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June 2011

STEPHEN MOORE ON MICHELE BACHMANN

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304259304576375491103635726.html The tea party favorite on her start in politics, where she learned her economics, and why she disagrees with Reagan on the War Powers Resolution. By STEPHEN MOORE “If I’m in, I’ll be all in,” says Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, artfully dodging my question of whether she’s running for president. Given that she […]

HA’TIKVAH: NATIONAL ANTHEM OF ISRAEL….THE MEANING AND THE HISTORY

Ha’Tikvah By Nurit Greenger Tikvah in the Hebrew language means hope. The title of the state of Israel national anthem is ‘ Ha’Tikvah’ – which mans, ‘The Hope’. The text of Ha’Tikvah was written in 1878, in Zolochiv, Galicia, a historical region in Eastern Europe, by the Jewish poet Naphtali Herz Imber. Originally it was […]

FSM: HOT PICKS AND VIDEOS

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.1769/pub_detail.asp 1. Marine Not Allowed To Wear Uniform For High School Graduation 2. Video: Dress-Wearing Women Aren’t Crazy About Glass Staircase at New $105 Million Dollar Courthouse 3. Video: Sgt. Petry to Receive Medal of Honor for Protecting Fellow Soldiers 4. American Foundations – Palin Bus Tour: The Video 5. Video: Jury Convicts Chicago Businessman […]

MARK STEYN: OBAMA’S ROAD TO NOWHERE

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/269361/obama-s-road-nowhere-mark-steyn Obama’s Road to Nowhere This is Main Street, Obamaville: All bumps, no road. ‘There are always going to be bumps on the road to recovery,’’ President Obama said at a Jeep plant in Toledo the other day. “We’re going to pass through some rough terrain that even a Wrangler would have a tough time […]

DAVID SOLWAY: INFANTILIZING THE CULTURE

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/infantilizing-the-culture/?singlepage=true Infantilizing the Culture Our students may have stopped working, but they have not stopped playing. In a fascinating article for the Winter, 2011 edition of City Journal magazine, recently reprinted in Canada’s National Post, former speech writer for Rudy Giuliani, Clark Whelton, bemoans the current speech habits and state of literacy that are infantilizing […]

RAYMOND COOK: THE REAL MEANING OF THE RIGHT TO RETURN

http://www.raymondcook.net/blog/index.php/2011/06/06/the-real-meaning-of-a-palestinian-right-of-return/ The real meaning of a Palestinian Right of Return H/T Elder of Ziyon Although the Elder says a picture is worth a thousand words, let me explain. The key is the symbol of the Right of Return. You may see Palestinians waving keys during protests. The inference is that they have the actual keys […]

IS PERRY THE ONE: BRUCE WALKER

Is Perry the One? By Bruce Walker http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2011/06/is_perry_the_one.html The recent comments by Mitt Romney accepting manmade global warming as scientific fact must cause conservatives to cross him off their list of presidential candidates.  The mass exodus of staff from Newt’s campaign makes him dead in the water.  What Republicans need is a candidate who is […]

OBAMA CONTINUES THE SQUEEZE ON ISRAEL TO ACCEPT PRE 1967 LINES AS BASIS FOR NEGOTIATION: ELI LAKE

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jun/10/white-house-seeks-israeli-agreement-to-negotiate-o/print/ The White House is pressing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to publicly adopt President Obama’s view that Israel’s pre-1967 border should be the basis for future peace talks. The Obama White House appealed to Jewish leaders on Friday that the request of Israel was part of an effort to head off Palestinian plans to […]

DANIEL GREENFIELD WEEKLY ROUNDUP PART 2

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ THE ROUNDUP Istanbul Vs Jerusalem is one of the blunter articles on the Turkish standoff. Last week, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan addressed a local crowd in Diyarbakır, saying that: “We are the grandchildren of Saladin Ayyubi’s army [soldiers] that conquered Jerusalem.” So, says the prime minister, the ancient capital of Judaism had been […]

DANIEL GREENFIELD: WEEKLY ROUNDUP PART ONE

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Friday Afternoon Roundup – What Does It All Mean END OF DECENCY The end of decency has been proclaimed over and over again throughout the 20th century. There’s no way to pin down just when that line was crossed, but in public discourse it was crossed long ago. The last week or two are […]