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New Year Fireworks – 2012 – Sydney Australia
This is video of the full Midnight Fireworks display on Sydney Harbour in Australia to see in the New Year 2012. This video is the full display broadcast on Australia’s Nine Network, and runs for the full 12 minutes. As usual, the focus of the display was the Sydney Harbour Bridge. This video was posted […]
Happy 2012
A Dry Bones Cartoon A Happy 2012 to all of us! Read More by Yaakov Kirschen at Dry Bones . http://drybonesblog.blogspot.com/
War Games, An Energy Crisis, and the Iranian Threat
By Mike Brownfield The Strait of Hormuz lies between Iran and the United Arab Emirates, providing passage for some 15.5 million barrels of crude oil per day, amounting to one third of the world’s seaborne oil shipments. In a word, it is a 34-mile-wide chokepoint, making Iran’s threat this week to shut down the strait […]
CNBC’s Joe Kernen Rips John Harwood’s Knee-Jerk ‘Global Warming’ Reaction to Mild Winter
By Tom Blumer After the news portion of a “Warmer Weather Hurting Retail” segment on the impact of the mild winter on retail sales thus far appearing early this morning on CNBC, Joe Kernen and John Harwood got into it over the relevance and influence of so-called “global warming” (I guess Harwood didn’t get the […]
The Nauseating Moral Cowardice of the Liberal-Left Trenderati
By James Delingpole Did you hear the song Aussie comic Tim Minchin wrote savagely satirising Islam for Channel 4′s Eid special? No, I didn’t either. It didn’t happen and it never would happen: first because no broadcast station in its right mind would ever allow it; second because I don’t believe that Minchin would be […]
The Magical Mental Exercise Called Reading
By Alan Caruba In 1942 my parents purchased a home in a picture-postcard suburban New Jersey community and the first improvement they made was to have bookshelves installed on the rear wall of the living room along with more in one corner. They had brought a lot of books with them and anticipated reading many […]
Islam Was Not For Me
By Amil Imani The full text for this video can be found at this link: Islam Was Not For Me Amil Imani maintains a website at www.amilimani.com and he is the author of the riveting book Obama Meets Ahmadinejad and his new thriller Operation Persian Gulf. Read more from Amil Imani at his blog site […]
The Unintended Consequences of Internet Regulation
By Rob Bluey Would you be outraged if the Department of Justice shut down The Foundry without any warning and blocked access for more than a year? That’s exactly what happened to a hip-hop blog called Dajaz1.com, which was falsely accused of criminal copyright infringement. The blog posted music from artists promoting their work. But […]
Buh-Bye 2011 (Funny Video Animation)
2011, Buh-Bye | Funny Video Animation by JibJab From Charlie Sheen’s #winning tweets to our Government spending the USA into a recession, the debt ceiling crisis and global protests, it seems the whole world went nuts in 2011. Join us as we reminisce about the most notorious moments of the year in our 7th annual […]
Top 12 Threats to Watch in 2012
By Ryan Mauro 12. The Ron Paul Effect No, I’m not calling Ron Paul anti-American, but his views on national security and naïve belief in the reasonableness of the Iranian regime do threaten our national security. Ron Paul’s eagerness for minimal government has led him and his supporters to reflexively embrace the argument that will […]
Saving Millions of Lives: Time to Prepare for an EMP Now
By Michaela Bendikova Berman’s piece is a welcome contribution to the debate about the U.S. vulnerability to EMP. This ongoing debate has recently received increased attention following the presidential GOP debate hosted by The Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute in November. The United States remains unprotected from an EMP effect, a high-intensity burst […]
2012′s State of the World
By Alan Caruba “Only the Dead have seen the End of War” – Plato For myself and a lot of other Americans, the killing of Osama bin Laden was the highpoint of 2011. A decade has passed since nearly 3,000 Americans were killed on September 11, 2001. He was found in an army town in […]
Obama’s Green Jobs Program “Infused with Politics at Every Level”
By Mike Brownfield In a damning report, The Washington Post details its investigation of President Barack Obama’s much-hyped green jobs program. Its findings? Politics, not policy, underpinned the White House’s calculations. From The Post report: Meant to create jobs and cut reliance on foreign oil, Obama’s green-technology program was infused with politics at every level, The […]
Jobs, Thatcher and the Force of Life
By Peggy Noonan The Apple founder’s final words sound an awful lot like an expression of awe The great words of the year? “Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.” They are the last words of Steve Jobs, reported by his sister, the novelist Mona Simpson, who was at his bedside. In her eulogy, a […]
The 2012 Check List for America’s Survival
By Alan Caruba Many people make resolutions to start the year, but I think a list of things that must be done to protect and preserve the Republic should be tallied. 1. President Obama must be defeated in 2012 and the obstructionist Democratic Party must lose power in the Senate to ensure both houses of Congress […]
Christmas Spirit and Islam
By Amil Imani This is the time of the year that the air is filled with everything Christmas. There is something for everyone: gifts for family and friends, prayers at churches, and Christmas music everywhere. It puts me in a contemplative mood, particularly when I hear the delightful Christian refrain, peace on earth, goodwill to […]
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