http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=242563 The Schalit deal may go down as the most disastrous miscalculation since the decision not to mobilize the reserves in 1973. “Prisoner releases only embolden terrorists by giving them the feeling that even if they are caught, their punishment will be brief….[B]y leading terrorists to think such demands are likely to be met, they […]
http://weaselzippers.us/ THIS IS AKIN TO REMOVING ALL REFERENCES TO ANATOMY FROM MEDICAL TRAINING….RSK Shockingly, this was in response to complaints from CAIR. (Yahoo! News) — Deputy U.S. Attorney General James Cole confirmed on Wednesday that the Obama administration was pulling back all training materials used for the law enforcement and national security communities, in order […]
The OWS virus. Dangerous to your health. Highly contagious.Posted By Roger Kimball URL to article: http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2011/10/21/the-ows-virus-dangerous-to-your-health-highly-contagious/ I’ve never seen The Andromeda Strain [1], but I gather the plot revolves around a deadly and highly contagious virus from another planet that’s been let loose on earth. Contemplating the hysteria that has greeted the Occupy Wall Street […]
http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2011/10/marketing-gilad-schalit.php Gilad Schalit is home. And that is wonderful. The terrorists Israel released in exchange for the IDF soldier held hostage by Hamas for more than five years are running around Judea, Samaria and Gaza promising to return to terror. And that is a nightmare. But so far, the Israeli public is happy with the […]
Another Tack: A sacrifice in vain? The electoral race I covered in 1981 was the most contentious I remember. It followed the 1977 upheaval in which a non-Labor government for the first time became a plausible option. Behaving as if it were robbed of its rightful legacy, Labor aimed to correct the voters’ “error.” The end […]
http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/18320-Critique-of-Codevillas-The-Lost-Decade.html Critique of Codevilla’s “The Lost Decade” With temerity I critique one of the clearest foreign policy analysts in America, Angelo Codevilla. We share some friends and common roots in the teachings learned at the knee of Robert Strausz-Hupe of laser focus on core US interests over distractions, especially those wasteful or unproductive. With timidity […]
I don’t shrink from joy that Mubarak and Qaddafi are gone. Far from it. What gives me pause is the way revenge and frustration are meted out.
The sight of Mubarak in a cage or the way in which a mob bludgeoned Qaddafi to death is sickening. We had the Nuremberg Trials and the Eichmann Trials. Monsters were tried and executed.
This is pure and simple mob violence and an indicator of where the Arab Spring is going.
The Pathology of Double Standards Posted By Bruce Thornton URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/10/21/the-pathology-of-double-standards/ The surreal moral idiocy that characterizes hatred of Israel is illustrated daily by states whose actions are shrugged away by the international media. Consider the recent Turkish invasion of northern Iraq in pursuit of Kurdish militants who killed 24 soldiers at […]
5 Reasons Israel Should Have Rejected the Shalit Deal Posted By Ben Shapiro RL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/10/21/5-reasons-israel-should-have-rejected-the-shalit-deal/ On Tuesday in Israel, kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was finally returned to his family. Most Jews across the world celebrated – a man written off as dead had almost literally come back to the world of the […]
URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/10/21/ingrid-mattson-a-case-study-in-stealth-jihad/ In a recent column for Canada’s National Post, the invaluable Barbara Kay writes about one Ingrid Mattson, a Catholic who was raised in Kitchener, Ontario, converted to Islam, and went on to become a major figure in the North American Islamic establishment. Until recently she taught Islamic Studies at Hartford Seminary, […]
