http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703805704575594582561418208.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_AboveLEFTTop Big Labor lost its second election of the week on Wednesday when Delta Air Lines flight attendants rejected an offer to unionize. You can’t say the Obama Administration didn’t try to help. In May, the National Mediation Board rejiggered a 75-year-old interpretation of the Railway Labor Act in order to require a smaller percentage […]
http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/content/module/2010/11/5/main-feature/1/the-warrior-rabbi The Warrior Rabbi By Aryeh Tepper Website for this image ynetnews.com Praise of military virtue, prominent in the Bible, is almost non-existent in the Talmud, which, in the aftermath of the destruction of the Temple and the exile of the Jews by the Romans, either ignores wartime feats or re-interprets them as allegories of […]
Terror and infantilism http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/6443475/terror-and-infantilism.thtml On last night’s BBC Radio Four Moral Maze, on which I am a regular panellist and which you can listen to here, we discussed whether, in the light of the Yemeni ink cartridge plane bomb plot, we in the UK had got the balance right between liberty and security. Once again, […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/252554 Terrorism’s Victims A journalist documents what Islamist attacks have done to Israelis. Giulio Meotti, who is neither an Israeli nor a Jew but a concerned and compassionate Italian journalist and author (his work has appeared in Il Foglio in Rome, the Wall Street Journal, and Commentary), has written A New Shoah, a necessary book on the […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/252582The Shellacking that Hubris Wrought “The party of no” was rewarded in “the election of no.” There may be no more deadly force in politics than hubris. It sneaks up on politicians at their weakest moments — the height of their success — and destroys them, sometimes slowly, sometimes spectacularly. Pres. Barack Obama is suffering […]
The Scandal of Military Voter Disenfranchisement Posted By Captain Samuel F. Wright, JAGC, USN (Ret.) URL to article: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-scandal-of-military-voter-disenfranchisement/ In a speech to the House of Commons on August 20, 1940, Prime Minister Winston Churchill said: The gratitude of every home in our island, in our empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the […]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8110315/Brunei-prince-attempts-to-stop-erotic-statues-from-being-shown-in-court.html Brunei prince attempts to stop ‘erotic statues’ from being shown in court The brother of the Sultan of Brunei is attempting to stop photographs of life-size “erotic statues”, which depict him making love, from being disclosed in a court case in New York. By Jon Swaine in New York Published: 6:18PM GMT 04 Nov […]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/8111325/William-Hague-is-an-enemy-of-Iran-and-thats-good-enough-for-Israel.html William Hague is an enemy of Iran, and that’s good enough for Israel The Israelis have one preoccupation – Iran, says Stephen Pollard. Avigdor Lieberman and William Hague in Jerusalem Photo: AFP/GETTY Israel has form when it comes to greeting visiting British ministers. As he stepped off his plane in Tel Aviv on Tuesday, […]
Bill Clinton’s Big Lie in the New York Times http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/11/bill_clintons_big_lie_in_the_n.html Leo Rennert Former President Bill Clinton, in an op-ed in the Nov. 4 edition of the New York Times, recalls his deep friendship with Yitzhak Rabin, on the 15th anniversary of the Israeli leader’s assassination. As a White House reporter in the 1990s, I can […]
It’s the Olive Trees, Stupid!By Moshe Dann http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/11/its_the_olive_trees_stupid.html In case you didn’t notice, olive trees in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) are under attack. The alleged culprits are Jews living there. U.N. Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Robert Serry called it “terrorism.” Will this “crime against humanity” be on the agenda […]
