FILIPINO WORKER IN SAUDI ARABIA IS RAPED AND SENTENCED TO 100 LASHES

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 […]

IT’S CARTERAMA ALL OVER AGAIN

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. […]

GRIM NEWS ON UNEMPLOYMENT

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 […]

ONCE AGAIN MR. PRESIDENT…FOR US SCHLUBS THAT DON’T GET IT: MARK STEYN

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 […]

NASA SCIENTIST ENDORSE A BOOK WHICH DEMANDS “RIDDING THE WORLD OF INDUSTRY”

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 […]

WHILE WE WERE DISTRACTED BY BROWN’S ELECTION….MORE STEALTH FROM HOLDER/OBAMA

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.”   The news didn’t “break” till Saturday in the New York Times and a […]

MORTIMER ZUKERMAN:THE INCREDIBLE DEFLATION OF BARACK OBAMA

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 […]

STILL T8IME TO GET IT RIGHT ON CHRISTMAS BOMBER: ANDY McCARTHY

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 […]

CAROLINE GLICK: THE PERILS OF PRESIDENTIAL FAILURE

Column One: The perils of presidential failure Jan. 21, 2010 Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST US President Barack Obama is feeling the heat. His response to the current crisis threatening to sink his one-year-old presidency is telling for what it says about the future of both his domestic and foreign policies. Israel should take […]

DIANA WEST: AMERICA UNPROTECTED

http://townhall.com/columnists/DianaWest/2010/01/21/useless_fort_hood_leaves_americans_unprotected Useless Fort Hood Leaves Americans Unprotected Diana West “Do you believe in ‘radical Islam’?” the famous Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders once asked me. The occasion was a banquet last summer at the Reagan Library outside of Los Angeles where later that evening Wilders would receive a Hero of Conscience award from the American Freedom […]