http://markdurie.blogspot.com/ Today the Sydney Morning Herald reported that Michael Smith, 2UE Radio Host, is being investigated by the Australian Media and Communications authority “over his assertion that the prophet Muhammad ‘married a nine-year-old and consummated it when she was 11′”. It would be excellent if Australian authorities did look into Muhammad’s marital arrangements with his […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903918104576504033881168802.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop The Barbarians Inside Britain’s Gates All the young rioters will have had long experience with the justice system’s efforts to confer impunity upon law breakers.. The youth of Britain have long placed a de facto curfew on the old, who in most places would no more think of venturing forth after dark than would […]
Agnostics for Perry http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2011/08/14/agnostics-for-perry/?print=1 Rick Perry only just announced his presidential run Saturday, but out here in the blue-blue City of Angels I am already detecting severe signs of PDS — Perry Derangement Syndrome. Usually it goes like this: Okay, the economy is a little better in Texas [1] than it is here (of course […]
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/perrys_problematic_pals.html GELLER MAKES VALUABLE POINTS HERE…..NORQUIST IS A MAJOR PROBLEM AS IS THE COOPERATION IN AGREEMENTS THAT WHITEWASH SHARIA…..BUT CAUTION PAMELA…GIVING A SPEECH ON TAX POLICY IN THE COMPANY OF NORQUIST IS NOT EXACTLY HARD EVIDENCE …..FURTHERMORE, JOHN BOLTON, A MAN YOU OFTEN PROMOTE IS BEST BUDDIES WITH JAMES BAKER AND BRENT SCOWCROFT AND HAS […]
Obama is a Calculating, Not Stupid Individual Page Printed from: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2011/08/obama_is_a_calculating_not_stupid_individual.html More and more people are writing about Obama’s alleged stupidity. J.R. Dunn of American Thinker penned the piece “How Stupid is Obama?” and Brett Stephens’ Wall Street Journal article asserts that “the president isn’t very bright.” I respectfully disagree with these two writers. They […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903918104576500273389091098.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion The U.S.-Soviet INF pact doesn’t address the Iranian threat. ‘Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses: They last while they last.” So said Charles de Gaulle a half-century ago, but he could have been describing the 1988 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces agreement signed by the United States and the Soviet Union. The INF Treaty […]
http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/content/module/2011/8/15/main-feature/1/israel-and-the-antipodes During the February 2011 earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, a boulder smashed into a car, killing 23-year-old Israeli Ofer Mizrahi. The death toll from that earthquake was 181, including two Israelis besides Mizrahi. Mizrahi’s Israeli traveling companions were uninjured and left New Zealand shortly after the earthquake. Several months later, the New Zealand Southland […]
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/363/the_disastrous_death_of_common_sense Former British Ambassador Charles Crawford argues that the Labour Party’s support for the unrelenting deconstruction of British values has created ignorant, violent decontextualised people, completely detached from history – and morality Over the centuries English property law has invented many ingeniously pragmatic ways in which property can be owned. One key distinction shows itself […]
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/367/british_left_squirming_as_riots_expose_their_flawed_ideas British Left squirming as riots expose their flawed ideas It’s a difficult time to be a Left-winger when a society run on your lines is plainly dysfunctional, as the riots have shown. Guardian credibility has hit the rocks. If you wanted to illustrate what “cognitive dissonance” meant to someone who had never heard the […]
http://news.yahoo.com/56-killed-wave-violence-rolls-across-iraq-090328971.html KUT, Iraq (AP) — Bomb blasts ripped through more than a dozen Iraqi cities Monday morning, killing 56 people — most of them in the southern city of Kut — in a wave of violence that shattered what had been a relatively peaceful holy month of Ramadan. The violence struck from the northern city […]