News You Need to Know 17Oct09

  • Rebuttal of the Day: Straight Soldiers Shouldn’t Flatter Themselves
    From Larry, responding to a comment on today’s David Horowitz quote of the day:

    “Homosexuality develops in the formative years due to the lack of a positive male role model and a dominant female.”
    I have two older brothers who are straight and raised a family and our father was a strong, positive male role model. But [...]

  • Ariz. Sheriff Arpaio launches immigration sweep – AP
    Ariz. sheriff launches immigration sweep
    By JACQUES BILLEAUD (AP) – 13 hours ago
    SURPRISE, Ariz. — An Arizona sheriff known for cracking down on people who are in the country illegally launched a crime and immigration sweep in northwestern metro Phoenix on Friday, a half day after officials in Washington limited his powers to make federal immigration [...]
  • Book: “CAIR coached a mosque leader in Western Maryland not to cooperate with an FBI investigation of suspicious activity”
    More from Muslim Mafia. “Book Exposes CAIR’s Exaggerations, Efforts to Stymie Law Enforcement,” from IPT News, October 15A new book claims to give readers an inside look at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), arguing everything from its claims of financial and political clout to its genuine agenda are rooted…
  • Bin Laden: Run over the Jewish monkey
    “Ask them concerning the town standing close by the sea. Behold! they transgressed in the matter of the Sabbath. For on the day of their Sabbath their fish did come to them, openly holding up their heads, but on the day they had no Sabbath, they came not: thus did…
  • Fjordman: A History of Algebra
    Here is the latest from the erudite European essayist Fjordman:Diophantus of Alexandria is sometimes called “the father of algebra,” although the title is disputed. He worked in Roman Egypt in the third century of our era, but while he is usually assumed to have been a Greek, very little is…
  • Fitzgerald: What the collapse of Israel would cost
    “Online reports of a study by the US Central Intelligence Agency cast doubt over the survival of Israel beyond the next two decades. Regardless of the validity of the report, with what is now known about the costs in blood and treasure that the U.S.-Israeli relationship has imposed on the…
  • Amnesty Now!
    Representative Luis V. Gutierrez (D-Illinois), who made a name for himself back in 1999 by pressuring former President Bill Clinton into freeing 16 convicted FALN terrorists, is back in the news. As Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now! program reports, Gutierrez, a vociferous advocate of blanket amnesty for the estimated 12 million illegal aliens currently in [...]
  • U.S. also confronted Italy about allegations of bribing Taliban
    An update on this story. “United States admits tackling Italians over payments to the Taleban,” by Tim Reid for the Times Online, October 17: The US Government acknowledged for the first time yesterday that payment of protection money to the Taleban by Italian forces in Afghanistan was discussed by American…
  • From the Pen of David Horowitz: October 17, 2009
    Who would not have known in 1969, the year of “Gay Liberation,” for example, that promiscuous anal sex was unsanitary for individuals and a potential danger to public health? Yet, gay liberation was defined by its theorists as just that: promiscuous anal sex, a challenge to the repressive “sex-negative” culture of what queer theorists now [...]
  • Drill – by Sarah Palin
    October 16, 2009 4:00 AM
    Drill
    Petroleum is a major part of America’s energy picture. Shall we get it here or abroad?
    By Sarah Palin
    Given that we’re spending billions of stimulus dollars to rebuild our highways, it makes sense to think about what we’ll be driving on them. For years to come, most of what we drive will [...]

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