Bahrain Moves To Outlaw Contact With Israel
Lawmakers in Bahrain passed a bill that would outlaw any contact with Israel, including travel and business relationships. The lower house of the parliament on Tuesday approved the bill, which includes jail terms of three to seven years and a $27,000 fine for “any contact or relations with Israel” or “the establishment of diplomatic or […]
Karzai’s Brother and Washington’s Kept Politicians
by Daniel Pipes Ahmed Wali Karzai, brother of Afghan president Hamid Karzai (pictured) is reportedly on the American payroll. Ahmed Wali Karzai, brother of the Afghan president, “a go-between between the Americans and the Taliban,” and “a suspected player in the country’s booming illegal opium trade,” the New York Times informs us, “gets regular payments […]
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U.S. Home Price Rebound Already in ‘Bubble Territory’
Robert Shiller The gains in U.S. home prices in recent months may not be sustainable and increases in some areas of the country appear to be in “bubble territory,” an economist known for his property market expertise said on Tuesday. Robert Shiller, an economics professor at Yale University and co-developer of Standard and Poor’s S&P/Case-Shiller […]
Did Schwarzenegger drop 4-letter bomb?
Letter to Ammiano Did California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s use a coded veto message to send the f-bomb to Tom Ammiano, soon after the San Francisco assemblyman made news by telling the governor to “kiss my gay ass”? A straight reading of Schwarzenegger letter laments “the fact that major issues are overlooked while many unnecessary bills […]
Pro-Life Democrats Say ‘No’ to Abortion Funding in Health-Care Reform
by Kim Trobee Led by Rep. Bart Stupak, a group of Dems tries to force a vote on the abortion funding issue. Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., and at least 40 Democrats reportedly will vote against a rule designed to govern debate on health-care reform, unless that rule allows an amendment to insert language similar to […]
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Turkey: An Ally No More
by Daniel Pipes The foreign ministers of Turkey and Syria met in Aleppo in October 2009. “There is no doubt he is our friend,” Turkey’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, says of Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, even as he accuses Israel’s foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman of threatening to use nuclear weapons against Gaza. These outrageous […]
France to launch national pride campaign in battle against Islam
By Peter Allen France is to adopt a series of measures to ‘reaffirm pride’ in the country and combat Islamic fundamentalism. They include everybody receiving lessons in the nation’s Christian history and children singing the national anthem. Using words which infuriated ethnic minority groups and Socialist opponents, immigration minister Eric Besson also said he wanted […]
Obama plays golf instead of deciding whether to send more troops to Afghanistan
McChrystal issued his report 8 weeks ago, when will Obama issue a decision? Posted by Dan Spencer Obama spent the day golfing instead of making his long awaited decision about sending more troops to Afghanistan. For weeks, President Obama has been indecisively dithering about whether to send more troops to Afghanistan to fight what he correctly […]
Obama’s Too-Big-to-Fail Plan Is Too Dumb to Pass:
Commentary by Kevin Hasset Sept. 28 (Bloomberg) — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s appearance in Congress last week to explain how President Barack Obama would overhaul financial regulation elicited the most striking sign yet that the wheels have come off the administration’s economic-policy team. The White House had proposed, and Geithner was ready to defend, such […]
