Republican Ties to Al-Jazeera Ignite Firestorm http://www.aim.org/aim-column/republican-ties-to-al-jazeera-ignite-firestorm/ Haley Barbour’s political spokesman Jim Dyke, a Republican operative, took issue with the report in Politico on different grounds. ANOTHER SURE LOSER TO OBAMA THAT FANCIES HIMSELF A CONTENDER…HIS CURB APPEAL IS ZERO AND HE LOOKS LIKE CENTRAL CASTING FOR A NASTY JUDGE IN A JOHN GRISHAM NOVEL…..RSK […]
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100084488/a-grim-easter-for-the-obama-presidency-washington-postabc-news-poll-delivers-another-blow-to-the-white-house/ WHERE IS THE GOP ALTERNATIVE?…RSK A grim Easter for the Obama presidency: Washington Post/ABC News poll delivers another blow to the White House The omens certainly weren’t good for Barack Obama last week with a devastating Gallup survey showing the president with the lowest approval ratings of his presidency – just 41 percent. And […]
Click here: Leftist Quote of the Day – Maggie’s Farm http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/17019-Leftist-Quote-of-the-Day.html Leftist Quote of the Day Professors in the Brooklyn College political science department continue to amaze me with their doings. Today’s example is by Corey Robin, writing in the left’s The Nation. The politics of freedom does not dismiss the value or importance of […]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/apr/19/west-bank-anachronism-palestinian-statehood A West Bank anachronismThe PLO goal of statehood has lost its glitter as a new national mood transforms the Palestinian struggle AHMED SAMI KHALIDIThe writer is a senior associate member of St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and a former Palestinian negotiator. This shift is premised on forging a new common identity and common national goal […]
The Silent Extermination of Iraq’s ‘Christian Dogs’ by Raymond Ibrahim FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.meforum.org/2878/iraq-christians-persecution Last week an Iraqi Muslim scholar issued a fatwa that, among other barbarities, asserts that “it is permissible to spill the blood of Iraqi Christians.” Inciting as the fatwa is, it is also redundant. While last October’s Baghdad church attack which killed some […]
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2011-04-19-al-qaeda-magazines.htm Al-Qaeda using magazines to spread message By Mona Alami, Special for USA TODAY The cover of Al-Shamikha magazine promotes such stories as an “Interview with a Jihadi Wife” and “Facing Destruction: Steps to Alleviate your Pain and Ways to Reach a Cleaner and Better Path.” BEIRUT — Leafing through Inspire magazine, one finds glossy, […]
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,druck-758101,00.html A Former Judge Takes on Erdogan’s Heavy Hand By Daniel Steinvorth “But in light of an impending “dictatorship of the Erdogan clique,” says Tarhan, she wants to campaign for a different and more modern Turkey. “In this country, religious leaders are now declaring women who have been raped to be partially culpable, because they […]
http://pajamasmedia.com/claudiarosett/ It would be an act of mercy for the planet, were Jimmy Carter to hang up his carry-on bag and devote the rest of his days to annotating his post-presidential grocery lists, or maybe sign up for Dancing With the Stars — anything where he might at least do no more harm. Instead, in […]
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/cair%e2%80%99s-strong-arm-tactics-in-the-cradle-of-liberty/ CAIR’s Strong-Arm Tactics in the Cradle of Liberty HILLEL ZAREMBA The latest victim of the Council on American-Islamic Relations is a Philadelphia-based libertarian writer who fears for his life. Aaron Proctor, a Philadelphia-based libertarian writer, can count himself the latest victim of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR [1]), an organization that ironically claims […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/265167 At this point, there’s at least one thing you can’t blame Donald Trump for: being Donald Trump. Like the scorpion in Aesop’s fables that must sting the frog because that’s simply what scorpions do, the world-renowned, self-promoting billionaire clown must tout himself with passion and narcissistic self-regard. It was only a matter of time, […]
