The Origins of Thanksgiving The Editor The story of Thanksgiving is one that involves many of the great things that are generally associated with America – but it has become infused with myth. The Pilgrim Fathers are sometimes portrayed as “Puritans” which they were not. In many ways the Pilgrims who arrived at were free […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/253852/giving-thanks-nro-symposium?page=3 SARAH PALIN I am giving thanks for so much this Thanksgiving. I’m grateful that we enjoy the “blessings of liberty” secured by our Constitution. I’m grateful for the protection of America’s finest, our men and women in uniform — many of whom will spend Thanksgiving far from their loved ones so that we might […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/253837 November 24, 2010 4:00 P.M. ‘Where Do We Get These People?’ If you try to thank Bill Krissoff, he’ll just say he’s grateful for the opportunity to serve his country. In this season of gratitude, Bill Krissoff has a different notion of thankfulness than most of us. He feels “very lucky” to have been […]
Outrage or Farce: NBC News Names Ground Zero Mosque Developer ‘Person of the Year’ Posted By Bryan Preston http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/outrage-or-farce-nbc-news-names-ground-zero-mosque-developer-person-of-the-year/ This morning I spent a few minutes on the Pat Campbell Show [1] in Tulsa, discussing the outrageous decision by the Park51 group — the group that’s developing the Ground Zero Mosque — to apply for […]
The demographic secret about Jerusalem the NY Times refuses to reveal to its readers http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/11/the_demographic_secret_about_j.html Leo Rennert In 1967, when Israel captured the eastern part of Jerusalem and put an end to 19 years of illegal Jordanian occupation, there were 72,000 Arabs in the unified city and they comprised 27 percent of its total population. Today, 43 […]
http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/11/24/inside-the-mad-mind-of-michael-scheuer-token-expert-of-appeasers-isolationists-anti-semites-and-america-haters/2/ Among the angry rantings of anti-war leftists and Paulite libertarians, you’ve probably noticed one name popping up again and again: Michael Scheuer. Scheuer is a former CIA officer who headed the agency’s unit on Osama bin Laden. His popularity with war critics stems from his argument that Islamic terrorist attacks against the United States […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.8001/pub_detail.asp FSM: Anti-Semitism Watch Canada: Campus Intimidation In the last part of this series, we featured a report from Ynet News, detailing how Australia has an increased amount of prejudice on campus in the state of Victoria, including verbal insults and assault. Now, a report in Canada’s National Post relates how similar intimidation is carrying […]
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Why Airline Security Doesn’t Work “Saddled with a political taboo against identifying Muslim terrorists as the threat, security agencies have been left with no choice except to focus on the tools. If we don’t know anything about the attacker, then we have to think about the weapons. But from a security standpoint, it’s not […]
Democracy: Use It or Lose It Posted By Roger Kimball http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2010/11/24/democracy-use-it-or-lose-it/ My friend William F. Buckley Jr., who died at the end of February 2008, would have turned 84 today. I won’t say anything here by way of reminiscence, but merely note the continuing pertinence of his central political concerns. In the summer of 1951, […]
For Immediate Release: November 24, 2010 Contact: Anne Bayefsky anne@hudsonny.org (917) 488-1558 U.N. Pours Salt In America’s Wounds Durban III Is On Just when we were beginning to get into the holiday spirit, the United Nations decided that Durban III is coming to town. Late yesterday, the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee adopted a resolution […]
