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Ruth King

PASSION FADES FOR THE POSTER BOY…ANOTHER POLITICAL LIVE AFFAIR IS OVER…..SOOO OVER

Passion fades for Barack Obama, the perfect poster boy Like many others, I fell for Barack Obama somewhere in the middle of Bush’s second term, writes Gill Hornby. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/gill-hornby/6790134/Passion-fades-for-Barack-Obama-the-perfect-poster-boy.html I’ve probably been in denial for a few months now. Turning a blind eye, trying not to overreact to the little things, even though all the […]

WHY DID NO ONE QUESTION OUR RESTRICTIVE AND DEADLY RULES OF ENGAGEMENT

http://townhall.com/columnists/DianaWest/2009/12/11/questions_no_one_wants_to_ask_gen_mcchrystal?page=full&comments=true DIANA WEST Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s long-awaited testimony before Congress on the Afghanistan “surge” was, according to one account, “uneventful.” The general himself, another story noted, was “a study in circumspection.” And questioning from lawmakers was, said a third, “gentle.” That’s a nice word for it. “Ineffectual” is more like it. Throw in “callous,” too, […]

HANUKAH FOR THE PERPLEXED: YORAM ETTINGER

CHANUKAH 2009 GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED Yoram Ettinger, December 11, 2009 YORAM ETTINGER IS ISRAEL’S MOST POLISHED, BRILLIANT, DEDICATED DIPLOMAT WHO DEBUNKED THE IDIOTIC NOTION OF THE “DEMOGRAPHIC “TIMEBOMB REGARDING THE GROWTH OF THE PALARAB POPULATION WITH A CENSUS STUDY. HE IS MY DEAR FRIEND AND FAVORITE MACCABEE…..RSK   “Chanukah has a special significance in […]

DIANA WEST: WHAT ABOUT THE INVESTIGATION OF THE FAILURE AT GANJGAL?

http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1171/Ganjgal-Update.aspx Ganjgal Update Written by: Diana West Friday, December 11, 2009 One of the things Congress wasn’t interested in asking General McChrystal about was the September incident at Ganjgal, a hamlet in eastern Afghanistan. There, McClatchey’s Jonathan S. Landay observed the deadly effect of McChrystal’s increasingly restrictive ROEs first hand when repeated appeals for air […]

A HANUKA STORY FROM DANIEL GORDIS

A real miracle or the doing of extraordinary people? A Jerusalem Post Column November 27, 2009 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Saving Israel: How the Jewish People Can Win a War That May Never End addresses in much greater detail the issue of creating an ongoing Zionist conversation in the Jewish State and among the Jewish people.  It has now been published.  Dec. 10, […]

HO HUM….THE SAME MIND NUMBING ORATION

Rich Lowry on National Review Online http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZjQ3Mjc2Y2YzM2Y0ZjFhZDMwYmRlYTdlYTcxNzQ4MTU= The Most Boring Man in the World: Obama’s speeches all run together into the same mind-numbing oration. Rich Lowry, NRO.com Barack Obama’s vibe used to be a cross between JFK and Beatlemania. Now it’s fading into “Oh, him again?” There’s nothing wrong with a boring politician. But Obama […]

FROM DAZZLE TO DRONE: MARK STEYN

Obama goes from dazzle to drone Mark Steyn, OC Register.com Mark Steyn: Obama goes from dazzle to drone | obama, belgian, rompuy – Opinion – The Orange County Register It wasn’t so long ago that Barack Obama’s speeches were being hailed as “extraordinary” “rhetorical magic” (Joe Klein in Time) that should be “required reading in […]

INTELLECTUAL MORON REWRITES AMERICAN HISTORY…

http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dflynn/2009/12/11/howard-zinn-intellectual-moron/ Howard Zinn, Intellectual Moron by Daniel J. Flynn “Objectivity is impossible,” self-styled “peoples’ historian” Howard Zinn once remarked, “and it is also undesirable. That is, if it were possible it would be undesirable, because if you have any kind of a social aim, if you think history should serve society in some way; should […]

WHY DON’T WE EXPAND NUCLEAR ENERGY? FSM

December 11, 2009 Exclusive: How Committed Are We to Advancing Nuclear Energy in the U.S.? Don Petersen, Ph.D., Bill Stratton, Ph.D. In recent weeks, articles have suggested that the administration is becoming more receptive to expanding nuclear energy generation by upgrading capacity of existing units and accelerating NRC approval of utility applications for new construction. […]

ADRIAN MORGAN: PART 2 OF THE MOSLEM BROTHERHOOD, ISLAM, ANTI-SEMITISM AND TOTALITARIANISM

December 11, 2009 Exclusive: The Muslim Brotherhood: Islam, Anti-Semitism and Totalitarianism (Part Two of Four) Adrian Morgan   Click here for Part One   Youssef Nada and the Al-Taqwa Bank In Part One, I briefly mentioned veteran Muslim Brotherhood member Youssef Nada and the essay entitled “The Project.” The document was discovered in Nada’s villa […]