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July 2011

HANOI JANE WHINES THE COUNTRY’S NOT SO FONDAHER…MARK TAPSON

Jane Fonda: “I Have Never Done Anything to Hurt My Country”Posted By Mark Tapson URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/07/21/jane-fonda-%e2%80%9ci-have-never-done-anything-to-hurt-my-country%e2%80%9d/   Last Saturday, actress-turned-fitness guru Jane Fonda was to appear on the shopping TV network QVC to peddle her new lifestyle book Prime Time, until the channel suddenly canceled her appearance. In response, Fonda wrote an angry […]

BEN SHAPIRO: THE DESPERATION OF MEDIA MATTERS

The Desperation of Media Matters Posted By Benjamin Shapiro URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/07/21/the-desperation-of-media-matters-2/ According to its website, Media Matters for America, the George Soros-funded left wing hit squad, is a “progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.”  The very premise is somewhat laughable – […]

THE TRIAL OF ABDULHAKIM MUHAMMAD (AKA WILLIAM ANDERSON LANG) WHO KILLED A SOLDIER IN 2009

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jul/20/prosecutor-details-2009-killing-ark-soldier/print/ LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The prosecutor walked silently in front of the jury, holding a portrait of a soldier killed outside an Arkansas recruiting center in 2009. Then he spoke: “William Andrew Long.” Carrying a photo of another soldier, prosecutor Larry Jegley did the same. “A son, a brother, a friend,” Mr. Jegley […]

BRIAN BOLDUC: WILL IT BE PERRY?

Will Perry Carry the Day? http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/272317 The Texas governor’s agricultural past could help or hurt him. In the Russell Senate Office Building Caucus Room, Fred McClure was watching the crowd. It was March 1978, and the American Agriculture Movement — a pressure group for government support of farm prices — was meeting with Texan congressmen. […]

EDITORIAL AT NRO: GOVERNMENT BY PLATITUDE

Government by Platitude http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/272364 Some Republicans are getting desperate over the debt-ceiling debate, but we hope not desperate enough to embrace the Gang of Six proposal. It may be the worst of the debt-ceiling compromises placed before them to date. The authors allege that their plan will eliminate some $3.7 trillion from the projected federal […]

PATRICK RICHARDSON: “GUNWALKER’ TESTIMONEY REVEALS ERIC HOLDER’S OBFUSCATION TACTICS

Gunwalker: Testimony Reveals Eric Holder’s Obfuscation Tactics Posted By Patrick Richardson http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/gunwalker-testimony-reveals-eric-holders-obfuscation-tactics/   Attorney General Eric Holder continues to duck responsibility for Operation Fast and Furious, which allowed more than 2,500 weapons, including thousands of AK-47 variants and .50 caliber sniper rifles, across the Mexican border and into the hands of the cartels. The weapons […]

PAMELA GELLER: ISLAMIC SUPREMACISM TRUMPS CHRISTIANITY AT GROUND ZERO

http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2011/07/islamic_supremacism_trumps_christianity_at_ground_zero.html While New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg works in anxious haste to build the cultural obscenity that is the Ground Zero mosque, the iconic St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, which was built in 1916 and destroyed in the attack on the World Trade Center towers by Muslim terrorists, remains vanquished, unable to rebuild. Bloomberg […]

SENATOR RICHARD SHELBY (R-AL): THE DANGER OF A CONSUMER CZAR

The Danger of an Unaccountable ‘Consumer-Protection’ Czar The SEC and FDIC are led by boards. Why should one person have sweeping powers over the economy? http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903554904576457931310814462.html?mod=opinion_newsreel On July 18, President Obama nominated former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau created under the Dodd-Frank Act. Many on the left […]

DAN HENNINGER: THE PAUL RYAN FACTOR

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303795304576456273128265368.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop The Paul Ryan Factor Non-Obama voters want a presidential contender who can do hand-to-hand policy combat with the incumbent in 2012. “Don’t read this as a Ryan endorsement. Read it as an endorsement of the discontented voters who understand they need a candidate with the skill set to take on Barack Obama with more […]

SHAUN WATERMAN:OBAMA’S UNHINGED “APPROPRIATE BALANCE” IN FIGHTING TERRORISM…

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jul/20/obama-seeks-appropriate-balance-in-fighting-terror/ Obama seeks ‘appropriate balance’ in fighting terrorism Ex-aide says shift away from al Qaeda The United States needs to engage with Arab and Muslim people on broader issues than the war against terrorism, the former head of the Obama administration’s public diplomacy team says. Judith McHale, who recently finished her appointment as undersecretary for […]