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STEPHEN WALT: “IT’S NOT DUAL LOYALTY…IT’S A CONFLICT OF INTEREST”

http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/04/02/on_dual_loyalty   On “dual loyalty” Posted By Stephen M. Walt Friday, April 2, 2010 – 1:05 PM Share Last week, the online journal Politico published a story by reporter Laura Rozen on certain divisions within the Obama administration on Middle East policy. What made the story especially explosive was a quotation from an unnamed administration […]

NEWT GINGRICH; HOW AMERICA BECAME A “SECULAR-SOCIALIST”MACHINE

http://www.aei.org/article/101958   Articles & Commentary   How America Became a “Secular-Socialist Machine”   By Newt Gingrich   Washington Post Friday, April 23, 2010   An April 14 op-ed by Norman J. Ornstein, “The great ‘socialist’ smear,” argued that to those “outside the partisan and ideological wars,” it is “bizarre” to accuse the Obama administration of […]

12 YEAR OLD SAUDI GIRL WINS DIVORCE FROM 80 YEAR OLD MAN

“Part of the difficulty in imposing marriage age restrictions in this strictly religious society is attributable to the fact that Islam’s most revered figure, the Prophet Muhammad, himself wed a 9-year-old girl.” http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/12-year-old-saudi-girl-wins-divorce-from-80-year-old-husband/19450389 12-Year-Old Saudi Girl Wins Divorce From Husband, 80  David Knowles Writer AOL News (April 22) — In a case that could spur […]

TALKING FROM THE WALL: MARILYN PENN

http://politicalmavens.com/index.php/2010/04/22/talking-from-the-wall/ Talking From The Wall By Marilyn Penn (bio) The exhibition on Henri Cartier-Bresson currently at MOMA is a vast retrospective of the photographer’s work as he traveled around the world documenting pivotal and marginal events with equal attention and artistry. As most people are aware by now, Cartier-Bresson formulated the concept of seizing the […]

WHAT COMES AFTER THE DEATH OF THE MIDEAST PEACE PROCESS? YOUSSEF IBRAHIM

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.6052/pub_detail.asp   What’s Comes after Death of Mideast Peace? Youssef M. Ibrahim It is not easy to belittle Aaron David Miller’s renunciation of what he described as ‘’False Religion of the Mideast Peace’’ in his essay published in Foreign Policy. Framed in impeccable logic with unchallenged knowledge from a man who more than any other […]

HERB LONDON: WILSONIAN INTERNATIONALISM REBORN

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/wilsonian-internationalism-reborn/ Wilsonian Internationalism Reborn Posted By Herbert London There is a toxin coruscating through the international body politic that resembles Woodrow Wilson’s commitment to a world order based on global government. Among contemporary Wilsonians like Anne Marie Slaughter [1] and Harold Koh [2] of the State Department, there is a belief that international law and […]

MESSIAH AND PROPHET TOO GOES TO WALL STREET

REVIEW & OUTLOOK APRIL 23, 2010 The New Master of Wall Street Obama surveys the financial kingdom that may soon be his. President Obama is a gifted man, but until yesterday we hadn’t known that his achievements include having predicted the financial panic of 2008. It was a “failure of responsibility that I spoke about […]

THE DISCOVERY OF STREPTOMYCIN AND A LIFE SAVED….VERY INTERESTING

http://www.ingeauerbacher.com/books.htm#Finding%20Dr.%20Schatz   Finding Dr. Schatz” – The Discovery of Streptomycin and A Life It Saved As part of his doctoral research, Albert Schatz, a twenty-three year-old graduate student at Rutgers  University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, diligently worked alone in  a basement laboratory to find an antibiotic against tuberculosis. In October of 1943, Schatz discovered […]

LIBERALS AND THE VIOLENCE CARD: RUSH LIMBAUGH

OPINION APRIL 23, 2010 Liberals and the Violence Card Conservative protest is motivated by a love of what America stands for By RUSH LIMBAUGH The latest liberal meme is to equate skepticism of the Obama administration with a tendency toward violence. That takes me back 15 years ago to the time President Bill Clinton accused […]

MICHELLE MALKIN: JOHN McCAIN…PLEASE GO NOW….SEE NOTE

ON HIS WAY WHY DOESN’T HE TAKE LINDSEY GRAHAM WITH HIM?….RSK http://townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2010/04/23/john_s_mccain,_will_you_please_go_now need a Dramamine to cover GOP Sen. John McCain’s re-election bid. With his desperate lurch to the right, he’s inducing more motion sickness than a Disney Land teacup. McCain’s campaign represents the same self-serving political cynicism that American voters have grown tired of […]