Are they really surprised at this? Given these trends, it seems likely that the next great American city will emerge from the ranks of the opportunity cities. The ultimate winner will come from those that keep up with the infrastructure needed to accommodate their growth. They also will have to deal with issues of education, …
They Were Both Radicalised by Their Pastors
Hillary Clinton's statement about Barack Obama's pastor is just a little disingenuous: Hillary Clinton stoked up the row over Barack Obama's fiery pastor today when she claimed she would have left any church where such intemperate remarks had been made. "He would not have been my pastor," Clinton said, in her first public comments since …
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The Unobvious Problem with Shari’a
Muhammad 'Abd Al-Muttalib Al-Houni has hit up one something that most people don't think about in the whole debate about whether Shari'a should be allowed in the UK (or anywhere else in the West) or not: The concept of citizenship in Europe will change. There will be [different] classes of citizenship and of citizens, with …
Richard Russell and Tribal Wisdom
Some good stuff to think about from 1964, during the Vietnam era: Redolent of the late 1940's, (U.S. Ambassador) Henry Cabot Lodge cabled Washington that South Vietnam might have to be run by a U.S. "High Commissioner," having himself in mind. Georgia's Richard Russell was still chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and had …
The Speech Barack Obama Should Have Never Had to Make
Barack Obama's speech on race and Jeremiah Wright yesterday is part of an issue that, should Obama do as expected and win the Democrat nomination, will certainly come up over and over again in the fall, like the YouTube videos he referred to yesterday. Jeremiah Wright and his Liberation Theology is something that no American …
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Frankie Schaeffer: Are We Really That Unpatriotic?
Frankie Schaeffer evidently doesn't like some of the things some of us have been saying about Obama and patriotism: Dad and I were amongst the founders of the Religious right. In the 1970s and 1980s, while Dad and I crisscrossed America denouncing our nation's sins instead of getting in trouble we became darlings of the …
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Now Alan Greenspan Tell Us What a Mess We’re In
Alan Greenspan tells us the obvious: "The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War," Greenspan said in a Financial Times commentary. "It will end eventually when home prices stabilise and with them the value of …
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Planned Parenthood: Was It Really a Mistake?
Planned Parenthood assures us that the following was a mistake: Planned Parenthood of Idaho officials apologized Wednesday for what they called an employee's "serious mistake" in encouraging a donation aimed at aborting black babies. But such "eugenics" were the original intent of Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood's founder.
Barack Obama: Beyond American Political Grasp
The more I watch Barack Obama's campaign, the more I'm coming to realise that the basic problem that his opponents have is that he is beyond the normal "rules" of American politics. Let's start with the Jeremiah Wright business: people go back and forth on his video clips as to whether they're representative of his …
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Just When The Democrats Thought It Was Safe…
New York Governor Elliot Spitzer is linked to a prostitution ring: Just last week, federal prosecutors arrested four people in connection with an expensive prostitution operation. Administration officials would not say that this was the ring with which the governor had become involved. But a person with knowledge of the governor’s role said that the …
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