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November 2010

MORE ON GHAILANI: STOP BLAMING BUSH, AND WHY 285 COUNTS? ANDREW McCARTHY

One More on Ghailani: Mr. President, Stop Blaming BushBy Andy McCarthy http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/253577/one-more-ghailani-mr-president-stop-blaming-bush-andy-mccarthy Ghailani: Why 285 Counts? By Andy McCarthy http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/253575/ghailani-why-285-counts-andy-mccarthy Obama officials are now complaining about “torture.” Their spin today is that we were lucky to get the one conviction we got given that the Bush administration abused the defendant, resulting in the suppression of evidence. Of […]

COERCION IS NOT TORTURE: ANDREW McCARTHY

Coercion Is Not Torture By Andy McCarthy http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/253604/coercion-not-torture-andy-mccarthy I empathize with commentators on legal matters. There usually isn’t enough airtime or print-space to explain adequately complex issues. So commentators naturally take shortcuts. Often, the shortcuts do a real disservice. That is consistently happening in the Ghailani coverage, in which experts are conflating two very different things: […]

GARY BAUER: THE HAJJ AND THE HATE

Friday, November 19, 2010 From: Gary L. Bauer garybauer@cwfpac.com CAMPAIGN FOR WORKING FAMILIES The Hajj And The Hate As you may know from the news coverage or from material your kids might be learning in school, Muslims worldwide are celebrating the Hajj. For those who don’t know, the Hajj is an annual pilgrimage to Mecca, […]

YALE LEADS THE WAY: AN EXCELLENT PROGRAM ON ANTI-SEMITISM

News Clemens Heni: Former Yale antisemitism scholar, one year later By Cindy Mindell Published: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 12:15 PM EST NEW HAVEN – Just four years ago, Yale became one of a handful of universities worldwide to establish a center dedicated to the study of antisemitism. Led by Dr. Charles Small, the Yale Initiative […]

THE BP ECOLOGICAL MONSTER THAT WASN’T: BEN LIEBERMAN

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/nov/18/the-ecological-monster-who-said-peep/ LIEBERMAN: The ecological monster who said . . . peep Why the Gulf oil spill didn’t spread to voting booths By Ben Lieberman “In other words, the administration has been pursuing a backdoor strategy to push the same energy and environmental policies that the public rejected when the administration and Congress tried to push […]

WASHTIMES EDITORIAL: OSAMA BIN LADEN…..NOT GUILTY

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/nov/18/osama-bin-laden-not-guilty/ EDITORIAL: Osama bin Laden: Not guilty Terror-trial failures could mean mass murderers walk ” Justice Department apologists blame the failure on the George W. Bush administration, claiming Ghailani was tortured at Guantanamo after his transfer there in 2006. The Bush team had moved to try the accused terrorist before a military commission and had […]

PA RANKED FIFTH AS HIGHEST TERROR RISK…..GIVE THEM A STATE HUH?

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/140730#replies PA Ranked Fifth-Highest Terror Risk by Gil Ronen A global terror risk index placed the Palestinian Authority in fifth place among the locations with the highest terror risk. The Terrorism Risk Index (TRI), compiled by global risks advisory firm Maplecroft, places what it terms “Palestinian Occupied Territory” immediately after Somalia, Pakistan, Iraq and Afghanistan […]

ISI LEIBLER: HARPER AND OBAMA ON ISRAEL

Harper and Obama on Israel Posted by Isi Leibler http://wordfromjerusalem.com/?p=2571 “Many of us today yearn for an American president who would be more considerate of our needs than the present incumbent. It would perhaps be an impossible dream to have someone of the caliber of Stephen Harper leading the US, but alas, today, we are […]

WHO KILLED HARRY POTTER: THE PRESS DOES NOT WANT YOU TO KNOW

http://www.israpundit.com/archives/30516 Harry Potter, killed by Arab Terrorists but the press still won’t admit the truth . . . “I just love how the Associated Press, (especially in Israel, where the AP notoriously only hires arab reporters but never reveals their names in a byline) has reported that Harry Potter was “killed in battle with an […]

VICTIMS HAVE FACES:EILEEN TOPLANSKY

http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/11/the_victims_have_faces.html The Victims Have Faces Eileen F. Toplansky In Saudi Arabia, journalist Fahd al-Jukhaidib, who works for the daily Al-Jazeirah newspaper will be publicly whipped for “allegedly instigating protests against a government electricity company following a series of power cuts.”  He is sentenced to receive 50 lashes; in addition, he was also sentenced to two […]