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November 2010

TONIGHT I HOPE IT’S HISTORY

WE CAN CALL IT THE NEW V.E. DAY….VICTORY IN ELECTIONS

WHO IS KHODORKOVSKY? DISSIDENT, HERO OR CROOK, OR ALL OF THE ABOVE

Khodorkovsky in emotional court appeal By Catherine Belton in Moscow http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/40885aa8-e5e0-11df-af15-00144feabdc0.html Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the jailed Yukos oil tycoon, told a Moscow judge on Tuesday that he will decide the fate of the entire Russian nation when he delivers a verdict in his trial for embezzlement and money laundering. In an emotional final speech to the […]

PALESTINE BETRAYED BY EPHRAIM KARSH: A REVIEW BY ASAF ROMIROWSKY

Palestine Betrayed http://www.romirowsky.com/8269/palestine-betrayed by Efraim Karsh Yale University Press, 2010, 336 pp. Reviewed by Asaf Romirowsky Jewish Political Studies Review Fall 2010 Send Efraim Karsh is head of Mediterranean Studies at King’s College, University of London, and one of the preeminent historians of the Arab-Israeli conflict. This author has had the privilege to be one […]

THERE ARE NO OCCUPIED TERRITORIES: ELI E. HERTZ

No Occupied Territories November 02, 2010 | Eli. E. Hertz A UN coalition sought to rewrite history by labeling the Territories ‘Occupied Territories,’ thus endowing them with an aura of bogus statehood and a false history. They used capital letters for ‘Occupied Territories’ and then shifted to ‘Palestinian Occupied Territories’ and ‘Palestine,’ as if title […]

ROGER KIMBALL: READING TEA LEAVES

Reading the tea leaves Posted By Roger Kimball URL to article: http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2010/11/02/reading-the-tea-leaves/ My friend James Robbins, writing in the Washington Times, today articulates [1] a thought that I’ve heard bruited about often these past weeks: “Tonight, Republicans will watch the election returns hoping for an upset takeover of the U.S. Senate. And if President Obama […]

OBAMA IS NO ROOSEVELT: DOROTHY RABINOWITZ

By DOROTHY RABINOWITZ Whatever the outcome of today’s election, this much is clear: It will be a long time before Americans ever again decide that the leadership of the nation should go to a legislator of negligible experience—with a voting record, as state and U.S. senator, consisting largely of “present,” and an election platform based […]

ADRIAN MORGAN: A BRUTAL ASSAULT ON IRAQ’S CHRISTIANS

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.7803/pub_detail.asp A Brutal Assault on Iraq’s Neglected Christians The Editor On Sunday, a bloodbath took place at the Our Lady of Salvation Church in Karrada, in central Baghdad. At least 52 people have been killed and many more were injured after Muslim terrorists held members of the congregation as hostages. Pope Benedict XVI has condemned […]

JUSTICE DENIED:QUINN HILLYER….MUSTREAD

Justice, Denied http://spectator.org/archives/2010/11/02/justice-denied/ By Quin Hillyer from the November 2010 issue Under attorney general Eric Holder, the Obama Department of Justice (DOJ) is dangerously politicized, radically leftist, racialist, lawless, and at times corrupt. The good news is that it’s also often incompetent. This means the Holderites can bungle their leftist lawlessness so badly that even […]

ANDREW McCARTHY: HOW TO BRING MJUSTICE TO AL QAEDA IN THE ARABIAN PENINSULA

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/251840/more-rocket-less-docket-andrew-c-mccarthy More Rocket, Less Docket How to bring justice to al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. ‘We need to bring him to justice as soon as we can.” In a Fox News interview Sunday, that was John Brennan, President Obama’s top counterterrorism adviser, talking about Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri. He is the chief explosives designer for Osama […]

ELECTIONS RACE IN CALIFORNIA DISTRICT 47 IS “LOST IN TRANSLATION”….WHY?

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/nov/1/diverse-district-pits-2-minorities/print/ “English was the main language for less than a quarter of the residents, according to the latest Census figures. Adding to the complications, nearly 49 percent of residents are immigrants and two-thirds of them aren’t citizens, and aren’t entitled to vote.” Diverse district pits 2 minorities Vietnamese immigrant gives strong challenge to Sanchez ASSOCIATED […]