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April 2010

ARMS CONTROL WITHOUT DETERRENCE; BERES, McCINERNEY, VALLELY

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/apr/16/arms-control-without-deterrence/print/ BERES: Arms control without deterrence Louis Rene Beres, Thomas McInerney and Paul Vallely President Obama has signed a new arms-control agreement with the Russians, but this does not mean we no longer require adequate nuclear deterrence. The president, in his naivete on matters of national security and foreign affairs, continues to weaken the U.S. […]

ROBERT SPENCER: SEE NO QUR’AN, HEAR NO QUR’AN

See No Qur’an, Hear No Qur’an Posted By Robert Spencer On April 16, 2010 What’s that? The “gunman” was a Muslim? He said something about the Qur’an? Surely not! None of that is in the AP story, which is an object lesson in journalistic bias and obfuscation: “Source: Chicago gunman heard voices to kill family,” […]

KENNETH LEVIN: PROMOTING A GENOCIDAL “PEACE”

Promoting a Genocidal “Peace” Posted By Kenneth Levin Indoctrination to genocidal anti-Semitism is epidemic among Palestinians and in Arab and other Muslim states. “Peace” plans that do not recognize this as the major obstacle to genuine peace, but rather push steps which ignore it, inexorably lead to more violence and are doomed to fail. Even […]

TWO CLUMNS ON IRAQ: THE SUNNIS AND THE SHI’ITES AND THE SAD(R)ISTS…BIG TROUBLE LOOMING

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63D2X020100414 Iraqi Shi’ite blocs inch toward power-sharing deal Reuters) – Talks on an alliance between Iraq’s two main Shi’ite Muslim blocs to form the next government appear to be nearing a conclusion, with the main sticking point being how to nominate a prime minister, officials said. A hotly contested but inconclusive general election on March […]

BREYER: THE LEGAL CHALLENGE TO OBAMACARE MAY GET TO THE SUPREMES

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/apr/16/breyer-expects-health-challenge/print/ Breyer expects health challenge Mark Sherman ASSOCIATED PRESS Justice Stephen G. Breyer predicted Thursday that the Supreme Court will one day be forced to pass judgment on the constitutionality of President Obama’s just-passed health care overhaul plan. Justice Breyer told a congressional panel that the massive health care law, like most major federal legislation, […]

WES PRUDEN: SURRENDERIGN AN ALLY IS NOT STRATEGY AT ALL….PLEASE SEE QUOTE

“Conflicts like the continuing small-bore war in the Middle East end up, the president says, “costing us significantly in terms of both blood and treasure.” Anyone can see where that argument goes.   This is of a piece with the remarks of Gen. David H. Petraeus, the U.S. commander in Iraq and Afghanistan, to Congress […]

IN JAKARTA VIOLENCE OVER “ILLEGAL SETTLERS AT MOSLEM CLERIC’S TOMB”

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/jakarta-hit-by-worst-violence-in-decades/story-e6frg6so-1225854121275 Jakarta hit by worst Muslim violence in decades Anne Barrowclough A police water cannon truck sprays water to disperse rock-throwing protesters during a clash in Jakarta, Indonesia. “Mr Kurnia insisted the officials and police were not there to destroy the tomb.”We did not intend to demolish the tomb, but we want to evict the […]

DIANA WEST: THE LEFTWARD TILT OF THE PULITZERS

http://townhall.com/columnists/DianaWest/2010/04/15/few_pulitzers_on_the_right_side?page=full&comments=true Few Pulitzers On the Right Side Diana West Just as the Pulitzer Prizes come around every year, a conservative columnist comes around after them, dusting off the hard fact, as measured in an ever-expanding set of tally marks, that conservatives rarely get to pop a champagne cork over one of their own. Take the […]

MR. PRESIDENT: YOUR ANIMUS IS SHOWING: JOHN PODHORETZ…PLEASE SEE NOTE

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewArticle.cfm?id=15420 Mr. President, Your Animus Is Showing Okay, so Obama’s teeth gnash when it comes to Israel, but our past Secretary of State Rice had a great deal of trouble hiding her animus to Israel. Was it not also “personal”.?..In her words about the Palarabs’ terrorism: “The prolonged experience of deprivation and humiliation can radicalize […]

THE GENOCIDE IN SOUTH AFRICA: PAMELA GELLER

Genocide In South Africa By Pamela Geller The genocide of white South Africans is heating up. Last week, South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) finally told its members to stop singing the song “Kill the Boer” — that is, murder white South Africans. (Boer is Afrikaans for “farmer,” but colloquially is a disparaging term […]