PARIS – A parliamentary panel that wants Muslim women to stop veiling their faces recommended Tuesday that France ban such garb in public facilities, including hospitals and mass transit, and a leading panel member said he foresees such an interdiction by the end of 2010. The nearly 200-page report contains a panoply of measures intended [...]
Tunku Varadarajan: End Political Correctness on Terror – The Daily Beast
The Obama administration has announced that citizens of 14 selected countries—as well as travelers whose itineraries have taken them through any of these countries—will be subjected to enhanced scrutiny before they board planes to the United States, including full-body pat-downs. The countries comprise four “state sponsors of terrorism” (Cuba, Iran, Sudan, and Syria) and 10 [...]
Reihan Salam: How ‘Avatar’ gets capitalism wrong – Forbes.com
For the last 200 years, humans have grown taller, stronger and healthier. This progress has been fastest in the countries that gave rise to the Industrial Revolution, yet it has spread throughout the world, sparking a transformation that economists Robert Fogel and Dora Costa call techno-physio evolution, “a synergism between technological and physiological improvements that [...]
Nicole Gelinas: Too Big Not To Fail – National Affairs
The catastrophe that struck America’s financial system in 2008 was not inevitable. Rather than a failure of markets, it was a failure by government to understand its proper role in markets — and the product of an unwise (and unnecessary) abandonment of a sensible system of rules and boundaries that had served American finance well [...]
Dems against Dems in health care vote struggle – AP
WASHINGTON – The end game in sight, Senate Democrats coped with stubborn internal differences as well as implacable Republican opposition on Monday in a struggle to pass health care legislation by Christmas.A liberal-backed call to expand Medicare as part of the legislation drew strong opposition from Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn. and quieter concerns from a [...]























CNN More Offended by SC Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer’s Poor Metaphor Than the Leftist Policies Which Inspired It and Keep the Poor Down
People like Precious should not be compared to stray animals. They’re human beings and should be respected. But the leftist policies which contribute to their destructive lifestyles should be put to sleep like a rabid dog.
CNN anchors and guests this morning have been outraged by South Carolina Lt. Governor Andre Bauer’s recent remarks in which [...]
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