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Will Gay Muslims Be Welcome at the Cordoba Mosque?
August 5, 2010While the guardians of our diversity-obsessed society stress the need for us to welcome a Muslim mosque to Ground Zero, despite Muslim antipathy towards western values, I wonder why the selfsame champions of gay rights are silent about Islam’s prohibitions against homosexuality and harsh penalties for offenders. Christine Quinn, the first lesbian Speaker of [...]
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Drowning in a sea of red ink
August 4, 2010For those who haven’t yet seen it, here’s a link to the July 27 report by the Congressional Budget Office entitled “Federal Debt and the Risk of a Fiscal Crisis.” A few highlights from the report (and remember, the head of the CBO is a Democrat): – U.S. federal debt is projected to rise to [...]
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Islam at Ground Zero
August 3, 2010We saw one expression of Islam at Ground Zero in New York City on September 11, 2001. Now, Imam Faisal Rauf and others want to demonstrate another expression of Islam there: a $100 million mosque mere steps away from the place where thousands were incinerated by Mohammed Atta et al. Two things to keep in [...]
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Charity -vs- stealing
August 3, 2010The Father of the Constitution James Madison once said, “Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.” Nonetheless, we live in an entitlement age, where the business of providing charity invariably becomes an impetus for bigger, more oppressive government. You can’t underestimate the value of well-crafted rhetoric, my friends. After all, aren’t [...]
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Did Peres call Brits Antisemites?
August 3, 2010Fury as Israel president claims English are ‘anti-semitic’ exclaims the Telegraph: Shimon Peres said England was “deeply pro-Arab … and anti-Israeli”, adding: “They always worked against us.”He added: “There is in England a saying that an anti-Semite is someone who hates the Jews more than is necessary.” . . . The controversy follows the [...]
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Get Low
August 3, 2010Heretical as it may be to dis a Robert Duvall movie, Get Low, a film that pretends to show us that good and evil are not poles apart but intertwined, remains a slow-paced movie that upends no conventions and ends with a mawkish celebration of the basic goodness of even the most ornery soul. [...]
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Why is the Media Afraid of Time Magazine’s Current Cover Story?
August 2, 2010The cover of this week’s Time Magazine is, no doubt about it, genuinely a shocker, showing as it does a lovely young Afghan woman. Lovely that is, but for the yawning orifice in the middle of her face where her nose should be. As the text explains,young Aisha had run away from husband [...]
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Chelsea Weds
August 2, 2010Over the weekend Chelsea Clinton married her fiance Marc Mezvinsky, whose father is a former Iowa congressman and convicted felon who served several years in prison for defrauding investors out of 10 million dollars. I’d call that Keepin’ it Clinton! [End.]
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GREENSPAN: LET THE DOW RISE
August 2, 2010The country is in a funk. The economy seems to be going from bad to worse. What happened? The simple answer is that all the frantic Democratic legislation designed “to change the country” made matters worse for everybody and most especially for poor and the middle class, the very people Obama claims to want to [...]
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Forget Spanish…Learn Mandarin
August 2, 2010After three decades of rapid economic growth, China has just passed Japan as the world’s second largest economy. Experts now predict that if Beijing can sustain such levels of growth, China will pass the United States around 2025 to become the world’s biggest economy. Meanwhile, back at the ranch….second quarter growth slowed to 2.4%, weighed [...]
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Iran And The Women They Hate
August 2, 2010Iranian housewife Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani still awaits execution for the crime of adultery. She has been in prison for four years and was to be publicly stoned in accordance with Islamic law. When her lawyer raised hell on an Internet blog about her pending death an international cry was raised. Iranian mullahs then caved to [...]
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The Assassin And His Target- And A Game At Michigan
July 30, 2010The National Football League is doing a comprehensive review of head trauma and their conclusions may change how football is played. Spectators and television viewers may appreciate the violence of football but not the true elemental level of danger. As a physician and fan, I learned this firsthand from Darryl Stingley and Jack Tatum. [...]
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A Cancer Within
July 30, 2010The opponents of the Arizona illegal immigration law have shown themselves to be wrong on the law, politically perverse, and a malignant force. The Arizona law was drafted as completely consistent with federal law. There was nothing in it that colored outside the lines. It was all perfectly aligned with the immigration laws that have [...]
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SELF HUMILIATION TOUR OF DAVID CAMERON
July 29, 2010David Cameron, Britain’s new PM, has apparently learned little from Barack Obama’s experience. He is undertaking his own international humiliation tour in hope of reaping economic benefits. It is difficult to believe that this is making the Brits feel proud. Already, Simon Tisdal of the Guardian call’s him Obama’s useful idiot It began in the [...]
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The president does a show
July 29, 2010The president of the United States appeared on “The View” yesterday, a daytime TV chat show for women, featuring such intellects as Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg. It’s hard to imagine Lincoln doing that, or FDR, or Jack Kennedy, who had a sense of style. Even Ronald Reagan, who’d spent part of [...]