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August 2011

The Mob Tears at the Foundations of Civilization in London and America J. Christian Adams

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.10140/pub_detail.asp Watching London burn, one cannot help but sense something has gone awry in the west. London, the cradle of our law, spins toward lawlessness. The law, the steady framework of our civilization, seems incapable of response. Americans don’t have the luxury anymore of watching the anarchy on television, assuming distance insulates us from the Mob-prowling […]

FSM: HOT PICKS AND VIDEOS

August 11, 2011 * VIDEOS * TODAY’S HOT PICKS * 1. VIDEO: Rep. Peter King [R] Requests Investigation of ‘Administration-Sanctioned’ Bin Laden Film, Intended for 2012 Election Period Release 2. U.S. Economic Confidence Plunges in Past Two Weeks: Weekly economic confidence is at -53 in early August — **its lowest point since March 2009** 3. […]

BEN SHAPIRO: DID MARX GET IT RIGHT?

Did Marx Get It Right? Posted By Ben Shapiro URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/08/11/did-marx-get-it-right/ Karl Marx predicted in Das Kapital that capitalism would destroy itself.  He believed that capitalism created two classes: the bourgeois upper classes and the proletariat lower classes.  Capitalism couldn’t help itself, Marx thought, from growing the latter.  Eventually, it would create a […]

DAVID YERUSHALMI:NYT Searches for the Leader of the Anti-Shariah Movement, Finds Me Instead

http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2011/08/nyt_searches_for_the_leader_of_the_anti-shariah_movement_finds_me_instead.html I was featured, complete with pictures (and online video), in a 2,000+ word New York Times article about the anti-sharia movement in this country, written by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Andrea Elliot, which appeared in the Times’ July 31st Sunday edition, front page, above the fold.  Impressive, no?  Unfortunately, Ms. Elliot exposed herself as biased […]

NICHOLAS KRISTOF BLAMES ISRAEL FIRST: MARK TAPSON…..SEE NOTE PLEASE

Nicholas Kristof Blames Israel First Posted By Mark Tapson http://frontpagemag.com/2011/08/11/nicholas-kristof-blames-israel-first/ KRISTOF MADE AN OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY ON GONGO….GENOCIDE, FAMINE, UNENDING WAR….BUT THIS IS WILLFUL BLINDNESS ON THE MIDEAST AND ISRAEL….I GUESS HE HAS TO KEEP HIS JOB IN THE NYTIMES…..RSK   In a predictably one-sided recent opinion piece ironically entitled “Seeking Balance on Mideast,” New York […]

ROBERT SPENCER: THE TIMES JOINS THE JIHAD

Time Magazine Joins the Jihad Posted By Robert Spencer http://frontpagemag.com/2011/08/11/time-magazine-joins-the-jihad/print/ So what else is new? Is anyone doing anything else these days? Still, I think it important to answer as many as I can of these and show the truth. “When Slogans Beget Slaughter,” by Ishaan Tharoor, was published by Time Magazine on August 6: […]

RICK RICHMAN: A JOB TOO BIG FOR THE PRESIDENT

Obama and the Big, Messy, Tough Democracy Posted By Rick Richman URL to article: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/obama-and-the-big-messy-tough-democracy/ Earlier this month, explaining how the fierce-urgency-of-now became the intense-need-for-patience, President Obama effectively blamed the system — not him and his big ideas. Speaking on August 3 to a DNC event in Chicago, he said [1]: When I said, “change […]

PAMELA GELLER: AFGHAN HELICOPTER CRASH IS OBAMA’S FAULT

Afghan Helicopter Attack is Obama’s Fault By Pamela Geller Page Printed from: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2011/08/afghan_helicopter_attack_is_obamas_fault.htm It came to light Monday that the thirty elite American troops who were killed when their helicopter was attacked in Afghanistan were lured into a trap by the Taliban. An Afghan official said, “Now it’s confirmed that the helicopter was shot down […]

DAN HENNINGER: AN EMPIRE IN DECLINE? NOT SO FAST

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904140604576498840323097396.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop So this is a taste of what it will be like when the American superpower starts shrinking. Enjoying it yet? Washington is not America, and so optimism is possible. Out in the country, some states are showing with their public-pension reforms that government flexibility in the face of economic crisis is possible. A Washington […]

IN TEHERAN MEET AT THE CORNER OF RACHEL CORRY STREET AND KHOMEINI BOULEVARD

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4107560,00.html  Tehran’s municipal council has decided to name a street after an American activist who was killed by an IDF bulldozer in Gaza Strip in 2003.The report in Thursday’s edition of Hamshahri, a daily affiliated with the municipality, said the council decided to name the street Rachel Aliene Corrie. The pro-Palestinian activist from Washington state […]