CONVERSIONS QUESTIONED

The stories of a number of Muslim converts to Christianity are being questioned.

RADICAL ISLAM

A CBN report.

Anti-Jewish Muslim protest in Vienna.

Juden raus. Jewish dance troop attacked in Hanover, Germany. These slogans sound like Nazi Germany all over again.

MUSLIM TURKEY

Andrew Bostom has a 19th century account of how dhimmis were treated in the Ottoman Empire.

Just as Western European leaders of the 19th and early 20th centuries often chose to ignore Ottoman Turkey’s brutal imposition of dhimmitude in their misguided, when not morally cretinous “understanding” of the “Eastern Question,” present era US and European leaders ignore both the overt Jew hatred, and ongoing relegation of the vestigial remnant non-Muslim Christian populations in Turkey to de facto dhimmi status, under Erdogan’s Neo-Ottoman Turkish government.

IRANIAN VIEW OF OBAMA

Rooz 1199

OBAMA'S ECONOMIC GROWTH POLICY

German Chancellor Andrea Merkel has rejected Obama's policy of growth through debt. France, Britain, and other countries are also rejecting his premise.

We need growth that doesn’t rely on debt but is based on real grounds.

CRITICISM OF WHITE HOUSE HANDLING OF OIL SPILL

From the American Heritage Foundation.

TALIBAN EXECUTES 7 YEAR OLD

He was supposedly spying for the Afghan government.

BP & DEMOCRAT ESTABLISHMENT

Article on BP's ties with Democrats.

AFGHANISTAN

American helicopter shot down--this is beginning to sound like the failed Soviet adventure a couple of decades ago.

STALIN STATUTE

Erected in Virginia! But he is part of the historic record. When I see his statute erected in Poland or the Czech Republic, I will know times have changed.

CONTEMPORARY HISTORY

A new look at the Declaration of Independence.

RUSSIAN WHEAT EXPORTS THREATEN AMERICAN FARMERS

I was surprised to see that the Russians are now exporting wheat and selling it for less than American wheat farmers. It is possible that US farmers will be losing world market share to cheaper Russian wheat. Not only has America lost its manufacturing lead to a number of Asian countries, America may no longer be the agricultural bread-basket of the world.

Ever since Stalin enacted the collectivization of Soviet farms in 1928, agricultural production has been a disaster for the Soviet Union. In the 1970s and 1980s the USSR was forced to import US wheat to feed its people. Now that communism is gone, maybe agricultural capitalism will put Russia and the Ukraine on a sounder economic footing. But it sure will curtail the bragging rights of American farmers if Russia now becomes a competitor.

GAZA SITUATION

From the WAPO.

But as Leslie Gelb, former president of the Council on Foreign Relations, writes, the blockade is not just perfectly rational, it is perfectly legal. Gaza under Hamas is a self-declared enemy of Israel -- a declaration backed up by more than 4,000 rockets fired at Israeli civilian territory. Yet having pledged itself to unceasing belligerency, Hamas claims victimhood when Israel imposes a blockade to prevent Hamas from arming itself with still more rockets.

ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

A picture gallery.

REPORTER PERSONA NON GRATA IN AFGHANISTAN

The army has pressured Michael Yon to leave Afghanistan. I have read a lot of his stuff and thought it was really good. This is looking like the early days of Vietnam reporting.

Yon has openly stated the problems in Afghanistan right now and how we could lose this war, unless changes are made. He has been critical of the current rules of engagement that have put our troops in danger and could actually make this war like the Vietnam that the leftist media claimed it was early and often when Bush was president (it’s strange you don’t hear those comparisons from them anymore).

OBAMA ON BUSH RESPONSE TO KATRINA

Flashback.

ILLINOIS CORRUPTION

If Blagojevich is convicted, he will be the 4th Illinois governor convicted in 40 years! And Obama and the Washington Democrat establishment are worried.

But somebody should do a count of all the other politicians in Illinois convicted or charged with crimes. I wonder if Illinois would be the most politically corrupt state in America?

Barone on "The Chicago Way." One prime assumption of the Chicago Way is that there will always be a bounteous private sector that politicians can plunder endlessly. Barone argues that Obama has brought the Chicago way to Washington.

PELOSI ON THE "WORD"

Interesting. . . House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) says she believes she must pursue public policies "in keeping with the values" of Jesus Christ, "The Word made Flesh."