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LEE SMITH:Weakening Washington’s Middle East Influence Middle Eastern Upheavals

http://www.meforum.org/2972/us-middle-east-influence Weakening Washington’s Middle East Influence Middle Eastern Upheavals by Lee Smith Middle East Quarterly Trailing the wave of revolutions that began sweeping through the Arabic-speaking Middle East this January, I recently traveled in the region, visiting some of the capitals where what we have come to call the “Arab Spring” has hit. In Cairo, […]

SHARIA NIGHTS IN TUNISIA

Tunisia: Women harassed on beaches, musicians expelled http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/07/tunisia-women-harassed-on-beaches-musicians-expelled.html Wherever Sharia begins to take hold, and wherever its proponents become emboldened, similar patterns of behavior follow, whether in Tunisia, Aceh, Kashmir, or Tower Hamlets in London. Tolerance decreases, harassment increases, and basic civil liberties are threatened. More on this story. “Tunisian Secularists Fight Back,” by David […]

Radical Islam in Germany: The Convert as Missionary by Veli Sirin

Radical Islam in Germany: The Convert as Missionary by Veli Sirin http://www.hudson-ny.org/2253/radical-islam-germany Abu Hamza, born a German named Pierre Vogel in 1978, is a very popular Islamist preacher in Germany. The former professional boxer became Muslim in 2001 and is now among the most influential German representatives of Saudi-originated Wahhabi fundamentalism, which masquerades as “Salafism.” […]

America’s Troubling Investment Gap By David Malpass and Stephen Moore

America’s Troubling Investment Gap By David Malpass and Stephen Moore http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/davidmalpass/2011/07/10/americas_troubling_investment_gap/print In June, President Obama celebrated a rare sliver of good economic news: Foreign investment was up 49% last year over 2009. The president says that this boost in capital shipped to the U.S. by international companies or foreign investors leads to more businesses and […]

ANDREW McCARTHY: IRAN IS AT WAR WITH US….ARE WE AT WAR WITH THEM?

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/271423 Iran Is at War with Us Are we at war with Iran? ‘You can clearly see what they are doing in Iraq.” Sen. Lindsey Graham was talking about the Islamic Republic of Iran, specifically the death trade plied by the mullahs, their Revolutionary Guard Corps, their Hezbollah operatives, and the assorted jihadists under their […]

ROGER KIMBALL: IT’S TIME FOR ANOTHER TEA PARTY

Time for tea, or, What would Wilkins Micawber think? Posted By Roger Kimball URL to article: http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2011/07/09/time-for-tea-or-what-would-wilkins-micawber-think/   “Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.” — Wilkins Micawber What do you reckon Mr. Micawber would think of Barack […]

THE GREAT MADNESS OF 2004-2010: VICTOR DAVIS HANSON

The Great Madness of 2004-10Posted By Victor Davis Hanson URL to article: http://pajamasmedia.com/victordavishanson/the-great-madness-of-2004-   The First Symptoms of Hatred—2004 to 2008 For about seven years the nation lost its collective mind — and was only partially coming-to in November 2010. During the years of insanity, Al Gore won both a Nobel Prize and an Academy […]

JAMES LEWIS: AMERICA’S FLOATING JEWS

America’s Floating Jews By James Lewis Page Printed from: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2011/07/american_jews_are_floating_in_mid-air.htm There’s a German word used by European Jews after the Holocaust, called “Luftmensch.” It means something like “space cadet.”  I never quite got it ’til now. But if you look at the paintings of Marc Chagall you see the little village people  from the Shtetls […]

ANDREA LEVIN:BRONNER’S FLOTILLA SPIN

Bronner’s Flotilla Spin By Andrea Levin Page Printed from: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2011/07/bronners_flotilla_spin.htm The New York Times seems less and less concerned about factual coverage of Israel, as Ethan Bronner’s July 3, 2010 column titled “Setting Sail on Gaza’s Sea of Spin” underscores. Bronner begins his “news analysis” piece by comparing the latest Gaza flotilla, led by radical […]

WE ARE AT WAR: NURIT GREENGER

We Are At War July 9, 2011 By Nurit Greenger We, the people in the Western world, have been at world war for a long time and no one cares to admit it! This war, of Islam against the West, is escalating, daily. By discussing all but the war, in which we are embroiled, our […]