Cuba upholds imprisoned American’s 15-year sentence http://www.kansascity.com/2011/08/05/3059898/cuba-upholds-imprisoned-americans.html HAVANA | Cuba’s highest court Friday upheld a 15-year prison sentence for a U.S. contractor charged with crimes against the state for distributing satellite telephone equipment to Jewish groups in Havana. The ruling leaves Alan Gross, 62, without another opportunity for appeal. He has spent 1 1/2 years […]
http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=232731# What if Iran’s leaders do not consistently value Iran’s national survival more highly than any other preference? Nuclear deterrence is a game that even sane, rational governments may have to play, but there can be no assurance that enemies will always be rational. This presents a grave security problem, because the entire logic of […]
‘Energy independence’ is a pipe dream by Jeff Jacoby The Boston Globe http://www.jeffjacoby.com/10071/energy-independence-is-a-pipe-dream LATE LAST MONTH, President Obama announced new automobile fuel-efficiency standards that will require cars to achieve an average of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025. Vehicle fleets currently average 27 miles per gallon, so the new target would boost fuel efficiency by […]
The Jihad Against the Armenian, Assyrian, and Greek Christians By Janet Levy See also: The Persecution of Christians in the Middle East In Germany, where Holocaust denial is punishable by up to five years in prison, Stuttgart University recently capitulated to pressure from resident Turkish Muslims and canceled an event entitled, “Persecution, Expulsion and Annihilation of Christians […]
THIS GOVERNOR IS CLEARLY NOT THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE LINCOLN TUNNEL…..RSK http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/273865 Christie’s ‘Crazies’ Sharia is not a figment of our imagination. This “sharia-law business is crap . . . and I’m tired of dealing with the crazies!” So blustered Chris Christie. Bluster is the New Jersey governor’s default mode. It has certainly served him well. […]
http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2011/08/06/planned-economy-or-planned-destruction-take-2/ OK, so I have had occasion to share this educational cartoon from The Chicago Tribune 21 April 1934 before. But memories are short and, as André Gide once put it, ““Toutes choses sont dites déjà, mais comme personne n’écoute, il faut toujours recommencer.” When I first posted this cartoon, back in March of 2009, […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.10094/pub_detail.asp ” In time, the bombings will be decried as cruel and excessive in terms of the lives lost; as if to suggest all war is not both cruel and excessive to the vanquished. Indeed, nuclear weapons are horrible. What is incalculable, however, is the number of American lives saved by decisively ending the war […]
Obama’s Two Financial Crises By Stanley Kurtz http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/273776 Why is Barack Obama president of the United States? Media coddling? A weak McCain campaign? A strong, if dishonest, effort by Obama to present himself as a pragmatic centrist? All of these things played a role, but the advent of the subprime crisis at the height of the […]
The Upside of the Downgrade Posted By Claudia Rosett URL to article: http://pajamasmedia.com/claudiarosett/the-upside-of-the-downgrade/ The good news — and yes, this part really is good news — is that Standard & Poor’s has finally reduced the spending bacchanal of the U.S. government to a sound bite that anyone can understand: S&P has downgraded America’s sovereign […]
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com ABE FOXMAN BREAKS INTO THE ISLAMOPHOBIA BUSINESS Somewhere there’s a universe where Abe Foxman is managing a pizza shop. Unfortunately this isn’t it. Instead Abe hopped out of his burrow to pen an op-ed in response to the Breivik shootings. The attacks in Norway seem to stem from a different source. They are the […]
