News You Need to Know 17Dec09
- Retirement age broadcaster retires; Media Matters takes credit
Eric Burns, the president of Media Matters, tells the New York Observer that the George Soros Steno Pool has “had some incredible successes this year.”
Acknowledging that “it’s been a difficult fund-raising environment,” Burns tells the Observer that Media Matters “raised roughly $10 million in 2009. The haul was less than the organization’s peak numbers in [...]Related posts:
- Andrew C. McCarthy: Gitmo Does Not Cause Terrorism – National Review Online
So we’re going to shut down the detention center at the U.S. naval base on Guantanamo Bay and move the 200-plus terrorists detained there to a seldom-used civilian correctional center in Thomson, Ill. And we’re doing it, the Obama administration and Sen. Dick Durbin assure us, not because they want to use federal money to [...]
- Diana Furchtgott-Roth: The High Cost of Health Reform – RealClearMarkets
WASHINGTON-Last night, speaking about the health “reform” bill to ABC’s Charles Gibson, President Obama declared, “If we don’t pass it, here’s the guarantee….your premiums will go up, your employers are going to load up more costs on you. Potentially they’re going to drop your coverage, because they just can’t afford an increase of 25 percent, [...]
- Karl Rove: The President Is No B+ – WSJ.com
Barack Obama has won a place in history with the worst ratings of any president at the end of his first year: 49% approve and 46% disapprove of his job performance in the latest USA Today/Gallup Poll.
There are many factors that explain it, including weakness abroad, an unprecedented spending binge at home, and making a [...] - White Americans’ majority to end by mid-century – AP
The estimated time when whites will no longer make up the majority of Americans has been pushed back eight years — to 2050 — because the recession and stricter immigration policies have slowed the flow of foreigners into the U.S.
Census Bureau figures released Wednesday update last year’s prediction that white children would become a minority [...] - UK: Muslim father found guilty in daughter’s honor killing
There Is No Honor Killing In Islam and Rifqa Bary Is In No Danger Update: “Father found guilty of ‘honour killing’ of daughter, 15, after she fell in love with man from different branch of Islam,” from the Daily Mail, December 17 (thanks to Tziona): A ‘psychotic bully’ was today…
- Jonathan Schanzer and Madeleine Morganstern: Rashid Khalidi Headlines Taxpayer-funded Palestinian Fest – Jewish Policy Center
The Palestinian American Research Center (PARC), a U.S. taxpayer-funded organization noted for the virulent anti-Israeli attitudes of its academic members, held a conference in October at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. Most of the conference was apolitical, but two lectures in particular raise (again) the question of whether PARC should be the [...]
- China tells U.S.: No deal on climate change – POLITICO.com
COPENHAGEN — China’s climate negotiators have told Western counterparts they can’t agree to an “operational agreement” on climate change that President Barack Obama had hoped to bring home from Copenhagen –- and will push for a short, noncommittal collective statement at the end of the talks, according to American staffers briefed on the situation.It’s not [...]
- U.S. offers Taliban jobs and cash to lay down their arms
Allahu akbar! Would you like fries with that, Infidel? This is the kind of wrongheaded and myopic effort that comes from ignoring the jihad doctrine and ideology of Islamic supremacism, and assuming that Taliban members are waging jihad only because they are poor and have no other options. “EXCLUSIVE:…
- Thugs In The Center Ring Of The Copenhagen Circus
The United Nations-sponsored global warming circus in Copenhagen saved its biggest round of applause for one of the world’s biggest emitters of hot air – Hugo Chavez.
Here is what this thuggish clown told his audience, revealing what the conference’s ideological agenda is really all about:
capitalism is the road to hell….let’s fight against capitalism and make [...]Related posts:
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