http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/tony-blair/8273557/Iraq-inquiry-Tony-Blair-tells-Chilcot-it-is-still-necessary-to-challenge-Islamic-extremism.html Tony Blair has told the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq war that it is still necessary to confront and challenge violent Islamic extremism. Making his second appearance before the Iraq Inquiry, the former prime minister warned that it was impossible just to manage the threat. The hearing opened with the inquiry chairman Sir John […]
http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/01/education_cutbacks_and_urban_v.html Education Cutbacks and Urban Violence By Robert Weissberg Bloated public education budgets in our large cities may be immune from serious cuts for an unpalatable reason: the threat of urban violence. For decades education budgets have grown fat, though America has little to show for this generosity. Alas, as cities and states increasingly face […]
http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/01/tunisias_jasmine_revolution_vs.html Tunisia’s Jasmine Revolution vs. the Forces of Counter-democracy By Walid Phares WALID PHARES IS SUCH A THOUGHTFUL MAN….BUT HE DISMISSES THE POWERFUL MOVEMENT OF RADICAL ISLAM IN TUNISIA…..RSK When his Computer Science degree failed to corral meaningful employment, twenty-six-year-old Mohamed Bouazizi resorted to selling vegetables on the street in Sidi Bouzid[1] to support his […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704881304576094310544475924.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_AboveLEFTTop Late last month Julian Assange secured a million-dollar advance from two publishers to write his autobiography. The WikiLeaks founder says he needs the money to cover the legal expenses arising from charges that he raped two women in Sweden. But perhaps Mr. Assange would do better to defend himself and pay the lawyers’ fees […]
http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/content/module/2011/1/21/main-feature/1/the-conscience-of-a-jewish-conservative The Conscience of a Jewish Conservative By Ruth R. Wisse A Jewish thinker is normally someone devoted to the study and interpretation of Jewish texts, Jewish history, Jewish issues, Jewish ideas. The late Irving Kristol (1920–2009) was, for the most part, something else: a consummate American intellectual. Founding editor of the Public Interest, contributing […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jan/20/glum-and-glummer/ It says a lot about the sorry state of the U.S. economy when 404,000 people losing work is reported as positive news. Last week’s initial jobless claims came in “better than expected,” but there was nothing good about it for the hundreds of thousands of newly unemployed. The unemployment rate remains lodged over 9 […]
http://bigpeace.com/jtreese/2011/01/20/inspire-inspires-homegrown-terrorists/ Inspire Inspires Homegrown Terrorists Posted by Jack L. Treese, CWO US Army, Retired This is the cover from the latest issue of al Qaeda’s magazine for English speaking jihadist. You won’t find any links to this magazine in this piece. In a previous issue of Inspire readers were reminded to view the magazine on […]
http://zalmi.blogspot.com/2011/01/daily-mail-joins-boycott.html Imagine a travel ad for the pyramids and sphinx and Nile cruise, without the word Egypt or Egyptian ever appearing? Or one for the Taj Mahal without mentioning the name India, the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame without France or the Acropolis without Greece? Witness this ad in today’s Daily Mail, promoting a multi-point tour […]
http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/ Thursday, 20 January 2011 On the Wings of Ignorance about Israel “Symbolic of the political problems that impact the environment is that when Israel sought to designate the Palestine sunbird (Cinnyris osea) as its national bird, it had to be pointed out that it was already the official bird of Palestine,” opines a travel […]
Investigating Seymour Hersh by Rael Jean Isaac….Yesterday I posted a column called Seymour Hersh Unravels SEYMOUR HERSH UNRAVELS In fact he unraveled a long time ago and the media ignored it. Isaac’s first article on Hersh appeared in Midstream almost twenty years ago (in 1992) called Seymour Hersh’s Obsessions. This column appeared in 2006 in […]
