AmeriCorps Inspector General who replaced Gerald Walpin shredded White House Documents at Request of Agency’s Spokeswoman According to CNS News, the acting inspector general of AmeriCorps said he shredded White House documents at the request of an agency press spokeswoman that pertained to the controversial firing of the previous inspector general, who was ousted after […]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/14/AR2009111402597.html?hpid=topnews Nonpartisan agency says House bill would reduce senior care Lori Montgomery, Washington Post.com A plan to slash more than $500 billion from future Medicare spending — one of the biggest sources of funding for President Obama’s proposed overhaul of the nation’s health-care system — would sharply reduce benefits for some senior citizens and could […]
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/017/225edzea.asp Connecting the Dots The shooting at Fort Hood was no ‘mystery.’ It was an act of terrorism waiting to happen. by Stephen F. Hayes and Thomas Joscelyn 11/23/2009, Volume 015, Issue 10 At about 1:30 P.M. on November 5, Army Specialist Logan Burnette, a thick-chested, baby-faced soldier scheduled to deploy to Iraq in a […]
http://www.newsweek.com/id/222793/page/1 Start-Up Nation by Dan Senor and Saul Singer Soldiers of Fortune How the Israeli Army became the most prolific innovation engine on earth. Johnathan Torgovnik for Newsweek Soldier/Civilian: Israeli innovation benefits from the mix. By Dan Senor and Saul Singer | NEWSWEEK Published Nov 14, 2009 From the magazine issue dated Nov 23, 2009  […]
The Warped Mirror: Eliminationism Posted by Petra Marquardt-Bigman In the mid-1990s, political scientist Daniel Jonah Goldhagen caused a heated controversy with the publication of a book arguing that the Holocaust was possible because ordinary Germans served as “willing executioners […] who believed that exterminating Jews was right and necessary.” Last month, Goldhagen came out with […]
 http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/  Are We At War or Aren’t We? By banning any talk of a “War on Terror” and bringing through a civilian criminal trial for the mastermind of 9/11, Obama and his fellow liberals are doing their best to whitewash Al Queda as nothing more than common criminals. This refusal to accept that […]
http://newsrealblog.com/2009/11/14/why-is-it-that-even-accurate-commentary-about-islam-seems-to-involve-a-disclaimer/ In what appears to be the latest socially acceptable way to condemn Islamo-Fascism while still appearing to be reasonable and inclusive, many commentators have taken to excoriating Terrorists while still reminding the rest of us that Muslims are “good people†who, when it comes right down to it, are “just like us,†with the […]
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,661188,00.html US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke to SPIEGEL about her hopes for Afghanistan, her fears about al-Qaida’s safe haven in Pakistan and her finite patience with Iran. SPIEGEL: Madam Secretary, your government is considering sending more troops into Afghanistan. What for? Is it your goal to build a Western-style civil society there? […]
Power Line Blog: John Hinderaker, Scott Johnson, Paul Mirengoff http://www.powerlineblog.com Obama Stumbles Again Barack Obama: you can dress him up, but you can’t take him out. Every time he goes abroad, he embarrasses himself and sells out his country. In Japan today, Obama gave a press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Hatoyama. He was asked […]
http://pajamasmedia.com/eddriscoll/2009/11/14/americas-first-pacific-president/ November 14th, 2009 4:25 pm America’s “First Pacific President?†At the Corner, John J. Pitney Jr. does the job that AP used to do, before they transferred all of their staff over to research Sarah Palin’s book, and fact checks a slightly hyperbolic claim by the president: “As America’s first Pacific president,†said President […]
