Palestinian Prime Minister to Israeli Audience: You Make Concessions, We Don’tBy Barry Rubin* February 4, 2010 http://www.gloria-center.org/blog/2010/02/palestinian-prime-minister Imagine this. You’re prime minister of a regime that isn’t yet a state. You are praised in the Western media as a great moderate man of peace. You represent a people who the U.S. president says is in […]
It’s now official: In 2009 the number of unionized workers who work for the government surpassed those in the private economy for the first time. This milestone explains a lot about modern American politics, in particular the paradox that union clout with Democrats has increased even as fewer workers belong to unions overall. The Bureau […]
National Review Online Andrew C. McCarthy February 4, 2010 4:00 A.M. http://article.nationalreview.com/423902/merely-organized-to-convict/andrew-c-mccarthy ‘Merely Organized to Convict’ Sage advice for Holder from his professed role model. Attorney General Eric Holder keeps on the wall of his office a portrait of Justice Robert Jackson, who was attorney general under FDR. Holder explains that Jackson is one of […]
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Â Cost Cutting Travel Tips from the White House Once again Obama has spoken out against the wastefulness of taking planes to Las Vegas and spending money there. And while some Nevada lawmakers are criticizing his remarks, I for one fully support and endorse them. It is wasteful to take a plane trip to […]
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,675738,00.html SPIEGEL ONLINE 02/03/2010 03:05 PM The World from Berlin Obama’s No-Show Disappoints Europe US President Barack Obama’s decision not to attend an EU-US summit in Madrid in May has left many on this side of the Atlantic worrying that the European Union has lost clout in Washington. When Washington announced this week that US […]
SPIEGEL ONLINE 02/02/2010 06:04 PM Kremlin in the Crosshairs Environmentalists Seethe Over Russian Luxury Dachas By Benjamin Bidder and Wladimir Pyljow Is environmental protection being abandoned for the sake of a colony of luxury dachas near Russia’s Sochi resort, where the 2014 Winter Olympics are slated to take place? A resort has been planned for […]
http://article.nationalreview.com/423758/professor-of-contempt/roger-kimball Professor of Contempt The legacy of Howard Zinn. With Howard Zinn, contemporary American academia found its court historian. Zinn, who died January 27 at 87, was like a gigantic echo chamber, accurately reproducing — and actively reinforcing — every left-wing cliché with which the academy has abetted its sense of election these past several […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.5415/pub_detail.asp February 3, 2010 Exclusive: Chris Matthews Compares GOP to Khmer Rouge – Where’s The Sense of Proportion? Pam Meister Appearing as a guest on Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC show on January 29th, “Hardball†host Chris Matthews compared what is going on in the Republican Party to the re-education camps in Cambodia during the reign of […]
The Lure of Radical Islam, or ‘Boys Will Be Boys’ Posted By Raymond Ibrahim According to a recent ABC report [1], “As many as three dozen criminals who converted to Islam in American prisons have moved to Yemen where they could pose a ‘significant threat’ to attack the U.S., according to a report on al-Qaeda […]
THEIR ABIDING GRIEVANCE IS LIVE JEWS IN THEIR ANCIENT AND LEGITIMATE HOMELAND…..THE REST IS JUST POSING FOR THE CAMERAS…..RSK February 03, 2010 What Is a ‘Legitimate’ Palestinian Grievance? By Joel B. Pollak The day after President Barack Obama delivered his State of the Union address, he was ambushed by a question from an anti-Israel student […]
