(New Yorker) More violent clashes in Tahrir Square, and the crowd is only growing larger and more determined after the revolution has turned to a undesirable twist for Egyptians. The state security police have tried two or three times to take the square and have had to retreat, behind a cordon of tear gas, to the streets […]
China’s state media Tuesday blasted the United States over its “ticking debt bomb” and urged American lawmakers to be more responsible after they failed to agree on deficit-cutting measures. China is the world’s largest foreign holder of US Treasuries with a portfolio of around $1.15 trillion, prompting Beijing’s keen interest in the state of the US […]
The Wall Street protesters, in their hatred of capitalism, overlook things including the fact that over the last 100 years capitalism has reduced poverty more and increased life expectancy more than in the 100,000 years prior. Every semester I ask my students: “What would you rather be? King of England in 1263 or you?” Turns […]
(Ulf Nilson, Expressen) When will the explosion come? How large a disaster? Tens of thousands dead? A partially poisoned and radioactive world? Iran destroyed? Israel destroyed? The questions above appear daily in the media in the U.S., where I landed a few days ago. In Sweden — peaceful, beautiful Sweden — we do not like […]
Starting from 2012, the process of global cooling will start on the Earth and by the middle of 21st century the whole planet will be captured by low temperatures, an expert from the Russian Sciences Academy Observatory was quoted as saying. The cause of the expected global cooling is a decrease in the flow of […]
You’d better sit down and firmly grip your bowl of Corn Flakes while reading this shocking news: College faculties are not only mostly liberal, but lean even further to the left than conservatives have imagined. According to a study by professors at Smith College, George Mason University and the University of Toronto (they surveyed 1,643 […]
(By Lloyd Marcus) A black website published one of my articles. The black publisher asked his readers to forgive me for being a black member of the GOP and review my article with an open mind. In response, a subscriber wrote, “You can ask us to look past him being a GOP, but you can’t […]
The Whitehouse corruption continues, this appears to be another Solyndra in the making. President John F. Kennedy’s nephew, Robert Kennedy, Jr., netted a $1.4 billion bailout for his company from the Obama administration, BrightSource, through a loan guarantee issued by a former employee-turned Department of Energy official whom donated millions to Obamas’ 2008 campaign. It’s […]
(Daniel Greenfield) There is no surer path to Muslim violence than through the legitimization of Muslim grievance. And once you accept the legitimacy of the grievance, then you are also bound to accept the legitimacy of the violence that follows. Violence begins with grievance. Grievance is the pretext for violence and the narrative for the […]
In recent weeks, the poll numbers for Newt Gingrich have absolutely skyrocketed. Many now believe that he has a legitimate shot at winning the Republican nomination. But the truth is that he would be a really, really bad president. Gingrich is a big time Washington insider who believes in individual health care mandates, who supported […]
