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August 2010

GET LOW: A REVIEW BY MARILYN PENN

http://politicalmavens.com/ GET LOW…A REVIEW BY MARILYN PENN Heretical as it may be to dis a Robert Duvall movie, Get Low, a film that pretends to show us that good and evil are not poles apart but intertwined, remains a slow-paced movie that upends no conventions and ends with a mawkish celebration of the basic goodness […]

MEXICO, ARIZONA AND BORDERLANDS: GEORGE FRIEDMAN

http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20100802_arizona_borderlands_and_us_mexican_relations?utm_source=GWeekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=100803&utm_content=readmore&elq= By George Friedman Arizona’s new law on illegal immigration went into effect last week, albeit severely limited by a federal court ruling. The U.S. Supreme Court undoubtedly will settle the matter, which may also trigger federal regulations. However that turns out, the entire issue cannot simply be seen as an internal American legal matter. […]

FRANK GAFFNEY: ON BASHING MOSLEMS

http://townhall.com/columnists/FrankGaffney/2010/08/02/on_bashing_muslims Frank Gaffney On “Bashing” Muslims Last week, a tectonic shift took place in the firmament of the War of Ideas. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich directly and forcefully took on Shariah, the totalitarian theo-political-military program of authoritative Islam that its adherents seek to impose on the entire world. As he noted, the United States […]

DANIEL PIPES: BRITAIN’S NEW EXPORT: ISLAMIST CARNAGE…..SEE NOTE PLEASE

PULEEZ! I CAN’T STAND THE WORDS “ISLAMIST”…..OR “ISLAMISM”…IT’S MOSLEM JIHAD….RSK Britain’s New Export: Islamist Carnage by Daniel Pipes National Review Online August 3, 2010 http://www.danielpipes.org/8706/britain-export-islamist-terrorism Britain’s largest and longest-running terrorist investigation ended last month with the conviction of three British Muslims. Their 2006 plot involved blowing up trans-Atlantic airliners with the hope of killing up […]

CAL THOMAS:RADICAL ISLAM IS A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER TO AMERICA

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/thomas080310.php3?printer_friendly None Dare Call It . . . What? By Cal Thomas http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Former Speaker Newt Gingrich may be the most notable public figure in some time to state the obvious: radical Islam is a clear and present danger to America. In a speech last week at The American Enterprise Institute in Washington, Gingrich […]

CAROLINE GLICK: LIGHTS, CAMERA, PEACE PROCESS

http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2010/08/lights-camera-peace-process.php The Israeli Left is on a collision course with the Obama administration. It is reportedly trying to undermine negotiations between the Netanyahu government and Fatah. The Obama administration is earnestly seeking to initiate them. According to an unnamed eyewitness interviewed by Israel Radio, during a July 8 meeting between Kadima Council Chairman and former […]

THE END OF THE ROAD FOR MARXISM IN CUBA?

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.b4a79e079069c2b3889441cfab5c4b25.61&show_article=1 President Raul Castro expanded self-employment fields on Sunday, ahead of looming government plans to slash as many as one million jobs — 20 percent of communist Cuba’s work force — from state payrolls. The economy, 95 percent of which is currently in state hands, does not have the ability to absorb such vast numbers […]

BATTLE FOR THE SENATE IN DELAWARE: TWO REPUBLICANS: ELECTIONS ARE COMING

MIKE CASTLE IS THE REPUBLICAN WITH A LEAD OVER COONS THE DEMOCRAT……LAST OCTOBER HE REMOVED HIS NAME FROM A J STREET HOST COMMITTEE CITING THE FACT THAT HE WAS UNAWARE OF J STREET’S ANTI-ISRAEL SLANT. HE IS A MODERATE REPUBLICAN WHO SUPPORTED CAP AND TRADE. THE DELAWARE REPUBLICAN PRIMARY IS IN SEPTEMBER….AND CHRISTINE O’DONNELL IS […]

ALBION AND ISRAEL: IN THE SAME BOAT OR RUNNING AGROUND…THE SULTAN

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Albion and Israel – In the Same Boat, or Running Aground The British press is naturally outraged that Shimon Peres dared suggest that the British political establishment was pro-Arab and anti-Israel, and that MP’s cowardly courted Muslim votes first. Peres has already been forced to apologize for his understatement. And an understatement it is, […]

GITMO TRIALS STALLED IN POLITICAL AND LEGAL LIMBO

http://www.military.com/news/article/us-stalls-on-trial-for-five-at-gitmo.html US Stalls on Trial for Five at Gitmo August 01, 2010 Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — As the U.S. military prepares for the first war crimes trial under President Barack Obama, its most high-profile case against the planners of the Sept. 11 attacks is stuck in political and legal limbo. Canadian prisoner […]