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Ruth King

THE SULTAN: HOW THE ROAD TO SOCIALISM IS PAVED

Daniel Greenfield article: How the Road to Socialism is Paved How the Road to Socialism is Paved Posted: 12 Jun 2010 11:11 PM PDT One of the more insidious aspects of the government takeover is how such takeovers are pitched as reforms. Of course reform traditionally applies to institutions reforming themselves or being reformed by […]

MIDEAST PROFS GANG UP ON ISRAEL: WHY THE SURPRISE? R.SPENCER EXPOSED MESA

MESA (MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES ASS.) IS THE ORGANIZATION ALL NEW MIDEST PROFS MUST BELONG TO….AND ONE CANNOT BELONG IF ONE DOES NOT ADHERE TO THE KHALIDI/SAID LINE. ROBERT SPENCER CALLS IT “MESA NOSTRA”….RSK http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/06/middle_east_studies_profs_usur.html Middle East Studies Profs Usurp New Roles to Censure Israel over Gaza Flotilla By Brendan Goldman “The martyrs of the [Gaza flotilla] […]

TU QUOQUE, THE ECONOMIST: EMMANUEL NAVON

Tu Quoque, The Economist “Can the whole world be wrong?” asked Koffi Annan in April 2002.  His was a rhetorical question meant to make a sophistic point: If the UN says black and Israel says white, do the math and guess who’s right.  Coming from a man under whose watch (whether as Head of the […]

DEPORTING “SON OF HAMAS” WHO IS NO SECURITY THREAT

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703561604575282412942302170.html The U.S. may send an antiterror agent back to the West Bank.Mosab Hassan Yousef is a best-selling author who wrote “Son of Hamas” about his life as a Palestinian who became an informant for Israeli intelligence. He’s probably near the top of every Islamist terror hit list, yet, incredibly enough, the U.S. may soon […]

ARAB LEAGUE CHIEF VISITS GAZA…AND CALLS FOR AN END…..TO THE BLOCKADE…

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100613/wl_nm/us_palestinians_arabs ABOUT MOUSSA: Arab League chief: No Israel recognition DAMASCUS, Syria, May 24 (UPI) — Islamic countries should make clear there will be no normalized relations with Israel until it stops breaking international law, an Arab League official says.And he is the new pal of Erdogan and old pal of bashir the butcher of Darfur…. […]

SOME GOOD NEWS ABOUT ISRAEL….SEE NOTE

WHY IS NEWS LEAKED ABOUT A “SECRET DEAL” BETWEEN ISRAEL AND SAUDI ARABIA?….REMEMBER “LOOSE LIPS SHINK SHIPS”…..RSK http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/06/some_encouraging_news_about_is.html Some encouraging news about Israel Clarice Feldman This past week was full of the usual: Double standards being applied to cast Israel as a vicious, law-breaking state and more threats from Iran to an already besieged country. […]

WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT? EGYPT BANS MARRIAGE TO ISRAELIS

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/20100612_Editorial__Where_is_love_.html#ixzz0qgVSPXsa Associated Press Muslim clergymen greeting Pope Benedict XVI this week. Posted on Sat, Jun. 12, 2010 Editorial: Where is love? How bad are the prospects for peace in the Middle East? Here’s a hint. The highest court in Egypt, the only Arab country to make peace with Israel, recently ruled that any Egyptian man […]

OBAMA’S ALBATROSS

» Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner and Obama’s Health Care Albatross – Big Government http://biggovernment.com/gopelka/2010/06/12/coleridges-ancient-mariner-and-obamas-health-care-albatross/ Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner and Obama’s Health Care Albatross by Gregg Opelka Even most native speakers of English don’t realize how many of our commonest clichés—phrases you hear verbatim in venues as diverse as a gabfest on The View, an Elvis Presley song, […]

SARAH HONIG: WE HAVE TO DO WHAT’S GOOD FOR US****

Another Tack: Edgardo and the quarterbacks By SARAH HONIG In the recesses of too many minds throughout the int’l community dwells the notion that Jews are inherently to blame for whatever befalls them. Fate inserts assorted unexpected subplots into our lives. Some months ago, a reader from Germany responded to a column of mine in […]

SHOE BUSINESS: MARILYN PENN

http://politicalmavens.com/index.php/topic/politics/ According to the Times reporter, the 5,000 year old leather shoe that was just unearthed from a layer of sheep dung in a spacious Armenian classic six cave was a size 7 and probably belonged to a woman.  This left me puzzled and befuddled.  My own 20th century Eastern European grandmothers and aunts, as […]