GENERALLY SPEAKING: ON PETRAEUS….PLEASE READ

Dear E-pals: Many defenders of General Petraeus are now in high gear defending him against allegations that he is far more sympathetic to the Arab cause. Among them a dear friend who knows three generals very well assures me that they deny every single accusation…and Max Boot goes so far as to say “they lie”…. […]

WHILE BAN KI MOONS ISRAEL A MULTIMILLION DOLLAR CASE OF CORRUPTION AT THE UN

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2010/03/18/v-print/1071248/multimillion-dollar-un-corruption.html Multimillion-dollar UN corruption case uncovered By JOHN HEILPRIN The deal looked simple enough: U.S. military equipment suppliers bribed an African defense minister’s salesmen to secure part of a $15 million gig to outfit a presidential guard. But the salesmen were actually FBI agents. And the operation resulted in what U.S. authorities in January called […]

THE LATE MILTON FRIEDMAN ON SOVIET STYLE MEDICAL CARE WRITTEN IN 1996

OPINION MARCH 20, 2010 A Way Out of Soviet-Style Health Care Solzhenitsyn’s prophetic warning about the depersonalization of medicine. By MILTON FRIEDMAN Editor’s note: The following is excerpted from an article with the same headline by Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman that was published in the Wall Street Journal on April 17, 1996. Friedman […]

QUARTET RAISES PRESSURE ON ISRAEL: ROBIN SHEPHERD

http://www.robinshepherdonline.com/   Mid-East Quartet raises the pressure against Israel as US policy confusion deepens over settlements     While Russia continues with the de-facto annexation of the South Ossetian and Abkhazian provinces of its southern neighbour Georgia, Ban Ki-Moon, Hilary Clinton and the other members of the Mid-East Quartet met in Moscow this morning to […]

QUARTET RAISES PRESSURE ON ISRAEL…

http://www.robinshepherdonline.com/ Mid-East Quartet raises the pressure against Israel as US policy confusion deepens over settlements While Russia continues with the de-facto annexation of the South Ossetian and Abkhazian provinces of its southern neighbour Georgia, Ban Ki-Moon, Hilary Clinton and the other members of the Mid-East Quartet met in Moscow this morning to reaffirm the international […]

SHAMELESS SCIENCE….

  Climategate: Shameless Science Posted By James Lewis Without a blush of shame, this week’s Science magazine just ran an article called “Contributions of stratospheric water vapor to decadal changes in the rate of Global Warming [1].” After wiping off the unnecessary words we’re left with: “Global Warming would be here — except for that […]

RON RADOSH: WHY THE SURPRISE ABOUT OBAMA’S HOSTILITY TO ISRAEL….SEE NOTE

Obama’s Position on Israel: Why Are We Surprised? Posted By Ron Radosh On March 19, 2010 @ 5:59 pm In Uncategorized | 7 Comments In the past few days, there have been many sharp, biting and on target comments about the fabricated crisis Obama has manufactured between Israel and its most important ally, the United […]

THE LONGEST HATRED: AN INTERVIEW WITH ROBERT WISTRICH….PART 2

The Longest Hatred, Part Two Posted By Ruthie Blum Leibowitz In his recently released book, A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad [1] (Random House), Prof. Robert S. Wistrich provides one of the most comprehensive overviews to date of the “longest hatred,” which he has spent the better part of his life […]

MICHELLE MALKIN: YOU CAN’T TRUST THE NUMBERS AND YOU CAN’T TRUST THE WORDS

http://article.nationalreview.com/428505/the-deem-o-crats-towering-deception/michelle-malkin The Deem-o-crats’ Towering Deception Nancy Pelosi says she loves numbers because they’re so “precise,” but “precise” does not mean “accurate.” If you cannot trust government’s numbers, you cannot trust government’s words. This is the lesson of the House Democrats’ desperate promotion of a phony-baloney Congressional Budget Office analysis of their latest health-care-takeover package. Democratic […]

MARK STEYN: ADOLESCENT THINKING

MARK STEYN http://nrd.nationalreview.com/print/?q=NzdiYWNlOWExZDhiZGIxOTNmMjBlMjE1NTI0NTkxNmY= Adolescent Thinking ‘I see some young people in the audience,” said President Obama in Ohio the other day. Not that young. For he assured them that, under Obamacare, they’d be eligible to remain on their parents’ health coverage until they were 26. The audience applauded. Why? Because, as the politicians say, “it’s […]