The ‘peace machine’ failed Op-ed: For Arabs, ‘back to the future’ means return to 1948, genocide of Jews, Israel’s elimination http://www.ynet.co.il/english/articles/0,7340,L-4011111,00.html Theoretically, had the peace machine worked correctly, and everyone played their roles and lightening struck the clock tower at the right time, past mistakes would be corrected and the world would be transported into […]
Will Conservative Media Elites Defend Lars Hedegaard? (Including, “A Guide for the Islamically-Perplexed”) January 10th, 2011 (43 seconds ago) by Andrew Bostom | No Comments 0 visitors have read this article This essay is also posted at Pajamas Media: Conservative Free Speech Diehards—or Blowhards? This past Friday, 1/7/11, I received a plaintive appeal on behalf […]
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Jared Loughner and the Culture of Irresponsibility There has not been a single act of Muslim violence in the last two years that the media was willing to identify as motivated by Islam. Each and every time they had to be dragged kicking and screaming, past their cover stories, through groundless claims that the […]
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,738627,00.html America’s Misguided Debate Blaming Sarah Palin for Arizona Shooting Is Wrong by Marc Hujer Of all people, it is precisely those who have complained the loudest about the culture of debate — about the rhetoric of the Tea Party, the right wing’s harsh words and the baseless Obama-Hitler comparisons — who are now poisoning the debate […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/256689/mek-not-terrorist-group-michael-b-mukasey-tom-ridge-and-frances-fragos-townsend MEK Is Not a Terrorist Group The material-support statute is fine; the designation is the problem. The moral of this story may be that sometimes it’s better not to have friends, especially the sort with easy access to the op-ed page of the New York Times, or “The Newspaper of Record,” as it sometimes […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/256696Conservatives in the Crosshairs The Left is wrong to tie metaphorical violence to literal violence. It’s been only two days since a murderous rampage left six dead — including a nine-year-old child and federal judge John Roll — and 14 wounded, including Democratic congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot point-blank in the head and who, […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203418804576039640218425926.html?mod=WSJ_newsreel_opinion The Communist Party affirms that ‘central planning and not the market will be supreme.’ By JOSé AZEL With his characteristic intellectual wit, Cuban writer Carlos Alberto Montaner defines communism as “the time countries waste between capitalism and capitalism.” By this account, the Cuban government is now in its 52nd year of wasted time waiting […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703667904576071913818696964.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop The Arizona Tragedy and the Politics of Blood Libel Those who purport to care about the tenor of political discourse don’t help civil debate when they seize on any pretext to call their political opponents accomplices to murder. By GLENN HARLAN REYNOLDS Shortly after November’s electoral defeat for the Democrats, pollster Mark Penn appeared […]
http://www.robinshepherdonline.com/the-economist-magazine-sullies-reputation-for-independent-thought-with-high-profile-anti-israeli-rant/#more-3665 The Economist magazine sullies reputation for independent thought with high profile anti-Israeli rant Perhaps it has something to do with its craving for an ever wider readership. As it has doubled its audience in little more than a decade (to more than 1.6 million weekly sales), the temptation to fall into line with the […]
http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/01/too_much_constitution.html Too Much Constitution?By Eileen F. Toplansky “One of the most amazing aspects of Judaism is the never-ending reading of the Torah. The lengthy scroll is read from beginning to end and then Jews begin anew. This has been ongoing for over 3,000 years. To some, this exercise seems like a redundancy; to those who understand […]