http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303661904576453800512114910.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion America’s Intelligence Denial on Iran CIA censors prevented me from naming the outside reviewers who rubber stamp agency estimates. “It is unacceptable that Iran is on the brink of testing a nuclear weapon while our intelligence analysts continue to deny that an Iranian nuclear weapons program exists. One can’t underestimate the dangers posed to […]
Stealing Israel’s fuel By BENNY AVNI www.nypost.com/p/columnists/item_dnP8kfd4MIBH2OmL8Q0ftJ Lebanon and Israel are trying to resolve their maritime- border dispute peacefully — for now. But the Hezbollah terrorists who control Lebanon are itching to turn it into a crisis that’ll justify war — if and when their patrons in Iran and Syria want it. At issue is […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.9988/pub_detail.asp Supporter of Armed Jihad Addresses American Muslim Group The Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report Tariq Ramadan Says Don’t Worry About Muslim Brotherhood Coming To Power Canadian media is reporting on comments made by Tariq Ramadan in which he attempted to reassure the West about the potential for the Muslim Brotherhood coming to power in Egypt […]
Coming of Age URL to article: http://www.tabletmag.com/arts-and-culture/books/72426/coming-of-age/ And This Is the Light, the sole novel by the prolific Israeli writer Lea Goldberg, recently released in English, imagines adolescence and romance on the verge of World War II in Lithuania By Adam Kirsch | Jul 19, 2011 7:00 AM Lea Goldberg at 16 years old, circa […]
http://www.melaniephillips.com/the-bbcs-secular-inquisition I am open-mouthed. The BBC Trust is recommending that its journalists ditch balance for propaganda. A report being published today has apparently decided that the BBC no longer needs to interview man-made global warming sceptics because there is a consensus on this issue that the theory is true. Its conclusions are said to be […]
Enduring Legacy of a Failed Flotilla Posted By P. David Hornik URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/07/20/enduring-legacy-of-a-failed-flotilla/ On Tuesday the Israeli navy intercepted the Dignite al Karama, a French ship of about fifteen radical leftists and others headed straight toward the Israeli maritime blockade of Gaza (reports here and here). The Dignite was also the last remnant […]
Hacks: The Left’s Lilliputians Try to Take Murdoch Down Posted By Mike McNally http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/hacks-the-lefts-lilliputians-try-to-take-murdoch-down/ Carl Bernstein wonders if this will be Rupert Murdoch’s Watergate [1]. The UK Guardian says Fox News could be finished [2]. As Murdoch’s opponents in the U.S. try to capitalize on the British phone-hacking scandal, to hear some of the more […]
MILLER: Gang of squish The latest debt-ceiling offer is even worse than Obama’s tax-and-spend bid http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jul/19/gang-of-squish/ The Senate’s “Gang of Six” is back, this time with a surprise plan that would preserve Washington’s big-spending ways. Within an hour of the bipartisan group’s announcement of a breakthrough framework for hiking the debt ceiling, President Obama walked […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jul/19/former-nsa-official-says-mismanagement-continues-a/ Former National Security Agency whistleblower Thomas A. Drake says continuing mismanagement and malfeasance have turned the nation’s premier electronic spy agency into “the Enron of the U.S. intelligence community.” Mr. Drake, whose federal criminal case concluded last week, said in an interview with The Washington Times that he thinks management failures at NSA related […]
Steyn on the World http://www.steynonline.com/content/view/4271/ HAPPY WARRIOR from National Review The other day, Abdul Qadir Fitrat, the governor of Afghanistan’s central bank, fled the country. The only wonder is that there aren’t more fleeing. Not Afghans; central bankers. I mean, you gotta figure that throughout the G-20 there are more than a few with the […]
