http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ By combining an opposition to free enterprise with an opposition to industrialization, the left has adopted not one, but two platforms that doom the economic survival of their host societies. Even the Soviet Union and Communist China, systems which were the worst embodiment of leftist economic ideology did not throw out the industrial baby […]
http://balkanstudies.org/articles/fyrom-new-kosovo An Orthodox church was set ablaze in the southwestern part of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) on January 30. The incident reflects raising tensions between local Christian Slavs and Albanians, more than a decade after an Albanian rebellion brought FYROM to the verge of an ethnic war. It also evokes memories of […]
http://www.stonegateinstitute.org/2834/muslim-persecution-of-christians-january-2012 She was flogged — given 40 lashes as hundreds of Muslim spectators jeered — for embracing a “foreign religion.” The beginning of the New Year saw only an increase in the oppression of Christians under Islam, from Nigeria, where an all-out jihad has been declared in an effort to eradicate the Muslim north of […]
http://www.stonegateinstitute.org/2833/qatar-financing-wahhabi-islam-europe Qatar, the most fraudulent “moderate,” is “sparing no effort” to spread Wahhabi Islam across “the whole world,” discouraging integration, encouraging jihad. The Persian Gulf Emirate of Qatar says it plans to invest €50 million ($65 million) in French suburbs that are home to hundreds of thousands of disgruntled Muslim immigrants. Qatar says its investment […]
http://townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/2012/02/09/fudging_the_numbers/print The Obama administration is touting the latest unemployment numbers released last week by the U.S. Department of Labor as proof its policies are working. But a closer look at the actual number of able-bodied people who are willing to work, but are not, reveals a different picture. As economist John R. Lott has written, […]
http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2012/02/09/the_antiromney_vote/print A funny thing happened to Mitt Romney on the way to his coronation as the inevitable Republican candidate for President of the United States. Minnesota, Missouri and Colorado happened. Rick Santorum beat him in all three states on the same day — and beat him by huge margins in two of those states, as […]
http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/19122-Traveling-Downhill-With-Obamacare.html Traveling Downhill With Obamacare Some have compared the impact on agents of ObamaCare’s medical loss ratio (MLR) to the impact of online technology on travel agents. Yesterday, I spent hours studying many web sites to decide on a hotel to take my family during spring break. Although the web sites were very informative, most […]
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White House risks charges in probes of Fast and Furious, Solyndra
The clock is ticking for the Justice Department. As officials continue to withhold documents relevant to the administration’s fatally flawed gunrunning scheme, House lawmakers grow more anxious to get to the bottom of what happened. Unless the material is produced before the deadline, Republicans shouldn’t waver in issuing contempt-of-Congress citations.
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee members investigating Fast and Furious have given Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. until Thursday to turn over subpoenaed material and avoid an unpleasant battle between the executive and legislative branches. During his sixth Fast and Furious appearance before the committee last week, Mr. Holder repeatedly insisted the department was trying to comply with the numerous information requests. For Republicans who have heard his assurances before, his Feb. 2 testimony was “Groundhog Day” all over again, but no one was laughing.
Keystone pipeline bill clears House committee The Hill Wednesday, February 8, 2012 News The House Energy and Commerce Committee on Tuesday approved legislation that would reverse President Obama’s rejection of the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline. Read more… Read more at: http://times247.com/ Obama wages war on Christianity while media yawn CNS Wednesday, February 8, 2012 Commentary […]
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,druck-813814,00.html Breaking Global Warming Taboos ‘I Feel Duped on Climate Change’ Will reduced solar activity counteract global warming in the coming decades? That is what outgoing German electric utility executive Fritz Vahrenholt claims in a new book. In an interview with SPIEGEL, he argues that the official United Nations forecasts on the severity of climate change are overstated and supported by […]
