Our patronizing President lectures the Jews http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/03/our_patronizing_president_lect.html Ed Lasky President Obama just can’t seem to be able to stop scratching that itch. At a meeting with Jewish leaders regarding his approach toward Israel he delivered a lecture, patronizing in tone and foolish in content. From the JTA: President Obama reportedly urged Jewish communal leaders to […]
http://www.jidaily.com/virtuosoofjudaism/e Religious virtuosity comes in many forms. One of them is the ability to reconcile seeming irreconcilables, like faith and freedom, piety and intellect, revelation and science. The dream of synthesis has lured many in the past two centuries. One who seemed to live it was Joseph B. Soloveitchik, the spiritual leader of modern Orthodoxy in America […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703559604576176493840422046.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_AboveLEFTTop Free Speech for Jerks Antiwar bullies unite left and right on the Supreme Court. Even jerks are protected by the First Amendment, as the Supreme Court reaffirmed again yesterday with an 8-1 decision in the important free speech case, Snyder v. Phelps. The jerks at issue are members of the Westboro Baptist Church who […]
http://bigpeace.com/pmaffitt/2011/03/03/obama-making-us-more-dependent-on-foreign-oil/ PETER C. MAFFIT Is the Middle East the only reason gasoline prices are rising and how much damage will they do to our economy? Gasoline and diesel prices are going up. That is a certain. The issue is how high is high and how long is long? Why? Expectations of political instability in the […]
A Burqa for Lady Liberty and a Mosque for Ground Zero http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ A Muslim group has announced plans to cover the Statue of Liberty with a burqa and then replace her with a minaret. But there’s no reason at all to take such plans seriously. Lady Liberty being treated the way the Muslim world treats […]
http://networkedblogs.com/eYKhz Obama: Israelis must show seriousness on peace Jewish leaders say that during White House meeting president said Palestinians ‘don’t feel confident that Netanyahu government serious about territorial concessions’ Yitzhak Benhorin WASHINGTON – US President Obama this week called on Jewish leaders to speak to their colleagues in Israel and to “search your souls” over […]
Funds for D.C.’s needy go elsewhere Alexander gives 5% to her ward…JEFFREY ANDERSON http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/mar/2/funds-for-districts-needy-go-elsewhere/ : D.C. Council member Yvette Alexander spends less than 5 percent of constituent service funds on constituents. (The Washington Times) A D.C. Council member who represents some of the city’s poorest households has spent less than 5 percent of the money […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/mar/2/obama-is-enabling-jihad/ It’s far too early in the game for the Obama administration to begin patting itself on the back about its handling of the Middle East turmoil. Contrary to Mr. Obama’s claims, he is not on the right side of history. As U.S.-friendly regimes fall and oil prices continue to climb, it’s no wonder that […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/mar/2/syria-suspected-of-nuke-activity/ The Obama administration and a U.N. watchdog agency want Syria to show inspectors a suspected uranium-conversion facility and two other nuclear sites possibly linked to the remnants of a covert arms program. Since 2007, when Israel bombed the nuclear site at al Kibar, U.S. intelligence agencies feared the conversion plant near the town of […]
http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/ Lord Patten as Chairman of the BBC Trust? Part of a Pattern of Anti-Israel Prejudice at Al Beeb In exchange for its unique and privileged status as a licence-payer funded broadcaster – an anachronism from the 1930s that is decades past its use-by date – the BBC is obligated by the terms of its […]
