Utopia: Good Place or No Place? Posted By David Solway Beware the child-soldiers of the millennium who have your unhappiness heart. http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/utopia-good-place-or-no-place/?print=1 Much has been written about the perennial temptation of the Utopian project embraced by intellectuals and political reformers across the ages. The impulse to radically transform existent society and replace it with a […]
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/ ISLAMABAD: Over a 100 Hindu families in Pakistan’s Balochistan province are making efforts to migrate to India after becoming the target of a campaign of kidnappings and extortion, according to a media report today. The Hindus of southwestern Balochistan have been hit hardest by incidents of abduction for ransom and extortion, with the records […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704735304576058382591955692.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLETopOpinion Egypt’s Prison of Hate You know a country is in trouble when it blames shark attacks on the Mossad. Following the New Year’s Eve massacre of a score of Coptic Christian worshippers outside a church in Alexandria, Egyptians are wasting no time fingering the likely culprit. “With careful consideration,” observes commentator Ammar Ali Hassan […]
http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/content/module/2011/1/4/main-feature/1/lost-found Lost & Found By Aryeh Tepper In 1974, a strange letter from northeastern India landed on the desk of Israel’s then Prime Minister Golda Meir. It was sent by a group of Indians claiming to be descendants of the tribe of Menashe, one of the ten tribes “lost” to Jewish history after the Assyrians […]
http://bigpeace.com/stzu/2011/01/04/big-dupes-at-big-peace-dupes-of-the-year/ This is the most recent installment of exclusive interviews with Dr. Paul Kengor, professor of political science at Grove City College, on his book revealing how communists, from Moscow to New York to Chicago, have long manipulated America’s liberals/progressives. Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century is based on an unprecedented […]
Brzezinski’s wild take on China By Jennifer Rubin http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right-turn/2011/01/zbigniew_brezezinski_fancies_h.html#more Zbigniew Brzezinski fancies himself a “realist” in foreign affairs. But his outlook (for example his notion of an imposed peace deal in the Middle East or, worse, his suggestion to shoot down Israeli planes en route to attack Iran) evidences little recognition of the real-world interests […]
http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/ “And in this coming year we who love and admire Israel – we who know that Israel’s cause is the cause of all free peoples everywhere, and that if Israel falls, we shall be next in line for the jihadists – must step up our work. A ruthless war of delegitimisation against Israel is […]
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/01/uk-serial-killer-converts-to-islam-to-get-prison-perks.html UK: Serial killer to convert to Islam to get prison perks In British prisons, Muslims get preferential treatment, so it is only natural that non-Muslim prisoners would want to convert. More dhimmitude from Absurd Britannia: “Korma Chameleon: Killer Turns Muslim For Curry,” by Andy Gardiner in the Daily Star, January 2 (thanks to Twostellas): […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/256245/congress-must-lead-not-courts-andrew-c-mccarthy Congress Must Lead, Not the Courts Republicans cannot punt hard decisions to the judges. The new Congress begins its session this week with historically rare fortifications: swelling ranks of Republican freshmen and a clear mandate to roll back Obama’s administrative statism. For the GOP, it is a short lease on a second life, won […]
http://townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2011/01/04/constitutionalists_vs_interpretationists The new House Republican leadership is smart to inaugurate their return to power by reading aloud the U.S. Constitution on the House floor. Recalling America’s founding principles is never a bad idea. To some on the left, though, the Constitution doesn’t mean what it says, but is to be interpreted by judges and politicians. […]
