URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/08/16/the-vile-candidate/ The next president of Ireland will not be a terrorism and pedophilia supporter. That sounds like something that should be taken for granted, but in Ireland’s radicalized politics, it very nearly came about. In July, Senator David Norris was heavily favored to be the first gay president of Ireland. His outspoken […]
White House Mischief http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/274685 The Obama administration’s sleazy sleights of hand expose it to ridicule. The White House engaged in two puerile gambits last week that exposed the Obama administration’s amateurish and deceitful Middle East policies in a painfully obvious manner. The first case concerned the thorny issue of Jerusalem’s legal status in American law. […]
http://pajamasmedia.com/andrewklavan/2011/08/15/my-heart-stirred-a-review-of-rick-perrys-speech/?singlepage=true My Heart Stirred: A Review of Rick Perry’s Speech Posted By Andrew Klavan I happened upon Rick Perry’s speech [2]this weekend in a manner typical of myself. I had just turned the TV on to program my DVR to record some obscure foreign cultural something-or-other when the Texas governor appeared onscreen to announce his […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/15/obama-calls-tax-hikes-chides-gop-opposition/ Obama hits road to call for tax hikes, blast GOP ‘games’ Begins Midwest bus tour with ‘country first’ message CANNON FALLS, Minn. — President Obama launched a Midwestern bus tour devoted to the economy Monday by again calling for tax increases and accusing Republicans who oppose his plans of failing to put the “country […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/15/obamas-bus-force-one/ President Obama wants us to believe that his bus tour of three battleground states is an attempt to get to know Americans better. No one is falling for it. The commander in chief kicked off his roadshow in Rep. Michele Bachmann’s home state of Minnesota on Monday. He’ll follow up with a visit in […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903480904576510200756243420.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop ‘The real lesson from Europe,” wrote Paul Krugman in January 2010, “is actually the opposite of what conservatives claim: Europe is an economic success, and that success shows that social democracy works.” Here are some postcards from the social democracy that works. • In Britain, 239 patients died of malnutrition in the country’s public […]
http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/content/module/2011/8/16/main-feature/1/the-night-of-the-murdered-poets On August 12, 1952, thirteen major Soviet Jewish figures were executed for espionage, bourgeois nationalism, “lack of true Soviet spirit,” and treason, including a plot to hand the Crimea over to American and Zionist imperialists. In the group were famous writers such as Peretz Markish, David Bergelson, and Itsik Fefer—which is why the date […]
http://bigpeace.com/gluft/2011/08/16/opec-under-new-management-irans-management/ The recent appointment of Islamic Revolutionary Guards veteran Rostam Ghasemi as Iran’s new petroleum minister is not only the Islamic Republic’s latest poke in America’s eye but it is also harbinger of things to come with respect to Iran’s petro-politics. Ghasemi, a notorious hardliner and the head of the economic wing of the Guards, […]
How The Headmistress Entered The Harem: A Vignette From Ottoman Palestine http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/ Annie Edith Landau (1873-1945), the daughter of a London shochet and inventor from Gomel in the Tsarist Empire and his Bavarian-born wife, was from 1900 until her death headmistress of the Evelina de Rothschild School for Girls in Jerusalem, founded in 1854 and […]
DAVID SOLWAY: WHEN A CIVILIZATION GOES MAD….IT BEGINS WITH SELF DOUBT AND ENDS WITH SELF DESTRUCTION
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/when-a-civilization-goes-mad/?singlepage=true Historian Arnold Toynbee, who developed the theory of challenge-and-response to account for the survivability of civilizations, has said that great civilizations are not murdered, they commit suicide — by not meeting their challenges. A variation of this historical insight may be phrased thus: When a civilization or an empire feels inwardly that it is […]
