WHEN GERALDINE FERRARO SAID NO TO U.N. ISRAEL-BASHING

When Geraldine Ferraro Said No to U.N. Israel-Bashing By Anne Bayefsky http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/263217 From 1994 to 1996, Geraldine Ferraro was the American ambassador to the U.N. Human Rights Commission in Geneva. I was an adviser to the Canadian delegation to the commission and had the opportunity to watch Ferraro in action behind closed doors in meetings […]

ANDREW McCARTHY: QADDAFI WAS RIGHT AND WE KNEW HE WAS RIGHT

It’s not that Qaddafi was right, it’s that we knew he was right[1] By Andrew C. McCarthy [1] http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/263220/its-not-qaddafi-was-right-its-we-knew-he-was-right-andrew-c-mccarthy Jonah[2] and Mark[3] went back and forth over the weekend on the question of whether Qaddafi has been right in saying that the “’rebels’ are al Qaeda.” In particular, Jonah pointed to the reports about the […]

MARK STEYN: WHY IS IT AMERICA NEVER WINS WARS? SEE NOTE PLEASE

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/26311 WE STOPPED WINNING WARS WHEN WE LEFT KOREA DIVIDED WITH THE NORTH UNDER THE BRUTAL REGIME OF THE KIM DYNASTY …THANKS TO DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER….SO MUCH FOR GENERALS BECOMING PRESIDENTS….RSK The Art of Inconclusive War Why is it that the United States no longer wins wars? It is tempting and certainly very easy to […]

APPALLING! GERMANY’S LEADING HISTORIAN OF ANTI-SEMITISM LIKENS “ISLAMOPHOBIA” TO HITLER’S ANTI-SEMITISM!!

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/worry-over-islam-like-hitlers-hatred-of-jews/ Worry Over Islam Like Hitler’s Hatred of Jews?Yes, says Germany’s leading historian of anti-Semitism. Last Tuesday, “Berlin Islam Week” opened its gates with the topic “Islam as Boogey Man.” On the following days subjects like “Eco-Islam” and “Islamic Economy” (i.e., banking houses working without interest, using fees instead) were handled. Muslims and non-Muslims are […]

JAMES LEWIS: OBAMA, ISLAM AND THE FORCIBLE VIRGINITY TEST….SEE NOTE

YESTERDAY’S TALK SHOWS WERE HOLDING UP EGYPT AS THE “SUCCESS STORY” OF THE “ARAB SPRING”….LIEBERMAN, McCAIN, KRISTOL ET.AL. ….RSK Obama, Islam, and the Forcible Virginity Test By James Lewis http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/03/obama_islam_and_the_forcible_v.html Two months after Obama insisted that President Mubarak had to resign after 30 years in office for not being nice enough to the “young democracy […]

SOROS WINS UNDER OBAMA’S FAUX ENERGY POLICIES: ED LASKY

Soros Wins Under Obama’s Energy Policies By Ed Lasky http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/03/soros_wins_under_obamas_energy.html Are Barack Obama’s energy policies influenced by hedge fund billionaire and political patron, George Soros? Abby Wisse Schacter, in the New York Post, notes that the Obama administration is clamping down on oil and gas development in America (both onshore and offshore) but is hell-bent […]

GANDHI WITHOUT THE BLINDERS: ANDREW ROBERTS

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703529004576160371482469358.html?KEYWORDS=ANDREW+ROBERTS Among the Hagiographers Early on Gandhi was dubbed a ‘mortal demi-god’—and he has been regarded that way ever since  By ANDREW ROBERTS Joseph Lelyveld has written a ­generally admiring book about ­Mohandas Gandhi, the man credited with leading India to independence from Britain in 1947. Yet “Great Soul” also obligingly gives readers more than […]

HOOP DREAMS IN ISRAEL: A CORNELL WINNER GOES TO ISRAEL

Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/the_bonus/03/22/israel.hoops/index.html#ixzz1HtRSPWIT Home JON JACQUES: SPORTS ILLUSTRATED It’s wild to think that just a year ago my Cornell teammates and I were on center stage of March Madness; that’s what happens when you are the first Ivy League team to advance to the Sweet 16 since 1979. Thanks to Cornell’s historic success last March […]

DAPHNE ANSON: ANCIENT PREJUDICES INDOCTRINATING THE YOUNG

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/ Not Just a Funny Old Lady: Ancient Prejudices Indoctrinating the Young There she was, right on time, an hour before noon, when the supermarket was beginning to get busy for the day.  From across the car park I recognised her instantly, a small elderly figure with grey pudding-basin hair.  Rain or shine, she and  […]

ROGER KIMBALL: “KINETIC MILITARY ACTIVITY???”….CALLING THINGS BY THEIR RIGHT NAMES

http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2011/03/26/the-emperor-seth-and-kinetic-islam/2/ Writing yesterday about what Obama’s minions are calling our  “kinetic military activity” in Libya, I noted that the folks presiding over Orwell’s Newspeak would have liked the phrase “kinetic military activity.” As a mendacious and evasive euphemism for “war” it is hard to beat.  But Orwell is not the only important thinker the Obama […]