http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/reminder-jihad-makes-islams-borders-and-innards-bloody?f=must_reads As of Sunday December 8, 2013, there were at least 22,023 documented fatal terror attacks committed by Muslims since the cataclysmic acts of jihad terrorism on 9/11/2001. This is by nature a gross underestimate given the horrific level of jihad violence across the globe, which has gone underreported. [ref 1] Dr. Tina Magaard-a Sorbonne-trained […]
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Major Retail Mall in England to be Shariah Compliant
1) The production and sale of pork and pork products will be prohibited.
2) The production and sale of alcohol products will be prohibited.
3) No gambling activities are allowed on the premises.
4) The investment will respect the “purification” requirements of shariah by including donations to Islamic “charities.” (We all know how that goes! Revisit the Texas Holy Land Foundation-Hamas funding trial, the largest terrorist funding trial in U.S. history for more on “donations to Islamic charities.”)
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/why-are-the-humanities-disappearing I often find myself in the odd position of addressing the question “why are the humanities disappearing?” In most instances my interrogators assume I will say something about the desire for vocational training in an environment where jobs are scarce. Clearly that is an answer, but a partial and unreflective response. Based on my […]
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303997604579242431978486244?mod=Opinion_newsreel_5 The Environmental Protection Agency’s habit of stretching its legal authority faces another reckoning on Tuesday when the Supreme Court considers whether the agency can rewrite the Clean Air Act to usurp state responsibilities. This one ought to be in Justice Anthony Kennedy‘s federalist sweet spot. The case focuses on the Clean Air Act’s “good […]
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304014504579248250375156332?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop Chuck Hagel was right: The Obama administration’s policy on Iran’s nuclearization is containment, not prevention. The secretary of defense let that one slip at his confirmation hearings in January, and the media played it as a stumble by an intellectually overmatched nominee. But it wasn’t a stumble. It was a gaffe—an accidental, embarrassing act […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/365742/impeachment-lessons-andrew-c-mccarthy Well whaddya know: The topic of impeachment reared its head at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday. Jonathan Strong’s report here at NRO noted the wincing consternation of GOP-leadership aides at utterances of the “i-word” during the testimony of prominent legal experts. For the Republican establishment, it seems, history begins and ends in the 1990s: […]
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North Korea has increased the size of a labor camp where prisoners have been beaten to death with hammers and forced to dig their own graves, according to a report by a rights group published Thursday.
Amnesty International commissioned satellite analysis of the country’s largest prison camp — which is known as kwanliso 16.
It shows new buildings have been constructed inside the compound — which is three times the size of Washington, D.C. — since North Korean leader Kim Jong Un replaced his late father.
Amnesty International also interviewed guards and inmates who have first-hand experience of life in the camps. They said women are often raped and then executed in secret by officials, and those who try to escape are beaten before being publicly shot or hanged.
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=6579 U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Israel on Wednesday for the eighth time since taking office in February. And he’s been visiting regularly since July, when negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority were “renewed” after a three-year hiatus. Unlike his previous little trips to the country, however, for the ostensible purpose […]
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This week’s Glazov Gang was joined by Dwight Schultz, a Hollywood actor, Ann-Marie Murrell, the National Director of PolitiChicks.tvand Monty Morton, a Walking Encyclopedia of Facts.
The Gang gathered to discuss The ObamaCare Nightmare. The dialogue occurred in Part I and focused on the catastrophe that Obama’s health care plan is inflicting on America.
In Part II, the Gang shed light onIsrael Betrayed, analyzing the Obama administration’s surrender to the Mullahs’ quest for the Bomb. The discussion was followed by an analysis of The Knockout Game and ofSpencer and Geller Banned from the UK for Pro-Israel Stance.
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“The first second of 1913. A gunshot rings out through the dark night. There’s a brief click, fingers tense on the trigger, then comes a second, dull report. The alarm is raised, the police dash to the scene and arrest the gunman straight away. His name is Louis Armstrong.” Armstrong is 12 years old. At the Colored Waifs’ Home for Boys, where he is later dumped, he is so unruly that the home’s director thrusts a cornet into his hands to help the boy blow off steam. He never puts it down. A star is born.
With this shot in the night, the German art historian Florian Illies opens this entertaining romp through the mind-boggling year 1913.
Among historians, who stare mesmerized into the vortex of insanity that produced the Big Bang of August 1914, the precursor year is a bit of an orphan. World politics are in a holding pattern; the players of the future lounge about, biding their time. Hitler is painting postcards, Stalin is writing nationalist essays, Trotsky is playing chess. All three are in Vienna. Hitler and Stalin enjoy morning walks in the park of Schönbrunn, as does the old emperor Franz Josef, who is contemptuous of the Erzherzog (Archduke Franz Ferdinand) racing through Vienna in a car that has golden spokes like the emperor’s coach.
Stalin beats Lenin seven times in a row at chess before leaving Krakow for Vienna. But it is Leon Bronstein (Trotsky) who becomes known as the best player in the Café Central. That year, the man who will kill him in Mexico is born in Barcelona. That’s the sort of thing one learns from Illies.
This marvelous book is like a box of rich cultural chocolates, each wrapped in the brightly glittering foil of its own significance. They are tightly packed, one next to the other in chronological tiers called months. The result is a stunning kaleidoscope of High Modernism: Artistically, 1913 was exploding in fulfillment. Best known is the pandemonium that erupted on May 29 at the premiere in Paris of Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du printemps, choreographed and danced by the scandalous Nijinski and Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. Although Maurice Ravel, from his cheap seat, yelled “genius” above the outraged audience, the next morning Le Figaro surmised that the Russians weren’t prepared for the French proclivity to protest “once stupidity has reached its nadir.”
The enjoyment of Illies’s spirited depiction is a bit marred by the translation. It was originally done for a British readership. Hence, one has to get used to Briticisms, such as “interval” for “intermission.” Fair enough, if we acknowledge the seniority of British over American English. But there is no excuse for telling us that Gabriele d’Annunzio, who sat in the audience on May 29, had run away from his disciples (Gläubigen) in Italy, when he had really escaped from his creditors (Gläubigern).
