Sen. Mark Kirk — maybe he should be running Middle East policy? By Jennifer Rubin http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/sen-mark-kirk–maybe-he-should-be-running-middle-east-policy/2011/03/29/AGrtkNWH_blog.html Politics and foreign policy abhor a vacuum. There certainly is a blank spot in this administration where a coherent, effect policy toward the Israel should be. So, Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), an intelligence officer in naval reserve, has come […]
The Importance of History By Peter Wehner Commentary magazine http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/06/15/the-importance-of-history/#more-757802 The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) released its 2010 “report card” on the command of history our fourth, eighth, and 12th graders have. The results are not encouraging. Over all, 20 percent of fourth graders, 17 percent of eighth graders and 12 percent of […]
George Soros Behind Latest Attacks on Paul Ryan MARK HEMINGWAY http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/george-soros-behind-latest-attacks-paul-ryan_574689.html A liberal group has grabbed a number of headlines in the past week by attacking Paul Ryan’s budget plan as un-Christian. The group claims that Ryan’s a devotee of the atheist Ayn Rand, whose values are explicitly anti-Christian, and that this is the […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/269718/cast-wider-net-andrew-c-mccarthy The Islamic radicalization hearings need to hear from witnesses beyond cops and Muslims. Peter King, the New York Republican who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee, has been a good friend to those of us who work to protect American national security. In launching an investigation into the ideology that fuels the Islamist threat […]
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2011/ss_media0732_06_15.asp Panettagate: A real scandal, and one involving national security Based on an article by Cliff Kincaid for Accuracy in MediaLast Saturday and Sunday The Washington Post published two articles, with a total count of 2,192 words, about Sarah Palin’s e-mails. The Post had said in advance it wanted the help of the public in […]
http://www.algemeiner.com/2011/06/15/not-another-jewish-dime-to-yale/ Not Another Jewish Dime to Yale The Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University. “The powers that be at Yale University view the institution as a mountain,” a faculty member who wished to remain anonymous recently told me over the phone, as we discussed their announcement of the imminent closure of YIISA, the […]
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4082772,00.html French flotilla ship won’t sailMembers of Jewish community in France band together, send 500 letters of protest against Gaza flotilla, effectively preventing ship bought by organizers for €530,000 from docking in Marseille. ‘Many battles left until September,’ says one Ronen Medzini Published: 06.15.2011 One of the ships slated to participate in the flotilla to […]
Refugees Suffer as Turkey Presses Syria http://www.hudson-ny.org/2204/refugees-suffer-as-turkey-presses-syria Turkey ramps up its response to the crisis in Syria as the influx of refugees on the border grows, and they are reportedly lacking adequate food, water and shelter. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who recently strengthened his criticisms of the Syrian regime, spoke by phone Tuesday […]
Britain Creating Parallel Islamic Financial System by Soeren Kern http://www.hudson-ny.org/2206/britain-parallel-islamic-financial-system A British firm has launched a Sharia-compliant pension fund that will enable Muslims to save for retirement in compliance with Islamic principles. The British government will begin offering Muslim workers Sharia-compliant pensions as of 2012. The launching of the funds, which are said to be […]
http://blogs.forbes.com/robertlenzner/2011/06/12/al-schwimmer-an-american-crucial-to-the-state-of-israel/ Al Schwimmer, An American Unsung Hero For The State of Israel By ROBERT LENZNER I was extraordinarily privileged to know Al Schwimmer, a former transport pilot in World War II,, who helped create Israel’s air force in the 1948 War of Independence, and then was chosen to build the nation’s military might at Israel […]
