The world is actually now a far more dangerous place. Why is our foreign policy still out of step? http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | A new Middle East is upon us and its primary beneficiary couldn’t be happier. In a speech Monday in the Iranian city of Kermanshah, Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Politburo Chief General Yadollah Javani crowed, “Iran’s […]
http://townhall.com/columnists/cliffmay/2011/03/03/the_pirates_of_somalia/print By Cliff May Not long after achieving independence, the United States faced its first foreign threat: pirates off the coast of Africa seizing American merchant ships. As Michael Oren recounts in Power, Faith and Fantasy, his sweeping history of America’s involvement in the Middle East, beginning in 1784, American vessels were abducted, their crews […]
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/03/two-new-jersey-muslims-guilty-of-going-jihad-wanted-to-kill-americans.html Two New Jersey Muslims Guilty of Going Jihad, “Wanted to Kill Americans” Two “New Jersey men” plead guilty to trying to join al-Qaeda group (North Jersey.com🙂 Mohamed Alessa and Carlos Almonte, the two North Jersey men who allegedly told an undercover officer that they wanted to kill Americans, are pleading guilty in a Newark […]
http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2011/03/03/the-libyan-%e2%80%9cnot-worthy-zone%e2%80%9d%e2%80%94recalling-qadaffi%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9coffer%e2%80%9d-to-%e2%80%9carab-jews%e2%80%9d/ The Libyan “Not Worthy Zone”—Recalling Qadaffi’s “Offer” to “Arab Jews” Albert Memmi The unaddressed questions (from November, 1973) of Albert Memmi still address the unworthiness [2] of Libya **The most predictable outcome of Libya’s violent internecine struggle-cum-latest-Arab- “democracy movement” was aptly characterized by Andrew McCarthy [3]: “The Libyan people are no more our ally […]
New Revelation: Sheila Jackson Lee Isn’t Just Stupid, She’s Stupid AND Nasty http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com A former boss of mine used to describe her philosophy on interpersonal relationships this way, “I can handle people who are nasty, and I can handle people who are stupid, but I just can’t handle people who are stupid and nasty.” Well, […]
http://www.eppc.org/publications/pubID.4380/pub_detail.a National Review Publication Date: March 7, 2011 What if the fundamental terms of our debate over Egypt’s revolution are wrong? Supposedly, the revolt that toppled Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak presented American policymakers with an agonizing choice: Do we side with a dictator against pro-Western demonstrators who share our democratic values, or do we cast aside a […]
www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chibrknews-northwestern-president-criticizes-sextoy-demonstration-20110303,0,7493639.story chicagotribune.com NU president ‘troubled’ by sex toy demonstration on campus By Jodi S. Cohen and Lisa Black Northwestern University President Morton Schapiro said today he is “troubled and disappointed” by the live sex toy demonstration on campus last week and has launched an investigation. He released a statement saying the university is looking into […]
Foreign Aid, Part II: Israel as a Security Asset JINSA Report #1067 March 3, 2011 Every so often we do this – last time was March 27, 2006 (JINSA Report #559). In 1979, JINSA published a “quick reference guide” to the capabilities Israel brings to U.S.-Israel security cooperation. We review it periodically, revise it slightly […]
How about a Congressional AUMF against the Somali pirates?[1] By Andrew C. McCarthy http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/261223/how-about-congressional-aumf-against-somali-pirates-andrew-c-mccarthy Cliff’s column[2] yesterday on the Somali pirates is great. Not only have they recently hijacked American ships and killed American citizens; he points out that they are presently holding more than 30 vessels and over 600 hostages. Predictably, they have been […]
Facebook Jihad http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,748910,00.html The Radical Islamist Roots of the Frankfurt Attack By Matthias Bartsch, Matthias Gebauer and Yassin Musharbash Arid U., who has confessed to the Wednesday shooting of two US airmen at the Frankfurt airport, was an unfriendly loner, say his neighbors. But his list of Facebook friends indicate that the 21-year-old had several contacts with radical Islamists. […]
