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June 2011

ELENA BONNER: ON ISRAEL IN 2009 PLEASE READ HER MAGNIFICENT SPEECH

http://realclearpolitics.blogs.time.com/2009/05/20/elena-bonner-speaks-on-israel-and-russia/ Elena Bonner speaks on Israel (and Russia) Elena Bonner, the widow of great scientist and dissident Andrei Sakharov and an outstanding human rights activist in her own right, is truly one of the heroes of the modern age.   (It was my privilege to interview Bonner nearly two years ago for this article.)  Yesterday, the 86-year-old […]

ELENA BONNER: R.I.P.

http://frontpagemag.com/2011/06/23/elena-bonner-r-i-p/ Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Jay Bergman, Professor of History at Central Connecticut University and the author, most recently, of Meeting the Demands of Reason: The Life and Thought of Andrei Sakharov, published by Cornell University Press in 2009. Elena Bonner, R.I.P. Jamie Glazov is Frontpage Magazine’s editor. He holds a Ph.D. in History […]

NIGERIA’S TALIBAN BOKO HORAM: FRANK CRIMI

http://frontpagemag.com/2011/06/23/nigeria%e2%80%99s-islamic-import/ A day after announcing its official partnership with al-Qaeda, the Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram launched Nigeria’s first suicide bombing. Sadly, the Nigerian importation of Islam’s favorite weapon of choice signals a serious escalation in an already brutal sectarian war. According to Nigerian police, the suicide bomber in the capital city of Abuja […]

P. DAVID HORNIK: GLENN BECK’S BASHERS

Glenn Beck and His Bashers Posted By P. David Hornik http://frontpagemag.com/2011/06/23/glenn-beck-and-his-bashers/print/ When Glenn Beck’s upcoming Jerusalem rally was first announced last month, he said it would be called “Restore Courage”—modeled on his “Restoring Honor” rally last year in Washington that drew half a million. Or as Beck put it: “Last summer, we set out to […]

DAVID SOLWAY: SEEING THE LIGHT

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/seeing-the-light/ Seeing the Light Posted By David Solway I have often wondered why the preponderance of left-liberal writing and expression-in-general has recently grown so wrong-headed, obtuse, hackneyed, tedious, stagnant, uneventful, dismal, shallow, and, in a word, dingy. Long have I sought for an answer to this nagging question as I struggled through the curdled murk […]

SUZANNE GARMENT AND LESLIE LENKOWSKY: THE IRS’S CHARITY PURGE

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303936704576397482909877032.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion The IRS’s Charity Purge Small nonprofits don’t need more paperwork assignments from Washington. By SUZANNE GARMENT AND LESLIE LENKOWSKY The Internal Revenue Service announced this month that 275,000 nonprofit groups—around 18% of the country’s tax-exempt organizations—have lost their federal exemptions because they failed to file Form 990s. The announcement was a long time in […]

THE ODD COUPLE: SEN. LIEBERMAN AND SEN. RUBIO ON LIBYA

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304070104576399923803151478.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion OH PULEEZ!! WHEN A DULL BRAIN COLLIDES WITH A GOOD ONE LIKE RUBIO’S WHAT NONSENSE EMERGES WHEN THEY BACK OBAMA’S MOVEABLE WARS….AS IF QADDAFI WOULD BE REPLACED WITH AN ALLY …AND “DEMOCRACY”….RSK The deepening confrontation between the White House and Congress over Libya is both counterproductive and unnecessary. Whatever one thinks about the constitutional […]

GEERT WILDERS ACQUITTED OF ALL CHARGES…..

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43505888/ns/world_news-europe Dutch court acquits lawmaker Geert Wilders of Muslim hate speech charges Politician claimed Islam is violent by nature, called for banning of Quran  

LEE SMITH: THE GOLAN HEIGHTS

http://www.tabletmag.com/news-and-politics/69920/the-heights/ http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/ U.S. and Israeli policymakers are yet to acknowledge that their decades-long push to use the Golan to make peace with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is a far-fetched dream By Lee Smith | Jun 22, 2011 7:00 AM The Obama Administration’s decision [1] to refer Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to the International Criminal Court […]

ARYEH TEPPER: THE OSIRAK PRECEDENT

http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/content/module/2011/6/23/main-feature/1/the-osirak-precedent In May 1981, eight Israeli fighter jets were on the runway waiting for the go-ahead to execute the most daring operation ever undertaken by the Israeli air force: flying more than 1,000 miles east over enemy territory to destroy Osirak, Iraq’s nuclear reactor. At the last minute, the operation was called off by Prime […]