PAUL RYAN WILL DELIVER RESPONSE TO THE STATE OF THE UNION

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/257667/ryan-will-deliver-sotu-repsonse-andrew-stiles Ryan Will Deliver SOTU Response By Andrew Stiles GOP leadership has selected House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) to deliver the Republican response to President Obama’s State of the Union address next week. From the statement announcing the selection: Last year – in an unprecedented failure – Congressional Democrats chose not to […]

REP. JASON CHAFFETZ UTAH REPUBLICAN URGES PRESIDENT TO JKEEP GITMO OPEN

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/257700 — Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R., Utah) is chairman of the Subcommittee on National Security, Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations, as well as a member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Keep Guantanamo Open, Mr. President Until the administration can articulate a coherent and convincing policy for closing Guantanamo, it should remain […]

ANDREW McCARTHY: THE NYTIMES IN A SNIT AS OBAMA RELENTS ON MILITARY COMMISSIONS

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/257699 Back in Commission The president gives in on military commissions, grieving his cheerleaders. President Obama is relenting on military-commission trials, and the New York Times is, shall we say, chagrined. The administration’s retreat can be chalked up to the political climate proximately created by two developments. The first is Congress’s prohibition against the transfer […]

BROOKLYN COLLEGE OUTRAGE….SEE WHO IS TEACHING ABOUT THE MIDDLE EAST….SEE NOTE

Gaza Defender Hired To Teach Middle East At Brooklyn College http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/16376-Gaza-Defender-Hired-To-Teach-Middle-East-At-Brooklyn-College.html here is one friend’s response “There is an alarming turn of events at Brooklyn College. Could one teach American history objectively if one only taught about slavery without a mention of the founding principles or its participants? Could one teach about World War 11 mentioning only […]

WHAT PALARABS ARE SAYING ONLINE: JONATHAN SCHANZER

http://www.meforum.org/2821/palestinians-online During the past decade, Washington has repeatedly failed to gauge the extent of Palestinian anti-peace sentiments with devastating consequences. The July 2000 Camp David summit triggered the worst wave of Palestinian violence since 1948 (euphemized as the “al-Aqsa Intifada“); the Palestinian parliamentary elections of January 2006 led to a victory for the Hamas Islamist […]

THE SULTAN: THE WEEKLY ROUNDUP

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Friday Afternoon Roundup – Rising Above the Attacks There’s a great deal of talk on conservative blogs about that infamous CNN poll finding that quite a few people tied Palin’s bullseye map to the Loughner massacre. There have been a number of polls that have gone both ways, which indicates mostly that the people […]

SOUTH KOREA’S RISKY RAID SAVES ENTIRE CREW FROM ARABIAN SEA PIRATES

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jan/21/risky-skorean-raid-saves-entire-crew-pirates/ By Kim Kwang-tae SEOUL (AP) — At dawn, South Korean special forces packed into a small boat approached a hijacked freighter in the Arabian Sea. Commandos scrambled up a ladder onto the ship, aboard which Somali pirates were armed with AK assault rifles and anti-tank missiles. A South Korean destroyer and hovering Lynx helicopter […]

ALAN DERSHOWITZ:J STREET ATTACKED PALIN BUT NOT LEFTISTS AND DEMS WHO ABUSE THE LANGUAGE OF JEWISH SUFFERING***

Alan M. Dershowitz http://www.hudson-ny.org/1824/j-street-attacked-sarah-palin-but-not-fellow J Street Attacked Sarah Palin But Not Fellow Leftists and Democrats Who Abuse the Language of Jewish Suffering “P.S.  I’m still waiting for J Street’s reaction to Congressman Cohen’s invocation of the Holocaust, Goebbels and blood libels to attack Republicans.” Shortly after Sarah Palin provoked a barrage of criticism for her […]

RUTGERS UNIVERSITY VIGIL FOR GAZA

http://www.dailytargum.com/ http://www.dailytargum.com/news/vigil-pays-tribute-to-thousands-killed-on-gaza-strip-1.2436871 ONE COMMENT FROM A STUDENT:MORE BELOW THE COLUMN….AT LEAST SOME STUDENTS KNOW THE FACTS “Why does no one care about the occupation of the homeland of 25 million Kurds? There are only 8 million Falsetinians, but they have the entire world behind their Fascist cause to create a pure Arab Muslim Middle East. […]

ANDREW McCARTHY: LOUGHNER INDICTMENT AND OTHER POSTINGS

Loughner Indictment[1] January 21, 2011 11:01 A.M. By Andrew C. McCarthy There was some head-scratching a couple of days ago over the Justice Department’s indictment of Jared Lee Loughner in the Tucson shootings case because he was not charged with the murders of Chief Judge John Roll and Gabriel Zimmerman, a legislative aide to Rep. Gabrielle […]