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 […]
http://bigpeace.com/fgaffney/2011/01/04/a-time-to-choose-for-the-conservative-movement/ Tonight, World Net Daily continued its pathbreaking coverage of what amounts to an assault on the conservative movement. Ironically, this assault is not coming from outside the movement’s ranks. Rather, it is being perpetrated by some of the key organizers of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) next month in Washington. First, WND […]
http://www.jidaily.com/fire/e Under Fire By Sol Stern Returning from Lebanon, 2006. The second Lebanon war in the summer of 2006 forced Israelis to come to grips with the definitive end of the Oslo era and the shattering of two fundamental assumptions about the nature of their conflict with the Palestinians. The first was that the struggle […]
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Islamic Terrorism is an Inside Job At the start of the new year, the Governor of Punjab was murdered because he had opposed the call by Pakistan’s Islamists to execute a Christian woman on false blasphemy charges arising out of her harassment by her Muslim neighbors. The murderer was one of his own security […]
http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/01/hitandrun_journalism_the_way_t.html Hit-and-run Journalism — The Way to Tar Israel Leo Rennert On New Year’s Eve, there was a Palestinian-instigated protest at a West Bank village against Israel’s security barrier. There’s one every week at this particular location — it’s well-rehearsed political theater to stoke anti-Israel propaganda. Except this time, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203731004576045380685742092.html?mod=WSJ_newsreel_opinion Birthright Citizenship and the 14th Amendment Opponents of illegal immigration cannot claim to champion the rule of law and then propose policies that violate our Constitution. By JAMES C. HO A coalition of state legislators, motivated by concerns about illegal immigration, is expected to endorse state-level legislation today at the National Press Club in […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703384504576055652391100520.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop As new state attorneys general take office in the coming weeks, I expect an increase in the number of states challenging the law in court. By PAM BONDI Ms. Bondi is the attorney general of Florida. This week begins the inauguration and swearing-in ceremonies for newly elected officials all over the country. One thing […]
