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Ruth King

ARYEH TEPPER: ISLAMISM AND MODERN ART

http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/content/module/2011/8/19/main-feature/1/islamism-and-western-art/e Osama bin Laden will forever be remembered spending his last days like a common shlub: sitting on the floor, wrapped in a blanket, remote control in hand, watching TV. Unlike most other shlubs, however, bin Laden just happened to be contemplating his own image on the boob tube. All that’s missing is a picture of the […]

DICTATORS AND DOUBLE STANDARDS: ASSAD AND THE PALARABS

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903639404576514803750903680.html?mod=opinion_newsreel In the Department of Bottomless Cynicism, does anything match the treatment of Palestinians by their ostensible champions in the Arab world? In the latest example, Bashar Assad’s regime last week launched an assault on a Palestinian neighborhood in the Syrian port city of Latakia, and some 10,000 residents have fled, died, or gone missing. […]

YORAM ETTINGER: US AID TO PA- COUNTERPRODUCTIVE

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=349 The US Administration is trying to reassure Congress that foreign aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) is a key to peaceful coexistence with Israel. However, a current study of Abu Mazen’s and Salam Fayyad’s school text books – conducted by veterans of Israel’s Intelligence community – reaffirms that the $4 billion US foreign aid […]

LIBERALS IN A PANIC OVER TEXAS ECONOMIC SUCCESS

The Texas Jobs Panic Liberals try to discredit the Lone Star State’s economic success. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903596904576514331498988562.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop Rick Perry is not the subtlest politician, but he looks like Pericles next to the liberals falling over themselves to discredit job creation in Texas. We’d have thought any new jobs would be a blessing when 25 million Americans are […]

WOULDN’T IT BE LOVERLY TO SEE SENATOR LUGAR RETIRE? JOHN J. MILLER

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/274914 When Barack Obama was running for president, there was one Republican besides George W. Bush whom he wouldn’t stop talking about. “Politics don’t have to divide us,” he said at his campaign kickoff in 2007. “I’ve worked with Republican senator Dick Lugar . . .” Obama dropped the name of the senior senator from […]

WHY BAM’S DOOMED: JOHN PODHORETZ

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/why_bam_doomed_9F00LyaGY07dRoSiuxPRzI#ixzz1VTNRKPru Unless something extraordinarily dramatic comes along to change the course of the US economy and the sentiments of the American people in the next six months, Barack Obama is finished. That conclusion is inescapable from the history of US presidential politics since 1945. Obama is now below 40 percent in job approval […]

MARTIN SHERMAN: COME SEPTEMBER…..MUST READ!!

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=234392 Israel must credibly convey that support for unilateral Palestinian statehood will not be a cost-free decision for whoever acts to effect it – or fails to act to foil it. “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” – Albert Einstein As September 20 – […]

BOB OWENS: GUNWALKER OFFICIALS BEING SHIELDED

ATF Whistleblower: Gunwalker Officials Being Shielded URL to article: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/atf-whistleblower-gunwalker-officials-being-shielded/   This week, the Bereau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms promoted [1] three of the officials responsible for Operation Fast and Furious: All three have been heavily criticized for pushing the program forward even as it became apparent that it was out of control. At […]

NEW PHASE IN WAR AS TERRORISTS CROSS EGYPT-ISRAEL BORDER: BARRY RUBIN….SEE NOTE PLEASE

News Flash: New Phase in War as Terrorists Cross Egypt-Israel Border, Many Dead Posted By Barry Rubin http://pajamasmedia.com/barryrubin/   AFSI (AMERICANS FOR A SAFE ISRAEL) TO WHICH I PROUDLY BELONG, WAS THE ONLY ORGANIZATION THAT SLAMMED THE CAMP DAVID TREATY WHICH RETURNED THE SINAI, INCLUDING AIR BASES, OIL AND LOVELY TOWNS TO EGYPT IN EXCHANGE […]

PERRY PLAYS OBAMA LIKE A FIDDLE:BRYAN PRESTON

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 […]