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WES PRUDEN: THE MESSIAH FINDS HIS TIME WARP

The Messiah finds his time warp By Wesley Pruden http://www.prudenpolitics.com/index.php/pruden/notregBarack Obama doesn’t any longer move Americans as he once did. The eloquence once thought cast in gold has been revealed as sounding brass and tinkling cymbal. But he found comfort in a warm, wet time warp in London. You couldn’t blame him if he had […]

DAVID SOLWAY: KISHINEV THE CITY OF SLAUGHTER

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-city-of-slaughter/ The City of Slaughter Posted By David Solway Chaim Nachman Bialik’s great poem about Russia’s Kishinev pogrom of 1903 needs to be read and re-read. In 1903, the Jewish community in the town of Kishinev, the capital of the Russian province of Bessarabia, was decimated by a pogrom, a frequent occurrence in that part […]

HONOR THE TROOPS AND KNOW YOUR ENEMY: JERRY PHILLIPSON

Know your enemy Jerry Philipson http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/05/know_your_enemy_2.html On this Memorial Day Weekend in the United States Americans should pause to honor the brave men and women of the Armed Forces who are fighting and dying to protect freedom and the American way of life in Afghanistan, Iraq and other places around the world. They should then […]

MARK STEYN: THE BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC by Julia Ward Howe and William Steffe

http://www.steynonline.com/content/view/4096/ This essay is drawn from Mark’s book A Song For The Season: Memorial Day in America – or, if you’re a real old-timer, Decoration Day, a day for decorating the graves of the Civil War dead. The songs many of those soldiers marched to are still known today – “The Yellow Rose Of Texas”, […]

GO AHEAD AND BOYCOTT ISRAEL…SEE HOW

http://www.raymondcook.net/blog/ This is a cross-post by Michael Ordman of  Good News From Israel and shows the hypocrisy and ignorance of those who would, in their blindness and ideological zeal, boycott divest and sanction Israel. Note that this is not simply boycotting goods manufactured in the ‘occupied territories’ but ALL goods. Following the decision of the […]

ON A MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA CAMPUS VIOLENT INCIDENT MARS A PRO-ISRAEL RALLY

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/ Jewish Student Allegedly Attacked On Australian Campus For Celebrating Israeli Independence Day Melbourne, capital of the state of Victoria, Australia, was founded in 1835, and Jews, of English origin, were among its earliest inhabitants.  Immediately before, and following, the Second World War, the Melbourne Jewish community  – by that time highly assimilationist and eroded […]

Obama’s warm reception in Britain can’t hide the fact he’s the weakest US president in living memory: ROBIN SHEPHERD

http://www.thecommentator.com/article/180/obama_s_warm_reception_in_britain_can_t_hide_the_fact_he_s_the_weakest_us_president_in_living_memory Obama gets meetings with the Queen, high fives with Cameron and a speech to parliament. But his lack of global leadership overshadows all. Consider the world-view of the first American president. In his inaugural address, President George Washington spoke passionately about the “…sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of […]

Navy too politically correct for ‘old salts’ By Rowan Scarborough –

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/28/navy-too-politically-correct-for-old-salts/ The U.S. Navy is sailing into politically correct waters, sometimes at a speed too fast for the Obama administration to keep up. Whether it is policies on gays and women, or naming ships after social activists, the Navy is charting a course that has some “old salts” worried. “It’s pretty dire,” said John Howland, […]

THE AUDACITY OF REALITY: LORI LOWENTHAL MARCUS

The Audacity of Reality Page Printed from: http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/05/the_audacity_of_reality.html  Despite the avalanche of articles analyzing U.S. President Barack Obama’s May 19, 2011 Middle East speech, one irony has not been mentioned.  The president laid out a magnificent blueprint for the countries in the region to follow in order to ensure dignity, freedom, and hope for their […]

STEVE PLAUT: APARTHEID HUH? ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF AN ISRAELI HOSPITAL

One Day in the Life of an Israeli Hospital http://frontpagemag.com/2011/05/30/one-day-in-the-life-of-an-israeli-hospital/print/ The Bash-Israel Lobby has now become a large choir of totalitarian chanting about supposed Israeli “apartheid.” Western campuses are filled with the hate fests of “Israel Apartheid Week.” Friends of Israel attempt to engage the bigots in debate, attempt to challenge their claims. Statistics are […]