DANIEL GREENFIELD: MEMORIAL OF GREIF

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ It was around the time of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, that memorials stopped being remembrances of virtue, and became therapy sessions. The old statues of determined men gave way to empty spaces to represent loss. Their lessons of courage and sacrifice, were replaced by architecture as therapy session, clean geometrical shapes, reflective pools and […]

ISLAMIC SHARIA LAW PROLIFERATES IN GERMANY: SOEREN KERN

Islamic Sharia Law Proliferates in Germany by Soeren Kern http://www.hudson-ny.org/2397/islamic-sharia-law-germany The 236-page book titled “Judges Without Law: Islamic Parallel Justice Endangers Our Constitutional State,” which was authored by Joachim Wagner, a German legal expert and former investigative journalist for ARD German public television, says Islamic Sharia courts are now operating in all of Germany’s big […]

LESSONS THAT LAST A LIFETIME: FERNE HASSEN

Lessons That Last a Lifetime Posted By Ferne Hassan URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/09/08/lessons-that-last-a-lifetime/ What do you say to a special friend who has to carry around a “security blanket” for just such times as happened this past Monday morning when, on her way to work at Ben Gurion University in Beersheva, the sirens went off […]

HUMBERTO FONTOVA: JANE FONDA’ S REGRETS

JANIE RECENTLY REVEALED TO HUFFPO THAT SHE USED TESTOSTERONE TO REV UP HER LIBIDO URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/09/08/jane-fondas-biggest-regret/ A new biography of Jane Fonda by Patricia Bosworth reveals a lifelong lament by the famous actress: “My biggest regret” Fonda is quoted as saying during a “feminist consciousness-raising session,” according to the book’s account, “is I […]

STEVEN PLAUT:THE DERFNER AFFAIR

Israel’s Derfner Affair Posted By Steven Plaut URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/09/08/israel%e2%80%99s-derfner-affair/ One of the most bizarre controversies concerning freedom of the press and freedom of speech has been afflicting Israel in recent days. The basic question is whether there exists some sort of right to advocate the mass murder of Jews. That sounds as if […]

CAL THOMAS: REASONS TO REMEMBER 9/11

http://townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/2011/09/08/reasons_to_remember_9-11/print The show business publication “Variety” reports “40-plus programs expected to commemorate 10th anniversary of (9-11) attacks.” And those are just the specials. They don’t include reports within news programs, or overseas TV memorials, which began last month. How we love our anniversaries. Whether it’s “the Maine,” “Pearl Harbor” or “9-11” we choose to remember, […]

FRANK GAFFNEY: 10 YEARS LATER…WHERE ARE WE?

http://townhall.com/columnists/frankgaffney/2011/09/08/where_are_we,_ten_years_after_911/print So, where are we ten years after 9/11? It is comforting that we have been blessed with a near-unbroken decade without further mass-casualty attacks since those that killed nearly 3,000 Americans on September 11, 2001. Unfortunately, our government is pursuing policies that can only encourage those who aspire to do us harm to redouble […]

MARINE DEFIED ORDER…SAVED 36 LIVES….

http://m.tennessean.com/localnews/article?a=2011309070102&f=560 “Dakota Meyer defied orders to try to save his unit from certain death. – Rob Curtis / Marine Corps Times / Associated Pres GREENSBURG, Ky. — When Marine Cpl. Dakota Meyer plunged into Afghanistan’s Ganjgal Valley, the Medal of Honor winner was sure he wouldn’t come out alive. “I don’t think there was ever […]

DIANA WEST: REACHING OUT TO MUSLIMS IN SANGIN

http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1897/US-Muslim-Outreach-in-Sangin.aspx Asif Balbale is a Muslim Navy chaplain and imam. He spent the past month visiting Afghanistan ” to celebrate the Islamic holy month of Ramadan through religious outreach engagements across Helmand province,” the Pentagon reports (gushes) at DVIDS. Sangin — bloody, Taliban-riddled Sangin — was his last stop. Deputy District Gov. Mohammad Akbar Khan […]

ANDREW McCARTHY: THE RULER OF LAW

http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/The-ruler-of-law-7141 The ruler of law by Andrew C. McCarthy On “justice” in the age of Obama. “Be careful how you make those statements, gentlemen.” Barack Hussein Obama had been president of the United States for all of two months. He was lecturing the titans of American finance who were struggling to explain—to a man with […]