Friends, Indeed Former Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar takes sides—and chooses Israel http://www.tabletmag.com/news-and-politics/46114/friends-indeed/ BY LEE SMITH | Sep 29, 2010 1:00 PM José María Aznar at a National Council of Resistance of Iran rally outside Paris organized in June 26, 2010. Alexander Klein/AFP/Getty Images Three days before Spain’s 2004 general election, a massive bomb […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/sep/29/israel-lobby-aided-hill-visits-un-report-author/print/ Israel lobby aided Hill visits for U.N. report author S. African excoriated Gaza war campaign By Ben Birnbaum and Eli Lake – The Washington Times J Street — the self-described pro-Israel, pro-peace lobbying group — facilitated meetings between members of Congress and South African Judge Richard Goldstone, author of a U.N. report that accused […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.7511/pub_detail.asp Britain, France and Germany Western Europe has been on edge recently, with fears of terror attacks. On September 17 this month Jonathan Evans, the head of MI5, announced that it was “only a matter of time” before a terror attack was carried out in Britain by UK subjects. He suggested that people who had […]
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-vietnamese-are-coming-an-interview-with-california-congressional-district-47%e2%80%99s-van-tran/ ‘The Vietnamese Are Coming!’: An Interview with California Congressional District 47’s Van Tran Posted By Tim Daniel On September 28, 2010 Encompassing Garden Grove, Santa Ana, Anaheim, and a sliver [1] of Fullerton, California’s 47th Congressional District has retained an on-again, off-again relationship with the national spotlight. In 1996, stalwart-conservative, nine-term Congressman “B-1 Bob” […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.7505/pub_detail.asp September 29, 2010 Khaled Saffuri: Where is He Now? Gary H. Johnson, Jr. Before the 2000 election, which yielded a George W. Bush White House, a conservative political lobbyist named Grover Norquist began working toward a Muslim outreach strategy for the Republican Party, helping to establish the Islamic Free Market Institute, known today as […]
Closure of Taiba Mosque Hamburg Hate Preachers Lose Their Home http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,710952,00.html By Björn Hengst and Christoph Scheuermann in Hamburg German police blocking the entrance to the Taiba mosque in Hamburg which was closed by authorities on Monday. Islamic extremists in Germany have lost an important meeting place following Monday’s move by Hamburg authorities to close […]
Western Officials Remain Concerned about Attack in Europe http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,720206,00.html Western intelligence officials remain concerned that plotters based in Pakistan are planning terrorist attacks in Europe. US officials have warned of a “Mumbai-style” attack. Information on the plot is thought to come from a German terror suspect being held in Afghanistan. Western intelligence officials remain worried […]
http://blogs.forbes.com/beltway/2010/09/28/the-politics-of-killing-weapons-programs/?boxes=Homepagechannels “And then there’s the other political downside, which is saying “no” to the Marine Corps on a program that it currently rates as its top ground-systems modernization priority. The Marines have been through hell since 9-11, over-stretched and under-equipped during most of the time they were fighting in places like Fallujah.” The Politics Of […]
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/548722/201009281855/Curb-Medicare-Spending-The-Ryan-Way.htm Curb Medicare Spending The Ryan Way By MICHAEL F. CANNON Posted 09/28/2010 06:55 PM ET Nothing presents as great a threat to the federal budget — and therefore to economic growth — as the persistent and rapid growth of Medicare spending. The problem appears intractable. Congress has enacted modest cuts, yet everyone from Medicare’s […]
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ An Inoffensive Mosque and an Offensive Kindergarten If you believe the newspapers, a kindergarten in a town built by Jewish refugees from Yemen is about to doom all hopes for peace in the Middle East. Forget the fact that there was never any peace long before a few dozen Jews who fled Yemen built […]
