http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?print=yes&id=35095 The Westergaard Attack: It’s All the Same Jihad Despite the mainstream media’s best efforts to cover up the jihadist elements in both attacks, informed Americans know that Major Nidal Hasan murdered thirteen Americans in a jihad attack at Fort Hood in November, and that another Muslim, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, tried to explode Northwest Flight […]
White House backs intel agency appointee http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jan/08/white-house-backs-counterterrorism-center-chief//print/ SEE: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/01/07/2010-01-07_antiterror_chief_took_ski_pass_remained_on_slopes_after_christmas_bomb_attempt.html Eli Lake The White House is defending Michael Leiter, the Bush appointee who heads the agency charged with integrating terrorist threat information, as Congress prepares its own oversight hearings into the failed airline terrorist attack on Christmas Day. In the coming weeks, Congress will begin its […]
PRUDEN: There’s no penalty for sleeping on the job Wesley Pruden http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jan/08/theres-no-penalty-for-sleeping-on-the-job//print/ If it’s true, as Dr. Johnson famously told us it was, that the prospect of hanging focuses the mind in a wonderful way, maybe the prospect of facing angry voters sharpens a politician’s instincts (if not necessarily his mind). After first treating the […]
Palestine — where only death is worth living for http://politicalmavens.com/index.php/2010/01/07/palestine-where-only-death-is-worth-living-for/?print=1 By Rachel Raskin-Zrihen (bio) The Palestinians – the supposedly less radical ones no less – have named a public square after a terrorist who killed nearly 40 people about 30 years ago. The Palestinian argument is that it’s OK to glorify a murderer because there […]
http://politicalmavens.com/ Marilyn Penn Who’d have thunk that California’s show-biz governator would turn out to have so much more common sense than the billionaire third term mayor of New York City. Action-man Scharzenegger has proposed reducing the amount of money spent on prisons and re-directing it to the higher education system; towards that end, he will […]
Joel Fishman Makor Rishon 8 January 2010 Reality Bites Uncle Sam: Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel’s enemies based their propaganda war on several big lies, namely that Israel was the aggressor in the war, that there is such a thing as a Palestinian people who are the oppressed victims of Israel, that Zionism […]
http://spectator.org/archives/2010/01/07/thermopylae-for-health-care/print The American Spectator “The truth is that Obamacare is a care rationing, proxy death-paneling, taxpayer-abortion-funding, unconstitutionally individual-mandating, vast-bureaucracy creating, incredibly high taxing, free enterprise hobbling, doctor-patient-relationship interfering, medical-device denying, flexible savings-account destroying, trial-lawyer gift-wrapping, union-boss mollycoddling, medical price-increasing, job-killing, sinister power-grabbing, American republic-undermining mound of legislative plutonium.” Thermopylae for Health Care By Quin Hillyer […]
OPINION EUROPE JANUARY 7, 2010 British Radicalization Studies The U.K.’s universities offer the most conducive environment an Islamic extremist could inhabit outside Waziristan. By DOUGLAS MURRAY Shortly after he tried to bring down flight 253 to Detroit on Christmas Day, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab became the fourth former head of a British university Islamic Society (ISOC) […]
http://bestjewishnewsny.com/2010/01/06/j-street-leads-obama-to-failure/ J Street Leads Obama To Failure Time magazine has a piece summing up Obama’s year of failure regarding Israel and the Palestinians. We know that everything wrong in Washington is Bush’s fault (How long did FDR keep blaming Hoover before Roosevelt took responsibility? How long did Lincoln keep blaming Buchanan?), but the cold fact […]
More Pe’er protesters arrested in New Zealand January 7, 2010 SYDNEY, Australia (JTA) — Five pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested in New Zealand outside the tennis complex where Israeli tennis star Shahar Pe’er was playing. Among those arrested Thursday was the organizer of the protests, John Minto. It was the third consecutive day of demonstrations by […]