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2013

RUTHIE BLUM: WHAT WE DON’T GET BY FREEING TERRORISTS

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=5191 On Monday evening, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry hosted an iftar dinner, the daily meal with which Muslims break their Ramadan fast. However, this was more than just a gesture of religious tolerance for his guests from the Palestinian Authority; it symbolized Kerry’s great gratitude to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for agreeing […]

ANDREW McCARTHY: WHY IS THE NATIONAL SECURITY RIGHT LOSING THE NSA DEBATE?

http://pjmedia.com/andrewmccarthy/2013/07/30/the-why-question-why-the-national-security-right-is-gradually-losing-the-nsa-debate/ An amendment proposed by libertarian Congressman Justin Amash (R., MI) that would effectively have killed the NSA surveillance programs was just barely defeated last week. In the battle’s wake, a consensus seems to be growing that conservatives must have an intramural debate over national security. This is healthy, or at least it could be […]

ROGER KIMBALL: FROM ANTI-COMMUNIST TO COUNTER JIHADIST ****

http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2013/07/30/from-anti-communist-to-counter-jihadist/?print=1 Remember when “anti-Communist” was a preferred leftist term of abuse? “Oh, you’re an anti-Communist” — translation: you’re not one of the trendy people and, moreover, you probably harbor “McCarthyite” tendencies and think Ronald Reagan (the American cowboy) is more of a hero than Mikhail Gorbachev, the glamorous prophet of perestroika.  Think back to the […]

VIN IENCO’S NOTES: READ THEM ALL

Shh! Obama’s Latest Executive Order: $500 Million Dollars More to the Palestinian Authority, Hamas Shh! Obama’s Latest Executive Order: $500 Million Dollars More to the Palestinian Authority, Hamas Circumventing Congress and with no fanfare, President Obama last week issued an executive order enabling him to send an additional $500 million directly to the Palestinian Authority […]

GEORGE GILDER: IF IT WERE NOT FOR THE SETTLERS THERE WOULD BE NO ECONOMIC PROGRESS FOR THE REGIONAL ARABS ***

http://spectator.org/issues/june-2011   If not for Jewish settlers, there would be no Palestine and no economic progress for the region’s Arab population. The root cause of Middle Eastern turmoil, according to a broad consensus of the international media and the considered cerebrations of the deepest-thinking movie stars, is Israeli settlers in what are described as the […]

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HEZBOLLAH’S EUROPEAN PATSIES: RUTHIE BLUM

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=5137 When the European Union decided on Monday to classify Hezbollah’s “military wing” as a terrorist organization, its chief, Hassan Nasrallah, got his turban in a twist. Though the EU move was pretty mild — imposing a vague freeze on funding; implementing fuzzy travel bans for some operatives; and continuing to engage in relations with […]

DANIEL GREENFIELD: MUSLIMS ARE NOT A MINORITY ****

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ The most persistent myth of the Western Dhimmi narrative is that Muslims are a minority and must receive special protection and accommodation. But Muslims are not a minority. There are 1.5 billion Sunni Muslims worldwide, outweighing Catholics as the next largest religious faction at 1.1 billion and Hindus at 1 billion. They are still […]

MARK STEYN: WEINER WORSHIP

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/354395/weiner-worship-mark-steyn

In the new, liberated Egypt, leading imam Abu Islam explains that Christianity originated in penis worship:

I swear to God the Almighty – and believe me, I am not lying – that the Church worship originated in the worship of the penis. I swear to God. This is documented in dozens of pictures.

Let me tell you something – it’s indecent, but true. Take a look at a picture of Jesus, and you’ll see a penis, right here. Or is it on this side? Oh, it’s on the right side. A penis, right here. There are many pictures like this. They worship it.

If you replace the word “Church” with “Democratic party” and the word “Jesus” with “Anthony Weiner,” it’s actually a pretty sound analysis.

JONAH GOLDBERG: CYNIC IN CHIEF

http://www.nationalreview.com/node/354481/print ‘My rival in this race,” President Obama announced early in 2007, “is not other candidates. It’s cynicism.” Sadly, it’s now evident cynicism won. In a much-hyped speech at Knox College on Wednesday, Obama sought to pivot back to the economy — as the journalistic cliché goes — and shape the issue environment for the […]