Perry Breaks With a Fellow Texan: Bush By JIM RUTENBERG and JEFF ZELENYAUSTIN, Tex. — Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican contemplating a presidential run, shares many attributes with the last man who ran for president from here, his predecessor and onetime patron, George W. Bush. He has the same straight-legged Texas swagger; the down-home, clipped […]
http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2011/07/06/%E2%80%9Cblasphemy-blasphemy-mucho%E2%80%9D%E2%80%94islamintern-denounces-islamo-realistic-free-speech-in-holland/ “Blasphemy, Blasphemy Mucho”—Islamintern Denounces Islamo-realistic Free Speech in Holland OIC Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu: “Blasphemy, Blasphemy Mucho”(apologies to Andrea Bocelli) Bat Ye’or has appositely characterized [2] Geert Wilder’s recent acquittal as a “Copernican revolution,” achieved by a solitary “unarmed man, constantly threatened by death and whose only defense was his courageous and unbending commitment […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304803104576426091990832686.html?KEYWORDS=GEORGE+GILDER By GEORGE GILDER America’s enemies understand deeply and intuitively that no U.S. goals or resources in the Middle East are remotely as important as Israel. Why don’t we? Israel cruised through the recent global slump with scarcely a down quarter and no deficit or stimulus package. It is steadily increasing its global supremacy, behind […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303339904576406163574698214.html?mod=WSJ_newsreel_opinion By ROGER BATE Beginning in 2007, tainted heparin (a blood thinner) imported from China was linked to the deaths of 149 American patients. It was a stark example of a growing problem. China is now the largest supplier of pharmaceutical chemicals—hundreds of tons annually—to the world. And pharmaceutical companies that buy these chemicals do […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304760604576427592896119826.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop DSK and the District Attorney New York’s prosecutor could have chosen to exploit race and status in the high-profile case. By DOROTHY RABINOWITZ It should have been no surprise to hear that the career and reputation of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. had sustained a deadly blow as a result of revelations […]
Remembering Entebbe 35 Years Ago Today: When Leaders Still Fought For Freedom http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2011/07/remembering-entebbe-35-years-ago-today.html?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1cb696e944-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN On America’s two hundredth birthday it was Israel that showed the world the “Spirit of 1776.” On June 27, 1976, Air France Flight 139, carrying 248 passengers and a crew of twelve, took off from Athens, heading for Paris. Soon after the […]
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=227931 On Monday, saboteurs bombed the Egyptian gas pipeline to Israel for the third time since former president Hosni Mubarak was overthrown in February. The move was just another reminder that Israel today faces the most daunting and complex threat spectrum it has ever seen. From Egypt to Turkey to Iran to the international Left […]
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/577121/201107011811/Our-Independence-Flags-On-This-Glorious-Fourth.htm Dozens of countries have “Independence Days.” Nov. 25, for example: Independence Day in Suriname. In that instance as in most others, the designation signifies nothing more than transfer of de jure sovereignty and de facto operational control from a distant European capital to a more local regime. 1975 in Suriname’s case. It had the […]
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ When Madame Roland, the moderate French Republican, was a prisoner in the hands of the radicals, she wrote; “Oh my friends. Heaven grant that you may reach the United States– that last refuge of liberty– in safety!” Two-hundred years later, her “last refuge of liberty” is under siege by the same power hungry fanatics […]
On July 4, 1976, a beautiful and cloudless day my husband and I and four kids were in Connecticut preparing to toll a large brass bell to celebrate the bi-centennial of our great nation. All our neighbors and friends and townsmen in Connecticut were poised to do this in unison at precisely three o’clock. Our home was […]
