A Flag Is Born http://wymaninstitute.org/special/bergsonexhibit/a-flag-is-born.php To help rally American support for creation of a Jewish state, Ben Hecht in 1946 authored a play called A Flag is Born. It featured Yiddish theater stars Paul Muni and Celia Adler, and young Marlon Brando in one of his first performances. After a ten week run on Broadway, […]
http://wymaninstitute.org/special/bergsonexhibit/we-will-never-die.php To shatter the curtain of silence surrounding the slaughter of Europe’s Jews, Hollywood scriptwriter and playwright Ben Hecht in early 1943 conceived the idea of holding a dramatic pageant to publicize the plight of the Jews. With his show business connections Hecht was able to recruit prominent celebrities to take part, including Billy Rose […]
http://weaselzippers.us/2011/07/12/jihadi-work-accident-indonesian-madrassa-instructor-killed-when-bomb-he-was-showing-students-how-to-make-prematurely-detonates/ Jihadi Work Accident: Indonesian Madrassa Instructor Killed When Bomb He Was Showing Students How To Make Prematurely Detonates… Allah works in mysterious ways. JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A man reportedly trying to show students how to make explosives was killed by a homemade bomb inside an Islamic boarding school in Indonesia, police said Tuesday. […]
http://rslissak.com/category/actuality-history http://www.meforum.org/ In the opening scene of Woody Allen’s 1983 film Zelig, F. Scott Fitzgerald is seen to observe a curious little man as he chats with socialites at a sumptuous bash, speaking adoringly of President Coolidge and the Republican Party — all in an upper class Boston accent. Then, an hour later, the renowned […]
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jul/12/disarmed-by-shariah/ hat tip…Atlas Shrugs Pam Geller LYONS: Disarmed by ShariahPolitical correctness prevents Army from recognizing sedition Retired Navy Adm. James A. Lyons was commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet and senior U.S. military representative to the United Nations. Today, the mind-numbing disease of political correctness has so infected the American military leadership that […]
http://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2011/07/14/a_dumb_and_dumber_war_in_libya/print Almost daily over the last four months we were told that Muammar Gadhafi was about ready to throw in the towel and give up. Libya, after all, is not a distant Afghanistan or Iraq with a population of some 30 million. Yet this tiny police state of less than 7 million people, conveniently located […]
http://townhall.com/columnists/humbertofontova/2011/07/13/castros_tugboat_massacre/print In the predawn darkness of July 13, 1994, 72 desperate Cubans – old and young, male and female – sneaked aboard a decrepit but seaworthy tugboat in Havana harbor and set off for the U.S. and the prospect of freedom. Let Jimmy Carter hail the “egalitarian society” fashioned by “his old friend, Fidel Castro,” […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jul/12/hurt-welcome-to-jimmy-carters-2nd-term/ ANALYSIS/OPINION: It has taken three decades, but Americans are finally living through Jimmy Carter’s second term. Now we’ve got Jimmy Jr. barking at us from the White House about eating our peas and ripping off our Band-Aid. He might not even let us have our Social Security checks. These are just the latest in […]
America the Broken Posted By Roger L Simon URL to article: http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2011/07/13/america-the-broken/ America is broken and it’s no consolation that the rest of the world is broken along with it. I had to laugh when I stumbled, while web surfing, on a 2007 United Nations ranking for Ireland [1] — whose debt rating has […]
