WHAT DEFINES RELIGION? A REVIEW OF REBECCA BYNUM’S BOOK BY JANET LEVY

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/what-defines-religion/ What Defines ‘Religion’? A new book tackles that question, and focuses on another: does Islam qualify? Allah is Dead: Why Islam Is Not a Religion By Rebecca Bynum Published by New English Review Press, 2011   Reviewed by Janet Levy In a July 29 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit […]

ABE FOXMAN’S LATEST UNINFORMED RANT AGAINST ISLAMOREALISTS

http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2011/08/15/abe-bc%E2%80%99s-of-sharia-a-totalitarian-%E2%80%9Ccloacal%E2%80%9D-system/ Abe BC’s of Sharia: A Totalitarian, “Cloacal” System Abraham Foxman’s latest uninformed rant, “Shout down the Sharia myth makers [3],” re-affirms his nonpareil status as the most blindly agenda-driven and distressingly stupid organizational Jewish “leader.” The Anti-Defamation League (ADL)’s Foxman sprays defamatory charges [3]—rooted in willful ignorance—against all those legitimately concerned with the ceaseless […]

MARTIN SHERMAN: SUICIDE NATION?

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?ID=233488&R=R1 Once again the nation is being lured into disaster by the “pied-pipers of Oslo,” this time playing a new tune. http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?ID=233488&R=R1 “Poor Menachem [Begin]… I got back… the Sinai and the Alma oil fields, and what has Menachem got? A piece of paper” – Anwar Sadat on the Peace Agreement with Israel, The New […]

WES PRUDEN:THE FAILURE OF THE LIBERAL GODS

http://www.prudenpolitics.com/index.php/pruden/fwd_friend/the_failure_of_of_liberal_gods The gods of the liberals—“progressives,” as they insist on calling themselves this season—are failing all over the place. Restless natives are rioting in London. Peasants are getting rich selling 90-proof Oolong in Washington. The elites are “unsettled,” as elites always are, in a lot of places between. The “progressives” are particularly frightened by Barack […]

The Mob Tears at the Foundations of Civilization in London and America J. Christian Adams

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.10140/pub_detail.asp Watching London burn, one cannot help but sense something has gone awry in the west. London, the cradle of our law, spins toward lawlessness. The law, the steady framework of our civilization, seems incapable of response. Americans don’t have the luxury anymore of watching the anarchy on television, assuming distance insulates us from the Mob-prowling […]

FSM: HOT PICKS AND VIDEOS

August 11, 2011 * VIDEOS * TODAY’S HOT PICKS * 1. VIDEO: Rep. Peter King [R] Requests Investigation of ‘Administration-Sanctioned’ Bin Laden Film, Intended for 2012 Election Period Release 2. U.S. Economic Confidence Plunges in Past Two Weeks: Weekly economic confidence is at -53 in early August — **its lowest point since March 2009** 3. […]

BEN SHAPIRO: DID MARX GET IT RIGHT?

Did Marx Get It Right? Posted By Ben Shapiro URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/08/11/did-marx-get-it-right/ Karl Marx predicted in Das Kapital that capitalism would destroy itself.  He believed that capitalism created two classes: the bourgeois upper classes and the proletariat lower classes.  Capitalism couldn’t help itself, Marx thought, from growing the latter.  Eventually, it would create a […]

DAVID YERUSHALMI:NYT Searches for the Leader of the Anti-Shariah Movement, Finds Me Instead

http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2011/08/nyt_searches_for_the_leader_of_the_anti-shariah_movement_finds_me_instead.html I was featured, complete with pictures (and online video), in a 2,000+ word New York Times article about the anti-sharia movement in this country, written by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Andrea Elliot, which appeared in the Times’ July 31st Sunday edition, front page, above the fold.  Impressive, no?  Unfortunately, Ms. Elliot exposed herself as biased […]

NICHOLAS KRISTOF BLAMES ISRAEL FIRST: MARK TAPSON…..SEE NOTE PLEASE

Nicholas Kristof Blames Israel First Posted By Mark Tapson http://frontpagemag.com/2011/08/11/nicholas-kristof-blames-israel-first/ KRISTOF MADE AN OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY ON GONGO….GENOCIDE, FAMINE, UNENDING WAR….BUT THIS IS WILLFUL BLINDNESS ON THE MIDEAST AND ISRAEL….I GUESS HE HAS TO KEEP HIS JOB IN THE NYTIMES…..RSK   In a predictably one-sided recent opinion piece ironically entitled “Seeking Balance on Mideast,” New York […]

ROBERT SPENCER: THE TIMES JOINS THE JIHAD

Time Magazine Joins the Jihad Posted By Robert Spencer http://frontpagemag.com/2011/08/11/time-magazine-joins-the-jihad/print/ So what else is new? Is anyone doing anything else these days? Still, I think it important to answer as many as I can of these and show the truth. “When Slogans Beget Slaughter,” by Ishaan Tharoor, was published by Time Magazine on August 6: […]