http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903480904576510200756243420.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop ‘The real lesson from Europe,” wrote Paul Krugman in January 2010, “is actually the opposite of what conservatives claim: Europe is an economic success, and that success shows that social democracy works.” Here are some postcards from the social democracy that works. • In Britain, 239 patients died of malnutrition in the country’s public […]
http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/content/module/2011/8/16/main-feature/1/the-night-of-the-murdered-poets On August 12, 1952, thirteen major Soviet Jewish figures were executed for espionage, bourgeois nationalism, “lack of true Soviet spirit,” and treason, including a plot to hand the Crimea over to American and Zionist imperialists. In the group were famous writers such as Peretz Markish, David Bergelson, and Itsik Fefer—which is why the date […]
http://bigpeace.com/gluft/2011/08/16/opec-under-new-management-irans-management/ The recent appointment of Islamic Revolutionary Guards veteran Rostam Ghasemi as Iran’s new petroleum minister is not only the Islamic Republic’s latest poke in America’s eye but it is also harbinger of things to come with respect to Iran’s petro-politics. Ghasemi, a notorious hardliner and the head of the economic wing of the Guards, […]
How The Headmistress Entered The Harem: A Vignette From Ottoman Palestine http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/ Annie Edith Landau (1873-1945), the daughter of a London shochet and inventor from Gomel in the Tsarist Empire and his Bavarian-born wife, was from 1900 until her death headmistress of the Evelina de Rothschild School for Girls in Jerusalem, founded in 1854 and […]
DAVID SOLWAY: WHEN A CIVILIZATION GOES MAD….IT BEGINS WITH SELF DOUBT AND ENDS WITH SELF DESTRUCTION
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/when-a-civilization-goes-mad/?singlepage=true Historian Arnold Toynbee, who developed the theory of challenge-and-response to account for the survivability of civilizations, has said that great civilizations are not murdered, they commit suicide — by not meeting their challenges. A variation of this historical insight may be phrased thus: When a civilization or an empire feels inwardly that it is […]
http://www.israelforum.com/blog_article.php?aid=3602370 (To Score) http://docstalk.blogspot.com/2011/08/tracing-modern-jewish-history-along.html Tracing Modern Jewish History Along British Hypocrisy Ignoring history for the greater good of appeasement and politics is a formula for destruction and loss. As a result of WWI and the division of the defeated Ottoman Empire , Britain received a mandate to manage the land of Israel, then called Palestine. […]
THOMAS SOWELL: SOCIAL DEGENERATION…SOMEONE AT LONG LAST HAD THE COURAGE TO TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT RACE
Someone at long last has had the courage to tell the plain, honest truth about race. http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2011/08/16/social_degeneration/print After mobs of young blacks rampaged through Philadelphia committing violence — as similar mobs have rampaged through Chicago, Denver, Milwaukee and other places — Philadelphia’s black mayor, Michael A. Nutter, ordered a police crackdown and lashed out at […]
http://news.yahoo.com/7-pulled-iraqi-mosque-killed-execution-style-085052790.html IRAQ WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE GREAT ACHIEVEMENT OF THE PETRAEUS STRATEGY…AND NOW THIS INEPT GENERAL HEADS OUT INTEL OPERATIONS?…..RSK “A little over a year ago, U.S. and Iraqi officials said the deaths of al-Qaida in Iraq’s two top leaders in a raid had dealt a severe blow to the organization. The group has […]
http://townhall.com/columnists/frankgaffney/2011/08/15/good_news_from_iowa/print Straw polls are notoriously overrated. This observation applies especially to the over-hyped one held most recently in Ames, Iowa over the weekend. That said, for Americans concerned about national security and seized with the necessity of electing as our next commander-in-chief a principled, competent leader, the outcome was heartening. That is true first and […]
http://www.prudenpolitics.com/index.php/pruden/full_column/scary_nights_in_old_blighty “But in a society nurtured for five decades on the dole, tough talk is often regarded as all but seditious. The cracks in Prime Minister David Cameron’s coalition are wide, deep and enduring” LONDON. The wolves have made their way into the parlor again in England, and this time it looks like the powers-that-be […]
