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JOHN R. BOLTON AND PAULA A. DESUTTER: A COLD WAR TREATY THAT IS DOING US HARM

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903918104576500273389091098.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion The U.S.-Soviet INF pact doesn’t address the Iranian threat. ‘Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses: They last while they last.” So said Charles de Gaulle a half-century ago, but he could have been describing the 1988 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces agreement signed by the United States and the Soviet Union. The INF Treaty […]

ALEX JOFFE: ISRAEL AND THE ANTIPODES AND ACCUSATIONS

http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/content/module/2011/8/15/main-feature/1/israel-and-the-antipodes During the February 2011 earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, a boulder smashed into a car, killing 23-year-old Israeli Ofer Mizrahi. The death toll from that earthquake was 181, including two Israelis besides Mizrahi. Mizrahi’s Israeli traveling companions were uninjured and left New Zealand shortly after the earthquake. Several months later, the New Zealand Southland […]

CHARLES CRAWFORD: THE DISASTROUS DEATH OF COMMON SENSE

http://www.thecommentator.com/article/363/the_disastrous_death_of_common_sense Former British Ambassador Charles Crawford argues that the Labour Party’s support for the unrelenting deconstruction of British values has created ignorant, violent decontextualised people, completely detached from history – and morality Over the centuries English property law has invented many ingeniously pragmatic ways in which property can be owned. One key distinction shows itself […]

ROBIN SHEPHERD: BRITISH LEFT SQUIRMS AS RIOTS EXPOSED THEIR FLAWED IDEAS

http://www.thecommentator.com/article/367/british_left_squirming_as_riots_expose_their_flawed_ideas British Left squirming as riots expose their flawed ideas It’s a difficult time to be a Left-winger when a society run on your lines is plainly dysfunctional, as the riots have shown. Guardian credibility has hit the rocks. If you wanted to illustrate what “cognitive dissonance” meant to someone who had never heard the […]

APPALLING WAVE OF VIOLENCE IN IRAQ ….56 KILLED

http://news.yahoo.com/56-killed-wave-violence-rolls-across-iraq-090328971.html KUT, Iraq (AP) — Bomb blasts ripped through more than a dozen Iraqi cities Monday morning, killing 56 people — most of them in the southern city of Kut — in a wave of violence that shattered what had been a relatively peaceful holy month of Ramadan. The violence struck from the northern city […]

DANIEL GREENFIELD: AN ANATOMY OF LAW ENFORCEMENT IMPOTENCE

An Anatomy of Law Enforcement Impotence http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ The modern law enforcement apparatus is an impressive thing. It’s no longer about men with clubs standing on street corners and cracking heads. Law enforcement is a scientific endeavor encompassing everything from high end forensic sciences to sociology and psychology. It’s a field of ideas now, and it […]

LORI LOWENTHAL MARCUS: “SHOOT THE JEW SENATOR IN THE FACE” IS NOT NEWS?

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/shoot_the_jewish_senator_in_the_face_not_news.html If a Jew — and a senior-ranking US Senator at that — is targeted with violence and nobody bothers to report it, does it still count as news? Well, that’s what happened.  Dmitry Dyatlov, a 23 year-old Philadelphia resident originally from Uzbekistan, wrote in his rambling and frequently offensive personal blog that although watching […]

DANIEL GREENFIELD: FUTURE NEWSEEK COVERS

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Newsweek Magazine sold for less than the face value of a single issue and it was still too expensive at the price. Now it’s using the same marketing strategy as crazy people who ask for change on the street and Michael Moore. Offensive photoshopped covers. Five years ago if you told someone that Newsweek […]

WHAT DEFINES RELIGION? A REVIEW OF REBECCA BYNUM’S BOOK BY JANET LEVY

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/what-defines-religion/ What Defines ‘Religion’? A new book tackles that question, and focuses on another: does Islam qualify? Allah is Dead: Why Islam Is Not a Religion By Rebecca Bynum Published by New English Review Press, 2011   Reviewed by Janet Levy In a July 29 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit […]

ABE FOXMAN’S LATEST UNINFORMED RANT AGAINST ISLAMOREALISTS

http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2011/08/15/abe-bc%E2%80%99s-of-sharia-a-totalitarian-%E2%80%9Ccloacal%E2%80%9D-system/ Abe BC’s of Sharia: A Totalitarian, “Cloacal” System Abraham Foxman’s latest uninformed rant, “Shout down the Sharia myth makers [3],” re-affirms his nonpareil status as the most blindly agenda-driven and distressingly stupid organizational Jewish “leader.” The Anti-Defamation League (ADL)’s Foxman sprays defamatory charges [3]—rooted in willful ignorance—against all those legitimately concerned with the ceaseless […]