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August 2011

THE MAP OF LOVE AND MISREADING: DAVID SOLWAY ON AHDAF SOUEIF’S BOOK

The Map of Love and Misreading Posted By David Solway http://frontpagemag.com/2011/08/26/the-map-of-love-and-misreading/ The Anglo-Egyptian novelist Ahdaf Soueif is not a bad writer but she’s not a very good one either. Her reputation rests mainly on one book, The Map of Love, which sold over a million copies and was shortlisted for the 1999 Man Booker Prize, […]

MAXINE WATERS APOLOGIZES- TO FIDEL CASTRO: HUMBERTO FONTOVA

Maxine Waters Apologizes—To Fidel Castro Posted By Humberto Fontova URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/08/26/maxine-waters-apologizes%e2%80%94to-fidel-castro/ According to Maxine Waters, the Tea Party “can go straight to hell.” But “Viva Fidel!” she chanted, during the rapturous reception that greeted the Stalinist dictator’s visit to Harlem’s Riverside Church on Sept. 9, 2000. The overflow crowd packed the church to […]

P. DAVID HORNIK: GLENN BECK’S MESSAGE TO A NATION IN PERIL

Glenn Beck’s Message to a State in Peril Posted By P. David Hornik URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/08/26/glenn-beck%e2%80%99s-message-to-a-state-in-peril/ On Wednesday night about 20 rockets were fired at southern Israel from Gaza, wounding a nine-month-old girl and damaging property. The barrage continued on Thursday night with another 15 rockets or so. On the whole it was a […]

DEROY MURDOCK: BETWEEN ROMNEY AND PERRY? IT’S PERRY

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/275621 Perry vs. Romney? Go With Perry Conservatives are stampeding toward Rick Perry. Rick Perry has pole-vaulted over Willard Mitt Romney in the race to become the top Republican to face President Obama on Election Day 2012. Texas’ governor beat Massachusetts’ former governor 29 percent to 17 percent, Gallup reported Wednesday, in the second national […]

ALEX JOFFE: DEMONIZING GLENN BECK….NO GREATER FRIEND

http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/content/module/2011/8/26/main-feature/1/demonizing-glenn-beck Few American public figures equal Glenn Beck in his ability to inspire loathing from his enemies and affection from his admirers.  Beck was in Israel this past week for a series of public events—in effect, revival meetings.  He called the tour “Restoring Courage.” The first event, which took place in the amphitheater at Caesaria, […]

RON WEISER: SAY NO TO A PALARAB STATE AT THE UN….SEE NOTE PLEASE

Palestinian Intransigence: The Core Issue Of The Conflict http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/ HERE WE GO AGAIN….NO…ISRAEL DOES NOT REQUIRE AND SHOULD NOT ASK FOR “RECOGNITION OF ITS RIGHT TO EXIST AS A JEWISH STATE”….THIS KIND BUT SILLY COLUMN IGNORES THE FACT THAT SO CALLED “RECOGNITION” CAN BE NULLIFIED BY THE SHOT OF ONE BULLET…SEE WHAT IS HAPPENING IN […]

MORE ON THE STEVE JOBS LEGACY….AN INSPIRING AMERICAN BY STEPHEN GREEN

Steve Jobs: A Legacy Posted By Stephen Green http://pajamasmedia.com/vodkapundit/2011/08/25/steve-jobs-a-legacy/?print=1 Even most successful entrepreneurs do not change an entire industry. But that’s exactly what Steve Jobs did to personal computing — three times. With the Apple II, Jobs made personal computers useful. In the mid-Seventies, home computers were build-it-yourself hobby boxes, useful only to the nerdiest […]

J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS: EVERY SINGLE ONE…THE POLITICIZED HIRING OF ERIC HOLDER’S DOJ

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/every-single-one-the-politicized-hiring-of-eric-holder%e2%80%99s-compliance-section/ All 5 new hires to the Justice Department’s Coordination and Compliance Section have far-left resumes — which were only released following a PJMedia lawsuit. (This is the seventh in a series of articles about the Justice Department’s hiring practices since President Obama took office. Read parts one, two, three, four, five, and six.) For […]

DON’T WORRY BE HAPPY: BILL GERTZ:CHINA EXPANDS ITS NUCLEAR STOCKPILE….SEE NOTE PLEASE

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/25/beijing-to-expand-its-nuclear-stockpile/ BILL GERTZ, TO HIS GREAT CREDIT HAS BEEN WARNING OF THIS FOR YEARS….RSK Pentagon discloses network of bunkers China is expanding its nuclear forces with a new multiwarhead mobile missile and keeps its strategic stockpiles in deep underground bunkers, the Pentagon disclosed in its annual report to Congress on the Chinese military. China is […]

DON’T WORRY BE HAPPY: CHINA IS PREPARING FOR WAR :BRETT M. DECKER

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/25/china-outgunning-the-pentagon/ WHERE IS THE PRESIDENT? WHERE IS HILLARY? WHERE ARE THE CANDIDATES?….RSK Beware, the PLA is coming. On Wednesday, the Pentagon released its annual report on Chinese military operations. It is full of mealy-mouthed wording to try to put the best possible spin on the rapid rise of the People’s Republic, but one scary conclusion […]