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August 2011

MY SAY: HOW ABOUT THREE CHEERS FOR DOCTORS AND NURSES?

Everybody rightly cheered when Congresswoman Gaby Giffords returned to vote. Hers is an amazing story of rescue and recovery and resolve. Who saved her life through proper and timely assessment of the damage, proper and timely intervention, amazing technology and its amazing use, and skilled surgery and patient and involved care? Yup! The doctors and […]

PAUL RYAN: WHERE IS YOUR BUDGET MR. PRESIDENT?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903341404576484124282885188.html Where’s Your Budget, Mr. President?Ever since they fudged the numbers to pass ObamaCare, Democrats have abandoned credible spending plans. During the negotiations over raising the debt ceiling, President Obama reportedly warned Republican leaders not to call his bluff by sending him a bill without tax increases. Republicans in Congress ignored this threat and passed […]

BRUCE THORNTON: TAKING OUR EYES OFF THE JIHADIST BALL

Taking Our Eye Off the Jihadist Ball Posted By Bruce Thornton URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/08/03/taking-our-eye-off-the-jihadist-ball/   Given our economic doldrums and the still metastasizing debt, the legislation raising the debt ceiling won’t keep the economy from dominating the nation’s attention until next year’s election. This means foreign affairs will continue to be an afterthought, at […]

DANIEL GREENFIELD:SAVING AFGHANISTAN?

URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/08/03/this-is-the-country-were-saving/   Pedophilia, forced marriages, blasphemy trials and drug dealing. That is the real Afghanistan. The one that lingers on even when the Taliban are chased into the hills. That cannot be changed by American intervention because this is who its people are.We might have been able to save Afghanistan from the […]

P. DAVID HORNIK: ISRAEL BOWS TO OBAMA PRESSURE….SEE NOTE PLEASE

URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/08/03/israel-bows-to-obamas-1967-borders-pressure My e-pal David Hornik is among the few  top reporters in Israel. Why the surprise? Bibi caved to the considerable charm of Madeleine Halfbright at Wye and relinquished Hebron the cradle of Jewish history and faith….Israel voted for Bibi and got Tzipi Livni…rsk Media reports quote anonymous Israeli officials saying Israel […]

EDWARD CLINE: PROFESSOR OF AMERICAN STUDIES SARAH CHURCHWELL’S APPALLING BIAS AND IGNORANCE

Sarah Churchwell, Professor of American Studies at the University of East Anglia (Disinformation Central of the Global Warmists), needs to hand back her diploma. http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.10081/pub_detail.asp In her article, “The Wilful Ignorance that has Dragged the US to the Brink,” she attacks the Tea Party and its religious candidates and tries to fob them off as […]

MICHAEL CUTLER: SHOCKER! PILOT LICENSES ISSUED TO 27 ON TERROR LISTS

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.10080/pub_detail.asp A recent New York Times article was extremely disturbing. The report was entitled: “27 Deemed to Be Threats Held Aviation Licenses“. This news article was based on a report (pdf document) issued by the Inspector General (Internal Affairs) that has oversight responsibility for the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration). The article stated that that the FAA has […]

VIN IENCO: ISLAM AND APOSTASY

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.10079/pub_detail.asp Similarly to what we know of the Mafia, Islam has an inbuilt clause that instructs its followers, ‘if you leave, you die’. Most Islamic countries advocate death for apostates though some people are jailed until they recant. In some instances, apostates’ families are also harassed or kidnapped and tortured. Yet another of Islams’ insecurities […]

THE JEWS WHO SAVED MONTICELLO: JUDITH FEIN….A WONDERFUL STORY

http://www.jidaily.com/1GKS/e I’ve never met an American who didn’t have a soft spot in his heart for Thomas Jefferson, and who didn’t love Monticello, Jefferson’s home in Charlottesville, Va.  Of course the property was also a plantation, which tells you that our third president (1801-1809) was a slave owner, and DNA evidence has ascertained that he […]

ANDREW McCARTHY WEIGHS IN ON THE DEBT CEILING DEBATE VS. SPERLING AND RYAN

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/273516/re-taxing-questions-sperlings-right-ryans-wrong-andrew-c-mccarthy Re: Taxing Questions — Sperling’s Right, Ryan’s Wrong After reading K-Lo’s post about Rep. Paul Ryan’s response to White House adviser Gene Sperling, I took a look at the Bipartisan Agreement To Add $7 Trillion To The Deficit Act of 2011– er, I mean the Budget Control (Ahem) Act of 2011 — to try […]