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August 2013

ARAB MEDIA FORLORNLY BLAMES WEST FOR ASSAD’S USE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS

http://www.thecommentator.com/article/4075/arab_media_forlornly_blames_west_for_syria_massacre It is one thing to criticise Obama’s muddled Syria policy. it’s another for those who routinely slam American “meddling” to blame him for the massacre This week’s terrible massacre using chemical weapons against Syrian civilians, almost certainly perpetrated by Bashar Al-Assad’s forces, was bound to raise emotions, and understandably so. But some of what […]

The Pervasive Evil of Communism…and The Moral Bankruptcy of Communist Apologists: Daniel Mtichell

http://www.thecommentator.com/article/4079/the_pervasive_evil_of_communism_and_the_moral_bankruptcy_of_communist_apologists You would never wear a Hermann Göring t-shirt or use the swastika in a value-neutral fashion, so why should it be okay to whitewash and/or rehabilitate communists? I spoke earlier this week at the 2013 Liberty Conference in Lausanne, Switzerland. But I don’t think anybody is going to remember my speech about the collapse of the […]

LEO RENNERT: IMPOVERISHED GAZA…FEWER MARCEDES BENZ SALES….LESS CAVIAR

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/08/impoverished_gaza_feels_pinch_of_fewer_mercedes-benz_sales.html Hamas-ruled Gaza is feeling the ripple effects of the ouster of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi and the decimation of the Muslim Brotherhood. The new military ruling regime accuses Hamas, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, of fomenting anti-Egypt attacks in Sinai. In turn, Cairo has put a noose around the only land crossing from […]

Is There Anything about Race We Can Agree On? By Karin McQuillan

http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/08/is_there_anything_about_race_we_can_agree_on.html Democrats think a rodeo clown’s jokes are racist, Republicans think they are healthy free speech.  Democrats think Trayvon Martin was shot for being black, Republicans think he was shot in self-defense because of his thuggish assault on Zimmerman.  Republicans think the President should show leadership to counter the violent Rapper culture that leads to […]

Chavez’s Inflation Bites His Successor : Mary Anastasia O’Grady

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324165204579029421047567620.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_BelowLEFTSecond Nicolás Maduro needs a circus because there is no bread in Venezuela. Hyperinflation and political witch hunts seem to go together. Just ask the Venezuelan opposition. With the bolivarcollapsing and prices spiraling higher, the government alleged this month that its No. 1 adversary, former presidential candidate Henrique Capriles, is linked to a prostitution ring […]

ANDREW ROBERTS: SYRIA JOINS THE RANKS OF THE BARBARIANS

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323665504579031010578108096.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop ‘Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! An ecstasy of fumbling, fitting the clumsy helmets just in time; but someone still was yelling out and stumbling, and flound’ring like a man in fire or lime . . . .” Wilfred Owen’s poem, “Dulce et Decorum Est,” describing his experience of a chlorine-gas attack in World War I, […]

Antisemitism: A Specific Phenomenon by Clemens Heni….a review by Asaf Romirowsky

http://www.romirowsky.com/13660/antisemitism-specific-phenomenon The study of antisemitism has taken many turns and twists over the years. The goal remains: understanding where this hatred emanates from and how it continues to cascade throughout the generations. While the scholarship has differed on exact definitions, the signs and trends have been voluminous. Leon Poliakov, one of the early scholars of […]

ObamaCare’s Road To Nowhere — on The Glazov Gang

ObamaCare’s Road To Nowhere — on The Glazov Gang
The disaster unfolds.
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/frontpagemag-com/obamacares-road-to-nowhere-on-the-glazov-gang/

DR. MORDECHAI KEDAR:Radicalization and Escalation

  The crisis in Egypt is deepening, and both sides of the conflict are becoming increasingly entrenched in their positions. The fatalities that have occurred among Mursi supporters as well as among the military people causes both sides to act on the basis of their hearts and emotions, and not from logic. Both sides think […]

ISRAEL’S ENMITY? THE NEW YORK TIMES DOES IT AGAIN

http://www.nysun.com/editorials/iisraels-i-enmity/88385/ “President Rouhani is sending strong signals that he will dispatch a pragmatic, experienced team to the table when negotiations resume, possibly next month. That’s when we should begin to see answers to key questions: How much time and creative thinking are he and President Obama willing to invest in a negotiated solution, the only […]