For Obama, 2010 in the Middle East Looks More Like the Precipice of Doom than Achievement By Barry Rubin* http://www.gloria-center.org/Gloria/2009/12/for-obama-2010 The year 2010 is going to be interesting. Well, all years in the Middle East are interesting; many of them are far too interesting. For the Obama Administration, I’m going to predict, it will not […]
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=516288 2009: The Year Of Living Fecklessly By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER Last Tuesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did not just reject President Obama’s latest feckless floating nuclear deadline. He spat on it, declaring that Iran “will continue resisting” until the U.S. has gotten rid of its 8,000 nuclear warheads. So ends 2009, the year of “engagement,” […]
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=516277 What’s Behind War Targeting Wannabe Rich? By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON Posted 12/24/2009 06:17 PM ET View Enlarged Image There is class warfare going on in this country — but it’s not against the established rich. It’s against those who are trying to become wealthy. President Obama has declared that those who make over $200,000 […]
http://www.mererhetoric.com/Â I posted theses quotes about Hamas – one from Larijani and the other from Ahmadinejad – on Is Iran‘s Fist Still Clenched? yesterday. But they’re worth reposting here so that maybe we can puzzle them out together. Because Sunnis and Shiites don’t cooperate, and yet here are Sunnis and Shiites seemingly cooperating. Mindbending: Iranian […]
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.keillor16dec16,0,225627.story “If you don’t believe Jesus was God, OK, go write your own damn “Silent Night” and leave ours alone. This is spiritual piracy and cultural elitism, and we Christians have stood for it long enough. And all those lousy holiday songs by Jewish guys that trash up the malls every year, Rudolph and the […]
EGYPT: Mubarak, on tour of Persian Gulf, may be carrying a secret message from Iran Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s sudden visit to the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait saw the Arab-Iranian relations issue top the list of discussions with his fellow Arab heads of state. The previously unannounced tour came one day after […]
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/12/24/voting_against_government-run_health_care_99671.html Voting Against Government-Run Health Care By Senator Tom Coburn This vote is indeed historic. This Congress will be remembered for its arrogance, corruption and stupidity. In the year of 2009, a Congress ignored the coming economic storm and impending bankruptcy of our entitlement programs and embarked on an ideological crusade to bring our nation […]
media blog http://media.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZWM2OTkxMmI2NzIzZGU3N2Y1NDNmYmFjYjA3MDA2YzE= TOM GROSS For the first time, NYT prints op-ed calling for U.S. bombing of Iran’s nuclear program [Tom Gross] This morning, for the first time to my knowledge, the New York Times — which as everyone knows is, alas, America’s most influential newspaper — has agreed to run an article explicitly calling […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/25/shiite-pilgrims-in-iraq-killed-in-attacks//print/ Shi’ite pilgrims in Iraq killed in attacks Katharine Houreld ASSOCIATED PRESS BAGHDAD | Bombs hit Shi’ite pilgrims in Baghdad and a central Iraqi city Thursday, killing at least 27 people and wounding scores more in the latest attack in the lead-up to Ashura, the Muslim sect’s most solemn annual rite. The blasts raised fears […]
THE UK’S DUPLICITOUS HISTORY IN PALESTINE INCLUDED FIRING ON JEWISH SURVIVORS OF THE HOLOCAUST….AND THEIR DUPLICITY AND ANTI-SEMITISM ARE IN FULL BLOOM AGAIN….DAMN THEM….RSK Â Back in the early ’60’s I was in an MBA program at the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University. We had a quiet hero in our midst, Yitzhak Ahronovitch, […]
