Muslim Bites off Rabbi’s Finger at Lighting
A Muslim man attacked a Chabad rabbi Saturday night as he was conducting the annual ceremony to light the public Chanukah menorah in Stefenfaltz Square in the city of Vienna, Austria. The attacker hurled himself at Rabbi Dov Gruzman, principal of the city’s Jewish school run by the Chabad-Lubavitch Chassidic movement, and began punching him, […]
New EU Chief Blasts Israel in First Speech
The European Union’s new foreign policy chief criticized Israel in her first speech. Catherine Ashton, who earlier this month replaced Javier Solana as high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, on Tuesday condemned Israel’s “occupation,” demanded that Israel lift its blockade of the Gaza Strip and blasted the security fence. “East Jerusalem is occupied […]
Rashid Khalidi Headlines Taxpayer-funded Palestinian Fest
by Jonathan Schanzer and Madeleine Morgenstern December 17, 2009 The Palestinian American Research Center (PARC), a U.S. taxpayer-funded organization noted for the virulent anti-Israeli attitudes of its academic members, held a conference in October at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. Most of the conference was apolitical, but two lectures in particular raise […]
Senate Democrats Subvert the Rules of Order
Posted by Erick Erickson We can only hope the Senate Republicans learned their lesson today. As so many of us have tried to tell Mitch McConnell for weeks and weeks and weeks, the Senate GOP must throw everything they can at killing the health care bill. Instead, we have seen the Senate Republicans working collaboratively […]
Media Are Waking Up to Obama
By: Ronald Kessler “Saturday Night Live” has been ridiculing President Obama’s claim that he wants to reduce spending and cut the deficit. Katie Couric says Americans are growing “disenchanted” with Obama, and she cites polls questioning his credibility on her “CBS Evening News.” The Associated Press ran stories pointing out Obama’s misrepresentations on healthcare proposals. […]
Obama Praised, Bush Slammed for Anti-terror Talk
By: Ronald Kessler “For make no mistake: Evil does exist in the world.” For stating the obvious in Oslo, President Obama is being applauded by liberals and conservatives alike. “I face the world as it is, and cannot stand idle in the face of threats to the American people,” Obama said. Isn’t that the duty […]
Not Jolly Good: Islamists in the UK Government
by David J. Rusin • Dec 16, 2009 at 9:54 am Is there any degree of radicalism that disqualifies someone from holding a sensitive government post in the UK? Probably. But it would be difficult to tell based on two recent stories. First, Treasury official Azad Ali has begun advising the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) […]
Copenhagen Climate Negotiations “Suspended”
Like just about every other big, international conference, from world trade to human rights, it appears the Copenhagen climate summit has ended in a complete fiasco. BBC: Negotiations at the UN climate summit have been suspended after the African group withdrew co-operation. African delegations were angry at what they saw as moves by the Danish […]
100 REASONS WHY CLIMATE CHANGE IS NATURAL
HERE are the 100 reasons, released in a dossier issued by the European Foundation, why climate change is natural and not man-made: 1) There is “no real scientific proof” that the current warming is caused by the rise of greenhouse gases from man’s activity. 2) Man-made carbon dioxide emissions throughout human history constitute less than […]
Mission Not Accomplished
Peter Schiff–Although Barack Obama has refrained, at least for now, from delivering triumphant speeches in a naval flight suit, there is nevertheless a strong tone of accomplishment emanating from the President and his deputies. Over the weekend, top White House economic adviser Lawrence Summers even pronounced that the recession is now over. Without hedging his […]
Wasted U.S. Spending in Iraq: $53 billion and Counting
by Daniel Pipes November 21, 2009 Since the ouster of Saddam Hussein in 2003, the U.S. taxpayer has been rebuilding Iraq and – for just as long – I have been complaining about this being unnecessary and even counterproductive. (See here, here, and here for sample critiques.) Comes a report today by Timothy Williams in […]
