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Ruth King

BAD RACHEL:TRANSPORTATION SAFETY LANGUAGE PATDOWN

http://badrachel.blogspot.com/ You may have seen us manhandling children and little old ladies at the airport. Now you can watch us do the same to the English language so we don’t have to use bad words.  It turns out children and little old ladies prefer not to be patted down by uniformed strangers in the middle […]

ROGER KIMBALL: A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE POORHOUSE

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Poor House Posted By Roger Kimball URL to article: http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2011/08/02/a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-the-poor-house/   Two-point-four trillion dollars: $2,400,000,000,000 Take a minute to visualize it. You can’t, you know: it’s simply too big a number. But take a minute to try. Dazzled yet? You should be. Two-point-four trillion dollars: It’s […]

HOT PICKS AND VIDEOS FROM FAMILY SECURITY MATTERS

* VIDEOS * TODAY’S HOT PICKS * 1. VIDEO: Rep. Paul Ryan [R] Explains Debt Limit Deal 2. VIDEO: ‘The Spending is Nuts’ … danger of the debt problems in America 3. VIDEO: Gov. Palin [R] vs. VP Biden’s [D] ‘Terrorist’ Tea Party Comments 4. Dropout grants raise issue of college’s value: Business magnate is […]

FRANK SALVATO:Forcing the Future to Kow-Tow to Now

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.10071/pub_detail.asp What is being termed a “historic debt ceiling compromise deal,” complete with backslapping and self-congratulations at the highest levels, is being considered by the Senate and the House rank-and-file. And consider they will. With many provisions going against the principles of both the TEA Party contingent and the far-leftist Progressive faction, there is a […]

AN EYE FOR AN EYE IN TEHERAN: PHYLLIS CHESLER

An Eye for an Eye in Tehran Posted By Phyllis Chesler URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/08/02/an-eye-for-an-eye-in-tehran/   Despite my own copious critiques, even I must concede that the American mainstream media really does print the bad news about Islamic gender apartheid—but it does so without drawing any “politically incorrect” conclusions, not even on their op-ed pages. […]

ISLAMOPHILIA AND JUDEOPHOBIA: DAVID SOLWAY

Islamophilia and Judeophobia Posted By David Solway http://frontpagemag.com/2011/08/02/islamophilia-and-judeophobia/print/ In a BBC interview on January 4, 2008, the senior prelate of the Church of England, Rowan Williams, argued in favour of recognizing certain aspects of Sharia law, which in any case “seems unavoidable,” and that Muslims should not have to choose between “the stark alternatives of […]

Obama’s Failed Presidency By Steve McCann

Obama’s Failed Presidency By Steve McCann Page Printed from: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2011/08/obamas_failed_presidency.html at August 02, 2011 – 07:25:19 AM CDT There comes a time and a point in history which indelibly define a President.  Oftentimes the event may not be of major import in the greater scheme of things but the management of it is of such […]

DIANA WEST: HILLARY’S HEADACHE HOW TO SHRED THE FIRST AMENDMENT

http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1857/Hillarys-Headache-How-to-Shred-the-First-Amendment.aspx The International Islamic News Agency (never heard of it before; get used to it a la “Gallup Abu Dhabi”) reported on August 1, which, as the dateline notes, is also Ramadan 1 (or vice versa): JEDDAH, Ramadan 1/Aug 1 (IINA)-During the next few months, Washington plans to host a coordination meeting to discuss with […]

A BUSY, BUSY WEEK FOR JIHADISTS

Islam’s Latest Contributions to Peace http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/ 2011.08.01 (Mogadishu, Somalia) – Two African peacekeepers are blown to bits by a Fedayeen suicide bomber. 2011.07.31 (Baghdad, Iraq) – An education official and his son are executed by Muslim ‘insurgents’. 2011.07.31 (Kashgar, China) – Members of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement kill a restaurant owner and waiter, then […]

DANIEL PIPES: ANOTHER ISLAMIST SOLDIER TURNS TERRORIST IN TEXAS.

Another Islamist Soldier Turns Terrorist In Texas http://bigpeace.com/dpipes/2011/08/02/another-islamist-soldier-turns-terrorist-in-texas/ U.S. Army Private First Class Nasser Jason Abdo, 21, first made the news last August when, arguing that his Islamic faith contradicts serving in the American military, he filed for conscientious objector (C.O.) status. Referring to current American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Abdo asserted that a Muslim “is […]