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Ruth King

MOB OF 4000 MUSLIMS ATTACK COPTIC HOMES IN EGYPT…

http://www.aina.org/news/20110304222016.htm AINA) — A mob of nearly four thousand Muslims has attacked Coptic homes this evening in the village of Soul, Atfif in Helwan Governorate, 30 kilometers from Cairo, and torched the Church of St. Mina and St. George. There are conflicting reports about the whereabouts of the Church pastor Father Yosha and three deacons […]

BARRY RUBIN: FOR THE ADMINISTRATION THERE ARE GOOD FANATICS AND BAD FANATICS

http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2011/03/now-we-know-how-obama-administration-is.html Now We Know: How the Obama Administration is Going to Bring Disaster to the Middle East and U.S. Interests By Barry Rubin In a moment, I’ll present you with what might be the most frightening paragraph in the modern history of U.S. Middle East policy. But first, here’s one that’s among the most deplorable. […]

ANDREW McCARTHY: THE LEFT AND ISLAMISTS COLLABORATE

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/261366/jean-jacques-jihad-andrew-c-mccarthy Jean-Jacques Jihad There is a reason leftists and Islamists collaborate: totalitarianism. The one thing that absolutely could not be tolerated was true freedom, the liberty of the individual. For Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the “social compact” would otherwise be “an empty formula.” The irreducible core of the utopia he envisioned, the “undertaking which alone can give […]

JORDAN’S COMELY QUEENIE: GLAMOR AND CELEBRITY IN THE WEST…BUT COMPARED TO MARIE ANTOINETTE AT HOME

Queen’s gambit Mary Ann Sieghart http://www.spectator.co.uk/ Rania of Jordan’s glamour and eloquence have won her celebrity friends in the West – and comparisons to Marie Antoinette at home To the western world, she is the closest the 21st century gets to Princess Diana: glamorous, beautiful, charitable and royal. But to many of her citizens, she […]

ARABIAN FANTASIES BY SUSAN ABULHAWA AUTHOR OF “MORNINGS IN JENIN”: READ A RESPONSE

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/inq_ed_board/Susan_Abulhawa_The_dream_at_the_revolutions_core.html FROM AN E PAL…. To the editor, In Susan Abulhawa’s fictional Middle East, “there are Muslims and Christians, women and men, rich and poor, united in a peaceful struggle for freedom.”  There are, however, no Jews.  And that is only part of where her idyllic vision diverges from the region’s harsh truths.  In the […]

BEYOND JUST HYPOCRISY: IRAN JOINS UN COMMISSION ON STATUS OF WOMEN

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/03/04/hypocrisy-display/ http://www.eyeontheun.org/ ANNE BAYEFSKY Today, Iran officially becomes a member of the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women. Only three days ago, the U.N. General Assembly voted to suspend Libya’s membership on the U.N. Human Rights Council in a desperate bid to save the Council’s tattered reputation and itself. But not a single state, […]

ANDREW McCARTHY: THE LOUGHNER INDICTMENT-LEGALLY SUSPECT AND TACTICALLY FOOLISH

Loughner Indictment: Legally Suspect and Tactically Foolish[1] By Andrew C. McCarthy https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/261386/loughner-indictment-legally-suspect-and-tactically-foolish-andrew-c-mccarthy Dan,[2] I think the Justice Department’s strategy in the Loughner case is legally suspect (to say the least) and tactically foolish. There are federal charges that apply to the shootings of the federal officials. That’s the federal case here. To the contrary, shooting […]

UK PULLS THE PLUG ON SPENDING FOR THE UNITED NATIONS

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/03/uk-pulls-plug-united-nations-spending-opposition/ Critics of U.S. spending on the United Nations got a huge boost—and supporters of that spending, especially the Obama Administration, took a body blow—from an unlikely source this week: the British government, long one of the U.N.’s staunchest supporters. In a sweeping and hard-nosed reorganization of priorities for its $10.6 billion multilateral foreign aid […]

HAVE THE WIKILEAKS BEEN HARMFUL OR HELPFUL TO ISRAEL AND THE UNITED STATES…..SEE NOTE

Have the Wiki Leaks Been Harmful or Helpful to Democracies Such as the United States and Israel? by Alan M. Dershowitz http://www.hudson-ny.org/1933/have-the-wiki-leaks-been-harmful-or-helpful-to http://www.businessinsider.com/alan-dershowitz-julian-assange-wikileaks-twitter-2011-2 DERSH IS ON ASSANGE’S “DREAM TEAM”…..RSK There is a worldwide debate regarding the leaks of diplomatic cables attributed to Wiki Leaks Julian Assange. Have the leaks done harm or have they done […]

MY SAY: GIVE PROPER ATTRIBUTION TO A PATRIOTIC EARLY AMERICAN

NOW THAT BARBARY PIRATE WARS ARE BEING WAGED FROM SOMALIA…THERE IS MUCH BUZZ ABOUT AMERICA’S BARBARY WARS AND THE STATEMENT “MILLIONS FOR DEFENSE AND NOT A CENT FOR TRIBUTE”…WHICH IS ATTRIBUTE INCORRECTLY TO THOMAS JEFFERSON…..BUT IN FACT IT WAS ELOQUENTLY STATED ON JUNE 18TH, 1798 BY A CONGRESSMAN OF THE FEDERALIST PARTY OF SOUTH CAROLINE…ROBERT […]