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August 2010

LEBANON GIVES WORKER’S RIGHTS TO PALARAB “REFUGEES”

http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=185101 Lebanon: Palestinian refugees can work By GIL HOFFMAN AND AP 08/18/2010 02:19 Danny Ayalon hopes move is first step toward citizenship. The Lebanese parliament voted on Tuesday to grant the country’s 400,000 Palestinian refugees the right to work in the same professions as other foreigners, lifting a decades-old ban that had relegated the refugees […]

NOTES ON IMMIGRATION BY MICHAEL CUTLER

http://michaelcutler.net/ Hi Gang: I have decided to focus today’s commentary on an opinion piece rather than a news article that appeared in the Tuesday, August 17th edition of the Washington Times. The author of the article is Tom Garcia, a Republican candidate for the United States House of Representatives in Florida’s 24th District.  I have […]

MAKING OF A MOSQUE MESS: HOWARD KURTZ

Making of a mosque mess http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/17/AR2010081701473_pf.html By Howard Kurtz Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, August 17, 2010; 11:13 AM On Dec. 8, 2009, the New York Times published a story about a planned development in lower Manhattan: “The building has no sign that hints at its use as a Muslim prayer space, but these modest […]

DIANA WEST: THE FIX IS IN…RUSSIA’S POLISH CRASH INVESTIGATION

http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1481/Looks-Like-the-Fix-Is-In-Russias-Polish-Crash-Investigation.aspx Looks Like the Fix Is In: Russia’s Polish Crash Investigation Aug 17 Written by: Diana West My most recent column: It’s never been clear what really happened on that foggy morning of April 10 when a Polish airplane crashed on a Russian runway, killing all 96 people aboard including Polish President Lech Kaczynski, cabinet […]

JOEL POLLAK: NOW IS THE TIME TO SUPPORT ISRAEL

http://www.facebook.com/notes/joel-pollak/now-is-the-time-for-congress-to-support-israel/434422339400    Joel Pollak’s Notes (0)  Notes About Joel Pollak (0) Subscribe Joel Pollak’s Notes Now is the time for Congress to support Israel by Joel Pollak on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at 12:48pm   Ambassador John Bolton has warned that Israel only has until the end of the week to launch a military strike […]

ALLEN WEST: ON THE MOSQUE AT GROUND ZERO…”REPREHENSIBLE, IMPRUDENT”

http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/allen-west-ground-zero-mosque-tea-party-florida-congress-klein/2010/08/17/id/367729 West: Ground Zero Mosque Imprudent, ‘Reprehensible’ Tuesday, 17 Aug 2010 03:45 PM Florida congressional candidate Allen West, a retired Army lieutenant colonel, condemns the construction of a mosque close to ground zero and tells Newsmax that plans to dedicate the facility on the anniversary of 9/11 are “reprehensible.” He also charges that Democrats are […]

VICTOR SHARPE; DO YOU KNOW WHAT A DHIMMI IS?

http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/sharpe/100817 Do you know what a dhimmi is? By Victor Sharpe Ask one hundred people in the United States what a dhimmi is and perhaps two or three might know. In Europe the number would be slightly higher because of latent memories of battles fought against invading Moslem armies over the span of hundreds of […]

TERRY LAKIN GETS A PUBLIC RETRACTION FROM CNN AFTER JOURNOLIST JEFFREY TOOBIN’S DEFAMATORY REMARKS

Terry Lakin Gets a Public Retraction from CNN Anchor August 17, 2010 - Margaret Hemenway http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.7067/pub_detail.asp Terry Lakin, the Army doctor who is being court martialled for refusing to obey orders has demanded – and received – a retraction from CNN for defamatory comments that Jeffrey Toobin made about him. Lakin appeared on the “Anderson Cooper 360″ […]

ISRAEL AND THE GRAND COALITION

Israel and The Grand Coalition http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.7077/pub_detail.asp August 17, 2010 - Leslie Sacks From leftist radicals and boycotting unions to Osama Bin Laden and his ilk – the call is the same:  “Israel – get out of Gaza”. Ironically the so-called occupation ended 5 years ago when Israel removed every last soldier and Jewish resident from within Gaza’s […]

TIME TO RETHINK DEVELOPMENT AID FOR AFRICA….A DISMAL FAILURE

Why Development Aid for Africa Has Failed A commentary by Kurt Gerhardt URL: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,712068,00.html Development aid to Africa has been flowing for decades, but the results have been paltry. Instead, recipients have merely become dependent and initiative has been snuffed out. It is time to reform the system. Development aid to Africa is a blessing […]