects, or […]

GITMO TERROR SUSPECT ALLOWED LAPTOPS BY PENTAGON OFFICIALS

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/19/sept-11-suspects-at-gitmo-allowed-laptops/print/ Gitmo suspects allowed laptops while in custody Bill Gertz The Pentagon allowed five captured al Qaeda members currently held at the Guantanamo Bay prison to use laptop computers in detention, raising concerns among security officials that the terrorism suspects could pass sensitive data to terrorists in the future, according to U.S. officials. The computers, […]