http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/view-from-jerusalem-with-harriet-sherwood/2011/feb/23/gaza-hamas Gaza police order male hairdressers to quit working Five men face arrest and fines if they carry on styling women’s hair in crackdown blamed on Hamas Hatem Ghoul was on his way to work at his hairdressing salon in Gaza City earlier this week when he got word that his employees had been paid […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/260544 Wisconsin’s Cowardly Democrats Public employees and Democratic lawmakers haven’t exactly offered conservatives a lesson in civility. Politically, Americans often use the word “coward” loosely and inaccurately. On Sept. 11, 2001, President Bush condemned al-Qaeda’s attack as the work of “a faceless coward.” In fact, the 19 hijackers had learned martial arts, bulked themselves up, […]
Nations United Against Israel The U.N. responds to multiple crises in Arab and Muslim countries just as you’d expect. http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/260492 CLIFFORD MAY Egypt, Bahrain, and Yemen are in turmoil. In Libya, Col. Moammar Gaddafi is using mercenaries to slaughter peaceful protestors. Hezbollah is staging a slow-motion coup in Lebanon. Iran’s rulers are executing dissidents daily, […]
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/obama-and-me/ I have by this time written and posted maybe two dozen articles bitterly decrying the ruinous ascendancy of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States. In developing my arguments, I have used every discrediting metaphor and analogy I could think of — Obama as a defective scholar, as a greedy restaurateur, as […]
http://www.steynonline.com/content/view/3756/26 Steyn on the World Listening to lifelong regime toadies belatedly call for the seizure of Mubarak’s assets or calibrate the precise moment when it’s safe to demand the overthrow of the strongman you’ve happily served all your life, I’m reminded of the Hakim of Bahrain’s visit to London for the Queen’s Coronation in 1953. Late […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/feb/23/obama-decries-terror-loosed-by-gadhafi/ Obama decries terror in Libya Speaks of sanctions, no call for ouster By Ashish Kumar Sen President Obama strongly condemned the violence in Libya but failed Wednesday afternoon to call for the resignation of Moammar Gadhafi hours after the Libyan dictator unleashed a wave of terror in the streets of Tripoli against opponents demanding […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703775704576162560536917424.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLESecond Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels did himself no favors with many conservatives yesterday in his response to a walk-out by Indiana state legislators protesting action on a right-to-work bill. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie may be facing down teacher unions, and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker may be pushing back against public sector privileges, but Mr. […]
Daniels’s damage control By Jennifer Rubin http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right-turn/2011/02/daniels_damage_control.html#more DANIELS IS PLAYING IT BOTH WAYS….AS A PRESIDENTIAL WANNABE HE HESITATES TO TAKE ON ORGANIZED LABOR….WHAT A WIMP…..RSK This afternoon, sensing he was on thin ice politically, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels and his staff went into damage control mode. His office put out this: Governor Mitch Daniels today […]
Britain hymns Middle East democracy — except the one it throws under the bus http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/6722819/britain-hymns-middle-east-democracy-except-the-one-it-throws-under-the-bus.thtml While the British Prime Minister David Cameron is in Egypt hymning the prospect there of democracy and human rights (which looks increasingly as if it’s destined to remain merely a pipe-dream in the minds of western ostriches) what has been […]
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/kevin-myers/kevin-myers-little-hope-of-democracy-as-arab-despots-overthrown-2549977.html Independent.ie Kevin Myers: Little hope of democracy as Arab despots overthrown And so, just eight years on, the neo-con dream that prompted the invasion of Iraq is finally coming to pass with the collapse of the various Secular Arab Despotisms.The great neo-con theory was that with such SAD dictatorships abolished, democracy, the rule of […]
