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 […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/270994 Forget You, Feminism No whine from Bachmann ‘Are you a flake?” With that question on Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace may have given a rallying cry to the new feminist revolution in American politics. Except this time, the favored f-word of faux liberation will likely be nowhere to be seen. Wallace apologized, and, in […]
http://www.jihadwatch.org/ Australia: New South Wales police given authority to remove face veils for identification on traffic stops In the West, the female face is not a private part. This necessary and eminently logical move comes in the aftermath of the Carnita Matthews case, which set up a perfect Catch-22 wherein the defendant would not remove […]
Patriots, Refugees and the Right of Return Posted By Steven Plaut http://frontpagemag.com/2011/07/04/patriots-refugees-and-the-right-of-return/print/ When the War of Independence began, it quickly assumed the nature of a civil war. Those opposing the declaration of statehood fought alongside the organized armies of their kinsmen, which invaded the territory of the infant state from all directions. The fighting […]
http://badrachel.blogspot.com/ Headache Among the Believers We spend Shabbat afternoon with beloved friends who live beyond the Green Line in the Judean hills. They were in the first group of eighteen settlers to break ground here, to scrabble their desert plot into lovely terraced gardens, and on it to build the house they still inhabit thirty-two […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.9873,css.print/pub_detail.asp Last May the Turkish ship the Mavi Marmara was part of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla that attempted to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza. When the dust and sea water settled 9 Turks were dead along with 7 Israeli soldiers injured with gunshot and stab wounds. All year long while several investigations into the […]
Cautioning The United Nations Regarding Palestinian Statehood http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/ Here’s another considered article by David Singer, the Sydney lawyer who is a founder of the International Analysts Network. Entitled “Palestine – Testing The World’s Patience,” it comes via the antipodean J-Wire service. Writes David Singer: The Palestinian Authority headed by an unelected president – Mahmoud Abbas […]
http://townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/2011/07/05/marco_rubio_ready_for_political_primetime/print At first he didn’t want to do any national media, preferring to focus on Florida issues. He didn’t make his maiden speech on the Senate floor until June 14, five months after being sworn-in. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) so gifted at age 40, combines passion for his conservative ideas with a humility that could […]
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2011/07/04/3088411/op-ed-jews-becoming-commonplace-in-conservative-new-media It’s nice to be noticed in such august company…thanks to all my e-pals who sent this to me while I was on a mini-vacation….rsk “Significant relative newcomers include bloggers such as Ted Belman of IsraPundit, Dan Greenfield of SultanKnish and Ruth King of Ruthfully Yours, along with sites such as Israel Matzav, YidWithLid, Yeshiva […]
http://www.prudenpolitics.com This has been a rough summer for roues, if you can call them that. We’ve not only defined deviancy down, but roues are not what they used to be. Anthony Weiner, who entertained us through the merry month of May with what he thought were lady-killing moves, was actually nothing more than a teenager […]
