At Atlas Shrugs, ” Muslims in Egypt Burn Christian Homes and Shops, Attack Church Screaming Allahu Akbar ,” and Blazing Cat Fur, ” Arab Spring Christian House Burning .” RELATED : From Robert Wistrich, at Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs , ” Post-Mubarak Egypt: The Dark Side of Islamic Utopia .”
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Islamist Mob Screaming ‘Allahu Akbar’ Burns Christian Homes and Shops in Egypt
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul hit back Sunday at claims that he’s “unelectable,” saying that he’s actually “pretty mainstream.” Paul, who is in a statistical dead heat with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney ahead of Tuesday’s caucuses, has seen his opponents seek to brand him as a radical, particularly for his foreign policy positions. He called the attacks on his positions “gross distortions,” particularly former House Speaker Newt Gingrich who said he demonstrates “a systemic avoidance of reality.” “I’ve been pretty electable, I was elected 12 times once people got to know me,” the Texas congressman said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “The bigger question is: Why are the rallies going so well for me? Why are the crowds getting bigger and bigger?” Paul asked. “I would say that I’m pretty mainstream. I think people who are attacking me now are ones who can’t defend their records…they’re having a little trouble finding any flip flops on me, they have to go and dig up and distort the demagogue issues.” Paul has attracted controversy in recent weeks for inflammatory statements in newsletters sent under his name in the 1980s and 1990s. “If you look at the real issues that count, and I wish you would concentrate on that, that is the foreign policy, the spending, the monetary policy, personal liberties I talk abut all the time…this is where I get the support,” he said.
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Ron Paul: ‘I’m Pretty Mainstream’
Reuters – President Barack Obama should apologize for sending an unmanned spy plane into Iranian territory rather than asking for it back after it was seized, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.
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Iran says Obama should apologize for downed drone
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Reuters – President Barack Obama delivered on another foreign policy promise on Friday with plans to pull the last U.S. troops from Iraq. But in a re-election campaign all about the weak U.S. economy, he may not get much credit.
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Analysis: Will Obama’s foreign policy success help?
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Top Republican presidential contender Herman Cain said Sunday the 2012 race is “absolutely not” a factor in the 2012 campaign, and that the support he has is based on voters liking his ideas, not his skin color. Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Cain reiterated the fact that he prefers the term “black American” to “African American.” Cain’s race has been the target of prominent black leaders and other commentators, some attacking him for not being “authentically” black due to his conservative politics. “My roots go back through slavery in this country. Yes, they came from Africa. But the roots of my heritage are in the United States of America. So I consider myself a black American,” Cain said. Pressed by host David Gregory about an analysis of his signature “9-9-9″ tax plan, Cain the proposal would cost some people more, but that it would eliminate other “invisible taxes” that hike up the price of goods. “Some people will pay more, but most people will pay less, that’s my argument,” Cain said. The people who will pay more, Cain said, are those who buy more new goods. The national sales tax would apply only to new goods, not used goods, benefiting poorer people, he said. Questioned about what has shaped his foreign views, Cain said he’s read the writings of Amb. John Bolton, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and K.T. McFarland. Asked whether he would describe himself as a “neoconservative,” the foreign policy philosophy embraced particularly by former President George W. Bush, Cain did not appear to know what Gregory was asking about. “I’m not sure by what you mean by a neoconservative. I am a conservative, yes. Neoconservative — labels, sometimes, will put you in a box. I’m very conservative,” Cain said. Gregory pressed, “But you’re familiar with the neoconservative movement?” “I’m not familiar with the neoconservative movement,” Cain said. “I’m familiar with the conservative movement. And let me define what I mean by the conservative movement: less government, less taxes, more individual responsibility.” Cain also said a comment he made Saturday on the campaign trail that the U.S. should secure its border with Mexico by building a 20-foot, barbed-wire, electrified fence with English and Spanish signs saying “it will kill you” was “a joke.” “That’s not a serious plan,” he said. He added that solving the problem of illegal immigration will require a combination of a physical barrier, better technology, U.S. troops, and more freedom for states to “do what the federal government can’t do.”
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Herman Cain: I Prefer ‘Black American’
AP – Obama administration officials said Friday that the U.S. wants to continue working with Pakistan, even as they expanded on assertions that Islamabad’s spy agency supported and encouraged attacks by Haqqani network extremists on the American embassy in Afghanistan last week.
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US outreach to Pakistan continues despite attacks
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-By Warner Todd Huston Richard Miniter has a very interesting article in Forbes about the damage anti-American millionaire George Soros is causing to both Central Asia and the foreign policy of the United States. Soros is an interesting if risible figure. For good reason his name is a boogieman name for we on the right. Truthfully, though,
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War Drums Beating: Anti-American George Soros Promoting Anti-Americanism in Central Asia
