MILLER: Gang of squish The latest debt-ceiling offer is even worse than Obama’s tax-and-spend bid http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jul/19/gang-of-squish/ The Senate’s “Gang of Six” is back, this time with a surprise plan that would preserve Washington’s big-spending ways. Within an hour of the bipartisan group’s announcement of a breakthrough framework for hiking the debt ceiling, President Obama walked […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jul/19/former-nsa-official-says-mismanagement-continues-a/ Former National Security Agency whistleblower Thomas A. Drake says continuing mismanagement and malfeasance have turned the nation’s premier electronic spy agency into “the Enron of the U.S. intelligence community.” Mr. Drake, whose federal criminal case concluded last week, said in an interview with The Washington Times that he thinks management failures at NSA related […]
Steyn on the World http://www.steynonline.com/content/view/4271/ HAPPY WARRIOR from National Review The other day, Abdul Qadir Fitrat, the governor of Afghanistan’s central bank, fled the country. The only wonder is that there aren’t more fleeing. Not Afghans; central bankers. I mean, you gotta figure that throughout the G-20 there are more than a few with the […]
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.d6302f5fdf47380d57e991a1d3bf4851.391&show_article=1 Israel commandos on Tuesday boarded a French yacht heading for Gazain defiance of its naval blockade, and escorted it to shore after what the military said was an uneventful takeover.An army spokesman confirmed the interception of the MV Dignite/Al Karama took place without violence and said that the crew and passengers were put on […]
Zogby’s “Arab Attitudes” Polls The U.S. Flunks as Obama Under-Delivers by Adam Daifallah http://www.hudson-ny.org/2282/zogby-arab-attitudes-polls The results of Zogby International’s occasional “Arab Attitudes” polls are as predictable as snow in winter: every time, the results show the Arab world is unhappy with America. Conducted by the Arab American Institute (AAI), Arab Attitudes 2011 reveals that “after […]
Obama’s Defense Cuts by Taylor Dinerman http://www.hudson-ny.org/2275/obama-defense-cuts The Obama administration is reportedly pushing for yet another $100 billion in Defense cuts, on top of the more than $500 billion in cuts to the ten-year defense spending plan the White House is already planning to enact — ensuring that there will be few — if any […]
Rick Perry’s Christianity is Good for America By Ben Shapiro http://townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/2011/07/20/rick_perrys_christianity_is_good_for_america/print For those who couldn’t tell from my name, I’m a Jew. Not only am I Jew, I’m an Orthodox Jew. I pray three times a day to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. I keep kosher. I wear phylacteries in the morning, and […]
http://www.jewishledger.com/ First there was the poll by Frank Luntz sponsored by CAMERA. Then there was Dick Morris’ poll. And now there is the poll done by Pat Caddell and John McLaughlin ( http://secureamericanow.org/) and they all say pretty much the same thing. Contrary to the often expressed mantra in the mainstream media, American Jews do […]
http://www.ejpress.org/article/news/46159 http://www.ejpress.org/article/52125 http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/ Last Autumn, to the dismay and disgust of the Union of Jewish Students in Belgium (UEJB), as well as of the European Union of Jewish Students (EUJS), the Free University of Brussels showed a film featuring an incorrigible antisemite of African origin, French comedian Dieudonne M’Bala M’bala, an admirer of Jean-Marie Le […]
http://www.thejc.com/news/world-news/51679/weizmann-comes-top-science-list Weizmann comes top of science list The Weizmann Institute of Science is the best academic institution to work for outside the US, according to Scientist magazine’s annual survey of the “best places to work in academia”. It is up from second place in 2010 and 2009. Academics surveyed at Rehovot-based Weizmann were enthusiastic about […]
