Iraqi son kills father who translated for U.S. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jun/18/iraqi-son-kills-father-who-translated-us/print/ An injured man is rushed to a hospital after a car bombing in Tuz Khormato, in northern Iraq, Friday, June 18, 2010. Car bombs, meanwhile, tore through two neighborhoods in restive cities north of Baghdad in separate attacks targeting a police captain and a provincial council […]
http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2010/06/20/the-euro-and-eutopia/ THE EURO AND EUTOPIA: ROGER KIMBALL If you look up “Deutsche Mark†on the internet, you will find an abundance of definitions like this one from Wikipedia: The Deutsche Mark . . . . was the official currency of West Germany (1948–1990) and Germany (1990–2002) until the adoption of the euro in 2002. Generally, […]
UNDERSTANDING THE MUSLIM MINDSET: AMIL IMANI http://www.amilimani.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=181&Itemid=2 Diffusing the present dangerous confrontation between Islam and the West demands rational impartial and cool heads to untangle facts from myth, understand the Muslims’ mindset, and redress any grievances on either side. The Muslims’ perennial complaint is that the imperialist West—all colonial powers of the past, as well […]
J Street’s “pro-Israel” mask slips again: P. David Hornik http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/06/j_streets_proisrael_mask_slips.html It’s reported that the American Jewish lobbying group J Street will be launching a new media campaign later this month “aimed at encouraging the American administration to take greater initiative in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.” J Street’s vice-president of communications, Isaac Luria, complains that “There […]
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/06/16/closes-park-land-mexico-border-americans/ FOXNews.com – June 16, 2010 Uptick in Violence Forces Closing of Parkland Along Mexico Border to Americans The border land was closed in October 2006 “due to human safety concerns,” the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Wednesday in response to news reports on the closure About 3,500 acres of southern Arizona along the […]
Friday Afternoon Roundup – Party of Children http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Now that Obama managed to interrupt his golf game long enough to deliver an emotional high profile speech in the Oval Office with a stealth push for Carbon Credits, a crisis is once again on the way to being co-opted as an opportunity. Not that it’s much […]
– Pajamas Media – http://pajamasmedia.com – Click here to print. Apologizing for Obama’s Serial Apologies Posted By David Solway As we all know by this time, judging from President Obama’s junket behavior and his endless nostra culpae, America is probably the most flawed, aggressive, and insensitive nation on the face of the earth, bar none. […]
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/6088220/why-did-obama-turn-down-offers-of-help.thtml Buy the current issue Register Login Edit Profile Logout Cartoons ‘Of course there will be pain — it’s the World Cup!’ Why did Obama turn down offers of help? Friday, 18th June 2010 Amazingly, it looks like Obama deliberately exacerbated the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster to push his ideological agenda. Seems he actually […]
American Thinker- Israel breathes; world condemnation instantaneous http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/06/israel_breathes_world_condemna.ht Andrew Pessin -Satire- Israel breathed this morning. There was a quick intake of air, and then a gentle exhalation. World condemnation was instantaneous. P.A. President Abbas decried the Israeli attempt to commandeer the Middle East air supply, and demanded a prompt return to the 1967 air distribution […]
Mark Steyn http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=OTRmYjEyMjg0NTg2N2VjMzI1NzE3ZDE4ZmM3YmI2ODc= June 19, 2010 5:00 A.M. Gulf War Three Thank goodness, the president has directed BP to order up some new tackle and connect it to the thingummy next to the whachamacallit. I believe it was Jean Giraudoux who first said, “Only the mediocre are always at their best.†Barack Obama was supposed […]