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Eshtaol Excavations Reveal the Oldest House in the Shephelah

Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) excavations at Eshtaol recently uncovered the remains of a 10,000-year-old house in the Judean Shephelah, the lowland west of Jerusalem, as well as a later cult site, stone axes and other Neolithic remains. The excavations, which were conducted before a proposed Israeli highway expansion, revealed several stages of the millennia-long narrative of early cultural development at Eshtaol, a site associated with the birth and burial of Samson in the Biblical period (Judges 13:25; 16:31).

In an IAA press statement, archaeologists Amir Golani, Ya‘akov Vardi, Benyamin Storchan and Ron Be’eri describe the significance of the 10,000-year-old domestic building (pictured to the right), which dates to the transitional Pre-Pottery Neolithic period. “It should be emphasized that whoever built the house did something that was totally innovative because up until this period man migrated from place to place in search of food. Here we have evidence of man’s transition to permanent dwellings and that in fact is the beginning of the domestication of animals and plants; instead of searching out wild sheep, ancient man started raising them near the house.”

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4081/egypt-women “If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside on the street…and the cats come and eat it, whose fault is it, the cats’ or the uncovered meat? If she was in her room, in her home in her hijab, no problem would have occurred.” — Sheikh Taj Din Al-Hilali, Grand Mufti, Australia, […]

http://pjmedia.com/blog/great-reckoning/?print=1 Back in July of 2008, presidential candidate Barack Obama visited Sderot, the southern Israeli city battered by rocket fire from Gaza, and delivered a speech emphasizing Israel’s right to defend itself and stressing that “peace should not undermine its security.” He vowed that he would not, as president, force Israel to make dangerous concessions […]

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/reminder-jihad-makes-islams-borders-and-innards-bloody?f=must_reads As of Sunday December 8, 2013, there were at least 22,023 documented fatal terror attacks committed by Muslims since the cataclysmic acts of jihad terrorism on 9/11/2001. This is by nature a gross underestimate given the horrific level of jihad violence across the globe, which has gone underreported. [ref 1] Dr. Tina Magaard-a Sorbonne-trained […]

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Major Retail Mall in England to be Shariah Compliant

1) The production and sale of pork and pork products will be prohibited.
2) The production and sale of alcohol products will be prohibited.
3) No gambling activities are allowed on the premises.
4) The investment will respect the “purification” requirements of shariah by including donations to Islamic “charities.” (We all know how that goes! Revisit the Texas Holy Land Foundation-Hamas funding trial, the largest terrorist funding trial in U.S. history for more on “donations to Islamic charities.”)

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/why-are-the-humanities-disappearing I often find myself in the odd position of addressing the question “why are the humanities disappearing?” In most instances my interrogators assume I will say something about the desire for vocational training in an environment where jobs are scarce. Clearly that is an answer, but a partial and unreflective response. Based on my […]

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303997604579242431978486244?mod=Opinion_newsreel_5 The Environmental Protection Agency’s habit of stretching its legal authority faces another reckoning on Tuesday when the Supreme Court considers whether the agency can rewrite the Clean Air Act to usurp state responsibilities. This one ought to be in Justice Anthony Kennedy‘s federalist sweet spot. The case focuses on the Clean Air Act’s “good […]

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304014504579248250375156332?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop Chuck Hagel was right: The Obama administration’s policy on Iran’s nuclearization is containment, not prevention. The secretary of defense let that one slip at his confirmation hearings in January, and the media played it as a stumble by an intellectually overmatched nominee. But it wasn’t a stumble. It was a gaffe—an accidental, embarrassing act […]

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/365742/impeachment-lessons-andrew-c-mccarthy Well whaddya know: The topic of impeachment reared its head at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday. Jonathan Strong’s report here at NRO noted the wincing consternation of GOP-leadership aides at utterances of the “i-word” during the testimony of prominent legal experts. For the Republican establishment, it seems, history begins and ends in the 1990s: […]

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North Korea has increased the size of a labor camp where prisoners have been beaten to death with hammers and forced to dig their own graves, according to a report by a rights group published Thursday.

Amnesty International commissioned satellite analysis of the country’s largest prison camp — which is known as kwanliso 16.

It shows new buildings have been constructed inside the compound — which is three times the size of Washington, D.C. — since North Korean leader Kim Jong Un replaced his late father.

Amnesty International also interviewed guards and inmates who have first-hand experience of life in the camps. They said women are often raped and then executed in secret by officials, and those who try to escape are beaten before being publicly shot or hanged.