http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/254972 Rwanda’s Economic Miracle As America dithers, Rwanda follows the free-market path to prosperity. Kigali, Rwanda — It must puzzle Rwandans to watch the loud squabbling between and within America’s political parties over keeping old tax cuts for just two more years. President Obama on Tuesday defended his tax-cut deal with Republican lawmakers by calling […]
‘Bridges to Nowhere’America’s Unsavory Friends in Central Asia By Uwe Klussmann and Christian Neef http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,734033,00.html The US is anxious to broaden its influence in Central Asia — and limit that of Russia. The result, however, are questionable alliances with some of the strangest despots in the world. The secret country assessment from the US Embassy in […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/255056 December 13, 2010 12:00 A.M. Jindal, Leading Leadership and Crisis is not a poorly received State of the Union response. In his new book, Leadership and Crisis, Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal describes a scene that will not be unfamiliar to anyone who watched the president’s December 7 press conference. It was May 28, and […]
Sarah Palin’s Basic Instinct By Humberto Fontova http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/12/sarah_palins_basic_instinct.html “You [Sarah Palin] enjoy killing animals. What you did is heart-stoppingly disgusting … if I were picked to be the one to kill [an animal] in some kind of Lottery-from-Hell, I wouldn’t do a little dance of joy while I was slicing the animal apart.” (This is […]
http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/12/the_theft_of_ground_zero.html The Theft of Ground Zero By Pamela Geller The most egregious aspect of the Ground Zero mosque controversy is something that people don’t think or talk about: the incalculable theft involved in this second wave of the 9/11 attacks. These Islamic supremacists are grifting the system big time. And yet the biggest theft of […]
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Who Will Teach Tolerance to the Muslims? Every time a Muslim terrorist is caught trying to kill Americans in the name of Islam, the media and the politicians immediately go on full alert over the threat of an “Islamophobic backlash” against Muslims. Right away city mayors, district attorneys, law enforcement officials, sensitivity trainers, school […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703380104576015453439730390.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion The Bush administration faced demands to limit missile defenses. We told Moscow no. By DOUGLAS J. FEITH President Obama’s pleas for quick Senate approval of New Start, his nuclear arms treaty with Russia, remind me of long days nine years ago in the Russian Defense Ministry—where I helped negotiate the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703518604576013192211666586.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion By JOSé MARIA AZNAR Spain faces a critical economic situation. Along with Portugal, it is now at the center of Europe’s financial turmoil. Investors are assigning higher default risks to the Spanish government’s debt than at any point since Spain entered the euro zone. In the social sphere, the situation is distressing. The unemployment […]
http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/content/year.2010,month.12,day.13,type.main-feature,css.print/module_detail.asp Christopher Hitchens’s Jewish Problem By Benjamin Kerstein The fact that Christopher Hitchens has a problem with the Jews has been an open secret for years. No one much likes to talk about it, and for various reasons his journalistic peers have remained silent on the subject. But it is nonetheless the case, and there […]
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/6996 History lessons are often incredibly simple. I used to know a man whose family were German aristocracy prior to World War II. They owned a number of large industries and estates. I asked him how many German people were true Nazis, and the answer he gave has stuck with me and guided my attitude […]
