http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/01/fitzgerald-arabia-petraea-or-general-petraeus-middle-east-part-i.html Fitzgerald: Arabia Petraea, Or General Petraeus’ Middle East (Part I) Ever since the “surge that worked,” I’ve been wondering about General Petraeus, and even more about those Leavenworth colonels, the ones of whom so much was made as the army’s intellectuals. These were the people who, during the “surge,” discovered and used lessons offered […]
http://townhall.com/Common/PrintPage.aspx?g=7ca1791d-2e01-4848-aae5-2663554bfbd7&t=c Our Philosopher-King Obama Victor Davis Hanson Thursday, January 21, 2010 In Plato’s ideal society, philosopher kings and elite Guardians shepherded the rabble to force them to do the “right” thing. To prevent the unwashed from doing anything stupid, the all-powerful, all-wise Guardians often had to tell a few “noble” lies. And, of course, these […]
Code Pink’s Support for the Enemy Posted By Ryan Mauro Code Pink members became known during the Bush Administration as confrontational anti-war protestors, but the group is actually worse than that. Code Pink’s leadership has aligned with almost every tyrannical force opposing the U.S., from Chavez to Ahmadinejad to Hamas to Iraq insurgents. Code Pink […]
Geert Wilders: Freedom on Trial It’s the kind of scene one might expect to see in a hard-line Sharia court in Saudi Arabia: a man facing trial for the putative “crime†of insulting Islam. But the defendant in this case is Dutch MP Geert Wilders and the ominous setting for his trial is none other […]
The Lies of Obama Posted By John Ellis On January 21, 2010 @ 12:15 am In FrontPage | When politicians are caught out in lies, their supporters often resort to the old cliché: all politicians lie. But that is itself a lie: most don’t. Even among those who do, there are enormous differences in the […]
http://www.jewishpress.com/printArticle.cfm?contentid=42307 Israel’s Ballistic Missile Defense: Current Strategic Options For Dealing With Iran By: Louis René Beres The core of Israel’s active defense plan remains the phased Arrow anti-ballistic missile program. Designed to intercept medium and short-range ballistic missiles, the various operationalized forms of Arrow (Hetz in Hebrew) are expected todeal especially with Iran’s surface-to-surface missile […]
He’s Done Everything Wrong – The Daily Beast http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-01-19/hes-done-everything-wrong/?cid=bsa:mostpopular2 He’s Done Everything Wrong Mort Zuckerman, Daily Beast.com Obama punted on the economy and reversed the fortunes of the Democrats in 365 days. He’s misjudged the character of the country in his whole approach. There’s the saying, “It’s the economy, stupid.†He didn’t get it. He […]
 http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1230/Netherlands-Justice-How-Do-You-Feel.aspx From an RNW account of the first day of the trial: Mr Wilders’ attorney, the well-known criminal defence lawyer Bram Moszkowicz, asked the court to have the entire writ against his client read out in court. The panel of three judges said it was unnecessary, but did instruct the prosecutor to read out […]
President Obama’s First year The Writing Was on the Wall “Makor Rishon” weekly, January 15, 2010 Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger Exec. Dir. “Second Thought” I am not surprised by President Obama’s performance — since January 2009 — in face of unprecedented and simultaneous economic, social, national security challenges, domestically and internationally. I am not surprised […]
