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PALESTINE-PONTIFICATION AND POPPYCOCK: DAVID SINGER

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/ The following article is by Sydney lawyer and international affairs analyst David Singer.  Entitled “Palestine – Pontification, Prediction and Poppycock”, it comes via the antipodean J-Wire service: The world has been agog this week at the news that Israel’s Prime Minister – Benjamin Netanyahu – is to announce a new peace plan in May […]

WATCH BILL MAHER CHALLENGE KEITH ELLISON…READ NOTE PLEASE

http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-maher-keith-ellison-koran-video-2011-3 WATCH: Bill Maher Challenges Guest Rep. Ellison Over “Hate-Filled” Koran Steven Loeb | Mar. 12, 2011, 12:00 PM | 1,494 | 9 OKAY, SO MAHER DOES NOT KNOW THE DETAILED SURAHS AND HADITHS THAT THE EXPERTS DO, AND HE CAN’T REALLY CHALLENGE ELLISON’S BARRAGE OF LIES BUT BECAUSE MAHER IS POPULAR AND GENERALLY A […]

THE SULTAN: THE PARTY OF UNSUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ The budget stalemate between the right and the left comes down to a basic difference in economic views, the left feels that we need to tax more in order to consume more money, and the right believes that we need to consume less money in order to tax less. Whichever side of the argument […]

HUMBERTO FONTOVA: CASTRO CONDEMNS JEWISH AMERICAN AID WORKER TO 15 YEARS IN PRISON

http://townhall.com/columnists/humbertofontova/2011/03/15/castro_condemns_jewish_american_aid_worker_to_15_years_in_prison/page/full/ On Saturday Castro’s court handed down a sentence of 15 years to Alan Gross, a contractor for USAID jailed in Cuba since Dec. 2009 for bringing cell-phone and internet equipment into Castro’s fiefdom. Mr Gross was trying to help Cuba’s tiny Jewish community communicate more freely with the outside world. Upon being bestowed their […]

CAL THOMAS: NATIONAL PATHETIC RADIO

http://townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/2011/03/15/national_pathetic_radio/page/full/ If the resignations at National Public Radio continue at last week’s pace, there may be no need for Congress to defund the aging dinosaur, because there will be no one left there to turn the lights on. The latest is Betsy Liley, NPR’s director of institutional giving. Conservative activist James O’Keefe secretly recorded phone […]

BYRON YORK: A WARNING TO THE GOP….NO GUTS..NO GLORY

http://townhall.com/columnists/byronyork/2011/03/15/gop_should_heed_lesson_of_1991_no_guts,_no_glory/page/full/ In early March 1991, all the smart people in politics knew one thing about the upcoming 1992 campaign: President George H.W. Bush was unbeatable. Fresh from victory in the Gulf War, Bush enjoyed a job-approval rating around 90 percent. At a time when potential challengers should be enlisting supporters and planning campaigns, Democrats who […]

TAYLOR DINERMAN: THE FIGHT AGAINST THE NEW START TREATY HAS JUST BEGUNY

The Fight Against The New START Treaty Has Only Just Begun by Taylor Dinerman March 15, 2011 at 4:30 am http://www.hudson-ny.org/1939/against-new-start-treaty The news that the Obama administration gave the Russians detailed classified information on Britain’s national nuclear deterrent — while neglecting to inform the US Congress that it did so — shows not only that […]

HERBERT LONDON: A TEST OF US METTLE

A Test of U.S. Mettle by Herbert I. London http://www.hudson-ny.org/1968/a-test-of-us-mettle Two Iranian warships with weapons material on board travelled through the Suez Canal on their way to Syria in defiance of American government restrictions and there is barely a word of denunciation from our State Department. Radical Sheikh Yousef al Qaradawi spoke to a million […]

DENNIS PRAGER: ON THE MURDERS IN ITAMAR

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0311/prager031511.php3?printer_friendly http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | It is very difficult to hate babies. It takes a special person. As morally wrong as it is to murder innocent adults, mankind seems to have a built-in revulsion against killing babies. If a baby does not evoke any tenderness, if a baby is regarded as worthy of being deliberately hurt or […]

FRANK GAFFNEY: ON REP. PETER KING’S HEARINGS

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/gaffney031511.php3?printer_friendly http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | It is not every day that Congress breaks a major taboo and, in so doing, performs a real service to the nation. Last Thursday, however, was one such day when Rep. Peter King, New York Republican, demonstrated impressive leadership in conducting a four-hour hearing on “extremism” in the American Muslim community. For […]