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February 2010

BRITAIN’S RACE CARD: QUENTIN LETTS

http://www.forbes.com/2010/02/10/race-london-police-ali-dizaei-opinions-columnists-quentin-letts.html?partner=daily_newsletter Britain’s Race Card Quentin Letts, 02.11.10, British policing has just been through a sorry little episode that has exposed the dangers of responding too quickly to those in senior positions who play the racial grievance card. Maybe that is true of our country as a whole. London police commander Ali Dizaei was given a […]

CAVEAT EMPTOR ARAB STYLE…OR ANOTHER REASON TO ABOLISH THE VEIL

http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2010/02/11/caveat-emptor-or-another-reason-to-abolish-the-veil/      Short Niqab$6.67 new  Islamic Clothing StoreNiqab With Satin Trim$9.90 new  Hedeyah A friend sent me a splendid story from London’s Daily Telegraph this morning.  The headline alone is worth the price of admission: “Arab ambassador discovers bride is bearded and cross-eyed behind veil” This is definitely one of those stories that lives […]

Anti-Israel boycotts flourish where ignorance prevails By Victor Sharpe

http://www.thejerusalemconnection.us/news-archive/2010/02/07/anti-israel-boycotts-flourish-where-ignorance-prevails.html Anti-Israel boycotts flourish where ignorance prevails By Victor Sharpe I just returned from the UK where anti-Israel boycotts prevail. Boycotts are highly effective and Israel is in peril of losing traditional markets for its many fine products if the anti-Israel boycotters prevail in their relentless campaigns. While visiting England I helped organize counter boycotts […]

ANDREW McCARTHY: WE NEED NOT REPEAT THE MISTAKES OF REID WITH ABDULMUTALLAB

National Review Online Andrew C. McCarthy NR Contributing Editor February 11, 2010 1:57 P.M. http://article.nationalreview.com/424765/a-mistake-not-a-precedent/andrew-c-mccarthy A Mistake, Not a Precedent We need not repeat the mistakes of Reid with Abdulmutallab. Cooking the books on the number of terrorists convicted in the civilian-justice system hasn’t worked for the Obama administration. So now we’re on to the […]

We’re the Best: Tom McLaughlin

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.5481/pub_detail.asp Exclusive: We’re the Best Tom McLaughlin A few months ago, the Language Arts teacher in the next classroom asked the following question for a writing assignment: “Is the United States the best country in the world?” Only about 25 percent of our students thought so. We used to teach that to schoolchildren, but now […]

THE SULTAN: WHAT IS BEHIND THE COLLAPSE OF CIVILIZATION?

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/   What is Behind the Collapse of Civilization? What if the sympathy for terrorism and the drive toward socialism, the falling birth rates and cultural bankruptcy in civilized countries, the economic decay and decline of the family all had a common cause? What if that common cause lay behind the multitude of ways that […]

OBAMA AND THE EPA ARE ON THE WRONG PATH….UNDERSTATEMENT OF THE DECADE

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=520803 EPA Mandates Rely On Unsettled Science By SHANNON L. GOESSLINGPosted 02/10/2010 07:08 PM ET That the Obama administration and the Environmental Protection Agency are on the wrong climate path is the understatement of the decade. Recent disclosures through ClimateGate, an EPA whistle-blower and a daily barrage of scientific data call into question every assumption […]

WHO IS BEHIND THE PERSECUTION OF GEERT WILDERS? THE THUGS WHO KILLED PIM FORTUYN

Who Is Behind the Persecution of Geert Wilders? Posted By Carel Brendel Freedom of speech in the West is threatened by the trial of Dutch politician Geert Wilders. But both within and beyond the Netherlands, few people have noticed the political origins of the most enthusiastic supporters of this political witch hunt. On the website […]

STEVE MILLOY: CLIMATEGATE: OBAMA’S CLIMATE DISSERVICE

Climategate: Obama’s National Climate Disservice Posted By Steve Milloy Under the pretext that “Americans are witnessing the impacts of climate change in their own backyards,” and that they “increasingly are asking the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for information about climate change in order to make the best choices for their families, communities and […]

CLIMATE DERANGED AND HOW TO COPE: CLAUDIA ROSETT

http://pajamasmedia.com/claudiarosett/climate-deranged-and-how-to-cope/ Climate Deranged – and How to Cope Posted By Claudia Rosett I’m writing this from Washington, D.C., looking out at cars buried in snowdrifts and hemmed in by snowbanks, along a snow-covered street — where the occasional pedestrian toils past, like those lone stragglers in an apocalypse movie. I’ve lost track of whether Washington […]