Charles Krauthammer October 5, 2009 Manhattan Institute The weathervanes of conventional wisdom are registering another round of angst about America in decline. New theories, old slogans: Imperial overstretch. The Asian awakening. The post- American world. Inexorable forces beyond our control bringing the inevitable humbling of the world hegemon. On the other side of this debate […]
Obama’s Nobel Prize: The World as Farce http://newledger.com/2009/10/obamas-nobel-prize-the-world-as-farce/ by Benjamin Kerstein The news that the Nobel Prize Committee has just awarded the coveted Peace Prize to President Barack Obama immediately put me in mind of an anecdote recounted by Margaret MacMillan in her book Nixon and Mao, During the Cultural Revolution, an American remarked casually […]
GO TO LINK ON THE RIGHT OF THE PAGE JIHADWATCH Muslim engineer at European Organization for Nuclear Research “expressed a desire to carry out attacks” Oct 11, 2009 03:15 am | Marisol An engineer on a prestigious and high-profile project: another strike against the “poverty causes terrorism” claim. Which excuse will this guy trot out […]
http://marathonpundit.blogspot.com/2009/10/obama-stimulus-campaign-sign-outside.html Saturday, October 10, 2009 Obama stimulus “campaign sign” outside demolished public housing unit One of Chicago’s most notorious agencies is the Chicago Housing Authority. In 1996, after decades of dysfunctional management, the federal government temporarily took it over. Public housing was the biggest failure of the New Deal, and the succeeding generation of liberals […]
http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1060/Yale-Prof-Danish-Motoons-Objectionable-Incest-Polygamy-OK.aspx Yale Prof: Danish Motoons “Objectionable,” Incest, Polygamy OK Oct 8 Written by: Diana West Thursday, October 08, 2009 5:36 AM Just as it hard to look away from a wreck, it is hard to look away from Yale. At a Motooon “panel” this week, three Yale profs delivered presentations “describing what made the cartoons […]
http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1061/Sharia-and-Man-at-Yale.aspx This week’s column zooms in on a small but symbolic sector of the Western front where the war on sharia has been lost without any comprehension of the battle having taken place. I am referring again to Yale, where the New Yale Order — deference to sharia norms regarding free speech about Islam — […]
http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1061/Sharia-and-Man-at-Yale.aspx This week’s column zooms in on a small but symbolic sector of the Western front where the war on sharia has been lost without any comprehension of the battle having taken place. I am referring again to Yale, where the New Yale Order — deference to sharia norms regarding free speech about Islam — […]
http://cjhsla.org/newsRealease/091005-HumanRights.htm Human rights leaders get their priorities in order Michael Posner – October 2009 And it came to pass that the venerable leaders of the world’s most important human rights organizations assembled for their annual conclave in Geneva. As they sat down to their evening repast of Scottish smoked salmon and duck confit, their faces […]
American Thinker: President Obama’s Policy Disaster http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/president_obamas_policy_disast.html President Obama’s Policy Disaster Amil Imani, American Thinker.com Is history repeating itself? Is President Obama reenacting President Carter’s tragic policy blunder toward Iran? Is Mr. Obama going to sacrifice the Iranian people at the altar of a misguided expediency as did Jimmy Carter some three decades ago? To […]
Lech Walesa On Obama Peace Prize: “Who, What? So Fast?†– New Europe – WSJ http://blogs.wsj.com/new-europe/2009/10/09/lech-walesa-on-obama-peace-prize-who-what-so-fast/ Lech Walesa On Obama Peace Prize: “Who, What? So Fast?†Marcin Sobczyk, New Europe WSJ.com Poland is stunned to see the Nobel Peace Prize given to U.S. President Barack Obama. You can always count on Poland’s outspoken ex-president and […]
