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Ruth King

DANIEL GREENFIELD: INSURGENT OR RESURGENT INCUMBENT?

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Obama’s team is nothing if not creative. After running for his first term as a force of change, he’s off and running for his second term as… the force of change. Don’t like the last change, this will be the change from that change to a whole other change.

“We Can’t Wait” oddly echoes with Obama’s old slogan, “We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting For.” Now after having waited for three for ourselves… we can’t wait for another four years of the same thing. The problem with waiting for ourselves while waiting to vote again for the man who got us into this mess is that it means we’ll be waiting a long time.

But “We Can’t Wait” echoes another slogan that the Obama team was extremely familiar with, the left’s “We Can’t Wait To Drive the Bush Regime Out.” This time around Obama might have called it, “We Can’t Wait to Drive Boehner Out”, but it’s a slogan that would have confused most people.

THE FLAT TAX SWEEPSTAKES: WSJ

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204777904576653140448256336.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop The Flat-Tax Sweepstakes Perry’s 20% optional rate joins the GOP debate over pro-growth tax reform. Rick Perry joined the GOP’s tax reform sweepstakes on Tuesday, proposing an optional flat income tax of 20%, among other fiscal and economic reforms. We’ll get to the details, but the larger story is how the drive for a […]

DAVID MALPASS: HOW THE EUROZONE CAN RESTORE CONFIDENCE

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204644504576652960431581584.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop
Investors are looking for a home for trillions in idle Federal Reserve-generated dollars, and a little reform in Europe might attract them.
The world is waiting anxiously for Europe to use a bazooka on its debt problems—i.e., to make such a strong financial commitment to European banks and bonds that they become investable again, unfreezing markets.

But Europe probably won’t go that far in this week’s summits. This leaves in place a costly slow-motion bailout and a deepening recession.

STATE DEPT. BUYS $70,000 WORTH OF OBAMA’S BOOKS..Jim McElhatton

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/oct/25/state-department-buys-70000-worth-obama-memoir/ The State Department has bought more than $70,000 worth of books authored by President Obama, sending out copies as Christmas gratuities and stocking “key libraries” around the world with “Dreams from My Father” more than a decade after its release. The U.S. Embassy in Egypt, for instance, spent $28,636 in August 2009 for copies […]

MARK STEYN: A CANADIAN “FAMILY” GOES ON TRIAL

http://www.steynonline.com/4605/sunset-on-the-rideau I wrote about the murders of Zainab, Sahar and Geeti Shafia and their father’s first wife Rona over two years ago, when their bodies were found in the Rideau Canal in Kingson, Ontario: Three or so weeks back, a submerged car was found in the Rideau Canal in Kingston, Ont., containing the bodies of […]

IBD: THERE’S PERRY’S PLAN AND THEN THERE’S ROMNEY

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=589336&p=1

Fiscal Policy: This is a time for big ideas that take some political risk. Rick Perry’s flat-tax solution largely fits that bill, and so do the proposals from most others in the GOP field. Then there’s Romney.

Perry this week finally unveiled the sort of detailed economic plan that, in a well-planned campaign, he would’ve had ready a couple of months ago. So it may be too late to help him much. But it’s never too late to inject good ideas into the political mix. Perry’s plan isn’t perfect, but it would be a huge improvement over the laws in place now……GO TO SITE

MELANIE PHILLIPS: “MODERATE” SARI NUSSEIBEH UNMASKED

True face of moderate leaders

http://melaniephillips.com/true-face-of-moderate-leaders

For many years, Professor Sari Nusseibeh has been regarded as the epitome of Palestinian moderation. The urbane president of al Quds university in east Jerusalem, he has been regarded as a “two-state solution” moderate. His actual advocacy of a one-state solution and the swallowing up of Israel has been unaccountably ignored.

Yet now he has let down his guard to reveal more starkly what lies beneath this polished veneer. Considering the Israeli government’s requirement that the Palestinians must acknowledge Israel as a Jewish state, Nusseibeh declared in an al Jazeera article (in English on its website) that this was inherently “problematic” because of its “legal, religious, historical and social implications”.

Those problematic implications are that, for Nusseibeh, a Jewish state would necessarily either be a theocracy or practise apartheid — stripping Israeli Arabs of their civic rights and ethnically cleansing them from Israel, on the basis that in a Jewish state the only people with civic rights would be Jews.

FREED JERUSALEM PIZZA MASSACRE PERP: “IT IS A BEAUTIFUL THING TO REALIZE A PERSON’S DREAM”

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/3157.htm “It Is A Beautiful Thing, To Realize A Person’s Dream”: The freed terrorist sentenced to 16 life terms (video) #3157 – Released Terrorist Ahlam Tamimi, Sentenced to 16 Life Terms in Prison, Takes Pride in the Number of Casualties She Caused and Proclaims: I Would Do It Again Today Here’s the unrepentant Ahlam Tamimi, […]

SAUDI CLERIC OFFERS $100,000.00 TO ANYONE WHO KIDNAPS ISRAELI SOLDIERS

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/10/saudi-cleric-offers-100000-to-anyone-who-kidnaps-israeli-soldiers.html Saudi cleric offers $100,000 to anyone who kidnaps Israeli soldiers In 2004, Awad al-Qarni was one of 26 Islamic scholars who signed a statement encouraging jihadist attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq, saying “A Muslim must not inflict harm on any resistance man or inform about them. Instead, they should be supported and protected.” […]

BEN SHAPIRO: WHAT A ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT LOOKS LIKE

http://townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/2011/10/26/what_a_one-world_government_looks_like/print “Imagine there’s no countries,” John Lennon warbled in his inane song “Imagine.” “It isn’t hard to do / Nothing to kill or die for … Imagine all the people / Living life in peace / You may say that I’m a dreamer / But I’m not the only one / I hope someday you’ll […]