The Left’s New Enemy: “Empire”
by Daniel Pipes National Review Online June 22, 2010 We know what Marx, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao wanted (state control of everything) and how they achieved this goal (brutal totalitarianism); but what do their successors today want and how do they hope to achieve it? It’s a curiously un-examined subject. Ernest Sternberg of the University […]
Afghan Christians issue plea for help after call for execution
A group of Afghan Christians living in exile in India have issued an “urgent” plea to the international community to help Christians still living in Afghanistan following the recent call for their execution by a government minister. The letter was issued earlier in the month by a community of 150 Afghan converts now living as […]
Al-Qaida warns of new attacks deadlier than before
CAIRO – Al-Qaida’s U.S.-born spokesman warned President Barack Obama Sunday that the militant group may launch new attacks that would kill more Americans than previous ones. In a taunting, 24 minute message that dwelled on Obama’s setbacks, including the loss of Massachusetts Senate seat to the Republicans, Adam Gadahn set out al-Qaida’s conditions for peace […]
Strikes in China signal end to era of low-cost labour and cheap exports
China’s rulers make statements supporting workers rights as series of high-profile strikes suggest economic turning point. The Chinese Communist party called on employers to raise salaries and improve training for workers today, as Toyota became the latest foreign firm to be hit by a wave of high-profile strikes. The People’s Daily, the mouthpiece of the […]
Can Obama Shut Down the Internet?
The Internet may have started out as a communications oddity some 40 years ago, but it is now a necessity of modern life and, sadly, one that is under constant attack,” he said. Lieberman and the bill’s other sponsors cited the massive cyberattack several months ago on the search-engine company Google—an attack believed to have […]
Vladimir Putin boasts Russian fighter jet would trump US rival
Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister, climbed into the cockpit of his country’s newest fighter jet on Thursday and said it would trump a US-built rival, the F-22 Raptor. Mr Putin watched a test flight of a “fifth-generation” stealth fighter, dubbed the T-50 and billed as Russia’s first all-new warplane since the collapse of the […]
DOW to hit 1,000 by 2016?
Elliot Wave Predicts Triple-Digit Dow in 2016 by Peter Brimelow Commentary: If you think things are bad now… An investment letter that called the Crash of 2008 said that this would be a bad year — and it now says it will get worse. A whole generation of investors think that Robert Prechter and his […]
SECTION of U.S.A. CLOSED TO AMERICANS
U.S. GOVERNMENT SURRENDERS SECTION OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA TO MEXICO Paul L. Williams, Ph.D. Welcome to the post-America era. A huge section of the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge in southern Arizona remains closed to American citizens. The 3,500 acre site is now occupied by Mexican drug smugglers and border bandidos whose attacks on local law […]
New jobless claims up sharply as layoffs persist
WASHINGTON – The number of people filing new claims for jobless benefits jumped last week after three straight declines, another sign that the pace of layoffs has not slowed. Initial claims for jobless benefits rose by 12,000 to a seasonally adjusted 472,000, the Labor Department said Thursday. It was the highest level in a month […]
YouCut is designed to defeat the permissive culture of runaway spending in Congress
YouCut – a first-of-its-kind project – is designed to defeat the permissive culture of runaway spending in Congress. It allows you to vote, both online and on your cell phone, on spending cuts that you want to see the House enact. Vote on this page today for your priorities and together we can begin to […]
California’s Middle East Studies Profs Target Israel
by Cinnamon Stillwell FrontPage Magazine June 15, 2010 [Ed. note: title differs slightly from publisher’s.] In recent months, two University of California campuses, Berkeley and San Diego, have been embroiled in fierce debates following the introduction of anti-Israel divestiture resolutions by their respective student senates. Both were defeated, but not before a number of California’s […]
