http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,druck-662822,00.html   Obama’s Nice Guy Act Gets Him Nowhere on the World Stage By Gabor Steingart When he entered office, US President Barack Obama promised to inject US foreign policy with a new tone of respect and diplomacy. His recent trip to Asia, however, showed that it’s not working. A shift to Bush-style bluntness […]
POLITICAL MAVENS How many of the parents paying the full tuition of $51,000/year at Wesleyan University know that part of that sum indirectly goes for educating prisoners who are double murderers? In the best of all Woebegone worlds, where money is infinite and there is no need to prioritize, an argument could be made for […]
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1258705173959&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Freedom of expression belongs to professors and students alike Amnon Rubinstein , THE JERUSALEM POST (Dean, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya) According to a recent report in Ha’aretz, students at Tel Aviv University are complaining bitterly about leftist professors. The students are said to be hurt by the professors’ positions, “but are afraid to express contrary […]
http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/22189.htm Afghan Source: The U.S. Has Offered the Taliban Control in Return for Quiet An Afghan source in Kabul reports that U.S. Ambassador in Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry is holding secret talks with Taliban elements headed by the movement’s foreign minister, Ahmad Mutawakil, at a secret location in Kabul. According to the source, the U.S. has […]
HOW MANY TERMS ARE ENOUGH? AND WE JUST SAW WHAT HAPPENED IN NYC WITH TERM LIMITS…. BUT GIVING UP THE BYRD IN CONGRESS IS A GREAT IDEA http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=513331 Â Time’s Up, Big Daddy Sen. Robert Byrd has the power to redistribute wealth for political advantage. The West Virginia Democrat greeted the crowd at the 2006 […]
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=513330 No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems — of which getting elected and re-elected are No. 1 and No. 2. Whatever is No. 3 is far behind. Many of the things the government does that […]
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=513329 E-Mails Of Climate Researchers Buttress Case Of Warming Fraud Junk Science: Hacked e-mails from Britain’s Climate Research Unit are only the latest evidence of climate fraud. Just ask NASA’s James Hansen about the faking of climate data or EPA employees about the suppression of climate fact. For years, noted scientists and other global warming […]
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Student assaulted during ‘Kick A Jew Day’ Naplesnews.com: 10 North Naples Middle students suspended for taking part in “kick a Jew day†COLLIER COUNTY: There are disturbing accusations of anti-Semitism at a Collier County school. Ten students are serving suspensions for their roles in what was called “Kick a Jew Day” at North Naples Middle. […]
The Global Carbon Footprint Scam Alan Caruba I never cease to marvel at the environmental alarmists who create one “crisis†after another using wretchedly bad “science†to support their scams. On Tuesday, November 24th, the Global Footprint Network is going to “release new data on the Ecological Footprint of 100 nations and humanity as a […]
