Summing Up Obama (So Far) Posted By David Solway So much has been said and written about Barack Obama that, barring some shattering revelation, very little remains to be rehearsed. As columnist Barry Rubin bemoaned [1], “I don’t want to keep writing every day about the Obama Administration’s Middle East policy. There are many other […]
Ron Radosh. May 16th, 2010 11:13 am ….. pajamasmedia.com/ronradosh/ Ron Radosh May 16th, 2010 11:13 am Claire Berlinski on Soviet Espionage: A Misleading Article Appears in City Journal A few days ago, City Journal posted an important article on its website. It was written by Claire Berlinski, an American journalist who lives in Istanbul, and […]
EUROPE? I THINK WE ARE GETTING MORE LIKE VENEZUELA….RSK http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2010/05/17/join-the-%E2%80%9Cwe%E2%80%99re-not-europe%E2%80%9D-party/ Join the “We’re-Not-Europe†Party Posted By Roger Kimball My friend Dan Henninger has a great idea [1]. While Barack Obama does everything he can to make the United States more like Europe, Republicans ought to make it clear to the public that they represent the […]
http://historyunfolding.blogspot.com/2008/06/presidential-speech.html David Kaiser is a respected historian whose published works have covered a broad range of topics, from European Warfare to American League Baseball. Born in 1947, the son of a diplomat, Kaiser spent his childhood in three capital cities: Washington D.C. , Albany, New York , and Dakar, Senegal . He attended Harvard University […]
The President’s new clothes Center for Security Policy | May 17, 2010 By Frank Gaffney, Jr. On Tuesday, May 18th, President Obama will formally begin one of the greatest bait-and-switch operations since the fabled “Emperor’s New Clothes.” With high-profile appearances before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by his Secretaries of State and Defense and the […]
NRO — The Corner Monday, May 17, 2010 Did Justice Kennedy Consult the Sharia? [Andy McCarthy] Dan reports below that Justice Kennedy once again resorted to foreign law to support the Court’s diktat that the Eighth Amendment now purportedly forbids life sentences for those 16 and younger who commit non-homicide felonies. “The United States,” he […]
Dumping Israel By RALPH PETERS Last Updated: 3:04 AM, May 17, 2010 Posted: 10:26 PM, May 16, 2010 ‘It’s those damned Jews.” That’s the muffled message I hear when, pretending to represent our national interest, voices call for the abandonment of Israel. We’ve heard it from agenda-driven scholars who write that our alliance with Israel […]
http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2010/05/hizbullah-on-the-homefront.php  Hizbullah on the homefront May 17, 2010, 4:27 PM Comments (7)  |  |   Last week Lebanese commentator Tony Badran published an article on the Now Lebanon Web site discussing the Iranian way of war. In “The shape of things to come,” he discussed the significance of the breakup of a Hizbullah […]
Newt Direct Kagan, Harvard, the US Military, and the Saudis http://www.newt.org/newt-direct/kagan-harvard-us-military-and-saudis SUMMARY: Elena Kagan, while Dean of Harvard Law School between 2003 and 2009, enforced the university’s ban on military recruiting through the formal on-campus interview program on grounds that military hiring guidelines were discriminatory. She repeatedly criticized the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell†policy […]
http://www.gloria-center.org/gloria/2010/05/obama-me-disaster The Obama Administration’s Middle East Disaster: A Brief Summary Barry Rubin, Gloria-Center.org May 18, 2010 We depend on your contributions. To make a tax-deductible donation through PayPal or credit card, click the Donate button in the upper-right hand corner of this page. To donate via check, make it out to “American Friends of IDC,” […]
