OBAMA’S ATTACK MACHINE…LATEST TARGET IS PAUL RYAN…..KIM STRASSEL WSJ

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703382904575059573079680544.html?mod=wsjdn_portal OBAMA’S ATTACK MACHINE… ‘Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it,” wrote Saul Alinksy in his “Rules for Radicals.” The White House would appear to have a copy. His agenda stymied and his approval numbers sinking, President Obama has realized this year’s midterm election is shaping up as a referendum on failed […]

WHERE THE US WENT WRONG ON THE X-MAS DAY BOMBER

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/11/AR2010021103331_pf.html Where the U.S. went wrong on the Christmas Day bomber By Michael B. Mukasey Friday, February 12, 2010; A27 It seems to me unlikely that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab will be known to future generations of lawyers for generating any groundbreaking legal principle or issue. But when it comes to illuminating our public discourse about […]

THE FAILURES OF U.S. MILITARY POLICY AND STRATEGY….DIANA WEST

http://townhall.com/Common/PrintPage.aspx?g=1bdaf89f-bbf2-4cb0-a176-327f2cb9b1a3&t=c Outpost Decision an Insane Strategy Diana West Sorry, but this Washington Post headline — “U.S. commanders in Afghanistan face tougher discipline for battlefield failures” — misses the point. The story concerns “failures” all right, but the three recently investigated incidents in question are not “battlefield” failures. No, these failures, whose names are Wanat, Ganjgal […]

SENATOR GRASSLEY DISAPPOINTS

http://townhall.com/Common/PrintPage.aspx?g=7f0126e5-cdf3-41ac-b6a8-8bd3c74f80d0&t=c No, Senator Grassley. Just Say No Hugh Hewitt Friday, February 12, 2010 Just when you think beltway Republicans have finally begun to understand the depth and breadth of the voter revolt against the size and reach of the federal government, and thus against the President Obama-led Congressional Democrats, along comes Senator Grassley to throw […]

TOXIC DEMOGRAPHICS…..READ IT ALL

FROM YORAM ETTINGER, ISRAEL’S FINEST DIPLOMAT AND ZIONIST Theodore Herzl (in 1900) and David Ben Gurion (in 1947) did not subordinate their vision and long-term strategy to tenuous demographic constraints: A Jewish minority of 8% and 33% respectively between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean. Their defiance of odds was responsible for the 1948 establishment […]

A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS: MARILYN PENN

http://politicalmavens.com/index.php/2010/02/11/a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words/ In the NYTimes of Feb 11th, an article concerning an Arab petition to the UN to halt construction of the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s new museum is headlined “Museum Creates New Jerusalem Divide;” it features a large photograph of the Mamilla Cemetery, an ancient burial site which Arabs claim will be wiped out if the […]

PADILLA PROVES THE WEAKNESS OF THE CIVIL JUSTICE SYSTEM: ANDREW McCARTHY

NRO — The Corner Padilla Proves the WEAKNESSES of the Civilian Justice System [Andy McCarthy] The Left’s latest effort to attempt to defend the Obama administration’s mishandling of Christmas bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is the “Bush did it” canard. Obama apologists are highlighting cases the Bush administration sent to the criminal justice system in order […]

IRAN’S MAN IN WASHINGTON:FLINT AND HILLARY MANN LEVERETT

http://www.tabletmag.com/news-and-politics/25357/iran%E2%80%99s-man-in-washington/ LEE SMITH How Flynt Leverett and his wife, Hillary Mann Leverett, became leading advocates for doing business with Tehran CREDIT: Reuters/Chris Wattie First in a two-part series on the dueling Iran lobbies in Washington. Flynt Leverett is fielding questions from an audience at the New American Foundation for a panel titled “What the Iranian […]

BERLUSCONI’S MOTHER

Why Berlusconi Wept Israel Insider – Feb 04, 2010, Israelinsider.ning.com Addressing the Knesset on the occasion of the visit of his Italian counterpart, Silvio Berlusconi, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told this story: “I wish to share with you and the members of the Knesset a special story that touched my heart. It is a […]

The New Israel Fund and the Threat from the Left

Dr. Joel Fishman Makor Rishon 12 February 2010 The New Israel Fund and the Threat from the Left to Israel’s Democratic System Two weeks ago, the disclosures of the Zionist student group, Im Tirtsu, shocked the Israeli public when they revealed that sixteen organizations supported by the New Israel Fund contributed most of the information […]