http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.8320/pub_detail.asp Africa’s Top Flash Points in 2011 Security Challenges and Strategic Opportunities J.Peter Pham, PhD As has become customary with this column, this first piece of the year is dedicated to laying out what are likely to be the leading flash points on the African continent during 2011 in something of an approximate order of […]
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,737451-2,00.html Naked Bodies and a New Messiah Green Groups Try to Sex Up Climate Change The amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere keeps going up and up, but public interest in climate change is sinking. Environmentalists are trying to come up with new ways to make the issue sexy. But shock tactics can backfire […]
http://frontpagemag.com/2011/01/04/imam-rauf%e2%80%99s-extremist-speaking-engagement/ Imam Rauf’s Extremist Speaking Engagement Posted By Ryan Mauro Feisal Abdul Rauf, the imam behind the Ground Zero mosque, is kicking off his nationwide speaking tour [1] at the Islamic Society of North America’s Diversity Forum Banquet [2] in Detroit on January 15. He will be speaking alongside extremists like Siraj Wahhaj and Zaid […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/256224 ALAS, DEAR DANIEL DIOGENES, IN THE ROBED KINGDOM DISTINGUISHING THE “REFORMERS” FROM THE “HARDLINERS” IS LIKE DECIDING WHICH IS WORSE TYPHUS OR CHOLERA…..THE GUARDIANS OF MECCA ARE THE WORLD’S LEADING PROMOTERS OF TERRORISM AND SHARIA…..RSK Is Saudi Arabia Opening Up? The fight between Islamic reformers and hardliners deserves our full attention. On Jan. 1, […]
Utopia: Good Place or No Place? Posted By David Solway Beware the child-soldiers of the millennium who have your unhappiness heart. http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/utopia-good-place-or-no-place/?print=1 Much has been written about the perennial temptation of the Utopian project embraced by intellectuals and political reformers across the ages. The impulse to radically transform existent society and replace it with a […]
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/ ISLAMABAD: Over a 100 Hindu families in Pakistan’s Balochistan province are making efforts to migrate to India after becoming the target of a campaign of kidnappings and extortion, according to a media report today. The Hindus of southwestern Balochistan have been hit hardest by incidents of abduction for ransom and extortion, with the records […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704735304576058382591955692.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLETopOpinion Egypt’s Prison of Hate You know a country is in trouble when it blames shark attacks on the Mossad. Following the New Year’s Eve massacre of a score of Coptic Christian worshippers outside a church in Alexandria, Egyptians are wasting no time fingering the likely culprit. “With careful consideration,” observes commentator Ammar Ali Hassan […]
http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/content/module/2011/1/4/main-feature/1/lost-found Lost & Found By Aryeh Tepper In 1974, a strange letter from northeastern India landed on the desk of Israel’s then Prime Minister Golda Meir. It was sent by a group of Indians claiming to be descendants of the tribe of Menashe, one of the ten tribes “lost” to Jewish history after the Assyrians […]
http://bigpeace.com/stzu/2011/01/04/big-dupes-at-big-peace-dupes-of-the-year/ This is the most recent installment of exclusive interviews with Dr. Paul Kengor, professor of political science at Grove City College, on his book revealing how communists, from Moscow to New York to Chicago, have long manipulated America’s liberals/progressives. Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century is based on an unprecedented […]
Brzezinski’s wild take on China By Jennifer Rubin http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right-turn/2011/01/zbigniew_brezezinski_fancies_h.html#more Zbigniew Brzezinski fancies himself a “realist” in foreign affairs. But his outlook (for example his notion of an imposed peace deal in the Middle East or, worse, his suggestion to shoot down Israeli planes en route to attack Iran) evidences little recognition of the real-world interests […]
