Europe’s Arizona ProblemBy CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/opinion/12Caldwell.htmlALONGSIDE Greek debt and the Libyan intervention, European Union countries are bickering over another issue, one that could well determine the future of their would-be megastate: immigration and internal borders. A growing number, including Italy, France and Denmark, want to carve out exceptions to the agreements under which member states […]
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/144926 Wolfensohn Barred from Beirut U., Learns Arab Gratitude Firsthand by Aryeh Ben Hayim When the Sharon government uprooted the Jewish residents of Gaza, former World Bank chief James Wolfensohn personally bought the hothouses of the evicted Jews for millions so they could be delivered intact to the Palestinians. This was intended to help underpin […]
Twilight of the Idols By Emmanuel Navon www.navon.com Israel’s intellectuals are worried. The Israeli Holy Trinity (Amos Oz, A.B. Yehoshua, and David Grossman) is getting old. The Hebrew University’s Pantheon (Martin Buber, Yehuda Magnes, and Yeshayahu Leibowitz) belongs to History. Avraham Burg tries to mimic Leibowitz, but it is hard to inherit the Lithuanian brainbox […]
http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1705/Iraq-40-Billion-Missing.aspx From AFP: Around $40 billion are ‘missing’ from a post-Gulf War fund that Iraq maintains to protect the money from foreign claims, its parliamentary speaker said on Monday. “There is missing money, we do not know where it has gone,” Osama al-Nujaifi said at a news conference in Baghdad. “The money is around $40 […]
http://www.translatingjihad.com/2011/06/kuwaiti-lawmaker-proposes-15000-reward.html Interesting that this is coming out at the same time that a former Kuwaiti candidate for parliament is calling for a revival of the old Qur’anic system of taking sex slaves from infidel raids, and selling them in Kuwaiti markets to help satisfy the Kuwaiti man’s sexual appetite (stay tuned here for more on […]
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=224865 Confronting our subversive institutions By CAROLINE B. GLICK Just as Israelis are denied their right to an open, objective public discourse due to the radical Left’s predominance in the media, so American Jews are denied their right to disown J Street due to the radical leftist American Jews’ takeover of key US Jewish umbrella […]
Marco Rubio takes on ‘Medi-scare’ By Marc A. Thiessen, Published: June 13 http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/marco-rubio-takes-on-medi-scare/2011/06/13/AGL5N5SH_story.html If entitlement reform is the third rail of American politics, then there is no place in America where the surge is more powerful than Florida. The Sunshine State has more Medicare recipients than any state in the union except California — making Florida ground zero for the […]
http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2011/06/double-standard-sheikh-ahmad-yassin-v.html There has never been any doubt that Israel is judged by many countries around the world… well, differently. Why do they have no compunction to do so? I cannot believe it is simple anti-semitism on a universal scale.. A TALE OF TWO TERRORISTS Here are some contrasting opinions by leaders of the UN, […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.9733/pub_detail.asp You can’t call yourself really alive if the flying scenes in “Top Gun” don’t put you on the edge of your seat, pulse racing, goose bumps forming, the hair standing on the back of your neck. In fact, it’s kinda fitting that the 25th anniversary of the blockbuster film, which brought the living-on-the-edge world […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.9735/pub_detail.asp Generally, we do not try to blame any one person or one group for all the $14.7 trillion+ national debt that is still growing at leaps and bounds. So we’ll blame three factors: Grover Norquist and the AARP. Norquist for the ‘No Tax’ Pledge and the AARP for their ‘Don’t Do ANYTHING to SS […]
