Obstructionist Politics: Denying a Vote By Frank Salvato BasicsProject.org Just minutes after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) tabled (read: killed) the second piece of legislation presented by the House to his chamber addressing solutions to the politically manufactured debt ceiling “crisis” – legislation crafted through not only bipartisan negotiations among members of the House, […]
http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/ The Sad Song Of Norway: Its Antisemitic Refrain Oslo, 2006. Miriam Shomrat, Israel’s Ambassador to Norway, was incensed. And with good reason. In September that year, a month after Oslo’s Jewish cemetery was vandalised, and just before Rosh Hashanah, three individuals in a passing car (later identified as two Islamists and an accomplice called […]
Tehran Diary ‘We Drink to the Freedom that Will Come One Day’ http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,776787,00.html It has been two years since the disputed presidential elections in Iran, which sparked street protests leading to dozens of deaths and countless arrests. The opposition is in disarray and the government seems stronger than ever. Four Tehran residents give a glimpse […]
Herman Cain Apologizes … to the Muslim Brotherhood Posted By Ryan Mauro URL to article: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/herman-cain-apologizes-%e2%80%a6-to-the-muslim-brotherhood/ Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain has been under fire for saying [1] communities should be able to stop the construction of mosques. So he apologized, following a visit to a mosque led by Imam Mohamed Magid, the president […]
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ ALAS, HERMAN CAIN HAS APOLOGIZED TO THE WRONG FOLKS: SEE NEXT COLUMN…..RSK Herman Cain is being lynched for taking a stand. And the people doing it are Republicans and self-proclaimed conservatives. Commentators who complain about the “race card” are eagerly laying down the “bigot card” because Cain did what few candidates are ready to […]
Force Obama Not to Vote Present Posted By Ben Shapiro http://frontpagemag.com/2011/07/29/force-obama-not-to-vote-present/print/ When President Barack Obama was Senator Barack Obama, he famously thought that raising the debt ceiling was a terrible idea. Back in 2006, as Katrina Trinko points out over at National Review, he ranted, “The fact that we are here today to debate raising […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/273161 A Post-American Planet Decline starts with the money, but it doesn’t stop there. That thoughtful observer of the passing parade, Nancy Pelosi, weighed in on the “debt ceiling” negotiations the other day: “What we’re trying to do is save the world from the Republican budget. We’re trying to save life on this planet as […]
The Oslo Connection In his 1,500-page European Declaration of Independence mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik approvingly quotes me and several other authors who have written critically about Islam, including Bat Ye’or, Robert Spencer, Andrew Bostom and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. The exploitation of the connection followed promptly. “Norwegian butcher a product of Islamophobia” was last Monday’s […]
http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2011/07/31/post-hoc-or-propter-hoc-public-union-malfeasance-meets-academic-pusillanimity A couple of days ago, in a column called “Phony Cuts/Real Taxes,” [1] I reproduced here a chart from Connecticut’s Yankee Institute for Public Policy [2] that contrasted the growth of the state’s population for the last several decades — only a tiny uptick — with the growth of state expenditures: Yes, that’s right, […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jul/29/obamas-economic-collapse/ Smack in the middle of the debt-ceiling crisis comes word that the economic situation is worse than everyone thought. New Commerce Department figures show the gross domestic product (GDP) growing at an anemic 1.3 percent rate in the second quarter of 2011. Even more alarming, the initial first-quarter 1.9 percent figure was sharply downgraded […]
