http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323539804578259940213918254.html Since 1960, entitlement transfers have grown twice as fast as personal income—to $2.3 trillion annually. “Ask not what you can do for this country, ask what this country will give you for free……”rsk In President Obama’s second inaugural address, he not only outlined an ambitious agenda for his second term but also seemed intent […]
http://www.newmediajournal.us/ There has been a lot of talk since the re-election of President Obama about his ability, nay desire; his goal, of “annihilating” and “destroying” the Republican Party. If one listens to the mainstream media, some of their Obama-friendly operatives are openly declaring that the only way Mr. Obama can “cement his legacy” is if […]
http://q4j-middle-east.com The title of the large AP article discussing the recent election in Israel in my local paper on January 24th read, “Rise Of Israeli Centrist Raises Hopes For Peace.” It was referring to the surprising good showing of Israel’s Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid party. No doubt, this Aron Heller and Josef Federman analysis made […]
http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/novelists-view-world/2013/jan/24/delmon-young-joins-michael-vick-breaking-bad-phila/ “On racism, real or alleged, there’s been zero tolerance. Incautious words here and there against African Americans doomed Howard Cosell, Jimmy the Greek, and Al Campanis. They never recovered and it was years of tolerance training (with Al Sharpton?) before Don Imus got back his radio/TV gig. So why does anti-Semitism get a free […]
Dear Father, Dear Son: Two Lives…Eight Hours
by Jamie Glazov
Larry Elder discusses his new new book about his dad that will touch your heart in unexpected places.
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/jamie-glazov/dear-father-dear-son-two-lives-eight-hours/
http://pjmedia.com/andrewmccarthy/2013/01/24/a-superb-appointment-for-sec-chief/ President Obama has nominated my former boss, Mary Jo White, to be the next chairwoman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. He could not have made a better choice. I worked for Mary Jo for nearly a decade when she was U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York for nine years, from […]
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Wars are won despite the generals. Every historian knows that. Combat is no place for a woman. Every grunt knows that. So do most women. Only generals are confused.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff have finally succumbed to the pressure of the ladies who can’t imagine ever getting close to a gun, registered or otherwise, but who think it would be nifty if some of the cannon fodder for America’s wars could be “service members” of the female persuasion. This would make the ladies on the sidelines feel brave and good about themselves.
You’ll notice that soldiers are no longer called soldiers, or Marines Marines. They’re “service members” now, as if they were waiters, filling-station attendants or bedpan orderlies. You wouldn’t expect to find the likes of Stonewall Jackson, John J. Pershing or George S. Patton Jr. at the Pentagon, but there are plenty of generals and admirals lined up to get their tickets punched and promoted to the next rank. The only shots many of them have ever confronted were shots of Jack Daniel’s at the Officers Club.
Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, seeks a kinder, gentler service member, with none of the excessive testosterone that has afflicted warriors over history’s many wars and centuries. With a little work, the Joint Chiefs expect to squeeze all those deadly hormonal influences out of the male libido.
“The time has come to rescind the direct combat exclusion rule for women and to eliminate all unnecessary gender-based barriers to service,” the general said in echo of Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s announcement that the Pentagon will field a gender-neutral military to fight the nation’s wars. The general wants to “move forward with the full intent to integrate women into occupational fields to the maximum extent possible.
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3554/what-happened-to-sweden Once a moral superpower, Sweden cannot now claim to be seen as even a moral or tolerant place. Just as Raoul Wallenberg remains as an example of courage, Sweden’s Mayor of Malmo, Ilmar Reepalu, a Social Democrat who has held the office for 17 years, does not. Last October, around 300 people assembled in […]
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3555/sharia-law-london “This is not-so-Great Britain, this is a Muslim area. We are vigilantes implementing Islam upon your own necks.” — Member, Muslim London Patrol Muslim gangs have been filmed loitering on streets in London and demanding that passersby conform to Islamic Sharia law. The self-proclaimed vigilantes, who call themselves Muslim London Patrol, are seen in […]
http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/5821/features/not-ordinary-at-all/
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon dedicated this year’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Sunday January 27th, to rescuers of Nazi victims who were not famous heroes but little-known people living “ordinary” lives. Yet some of those little-known rescuers lived anything but ordinary lives, like the extraordinary Berta Davidovitz Rubinsztejn.
When Berta celebrated her 90th birthday in New York this summer, one guest—Meir Brand, a white-haired grandfather of eight—made the trip from Israel. Berta calls Meir her son. He is, but not in any ordinary sense.
In 1941 when she was 18, Berta’s family of five fled Poland and crossed the Carpathian Mountains into still-unoccupied Hungary, where Jews were being persecuted but not yet hunted down. One night the family was hiding, crowded together, in a sheep stall, when Berta’s father, fearing his children would be killed, cried, “For what did I bring you into the world?” From her father’s desperation Berta took the conviction that sustained her for the next five years: “Better to be killed than to hide!”
Berta made her way to Budapest in 1942, where she began working for the Zionist underground through the youth movement Dror Habonim. She assumed a Gentile identity and the name Bigota Ilona and wore a crucifix around her neck. She would meet in a park with other Dror Habonim members living as Gentiles to plan operations and exchange weapons.
Jewish parents in more dangerous places were then bribing Gentiles and using other means to smuggle their children into Budapest, where the Zionist underground had a list of the children’s names but often not their locations. The underground worked to find them, and any other Jewish children they could discover, and get them to safety. An indirect participant in many of their operations was Rudolf Kasztner, a Hungarian Jew, who was head of Hungary’s Zionist Aid and Rescue Committee. “I saw Kasztner in Budapest in 1943,” Berta remembered, but “we halutzim saw him only from afar. He knew we were Jews pretending to be Gentiles, and we knew not to talk to him because the Germans were watching him.”
