Major Hasan’s E-Mail: ‘I Can’t Wait to Join You’ in Afterlife – ABC News
Major Hasan’s E-Mail: ‘I Can’t Wait to Join You’ in Afterlife – ABC News.
Major Hasan’s E-Mail: ‘I Can’t Wait to Join You’ in Afterlife – ABC News.
The Crescent and the Continent by Jacob Laksin, City Journal 30 October 2009.
Charles Krauthammer – Charles Krauthammer on the perverse logic of Attorney General Eric Holder – washingtonpost.com.
Growing discontent over the economy and frustration with efforts to speed its recovery boiled over Thursday on Capitol Hill in a wave of criticism and outright anger directed at the Obama administration.
via Obama faces congressional anger about economy – washingtonpost.com.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday that the first crucial vote on an $848 billion health care overhaul package would probably happen Saturday.
That procedural vote will decide whether to bring that bill to the Senate floor and begin debate, and its approval relies on the votes of three wavering moderate Democrats. Republicans are expected [...]
The Army has guidelines on how to deal with racist views and actions within the ranks, but none on how to deal with Islamic jihadism, a former Army vice chief of staff told Congress on Thursday.
Retired Army Gen. John M. Keane said this absence of guidance fostered a politically correct reluctance to investigate the man [...]
Sarah Palin trashes ‘lamestream media’ – Andy Barr – POLITICO.com.
VQR » Sixty Hours of Terror.
EXCLUSIVE: McCain: ‘Grateful’ that Palin was VP choice – Washington Times.
Big Government » Blog Archive » Obama Stimulus Numbers: The Return of Enron-Style Accounting.
What Obama Accomplished in Asia.
Sen. Joe Lieberman’s threat to filibuster any health care bill with a public option could kill health reform this year — and embolden Democratic challengers who’d like to send him packing in 2012.But Lieberman doesn’t seem worried.“I don’t think about that stuff,” Lieberman told POLITICO this week. “I’m just — I’m being a legislator. After [...]
If Israel’s detractors can associate the Jewish movement for self-determination with the Apartheid South African regime, they will have done lasting and maybe irreparable damage. Yet the comparison of Israel to South Africa under white supremist rule has been utterly rejected by those with intimate understanding of the old Apartheid system.
Israel is a multi-racial and [...]
Arguing the Economy by Nicole Gelinas, City Journal 18 November 2009.
Extraordinary events in Iran over the past six months have brought us images, voices, and narratives until recently unimaginable; they reveal, among other things, how little we understand about quotidian life in that country since the revolution. In the United States, we are nevertheless aware, with a dark tremor, of Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, the [...]
Health Care: A government task force has decided that women need fewer mammograms and later in life. Shouldn’t that be between patient and physician? We have seen the future of health care, and it doesn’t work.We have warned repeatedly that the net results of health care bills before Congress will be higher demand, fewer doctors, [...]
MUHAMMAD REDWAN and his family were being hammered from all sides. In early August, rebels from Yemen’s Houthi clan took over his village in the rugged mountains of the Malahid district, near the border with Saudi Arabia. First they harassed him, telling him not to listen on his television to music that “contradicted the values [...]
He may have promised to change Washington, but President Barack Obama is continuing one of its most renowned patronage traditions: bestowing prized ambassadorships on big donors.
Of the nearly 80 ambassadorship nominations or confirmations since Obama’s Inauguration, 56 percent were given to political appointees and 44 percent have gone to career diplomats, according to records kept [...]
Listening to President Obama and his Chinese counterpart this week, it was hard to tell who was Hu.One is the leader of a great democracy. The other is the head of a repressive regime. But as the two men faced reporters in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People, Obama deferred to the wishes of President [...]
KARL ROVE: The Permanent Campaign Continues – WSJ.com.
WILLIAMS: Death by political correctness – Washington Times.
Former New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani said Wednesday that the Obama administration had put the country on a vulnerable, defensive footing against terrorism by deciding to try accused September 11 terror plotters in a civilian New York City court.
via Giuliani: Terror trials leave U.S. ‘very vulnerable’ – Washington Times.
On the intellectual irresponsibility of Soviet sympathizers.
via The costs of abstraction by Anthony Daniels – The New Criterion.
President Barack Obama’s job approval rating is 48 – 42 percent, the first time he has slipped below the 50 percent threshold nationally, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.
via National (US) Poll * November 18, 2009 * Obama Approval Dips Below 50% – Quinnipiac University – Hamden, Connecticut.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid outlined for Democrats Wednesday a ten-year $849 billion bill that would overhaul the nation’s health-care system and extend insurance to 31 million Americans without coverage.
via Senate Health Bill Is Outlined by Reid – WSJ.com.