Brothers Harold “Heshy” King (19) and George King (22) died in the Normandy Invasion. Message from the President of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt to the family of both. “HE STANDS IN THE LONG LINE OF PATRIOTS WHO HAVE DARED TO DIE THAT FREEDOM MIGHT LIVE AND GROWN AND INCREASE ITS BLESSINGS. FREEDOM LIVES […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.9625/pub_detail.asp “We Should Guard Their Graves with Sacred Vigilance” Adrian Morgan, The Editor The first official celebration of Memorial Day began unofficially in the cemeteries of the south in the years immediately after the end of the Civil War. Here, ceremonies began where the graves of the fallen were decorated. There are several locations which […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/268331 Cass Sunstein is head of something called the “Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.” I’ve seen enough conspiracy thrillers to know that when someone has so obvious a blandly amorphous federal-job description as that, it means he’s running some deeply sinister wet-work operation of illegal targeted assassinations in unfriendly nations that the government spooks […]
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ In his address to congress, Netanyahu said that militant Islam threatens Islam. As if there were any such thing as a non-militant form of Islam. An ideology that was militantly expansionistic from birth. And yet that expansionism does threaten it. It’s not mere militancy that threatens Islam, but its own lack of proportion. Had […]
The Messiah finds his time warp By Wesley Pruden http://www.prudenpolitics.com/index.php/pruden/notregBarack Obama doesn’t any longer move Americans as he once did. The eloquence once thought cast in gold has been revealed as sounding brass and tinkling cymbal. But he found comfort in a warm, wet time warp in London. You couldn’t blame him if he had […]
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-city-of-slaughter/ The City of Slaughter Posted By David Solway Chaim Nachman Bialik’s great poem about Russia’s Kishinev pogrom of 1903 needs to be read and re-read. In 1903, the Jewish community in the town of Kishinev, the capital of the Russian province of Bessarabia, was decimated by a pogrom, a frequent occurrence in that part […]
Know your enemy Jerry Philipson http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/05/know_your_enemy_2.html On this Memorial Day Weekend in the United States Americans should pause to honor the brave men and women of the Armed Forces who are fighting and dying to protect freedom and the American way of life in Afghanistan, Iraq and other places around the world. They should then […]
http://www.steynonline.com/content/view/4096/ This essay is drawn from Mark’s book A Song For The Season: Memorial Day in America – or, if you’re a real old-timer, Decoration Day, a day for decorating the graves of the Civil War dead. The songs many of those soldiers marched to are still known today – “The Yellow Rose Of Texas”, […]
http://www.raymondcook.net/blog/ This is a cross-post by Michael Ordman of Good News From Israel and shows the hypocrisy and ignorance of those who would, in their blindness and ideological zeal, boycott divest and sanction Israel. Note that this is not simply boycotting goods manufactured in the ‘occupied territories’ but ALL goods. Following the decision of the […]
http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/ Jewish Student Allegedly Attacked On Australian Campus For Celebrating Israeli Independence Day Melbourne, capital of the state of Victoria, Australia, was founded in 1835, and Jews, of English origin, were among its earliest inhabitants. Immediately before, and following, the Second World War, the Melbourne Jewish community – by that time highly assimilationist and eroded […]
