THIS IS VERY INTERESTING…ALTMAN IS A DEM STALWART….RSK http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703499404574563752998573082.html To retain control in 2010, the party needs to forge better relations with industry. By ROGER C. ALTMAN Democrats may be headed for abnormally big losses in the 2010 congressional elections. The Cook Political Report, the most respected observer of congressional races, recently gave Republicans a […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/05/climate-research-furor-might-not-stop-us-deal//print/ Climate-research furor might not stop U.S. deal Amanda DeBard THE WASHINGTON TIMES The White House said Friday that chances for an actual deal at this month’s global-warming summit in Copenhagen are improving, and with just days until the meeting begins, climate researchers stepped up their fight against what they say is a “smear campaign” […]
December 05, 2009 Wishful thinking, biased reporting endanger Rifqa Bary By Pamela Geller A new government case plan directs Rifqa Bary, the girl who fled from her family in fear for her life after converting to Christianity from Islam, to talk about religion with her Muslim parents, and work toward Rifqa returning home. According to […]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/simonheffer/6729062/Forget-climate-change—save-the-planet-from-the-thermomaniacs.html At last people are telling David Cameron that his bunny-hugging has the potential to cause extreme economic and political damage, writes Simon Heffer. The voice of reason Although I risk immediately being branded mentally defective for saying so, I am not convinced by the notion of man-made global warming. My lack of conviction, I […]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/azerbaijan/6728429/Tony-Blair-funded-by-obscure-oligarch.html  WASN’T  TONY “BLUR” SUPPOSED TO BE ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE “HONEST BROKERS” IN THE MIDEAST?….RSK Tony Blair’s new paymaster is an obscure oligarch with business links to Syria, Iran and Afghanistan, The Daily Telegraph has learnt. By Holly Watt and Robert Winnett Nizami Piriyev, left, an Azerbaijan-based millionaire, paid Mr Blair, centre, to […]
http://nrd.nationalreview.com/print/?q=ZGI4YTQxYTkyZTA5YTQ5YmM3YWExNTRkNTkyMDg5NGE= MARK STEYN Rising Tide The Swiss minaret ban and the leaked climate e-mails are really the same story — or, more precisely, are symptoms of the same disease. In the Times of London, Oliver Kamm deplored the results of Switzerland’s referendum, consigned it to the garbage can of right-wing populism, and for good measure […]
http://nrd.nationalreview.com/article/?q=YWY2MzJhYzRhYzc4MzI4YjhmNzRhNjMwZjVhZjQ0NmM= Walking With Destiny ANDREW STUTTAFORD  Churchill, by Paul Johnson (Viking, 192 pp., $24.95) One of the most remarkable aspects of Winston Churchill’s sprawling epic of a life was the way that he was able to cram it all in — to do all that — in a mere 90 years. It is only […]
Shifty Shifting Our changeable attorney general doesn’t do law; he does politics ANDREW C. McCARTHY ‘This,†said Eric Holder, “is almost a ‘Trust me’ thing.†The attorney general of the United States was trying to reassure Alice Hoagland, whose 31-year-old son, Mark Bingham, lost his life with the other heroic passengers who wrested control of […]
http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=MGU3YTFlZGE1ZTNiOTQ1OTU2MTBhNTdlMjc0YzRhZWU= Resetting the Reset Button Obama wanted to set our diplomacy on a new track. And that’s just what he has done. By Victor Davis Hanson After ten months of “Bush did it†diplomacy, the Obama administration needs to reset its reset button. EUROPE On substantial issues, relations with Europe have not improved. The governments […]
http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1157/What-If-We-Had-Fought-the-Nazis-the-Way-We-Are-Fighting-the-Taliban.aspx What If We Had Fought the Nazis the Way We Are Fighting the Taliban? Written by: Diana West In refining and repacking (for size) some of the “How Important Is Marjeh?” material for this week’s column, I came to a new definition of “counterinsurgency” (below). It’s worth emphasizing how very important our understanding of […]
