A Year After the Gaza War: The Forgotten Children of Sderot Posted By Stephanie L. Freid It’s been a year since Operation Cast Lead [1], and from the media silence, one would assume that all is quiet on the Gaza/Israel front. There’s been scant reportage of projectile launches coming out of Gaza into Sderot and […]
Shameless Islamist Doublespeak Rages On Posted By Raymond Ibrahim “Al-Qaeda’s Zawahiri Accuses Obama of Trying to ‘Enslave’ Arab World.†So reads the headline of a recent Fox News [1] report, which goes on to quote Zawahiri saying things such as “Obama’s policy is nothing but another cycle in the Crusader and Zionist campaign to enslave […]
OPINION: WONDER LAND DECEMBER 24, 2009, 12:06 A.M. ET Obama, Wow! Is Obama a star for the ages, or is he fading fast? By DANIEL HENNINGER In February 2007, Barack Obama announced he would stand for the presidency of the United States in 2008. One year into that far-from-inevitable presidency, no figure has ever so […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704254604574613992408387548.html What Doctors and Patients Have to Lose Under ObamaCare Changes to Medicare will give the feds control of surgical decisions. SCOTT GOTTLIEB, M.D. Democrats are touting the American Medical Association’s endorsement of President Obama’s health plan. But there’s an important reason why the American College of Surgeons and 18 other specialty groups are opposed. […]
On the Brink of Disaster – by Jacob Laksin Posted By Jacob Laksin As this magazine goes to press, Senate Democrats are set [1] to present the country with America’s most unwanted Christmas gift: a shotgun overhaul of the country’s health care system that would hike taxes, inflate the deficit, and raise insurance premiums, all […]
Yemen still wedded to child marriages http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/24/yemen-still-wedded-to-child-marriages//print/ Heather Murdock THE WASHINGTON TIMES SAN’A, Yemen | Thirteen-year-old Sally al-Sabahi stood outside the courthouse earlier this month fiddling with her smudged, half-polished nails. She was hoping to get a divorce, but her husband did not show up. When Sally was 11, her father married her to 23-year-old […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/24/closure-of-gitmo-prison-postponed//print/ Closure of Gitmo prison postponed Larry Margasak ASSOCIATED PRESS The Guantanamo Bay prison may not close until 2011 because it will take months for the federal government to buy an Illinois prison and upgrade it to hold suspected terrorists. Congress must first appropriate money for the takeover of the Thomson Correctional Center and the […]
Long history of vote-trading on Capitol Hill http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/24/hill-history-replete-with-vote-deals//print/ Stephen Dinan As it has come down in history, President Andrew Johnson’s narrow escape from being the first president convicted on impeachment charges in 1868 depended on the honorable doings of Sen. Edmund Ross of Kansas. But David O. Stewart, author of “Impeached,” a book looking at […]
December 23, 2009, Santa Harry’s Sleigh Full of New Health Taxes This is a massive picking of citizens’ empty pockets. By Deroy Murdock Temecula, Calif. — While hastily ramming his 2,457-page, $2.5 trillion Obamacare package through the Senate before Christmas, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) must see himself as Saint Nick. High atop his […]
Letting The Cat Out of the Bag marilyn penn politicalmavens.com Throughout the presidential campaign, and especially after Sarah Palin came on the scene, liberal Jews used the issue of abortion as a prime reason for voting for Obama. Even those people who claimed to be avidly pro-Israel were willing to ignore the candidate’s long history […]
