May 12th, 2010 12:43 am http://pajamasmedia.com/claudiarosett/here-comes-the-uns-libyan-blights-council/?singlepage=true Here Comes the UN’s Libyan Blights Council Libya on the United Nations Human Rights Council? That sounds nuts. But this is the UN. By Thursday evening, with the Obama administration apparently AWOL on this outrage, it may be a done deal. The United Nations General Assembly is due to […]
REVIEW & OUTLOOK MAY 13, 2010 Surveillance and Shahzad Are wiretap limits making it harder to discover and pre-empt jihadists?The debate about the Times Square bomb plot has focused, so far, on what happened after Faisal Shahzad’s detonator fizzled. Should Congress make marginal changes to Miranda procedures, and the like? The more urgent question in […]
OPINION MAY 13, 2010 The Treasury-Financial Complex The Dodd bill is perfectly designed to create the largest and most powerful crony system in history. By CLIFFORD S. ASNESS AND AARON BROWN Whatever your views on financial reform—whether you want the government to crack down on bankers or to disentangle itself from financial markets—you should fear […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/13/arizona-governor-now-targets-ethnic-studies/print/ AZ governor now targets ethnic studies Valerie Richardson Arizona Republican Gov. Jan Brewer, already under fire for approving the nation’s toughest illegal immigration law, has again run afoul of liberal activists, signing a bill Wednesday that targets ethnic studies programs in schools that critics say unfairly demean white Americans. The law, which takes effect […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/13/group-wants-equal-restroom-access-for-women/print/ Thursday, May 13, 2010 Group wants equal restroom access for women Stephen Dinan Add equal bathroom access to life, liberty, happiness and the other things the government wants to make sure American citizens enjoy. Some call it “potty parity,” others label it “porcelain proportionality” — but a bipartisan group in Congress, braving potential public […]
ELENA KAGAN: A PICTURE EMERGES…WILL CONGRESS QUESTION THIS? RSK Kagan, Obama, and the Harvard Legacy of Literary Fraud By Jack Cashill When Barack Obama’s two faculty mentors at Harvard Law got in trouble for plagiarism, they were rescued by Dean Elena Kagan. In 1989, Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe hired first-year Harvard law student Barack […]
May 13, 2010 Kagan’s good deed J.C. Arenas Thus far we are rightfully questioning Elena Kagan’s qualifications to serve on the Supreme Court, but if it’s true that a good deed never goes unnoticed, then perhaps there is an explanation for her potential ascension to the nation’s highest court. During the announcement for her nomination, […]
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2010/05/12/2010-05-12_obama_fiddles_a_rogue_schemes_the_us_strategy_toward_north_korea_leaves_us_in_da.html?print=1&page=all Obama fiddles, a rogue schemes: The U.S. strategy toward North Korea leaves us in danger By John Bolton North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il has now left Beijing and returned home after a typically secretive visit, his first trip abroad in four years. Kim’s last trip was also to China, the North’s dominant benefactor; […]
THANKS TO ATLASSHRUGS AND PAMELA GELLER http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hk_9cJ6s8M83mvTFGSAd8yE1GerA Egypt detains US passenger with weapons in bags CAIRO — Egyptian authorities detained a passenger arriving from New York’s JFK airport Wednesday with handguns, ammunition and knives in his bag, but US officials said there had been no security lapse. Mohamed Ibrahim Marei, a US university professor of […]
http://townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2010/05/13/what_is_ Â “Democrats have the votes in the Senate to confirm her, but Republicans ought to use the process to further expose where this progressive president wants to take us: away from true law, William Blackstone and our nation’s founders or toward the remaking of America in his image?” Â Â We are told by […]