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2011

ACADEMIC FREEDOM OR DECADENCE? SEX TOY DEMOS AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chibrknews-northwestern-president-criticizes-sextoy-demonstration-20110303,0,7493639.story chicagotribune.com NU president ‘troubled’ by sex toy demonstration on campus By Jodi S. Cohen and Lisa Black Northwestern University President Morton Schapiro said today he is “troubled and disappointed” by the live sex toy demonstration on campus last week and has launched an investigation. He released a statement saying the university is looking into […]

JINSA: A REVIEW OF ISRAEL’S STRATEGIC VALUE TO THE UNITED STATES…

Foreign Aid, Part II: Israel as a Security Asset JINSA Report #1067 March 3, 2011 Every so often we do this – last time was March 27, 2006 (JINSA Report #559). In 1979, JINSA published a “quick reference guide” to the capabilities Israel brings to U.S.-Israel security cooperation. We review it periodically, revise it slightly […]

HOW ABOUT A CONGRESSIONAL RESPONSE TO SOMALIAN PIRACY?

How about a Congressional AUMF against the Somali pirates?[1] By Andrew C. McCarthy http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/261223/how-about-congressional-aumf-against-somali-pirates-andrew-c-mccarthy Cliff’s column[2] yesterday on the Somali pirates is great. Not only have they recently hijacked American ships and killed American citizens; he points out that they are presently holding more than 30 vessels and over 600 hostages. Predictably, they have been […]

JIHAD IN FRANKFURT…

Facebook Jihad http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,748910,00.html The Radical Islamist Roots of the Frankfurt Attack By Matthias Bartsch, Matthias Gebauer and Yassin Musharbash Arid U., who has confessed to the Wednesday shooting of two US airmen at the Frankfurt airport, was an unfriendly loner, say his neighbors. But his list of Facebook friends indicate that the 21-year-old had several contacts with radical Islamists. […]

‘KOSOVARS” STRIKE AGAIN…THE FRUIT OF MISGUIDED BALKAN POLICY

http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/2011/03/03/blowback-kosovars-strike-again Blowback: “Kosovars” Strike Again by Srdja Trifkovic The jihadist murder of two American servicemen by a “Kosovar”-Albanian Muslim at Frankfurt Airport on March 2 combines the fruits of the United States’ criminally misguided Balkan policy over the past two decades and of Europe’s suicidal immigration policy since the 1960’s. While it is probably too […]

HILLARY LAVISHLY PRAISES AL-JAZEERA AND TAKES A SWIPE AT OUR MEDIA

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/03/hillary-clinton-calls-al-_n_830890.html Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday that Al Jazeera is gaining more prominence in the U.S. because it offers “real news” — something she said American media were falling far short of doing. Clinton was speaking before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and she said the U.S. is losing the “information war” […]

EVELYN GORDON: ISRAELIS HAVE GOOD REASON TO BE FEARFUL….SEE NOTE PLEASE

https://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/03/02/sorry-but-israelis-have-good-reason-to-be-fearful/ THIS COLUMN IS A RESPONSE TO MAX BOOT’S OBTUSE CHIDING OF ISRAEL FOR NOT WELCOMING THE END OF THE OLD REGIMES….RSK https://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/03/02/shed-no-tears-for-the-dying-mideast-ancien-regimes/ Max finds it incomprehensible that many Israelis are fearful, even unhappy, over the changes sweeping our region. So as an Israeli, let me explain. Over the past two decades, Israelis have lived […]

LARGE ARAB GIFTS TO UNIVERSITIES LEAD TO “HOSTILE’ TEACHING”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ Libya and the LSE: Large Arab gifts to universities lead to ‘hostile’ teachingThe LSE is not the only university that has reason to feel ashamed, writes Stephen Pollard. It will take the LSE quite some time to regain a seat at the table of respectability Photo: PA A study of five years of politics lectures […]

ADRIAN MORGAN:PAKISTAN UNABLE TO CHALLENGE ISLAMISTS AND FANATICS

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.8880/pub_detail.asp Pakistan Unable to Challenge Islamists and Fanatics Is Pakistan edging towards chaos? The Editor Yesterday morning (local time) in Pakistan, the only Christian member of the Pakistani cabinet was gunned down, ambushed outside his mother’s home in Islamabad, the capital. A lone gunman had used a Kalashnikov against Minorities Minister Shahbaz Bhatti as he […]

A WORD OF CAUTION FOR THE “BLAME OBAMA” CROWD….HISTORY CAN BITE BACK

Though the current administration seems all at sea on foreign policy, it is only treading in the footprints of previous administrations’ flawed strategies. http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.8872/pub_detail.asp A Word of Caution for The “Blame Obama” Crowd History: Can Bite Back Ruth King No! I am not getting soft on the present administration, but many of President Obama’s missteps […]