The Hole at the Heart of Our Strategy We’re scrupulously non-judgmental about the ideology that drives terrorism. By Mark Steyn Thirteen dead and 31 wounded would be a bad day for the U.S. military in Afghanistan, and a great victory for the Taliban. When it happens in Texas, in the heart of the biggest military […]
Germany celebrates fall of Berlin Wall By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER, Associated Press Writer Kirsten Grieshaber, Associated Press Writer 26 mins ago BERLIN – With prayers, music and pomp, Germany on Monday remembered the 20th anniversary of the day the Berlin Wall fell, sending East Germans flooding west and setting in motion events that soon led to […]
MARK STEYN http://nrd.nationalreview.com/print/?q=OWRjOWMwY2RiMTU4MjY3MTc5ZTM0NDk2NjA5ZDI2ZWE= Neatherworld ‘Would it not be easier,†wrote Bertolt Brecht after the East German uprising in 1953, “for the government to dissolve the people and elect another?†The thought has occurred to several governments over the years, and I don’t mean the dictatorships. Andrew Neather, a former speechwriter for Tony Blair, wrote a […]
Islamist Perfidy and Western Naivety: Which Is More Lethal? By Raymond Ibrahim http://pajamasmedia.com In a blog entry for Islamist Watch [1], David J. Rusin shows how the word “jihad†continues to be euphemized in the West. Despite Islamic law’s unequivocal portrayal of it as a military endeavor to empower Islam, jihad is still being peddled […]
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/11/philippines-jihad-against-school-principals.html Philippines: Jihad against school principals This just in from our “This Is Why You’re Poor” Department. Allah promised paradise to those who “slay and are slain” in the cause of jihad (Qur’an 9:111), but shooting your own society in the foot is also quite popular as a consequence. “Islamic rebels behead Philippine teacher: police,” […]
http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/spages/1126869.html Of all places, it was in Haaretz, and on the front page to boot! Tel Aviv University students are complaining in masses about the politicization of the classroom at the University by leftist anti-Israel faculty members. They are complaining about indoctrination in the classroom and suppression of viewpoints that are not radically leftist and […]
GREEN IS ALSO THE COLOR OF HAMAS….AND THEY ARE CERTAINLY GUIDED BY THEIR RELIGION…..RSK http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/andrewbrown/2009/nov/06/religion-atheism We’re doomed without a green religion Arguments about climate change show up the incoherence of any purely individual morality .The justification for burning heretics was perfectly simple: dissent threatened the survival of society. Nothing was worse than anarchy. This is […]
http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1114/Army-Chief-of-Staff-MacArthurs-Old-Job-Is-Worried-About-Guess-What.aspx Army Chief of Staff (MacArthur’s Old Job) Is Worried About … Guess What? ——————————————————————————– I reference MacArthur in the headline because of the famous exchange between MacArthur and FDR after MacArthur, then Army Chief of Staff, learned that FDR was cutting the army budget to fund New Deal programs. MacArthur said to Roosevelt, “When […]
A Safe Haven Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel by Allis Radosh and Ronald Radosh HarperCollins, 2009. 448 pp. $27.99 Reviewed by Asaf Romirowsky The Jerusalem Post http://www.romirowsky.com/6529/a-safe-haven From the campaign trail to the White House there has been much talk about Barack Obama’s polices toward Israel, specifically their nature and significance. Historically […]
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2194588 UNITED NATIONS — Guards ejected an accredited Canadian commentator from the United Nations after she denounced a controversial report that focuses heavily on alleged Israeli war crimes. Anne Bayefsky, a York University political science professor, offered the only pro-Israel commentary on Thursday night at a microphone outside the General Assembly hall following remarks by […]
