Those bleeding-heart journalists Posted by Isi Leibler on March 3rd, 2010 In recent weeks, our media has indulged its penchant for masochism, depicting every incident in the most self-deprecating manner. This is exemplified in a column by Bradley Burston on the current homepage of the English edition of Haaretz. Titled “I envy the people who […]
Ravitch Offers Passionate Defense of America’s Public School System By ANDREW WOLF | March 2, 2010 http://www.nysun.com/opinion/ravitch-offers-passionate-defense-of-americas/86906/ No silver bullets. This is the simple premise of Diane Ravitch’s new book, “The Death and Life of the Great American School System,†which is being brought out this week by Basic Books. Written by one of our […]
SPIEGEL ONLINE Stability at Stake Sectarian Tensions Overshadow Iraq Election By Bernhard Zand Iraqis go to the polls Sunday for the country’s second parliamentary election since the fall of Saddam Hussein. But the decision to bar over 170 candidates threatens the vote’s credibility, and Iran and Saudia Arabia are jockeying for influence behind the scenes. […]
http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1302/Wilders-Wins-Big-in-Dutch-Elections.aspx Wilders Wins Big in Dutch Elections Diana West  How do you say “Reconquista” in Dutch? Anyway, so it begins in Almere, the Netherlands, where Geert Wilders’s PVV party looks like the Big Winner in yesterday’s munipal elections, also coming in second in The Hague. Best news in a long time. An only somewhat […]
SPIEGEL ONLINE Dissident Turned Technocrat Medvedev Takes On Putin with Governor Appointment By Matthias Schepp Russian President Dimitri Medvedev has named a former opposition leader as the governor of the region of Kirov Oblast. The appointment is a test of whether Medvedev can assert himself against his powerful prime minister, Vladimir Putin. Nikita Belykh has […]
Can the Moral ‘Narrative’ of ObamaCare Be Defeated? Posted By Paul Hsieh On March 4, 2010 President Obama has finally demanded an “up or down vote†[1] on his health care plan. Republicans have already raised numerous economic and procedural objections, arguing that his plan relies on economic “smoke and mirrors [2]†and that the […]
Canadian Leaders Standing Tall Against Israel Apartheid Week Posted By Barbara Kay In the aftermath of what emerged, against early predictions, as a wildly successful Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, Canadians are basking in an uncharacteristically bullish glow of national pride. With a stunning fourteen gold medals [1] to the USA’s nine, Canadians are relishing […]
http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/03/grover_norquists_jihad.html By Pamela Geller The Freedom Defense Initiative, a new organization I started with author and scholar Robert Spencer, hosted its inaugural event to an enthusiastic standing-room-only crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference on February 19. But this event was at CPAC, not of CPAC. Could this be because of the influence of conservative […]
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100028226/when-is-it-ok-to-call-people-nazis-when-theyre-euro-sceptics/ Daniel Hannan is a writer and journalist, and has been Conservative MEP for South East England since 1999. He speaks French and Spanish and loves Europe, but believes that the EU is making its constituent nations poorer, less democratic and less free. He is the winner of the Bastiat Award for online journalism. When […]
Betraying freedom in Latin America  Ralph Peters I was wrong. For years, I’ve argued that our government should pay more attention to South America. Now Hillary Clinton has — and, boy, is it ugly. With tragic back-to-back earthquakes dominating the headlines from south of the border, a desperate ploy by the hard-left Argentine government — […]
