http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/04/19/2175928/back-to-the-future.html OUR OPINION: No surprises in Cuba’s sixth congress, just same old, same old About the only surprise at Cuba’s Communist Party Congress that ended Tuesday is that Fidel Castro didn’t open his mouth. For once, no hours-long diatribes about the “evils of American imperialism”, or the irrational reflections he has been prone to writing […]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8463731/Dmitry-Medvedev-becomes-YouTube-hit-with-American-Boy-dance.html Dmitry Medvedev becomes YouTube hit with American Boy dance Stepping to the beat of 1990s pop hit “American Boy”, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s stiff dance moves became an immediate viral hit on YouTube on Wednesday Sporting a form-fitting silver jacket and open collar, Mr Medvedev somewhat awkwardly wiggles his hips and kicks up his […]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8464433/Libya-British-photographer-killed-in-Misurata.html Libya: British photographer killed in Misurata An American colleague, Chris Hondros, a photographer for Getty Images, died after being seriously wounded, according to Getty’s director of photography, Pancho Bernasconi. Two other journalists were said to have been injured in the incident. Oscar-nominated British photographer Tim Hetherington and his US colleague Chris Hondros have been […]
Obama’s Apologists By Ed Lasky http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/04/obamas_apologists.html Barack Obama’s leadership poll numbers have been plummeting. Only 52 percent of Americans describe him as a strong leader and the momentum as we head into the heat of the Presidential campaign is heading in the wrong direction . Predictably, his apologists and sycophant spinners have come to his […]
The difference between Richard Goldstone and the NY Times: One recants, the other doesn’t Leo Rennert Page Printed from: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011 Ever since Richard Goldstone discredited his UN inquiry report by recanting its poisonous accusation that Israel deliberately targeted civilians in its three-week counter-terrorism offensive in Gaza two years ago, the New York Times has gone […]
Qanta A. Ahmed is the author of “In the Land of Invisible Women,” detailing her experience practicing medicine in Saudi Arabia. She is associate professor of medicine at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook; honorary professor at Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland; and a 2010 Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellow in Science and […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/apr/20/ugandas-president-orders-soldiers-to-shoot-protest/ By Ioannis Gatsiounis – Special to The Washington Times US STATE DEPARTMENT CONGRATULATED UGANDA AFTER THE SHAM ELECTION…WHERE IS CONGRESS? WHERE ARE THE HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPIES AS ANOTHER AFRICAN STATE DESCENDS INTO VIOLENCE AND CHAOS? KAMPALA, Uganda | Voters who re-elected President Yoweri Museveni in a landslide in February never thought he would repay […]
‘First Accredited Muslim College In the United States’ Is On The Way Posted by The Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) http://bigpeace.com/ipt/2011/04/20/first-accredited-muslim-college-in-the-united-states-is-on-the-way/ Hamza Yusuf is a difficult man to figure out. As a new IPT profile on Yusuf shows, he believes that American culture “revels in” war and violence. He has argued that Muslims, including the inspiration […]
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/569809/201104201922/Is-It-Fidels-Finale-.htm Is It Fidel’s Finale? Posted 04/20/2011 07:22 PM ET Communism: Cuba rearranged the deck chairs of its sinking Titanic by putting Fidel Castro out to pasture and naming another 80-year-old in his place. Whatever the dictator ship claims, word is out: The end is near. The defining reality of 52 years of communism in […]
Clinton urges immediate dialogue on Middle East http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110421/pl_afp/usmideastisraelpalestinians/print WASHINGTON (AFP) – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has urged Israel and the Palestinians to resume dialogue immediately even as unrest roils the region. The two parties “are trying to analyze what this means for their future position,” Clinton told PBS television. But “I would hope — […]
