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2011

D.C. WATSON: A LETTER TO CONGRESS ON “RADICALIZATION” OF MUSLIMS IN AMERICA…

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/06/d-c-watson-letter-to-congress-islamic-radicals-or-fundamentalists.html Office of the Honorable Peter King, United States Congressman, 3rd Congressional District (New York) Re: Scheduled hearings on “Radicalization” of Muslims in America Dear Congressman King, On June 20th, 2010 a letter was written to Congress concerning the widely unpopular idea of constructing a mosque in the shadow of the Ground Zero site in […]

MARK DURIE: ON DHIMMITUDE AND KORANIC LAW ON DEATH OF THE NON MUSLIM SOUL

Dhimmitude and Ibn Ajibah on the Death of the Non-Muslim Soul By Mark Durie http://markdurie.blogspot.com/ This lack of a genuine tradition of benevolence or grace in dealing with non-Muslims is one of the key ideological problems confronting Islam – and non-Islam – today.  It will simply not do to sweep it under the carpet by […]

OBAMA HEADS TO PUERTO RICO TROLLING FOR SUPPORT: DAVE BOYER….SEE NOTE

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jun/12/obama-heads-to-puerto-rico-with-eye-on-12/ HISPANICS ARE TAKEN FOR GRANTED BY THE DEMS, BUT THEY ARE JUDGING NYC HISPANICS…IN THE REST OF THE COUNTRY HISPANIC AMERICANS ARE NOT MONOLITHIC LIBERALS…THEY ARE  CONSERVATIVE, RELIGIOUS AND ENTERPRISING AND VERY INVOLVED IN BUILDING SMALL BUSINESSES…..RSK In a trip heavy with implications for 2012, President Obama will visit Puerto Rico on Tuesday with […]

Seth McLaughlin: CANDIDATES WOO VOTERS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE…SEE NOTE

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jun/12/new-hampshire-politics-requires-personal-touch/?page=all#pagebreak THESE FOLKS SURE ASK GOOD QUESTIONS…RSK NORTH CONWAY, N.H. — For more than an hour Saturday evening, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty stood in a living room here and played the part that every presidential hopeful has to play to win the New Hampshire primary: political salesman. Mr. Pawlenty spent the first 15 minutes […]

ISRAEL’S ENERGY BOUNTY

http://www.worldjewishdaily.com/israel-oil-superpower.php Saudi Israelia: Israel Poised to Become Oil Superpower 10:58 PM on Sunday, June 12, 2011 – Sivan 10, 5771 Tiny Israel, long dependent on outsiders for its energy needs, is poised to become a major exporter of oil. That’s according to Lawrence Solomon, writing in the Financial Post. The new energy order is founded […]

CONNECTICUT JEWISH LEDGER: CINDY MINDELL INTERVIEWS JEFF JACOBY

Q & A with Jeff Jacoby by CindyMindell on June 8, 2011 Connecticut Jewish Ledger Jeff Jacoby  Jeff Jacoby has been an op-ed columnist for The Boston Globe since February 1994, when he left his position as chief editorial writer at the Boston Herald. The Boston Phoenix has dubbed Jacoby’s twice-weekly essays ”a must-read,” describing […]

MALCOLM LOWE: BRITISH METHODISTS: PALESTINE FIRST, GERMANY NEXT?

British Methodists: Palestine First, Germany Next? by Malcolm F. Lowe http://www.hudson-ny.org/2190/british-methodists-palestine-germany In 2010, the Methodist Church in Britain produced a report entitled “Justice for Palestine and Israel“. The report was adopted as official Methodist policy. Consequently, British Methodists are now called upon to boycott certain Israeli products and support the pro-Palestinian initiatives of the World […]

GABRIEL SCHOENFELD: AND ANTI-TERROR ROADMAP

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304432304576367932443104952.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion An Antiterror Roadmap Entebbe-style derring-do is great, but ‘routine, grind-it-out’ measures have been essential to Israel’s security. By Gabriel Schoenfeld What can we learn from Israel about fighting terrorism? Seemingly, a great deal. Ever since its founding in 1948, Israel has been contending with attacks that have exacted an awful human toll. They have […]

BRET STEPHENS AND SEYMOUR HERSH

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304474804576369191445114876.html?KEYWORDS=BRET+STEPHENS   Iran, Syria—and Seymour Hersh Why won’t the New Yorker reporter debate me? By BRET STEPHENS When does a half-cooked notion, a conspiracy theory or a tissue of vaguely sourced and improbable claims become an item of journalistic “fact”? If you’re a person of normal intelligence, the answer is: never. If, however, you’re a […]

FOUAD AJAMI: SYRIA, WHERE MASSACRE IS A FAMILY TRADITION

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304259304576375943962621206.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion Syria: Where Massacre Is a Family Tradition The mask of the Assad regime finally falls, and the world is forced to confront its illusions about Iran’s ally and Hezbollah’s patron. By FOUAD AJAMI Pity the Syrians as they face the Assad regime’s tanks and artillery and snipers. Unlike in Libya, there is no Arab […]