http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100084185/a-floundering-presidency-heading-for-a-fall-barack-obama-hits-rock-bottom-in-latest-gallup-poll/ The latest Gallup Daily tracking three-day average represents a new low for Barack Obama, with just 41 percent of Americans approving his job performance as president. This matches his previous lows in August 2010 and October 2010, just before the mid-term elections, and it is significantly down from his 2011 average of 48 percent. […]
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Trump’s ballooning polls are drawing all the predictable reactions. But the debate over Trump misses the point. Why has Trump made such a big splash at all? It’s because he’s a bold assertive communicator who unapologetically says what so many are thinking. Whether or not he believes what he’s saying. To anyone complaining about […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/264869/audience-listening-andrew-c-mccarthy The Audience Is Listening Obama gives jihadists the olive branch and Ryan the hickory stick. There is always great intrigue in Barack Obama’s speeches. Not much heft, mind you, but substance is not the point. In this Chicago-style presidency, what is said is often less telling than who is invited to hear what is […]
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,756915,00.html KONRAD ADENUER “DER ALTE” Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer WHO DIED on April 19th, 1967 was a statesman who presided over the ruins and rebuilding of Germany after WWll. He disdained a “root cause” revision of Nazi history as stemming from humiliating defeat and terms of surrender after WWl. He had a vision of capitalism, […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/264866 I always enjoy the bit in Planet of the Apes where a loinclothed Charlton Heston falls to his knees as he comes face to face with a shattered Statue of Liberty poking out of the sand and realizes that the eponymous simian planet is, in fact, his own — or was. Also the bit […]
OMG: THE KINGLET’S CROWN MUST BE SHAKING AND THE QUEENLET MUST BE PACKING HER DESIGNER DUDS…..RSK http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/breaking-news/islamists-attack-jordan-police-with-swords/story-e6freuyi-1226040054631 Islamists attack Jordan police with swords By Musa Hattar in Amman ISLAMIST protesters armed with swords, daggers and bats have attacked police in the Jordanian city of Zarqa, wounding 51 of them, as 32 other police suffered from […]
http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/04/more_islamic_hypocrisy_jordan.html…ANDREW BOSTOM http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/jordan-to-try-danish-cartoonist/story-fn6e1m7z-1226039460920 More Islamic Hypocrisy: Jordan to ‘Try’ Danish Cartoonist for ‘Blasphemy’ Andrew G. Bostom More evidence of institutional Islam’s 24/7 hypocrisy via The Daily Telegraph: A Jordanian court will try Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard over a controversial caricature of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed. Zakarya Sheikh, spokesman for a group of local media outlets […]
http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/04/atlas_shrugged_part_i.html Atlas Shrugged Part I By Richard Baehr Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead was published in 1943, and a film version was released in 1949. It took a bit longer to get Atlas Shrugged to the screen. Rand’s lengthy book, a 12 year effort for the author, was published in 1957, and 54 years later, Part […]
http://www.israellycool.com/2011/04/15/body-of-ism-tool-found/ As many of you discovered before me (due to the fact I just woke up), Arrigoni’s body has been found. Hamas condemned the murder, on the grounds it harms the palestinians goals (not on moral grounds). Hamas’ Interior Ministry called a special press conference following the recovery of the Italian peace activist’s body in […]
OIC Reiterates Continued Support to the Goldstone Report http://www.oic-oci.org/home.asp The International Herald Tribune reports that 3 colleagues of Goldstone accuse him of having collapsed under pressure… The Organization of the Islamic Conference has, on Monday 4 April 2011, reiterated its support for the Goldstone report, which clearly convicted Israel of committing war crimes in the […]
