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DAVID MALPASS: EUROPE TILTING A BIT POSITIVE

http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/davidmalpass/2011/09/16/europe_tilting_a_bit_positive/print Europe has had minor positive developments this week, causing equity gains.  However, we think the underlying policies in both the U.S. and Europe are still deteriorating.  On the current course, we expect a global slowdown extending into 2012, with shallow recessions in the U.S. and northern Europe. We note weakening economic data in Europe […]

OBAMA’S CASH FOR VISAS PROGRAM; MICHELLE MALKIN

http://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2011/09/16/the_cash-for-visas_program/print As part of his warmed-over jobs plan, President Obama is repackaging “Buy American” stimulus subsidies to help hard-hit homegrown businesses. At the same time, however, Congress is pushing to expand a fraud-riddled investor program that puts U.S. citizenship for sale to the highest foreign business bidders.? Call it the Buy America Cash-for-Visas plan.? As […]

JOEL MOWBRAY:UN VOTE COULD HAVE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/sep/15/pyrrhic-palestinian-victory/print/ When the Palestinian Authority (PA) was pushing last month to receive $50 million in direct funding to help alleviate its dire fiscal situation, it received critical support from a seemingly unlikely source: the right-wing government of Israel. Israel quietly supported the Obama administration’s plan to deliver $50 million in direct assistance to cover the PA’s […]

PAUL KRUGMAN ONCE CALLED SOCIAL SECURITY A PONZI SCARE: NOEL SHEPPARD

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904060604576570670305899208.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_RIGHTBelowPepperandSalt Krugman on Social Security Circa 1996: ‘The Ponzi Game Will Soon Be Over’ As NewsBusters reported Tuesday, liberal media outlets and their members have been talking about Social Security being a Ponzi scheme since at least 1967. Add New York Times columnist Paul Krugman to the list of detractors as demonstrated by something he […]

ANDREW FERGUSON: PERRY AND THE PROFESSORS…HE PICKED THE RIGHT FIGHT

http://www.weeklystandard.com/print/articles/perry-and-profs_593055.html Perry and the ProfsHe picked the right fight. Andrew Ferguson http://www.weeklystandard.com/print/articles/perry-and-profs_593055.html If you want a glimpse of the way Rick Perry operates as an executive and a politician, consider the issue of higher education reform in Texas, which no one in Texas knew was an issue until Perry decided to make it one. In […]

DAVID ISAAC: A STATE OF INTERDEPENDENCE

A State of Interdependence http://shmuelkatz.com/wordpress/?p=773 In a recent column for Bloomberg View, Jeffrey Goldberg writes of statements by former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, who, shortly before his retirement, told the president that Netanyahu was “ungrateful” for the myriad contributions the U.S. has made to Israel’s security. Goldberg writes: “In a meeting of the National […]

IT’S UP TO FLORIDA AS PERRY CONTINUES STUMP SPEECHES: SHAUN WATERMAN….SEE NOTE PLEASE

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/sep/14/perry-says-nation-doesnt-want-a-caretaker-state/

SENIOR CITIZENS SHOULD BE OFFENDED BY LL THE PUNDITS PREDICTING THEIR FEARS ON SOCIAL SECURITY. WE ARE SMARTER THAN THEY THINK. SEE THIS FLORIDA NEWS:
Poll: Perry Leads GOP Field in Florida

By Kyle Adams – September 15, 2011

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/09/15/poll_perry_leads_gop_field_in_florida_111335.html

RICHMOND — Texas Gov. Rick Perry used much of his keynote speech at a Republican fundraiser Wednesday to attack the policies of President Obama, firing up the party faithful who turned out for a glimpse of the GOP presidential front-runner.

“Our people reject the idea of a Western European caretaker state,” he said to roaring applause, saying that the first thing he would do when he walked into the Oval Office would be to sign an executive order to “wipe out as much of Obamacare as I can,” referring to Mr. Obama’s health care overhaul.

DANIEL GREENFIELD: HOW TO WRITE YOUR VERY OWN “I AM A VICTIM OF ISLAMOPHOBIA” LETTER

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Just as no murder trial would be complete without the murderer’s family showing up in court to explain why they are the real victims, no commemoration of September 11th would be complete without a lot of articles explaining why Muslims are the real victims of their own killing spree. “Are you a Muslim? Have […]

US BORDER PATROLS FIND WEAPONS ROCKET LAUNCHER, ASSAULT RIFLES AND PLASTIC EXPLOSIVES NEAR SMALL TEXAS TOWN

http://cowboybyte.com/834/border-patrol-finds-weapons-rocket-launcher-near-rio-grande/ U.S. Border Patrol agents have discovered a cache of several high-powered weapons along the Rio Grande river including a rocket launcher, assault rifles and plastic explosives, authorities said. Agents found the weapons on Tuesday in a black bag along a quiet stretch of the Rio Grande near Fronton, a small community about 210 miles […]

NOBEL PRIZE WINNING PHYSICIST RESIGNS OVER GLOBAL WARMING

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/09/14/nobel-prize-winning-physicist-resigns-from-top-physics-group-over-global/  Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Resigns Over Global Warming The global warming theory left him out in the cold. Dr. Ivar Giaever, a former professor with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the 1973 winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, abruptly announced his resignation Tuesday, Sept. 13, from the premier physics society in disgust over its officially […]