http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/257699 Back in Commission The president gives in on military commissions, grieving his cheerleaders. President Obama is relenting on military-commission trials, and the New York Times is, shall we say, chagrined. The administration’s retreat can be chalked up to the political climate proximately created by two developments. The first is Congress’s prohibition against the transfer […]
Gaza Defender Hired To Teach Middle East At Brooklyn College http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/16376-Gaza-Defender-Hired-To-Teach-Middle-East-At-Brooklyn-College.html here is one friend’s response “There is an alarming turn of events at Brooklyn College. Could one teach American history objectively if one only taught about slavery without a mention of the founding principles or its participants? Could one teach about World War 11 mentioning only […]
http://www.meforum.org/2821/palestinians-online During the past decade, Washington has repeatedly failed to gauge the extent of Palestinian anti-peace sentiments with devastating consequences. The July 2000 Camp David summit triggered the worst wave of Palestinian violence since 1948 (euphemized as the “al-Aqsa Intifada“); the Palestinian parliamentary elections of January 2006 led to a victory for the Hamas Islamist […]
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Friday Afternoon Roundup – Rising Above the Attacks There’s a great deal of talk on conservative blogs about that infamous CNN poll finding that quite a few people tied Palin’s bullseye map to the Loughner massacre. There have been a number of polls that have gone both ways, which indicates mostly that the people […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jan/21/risky-skorean-raid-saves-entire-crew-pirates/ By Kim Kwang-tae SEOUL (AP) — At dawn, South Korean special forces packed into a small boat approached a hijacked freighter in the Arabian Sea. Commandos scrambled up a ladder onto the ship, aboard which Somali pirates were armed with AK assault rifles and anti-tank missiles. A South Korean destroyer and hovering Lynx helicopter […]
Alan M. Dershowitz http://www.hudson-ny.org/1824/j-street-attacked-sarah-palin-but-not-fellow J Street Attacked Sarah Palin But Not Fellow Leftists and Democrats Who Abuse the Language of Jewish Suffering “P.S. I’m still waiting for J Street’s reaction to Congressman Cohen’s invocation of the Holocaust, Goebbels and blood libels to attack Republicans.” Shortly after Sarah Palin provoked a barrage of criticism for her […]
http://www.dailytargum.com/ http://www.dailytargum.com/news/vigil-pays-tribute-to-thousands-killed-on-gaza-strip-1.2436871 ONE COMMENT FROM A STUDENT:MORE BELOW THE COLUMN….AT LEAST SOME STUDENTS KNOW THE FACTS “Why does no one care about the occupation of the homeland of 25 million Kurds? There are only 8 million Falsetinians, but they have the entire world behind their Fascist cause to create a pure Arab Muslim Middle East. […]
Loughner Indictment[1] January 21, 2011 11:01 A.M. By Andrew C. McCarthy There was some head-scratching a couple of days ago over the Justice Department’s indictment of Jared Lee Loughner in the Tucson shootings case because he was not charged with the murders of Chief Judge John Roll and Gabriel Zimmerman, a legislative aide to Rep. Gabrielle […]
http://docstalk.blogspot.com/2011/01/tunisia-middle-east-judea-and-samaria.html Tunisia, the Middle East & Judea and Samaria Mountain Ridges Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought” The Tunisian turmoil – and its potential regional ripple effects – reaffirm the significance of the Judea and Samaria mountain ridges to the national security and survival of the Jewish State, as presented by the attached document. I authored the […]
http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1658/Peter-Kings-Radicalization-Hearings-Another-Barrel-of-Monkeys.aspx This week’s syndicated column: Politico featured a story this week headlined “Muslim groups nervous about King hearings.” It went on to discuss Muslim apprehension regarding upcoming congressional hearings led by Rep. Peter King, R-NY, “on the threat posed by radical Islam in America.” That phrase — “radical Islam” — is truly a marvel: a […]
