SPIEGEL ONLINE Stability at Stake Sectarian Tensions Overshadow Iraq Election By Bernhard Zand Iraqis go to the polls Sunday for the country’s second parliamentary election since the fall of Saddam Hussein. But the decision to bar over 170 candidates threatens the vote’s credibility, and Iran and Saudia Arabia are jockeying for influence behind the scenes. […]
http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1302/Wilders-Wins-Big-in-Dutch-Elections.aspx Wilders Wins Big in Dutch Elections Diana West  How do you say “Reconquista” in Dutch? Anyway, so it begins in Almere, the Netherlands, where Geert Wilders’s PVV party looks like the Big Winner in yesterday’s munipal elections, also coming in second in The Hague. Best news in a long time. An only somewhat […]
SPIEGEL ONLINE Dissident Turned Technocrat Medvedev Takes On Putin with Governor Appointment By Matthias Schepp Russian President Dimitri Medvedev has named a former opposition leader as the governor of the region of Kirov Oblast. The appointment is a test of whether Medvedev can assert himself against his powerful prime minister, Vladimir Putin. Nikita Belykh has […]
Can the Moral ‘Narrative’ of ObamaCare Be Defeated? Posted By Paul Hsieh On March 4, 2010 President Obama has finally demanded an “up or down vote†[1] on his health care plan. Republicans have already raised numerous economic and procedural objections, arguing that his plan relies on economic “smoke and mirrors [2]†and that the […]
Canadian Leaders Standing Tall Against Israel Apartheid Week Posted By Barbara Kay In the aftermath of what emerged, against early predictions, as a wildly successful Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, Canadians are basking in an uncharacteristically bullish glow of national pride. With a stunning fourteen gold medals [1] to the USA’s nine, Canadians are relishing […]
http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/03/grover_norquists_jihad.html By Pamela Geller The Freedom Defense Initiative, a new organization I started with author and scholar Robert Spencer, hosted its inaugural event to an enthusiastic standing-room-only crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference on February 19. But this event was at CPAC, not of CPAC. Could this be because of the influence of conservative […]
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100028226/when-is-it-ok-to-call-people-nazis-when-theyre-euro-sceptics/ Daniel Hannan is a writer and journalist, and has been Conservative MEP for South East England since 1999. He speaks French and Spanish and loves Europe, but believes that the EU is making its constituent nations poorer, less democratic and less free. He is the winner of the Bastiat Award for online journalism. When […]
Betraying freedom in Latin America  Ralph Peters I was wrong. For years, I’ve argued that our government should pay more attention to South America. Now Hillary Clinton has — and, boy, is it ugly. With tragic back-to-back earthquakes dominating the headlines from south of the border, a desperate ploy by the hard-left Argentine government — […]
http://article.nationalreview.com/426748/pelosis-suicide-squad/jim-geraghty Pelosi’s Suicide Squad Three of these flip-flopping Dems have announced their retirements; voters may retire the other six. Over the weekend, Speaker Nancy Pelosi finally acknowledged that, for many of the House members whose votes she needs, casting a vote for Obama’s health-care bill would effectively doom them in November. But, for those faced […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/03/global-warmings-biggest-winners//print/ The greatest scandal connected to global warming is not exaggeration, fraud or destruction of data to conceal the weakness of the argument. It is those who are personally profiting from promoting this fantasy at the expense of the rest of us. Al Gore is the most visible beneficiary. The world’s greatest climate-change fear-monger has […]
