http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/08/18/perry-plays-obama-media-like-a-fiddle/?singlepage=true When Gov. Rick Perry returns to Austin this weekend, he’s likely to return to a hero’s welcome. He launched his campaign in a flawless rollout in South Carolina last weekend, captured the top spot in Rasmussen by double-digits, and is off to a dominating start in the GOP primary. Perry’s welcome will take all […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.10199/pub_detail.asp On August 7, 2011, in a chapel converted to a mosque on Lackland Air Force Base near San Antonio, Texas, the U.S. government officially became a sponsor of the Mahdi. No, not Barack Husein Obama, but a much more serious and overt candidate: Adnan Oktar, a.k.a. “Harun Yahya,” the Turkish Creationist whose followers consider him […]
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/08/raymond-ibrahim-the-lone-wolf-jihad.html As we near the ten-year anniversary of the September 11, 2001 strikes, the Obama administration is stressing that the threat remains, but in a different form. In a speech at a Chamber of Commerce event yesterday, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said: [T]he U.S. has a “layered system of security that would give us […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/18/obamas-worst-nightmare/ President Obama can see the writing on the wall: His days in the White House are numbered. This is the real meaning of Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s entry into the Republican presidential race. The GOP now has a candidate who can not only defeat Mr. Obama, but crush him. For months, the mainstream media […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/18/oklahomas-fallin-resists-obamacare/ Having already rejected a multimillion-dollar federal grant because of a fear of entangling regulations, Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin said in an interview she hopes to keep President Obama’s health care law at bay while cultivating her state’s own path to expanded insurance coverage. Under pressure from conservatives, the Republican governor declined a $54 million […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/18/mcdonnell-state-ends-fiscal-2011-545m-surplus/ TOO BAD VIRGINIA LAW MAKES THIS MAN A ONE TERM GOVERNOR….HE HAS A STERLING RESUME BUT GENERATED NO HEAT FOR THE GOP PRESIDENTIAL CASTING COUCH…..RSK RICHMOND — Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell announced Thursday the commonwealth ended fiscal 2011 with a $545 million surplus, but urged lawmakers to set aside $30 million of the windfall […]
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/military-admits-360-mill-in-taxpayer-money-lost-to-taliban-criminals-in-afghanistan/ WASHINGTON (The Blaze/AP) — Has America been funding her enemies? That’s what the results of a new report seem to indicate. After examining hundreds of combat support and reconstruction contracts in Afghanistan, the U.S military estimates $360 million in U.S. tax dollars has ended up in the hands of people the American-led coalition has spent […]
http://townhall.com/columnists/dianawest/2011/08/19/afghans_use_us_outpost_for_target_practice/print On the Afghan border with Pakistan, in Paktika province, is a tiny, isolated and primitive American outpost called Combat Outpost (COP) Margah. What happened there last fall never penetrated mainstream consciousness, but on Oct. 30, American forces were surprised by a wee-hours attack by hundreds of unusually sophisticated fighters who were “armed to the […]
http://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2011/08/19/smacking_down_progressives_of_pallor/print Is there anything more condescending than a porcelain-skinned Hollywood liberal who attempts to show her presumed solidarity with minorities by referring to them as “people of color”?Yes, there is: Two porcelain-skinned liberals attempting to show their allegiance to “diversity” by attacking “people of color” who happen to disagree with their radical politics. Such an […]
http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2011/08/blood-in-the-streets.php Israeli military preparedness follows a depressing pattern. The IDF does not change its assessments of the strategic environment until Israeli blood runs in the streets. In Judea and Samaria, from 1994 through 2000, the army closed its eyes to the Palestinian security forces’ open, warm and mutually supportive ties to terror groups. The military […]
