http://www.mererhetoric.com/archives/11275937.html#more The elegant thing about Turkey’s slide from the West is how starkly it juxtaposes liberal pseudo-sophistication with conservative warnings. On one side you have Obama’s ephemeral charisma, where Turkey was the first Muslim country he visited as part of his global Presidential apology tour. At a minimum that should have made Ankara more rather […]
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,druck-661797,00.html UN Secretary-General on the Copenhagen Climate Summit By Ban Ki Moon In an open letter in the run-up to the the UN climate conference beginning on Dec. 7, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appeals to world leaders to come to Copenhagen and hammer out the foundation of what he hopes will eventually be an ambitious […]
Nidal Hasan and Fort Hood: A Study in Muslim Doctrine (Part 1) By Raymond Ibrahim One of the difficulties in discussing Islam’s more troubling doctrines is that they have an anachronistic, even otherworldly, feel to them; that is, unless actively and openly upheld by Muslims, non-Muslims, particularly of the Western variety, tend to see them […]
Handy Tips for President Obama on Behavior in Foreign Countries By Frank J. Fleming Is it just me, or is Barack Obama not the most experienced person we’ve ever had as president? On some of his foreign trips, he’s seemed a bit befuddled on how to behave himself. It’s almost like Obama has never been […]
Rewriting history to make the Jews look bad Leo Rennert False equivalency rears its ugly head again. The Washington Post upends the history of Temple Mount and ignores Muslim desecration of Jewish antiquities in its Nov. 17 edition. The paper features an article by Jerusalem correspondent Howard Schneider about sporadic tensions and clashes on Temple […]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/6543233/Russian-cannibal-who-ate-mother-has-sentence-reduced-because-he-was-hungry.html Russian cannibal who ate mother has sentence reduced ‘because he was hungry’ A Russian cannibal who killed and ate parts of his own mother has had his prison sentence reduced by nine months after a court accepted he resorted to cannibalism out of hunger rather than preference. Sergei Gavrilov admitted he had used parts […]
http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=NjJjYTIxNGFlZjRiNzFmYzFiM2ZhMGI4NTRmMWNhMzg= Justice Delayed Holder’s friends in the al-Qaeda bar caused the trial delays he now criticizes. By Andrew C. McCarthy Of all the infuriating aspects of the decision to transfer five 9/11 war criminals to civilian federal court, the one that grates most is the contention that the Obama administration is finally moving forward after […]
http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2009-11-18-afghan-goat_N.htm In Afghanistan, galloping to get one’s goat By Jim Michaels, USA TODAY Afghan players on horseback fight for control of a carcass during a game on November 6 in Kabul, Afghanistan. By Majid Saeedi, Getty Images KABUL — Is the world ready for a sport played with a headless goat carcass? Haji Abdul Rashid […]
http://townhall.com/Common/PrintPage.aspx?g=f2ab2d74-b80b-42e3-8adb-bc1187450220&t=c Thousands of Jobs Scammed or Created Ben Shapiro President Obama has repeatedly stated that his stimulus package has “saved or created” hundreds of thousands of jobs. And hundreds of thousands of jobs have been created. In Unicornland. According to the Recovery.gov website — a website that the Obama administration has spent $18 million “stimulating” […]
THIS IS THE LEGACY OF THE JUNK SCIENCE OF RACHEL CARSON WHICH BANNED DDT….RSK Battling Malaria in Uganda Fiona Kobusingye http://townhall.com/Common/PrintPage.aspx?g=f771edc7-6f5c-4416-a7b3-ed7c2657384e&t=c My mobile phone rang. Another nephew was down with malaria, a friend told me. Lying in his hospital bed, quinine running through his veins, Emmanuel felt the pain wracking his body. I knew it […]
