AMERICAN COLLEGE GIRLS: MARILYN PENN

http://politicalmavens.com/ American College Girls By Marilyn Penn Two different representations of American college girls have made their respective impressions in the media recently. One is in the movie Tiny Furniture, created entirely by Lena Dunham and acted by her and some family members along with other actors. This is a movie that has been generally acclaimed and […]

JORDAN JOINING THE NUKE CLUB WITH CHINA’S AID

http://www.east-asia-intel.com/eai/2010/12_15/11.asp China assisting Jordan with February launch of its first nuclear reactor East-Asia-Intel.com, December 15, 2010 AMMAN — Jordan has been been making final preparations for its first nuclear facility.Officials said the Jordan Atomic Energy Commission was working with contractors to launch the Hashemite kingdom’s first nuclear site, deemed a uranium-fueled sub-critical assembly. They identified […]

FOUAD AJAMI:THE STRANGE SURVIVAL OF THE ARAB AUTOCRACIES….PLEASE SEE NOTE

http://www.hoover.org/publications/defining-ideas/article/58836 The Strange Survival of the Arab Autocracies by Fouad Ajami NOT A SINGLE MENTION OF THE RESURGENT ISLAM IN ALL THE ARAB STATES; NO MENTION OF THE MOSLEM BROTHERHOOD, WAHABBISM,SHARIA? STRANGELY ABSENT HERE…..RSK Five years ago, it felt like the democratic springtime of the Arabs. But no longer. Five or six years ago, it […]

TRANSLATING JIHAD:AL- MUTARAJJAM

http://translating-jihad.blogspot.com/2010/12/we-arabs-are-not-terrorists-west-is.html “We Arabs Are Not Terrorists! … The West Is the Terrorist!” I was looking for an intelligent discussion on what defines terrorism, but apparently Gaza wasn’t the best place to look…  Okay fine, I wasn’t really expecting an intelligent discussion.  In fact, what follows is pretty much what you would expect from the angry, […]

THEREZE ZRIHEN-DVIR INTERVIEWED BY JAMIE GLAZOV AT FRONT PAGE

Remembering Israel’s Victims of Terror Posted By Jamie Glazov URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2010/12/17/remembering-israels-victims-of-terror/ Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Therese Zrihen-Dvir, an author who was born in Morocco and has been living in Israel since 1967 (except for a five-year excursion to Canada). Her academic training is in French literature and the arts. Her published works […]

THE CULTURE OF ENVY IS NO CULTURE AT ALL: FRANK SALVATO

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.8187/pub_detail.asp Those Damn Rich People Frank Salvato Print This E-mail This ShareThis Comments (0) Throughout the debate over the extension of the tax rates, aka the Bush tax cuts, we have witnessed a concerted effort by Democrats and Progressives to demonize the wealthy. This demonization has crossed over into the on-going argument over the Estate […]

DAVID SOLWAY: THE CANARY IN THE GOLD MINE

http://frontpagemag.com/2010/12/17/the-canary-in-the-gold-mine/print/ The Canary in the Gold Mine Posted By David Solway It has become a cliché by this time that Israel is the canary in the coal mine, signaling to those still on the surface, that is, those who believe they are above the fray, the dangers that await in the future if precautions are […]

BARRY RUBIN’S GOOD ANALYSIS OF PEW POLL ON SUPPORT FOR ISLAM’S GOALS

Poll Reveals Support for Islamism and Its Goals Posted By Barry Rubin URL to article: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/poll-reveals-support-for-islamism-and-its-goals/ There’s a lot of interesting material in the Pew Research Center´s latest poll [1] of the Middle East, a survey that focuses on attitudes toward Islamism and revolutionary Islamist groups. The analysis that accompanies the poll, however, is often […]

WASHPO ON PALARAB INCITEMENT….STILL LOADED WITH BIAS

http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/12/wapo_reports_on_palestinian_in.html WaPo reports on Palestinian incitement Leo Rennert In its Dec. 16 edition, the Washington Post features a page-one article by Jerusalem Correspondent Janine Zacharia, with the following headline:  “Palestinian Authority reins in radical imams.” Zacharia reports that the PA’s minister of religious affairs last year issued an order to West Bank imams on the […]

REBUILD IT BUT WILL THEY COME? THE SYNAGOGUE IN BEIRUT

http://www.jidaily.com/OTly By Habib Battah From her crumbling fourth floor apartment, Lisa Nahmoud gazes at the opulent palace of her new neighbour, Lebanon’s billionaire prime minister, Saad al-Hariri. The multi-level complex with beige granite facades and Ottoman style arcades lies only metres from Lisa’s shrapnel pierced building. “Doesn’t he ever see me,” she wonders, before lighting another […]