http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8479391/Calling-animals-pets-is-insulting-academics-claim.html Calling animals ‘pets’ is insulting, academics claim JOHN BINGHAM Animal lovers should stop calling their furry or feathered friends “pets” because the term is insulting, leading academics claim. Domestic dogs, cats, hamsters or budgerigars should be rebranded as “companion animals” while owners should be known as “human carers”, they insist. Even terms such as […]
http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/ Hamas: The Hard, Hateful Facts The following statement, from the Israeli Embassy in Canberra, obtained via the antipodean J-Wire service, well encapsulates the mischievous nature of Fatah’s reconciliation with Hamas, and the justification for Israel’s consequent dismay. It contains the hard, hateful facts about Hamas that the BBC and similar media outlets conceal: The […]
http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2011/04/29/the-way-we-live-now-a-continuing-series/ Last week, a lounge singer was arrested on suspicion of racism for singing the Frank Sinatra classic “I’ll Do it My Way.” The song, performed by Durka Mohammed, 28, a native of Somalia, is said to have offended a Westchester couple as they walked past the Hindu Kush Bar in Manhattan. The entertainer regularly […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.9380,css.print/pub_detail.asp 16 Killed in Moroccan Bomb Blast:Is Al-Qaeda Involved? On Thursday at midday local time, April 28, an explosion ripped through the Argana Restaurant in Marrakesh, Morocco. The force of the blast tore off the roof of the restaurant. Initial reports assumed it was a gas explosion, and then it became clear that the blast […]
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0411/glick042911.php3?printer_friendly Netanyahu’s time to choose…THERE ARE MANY REASONS THAT NETANYAHU IS INCAPABLE OF STATING THE TRUTH AND ENDING THE 18 YEAR POLICY NIGHTMARE IN WHICH ISRAEL IS AN ACTIVE PARTNER IN ITS OWN DEMISE Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s response to the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority’s peace deal with Hamas would be funny if it weren’t tragic. […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/apr/28/admit-it-obamanomics-has-failed/ The only thing dropping faster than President Obama’s poll numbers is America’s economic future. Only one in five believe the country is headed in the right direction, according to a Rasmussen Reports survey released Thursday. More than half of those responding to Gallup’s queries believe we are either in a recession or depression. The […]
Superman suddenly shuns the ‘American way’To fans, move goes over like kryptonite DAVID ELDRIDGE http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/apr/28/superman-suddenly-shuns-the-american-way/ The latest sign of the end of the “American Era” or just a comic book publisher’s publicity stunt? In a new story line, Superman renounces his U.S. citizenship because he is “tired of having my actions construed as instruments of […]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn Congress to PA: No U.S. aid if you merge with Hamas By Jennifer Rubin In the wake of the announced reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah, three prominent members of Congress declared that the PA’s merger with the terrorist organization would spell an end to U.S. aid. House Foreign Affairs Chairwoman Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen released […]
Fund the Truth About Islam or Lose the War of Ideas Posted By Phyllis Chesler http://www.newsrealblog.com/2011/04/28/fund-the-truth-about-islam-or-lose-the-war-of-ideas/ One cannot tell the truth or venture one’s opinion about Islam or about Muslim behaviors without risking being slandered, heckled, censored, sued, impoverished, physically attacked, and, more rarely, murdered. And that’s for those of us lucky enough to be […]
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/6902655/a-marriage-made-in-hell.thtml Melanie Phillips So Molotov and Ribbentrop are alive and well and living in Gaza and Ramallah. The pact between Fatah and Hamas is of course a marriage of convenience, forged solely to help fool the world into accepting a de facto state of Palestine. If such a pact were to last, then of course […]