Archive for September, 2011

Related Story: Prosecutor Argues Muslim Students Broke The Law By Shouting Down Israeli Ambassador’s Speech At UC Irvine WashingtonPost: A jury on Friday convicted 10 Muslim students of disrupting a talk by the Israeli ambassador on a university campus in a case that has stoked an intense debate about free speech. The jury also convicted [...]

Examiner: While Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas is in New York City pleading his case for statehood for his people at the United Nations building, the U.S. Department of State on Thursday added another name to its list of those designated terrorists. The State Department announced the designation of Hamas’ Muhammad Hisham Muhammad Isma’il Abu Ghazala [...]

Courtesy Of Michael Yon

Netanyahu’s U.N. Address <b> Or What A Real Leader Sounds Like</b>

At the Open Government Partnership Event, President Obama was photographed in what is being called an “embarrassing” gaffe due to the odd tilt of his head and his solitary wave that covered the face of another world leader. President Obama’s hand accidentally blocked the face of the President of Mongolia, according to reports. (Photo by [...]

ABC: An hour after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addressed the U.N. General Assembly to a rousing ovation, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received a more measured response. “The Palestinians should first make peace and then declare their state,” he said today in response to Abbas’ bid for U.N. statehood. “Israel is prepared to have a [...]

Yahoo News: Palestinians calling for U.N. recognition of a Palestinian state clashed with Israeli soldiers in the West Bank on Friday, just hours before their president, Mahmoud Abbas, was to deliver his widely anticipated request to the world body. The confrontations were small, involving several dozen Palestinians in each of three locations. At Qalandiya, a [...]

Weekly Standard: Remember how Obama recently waived new ozone regulations at the EPA because they were too costly? Well, it seems that the Obama administration is would rather make people with Asthma cough up money than let them make a surely inconsequential contribution to depleting the ozone layer: Asthma patients who rely on over-the-counter inhalers [...]

San Juan Capistrano Patch: The San Juan Capistrano councilman says the choice was meant to teach his kids about freedom, not as an insult to Muslims. Two disapproving colleagues scold him for “unacceptable” comments. Naming his dog Muhammad, and later announcing it during a public meeting, was not meant to be disparaging to Muslims, San [...]

Morgan Freeman: <b>Obama Made Racism Worse, Tea Party Will Do ‘Whatever [It] Can To Get This Black Man Outta Here’</b>
After Blocking House-Passed Bill Reid Whines About GOP And Tea Party Not Doing Enough

LA Times: Angry protests against President Hamid Karzai erupted Friday at the burial of the Afghan government’s chief peace negotiator, who was killed this week by a suicide bomber posing as a Taliban envoy. The daylong funeral observances for Burhanuddin Rabbani, a former president, brought Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, to a near standstill, with some of [...]

CNN: Only 843 pounds of moon rocks exist on Earth, according to NASA. Now, 30 years after it went missing, one of those precious rocks has been found among memorabilia belonging to former President Bill Clinton. A worker found it Wednesday morning, quite by accident, inside one of thousands of nondescript boxes in an Arkansas [...]

Friday’s War Porn: Iraq Helmet Cam Footage

Associated Press: SAN DIEGO (AP) — A man who fired a starter pistol as he fled border inspectors was wounded after two officers shot at him at the nation’s busiest border crossing Thursday. The afternoon shooting prompted U.S. Customs and Border Protection to temporarily suspend pedestrian travel into the United States from Mexico at the [...]

Israel National News: Arabs threw rocks Wednesday at an Israeli car between Migdalim and Tapuach Junction in Samaria. A 20 month old girl was injured in the face. The baby girl received treatment from Samaria Regional Authority medics and evacuated to a hospital. The Authority Head Gershon Mesika said: “The ‘men of peace’ of the [...]

Michael Moore Threatens Violent Uprising Against “The Rich”

FoxNews: Top executives from a bankrupt California solar energy company pleaded the Fifth Amendment more than a dozen times Friday in a congressional hearing that went nowhere but gave members the opportunity to pose dozens of questions about the loss of a half billion dollars in government loans. Solyndra Inc. CEO Brian Harrison and the [...]

And Now, For Something Completely Different: Grannies Shotgunning Beers

Perhaps reality has finally trumped their ability to manipulate their economy… Associated Press: SHANGHAI (AP) — Signs that powerhouse China is slowing have spooked global markets and sharpened fears that the world economy will not escape another recession. The dramatic stock market fallout from one small, preliminary survey of Chinese manufacturers far exceeded the data’s [...]