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April 2010

YOUSSEF IBRAHIM ON AARON MILLER’S “CONVERSION”

http://www.nysun.com/foreign/false-religion-is-how-long-time-us-aide-now/86921/ ‘False Religion’ Is How Long-Time U.S. Aide Now Describes Middle East Peace Process By YOUSSEF IBRAHIM, Special to the Sun | April 21, 2010 An architect of the America’s Middle East peace process, who over the past 30 years served both Republican and Democratic administrations, is describing the continued pursuit of mediation among Palestinians […]

WHY IS THE LA TIMES BURYING THE OBAMA/KHALIDI TAPES?

Why Is the L.A. Times Burying the Obama/Khalidi Tape? Posted By Roger L Simon Given the extraordinary sudden turnabout in US policy toward Israel under the Obama Administration, I have become obsessed by the repressed 2003 videotape of Rashid Khalidi and Barack Obama. That tape — or so we are told — is ensconced in […]

PETE DUPONT: WILL THE VAT LADY SING?IF SO IT’S OVER FOR AMERICA

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704133804575198370425467284.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLETopOpinion#printMode Will the VAT Lady Sing? If so, it’s over for America. By PETE DU PONT A cultural battle is under way in America, a battle between, in columnist Michael Barone’s, words, “the culture of dependence and the culture of independence.” The culture of dependence is the belief by American liberalism that government can make […]

VD HANSON ON ISRAEL ALONE

http://article.nationalreview.com/432114/american-neutrality-toward-israel-invites-violence/victor-davis-hanson   American Neutrality Toward Israel Invites Violence When Israel is alone, its opportunistic enemies pile on.   American relations with our once-staunch ally Israel are at their lowest ebb in the last 50 years. The Obama administration seems as angry at the building of Jewish apartments in Jerusalem as it is intent on reaching […]

DAMN THE DATA…FULL SPEED AND TAXES AHEAD ON “EARTH DAY”

http://article.nationalreview.com/432201/the-global-warming-tax/patrick-j-michaels   The Global-Warming Tax Damn the data; full speed ahead! Climategate, Copenhagen, Snowmageddon in the nation’s capital, the EPA ruling that CO2 endangers us all, and Senate Republicans pushing for a global-warming tax. Has it been a great run-up to Earth Day, or what? Never has a public-policy agenda been pursued with so little […]

DOJ CONTINUES TO BLOCK INVESTIGATION OF PANTHER VOTER INTIMIDATION

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/apr/22/obama-and-the-politics-of-intimidation/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_must-read-stories-today TAYLOR: The politics of intimidation Ashley L. Taylor Jr. On the first Tuesday in November, two uniformed men arrived at a voting place and took up positions by the entry doors. In the hours that followed, they harassed voters and election officials, hurled racial epithets and physically blocked persons of other races who sought […]

YOUR TAXES ARE PAYING FOR “GREEN” FROLICS….WASHTIMES EDITORIAL

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/apr/22/a-gasoline-fueled-earth-day/print/ EDITORIAL: A gasoline-fueled Earth Day THE WASHINGTON TIMES The green movement would be a lot funnier if it didn’t have access to our pocketbooks. Unfortunately, devotees of “alternative energy” have harnessed the greatest of all sources of renewable power – government taxation – to fulfill their fantasies. The results are as tragic as they […]

SENIOR OFFICIAL QUITS AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL….WORRIES OF TIES TO JIHADISTS

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/apr/22/senior-official-quits-amnesty-international/print/ Senior official quits Amnesty InternationalAshish Kumar Sen A senior official at Amnesty International quit the human rights group this month after raising an alarm over its ties to a former Guantanamo Bay detainee and what she describes as his pro-jihad group. Gita Sahgal, who headed the gender unit at Amnesty’s office in London, said […]

HEZBOS MAY HAVE SCUD MISSILES PROVIDED BY SYRIA….OBAMA FRETS

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/apr/22/hezbollah-may-have-scud-type-missiles/print/ Hezbollah may have Scud-type missilesEli Lake The Obama administration has pressed Syria since February to halt the provision of sophisticated ballistic missile technology to Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. Nonetheless, the chairman of the Senate intelligence committee said there is a “high likelihood” that Hezbollah has the Scuds already. Other U.S. officials said they could […]

IN AUSTRALIA: THE LEFT’S ATTACKS ON HISTORY AND CULTURE

http://www.quadrant.org.au/subscribe> Australia Anzac in Ashes Mervyn F. Bendle The attack by the left on the Anzac tradition has escalated. As I predicted last year (“Gallipoli: Second Front in the History Wars”, Quadrant, June 2009; “The Intellectual Assault on Anzac”, Quadrant, July-August, 2009), the centenaries in 2014 of the outbreak of the Great War, and in […]