http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ A Tyranny of Minorities “I have scant patience with this talk of the tyranny of the majority. Wherever there is tyranny of the majority, I shall protest against it with all my heart and soul. But we are today suffering from the tyranny of minorities.” Theodore Roosevelt The modern debate over government is based […]
http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/content/module/2011/2/14/main-feature/1/the-new-york-times-revises-the-peace-process The New York Times Revises the Peace Process By Sol Stern “The Peace Plan that Almost Was and Still Could Be”: blazoned over the entire cover of the February 13 New York Times Magazine, the sensation-seeking headline comes accompanied by a photograph from the back of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian […]
William McGowan’s ‘Gray Lady Down’: A Devastating Critique of the New York Times By: Clay Waters “Gray Lady Down – What The Decline And Fall Of The New York Times Means For America” by William McGowan (from Encounter Books), is a carefully researched and devastatingly convincing critique of the Times losing its commitment to objective […]
Jordan: King’s Bodyguards Shoot Protesters by Mudar Zahran http://www.hudson-ny.org/1889/jordan-king-bodyguards-shoot-protesters UNEASY LIES THE HISTORICALLY SPURIOUS CROWN ON THE HASHEMITE HEAD….PALARABS HAVE BEEN BUSY WITH ISRAEL…BUT THEY HAVE AMBITIONS TO CONTROL EASTERN PALESTINE AND REMEMBER ABDULLARD’S FATHER THE LATE KING HUSSEIN WHO KILLED AND EXPELLED THOUSANDS OF PALARAB “UPSTARTS” IN THE EPISODE KNOWN AS BLACK SEPTEMBER….RSK A […]
Uprisings in Bolivia by Anna Mahjar-Barducci http://www.hudson-ny.org/1888/uprisings-in-bolivia A wave of violent protests is shaking Bolivia. Bolivian President Evo Morales had to abandon a public event celebrating Bolivia’s 230th anniversary of Independence after being confronted by protestors angry over food shortages and price rises. Scheduled to talk in the mining city of Oruro, he and his […]
http://tofindtheprinciples.blogspot.com/2011/02/hampshire-college-president-again.html HAMPSHIRE WAS THE FIRST US COLLEGE TO CALL FROM DIVESTMENT FROM ISRAEL IN 2009…. Hampshire College President Again Criticizes Intolerance, Affirms Need for Open Dialogue in Wake of Disruption of Talk by IDF Soldier As visitors to this site will know, tensions over the Middle East conflict are a divisive issue here, as on […]
http://bigpeace.com/ipt/2011/02/13/does-the-muslim-brotherhood-have-a-future-in-egypt/ With Hosni Mubarak stepping down Friday, Egypt’s future remains uncertain. Egypt’s Supreme Council of Armed Forces has taken temporary power with expectations of elections still set for the fall. “Egypt is free!” chanted the hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. A U.S. official, described by CNN as involved in Egypt discussions, called Mubarak’s […]
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/143691-michelle-obama-urges-latino-community-to-pressure-gop-to-support-immigration-bill DID SHE TELL THEM TO REDUCE SALT AND CARBOHYDRATES AND FATS….STAPLES OF GOOD SPANISH COOKING? First Lady Michelle Obama called on the Latino community to put pressure on Republicans to support comprehensive immigration legislation. In an interview with Univision, the first lady said President Obama wanted to pass immigration legislation, but could not find […]
And what about the rest of the world? By Jennifer Rubin http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right-turn/ As for the 2012 contenders, we’ll know when one of them gives a mature foreign policy speech who is equipped to take on the notion that defense spending should be treated like defense spending and to explain precisely what is wrong with Obama’s […]
What did we learn from CPAC? By Jennifer Rubin http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right-turn/ We didn’t learn from the CPAC straw poll who will be the 2012 presidential nominee. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.) won the poll (in which a third of the delegates participated), as he did last year. In 2007 and 2008 Mitt Romney won the CPAC poll […]
