Preventing the Next Mumbai http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704631504575531682000652668.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop “One of the most common taunts of Islamists is, “We love death more than you love life.” At some point they will find another opportunity to demonstrate this. In the meantime, if death is so attractive, then we should do what we can to bring it to them.” The threat […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703882404575520070705111444.html By RUTH R. WISSE Last Saturday, at a university-sponsored event to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Harvard’s Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, a group of former students launched a research fund in honor of Martin Peretz, a former teacher in the program and the longtime editor in chief of the New Republic. After […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703882404575519781120433248.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks Are Suspended. So What? MY ONLY QUIBBLE HERE IS THE FAITH IN PALARABS’ RESTRAINT AND COOPERATION…..WHICH ARE ILLUSIONS….IF ISRAEL GIVES UP LAND, THAT LAND WILL BECOME A TERRORISM OUTPOST….PERIOD….RSK What matters is growth and state-building in the West Bank. Yet the Obama administration is still fixated on settlements. By ELLIOTT ABRAMS […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703882404575519671706217584.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion Barack Obama: Defender of State Secrets The president has launched more leak prosecutions than all his predecessors combined. By GABRIEL SCHOENFELD ‘My administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in government,” Barack Obama pledged to the nation when he took office. Things haven’t quite worked out as the president promised. Consider […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703882404575520252928390046.html?mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTTopStories#printMode Tea-Party Movement Gathers Strength By PETER WALLSTEN And DANNY YADRON The tea party has emerged as a potent force in American politics and a center of gravity within the Republican Party, with a large majority of Republicans showing an affinity for the movement that has repeatedly bucked the GOP leadership this year, a new […]
Out of the Ashes, a Triumph The Story of a Film, a Family and the Trial of the Century http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704082104575516110673347730.html#printMode By STEVE DOLLAR It’s textbook stuff, right? Watching Stuart Schulberg’s documentary “Nuremberg” in junior high school history class was an experience shared by many Americans of a certain generation. At least, it seems so. What […]
NOW HE TELLS US….IN THE IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH OF 9/11 TONY CAME TO BUSH’S SIDE CLUTCHING A KORAN WHICH HE TOLD US HE HAD READ AND IT WAS…”.A RELIGION OF PEACE” HIJACKED BY SOME BADDIES…RSK http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704523604575511453790276626.html?KEYWORDS=BRET+STEPHENS+ON+TONY+BLAIR In Defense of the West—and the Third Way ‘In today’s world, a progressive party that stands essentially for big government […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704129204575505804034634066.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop BY 2017 PEOPLE IN THEIR LATE FIFTIES NOW WILL BE SENIORS ON MEDICARE…THE OLDER ONES WILL HAVE TO BE PUT ON ICE FLOES….TO DRIFT TO THE ABYSS…..RSK By JOHN C. GOODMAN Today marks the six-month anniversary of the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, widely known as ObamaCare. It is a […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703860104575507961881959510.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop Breakfast With Ahmadinejad Lox, bagels and the ‘Zionist regime.’ By BRET STEPHENS New York It’s a few minutes before eight in the morning on Tuesday, and the 30 or so journalists who have assembled to meet Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the conference room of a midtown Manhattan hotel are gorging themselves on lox and bagels […]
TOO SOON TO TALK ABOUT 2012? MAYBE BUT THE CASTING COUCH IS LINING UP AND PENCE IS ADMIRABLE IN MANY WAYS AND LEAVES ROMNEY AND HUCKABEE AND DE MINT IN THE DUST…..AND, HE’S GREAT ON FOREIGN POLICY TOO….RSK http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704416904575502131619102288.html?KEYWORDS=MIKE+PENCE By JON HILSENRATH And TENNILLE TRACY Indiana Rep. Mike Pence’s win in a straw poll of […]