December 11, 2009 Britain, Long a Libel Mecca, Reviews Laws By SARAH LYALL LONDON — England has long been a mecca for aggrieved people from around the world who want to sue for libel. Russian oligarchs, Saudi businessmen, multinational corporations, American celebrities — all have made their way to London’s courts, where jurisdiction is easy […]
 http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/  Red Lights, Green Lights and the Inefficiency of Energy Efficiency With snowstorms in the air, cities that decided to “go green” by switching from incandescent to LED traffic lights are discovering that their new “green” traffic lights don’t melt snow through waste heat. The alternative requires sending crews out to actually clean […]
 ” Ending Arab Terrorism for Good and the Awful Question of the Moment http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2006/07/ending-arab-terrorism-for-good-and.html In 1775 the American colonies had an awful question facing them. So do we today. So do we always. The awful question does not go away merely because it remains ignored, unasked or dismissed as impractical. The awful question is […]
David Solway’s Hear, O Israel!: A Feast for the Conservative Mind Posted By Barbara Kay By David Solway Canadian Values Press (Mantua Books) 181 pages; $25 On September 10, 2001, Canadian David Solway was merely an acclaimed poet, educator, and literary critic, warming himself (and his unexamined 1960s-era left-wing views) on a tranquil Greek island. […]
How bad is it? Posted By Roger Kimball The bad news is that Senator Ben Nelson is not up for reelection until 2012. The good news is that today, December 19, 2009, is the day we got clarity on the Obama-Pelosi-Reid effort to steal medical care and call it “reform.†I hope that Ben enjoys […]
http://nrd.nationalreview.com/print/?q=YTI5YzVjYzAwZDEzYzNjOGY1NzliN2U4MDZlNmIwYzc=  MARK STEYN   Czar Vlad’s Guano We pundit types are expected to have opinions on everything, but I confess I would have been momentarily stymied had I chanced to be in the big geopolitical-analysis chair on some cable network the moment the news broke that Nauru had recognized Abkhazia. If you can’t […]
Climate Hypocrites Island nations underwater, and offsetting princes. By Mark Steyn The best summation of the U.N. climate circus in Denmark comes from Andrew Bolt of Australia’s Herald Sun: “Nothing is real in Copenhagen — not the temperature record, not the predictions, not the agenda, not the ‘solution.’†Just so. Reuters, for example, carried a […]
My Word: Prosecution or persecution in the UK? Liat Collins , THE JERUSALEM POST I was born and raised in London and although I long ago gave up drinking tea with milk, I still have the lower-middle-class tendency to swallow the letter “t” in words like “better.” And now and again I discover that nobody […]
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/12/muslims-deface-british-war-memorial-islam-will-dominate-the-world.htmlMuslims deface British war memorial: “Islam will dominate the world” British war memorial defaced with “Islam will dominate the world” Jihadwatch  The graffiti was removed with lightning speed and the news report of the incident doesn’t say what it said, but rather blames the “far right.” Apparently there are forces in the U.K. who […]
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/12/lt-colonel-allen-west-.html Washingtoons 19 December 2009 Lieutenant Colonel Allen B West (US Army, Ret) “2010: America’s Decisive Year” Greetings fellow riders, South Floridians, and indeed America, time for another monthly installment of our Wheels on the Road (WOTR) political assessment. By the time this edition goes to print we shall be in the New Year, 2010, […]
