Posts Tagged ‘News’
Israel’s botched raid against the Gaza-bound humanitarian flotilla on May 31 is the latest sign that Israel is on a disastrous course that it seems incapable of reversing. The attack also highlights the extent to which Israel has become a strategic liability for the United States. This situation is likely to get worse over time, [...]
The Anti-Defamation League and the Government of Mexico have filed separate lawsuits against the State of Arizona over its new immigration law which will take affect July 29. Lawyers representing Mexico filled a brief supporting the law suit which was brought by the ACLU which they are taking to Federal Court claiming that the law [...]
Dr. Tomislav Sunic has published a new book, written in French, entitled La Croatie : un pays par défaut? (English title, Croatia: A country by default?).
In the book, Sunic describes the phenomenon of “suddenness” and “accident” regarding the notion of the political among peoples without stable state structures. Quoting many German, French, Croatian and American [...]
Justices rebuff Chicago, which defended ban as reasonable exercise of local power.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Monday that the Constitution’s “right to keep and bear arms” applies nationwide as a restraint on the ability of the federal, state and local governments to substantially limit its reach.
By a 5-4 vote split along familiar ideological lines, [...]
Nearly half of American Adults see the government today as a threat to individual rights rather than a protector of those rights.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 48% of Adults see the government today as a threat to rights. Thirty-seven percent (37%) hold the opposite view. Fifteen percent (15%) are undecided.
Most Republicans [...]
The US senators pushing a controversial new bill that some fear would give President Barack Obama the powers to seize control of and even shut down the internet have rejected claims it would give Obama a net “kill switch”.
The architect of the bill, US Senator Joe Lieberman.
The bill, titled Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset [...]
I read with interest Greg Johnson’s recent article about Douglas Hyde’s Dedication and Leadership, a book where the author — who fed 20 years of his life to the meat-grinder of Communist activism — provided trenchant advise on how best to mobilize the idealism, and inspire the sacrifice, of those seeking to change the [...]
House Investigation: Private contractors paying warlords, criminals to get supplies to U.S. and NATO bases
(CBS) Billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars are fuelling corruption in Afghanistan and funding the insurgency, according to a six-month investigation by the House subcommittee on National Security and Foreign affairs.
The committee’s chairman, Rep. John F. Tierney, D-Mass., told CBS News: [...]
Mark it on your calendar. It seems we’ve finally entered the Soviet era in America.
You remember the Soviet Union, now almost 20 years in its grave. But who gives it a second thought today? Even in its glory years that “evil empire” was sometimes referred to as “the second superpower.” In 1991, after seven [...]
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is appointing women and minorities to federal judgeships at an unprecedented rate, and nowhere is the evidence more clear than in the Golden State.
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If she can make it through a logjam of judicial nominees in the U.S. Senate, Kimberly Mueller will make history, becoming the first woman [...]
by Sharon Begley
June 3, 2010
Jews have historically considered themselves “people of the book” (am hasefer in Hebrew), referring to sacred tomes, but the phrase is turning out to have an equally powerful, if unintended, meaning: scientists are able to read Jewish genomes like a history book. The latest DNA volume weighs in on the controversial, [...]
Chancellor Angela Merkel and other politicians have lashed out at controversial Bundesbank board member Thilo Sarrazin after he reportedly said Turkish, Arab and African immigrants were making Germany “more stupid.”
Sarrazin has made offensive remarks about immigrants
German politicians have expressed consternation at a racist outburst by the central bank’s board member and former Berlin senator, Thilo [...]
By Conor Dougherty
WSJ June 11, 2010
A Changing Population
Figure 1: See the percentage of the population of each state that is white, and how this figure has changed since 1980.
Figure 2: See the percentage of the population under age 15 that is white, by state, in 2000 and 2009.
Whites are on the verge of becoming a [...]
Freedom of speech is a vital human right, a pair of international celebrities declared during a visit to Toronto on Monday – especially if you have something to say.
Sir Salman Rushdie and Elie Wiesel appear together at a press conference to promote the Spirit of Hope Benefit, a fundraiser for the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, speaking [...]
The M3 money supply in the United States is contracting at an accelerating rate that now matches the average decline seen from 1929 to 1933, despite near zero interest rates and the biggest fiscal blitz in history.
The stock of money in the US fell from $14.2 trillion to $13.9 trillion in the three [...]
By Charles Glass
Anybody can support Israel when times are good and The Timeses in London and New York write about Israeli entrepreneurs in Herzliya, Nobel prizes for physicians, and the blooming desert. That’s easy. How about now, though, when Israeli forces have blasted a humanitarian convoy at sea and killed nine people bringing food, medicine, [...]
By Elizabeth Wright
How is it possible that Rand Paul could have been so unprepared for Rachel Maddow’s persistent questioning on the race issue? He claimed on her TV program that civil rights “hadn’t been a real pressing issue on the campaign.” Yet his National Public Radio interview on May 19 shows that he has [...]
From June 6 to June 14, Dr. Tom Sunic, professor, author, translator and member of the Board of Directors of the American Third Position, will have a book tour in Canada. Tom will also give a few interesting lectures. See below his itinerary and the titles of his talks. His host is Paul Fromm from [...]
Key strategic relationship with Turkey damaged and Netanyahu visit to White House cancelled.
In a scene echoed around the world, a woman flashes a victory sign during a protest outside the Belgian foreign affairs building in Brussels. Photograph: Francois Lenoir/Reuters
Israel’s calculated gamble in sending commandos to raid the Mediterranean flotilla looked likely last night to exact [...]
NEW ORLEANS — Anger and frustration surged across the Gulf Coast on Monday as residents learned that the latest attempt to cap a renegade underwater well had failed and that oil may keep gushing into the Gulf of Mexico until at least August, when relief wells are scheduled to be finished.
Larry Howard collects water samples [...]