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February 2010

IRAN EQUIPS AIRPORTS WITH BODY SCANNERS…SAY WHAT? IT’S UNISLAMIC

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/02/iran-equips-airports-with-body-scanners.html Iran equips airports with body scanners I’ll bet you thought body scanners were un-Islamic. After all, didn’t the Fiqh Council of North America just say so? And yet here they are being installed in, of all places, the Islamic Republic of Iran — here is the Fars News Agency story (thanks to Block Ness). […]

THE ILLUSION OF TURKEY AS A MODEL MOSLEM NATION: DAVID SOLWAY

Going Cold Turkey Posted By David Solway One of the major questions confronting Western strategists and politicians today has to do with the political direction in which Turkey, a presumed ally and Western lynchpin in the Middle East, seems to be heading. Is it the beacon nation it has long been assumed to be, a […]

JONAH GOLDBERG: POSTURING AND MIDNBOGGLINGLY BORING

http://townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2010/02/26/health-care_humdrum?page=full Health-Care Humdrum by Jonah Goldberg The longest week I ever spent was the six hours I spent watching Thursday’s health-care summit. The better angel of my nature says that this confab is a wonderful spectacle of democracy. Serious men and women airing serious disagreements in a (relatively) respectful and substantive manner. Huzzah for democracy. […]

MICHELLE MALKIN: OBA-KABUKI…THE BOX OFFICE FLOP AT BLAIR HOUSE

http://townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2010/02/26/oba-kabuki_a_box-office_bomb?page=full The Oba-Kabuki health care show at Blair House kicked off with a big lie on Thursday morning — and it all went downhill from there. The taxpayer-funded infomercial backfired by exposing the president’s thin skin, the Democrats’ naked disingenuousness and the ruling majority’s allergies to political and policy realities. Responding to Sen. Lamar Alexander’s […]

STILL FOLLOWING THE ROAD MAP TO CHAOS: LOUIS RENE BERES

Still Following The “Road Map” To Chaos: “Palestine,” Terror And Regional Nuclear War By: Louis René Beres President Obama, imprisoned by clichés, still seeks to follow the so-called “Road Map” to Middle East peace. At the core of this fictionalized cartography is a deceptively pleasing image of two states, one Arab, the other Jewish, living […]