http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40841084/ns/world_news-europe/ Russian tycoon Khodorkovsky gets 14-year sentence MOSCOW — A judge has sentenced jailed Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky to 14 years in prison following a trial seen as payback for his defiance of Vladimir Putin’s power. Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr / AP Mikhail Khodorkovsky looks on from behind a glass enclosure at a court room in […]
Peretz in Exile http://nymag.com/print/?/news/features/70310/ For decades, Martin Peretz taught at Harvard and presided over The New Republic�a fierce, if controversial, lion among American intellectuals and Zionists. Now, having been labeled a bigot, taunted at his alma mater, and stripped of his magazine, he has found peace in a place where there is little: Israel. By […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204204004576049842786766586.html?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLETopStories By CHARLES LEVINSON And GUY CHAZAN TEL AVIV—Two years ago, Ratio Oil Exploration LP, an energy firm here, employed five people and was worth about half a million dollars. Noble EnergyOperations in Noble Energy’s Leviathan gas field, the world’s biggest deepwater gas find in a decade. Today it sits at the center of a […]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/8227773/David-Cameron-must-face-the-challenge-of-Islamisation.html David Cameron must face the challenge of Islamisation Telegraph View: Halting the erosion of freedom may prove just as important a challenge for the Coalition as easing the pain of cuts The leader of Ukip, Nigel Farage MEP, must have groaned when he learned that the French National Front is now modelling itself on […]
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/12/obama-makes-controversial-appointments-from-hawaii-vacation.html NORM EISEN IS THE SCOUNDREL WHO WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN THE ILLEGAL, UNTIMELY AND WITHOUT GROUNDS FIRING OF INSPECTOR GENERAL GERALD WALPIN From Sunlen Miller, Kirit Radia and Yunji de Nies: HERE ARE OTHER CONTROVERSIAL APPOINTMENTS: Frank Ricciardone had his nomination as envoy to Turkey held up by Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., who now has […]
The Fallacy of the “1967 Borders” – No Such Borders Ever Existed Alan Baker http://www.jidaily.com/MQL The Palestinian leadership is fixated on attempting to press foreign governments and the UN to recognize a unilaterally declared Palestinian state within the “1967 borders.” Indeed, this campaign appeared to have some initial successes in December 2010 when both Argentina […]
http://bigpeace.com/pschweizer/2010/12/30/syria-obama-never-passes-up-an-opportunity-to-look-weak/ by Peter Schweizer President Obama has bypassed the US Senate and appointed an Ambassador to Syria. Why bypass the Senate? Because numerous senators objected to the appointment on the grounds that sending an Ambassador simply rewards Syria’s bad behavior. In addition to sponsoring terrorism, and trying to undermine neighboring Lebanon by sponsoring assassins, […]
http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/ The Internationally Recognised State of Palestine – Not All it Seems? The following article, obtained from the antipodean J-Wire news service, is by David Singer, a Sydney lawyer and international affairs analyst, and is entitled “Palestine – Lawyers, Hot Air and no Clothes”: John V Whitbeck – described as “an international lawyer who has […]
http://townhall.com/columnists/EmmettTyrrell/2010/12/30/there_is_always_fidel Emmett Tyrrell There Is Always Fidel WASHINGTON — Next week marks the 52nd anniversary of Fidel Castro’s arrival to his Cuban throne. I cannot wait to see how it will be solemnized. Will little children appear before Fidel throwing flowers? They’d better not throw them too hard. He is pretty frail. Will there be […]
http://townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2010/12/30/she_told_us_so/print Sarah Palin deserves an apology. When she said that the new health-care law would lead to “death panels” deciding who gets life-saving treatment and who does not, she was roundly denounced and ridiculed. Now we learn, courtesy of one of the ridiculers — The New York Times — that she was right. Under a […]
