http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ What’s your mental image of prison. Breaking rocks, risky showers and listening to trains go by where rich folks are eating from a fancy dining car? Forget all that. If you’re a Muslim terrorist in Israeli prison, life is smartphones, salaries paid for by American taxpayers and access to your own Facebook fan page. […]
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/06/24/j-street-defends-anti-israel-congresswoman/ Rep. Lynn Woolsey, the congresswoman who joined in an anti-Israel chant during a Code Pink event last Sunday, has been denounced by Jewish groups across the political spectrum – with one notable exception. The activist organization J Street, whose PAC endorses Woolsey and contributed financially to her 2010 campaign, actually defended the congresswoman in […]
Friedman Goes Sarcastic on Rush’s Climate Skepticism, Confesses to Obama Vote; Anti-Obama Jews Full of ‘Crap’ By: Clay Waters http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110623010940.aspx ALSO READ :http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2009/03/friedmans-follies.html Obama’s pro-Israel critics are talking “pure crap,” said columnist Tom Friedman on PBS host Charlie Rose’s show Tuesday night. Rose was hosting a roundtable of Times columnists. Along with Friedman there was […]
http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/new/blogs/editors/Testimony_by_Garry_Kasparov?utm_source=World+Affairs+Newsletter&utm_campaign=c8abd3ae16-Blog_Aswany_Editor_K_M_6_23_2011&utm_medium=email Jim Denton: Chess Champion Garry Kasparov to US Congress: Put Putin’s Russia in Check Last week, one of Russia’s leading and fearless proponents of democracy and rule of law, Garry Kasparov, testified before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on the grim developments in Russia during the Putin era. His testimony presents a succinct […]
Honig – Remember the tsunami of 1949 http://www.sarahhonig.com/?p=876 Fear-mongering is largely the forte of the fringes. When it infects the mainstream, however, we ought to get seriously worried. This denotes a successful scare-job by forces who, in the words of America’s immortal satirist H. L. Mencken, aim “to keep the populace alarmed – and hence […]
Is Rick Perry the Best of the Worst? | Crisis Magazine http://www.crisismagazine.com/2011/is-rick-perry-the-best-of-the-worst Is Rick Perry the Best of the Worst? Steve Chapman, Crisis Magazine.com The Republican presidential field looks less like an assemblage of candidates than a collection of fatal mistakes and irreparable flaws, with occasional embodiments of one or more of the Seven Deadly […]
Click here: Krauthammer Goes From Frying Pan To Fire, and Misses The Point – Maggie’s Farm http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/17425-Krauthammer-Goes-From-Frying-Pan-To-Fire,-and-Misses-The-Point.html Charles Krauthammer is usually an astute analyst of issues and often crafts perceptive and practical resolutions. In his column Who Takes Us To War?, however, Krauthammer’s resolution of the current impasse between the president and Congress over Libya […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304569504576403682863549032.ht ml Wilders: In Defense of ‘Hurtful’ Speech Wall Street Journal 24 June 2011 By GEERT WILDERS Yesterday was a beautiful day for freedom of speech in the Netherlands. An Amsterdam court acquitted me of all charges of hate speech after a legal ordeal that lasted almost two years. The Dutch people learned that political […]
Egypt: Christian Girls Kidnapped and ‘Sold’ Posted By Raymond Ibrahim URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/06/24/egypt-christian-girls-kidnapped-and-%e2%80%98sold%e2%80%99-2/ Two teenage Coptic girls, cousins, were recently kidnapped and then “sold” in Minya, Egypt—the same region where a Coptic church was recently attacked and desecrated. I tried to find this story in English-language media and, as expected, found nothing, except for […]
Obama’s Environmentalists Destroy Marine Environment By Humberto Fontova URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/06/24/obama%e2%80%99s-environmentalists-destroy-marine-environment/ The most prolific marine ecosystem on earth is being systematically destroyed on orders of the U.S. Department of the Interior. Where the BP oil spill failed miserably, Obama’s Dept. of the Interior now triumphs. First came the “moratorium” on Gulf drilling. “That’s kicking […]