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November 2009

THE US NEEDS NUCLEAR ENERGY…

OPINION NOVEMBER 8, 2009, 7:25 P.M. ET Why the U.S. Needs Nuclear Power Other clean energy sources can’t meet the needs of a By ARIS CANDRIS As America climbs out of one of its worst recessions in decades, we must keep in mind that long-term economic growth requires an abundant, affordable supply of electricity. By […]

THE WORRY IN BANGLADESH: HUNGER NOT GLOBALONEY

Global Warming as Seen From Bangladesh Momota Begum worries about hunger, not climate change. By BJøRN LOMBORG The following article is part of a series leading up to the December United Nations conference in Copenhagen on how ordinary people in different countries view global warming. When the monsoon rains come, Momota Begum and her husband […]

FAMILY SECURITY MATTERS…ALL GOOD ALL THE TIME

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NUTTY PEN PROGRAM…TEACHING PRISONERS TO WRITE…SEE NOTE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Belly_of_the_Beast REMEMBER JACK ABBOT? THE KILLER WHO WROTE, WAS RELEASED AND KILLED AGAIN THANKS TO NORMAN MAILER? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Belly_of_the_Beast Benefit Preview: A PEN America Program Teaches Writing to Prisoners by Amanda Gordon http://www.nysun.com/blogs/out-and-about/2009/11/benefit-preview-a-pen-america-program-te.html “I hope only to stretch myself to some how reach the light.” —David J. Lista “I chuff my way into another day/as ice […]

SKIPPING BERLIN MEMORIAL BUT A MESSAGE TO ISRAEL AT RABIN MEMORIAL

Obama: It’s up to us to carry on Rabin’s work Nov. 7, 2009 BRIAN BLONDY and Jerusalem Post staff , THE JERUSALEM POST Thousands of people turned out at Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square on Saturday night to mark the 14th anniversary of the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin.   Addressing the crowd in a […]

A SMALL STEP FOR NANCY…A GIANT STEP FOR DESPOTISM: ROGER KIMBALL

What It Means Posted By Roger Kimball Yesterday, in the dead of night, the U.S. House of Representatives took a small step for Nancy Pelosi and a giant step for despotism. Freedom, David Hume famously observed, is seldom lost all at once. More often, it leaks out slowly. The petty tyranny of good intentions colludes […]

CHAVEZ TARGETS EL-SALVADOR

By MARY ANASTASIA O’GRADY http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704795604574519852324673902.html Fidel Castro learned a lot from Chilean President Salvador Allende’s failed power grab in 1973. And he used the lessons of that bitter defeat to coach Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez to dictatorship under the guise of democracy more than 25 years later. Now Latin America’s revolutionaries may be experiencing another setback […]

THE WARNING SIGNS WERE THERE ALL ALONG…..THE SULTAN

All the Warning Signs Were There Posted: 08 Nov 2009 07:27 PM PST He is inside your borders. He works deep inside your political and social structures. Openly he expresses his support for your murderers and enthusiastically promotes his message of hate. The bumper sticker on his car reads, “Allah is Love”, but that love […]

THE LORDS OF ENTITLEMENT: NANCY & CO.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240527487  OOOH WE WON!!! The Lords of Entitlement http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704402404574523613159447566.html Every medical insurance decision will be subject to rationing by politics. Speaker Nancy Pelosi defied policy logic and public opinion late Saturday night, ramming through the House a nearly 2,000-page health-care leviathan that counts as the biggest expansion of the federal government since the New Deal. […]

LIEBERMAN VOWS PROBE OF FORT HOOD JIHAD

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/09/lieberman-vows-probe-of-fort-hood-rampage//print/ Lieberman vows probe of Hood rampage Sean Lengell Sen. Joe Lieberman plans to start a congressional investigation into Thursday’s shooting rampage at Fort Hood, saying that if initial reports hold true, it would be “the most destructive terrorist act to be committed on American soil since 9/11.” Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a Muslim Army […]