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September 2011

ROMNEY? NO WAY….RUSS VAUGHN

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/09/do_we_want_another_smooth_talker_or_a_doer.html Do we want another smooth talker? Or a doer? Russ Vaughn Watching the debate, I’m admittedly taken in a bit by the smooth delivery of Mitt Romney and a bit disappointed in the rather halting, clumsy responses of Rick Perry to the inevitable attacks on the front runner. Romney is the better debater as […]

MERRILL MATTHEWS; PERRY IS RIGHT ON SOCIAL SECURITY

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903791504576587240912688176.html?mod=opinion_newsreel

PLEASE IGNORE THE VAPID VAPORS OF PEGGY NOONAN….AND BILL KRISTOL AND THE FOX BRIGADE…..RSK

Perry Is Right: There Is a Texas Model for Fixing Social Security Public employees in three Texas counties have benefited from an ‘Alternate Plan’ for 30 years.

To highlight the problems facing Social Security, Texas Gov. and Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry is pointing to three Texas counties that decades ago opted out of Social Security by creating personal retirement accounts. Now, 30 years on, county workers in those three jurisdictions retire with more money and have better death and disability supplemental benefits. And those three counties—unlike almost all others in the United States—face no long-term unfunded pension liabilities.

JOHN HINDERAKER: IS IT TIME TO ANNEX JUDEA AND SAMARIA? FROM MAY 2011

By John Hinderaker, PowerLineBlog http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/05/028942.php I do not understand why Israel has not already annexed Judea and Samaria. These regions, the heart of ancient Israel, are generally known today as the “West Bank” of the Jordan River. Three times, Arab states have attacked Israel in an effort to carry out a second Holocaust. Three times, […]

JEWISH SOVEREIGNTY: ASSERTING CLAIMS AND DEMANDS BY “ALTALENA”

FROM AN E-PAL There is a fundamental flaw in Israel’s negotiating position vis-à-vis the Palestinians: Our claims have not been symmetrical with theirs. Their demands have been bold and sweeping. Ours have been meek and minimal.  For instance, the PLO currently claims sovereignty over Judea, Samaria, Gaza (upon implementation of the Hamas-Fatah agreement, should that […]

WOMEN IS SAUDI ARABIA TO VOTE…KING HEAVILY FAVORED TO WIN

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15052030 OH THE BENEVOLENT KINGDOM….BALLOTS YES BUT ADULTERY MEANS STONING…..RSK Women in Saudi Arabia are to be given the right to vote and run in future municipal elections, King Abdullah has announced. He said they would also have the right to be appointed to the consultative Shura Council. The move was welcomed by activists who […]

DIANA WEST: ARMING AGAINST OUR ALLIES

http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1915/Arming-Against-Our-Allies.aspx Five British soldiers shot and killed by a ‘rogue’ Afghan policeman in Helmand province in November 2009. In all, at least 37 Western troops have been killed by Afghan “allies” in the past 22 months. — London Telegraph: “Commanders ignored warnings that British troops were at risk from attack by Afghan allies: carry a loaded […]

MELANIE PHILLIPS: TRUTH AND LIES AT THE THATRE OF THE ABSURD

http://phillipsblog.dailymail.co.uk/2011/09/truth-and-lies-at-the-theatre-of-the-absurd.html Truth and lies at the theatre of the absurd Melanie Phillips Some 1941 years ago, the Romans conquered the ancient Jewish kingdom of Judea by force and attempted to expunge all memory of the Jews’ claim to the land by renaming the area Palestine. Two days ago, Mahmoud Abbas attempted to do the same […]

VICTOR SHARPE: NETANYAHU’S SPEECH AND THE DEAFENING SILENCE

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/10653 Netanyahu’s Speech and the Deafening Silence if Israel shrank to just one downtown city block in Tel Aviv, it would still be reason for an all-out war of extermination by the Arab and Muslim world. Victor Sharpe is a freelance writer with articles and essays published in FrontPageMag. com, Townhall. com, Outpost, the Wall […]

RICK SANTORUM’S ILL ADVISED BORDER WAR: KEVIN WILLIAMSON

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/278207 Santorum’s Ill-Advised Border War He stepped into unknown territory to criticize Perry’s legitimate immigration policies. Rick Santorum, in his day the U.S. senator I most admired, is an embarrassment as a no-hoper presidential candidate — and nowhere has that been more painfully evident than in his attempt to characterize Rick Perry as being soft […]

THE RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON: DAVID SOLWAY

The Return of the Prodigal Son Posted By David Solway URL to article: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-return-of-the-prodigal-son/ I grew up in a Jewish anti-Jewish household dominated by my father who never  once attended synagogue and refused to associate with any of the Jewish inhabitants of the town we lived in. My father hated Jews with a passion — […]