There is a distinctly Titanic-like feel to the Obama presidency and it’s not hard to see why. The most left-wing president in modern American history has tried to force a highly interventionist, government-driven agenda that runs counter to the principles of free enterprise, individual freedom, and limited government that have made the United States...
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The Anatomy of Defeat – Rasmussen Reports™
CBS, meanwhile, reported: “The Obama administration is giving different explanations of its July 2011 deadline for the start of an Afghanistan troop withdrawal, assuring foreign officials that it applies only to the 30,000 to 35,000 additional U.S. troops that President Barack Obama is sending next year (2010), but suggesting to Congress that it covers...
Amir Taheri: Iran’s Democratic Moment – WSJ.com
Most significantly, the movement that started as a protest against the alleged rigging of the election that gave a second term to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been evolving. The crowds’ initial slogan was “Where Is My Vote?” and the movement’s accidental leaders, including former Prime Minister Mir Hossein Mousavi, tried hard to keep the...
Bret Stephens: Does Obama Believe in Human Rights – WSJ.com
It . . . takes a remarkable degree of cynicism—or perhaps cowardice—to treat human rights as something that “interferes” with America’s purposes in the world, rather than as the very thing that ought to define them. Yet that is exactly the record of Mr. Obama’s time thus far in office. In Massachusetts not long...
Europe Thumps U.S., Again – WSJ.com
On present trends, most of Europe will soon have lower income tax rates than most of America. And now the European Union is stealing another competitive march on Washington, this time on a free trade deal with the world’s 13th largest economy, fast-growing South Korea. Last week Brussels and Seoul finished the outline of...
Ex-CIA chief: Obama risks national security – CNN.com
Hayden said he called several senior White House officials to express his opposition before the president released the documents. Hayden also noted that four previous CIA directors, as well as current agency director Leon Panetta, opposed the release. via Ex-CIA chief: Obama risks national security – CNN.com.
Islam: a Religion of Peace?
“Not equal are those believers who sit (at home) and receive no hurt, and those who strive and fight in the cause of God with their goods and their persons. God hath granted a grade higher to those who strive and fight with their goods and persons than to those who sit (at home)....
CNSNews.com – American Legion Critical of Obama for Apologizing to Muslim World for U.S. Actions in Aftermath of 9/11
CNSNews.com – American Legion Critical of Obama for Apologizing to Muslim World for U.S. Actions in Aftermath of 9/11. Let at-all-costs academic pacifists loose on the world and you get a elected official (doesn’t quite sound right to say “president”) with his tail between his legs. That’s the farthest things from American ideals.
German View of Islam
There’s an email going around that, while anonymous, has some really good points. Nothing we haven’t heard necessarily, but something we should hear on a regular basis. Well put. A German’s View on Islam by Paul E. Marek A man, whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War II, owned a number of...
