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HOW MANY TRILLIONS MUST WE WASTE ON THE WAR ON POVERTY?

Morning Bell: How Many Trillions Must We Waste on the War on Poverty? Posted By Conn Carroll On March 17, 2011 @ 9:01 am In Family and Religion | 43 Comments Which American politician said the following? “The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief […]

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OBAMA PROVES OSAMA WAS RIGHT

WASHINGTON TIMES When the chips are down, Barack abandons U.S. allies By THE WASHINGTON TIMES– February 7, 2011 Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, left, greets U.S. President Barack Obama upon his arrival at Qubba palace in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, June 4, 2009. President Obama is due to address the Muslim world in a speech during his

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A TALE OF TWO ALEXANDRIAS

MARCH 5, 2011 Over the past six decades, Egypt’s second city has morphed from cosmopolitan oasis into Islamist stronghold By MARC CHAMPION And LUCETTE LAGNADO Odette and Elie MorenoFifty years ago, women in Alexandria strolled to the beach in their bikinis (above, sunbathers at Sidi Bishr beach in 1959) Colette Frege Haggar remembers how, in

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DEATH AND POLITICS – HOW THE GRIEF OVER KENNEDY’S DEATH WAS USED TO ENACT JOHNSON’S ‘GREAT SOCIETY’

Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) On the use and abuse of grief as a partisan weapon. Noemie Emery February 28, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 23 What’s in a political death? Whatever you want or need to see in it. Some deaths​—​those of Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley​—​mean what they seem to, and are

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VIETNAM – FLIGHT FROM CHU LAI, 1967

THIS IS HEARTBREAKING BUT THE STORY MUST BE TOLD OF DR. HAL KUSHNER AND THE PRISONERS OF WAR DURING THE VIETNAM WAR You will find that dying is very easy; living, living is the difficult thing.” An inspirational story about an American hero; the story of a very brave and dedicated U.S. Army Flight Surgeon,

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THE FEDERAL RESERVE IS CAUSING TURMOIL ABROAD

FEBRUARY 23, 2011 Few protesters in the Middle East connect rising food prices to U.S. monetary policy. But central bankers do. By GEORGE MELLOAN In accounts of the political unrest sweeping through the Middle East, one factor, inflation, deserves more attention. Nothing can be more demoralizing to people at the low end of the income

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THE U.S. CAN HELP LIBYANS DEFEAT GADHAFI – PAUL WOLFOWITZ

FEBRUARY 22, 2011 The U.S. Can Help Libyans Defeat Gadhafi If mercenaries are arriving to save the dictator, the U.S. and U.N. need to mobilize to stop the slaughter. By PAUL WOLFOWITZ EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Later on Sunday the State Department started to play catch-up, issuing a statement that called upon Libyan officials to

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