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June 2010

WIKILEAKS….A SECURITY PROBLEM?

FOR THE BEST DISCUSSION OF THIS PROBLEM READ: Necessary Secrets: National Security, the Media, and the Rule of Law by Gabriel Schoenfeld (Hardcover – May 24, 2010) http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/15/cyberwar-security-media-wikileaks-opinions-columnists-trevor-butterworth_print.html Medialand New Rules Of Engagement Trevor Butterworth, 06.15.10, 1:43 PM ET We don’t know yet whether whistle-blowing Web operation Wikileaks has hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. […]

MILITARY MOMS….THE NEW POWER GROUP

http://www.military.com/news/article/most-powerful-moms-in-the-military.html?col=1186032320397 Most Powerful Moms in the Military June 15, 2010 WorkingMother.com All working moms get asked: “How do you do it?” But the question is even more pointed when you speak with women in the military–especially those whose careers have taken them up the ranks and into the world’s war zones while raising a family. […]

HEARD OF SOCCER MOMS? MEET THE MILITARY MOMS

http://www.military.com/news/article/most-powerful-moms-in-the-military.html?col=1186032320397 Most Powerful Moms in the Military June 15, 2010 WorkingMother.com All working moms get asked: “How do you do it?” But the question is even more pointed when you speak with women in the military–especially those whose careers have taken them up the ranks and into the world’s war zones while raising a family. […]

EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT SUPPRESSES CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE: RAYMOND IBRAHIM

http://pajamasmedia.com Unprecedented: Egyptian Government Suppresses Christian Doctrine Posted By Raymond Ibrahim It is not enough that the Egyptian government facilitates persecution of the Copts [1], Egypt’s indigenous Christian minority. Now the government is interfering directly with the church’s autonomy concerning doctrine. According to the Assyrian International News Agency [2]: The head of the Coptic Church […]

ROGER SIMON ON THE SPEECH…DID NOT EVEN TALK THE TALK

http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon No energy in Obama energy speech Posted By Roger L Simon Barack Obama made a dull speech on Tuesday evening. And he made a frightened speech — an overly careful assembly of energy cliches likely to be remembered by no one. All this in the face of the greatest ecological catastrophe in American history, […]

THE BIG BLANKS IN OBAMA’S SPEECH

http://townhall.com/news/business/2010/06/16/fact_check_obama_left_blanks_in_oil_spill_speech?page=full&comments=true FACT CHECK: Obama left blanks in oil spill speech AP News Wednesday, June 16, 2010 In assuring Americans that BP won’t control the compensation fund for Gulf oil spill recovery, President Barack Obama failed to mention that the government won’t control it, either. That means it’s anyone’s guess whether the government can, in fact, […]

RUSSIA RISES WHILE KYRGYZSTAN BURNS….

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704009804575308773623569614.html?mod=WSJ_newsreel_opinion# Russia Rises While Kyrgyzstan Burns The violence highlights Moscow’s power in a country with an important U.S. military base. By JAMES KIRCHICK Over the past week in Kyrgyzstan, riots between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks in the country’s south have left nearly 200 people dead. Some 100,000 Uzbeks have poured into neighboring Uzbekistan. Dysentery has […]

HILLARY’S GREAT SOUTH AMERICAN ADVENTURE…PROMOTING SOCIALISM

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jun/15/hillary-and-hugo/print/ PERLEY: Hillary and Hugo Radical roots yield bitter fruits By Frank Perley, Frank Perley 5:35 p.m., Tuesday, June 15, 2010 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has denied any connection between his government and the militant Hezbollah group in southern Lebanon. Hugo Chavez has been amusing himself lately spurning the advances by Hillary Rodham Clinton. Instead, […]

WORST JUDICIARY EVER…FRIGHTENING NOMINATIONS

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jun/15/the-worst-judiciary-ever/ EDITORIAL: The worst judiciary ever Obama’s judicial nominations are frightening By THE WASHINGTON TIMES 6:34 p.m., Tuesday, June 15, 2010 Goodwin Liu, 39, is President Obama’s nominee for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. (Associated Press) The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday forwarded to the full Senate the appellate judicial […]

BIG SHORTAGE OF MEN ON CAMPUS

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jun/15/big-man-shortage-on-campus/ ALLEN: Big man shortage on campus Quiet affirmative action for the boys By Charlotte Allen It’s well-known that there’s a severe gender imbalance in undergraduate college populations: About 57 percent of undergrads these days are female and just 43 percent male, the culmination of a trend in which significantly fewer young men than young […]