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2011

ROBERT GIBBS EXITS THE OBAMA TITANIC…NILE GARDINER

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100070629/robert-gibbs-joins-exodus-from-white-house-titanic-obamas-press-secretary-wont-be-missed-in-britain/ Robert Gibbs joins exodus from White House Titanic: Obama’s press secretary won’t be missed in Britain By Nile Gardiner World Last updated: January 5th, 2011 Fox News and the BBC are reporting that Robert Gibbs is about to step down as White House Press Secretary, and become “an outside presidential adviser”. His departure comes […]

NEW HUCKELBERRY FINN WILL ELIMINATE THE “N” WORD….SEE NOTE

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/45645-upcoming-newsouth-huck-finn-eliminates-the-n-word.html WHY DON’T THEY ELIMINATE THE “N” ALTOGETHER? CALL IT MARK TWAI’S HUCKLEBERRY FI….THIS WHOLE IDEA IS ABSOLUTELY ‘UTS……RSK Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a classic by most any measure—T.S. Eliot called it a masterpiece, and Ernest Hemingway pronounced it the source of “all modern American literature.” Yet, for decades, it has been […]

SHATTERING LEFTIST MYTHS: WALTER WILLIAMS

URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/01/05/shattering-leftist-myths/ Shattering Leftist MythsPosted By Walter Williams So many statements we accept as true, plausible or beyond question; but are they? Let’s look at a couple of important ones: global warming and U.S. manufacturing decline. In 2000, Dr. David Viner of University of East Anglia’s disgraced Climatic Research Unit advised, “Within a […]

A STATUE OF STALIN IN VIRGINIA? PAUL KENGOR

Statue to Stalin Posted By Paul Kengor URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/01/05/statue-to-stalin/ Of course, it’s customary at year’s end to share our favorite news items from the year past. As someone who teaches and writes about history, I tend to focus on historical things I fear are lost to American education. So, my enduring “news item” […]

RAYMOND COOK: THE BBC’S HISTORICAL ILLITERACY ABOUT THE “PAELSTINIAN ORCHESTRA”

Palestinian National Orchestra and BBC’s historical illiteracy Palestinian National Orchestra and BBC’s historical illiteracy I had to read a BBC News article twice recently; not something I would recommend. The subject was ‘Palestinian orchestra to hold debut concert in Ramallah’. Great. I’m all for culture and it’s good to see what must be essentially a […]

FRANK GAFFNEY: A TIME TO CHOOSE FOR CONSERVATIVES

http://bigpeace.com/fgaffney/2011/01/04/a-time-to-choose-for-the-conservative-movement/ Tonight, World Net Daily continued its pathbreaking coverage of what amounts to an assault on the conservative movement.  Ironically, this assault is not coming from outside the movement’s ranks.  Rather, it is being perpetrated by some of the key organizers of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) next month in Washington. First, WND […]

SOL STERN: UNDER FIRE…. A REVIEW OF JONATHAN SPYER’S NEW BOOK

http://www.jidaily.com/fire/e Under Fire By Sol Stern Returning from Lebanon, 2006. The second Lebanon war in the summer of 2006 forced Israelis to come to grips with the definitive end of the Oslo era and the shattering of two fundamental assumptions about the nature of their conflict with the Palestinians. The first was that the struggle […]

THE SULTAN: ISLAMIC TERROR IS AN INSIDE JOB

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Islamic Terrorism is an Inside Job At the start of the new year, the Governor of Punjab was murdered because he had opposed the call by Pakistan’s Islamists to execute a Christian woman on false blasphemy charges arising out of her harassment by her Muslim neighbors. The murderer was one of his own security […]

HIT AND RUN JOURNALISM….TARRING ISRAEL: LEO RENNERT

http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/01/hitandrun_journalism_the_way_t.html Hit-and-run Journalism — The Way to Tar Israel Leo Rennert On New Year’s Eve, there was a Palestinian-instigated protest at a West Bank village against Israel’s security barrier.  There’s one every week at this particular location — it’s well-rehearsed political theater to stoke anti-Israel propaganda.   Except this time, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad […]

A CHALLENGE TO OPPONENTS OF “ANCHOR BABIES”

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203731004576045380685742092.html?mod=WSJ_newsreel_opinion Birthright Citizenship and the 14th Amendment Opponents of illegal immigration cannot claim to champion the rule of law and then propose policies that violate our Constitution. By JAMES C. HO A coalition of state legislators, motivated by concerns about illegal immigration, is expected to endorse state-level legislation today at the National Press Club in […]