http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3073/saudi-fatwa-ban-christian-churches “How could the grand mufti issue a fatwa of such importance behind the back of his king?” In late April of this year, the Wahhabi grand mufti of Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Abdul Aziz Ibn Abdullah Aal Ash-Sheikh, who controls all Sunni Muslim clerics in the desert kingdom, announced that girls could be forced into […]
Why Are We Importing Any Energy? Energy imports are terribly expensive in money, balance of payments, jobs and cost of goods. The Arab oil embargo of 1973 showed how costly it can be for the economy and for military strength. The only justifiable reason to import energy is if you do not have the resources […]
http://spectator.org/archives/2012/05/21/losing-the-world-to-win-reelec It’s more and more difficult to write about the Islamist war against Western civilization. Not because there is too little to write, or because the fronts in that war are quiet. It’s tough to do because fewer people seem to give a damn each week. Maybe the stark ironies of the war could bestir […]
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ The debate over the Iraq War that was held in the United Nations, and in academic and foreign policy circles, could be broken down as the question whether it was Iraq or the United States that was the rogue nation. On the one hand, Iraq had defied multiple UN resolutions, but so had the […]
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=270896 For Palestinians, Arabs and most Muslims, a “peace process,” the “two-state solution” that accepts Israel, is a metaphor for defeat. The “peace process” between Israel and the Arabs, touted as part of a “two state” plan, failed not because of disagreements over settlements and boundaries, but because of a basic false assumption: that Palestinianism […]
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/05/whispering_the_truth_in_obamas_america.html Whispering the Truth in Obama’s America Stella Paul, American Thinker.com The other day, I called a friend and interrupted her mid-cry. She’d just returned from putting her only son on a plane to China, where he was moving after giving up on getting a job here. The next day in the supermarket, I bumped […]
http://pjmedia.com/andrewmccarthy/2012/05/22/the-supreme-court-enters-the-surveillance-debate/?print=1 Since 2004, the Supreme Court’s transnational progressive bloc has forged a novel — and, in my view, a damaging — judicial oversight role in American national security. The whimsical Justice Kennedy’s alignment with the Court’s four-justice left-wing bloc (in which the two Clinton appointees, Justices Ginsburg and Stevens, are now joined by the two […]
Arab tragedy self-inflicted http://www.romirowsky.com/11730/arab-tragedy-self-inflicted In the Israeli collective memory Holocaust Commemoration Day, Memorial Day and Independence Day embody the story of the creation of the modern State of Israel. These three days represent the modern Jewish experience and the mantra propagated by the founding fathers – From Holocaust to Independence – connoting the concept of […]
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=1925 While much debate in Israel has been devoted to the issue of foreign workers and the status of their offspring, less attention has been paid to another group of aliens crossing Israel’s borders to seek refuge and find employment. Whereas the former is made up predominantly of migrants from the Philippines, Thailand and China, […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/european-future-on-the-ropes Based on the accumulation of recent reports, Europe is among the “walking dead.” The recent elections in Greece and France indicate that the respective populations are resistant to austerity measures. Despite insolvency, or in France’s case the prospect of insolvency, Europeans are so committed to their entitlements, they won’t give them up. Claims that […]
