THIS IS ONE OVERRIDING DOMESTIC ISSUE ALONG WITH HOMELAND SECURITY AND DEFENSE…VETTING THE GOP CANDIDATES BEYOND THE CLICHES AND LACK OF EXPERIENCE OF PALIN, PAWLENTY….IS CRITICAL……RSK http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/269296 For long-termers, it’s worse than in the Great Depression. Pres. Barack Obama is given to cute vehicular metaphors about the state of the economy. We were “in a […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/269253/herman-cain-ceo-nat-brown When Pillsbury asked Herman Cain to take over as president of its Godfather’s Pizza chain in 1986, they knew the man could deliver. In 1982, Cain had resigned his post as vice president of corporate systems for the company and taken up a new position as manager of the Philadelphia branch of Burger King […]
http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2011/06/09/gop-nomination-perrys-to-lose/ “The rap on Perry is that he is another Texan, like George Bush. And because of Bush, the country is Texas-weary. But in person the governor is much more like Ronald Reagan than Bush. If I seem overly enthusiastic, it’s because I have spent a fair amount of time with Perry — pistol shooting […]
The Nation’s Economic Future by Herbert I. London http://www.hudson-ny.org/2189/economic-future For most of the last few months the Obama administration has maintained a “recovery” is underway. Seizing on a modest reduction in the unemployment rate, the president has waxed lyrical about the upswing in the nation’s economy. But the most recent economic data provides a very […]
Israel: Hizballah has 50,000 rockets in its arsenal http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/06/israel-hizballah-has-50000-rockets-in-its-arsenal.html “Most of these weapons are stored in some 100 villages around southern Lebanon.” An update on this story, which also detailed Hizballah’s deliberate placement of weapons and military assets near “hospitals, private homes, and schools.” “IDF identifies thousands of Hezbollah sites in Lebanon,” by Yaakov Katz […]
Reclaiming a historical truth by Efraim Karsh http://www.meforum.org/2937/historical-truth I agree with Shlomo Avineri, in his op-ed “Zionism does not need propaganda” (Haaretz English Edition, May 23), that the tragedy befalling the Palestinian Arabs in 1948 was exclusively of their own making, and that there is therefore “a grave moral defect in the Nakba discourse.” I […]
http://www.jidaily.com/soMK In the 1869 Belmont Stakes, named after the Jewish financier August Belmont, the jockey and trainer Jacob Pincus—remembered after his death as “this matchless Jew”—made racing history ‘Matchless Jew’: The Belmont’s Jewish Backstory The owner of the horse — will it be Derby-winner Animal Kingdom, Preakness-winner Shackleford or a 30-to-1 longshot? — who takes […]
Hilary Clinton To Be World Bank President? U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been in discussions with the White House about leaving her job next year to become head of the World Bank, sources familiar with the discussions said on Thursday. The former first lady and onetime political rival to President Barack Obama quickly […]
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/06/medias-palinphobia-hits-fever-pitch-ny-times-and-wapo-beg-readers-to-scour-sarahs-emails.html Media’s Palinphobia Hits Fever Pitch: NY TImes and WaPo Beg Readers to Scour Sarah’s Emails I have written often of the irrational violent cauldron of vicious hate that Sarah Palin’s goodness (and very existence) elicits from the forces of evil the left. A new low (is that even possible?) was reached today when the […]
http://www.prudenpolitics.com/ The quality of mercy is not strain’d,” or so the Bard imagined. “It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven.” Sometimes. Maybe. But Mr. Shakespeare never lived and worked in Washington, where many things droppeth but few are gentle. The Great Washington Weiner Roast continues into early summer, to the chagrin of Democrats and […]