http://pajamasmedia.com/claudiarosett/state-of-the-future/ State of the Future Posted By Claudia Rosett “He sought to sway his audience with rhetoric rather than specifics,” reports the Washington Post, trying to piece together what went on in the State of the Union address Tuesday evening. I haven’t been drunk-blogging with the marvelous Vodkapundit [1] (wish I had!), but I came […]
http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/01/making_obama_a_one_term_presid.html Making Obama a One Term President By Richard Baehr We are slightly more than 21 months away from the 2012 presidential election. The election in 2012 will be not a simple referendum on Barack Obama (for which an approval score is a proxy), but a choice between two candidates. While many potential GOP candidates […]
Honor Killing in America By Pamela Geller http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/01/honor_killing_in_america.html The trials of two “honor killers” are underway in America this week: one in Buffalo, New York, and the other in Arizona. In Buffalo, the moderate Muslim beheader and bridge-builder to the West, Muzzammil Hassan, was granted the right Monday to act as his own attorney. That […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703293204576106293283157786.html?mod=WSJ_article_MoreIn_Opinion Amid his Reaganite sunshine and new admiration for the wonders of private enterprise, President Obama’s political message in Tuesday’s State of the Union address boils down to this: Republicans, it’s your budget problem now. The deficit is awful and must be cut, entitlements are unsustainable and must be addressed, the tax code hurts growth […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704698004576104481200969162.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop By STEPHEN MOORE Words matter in politics, which is why the federal government no longer “spends” (and wastes) money, but rather “invests” it. According to Barack Obama’s State of the Union address, nearly every penny of the $2.5 trillion domestic budget—for installing solar paneling on the roofs of libraries, funding lavish teacher retirement funds, […]
http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2011/01/only-israel-is-free-lamentable-lack-of.html From the antipodean J-Wire news service, the following article, entitled “Palestine and the Arab League – Fake Freedom Fighters,” is by Sydney lawyer and international affairs analyst David Singer. The Palestinian Authority, Hamas and the Arab League member states continue to deny their populations basic political rights and civil liberties – according to a Report […]
http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/ An Aussie Doc’s Role in the Birth of Israel Australia Day. So come Down Under down Memory Lane… Dr Herbert Vere (“Doc”) Evatt (1894-1965; pictured below) was a bright working-class lad from Maitland, New South Wales, who was educated at school and university in Sydney and became a lawyer and QC. From 1925-30 he […]
http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/content/module/2011/1/27/main-feature/1/talmud-the-back-story Talmud: The Back Story By Yehudah Mirsky Shamma Friedman. There is no getting away from the Babylonian Talmud. Love it, hate it, or both, this monumental work, so unlike anything we generally think of as a book, has been central to Jewish life for a millennium and more, managing time after time to find […]
http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/news/CCTV-showed-Imam-having-shoulders-massaged-boy/article-3145664-detail/article.html http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/CCTV showed Imam having shoulders massaged by boy AN IMAM accused of sexually assaulting two boys told a court that one of the alleged victims asked to massage his shoulders as a “sign of respect”. CCTV was seen by the jury at Nottingham Crown Court which showed Muslim leader Mohammed Hanif Khan tapping his […]
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right-turn/2011/01/rep_paul_ryan_1_obamacare_0.html#more Rep. Paul Ryan 1, ObamaCare 0 By Jennifer Rubin House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) held an important hearing on ObamaCare, showing just how important is the process for educating the public, and thereby setting defenders of ObamaCare back on their heels. As he did last night, Ryan explained the contrast between how […]
