http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jul/18/obamas-gas-stunt-comes-up-empty/ Siphoning oil from strategic reserve fails to cut prices The results are in from President Obama’s controversial decision last month to tap into the nation’s oil reserves to drive down gas prices: none. Like his futile efforts to revive the moribund U.S. economy by spending $1 trillion in borrowed money, the president’s release of […]
http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/content/module/2011/7/19/main-feature/1/meet-sholem-aleichem In the 1880’s, the Ukrainian Jew Solomon Rabinowitz began his literary career under an assumed name—assumed because he was writing in Yiddish, rather than a respectable language such as Hebrew or Russian. The pseudonym he chose was Sholem Aleichem, which is simply the everyday greeting “How do you do?” His stories were immediately popular, […]
http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2011/07/19/reading-a-death-sentence-for-apostasy-in-iran/ Reading A Death Sentence For Apostasy in Iran Two Iranian Supreme Court justices have denied [2] an appeal of Youcef Nadarkhani’s December 5, 2010 death sentence for the uniquely Islamic “crime” of apostasy. Islam stands alone [3] amongst all modern faiths, adamantly denying its votaries freedom of conscience, as guaranteed, for example, by Article […]
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/18/us-somalia-minnesota-charges-idUSTRE76H5WY20110718?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews&rpc=22&sp=true Minnesota man pleads guilty to aiding Somali militants MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) – A Minneapolis man pleaded guilty on Monday to providing material support to a militant group that recruited young men of Somali descent to fight in Somalia, at least two of whom blew themselves up in attacks. Omer Abdi Mohamed, 26, faces up to […]
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=229780 Today’s champions of free speech are yesterday’s censors. Eugene Kontorovich is a professor of law at Northwestern University, where he teaches constitutional law, and has lectured at Israeli universities. Israel’s parliament passed a law this week prohibiting economic boycotts against this nation. Since before the creation of the Jewish state, boycotts have been a […]
http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/ That frequent commentator on Middle East politics, David Singer, a Sydney lawyer and founder member of the International Analysts Network, has written another of his perspicacious articles. Coming as usual via the antipodean J-Wire service, it’s entitled “Palestine: Quartet Misses The Beat”. Writes David Singer: ‘The utter futility inherent in pursuing the two-state solution […]
Venice: City of Dreams by Herbert I. London http://www.hudson-ny.org/2279/venice-city-of-dreams Venice is more than a city; it is the embodiment of the human spirit. Each day nature sends rising tides to test the resilience of this remarkable place. Barriers have been placed at sea to guard the land, but nature is relentlessly testing Venetian mettle. It […]
http://townhall.com/columnists/humbertofontova/2011/07/18/desperately_fleeing_free_healthcare This week an Iberia Airliner left Havana, landed in Madrid and found an obviously desperate Cuban stowaway. The 23 year old Cuban man named Adonis G.B. was curled in the landing gear, crushed to death. He joins an estimate of 50-70,000 Cubans dying (literally) to leave Fidel Castro and Che Guevara’s handiwork. Almost two […]
http://townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/2011/07/19/fixing_the_present,_ensuring_the_future/print PLYMOUTH NOTCH, Vt. — If your disgust over America’s crushing debt and the irresponsible leaders who refuse to reduce unnecessary spending has reached the fed-up point, there is an easy solution beyond whatever compromise might be reached in the current standoff between President Obama and congressional Republicans. Vote Republican in 2012.But don’t vote for […]
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/07/ibn-warraq-the-judeo-christian-origins-of-islam-part-6.html The Judeo-Christian Origins of Islam by Ibn Warraq Part 1 here; part 2 here; part 3 here; part 4 here; part 5 here. Tisdall takes up the story, “In the book to which we have just referred, the event is connected with the Flight into Egypt. The tale records how the Holy Family started […]
