http://q4j-middle-east.com The title of the large AP article discussing the recent election in Israel in my local paper on January 24th read, “Rise Of Israeli Centrist Raises Hopes For Peace.” It was referring to the surprising good showing of Israel’s Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid party. No doubt, this Aron Heller and Josef Federman analysis made […]
http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/novelists-view-world/2013/jan/24/delmon-young-joins-michael-vick-breaking-bad-phila/ “On racism, real or alleged, there’s been zero tolerance. Incautious words here and there against African Americans doomed Howard Cosell, Jimmy the Greek, and Al Campanis. They never recovered and it was years of tolerance training (with Al Sharpton?) before Don Imus got back his radio/TV gig. So why does anti-Semitism get a free […]
Dear Father, Dear Son: Two Lives…Eight Hours
by Jamie Glazov
Larry Elder discusses his new new book about his dad that will touch your heart in unexpected places.
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/jamie-glazov/dear-father-dear-son-two-lives-eight-hours/
http://pjmedia.com/andrewmccarthy/2013/01/24/a-superb-appointment-for-sec-chief/ President Obama has nominated my former boss, Mary Jo White, to be the next chairwoman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. He could not have made a better choice. I worked for Mary Jo for nearly a decade when she was U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York for nine years, from […]
http://www.prudenpolitics.com/newsletter?utm_source=P&P%20Auto%201&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=5927
Wars are won despite the generals. Every historian knows that. Combat is no place for a woman. Every grunt knows that. So do most women. Only generals are confused.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff have finally succumbed to the pressure of the ladies who can’t imagine ever getting close to a gun, registered or otherwise, but who think it would be nifty if some of the cannon fodder for America’s wars could be “service members” of the female persuasion. This would make the ladies on the sidelines feel brave and good about themselves.
You’ll notice that soldiers are no longer called soldiers, or Marines Marines. They’re “service members” now, as if they were waiters, filling-station attendants or bedpan orderlies. You wouldn’t expect to find the likes of Stonewall Jackson, John J. Pershing or George S. Patton Jr. at the Pentagon, but there are plenty of generals and admirals lined up to get their tickets punched and promoted to the next rank. The only shots many of them have ever confronted were shots of Jack Daniel’s at the Officers Club.
Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, seeks a kinder, gentler service member, with none of the excessive testosterone that has afflicted warriors over history’s many wars and centuries. With a little work, the Joint Chiefs expect to squeeze all those deadly hormonal influences out of the male libido.
“The time has come to rescind the direct combat exclusion rule for women and to eliminate all unnecessary gender-based barriers to service,” the general said in echo of Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s announcement that the Pentagon will field a gender-neutral military to fight the nation’s wars. The general wants to “move forward with the full intent to integrate women into occupational fields to the maximum extent possible.
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3554/what-happened-to-sweden Once a moral superpower, Sweden cannot now claim to be seen as even a moral or tolerant place. Just as Raoul Wallenberg remains as an example of courage, Sweden’s Mayor of Malmo, Ilmar Reepalu, a Social Democrat who has held the office for 17 years, does not. Last October, around 300 people assembled in […]
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3555/sharia-law-london “This is not-so-Great Britain, this is a Muslim area. We are vigilantes implementing Islam upon your own necks.” — Member, Muslim London Patrol Muslim gangs have been filmed loitering on streets in London and demanding that passersby conform to Islamic Sharia law. The self-proclaimed vigilantes, who call themselves Muslim London Patrol, are seen in […]
http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/5821/features/not-ordinary-at-all/
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon dedicated this year’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Sunday January 27th, to rescuers of Nazi victims who were not famous heroes but little-known people living “ordinary” lives. Yet some of those little-known rescuers lived anything but ordinary lives, like the extraordinary Berta Davidovitz Rubinsztejn.
When Berta celebrated her 90th birthday in New York this summer, one guest—Meir Brand, a white-haired grandfather of eight—made the trip from Israel. Berta calls Meir her son. He is, but not in any ordinary sense.
In 1941 when she was 18, Berta’s family of five fled Poland and crossed the Carpathian Mountains into still-unoccupied Hungary, where Jews were being persecuted but not yet hunted down. One night the family was hiding, crowded together, in a sheep stall, when Berta’s father, fearing his children would be killed, cried, “For what did I bring you into the world?” From her father’s desperation Berta took the conviction that sustained her for the next five years: “Better to be killed than to hide!”
Berta made her way to Budapest in 1942, where she began working for the Zionist underground through the youth movement Dror Habonim. She assumed a Gentile identity and the name Bigota Ilona and wore a crucifix around her neck. She would meet in a park with other Dror Habonim members living as Gentiles to plan operations and exchange weapons.
