http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100122/wl_nm/us_israel_un_gaza/print Israel pays U.N. $10.5 million over Gaza damage By Patrick Worsnip Patrick Worsnip Fri Jan 22, 4:45 pm ET UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Israel has paid the United Nations $10.5 million for property damage and injuries the world body suffered during Israel’s attack on Gaza a year ago, a U.N. spokesman and Israeli diplomats […]
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/01/fitzgerald-arabia-petraea-or-general-petraeus-middle-east-part-2.html Fitzgerald: Arabia Petraea, Or General Petraeus’ Middle East (Part 2) Part 1 is here. T. E. Lawrence thought of himself as a great expert on the Arabs, and he managed to convince others to share in that belief. And he met a felt need, in Great Britain in the 1920s, after the Great War, […]
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/01/saudi-arabia-rape-victim-now-faces-100-lashes-for-the-crime-of-being-raped.html Saudi Arabia: Rape victim now faces 100 lashes for the crime of being raped Recently someone forwarded me a pseudo-scholarly piece by a smooth Islamic apologist purporting to prove that I was wrong, wrong, wrong (and therefore evil as well, of course) about Islamic rules of evidence for crimes of zina (adultery, fornication, and […]
http://townhall.com/columnists/DanGainor/2010/01/22/mass_vote_shows_obama_a_rerun_of_carter Mass. Vote Shows Obama a Rerun of Carter Dan Gainor Friday, January 22, 2010 It’s January and we’re watching reruns. The clueless main character and his band of misfits are struggling through another groovy episode. Barack Obama’s playing the cool lead with V.P. Joe Biden filling the role of the balding, curmudgeonly father figure. […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jan/22/unemployment-rose-43-states-last-month//print/ Unemployment rose in 43 states last month Christopher S. Rugaber ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Unemployment rates rose in 43 states last month, the government said Friday, painting a bleak picture of the job market that illustrated nationwide data released two weeks ago. The rise in joblessness was a sharp change from November, when […]
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=518859 How’s That Again, Mr. President, For Us Schlubs Who Don’t Get It? By MARK STEYN The president at a Jan. 17 campaign stop in Boston for Democratic Senate candidate Martha Coakley. The most striking aspect of his performance was… View Enlarged Image So what went wrong? According to Barack Obama, the problem is he overestimated you dumb […]
http://www.climatedepot.com/a/4993/Time-for-Meds-NASA-scientist-James-Hansen-endorses-book-which-calls-for-ridding-the-world-of-Industrial-Civilization-ndash-Hansen-declares-author-has-it-rightthe-system-is-the-problem Time for Meds? NASA scientist James Hansen endorses book which calls for ‘ridding the world of Industrial Civilization’ – Hansen declares author ‘has it right…the system is the problem’ Book proposes ‘razing cities to the ground, blowing up dams and switching off the greenhouse gas emissions machine’ Excerpt: In a scary new book called […]
http://randysright.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/obama-gives-aclu-645-more-terrorists-names-while-we-were-distracted-with-scott-brown/  Obama gives ACLU 645 More Terrorists Names While we were distracted with Scott Brown January 22, 2010 by randyedye  http://www.uncoverage.net/2010/01/here-come-645-more-terrorists/ American trials for 645 more? One week ago, the Obama administration quietly pulled another one of its “Friday night specials.â€Â  The news didn’t “break†till Saturday in the New York Times and a […]
http://www.usnews.com/articles/opinion/mzuckerman/2010/01/21/mort-zuckerman-the-incredible-deflation-of-barack-obama_print.htm The Incredible Deflation of Barack Obama By Mortimer B. Zuckerman Posted January 21, 2010 The air is seeping out of the Obama balloon. He has fallen to below 50 percent in the poll approval ratings, a decline punctuated by his party’s shocking loss in the Massachusetts special election. Why? Barack Obama was undoubtedly sincere […]
National Review Online Andrew C. McCarthy NR Contributing Editor January 22, 2010, 2:20 p.m. http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YWQzOWM1ODEwZDk1MjI4YTcyNjVhMGJmNGE0MGFiZDg= Still Time to Get It Right But only if Obama reverses course on Abdulmutallab. ‘Why not treat him as an enemy combatant?†Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace was pressing John Brennan, President Obama’s top counterterrorism adviser. Umar Abdulmutallab had […]
