http://www.steynonline.com/content/view/4096/ This essay is drawn from Mark’s book A Song For The Season: Memorial Day in America – or, if you’re a real old-timer, Decoration Day, a day for decorating the graves of the Civil War dead. The songs many of those soldiers marched to are still known today – “The Yellow Rose Of Texas”, […]
http://www.raymondcook.net/blog/ This is a cross-post by Michael Ordman of Good News From Israel and shows the hypocrisy and ignorance of those who would, in their blindness and ideological zeal, boycott divest and sanction Israel. Note that this is not simply boycotting goods manufactured in the ‘occupied territories’ but ALL goods. Following the decision of the […]
http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/ Jewish Student Allegedly Attacked On Australian Campus For Celebrating Israeli Independence Day Melbourne, capital of the state of Victoria, Australia, was founded in 1835, and Jews, of English origin, were among its earliest inhabitants. Immediately before, and following, the Second World War, the Melbourne Jewish community – by that time highly assimilationist and eroded […]
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/180/obama_s_warm_reception_in_britain_can_t_hide_the_fact_he_s_the_weakest_us_president_in_living_memory Obama gets meetings with the Queen, high fives with Cameron and a speech to parliament. But his lack of global leadership overshadows all. Consider the world-view of the first American president. In his inaugural address, President George Washington spoke passionately about the “…sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/28/navy-too-politically-correct-for-old-salts/ The U.S. Navy is sailing into politically correct waters, sometimes at a speed too fast for the Obama administration to keep up. Whether it is policies on gays and women, or naming ships after social activists, the Navy is charting a course that has some “old salts” worried. “It’s pretty dire,” said John Howland, […]
The Audacity of Reality Page Printed from: http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/05/the_audacity_of_reality.html Despite the avalanche of articles analyzing U.S. President Barack Obama’s May 19, 2011 Middle East speech, one irony has not been mentioned. The president laid out a magnificent blueprint for the countries in the region to follow in order to ensure dignity, freedom, and hope for their […]
One Day in the Life of an Israeli Hospital http://frontpagemag.com/2011/05/30/one-day-in-the-life-of-an-israeli-hospital/print/ The Bash-Israel Lobby has now become a large choir of totalitarian chanting about supposed Israeli “apartheid.” Western campuses are filled with the hate fests of “Israel Apartheid Week.” Friends of Israel attempt to engage the bigots in debate, attempt to challenge their claims. Statistics are […]
http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/05/the_preferred_option_israeli_s.html Nearly every time I suggest to someone that Israel needs to declare complete sovereignty over Judea and Samaria, I am bombarded with doubts and accusations – “Are you crazy, it can’t be done!” “What will the world say?”, “America will not allow us”, “We’ll be boycotted and perhaps attacked”, “We’ll lose the Jewish majority […]
http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2011/05/29/first-amendment-trumps-sharia-in-dearborn/ A seminal, if ominous report [2] released May 17, 2011 by the Center for Security Policy described fifty appellate court cases from 23 states which involve conflicts between Islamic law—Sharia [3]—and American state law. Nothwithstanding the delusive mindslaughter [4] on display across America’s political spectrum which denies Sharia [5] encroachment in the US, the […]
OIC Fatwa on Domestic Violence and the Rights of Women in Islam By Mark Durie markdurie.com Sunday, May 29, 2011 In April 2009, the Islamic Fiqh Academy made a ruling entitled ‘Domestic Violence’. This is a highly significant document which reflects a high-level consensus of leading Muslim scholars in the world today. It was clearly […]
