News You Need to Know 11Nov09
- Who is Anwar al-Awlaki? Imam contacted by Fort Hood gunman Nidal Malik Hasan has long radical past
Imam Anwar al-Awlaki was contacted by Fort Hood gunman Nidal Malik Hasan, according to law enforcement sources.
Who is Anwar al-Awlaki? Imam contacted by Fort Hood gunman Nidal Malik Hasan has long radical past
Wednesday, November 11th 2009, 11:04 AMBY ETHAN SACKS
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
The American-born imam who preached to both the Fort Hood shooting suspect and [...]
- Taliban misunderstands Islam, promises repeat of Fort Hood jihad massacre
“Taliban” means, of course, “students.” I.e., students of Islam. But somehow they have missed the peaceful teachings of Islam that are so plain and patent to everyone else that only “Islamophobes” have trouble seeing them. How is it that these students of Islam don’t know, as Obama put it yesterday,…
- Spencer at NRO: “‘Islamophobia’ was duly avoided at Fort Hood. All it cost was 13 dead and 38 wounded.”
Yesterday I was asked to participate in a Symposium at National Review about the Fort Hood massacre and the role political correctness played in it. Here is my entry: The Fort Hood massacre wouldn’t have happened were it not for political correctness. Nidal Hasan lectured on the Koran’s punishments for…
- NRO: Andrew Bostom replies to Richard Brookhiser
“On Islam: A Reply to Rick Brookhiser,” by Andrew Bostom at The Corner, November 11 — a most illuminating exchange. Responding to an e-mail query I posed to him about a Corner post on October 26, Rick Brookhiser (on November 3) claimed: “My correspondent [Bostom] and the Islamists say that…
- Climate bill’s ‘emergency provision’ gives Obama strong-man powers UPDATED! | Washington Examiner
Climate bill’s ‘emergency provision’ gives Obama strong-man powers UPDATED!
By: EXAMINER EDITORIAL HOT ZONE ALERT
November 10, 2009
Both the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade energy approved earlier this year and the version just okayed by Sen. Barbara Boxer’s Senate Environment and Public Works Committee’s Democrats (Republicans boycotted the vote) contains an obscure but nasty bureaucratic provision that requires President Obama [...]
- RONALD REAGAN — Remarks at the Veterans Day
Ronald Reagan
V-Day Ceremony Address at the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial
delivered 11 November 1988, Washington D.C.
via American Rhetoric: Ronald Reagan — Remarks at the Veterans Day Ceremony at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

- Daily Presidential Tracking Poll – Fifty-three percent(53%) disapprove. – Rasmussen Reports™
Daily Presidential Tracking Poll
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 30% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty percent (40%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -10 (see trends). Republicans have opened [...]
- Fjordman: The Legend of the Middle Ages
Here is the latest from the insightful European essayist Fjordman:The book that inspired this text was The Legend of the Middle Ages: Philosophical Explorations of Medieval Christianity, Judaism, and Islam by Rémi Brague, a French professor and specialist of medieval religious philosophy. He is also the author of the fine…
- El Blog del Corán: ‘La Vaca’- Versículos 75-140
Traducido por Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi. La sección próxima de Sura 2 del Corán- los versículos 75-105- continúa criticándoles a los judíos. Cuando lee declaraciones de los líderes de Hamas o de Mahmoud Ahmadineyad sobre Israel, acuérdese de que sus opiniones sobre Israel y los judíos se basan en el Corán….
- Prof busted in Columbia gal ‘punch’
Prof busted in Columbia gal ‘punch’
By PERRY CHIARAMONTE, BETH STEBNER and JEREMY OLSHAN
Last Updated: 1:17 PM, November 10, 2009
Posted: 2:57 AM, November 10, 2009
A prominent Columbia architecture professor punched a female university employee in the face at a Harlem bar during a heated argument about race relations, cops said yesterday.
Police busted Lionel McIntyre, 59, for [...]
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