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 […]

INTERMISSION JULY 26-JULY 31

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 […]

BRUCE THORNTON: CHRISTIAN TRAGEDY IN THE MUSLIM WORLD

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/bruce-thornton/christian-tragedy-in-the-muslim-world/print/ Originally published by the Hoover Institution Journal. Few people realize that we are today living through the largest persecution of Christians in history, worse even than the famous attacks under ancient Roman emperors like Diocletian and Nero. Estimates of the numbers of Christians under assault range from 100-200 million. According to one estimate, a […]