http://pjmedia.com/victordavishanson/thin-strand-of-civilization/?print=1 Had the Greeks lost at Salamis, Western civilization might easily have been strangled in its adolescence. Had Hitler not invaded the Soviet Union, the European democracies would have probably remained overwhelmed. And had the Japanese just sidestepped the Philippines and Pearl Harbor, as they gobbled up the orphaned Pacific colonies of a defunct Western […]
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/bruce-thornton/the-eternal-darkness-of-the-progressive-mind/print/ The attacks on Lone Survivor, the movie about 4 Navy Seals caught in an operation gone lethally wrong in Afghanistan, illustrate once again the fossilized orthodoxy of the left. The L.A. Weekly’s Amy Nicholson called the movie a “jingoistic snuff film” that “bleeds blood red, bone-fracture white, and bruise blue” and assumes “brown people […]
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/david-james/samar-ali-her-fathers-organization-wants-to-destroy-israel/print/ Dr. Subhi Ali, Chairman of the Jerusalem Fund, is the father of Haslam appointee Samar Ali. Dr. Ali’s organization advocates BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) against Israel as a way to end Israel as a Jewish state; to destroy it by any means possible. Hisham Sharabi, who founded the the Jerusalem Fund (JF) in […]
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/john-kerrys-flying-circus/ On the State Department website there is a section titled “Travels with the Secretary” that lists all the places that the Secretary of State has been to. In an atmosphere where Hillary Clinton received the Liberty Medal because she “traveled to more countries than any other Secretary of State” mileage is almost as good […]
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/01/times_hillary_cover_too_much_even_for_the_boston_globe.html Time Magazine has achieved the status of the class clown, willing to embarrass itself to attract attention. Its latest cover asks, “Can Anyone Stop Hillary?” The accompanying article is seven pages of slobbering sycophancy. If anyone still reads Time, it would be a nice campaign contribution to Ready for Hillary 2016. A few samples: […]
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304549504579320970298575870?mod=WSJ_Opinion_AboveLEFTTop Democrats in California needed to pass cap and trade to find out what’s in it. At least that’s the take-away from state Senate president Darrell Steinberg’s epiphany in the Los Angeles Times this week. Cap and trade is “asking the trading market to enter directly into the energy segment again and that brings back […]
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President Barack Obama says some people “really dislike me” because they don’t like the idea of a black man occupying the Oval Office. But, he admits, that’s not the whole story.
“Now, the flip side of it is there are some black folks and maybe some white folks who really like me and give me the benefit of the doubt precisely because I’m a black president,” Obama told The New Yorker in an interview published Sunday.
Obama’s election in 2008 was heralded by some as ending the racial divide in the United States, but the country has become even more divided during his presidency. Though he won re-election in 2012, his margin of white support was worst of any presidential victor in U.S. history, The New Yorker noted.
“The popular opposition to the administration comes largely from older whites who feel threatened, underemployed, overlooked, and disdained in a globalized economy and in an increasingly diverse country,” the article said.
Obama said in the interview that opposition to large federal powers does not make make one racist, but he said supporters of states’ rights should also acknowledge the history tied to that philosophy, which was key to southern thinking during the Civil War and the civil rights movement.
Eleanor McCullen, a youthful 77-year-old who started work as a sidewalk counselor at 63, does just this. She is the lead plaintiff challenging the Massachusetts law that imposes a 35-foot buffer zone outside every abortion facility. The Supreme Court heard her case exactly one week before opponents of abortion would march on Washington, as we do every year on the anniversary of Roe. Catholic University of America law professor Mark Rienzi explained, in his argument before the Court, that “a law that makes it illegal to even engage in consensual conversation, quiet conversation, on a public sidewalk, an act that makes that a criminal act for which Mrs. McCullen can go to prison . . . is not permissible under the First Amendment.”
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Washington, D.C. — Finally, Pope Francis extends an olive branch to conservatives! Such was the gist of ridiculous headlines (Reuters: “Pope, in nod to conservatives, calls abortion ‘horrific’”) and analysis in response to this pontiff’s first annual address to the Vatican diplomatic corps. Pope Francis happened to point out, you see, that he’s opposed to abortion. “It is frightful even to think there are children, victims of abortion, who will never see the light of day,” the pope said.
Rather than a mere checking of a box on a political scorecard — as if he were a candidate preparing for the primaries — he was simply reiterating Church teaching. In the unborn child is the face of Christ, he said on another occasion. Forty-one years after the Supreme Court’s January 22, 1973, ruling in Roe v. Wade, we ought to weep for the lives lost, weep for the pain, and resolve to do better to help build a culture of life — an alternative reality embracing the love that we owe one another as the loved children of a generous Creator.
Eleanor McCullen, a youthful 77-year-old who started work
He understood the “bohemian know-nothings” very early
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Norman Podhoretz, who turned 84 on January 16, is usually considered nowadays a commentator on American political, foreign, and religious affairs; with the late Irving Kristol and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, he has been a key figure in the neoconservativeintellectual movement of the last 40 years. As editor-in-chief from 1960 to 1995 of the New York monthly Commentary, published by the American Jewish Committee, he presided over and helped bring about the movement of Jews from the margins to the very center of American cultural and intellectual life. He is certainly one of the most significant figures in the life of the mind in America since World War II.
But Podhoretz’s early career was that of a literary critic, educated at Columbia and Cambridge Universities, where he was the protégé and disciple of two of the greatest nondenominational literary critics and moralists of the 20th century: Lionel Trilling at Columbia and F. R. Leavis at Cambridge. “Nondenominational” is an appropriate word because Trilling and Leavis were in some sense neoconservative traditionalists, but, unlike their great contemporaries T. S. Eliot and C. S. Lewis, they were not religiously committed or orthodox writers. Though the young Podhoretz studied simultaneously at Columbia and the Jewish Theological Seminary, and spoke Hebrew, he was not religiously observant. This was to change in later life.
Having ignored the Palestinian Authority’s flagrant breaches of the terms of the negotiations process, several European countries have now officially censured Israel for abiding by them.
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If diplomacy is war by other means, in recent days the Europeans have been taking to the diplomatic warpath amidst an increasingly strident attitude toward Israel and its policies on Jewish communities over the 1949 armistice lines. The European position on Israel’s settlements has often been tagged as hypocritical and replete with double standards, but in recent days the European reaction to announcements of new homes for Jews living over the green line, including in eastern parts of Jerusalem, has been so disproportionate as to appear almost unhinged.
On Thursday, Israeli diplomats in London, Paris, Rome, and Madrid were all hauled in by government officials to be subjected to protest and rebuke at the news that the Israeli government had issued housing permits for 600 new homes in Jerusalem and 800 in the settlement blocks, which under just about any conceivable re-drawing of the borders would remain part of Israel.
It is a rather strange turn of history to find that even in the 21st century European governments are still trying to tell Jews where they can and cannot live. Strange, that in a manner that almost smacks of old-style colonialism, Europeans are still trying to determine the borders of other peoples in other parts of the world.
