http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704304504574610120356499810.html#printMode States should be able to directly propose constitutional amendments. By DAVID B. RIVKIN JR. AND LEE A. CASEY For nearly a hundred years, federal power has expanded at the expense of the states—to a point where the even the wages and hours of state employees are subject to federal control. Basic health and safety […]
The Rabbi and Frank Lloyd Wright By JULIA M. KLEIN Elkins Park, Pa. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704779704574555643633936228.html#printMode Rabbi Mortimer J. Cohen was a visionary with chutzpah. In November 1953, on the advice of a mutual acquaintance, he wrote the most famous architect of his day to ask if he would consider designing a suburban Philadelphia synagogue. What was […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.5079/pub_detail.asp The Case of the Missing Muslims: Why Is Islamberg Now a Ghost Town? Paul Williams, PhD The Wall Street Journal reports this week that U.S. investigators are discovering that more and more young Muslims are vanishing from mosques, madrassas, and Islamic centers. The disappearances, the Journal notes, are raising grave concerns among FBI and […]
Exclusive: Ignoring the National Security Crisis at Our DoorstepPresidential Policy: Does It Make the Grade?, James Carafano, PhD The biggest national security news last week barely made the news at all. It is troubling to watch Congress continue to play politics with the reauthorization of key counterterrorism tools in the Patriot Act (like the ability […]
Exclusive: America’s Inexorable March toward a Monetary and Inflationary AbyssC. Austin Burrell On a quiet weekend when I expected little external stimulation other than another historical lesson from the pen of the now legendary former Librarian of Congress Daniel Boorstin from his book The Americans, I was presented a lesson in the gross monetary economics […]
http://newsrealblog.com/2009/12/21/european-media-blame-arrogant-obama-for-copenhagen-fiasco/ European Media Blame Arrogant Obama for Copenhagen Fiasco 2009 December 21  by Michael van der Galien It might be hard to believe for Americans who are used to Obama-worshipping from their MSM, but European media have blamed President Barack Obama for the fiasco at Copenhagen. This even though they celebrated his victory against Sen. […]
PRUDEN: How to lose friends for little gainhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/22/how-to-lose-friends-and-get-not-much//print/ Wesley Pruden Rarely has a cowboy castrated himself in public like Ben Nelson, the senator from Nebraska, who becomes an object lesson in how a United States senator easily trades his “convictions” and “principles” for perfectly legal bribes from cynical party leaders. When the inevitable howling erupted […]
http://www.nypost.com/f/print/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/bombs_not_away_V6ppdVraYHSl0xTI9mRp8M Bombs not away By NOAH SHACHTMAN December 22, 2009 As part of his push to win over the people of Afghanistan, top US Gen. Stanley McChrystal in July abolished air attacks in all but the most dire of circumstances. But that ban is having all kinds of ugly and unexpected consequences. US troops are […]
Updated: Tue., Dec. 22, 2009, 5:11 AM A cipher in the Senate Last Updated: 5:11 AM, December 22, 2009 Posted: 1:05 AM, December 22, 2009 Where were New York’s two US senators over the weekend, while Majority Leader Harry Reid was buying votes for his health-care bill? Standing by while New York taxpayers’ pockets were […]
Who’s responsible for the Senate’s middle-of-the-night vote? By: Byron York Chief Political Correspondent 12/21/09 1:19 AM EST Why did the Senate gather at 1 a.m. Monday for a vote to move ahead on the Reid Amendment to the Democrats’ national health care bill? Democrats blame Republicans. “Everyone knows we’re here at one in the morning […]
