http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Opinion/Article.aspx?id=234359 The most common question I get asked by Americans and Israelis alike since making aliya one year ago is a uniformly incredulous and perplexed “Why?” Fair question. After all, I’m not remotely religious; had a relatively successful career back in New York City; a luxury apartment on the 26th floor in a whiteglove, marble-floored, […]
http://spectator.org/archives/2011/08/19/putting-american-back-to-work/print Hey Rick Perry, Mitt Romney, Michele Bachmann, here’s your chance! President Obama, in his usual graduate seminar fashion, has promised to come back after Labor Day with his plan to “create jobs.” We all know where this is going — spend more government money, strengthen union regulations, raise the minimum wage, dig the deficit hole […]
When ‘inconsequential’ means ‘better’ by Jeff Jacoby http://www.jeffjacoby.com/10157/when-inconsequential-means-better http://www.jeffjacoby.com/10133/making-washington-inconsequential PART ONE TO MANY LIBERALS, Rick Perry’s audacious pledge to make Washington, DC, as “inconsequential in your life as I can” is tantamount to a pledge to bring back the Dark Ages. Commenting on Twitter as the Texas governor announced his presidential candidacy last weekend, […]
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/147009 Video: Angry Egyptians Break into Israeli Embassy Compound: by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu More than 2,000 angry Egyptians broke down barriers at Israel’s embassy in Cairo, burned Israeli flags and raised the Egyptian flag. More than 2,000 angry Egyptians broke down barriers at Israel’s embassy in Cairo, burned Israeli flags and raised the Egyptian flag, […]
http://news.yahoo.com/egypt-recalls-ambassador-israel-over-ambush-083600043.html CAIRO (AP) — Egypt said Saturday it would recall its ambassador from Israel to protest the deaths of at least three Egyptian troops killed in a shootout between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian militants who had launched a deadly attack on Israel from Egyptian soil. The decision sharply escalated tensions between the neighboring countries, whose […]
The Imperial Presidency http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/275101 European royals make do with a less lavish lifestyle than the supposed citizen-executive of a so-called republic. Rick Perry, governor of Texas, has only been in the presidential race for 20 minutes, but he’s already delivered one of the best lines in the campaign: “I’ll work every day to try to […]
On Rick Perry and Purity http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/08/19/on-rick-perry-and-purity/ Obviously, Josh Trevino has the better argument here. At the moment, Perry is well positioned to be the candidate who can combine Bachmann’s charismatic conservatism with Romney’s experience and organization. Of course, at the end of the day, it is Perry’s record of job creation may be what puts […]
http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2011/08/the_end_of_obamas_middle_east_pipe_dream.html The stars were always aligned against President Obama’s pipe dream of a two-state solution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict based on Israel’s withdrawal to the 1949 armistice lines, with mutually agreed land swaps. But this week’s explosive expansion of a terror war against Israel from Gaza is a stark reminder to Israelis that the Palestinians […]
History, Hardliners, and Humility Western culture has changed, and Islamic culture can, too. http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/275105 Liberty must always be exercised, and may only be maintained, “in a way of subjection to authority.” This sounds like it could have been written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the trailblazer of the modern Left, whose “social compact” decreed that any dissenter […]
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ PLEASE READ PERRY’S WORDS THAT GREENFIELD FINDS SO ANNOYING…I DEFY ANYONE TO REALLY SEE ANYTHING WRONG IN PERRY’S POLITICAL SPEECH…..THIS IS PURE NITPICKING…. DON’T LIKE HIM? DON’T VOTE FOR HIM…RSK “But I do not believe it is realistic to deport 12 million people already here illegally. We have to understand why millions of people […]
