WSJ OPINION MAY 21, 2010 The Bankrupting of America We have a ruinous collaboration of elected officials and unionized public workers. By MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN The American public feels it is drowning in red ink. It is dismayed and even outraged at the burgeoning national deficits, unbalanced state and local budgets, and accounting that often masks […]
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» A Mosque at 9/11 ‘Ground Zero’? – Big Government http://biggovernment.com/bgabriel/2010/05/20/a-mosque-at-911-ground-zero/ A Mosque at 9/11 ‘Ground Zero’? by Brigitte Gabriel Imagine the American response in 1950 if the Japanese government sought to erect a shrine to its World War II Emperor in Pearl Harbor, right next to the sunken wreckage of the USS Arizona. Would […]
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. With Arlen Specter now retired to the Republic of Oblivia, the land of humiliated incumbents, attention focuses on Blanche Lincoln, who must enjoy attention while she can. She, too, seems en route to the province of the memorably forgotten. She was forced into a June 8 runoff, and if she survives that […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/21/house-panel-oks-probe-of-gitmo-attorneys/print/ House panel OKs probe of Gitmo lawyers Bill Gertz The House Armed Services Committee approved legislation Wednesday that would require the Pentagon’s inspector general to conduct an investigation into whether defense attorneys for detainees at the detention facility at U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, acted improperly. The measure is part of a $760 […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/21/calderon-faults-us-guns-for-mexico-violence/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_must-read-stories-today KARA ROWLAND Mexican President Felipe Calderon called on Congress on Thursday to reinstate a federal ban on assault weapons that he said are ending up in the hands of violent drug cartels south of the border, using a highly contentious estimate of U.S. guns seized in Mexico when addressing Capitol Hill lawmakers. Mr. Calderone […]
The son of a ron is a creep but this puts some good Republicans in a corner….Will they distance themselves from Paul? Palin and De Mint will not…and Mitch McConnell who is in Kentucky was principled in his opposition….now what. This nasty Rand is a hot potato….rsk RUTH — Kentucky Republican Rand Paul was born […]
Actually, four Republicans voted yes — Collins, Snowe, and Chuck Grassley were the others — but it was Scotty B who flipped today to make it happen. Brown told reporters that he had in fact given Reid his word that he would vote if his concerns were addressed in the bill, but that he voted […]
http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=NmJlYzJjOTIyMjk0YTZjYzE2ZDg0ZmM2ZDlmMDFhZmY= May 20, 2010 4:00 A.M. Melanie Phillips on a World Gone Mad The British author on Princess Diana, Barack Obama, Israel, and pathological projection. Melanie Phillips, the British journalist, is author of The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth, and Power. As the title suggests, the book covers a lot […]
Follow me @YoramEttinger http://twitter.com/YoramEttinger No Demographic Time Bomb; It’s a Demographic Scarecrow Bomb The Australian Jewish News, May 14, 2010 Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger “Second Thought: A US-Israel Initiative†Anyone suggesting that Jews are doomed to become a minority between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean is either dramatically mistaken or outrageously misleading. In contrast […]
