http://townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/2011/07/13/obama_plays_chicken/print There is a climactic scene in the movie “Rebel Without a Cause,” in which two enemies play chicken. The sullen hero, Jim (James Dean), races toward a cliff against the bully Buzz (Corey Allen). Whoever jumps out first is deemed a “chicken.” This week, President Obama decided to play chicken. He’s so committed to […]
http://townhall.com/columnists/johnstossel/2011/07/13/david_mamets_conversion/print Hollywood mocks capitalism, which seems odd because the people who make movies are such aggressive capitalists — competing hard to make money. But Hollywood’s message is that capitalism is shallow and cruel. Take the 1992 movie “Glengarry Glen Ross” (based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning play). It’s about cutthroat real estate salesmen who work for […]
http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/category/srdja-trifkovic/news-views/ http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/2011/07/08/the-green-green-arab-summer-1/ The Green, Green Arab Summer: I by Srdja Trifkovic • July 8th, 2011 • In the U.S. mainstream media the developments that have followed the misnamed “Arab Spring” have been curiously under-reported. The reason seems clear: In recent weeks those developments have taken a clear turn away from Western-style democracy, pluralism, tolerance, respect […]
Blessing and Curse: Israel’s new energy resources. Jewish lore has long defined Jewish misfortune as beginning when Moses took the Jewish people into the land of Cannan instead of east of the Jordan River towards the Saudi Arabian Peninsula with all of its vast oil wealth. But the two recent […]
Energy Freedom Now By Frank Gaffney, Jr. http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/index.xml Mark Twain is usually credited with the quip that “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” The same is certainly true of our dependence on foreign, and often unfriendly, sources of energy – particularly when gas prices soar and every American feels the pinch. […]
http://www.maggiesnotebook.com/author/maggiesnotebook/ http://docstalk.blogspot.com/2011/07/life-magazine-on-israel-in-1967.html Israel and their previous borders have been a topic of great interest and angst for the past couple of weeks. We know the Progressive line that Israel is an occupier, but did you know that as late as 1967 the American viewpoint, as plainly expressed by Life Magazine, was much, much different? And […]
http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1841/Petraeus-Watch.aspx Petraeus Watch Written by:Diana West 7/11/2011 9:08:00 AM Gen David Petraeus: “No country has suffered more from Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida than Afghanistan.” That comment from a June interview with Military Times stopped me cold. Partly, it was the pat sweep of the superlative. But it was also the gratuitousness of […]
http://www.aim.org/guest-column/president-donates-100-billion-to-the-united-nations/ President Donates $100 Billion to the United Nations Posted By Paul L. Williams The U. S. State Department yesterday announced that the Obama Administration has agreed to contribute $4 billion to the United Nations Global Fund to fight AIDs, Tuberculosis, and Malaria from 2011 to 2013. The $4 billion represents a 38% increase over […]
I certainly wish the people of the new nation of South Sudan well. They have been serial victims of the jihads of genocidal Omar al Bashir who came to power in an Islamist coup in 1989. I also regret the shameful indifference of American legislators to the crimes against humanity committed against South Sudan including […]
Another Era of Peace and Justice for Sudan? By David Pryce-Jones http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/271541 A Sudanese novelist by the name of Tayyib Salih has retired to London. I practiced my Arabic by translating his novel Season of Migration to the North. Here is a tragic story of a Sudanese who tries to live up to the standards of […]
