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August 2011

WHY PAUL RYAN BOWED OUT: ROBERT COSTA

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/275262 Five Reasons Ryan Bowed Out  Ryan will not seek the presidency, but he will shape the debate. Sources close to Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin tell National Review Online that the Budget Committee chairman considered a variety of factors this summer as he mulled a late-entry presidential campaign. This afternoon, he closed the door […]

HERBERT LONDON: THE COMING WHAT?

http://www.hudson-ny.org/2376/the-coming-what In Herman Kahn’s book, The Coming Boom published in1982, he argued that despite the double-Digit inflation of the Carter years and the “stagflation” that plagued the period from roughly 1976 to 1981, an economic boom was just over the horizon. As it turned out Kahn was right as the ensuing Reagan years ushered in […]

THE END OF NORMAL: DANIEL GREENFIELD

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ The Arab Spring didn’t accomplish a whole lot beyond swapping out a handful of dictators for their more obscure henchmen and Islamist allies, but it did kill the treaty model of regional normalization completely dead. European models of conflict settlement never mapped well onto a region where there is no enduring form of government. […]

V.P. BIDEN HAD A FUN WEEK TOO

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/22/world-briefs-449117549/ ULAN BATOR — Vice President Joseph R. Biden tried his hand at archery and watched a wrestling match during a brief visit Monday in Mongolia, which he called a shining example of democratic development. Mr. Biden praised Mongolia for carrying out presidential and parliamentary elections after making a peaceful transition to democracy in the […]

ELI LAKE: ALQAEDA LINKED TO ISRAELI BUS AMBUSH

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/22/al-qaeda-linked-to-israeli-bus-ambush/ U.S. intelligence agencies are investigating reports that al Qaeda-aligned groups played a key role in the deadly commando-style attack near the Israeli resort town of Eilat last week. A U.S. government assessment of the incident Thursday concludes that either the Palestinian group Popular Resistance Committees or the Gaza-based Army of Islam (or Jaish al […]

ANDREA BILLUPS: MUSLIMS OPPOSED TO A MICHIGAN BILL OPPOSING “FOREING LAW” INTHE US

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/22/muslims-see-foreign-law-bill-as-attack-on-shariah/ DETROIT — A national drive against citing “foreign” laws in U.S. courts – one that critics say is a veiled attack on Islamic Shariah law – has reached the state with the nation’s largest concentration of Muslims. The Michigan bill, which mirrors “American Laws for American Courts” legislation introduced in more than 20 other […]

ANOTHER WEEK IN THE RAMADAN BOMBATHON…SEE NOTE PLEASE

http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/ AND THIS TALLY DOES NOT COUNT THE ROCKETS AND ATTACKS AGAINST ISRAEL….RSK Weekly Jihad Report Aug 13 – Aug. 19  Jihad Attacks: 48  Allah Akbars: 8  Dead Bodies: 303  Critically Injured: 594

JOHN PHELAN: BIG GOVERNMENT DESTROYED A HEALTHY SOCIETY AND CREATED AN UNDERCLASS AND UK RIOTS

http://www.thecommentator.com/article/384/why_did_the_uk_riots_happen_because_big_government_has_destroyed_a_healthy_society_and_created_an_underclass To describe the rioting that took place in the UK recently as “anti-social” sounds so anodyne as to be redundant. Neighbourhoods were terrorized. Buildings were burned. And people were killed. But it still conveys an essential point. One of the most noted aspects of the riots was the fact that the rioters were destroying […]

DIANA MUIR APPLEBAUM: TOO MANY MUSEUMS…..(AMEN)

http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/content/module/2011/8/23/main-feature/1/too-many-museums Although the paint is still wet on Philadelphia’s National Museum of American Jewish History, an announcement has just been made of a planned National Museum of the Jewish People on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., steps from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and not far from both the Lillian and Albert Small Jewish Museum  and the […]

HE HAS A WAY WITH WORDS:’ IRANIAN PREZ SAYS NATIONS MUST GET RID OF “INFECTED ZIONIST TUMOR”

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/08/irans-thug-in-chief-says-nations-can-get-rid-of-the-infected-tumor-of-the-zionist-regime.html Goodness knows he’d love to use radiation against what he calls a “tumor.” “Iranian President Calls for Muslims’ Massive Turnout on Quds Day,” from Fars News Agency, August 22: TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad urged the worldwide Muslim community as well as non-Muslim countries to stage massive participation in the International Quds Day […]