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June 2011

Video: Egyptian Shaykh Incites Muslims to Burn Down Churches

http://www.translatingjihad.com/2011/06/video-egyptian-shaykh-incites-muslims.html This video shows Shaykh Ashraf Yusuf Hassan in the middle of a mob of Muslims, calling on them to burn down churches in the Cairo district of Imbaba. The original Arabic-language video was posted on YouTube on 9 May, just two days after the church was burned down. Twelve were killed and 52 wounded […]

Truth-Telling in the Middle East: Perfidy, Counterterrorism, and the Law of War: Louis Rene Beres

http://www.crimesofwar.org/commentary/truth-telling-in-the-middle-east-perfidy-counterterrorism-and-the-law-of-war/ By Louis René Beres International law is not a suicide pact. Every country on earth has an expansive legal right to “self-defense.” Although this right can never absolve any state of the obligation to fight both enemy states and terrorists with a diligent respect for civilian populations, it is also true that both enemy […]

DR. MICHAEL YOUSSEF: ISLAMISTS AND THE AMERICAN MEDIA

Islamists and the American media (OneNewsNow.com) http://www.onenewsnow.com/Perspectives/Default.aspx?id=1360044 Islamists and the American media Dr. Michael Youssef, OneNewsNow.com I’m sure many have asked this question: “Why is the secular media so sympathetic to Islamists?” The answer is because most of those who make up the secular media apparatus are on the left side of the Left. The […]

RICK SANTORUM: WHEN PRINCIPLES COUNT

Rick Santorum: Indispensable Senator by Manuel Miranda http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?print=yes&id=17871 Unfortunately, I am not a Pennsylvania voter. If I were, I would do what has become my family tradition. I would drive or fly to my home state to vote with my father. We became citizens in the bicentennial year 1976, and I was very proud when […]

TEN QUESTIONS FOR LEON PANETTA

URL to article: http://blog.heritage.org/2011/06/08/morning-bell-ten-questions-for-leon-panetta/ Ten Questions for Leon Panetta The war in Afghanistan rages on, as does the conflict in Libya. U.S. troops are still deployed in Iraq. Unrest continues in the Middle East’s Arab Spring. Meanwhile, Iran’s nuclear efforts are accelerating, and the global war against terrorists remains. And yet despite an aging military, […]

IS IT THE END OF THE MEDIA’S FIXATION ON ISRAEL?CARMEL GOULD

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jun/08/media-obsession-with-israel/print The end of the media’s Israel fixation? Since the uprisings in the Middle East, the media’s balance and scrutiny has been more proportionate Carmel Gould The Mavi Marmara, carrying pro-Palestinian peace activists, leaves Istanbul on its fateful voyage to Gaza. Photograph: Reuters The Arab spring has had a remarkable effect on the media’s appetite […]

SEN. LIEBERMAN THINKS CONGRESS CAN CONTROL TORNADOES….SEE NOTE

http://www.climatedepot.com/a/11386/Sen-Lieberman-believes-bad-weather-to-spur-passage-of-climate-bill-The-run-of-extreme-weather-is-a-real-warning-to-us–Congress-to-control-tornadoes-Weve-got-to-do-something-about-this WELL HE WAS AL GORE’S RUNNING MATE….RSK Sen. Lieberman believes Congress can control tornadoes: ‘We’ve got to do something about this’ – ‘The run of extreme weather is a real warning to us’ – Tornadoes to spur passage of climate bill Does he believe in witchcraft as well?! Lieberman believes Congress can control the […]

MOSHE PHILLIPS:OOPS- ON D-DAY NEWSPAPERS FORGET

Oops – on D-Day – The Metro Newspaper Does it Again! – Forgets Another Patriotic Date http://phillyafsi.blogtownhall.com/2011/06/07/oops_-_on_d-day_-_the_metro_newspaper_does_it_again%21_-_forgets_another_patriotic_date.thtml As I have noted before the Metro newspapers in Boston,  New York and Philadelphia have a long track record of Euro-centric thinking, anti-Israel bias and ignoring the of anniversaries of important dates in U.S. history. On Monday, June […]

DANIEL GREENFIELD:THE RISE OF THE POST AMRICAN EMPIRES

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ When the Utopians of the left talk about a Post-American world, they mean a great borderless globe ruled over by international law, where there are no more citizens or nations, just people who happen to enjoy working and living in New York, Shanghai or Islamabad. This digital jet setting globocratic version of John Lennon’s […]

MARTIN FELDSTEIN: THE ECONOMY IS WORSE THAN YOU THINK…..SEE NOTE

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303657404576363984173620692.html AND THOSE PUSILLANIMOUS REPUBLICANS WHO ARE COWERING AWAY FROM PAUL RYAN ARE WORSE THAN THE DEMS…..AT LEAST RYAN ALTERED THE CONVERSATION…RSK MARTIN FELDSTEIN “The economy will continue to suffer until there is a coherent and favorable economic policy. That means bringing long-term deficits under control without raising marginal tax rates—by cutting government outlays and […]