http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/04/justice-ig-cant-probe-panther-case-dismissal//print/ Justice inspector stripped of probing power Jerry Seper In a terse letter to a Republican lawmaker who requested an investigation of the dismissal of complaints against the New Black Panther Party, Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine said he should be able to do so, but was powerless because Congress had stripped him […]
Bare Warning Homeland Security: When it comes to foul balls, a “heads up!” is no big deal. But when the government warns of imminent and “certain” attack by al-Qaida, complacency is not an option. A chilling spectacle just took place before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Panel Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., asked, “What is the likelihood […]
http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=167735 Erekat calls for ‘alternative to two-state solution’ ByBY KHALED ABU TOAMEH 04/02/2010 00:35 PA negotiator says Palestinians should consider declaring Oslo Accords “null and void.” A paper prepared by Chief Palestinian Authority negotiator Saeb Erekat on the status of the peace talks with Israel recommends that the Palestinians consider the possibility of abandoning the […]
 Penn State opens probe into climate-change researcher’s work By Mike Cronin PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Thursday, February 4, 2010 Fearing erosion of public confidence in research climate-change scientist Michael Mann conducted, Penn State University officials said Wednesday they will formally investigate the co-winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. School officials dismissed three allegations against Mann […]
Islamic Nazis Posted By Robert Spencer [1] No one told the Islamic Nazis that they lost World War II. The former prime minister of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohamad, recently asserted that Jews in Europe had “always been a problem.†He claimed that “they had to be confined to ghettos and periodically massacred. But still they remained, […]
Palestinian Prime Minister to Israeli Audience: You Make Concessions, We Don’tBy Barry Rubin* February 4, 2010 http://www.gloria-center.org/blog/2010/02/palestinian-prime-minister Imagine this. You’re prime minister of a regime that isn’t yet a state. You are praised in the Western media as a great moderate man of peace. You represent a people who the U.S. president says is in […]
It’s now official: In 2009 the number of unionized workers who work for the government surpassed those in the private economy for the first time. This milestone explains a lot about modern American politics, in particular the paradox that union clout with Democrats has increased even as fewer workers belong to unions overall. The Bureau […]
National Review Online Andrew C. McCarthy February 4, 2010 4:00 A.M. http://article.nationalreview.com/423902/merely-organized-to-convict/andrew-c-mccarthy ‘Merely Organized to Convict’ Sage advice for Holder from his professed role model. Attorney General Eric Holder keeps on the wall of his office a portrait of Justice Robert Jackson, who was attorney general under FDR. Holder explains that Jackson is one of […]
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Â Cost Cutting Travel Tips from the White House Once again Obama has spoken out against the wastefulness of taking planes to Las Vegas and spending money there. And while some Nevada lawmakers are criticizing his remarks, I for one fully support and endorse them. It is wasteful to take a plane trip to […]
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,675738,00.html SPIEGEL ONLINE 02/03/2010 03:05 PM The World from Berlin Obama’s No-Show Disappoints Europe US President Barack Obama’s decision not to attend an EU-US summit in Madrid in May has left many on this side of the Atlantic worrying that the European Union has lost clout in Washington. When Washington announced this week that US […]
