CAROLINE GLICK ON ISRAEL’S “OLMERTA”

http://carolineglick.com/ I have not had the opportunity to read the court decision on Olmert. And so my thoughts on his acquittal have little to do with the merits of the prosecution in the three cases adjudicated by the Jerusalem District Court. I have a problem with corruption investigations against politicians generally and against Ehud Olmert […]

STRAIGHT OUT OF THE HANDBOOK OF HUGO CHAVEZ: PRESIDENT OBAMA GIVES HIMSELF CONTROL OF COMMUNICATIONS

http://rt.com/usa/news/obama-president-order-communications-770/ US President Barack Obama quietly signed his name to an Executive Order on Friday, allowing the White House to control all private communications in the country in the name of national security. President Obama released his latest Executive Order on Friday, July 6, a 2,205-word statement offered as the “Assignment of National Security and […]

Startling Clarity of Commission On Jewish Settlements in Judea, Samaria Puts Long Disregarded Rights of Israel Into Sharp Relief: Jerold Auerbach

http://www.nysun.com/foreign/startling-clarity-of-commission-on-jewish/87897/ With startling clarity an Israeli legal commission, chaired by retired Supreme Court Justice Edmund Levy, has declared: “According to international law, Israelis have the legal right to settle in Judea and Samaria.” Challenging settlement critics inside Israel and worldwide, it asserted that international laws of “occupation” are not applicable “to the unique and sui […]

STEVEN PLAUT: SETTLEMENTS ARE NOT ONLY LEGAL BUT THEY ARE NECESSARY

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=277144 There are no alternative effective ways to prevent the conversion of the West Bank into Hamastan. A fascinating development this week in Israel was the release of the report of a governmental commission whose assignment had been to define the legal status of the “occupied territories” for purposes of government policy. The commission was […]

JULY 11, 1804 AARON BURR FATALLY SHOT ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Alexander Hamilton was a Founding Father, soldier, economist, political philosopher, one of America’s first constitutional lawyers and the first United States Secretary of the Treasury. He was 49 years old when he died.
No single figure was ever a stronger advocate of our Constitution; and only a few people have made a comparable contribution to the substance of American government. To this day, his importance remains unsurpassed in the areas of sharp finance, principled politics, romantic scandal, hard work, intellectual acuteness, and bravery. Hamilton’s visage on the $10 bill is the only non-presidential face besides Benjamin Franklin to appear on our common currency.
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YONATAN SILVERMAN- THE PALARABS’ FANTASY STATE

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/yonatan-silverman/the-palestinians-create-a-virtual-state/print/ Bethlehem 7 July 2012 – Following UNESCO’s decision to recognize the Church of the Nativity as a world heritage site in “Palestine,” the Palestinians celebrated the event with the greatest false pomp and hyperbole. PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said the inclusion is “the most remarkable event on the path of Palestinian state-building since […]

ROBERT SPENCER: AFGHANISTAN…ADULTERESS BRUTALLY SLAUGHTERED

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/robert-spencer/%e2%80%98adulteress%e2%80%99-slaughtered-in-afghanistan/ A video of a woman, Najiba, being shot dead in Afghanistan while a cheering crowd yells “Allahu akbar,” “Long live Islam,” and “Long live mujahideen” has provoked international outrage. Australia’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Bob Carr, called the shooting “a barbaric attack on a defenceless woman and another stark reminder of the brutalities that were […]

BIGGEST BUFOONS IN EUROPE: THE WINNERS! VON ROMPUY AND BARROSO BY DANIEL J. MITCHELL

http://www.thecommentator.com/article/1395/barroso_and_van_rompuy_compete_for_clown_of_europe_title For quite some time, I’ve thought of Herman van Rompuy as the poster child of Europe’s incompetent political elite. Virtually unknown to people in the real world (his sole claim to fame is that a British MEP, in a speech that went viral on YouTube, said he resembled a “low-grade bank clerk”), the President […]

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DNC chair’s hypocrisy on foreign investments
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012
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Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz has criticized Mitt Romney’s investments outside the U.S., but financial disclosure forms indicate she held funds with investments in Swiss banks, foreign drug companies, and the state bank of India. Read more…

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Hamas summer kids’ camp gives feel for prison
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Wednesday, July 11, 2012
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Hamas summer kids’ camp gives feel for prison
Narrow hallways, interrogation rooms painted black, isolation cells and handcuffed mannequins: this is all part of the setting of a new summer camp operated by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Read more…

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Social Security payouts going to more than 1 million deceased
Stephen Dinan
More than a million dead people are still listed as being alive on Social Security’s master list, according to an inspector general’s audit released this week that found the agency still recorded hundreds of people as having earned wages — even after they’d been dead for more than a year. Read more…

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ROGER KIMBALL: SIGNS OF HOPE ?

http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2012/07/10/further-those-signs-of-hope-among-america%e2%80%99s-political-class/?singlepage=true A week or two ago, I wrote a brief column about some signs of hope among America’s political class — a perverse undertaking, you might think, given the tawdry, preening, grasping character of most American politicians of both parties today. But there are, thank God, some exceptions. In that earlier column I mentioned in […]