Headlines: January 31, 2009

Obama Will Review Buy American Provision in Stimulus

Obama lets CIA keep controversial renditions tool

Headlines: January 30, 2009

Mullen Says Close to 30,000 New Soldiers Likely for Afghanistan

Headlines: January 9, 2009

The Great Credit-Crunch Hoax of 2008

The USSR's Role in the Middle East Goes Down the Memory Hole

Extremists among us?
Yes: Behind its moderate face, the Muslim American Society has deep ties to radical Islam

Headlines: January 8, 2009

The New Old Big Thing in Economics: J.M. Keynes

Guantánamo prison 'could close quickly' if Britain takes inmates

Steel's 'Buy America' Ploy
How to turn recession into a depression.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Headlines: January 7, 2009

"The Bolsheviks have discovered that truth does not matter so long as there is reiteration. They have no difficulty whatever in countering a fact by a lie which, if repeated often enough and loudly enough, becomes accepted by the people." (Winston Churchill, Brighton, October 4, 1947)

"Awful, my friend, is the task of the intelligent advocate for liberty. The military spirit, the ecclesiastical spirit, the commercial spirit, and innumerable other evil spirits are eternally devising mischief to his cause and disturbing his repose. It is a constant warfare from the cradle to the grave without comfort, thanks, or rewards, and is always overcome at last." (John Adams to Elbrige Gerry, April 25, 1785)

The Pros and Cons of Picking Panetta

Militant Islam Threatens Us All
Hamas rockets have the same terror goal as Hitler's blitz.

Overtime in the Minnesota Senate election

Protester Calls for Jews to 'Go Back to the Oven' at Anti-Israel Demonstration

1997: Mugged by Reality: We know how to contain the epidemic of crime

"Seventy percent of the juvenile offenders in our state reform institutions grew up in a household with only one parent or no parent at all."

Headlines: January 6, 2009

TYRANNY OF THE TAX-EXEMPT

Domestic Disturbances (donor-conceived children)

Justice Requires 12 Angry Men
Small juries are less likely to get the verdict right.

How the U.N. Perpetuates the 'Refugee' Problem
Nowhere on earth do terrorists get so much help from the Free World.

Universal healthcare and the waistline police
We risk a nanny state contrary to American ideals.

Deaths caused by hospital mistakes 'up 60 per cent in two years'
The number of hospital patients killed by mistakes has risen by 60 per cent in two years, official figures show.

NJ Gov. Corzine Contemplates Budget Cuts

Fish: The 10 Best American Movies

Mr. Gore: Apology Accepted

Feel Like a Trillion Bucks
Only WWII was pricier than Obama's stimulus plans.

Monday, January 5, 2009

Headlines: January 5, 2009

Funny Business in Minnesota
In which every dubious ruling seems to help Al Franken.

Sound of artillery fire may herald peace after relentless years of raining rockets

Military incursion should be seen as part of War on Terror

Yes, the war in Gaza is terrible. But the alternative was worse - for all of us

Sea Ice Ends Year at Same Level as 1979

Documenting the Global Warming Fraud (continued) (strange placement of thermometers)

Analysis: Can Uncle Sam spend cash fast enough?

Spengler: Overcoming ethnicity

California Supreme Court says breakaway parish can't take national church's property
A Newport Beach parish split from the U.S. Episcopal church because of a gay bishop. The state high court rules that 'the local church did not have the right to take the church property with it.'

Headlines: January 4, 2009

A Donor’s Gift Soon Followed Clinton’s Help

Headlines: January 3, 2009

Steel industry hopes for big stimulus shot: The steel industry, having entered the recession in the best of health, is emerging as a leading indicator of what lies ahead. As steel production goes, and it is now in collapse, so will go the national economy.

Will: The Toll Of a Rights 'Victory'

Sun-Sentinel Lame Coverage of Pro-Hamas Ft. Lauderdale Demonstration Overshadowed by YouTube Video

Headlines: January 2, 2009

"Ms. Garcia was a 'balsera,' one of the 38,000 rafters who fled Cuba in 1994. She said she left her suburb of Havana because her daughter needed medical care she could not get in Cuba for a brain tumor."

Thomas Jefferson's Views Perfectly Applicable to Present-Day Suffrage Agitation, Declares Pennsylvania Anti-Suffragist.

Moral Clarity in Gaza

Global Warming Science Questions?

U.S. governors seek $1 trillion federal assistance

Headlines: January 1, 2009

The Minnesota Recount Folly: We've Been Down That Road: How the Democrats 'won' the Washington governor's mansion in 2004.

Grape extract kills cancer cells

The Earth has been warming ever since the end of the Little Ice Age. But guess what: Researchers say mankind is to blame for that, too.

Tallying Trillions in Bailout, Bankruptcy: Commentary (Update1)

Muni Sales Dry Up as States Face $42 Billion Deficit (Update1)

Fed's Assets Top $2 Trillion, as Use of Facilities Is Brisk