Why Islamists Are Better Democrats

Bobby Ghosh, Time
If the Arab Spring was seeded by a liberal insurrection, the Arab Fall has brought a rich harvest for Political Islam. In election after election, parties that embrace various shades of Islamist ideology have spanked liberal rivals. In Tunisia, the first country to hold elections after toppling a long-standing dictator, the Ennahda party won a plurality in the Oct. 23 vote for an assembly that will write a new constitution. A month later, the Justice and Development Party and its allies won a majority in Morocco's general elections. Now, in perhaps the most important election the Middle...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/12/12/why_islamists_are_better_democrats_269031.html

al gore

Obama Is Mishandling the Middle East Bloodletting

Martin Peretz, TNR
This is a subject about which we’re not supposed to speak. Or write. Well, I suppose we can allude. But not in detail. So, even though bloodletting is a daily occurrence in the orbit of Islam, discussing it is forbidden. At least among the sensitive, the sensitive left most notably. By which I mean, firstly, folk who think of themselves as universal souls but see others, Americans and Brits, French and Germans, Italians and Dutch, also the bulk of English speakers wherever they are, as retrograde. Patriots, for God’s sake, patriotism being not only a dirty concept but a...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/12/12/obama_is_mishandling_the_middle_east_bloodletting_269030.html

john mccain

A Very Bad Plan: How Sebelius Endangered Our Girls

The FDA was ordered by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius not to allow teenagers to buy the emergency contraceptive Plan B One-Step without a prescription. Commentator Douglas Kamerow, a family doctor and former assistant surgeon general, disagrees with the ruling.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/12/08/143347286/plan-b-decision-it-s-about-one-girl?ft=1&f=1057

newt gingrich

ObamaCare: The Way of the Dodo

Michael Cannon, Townhall
If you are reading this, chances are good you have traded the luxury of newspapers for medical texts, 24-hour shifts, and chronicling every nanosecond of your day. So let's recap what's going on in the world.The U.S. government is borrowing roughly 40 cents of every dollar it spends, creating a budget deficit of $1.3 trillion. Uncle Sam has been at this for some time; he is now $10 trillion in the hole. That equals roughly two-thirds of everything the United States produces in a year. If we extend current federal tax and spending policies into the future, the size of the federal...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/12/11/obamacare_the_way_of_the_dodo_268997.html

al gore

Obama Promises to Spend Even More If Reelected

Matt Welch, Reason
Matt Welch | December 8, 2011Finally!"In Kansas," the New Jersey Star-Ledger editorialized this week, "Obama finally found his voice." By theatrically following Teddy Roosevelt's "New Nationalism" footsteps in Osawatomie, Kansas, the president had "finally seize[d] the moment," Michael Tomasky enthused at The Daily Beast. "With this speech, the President finally brings long-sought thematic and programmatic coherence to his many proposals and policy initiatives," Cornell University law professor Robert C. Hockett offered in an...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/12/11/obama_promises_to_spend_even_more_if_reelected_268889.html

hillary clinton

Rats Show Empathy, By Freeing Trapped Companions

Reporting in Science, researchers write of an experiment in which rats worked to open the cages of trapped rats, but not empty or dummy-filled cages. Author Peggy Mason discusses empathy in non-primates, and the value rats place on freeing a companion--about equal to that of a stash of chocolate chips.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/12/09/143453479/rats-show-empathy-by-freeing-trapped-companions?ft=1&f=1007

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