Jewish parents in more dangerous places were then bribing Gentiles and using other means to smuggle their children into Budapest, where the Zionist underground had a list of the children’s names but often not their locations. The underground worked to find them, and any other Jewish children they could discover, and get them to safety. An indirect participant in many of their operations was Rudolf Kasztner, a Hungarian Jew, who was head of Hungary’s Zionist Aid and Rescue Committee. “I saw Kasztner in Budapest in 1943,” Berta remembered, but “we halutzim saw him only from afar. He knew we were Jews pretending to be Gentiles, and we knew not to talk to him because the Germans were watching him.”
http://www.wnd.com/2013/01/pimping-the-culture/
Here is a pithy note from Dr. John, an e-pal…..I could not agree more…rsk
“The screaming, warbling, belting, style of singing — so normal in ‘American Idol’ episodes and its ilk, horrendous, over-embellished, even up to disrespectful renditions of the national anthem, dances at the White House ( see below) etc — are a result of the current worship of the commercialized exaggerations of gospel-singing style of the African-American churches. There are many other features of adorations of barrio pop culture that have filtered into the major fashions and styles of art, music, literature, dress, language…Meanwhile, good jazz, classical and creative pop music, correct speech etc are given over to ever-dwindling cadres of devotees… Where are our teachers in guiding good taste and higher culture in practically all our schools? Why do they kowtow to the predilections of the lowest common denominator in such politically-correct abandon?…. They do their charges little long-term good with such well-intended tolerance or capitulation to the current, commercial hebonic saturations… We need — for so many reasons — a return to more classical standards of education, moral upbringing, and civic consciousness — for everyone’s benefit, but most of all for the poorer sections of the populace…”
The marketplace doesn’t adjudicate the quality of art or pop culture – it does no more than offer an aggregate snapshot of the trillions of subjective preferences acted upon by consumers. That snapshot, in 2013, tells us that when it comes to “Bread and Circuses,” Rome and its provinces wallow in the same lowbrow popular culture.
Incidentally, to judge the quality of a cultural product is not to begrudge the preferences of the people who purchase it. It is simply to apply timeless, objective standards in assessing these products.
In its salient features, the Commander In Chief’s Ball resembles the annual White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner. There, some of the most pretentious, worthless people in the country – in politics, journalism and entertainment – convene to revel in their ability to petition and curry favor with one another, usually to the detriment of the people, whether the latter know it or not.
By and large, when it comes to entertainment, the people and the elites are on the same empty page – most of the musicians whose products they patronize, or with whom they fraternize, can’t read music, much less play it.
“Grammy and Academy Award winner” Jennifer Hudson, to whose primal screams the president and first lady attempted to dance, doesn’t sing; she screams. Voice coaches once considered the Hudson brand of “vocal wobble” a deficiency in technique and talent. But then, “Why be a musician, when you can be a success?” Such cacophony currently plays to full houses. It is to their credit that the First Couple smoothed the noise over with some smooth moves.
“We all know Beyoncé can sing,” came the response from inaugural organizers to the rumors that the singing sensation lip-synched to “The Star Spangled Banner.” Beyoncé is another performer who distinguishes herself with an obscene bump-and-grind routine and a din of discordant, jarring yelps.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/clintons-prepare-for-whitewatergate-day-of-humiliation-rupert-cornwell-in-washington-considers-the-evidence-for-a-possible-presidential-coverup-1427537.html
Clintons prepare for ‘Whitewatergate’ day of humiliation: Rupert Cornwell in Washington considers the evidence for a possible presidential cover-up
By STEPHEN LABATON
Published: January 06, 1996
After nearly two years of searches and subpoenas, the White House said this evening that it had unexpectedly discovered copies of missing documents from Hillary Rodham Clinton’s law firm that describe her work for a failing savings and loan association in the 1980’s.Federal and Congressional investigators have issued subpoenas for the documents since 1994, and the White House has said it did not have them. The originals disappeared from the Rose Law Firm, in which Mrs. Clinton was a partner, shortly before Mr. Clinton took office.
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/06/us/elusive-papers-of-law-firm-are-found-at-white-house.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
The only First Lady to have been subpoenaed, she testified before a federal grand jury in 1996 due to the Whitewater controversy, but was never charged with wrongdoing in this or several other investigations during her husband’s administration.
Hillary Clinton Is Subpoenaed To Testify Before a Grand Jury
By ALISON MITCHELL
Published: January 23, 1996
Hillary Rodham Clinton has been subpoenaed to appear before a Federal grand jury that is investigating whether anyone at the White House obstructed justice in the handling of records from the First Lady’s former law firm.
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/23/us/hillary-clinton-is-subpoenaed-to-testify-before-a-grand-jury.html
