http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/266676/whom-bin-tolls-mark-steyn The upshot of my weekend bin-off column is that we won a tree but we’re losing the surrounding forest. Andy has one example of that. I would like to cite a further three, from a trio of G7 economies and principal American allies, all of whom have contributed troops to the increasingly purposeless Afghan […]
http://pajamasmedia.com/barryrubin/ By Barry Rubin In the wake of bloody Muslim attacks on Egyptian Christians the New York Times informs us: “By lifting the heavy hand of the Mubarak police state, the revolution unleashed long-suppressed sectarian animosities that have burst out with increasing ferocity….” No kidding! Did you think a single Egyptian Christian didn’t know this […]
Bamboozled: Two Recent Biographies Shed New Light on Liberal Icons Posted By John Boot http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/bamboozled-two-recent-biographies-shed-new-light-on-liberal-icons/ Did you hear that ripping sound? Two liberal icons known by their silly stage names — Mahatma Gandhi and Malcolm X — have just been torn down from their sanctified perches thanks to a pair of massively researched but finally […]
Bye Bye, Miss American Pie? http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/bye-bye-miss-american-pie/?singlepage=true “Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry” — Don McLean’s hit song takes on an ominous ring, as America drives its Chevy Volt toward the levee of its future. Bye Bye, Miss American Pie? Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry. […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703859304576307371730275828.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion The Supreme Court and the Jerusalem Debate The court may rule on whether the U.S. should recognize the city as Israel’s capital. By SETH LIPSKY Former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin used to warn against deciding the political status of Jerusalem in the U.S. Congress. But what about at the Supreme Court? It’s a […]
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ “Who can count the dust of Jacob or number the seed of Israel” Numbers 23:10 The sun sets above the hills. The siren cries out and on the busy highways that wend among the hills, the traffic stops, the people stop, and a moment of silence comes to a noisy country. Flags fly at […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.9462/pub_detail.asp From the very moment the press was alerted of Navy SEAL Unit 6’s success in killing Osama bin Laden, President Barack Obama has been described by one word more than any other: Gutsy. That so many in the administration, in his party, and in his adoring “state-controlled” media use the same word is testament […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.1685/pub_detail.asp Robed Muslim Clerics Kicked Off U.S. Flight After Pilot Refuses To Take Off With Them (And They Were En Route To Conference On Islamophobia (DAILY MAIL) Navy Authorizes Chaplains to Perform Same-Sex ‘Marriages’ in Naval Chapels (CNS) Arizona Seeks Online Donations to Build Border Fence (FOX) Unemployment Back Up at 9% (BLOOMBERG) Housing crash […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.9459/pub_detail.asp One of the most riveting dramas on the subject of moral judgment is Stanley Kramer’s “Judgment at Nuremberg” (1961), in which Spencer Tracy, as Dan Haywood, the presiding American judge of a tribunal called to try four Nazi judges, is subjected to the corrosive, moral relativist arguments of the defense and the ambivalent, pragmatic […]
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_pakistan_bin_laden Pakistan: Taliban fighters hold bin Laden memorial By ISHTIAQ MAHSUD, Associated Press Ishtiaq Mahsud, Associated Press 40 mins ago DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan – An intelligence official and local tribal chief say several hundred Taliban fighters held a memorial service for Osama bin Laden in Pakistan’s tribal region. They say the mourners hailed the slain al-Qaida […]
