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DEAR SULTAN: NO ONE DISPUTES THE NECESSITY FOR VETTING…..BUT, AND THIS IS A BIG BUT…CALLING HIM A STEALTH SHARIA OR A FIFTH COLUMN CANDIDATE AND REFERRING TO BLOGGERS WHO PRINT DIFFERING OPINIONS AS “ASSHAT” OR “PISHER” IS DUMB AND VULGAR., AND THEN TO ASCRIBE “SINISTER” MOTIVES TO THE PERRY CAMPAIGN IS RIDICULOUS. AS TO PERRY’S RECORD ON ISRAEL, IT IS NOT BASED ON A DEFENDER OF JERUSALEM AWARD….IT IS BASED ON DECADES OF SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL BASED ON FAITH AND AMERICAN INTERESTS LONG BEFORE HE SOUGHT NATIONAL OFFICE…. AND YES! GOING FOR THE PERSON WHO CAN DEFEAT OBAMA IS CRITICAL….AND NO CANDIDATE IS PERFECT….RSK

FEAR OF VETTING

So Michele Bachmann ran a fairly effective ad aimed at Perry’s record, albeit with a cheesy voiceover, and the discussion was 50 percent voiceover, 49 percent “she’s crazy and should drop out) and 1 percent ad content.

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ SPEECH, SPEECH After a petty showdown with Republicans and a temper tantrum, Hussein the First has agreed to move that speech which no one particularly cared about anyway to another day. There’s nothing that O can say that will convince the country that sunny skies are ahead. With 80 percent of Americans saying that […]

http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2011/09/02/damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-dont-banking-in-the-age-of-obama This is rich: a headline from our former paper of record: U.S. Is Set to Sue a Dozen Big Banks Over Mortgages Yes, that’s right: the Feds are casting a beady eye upon Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank, “among others,” accusing them of “misrepresneting the quality of mortgage securities […]

http://phillyafsi.blogtownhall.com/2011/09/02/did_the_us_state_dept_try_to_wreck_glenn_becks_jerusalem_rally.thtml Did the U.S. State Department Try to Wreck Glenn Beck’s Jerusalem Rally? Did the U.S. A U.S. based Christian organization called the “Liberty Counsel” has claimed that the U.S. State Department tried to wreck Glenn Beck’s August pro-Israel “Restoring Courage” rally in Jerusalem by officially advising American citizens that the immediate area were the […]

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There is a particular difficulty in writing a review of a Mark Steyn book. Typically, a reviewer has one basic question before him: “is this book worth the attention of the reader or not?” But with a Steyn book, the question is moot. Of course its worth the reader’s attention; its by Mark Steyn, probably the most brilliant commentator on current affairs writing today. And since After America is already a best-seller (almost the only book in recent memory which actually deserves such status), its very likely that many readers are already familiar with it. So rather than offer a conventional review of Steyn’s new work, I’d like to offer a few thoughts on one of his basic theses: namely, that “big government” corrupts the character of a nation. I certainly agree with this thesis as far as it goes, but I don’t think it goes quite far enough, and I suspect that in the end, it prevents us from assessing our situation in a way that might allow us to make the necessary changes in our society down the road.
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The hysterical, hypocritical reaction to Glenn Beck helped underline the collective psychosis of Israel’s left-wing establishment.

“In this season of social awareness, this should be the real target for public anger. The detrimental, dysfunctional and largely disloyal role the Israel Left has played over the past two decades is a far more appropriate target at which public outrage should be directed. It is to this end that energies should be channeled – certainly far more than to the demand for cheaper cheese.If the hysterical, incoherent and hypocritical reaction to Glenn Beck’s visit helped underline this, he will have done the country a great service.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/02/israeli-ambassador-turkey-gaza-flotilla_n_946276.html ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey expelled Israel’s ambassador and cut military ties on Friday over Israel’s refusal to apologize for last year’s deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, further straining a relationship that had been a cornerstone of regional stability. The dramatic move came hours before the release of a U.N. report that called […]

http://news.yahoo.com/slumping-u-confidence-likely-curbed-august-hiring-040159335.html WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Employment growth ground to a halt in August as sagging consumer confidence discouraged already skittish U.S. businesses from hiring, keeping pressure on the Federal Reserve to provide more monetary stimulus to aid the economy. Nonfarm payrolls were unchanged, the Labor Department said on Friday, the weakest reading since September. Nonfarm employment […]

A Not-So-Amusing Day at the Amusement Park Posted By Rich Trzupek URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/09/02/a-not-so-amusing-day-at-the-amusement-park/ A confrontation between Muslims celebrating the end of Ramadan at the Rye Playland amusement park in Westchester County, New York and local authorities turned ugly yesterday, in a perfect demonstration of the toxic influence agitation outfits like the Council on […]

Internment and Terror for Black Libyans Posted By Rick Moran http://frontpagemag.com/2011/09/02/internment-and-terror-for-black-libyans/print/ Chaotic conditions in post-Gaddafi Libya have led to a breakdown in security that threatens hundreds of thousands of sub-Saharan black African migrant workers. Reports from Tripoli indicate that the rebels who took control of the city last week have been rounding up people described […]