America’s Troubling Investment Gap By David Malpass and Stephen Moore http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/davidmalpass/2011/07/10/americas_troubling_investment_gap/print In June, President Obama celebrated a rare sliver of good economic news: Foreign investment was up 49% last year over 2009. The president says that this boost in capital shipped to the U.S. by international companies or foreign investors leads to more businesses and […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/271423 Iran Is at War with Us Are we at war with Iran? ‘You can clearly see what they are doing in Iraq.” Sen. Lindsey Graham was talking about the Islamic Republic of Iran, specifically the death trade plied by the mullahs, their Revolutionary Guard Corps, their Hezbollah operatives, and the assorted jihadists under their […]
Time for tea, or, What would Wilkins Micawber think? Posted By Roger Kimball URL to article: http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2011/07/09/time-for-tea-or-what-would-wilkins-micawber-think/ “Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.” — Wilkins Micawber What do you reckon Mr. Micawber would think of Barack […]
The Great Madness of 2004-10Posted By Victor Davis Hanson URL to article: http://pajamasmedia.com/victordavishanson/the-great-madness-of-2004- The First Symptoms of Hatred—2004 to 2008 For about seven years the nation lost its collective mind — and was only partially coming-to in November 2010. During the years of insanity, Al Gore won both a Nobel Prize and an Academy […]
America’s Floating Jews By James Lewis Page Printed from: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2011/07/american_jews_are_floating_in_mid-air.htm There’s a German word used by European Jews after the Holocaust, called “Luftmensch.” It means something like “space cadet.” I never quite got it ’til now. But if you look at the paintings of Marc Chagall you see the little village people from the Shtetls […]
Bronner’s Flotilla Spin By Andrea Levin Page Printed from: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2011/07/bronners_flotilla_spin.htm The New York Times seems less and less concerned about factual coverage of Israel, as Ethan Bronner’s July 3, 2010 column titled “Setting Sail on Gaza’s Sea of Spin” underscores. Bronner begins his “news analysis” piece by comparing the latest Gaza flotilla, led by radical […]
We Are At War July 9, 2011 By Nurit Greenger We, the people in the Western world, have been at world war for a long time and no one cares to admit it! This war, of Islam against the West, is escalating, daily. By discussing all but the war, in which we are embroiled, our […]
Is The Fate of the Infidels Tied to the Buddhas? By Janet Levy Page Printed from: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2011/07/is_the_fate_of_the_infidels_tied_to_the_buddhas.html No fanfare and little notice marked the 10th anniversary earlier this year of the destruction of the 1,500-year-old Bamiyan Buddhas. These 6th-century stately statues carved into sandstone cliffs in central Afghanistan included one of the tallest standing Buddhas in the world. […]
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/converting-mamet_561048.html Converting MametA playwright’s progress Andrew Ferguson AS ANDREW BOSTOM REMINDS US TODAY, THE ANNIVERSARY OF WHITTAKER CHAMBERS’ DEATH, IT IS APPROPRIATE TO RUN THIS FABULOUS AND WELCOME COLUMN BY ANDREW FERGUSON ON THE “CONVERSION” OF DAVID MAMET WHO WAS SO INFLUENCED BY CHAMBERS’ AUTOBIOGRAPHY “WITNESS.”…..RSK Santa Monica Three decades ago David Mamet became known […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/271417 Playwright David Mamet recently acknowledged that he had been profoundly influenced by Communist apostate Whittaker Chambers’s 1952 anti-Communist memoir, Witness. Mamet described how reading Chambers’s opus inspired “the wrenching experience” of forcibly reevaluating the way he thought, particularly his confessed leftist-herd co-dependence. Also, echoing the delusive herd mentality of the Left’s ad hominem attacks […]
