http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2011/07/12/forgotten_stars/print Three recent sports biographies — two about baseball stars Stan Musial and Hank Greenberg, and another about boxing great Joe Louis — are not only interesting in themselves, but also recall an era that now seems as irretrievably past as the Roman Empire. They also raise questions about who is remembered and why. The […]
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0711/glick071211.php3 http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Five years ago this week, Iran’s Lebanese proxy opened war with Israel. The war lasted 34 days, during which Hezbollah launched more than 4,000 missiles against Israel. Now five years later, under US President Barack Obama, America is pushing a policy that drastically escalates the chance that a new war between Israel […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jul/10/job-creators-score-in-straw-poll/ Job creators score in straw poll Cain, Romney, Perry top field after rise in unemployment rate A Washington Times/Conservative Leadership Conference weekend straw poll shows why the perfect storm may be brewing for the right Republican presidential wannabe next year. On Friday, the government released more ugly employment news, and on Saturday the poll […]
http://badrachel.blogspot.com/ Citizen Truther Israeli and American Jews of the non–leftist, non–Al-Jazeera, non–lunatic-fringe variety, UN-watchers, even the squeamish, dilatory, relativist U.S. government, have responded with disgust to the most recent offense—a repugnant Der Stürmerish cartoon depicting a dog sporting a U.S.A. sweater and a yarmulke with the Star of David on it urinating on a statue […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.9913/pub_detail.asp The cartoon below was posted on a blog on June 29, 2011. Okay, so what’s the big deal? I have seen hate filled and Anti-Semitic cartoons before, but this was posted on the blog of Richard Falk. Falk is the United Nations Special Rapporteur “on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories […]
Muslim Professor Abdallah Nafisi dreams of an anthrax attack on America:
http://www.israelreturns.org/supportsi/ The Bnei Menashe are coming home! In a dramatic development, the 2700-year-old dream of India’s Bnei Menashe to make aliyah to Israel has received an unprecedented boost. After years of lobbying by Shavei Israel, the Ministerial Committee on Immigration and Absorption met in the Prime Minister’s Office and decided to formally draft a government […]
The Right to Privacy Trojan Horse Posted by Ben Shapiro http://frontpagemag.com/2011/07/11/the-right-to-privacy-trojan-horse/ One of the great lies of the latter half of the twentieth century is that there is a Constitutional right to privacy. The right to privacy was established by the Supreme Court in Griswold v. Connecticut (1965), in which the Court ruled that the […]
http://frontpagemag.com/2011/07/11/five-reasons-to-ban-the-burqa/ Belgium and France have banned the Burqa and the new Dutch government is considering doing the same. Critics have charged that the ban is religiously intolerant, some even claim that it’s intolerant of women, but the truth is that the Burqa is dangerous to women. Both those who wear it—and those who don’t. 1. […]
The House Sees the Light Posted By Peter Roff URL to article: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-house-sees-the-light/ The light bulb, when it appears in the funny papers, is symbolic of a good idea. On Capitol Hill it has been just the opposite. In 2007, Congress, following the lead of other industrialized nations, took steps to mandate an increase in […]