By JAMES TARANTO Advocate of Violence Frances Fox Piven and the New York Times’s dishonest campaign for “civility.” http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703555804576101862312607114.html In the olden days, Frances Fox Piven was a cutting-edge social theorist of the hard left. In a 1977 book, she and her husband, Richard Cloward, argued “that the poor and unemployed are so isolated from […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704624504576098462358709304.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLESecond By PETE DU PONT For two years Washington has been moving left—bigger spending, expanding regulation and a continual increase in government debt. In fiscal 2007, when George W. Bush was president, the debt increased $161 billion; in 2008, another $458 billion; and in 2009 (which began under Mr. Bush and ended under Barack Obama), […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704279704576102490181486806.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEADNewsCollection Ryan Is Republican Point Man House Budget Chairman Will Deliver Rebuttal to Obama, Craft Spending Cuts By JANET HOOK WHILE EVERYONE IS SPECULATING ABOUT THE TROIKA ROMNEY, GINGRICH AND HUCKABEE…..THE REAL CONTENDERS ARE IN THE PAUL RYAN, MICHELLE BACHMANN, MARCO RUBIO, ALLEN WEST MOLD…..STAY TUNED…..RSK When Rep. Paul Ryan delivers the Republican response to […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jan/24/obamas-crony-capitalism/ EDITORIAL: Obama’s crony capitalism (GE)Government Electric, (GM)Government Motors; what industry is next? President Obama is continuing his outreach to American business, though the principal business he wants to reach out to is General Electric. Mr. Obama seems to have decided that what’s good for GE is good for America, or at least for himself. It has been […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jan/24/islam-militants-suspected-in-russia-airport-bombin/ Islamic militants suspected in Russia airport bombing At least 35 die, 170 injured in ‘terrorist attack’ By Eli LakeAs Russian authorities sift through the wreckage of the Moscow airport attack, the world’s attention will be drawn to the Muslim separatists who experts suspect carried out the Monday bombing. Known as Imarat Kavkaz, or the Caucasus Emirate, […]
http://bigpeace.com/pschweizer/2011/01/24/the-meeting-in-davos-dont-worry-the-worlds-elite-is-here-to-save-us/ PETER SCHWEITZER It’s time for The Gathering again, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Perhaps 2,500 people are expected to congregate and tell us how to fix our problems and ourselves. I’m not opposed to conferences and meetings to discuss ideas, but Davos has always struck me as a top-down, we-tell-you kind […]
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right-turn/ Interview: Gov. Susana Martinez By Jennifer Rubin Martinez, like other governors, has her work cut out for her. She will be judged on her results. If she succeeds in governing as a fiscal conservative, her star will rise in the GOP and she will have proved her thesis correct, namely that the key to […]
http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/4940.htm Qatar and PA Clash over Al-Jazeera Document Leak In an unprecedented attack on the PA, Qatar’s Al-Jazeera channel has published documents allegedly revealing PA concessions regarding the final settlement with Israel; collaboration between Israel and the PA in assassinating Fatah and Hamas operatives; and prior knowledge on the part of PA President Mahmoud Abbas […]
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/01/nigeria-six-killed-in-muslim-machete-attacks-on-christian-villages-the-associated-press-tells-us-6-d.html Nigeria: Muslims kill 6 in machete attacks on Christian villages; the Associated Press tells us “6 dead in religion-torn central Nigerian region” “Religion-torn.” It just might as well be followers of the Flying Spaghetti Monster as any other set of beliefs. We don’t even get the usual, catchy, alliterative “sectarian strife.” No, religion did […]
IPT News January 24, 2011 http://www.investigativeproject.org/2520/ipt-profiles-zaid-shakir He is a popular speaker at Islamist gatherings and hailed in the New York Times as being among a group of “leading intellectual lights for a new generation of American Muslims looking for homegrown leaders who can help them learn how to live their faith without succumbing to American […]
