http://www.jidaily.com/KA7YN High Morals A condescending moral double standard allows Western thinkers—notably Times foreign-affairs columnist Roger Cohen—to praise the Middle East’s worst regimes By Lee Smith | It is a peculiar fact that the region that produced so many of the doctrines that govern our moral life—from the Code of Hammurabi to the Hebrew Bible to […]
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2010/12/army-rabbi-sues-over-no-beard-policy-123110w/ Menachem M. Stern cites rule waiver for Sikhs, Muslim in lawsuit By Joe Gould – Staff writer Posted : Sunday Jan 2, 2011 9:06:04 EST A rabbi from Brooklyn, N.Y., is suing the Army over its “no-beard” policy, claiming the service violated his religious freedoms when it rejected him because he refuses to shave. […]
First they came for the Saturday people – the Egyptian Copts and why a one-state solution in the Middle East is not possible First they came for the Saturday people – the Egyptian Copts and why a one-state solution in the Middle East is not possible We are all probably now painfully aware of the […]
NRO — The Corner Competing Visions In “Palestine”[1] By Andrew C. McCarthy There is the U.S. dream, shared by delirious diplomats of both parties: “Two states living side-by-side in peace.” As Condi Rice told[2] Cal Thomas “[Y]ou can look at any opinion poll in the Palestinian territories and 70 percent of the people will say they’re […]
http://translating-jihad.blogspot.com/2011/01/al-aqsa-foundation-accuses-israel-of.html http://translating-jihad.blogspot.com/2011/01/dr-salim-al-awa-zionism-is-behind.html Al-Aqsa Foundation Accuses Israel of Attempting to Judaize Mosques More anti-semitic fearmongering in Palestine, this time from the al-Aqsa Foundation, which was named a specially-designated global terrorist by the Treasury Department for its ties to Hamas. (See original Arabic here.) Zionist Plans Accelerated for Judaizing Jerusalem Mosques and the Wailing Wall almoslim.net, 4 Jan […]
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100070629/robert-gibbs-joins-exodus-from-white-house-titanic-obamas-press-secretary-wont-be-missed-in-britain/ Robert Gibbs joins exodus from White House Titanic: Obama’s press secretary won’t be missed in Britain By Nile Gardiner World Last updated: January 5th, 2011 Fox News and the BBC are reporting that Robert Gibbs is about to step down as White House Press Secretary, and become “an outside presidential adviser”. His departure comes […]
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/45645-upcoming-newsouth-huck-finn-eliminates-the-n-word.html WHY DON’T THEY ELIMINATE THE “N” ALTOGETHER? CALL IT MARK TWAI’S HUCKLEBERRY FI….THIS WHOLE IDEA IS ABSOLUTELY ‘UTS……RSK Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a classic by most any measure—T.S. Eliot called it a masterpiece, and Ernest Hemingway pronounced it the source of “all modern American literature.” Yet, for decades, it has been […]
URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/01/05/shattering-leftist-myths/ Shattering Leftist MythsPosted By Walter Williams So many statements we accept as true, plausible or beyond question; but are they? Let’s look at a couple of important ones: global warming and U.S. manufacturing decline. In 2000, Dr. David Viner of University of East Anglia’s disgraced Climatic Research Unit advised, “Within a […]
Statue to Stalin Posted By Paul Kengor URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/01/05/statue-to-stalin/ Of course, it’s customary at year’s end to share our favorite news items from the year past. As someone who teaches and writes about history, I tend to focus on historical things I fear are lost to American education. So, my enduring “news item” […]
Palestinian National Orchestra and BBC’s historical illiteracy Palestinian National Orchestra and BBC’s historical illiteracy I had to read a BBC News article twice recently; not something I would recommend. The subject was ‘Palestinian orchestra to hold debut concert in Ramallah’. Great. I’m all for culture and it’s good to see what must be essentially a […]
