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2011

DIANA WEST: MEANWHILE BACK IN NORWAY….A WITCH HUNT

http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1867/Meanwhile-Back-in-Norway.aspx Gates of Vienna carries a chilling  update from the erudite and prolific Norwegian blogger Fjordman, some of whose vast body of work was cut and pasted into mass murderer Breivik’s so-called manifesto. In the wake of a frenzy in Norway to identify the anonymous Fjordman, which has closely resembled a witch hunt, the 36-year-writer […]

JOSEPH RAGO: OBAMA AND THE NARCISSISM OF BIG DIFFERENCES…SEE NOTE PLEASE

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903454504576486752134553990.html?mod=djemEditorialP Obama and the Narcissism of Big Differences ‘He becomes visibly agitated. . . . He does not like to be challenged on policy grounds,’ says the House majority leader of the president. IN SIMPLER LINGO….THE PRESIDENT BEHAVES LIKE A SPOILED BRAT…RSK Whatever the rhetoric that preceded this week’s deal, the debt-ceiling debate was never […]

CUBA UPHOLDS PRISON SENTENCE FOR U.S. CONTRACTOR ALAN GROSS

Cuba upholds imprisoned American’s 15-year sentence http://www.kansascity.com/2011/08/05/3059898/cuba-upholds-imprisoned-americans.html HAVANA | Cuba’s highest court Friday upheld a 15-year prison sentence for a U.S. contractor charged with crimes against the state for distributing satellite telephone equipment to Jewish groups in Havana. The ruling leaves Alan Gross, 62, without another opportunity for appeal. He has spent 1 1/2 years […]

NUCLEAR DETERRENCE AND ENEMY RATIONALITY:By LOUIS RENÉ BERES AND JOHN T. CHAIN

http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=232731# What if Iran’s leaders do not consistently value Iran’s national survival more highly than any other preference? Nuclear deterrence is a game that even sane, rational governments may have to play, but there can be no assurance that enemies will always be rational. This presents a grave security problem, because the entire logic of […]

JEFF JACOBY: ENERGY INDEPENDENCE IS A PIPE DREAM

‘Energy independence’ is a pipe dream by Jeff Jacoby The Boston Globe  http://www.jeffjacoby.com/10071/energy-independence-is-a-pipe-dream LATE LAST MONTH, President Obama announced new automobile fuel-efficiency standards that will require cars to achieve an average of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025. Vehicle fleets currently average 27 miles per gallon, so the new target would boost fuel efficiency by […]

JANET LEVY ROSS: THE JIHAD AGAINST THE ARMENIAN, ASYRIAN AND GREEK CHRISTIANS

The Jihad Against the Armenian, Assyrian, and Greek Christians By Janet Levy See also: The Persecution of Christians in the Middle East In Germany, where Holocaust denial is punishable by up to five years in prison, Stuttgart University recently capitulated to pressure from resident Turkish Muslims and canceled an event entitled, “Persecution, Expulsion and Annihilation of Christians […]

ANDREW McCARTHY: CHRISTIE’S “CRAZIES”….GOTTAREAD

THIS GOVERNOR IS CLEARLY NOT THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE LINCOLN TUNNEL…..RSK http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/273865 Christie’s ‘Crazies’ Sharia is not a figment of our imagination. This “sharia-law business is crap . . . and I’m tired of dealing with the crazies!” So blustered Chris Christie. Bluster is the New Jersey governor’s default mode. It has certainly served him well. […]

ROGER KIMBALL: PLANNED ECONOMY OR PLANNED DESTRUCTION? TAKE 2

http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2011/08/06/planned-economy-or-planned-destruction-take-2/ OK, so I have had occasion to share this educational cartoon from The Chicago Tribune 21 April 1934 before. But memories are short and, as André Gide once put it, ““Toutes choses sont dites déjà, mais comme personne n’écoute, il faut toujours recommencer.” When I first posted this cartoon, back in March of 2009, […]

AUGUST 6, 1945: IT’S OVER FOR JAPAN….W.THOMAS SMITH JR.

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.10094/pub_detail.asp ” In time, the bombings will be decried as cruel and excessive in terms of the lives lost; as if to suggest all war is not both cruel and excessive to the vanquished. Indeed, nuclear weapons are horrible. What is incalculable, however, is the number of American lives saved by decisively ending the war […]

STANLEY KURTZ: OBAMA’S TWO FINANCIAL CRISES

Obama’s Two Financial Crises By Stanley Kurtz http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/273776 Why is Barack Obama president of the United States? Media coddling? A weak McCain campaign? A strong, if dishonest, effort by Obama to present himself as a pragmatic centrist? All of these things played a role, but the advent of the subprime crisis at the height of the […]