DAVID GOLDMAN ON GEORGE FRIEDMAN AND GEOSTRATEGY

http://www.tabletmag.com/news-and-politics/25811/mcstrategy McStrategy George Friedman built a private, subscription-based CIA. But is his intel any good? How would you like to tap into an exclusive private intelligence service staffed by ex-CIA analysts who glean exclusive information from shadowy sources, cross-grid raw intel to detect relevant patterns, and alert you by email when the product requires your […]

PHYLLIS CHESLER: THE DEATH OF FREE SPEECH IN EUROPE ****

http://www.newsrealblog.com/2011/01/10/the-death-of-free-speech-in-europe-on-trial-in-denmark-for-%E2%80%9Cislamophobia/ On February 24, 2011, the distinguished Lars Hedegaard, the President of the Danish Free Press Society and the International Free Press Society, will stand trial for telling the truth about Islamic gender apartheid. Europe, once the birthplace of freedom, is fast becoming its graveyard. True, the Church tortured and burned many geniuses as heretics; […]

MAJOR DICK WINTERS WHO LED EASY COMPANY IN WW11: RIP

http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2011/01/09/the-eagle-flies/ The Eagle Flies Posted By Richard Fernandez Major Dick Winters [1], who led Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion died on January 2, 2011 at 92.  He was buried today [2] at a private ceremony.  Easy was part of the Airborne spearhead on D-Day. It campaigned in France, in the Low Countries […]

KEVIN MYERS: HOW MANY MUSLIM IMMIGRANTS CAN A SOCIETY TAKE AND STILL RETAIN THE QUALITIES THAT MAKE IT AN ATTRACTIVE SOCIETY?

http://www.independent.ie/ By Kevin Myers YOU really can take your pick from the interconnected headlines of the past fortnight: the church-massacres of Christians in Egypt and Iraq by al-Qa’ida, and the murder of the governor of the Punjab, followed by a petition of support for his killer from 500 “moderate” Islamic scholars in Pakistan. Closer to […]

MOSHE DANN: THE PEACE MACHINE FAILED

The ‘peace machine’ failed Op-ed: For Arabs, ‘back to the future’ means return to 1948, genocide of Jews, Israel’s elimination http://www.ynet.co.il/english/articles/0,7340,L-4011111,00.html Theoretically, had the peace machine worked correctly, and everyone played their roles and lightening struck the clock tower at the right time, past mistakes would be corrected and the world would be transported into […]

CONSERVATIVE FREE SPEECH BLOWHARDS? ANDREW BOSTOM

Will Conservative Media Elites Defend Lars Hedegaard? (Including, “A Guide for the Islamically-Perplexed”) January 10th, 2011 (43 seconds ago) by Andrew Bostom | No Comments 0 visitors have read this article This essay is also posted at Pajamas Media: Conservative Free Speech Diehards—or Blowhards? This past Friday, 1/7/11, I received a plaintive appeal on behalf […]

JARED LOUGHNER AND THE CULTURE OF IRRESPONSIBILITY: THE SULTAN

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Jared Loughner and the Culture of Irresponsibility There has not been a single act of Muslim violence in the last two years that the media was willing to identify as motivated by Islam. Each and every time they had to be dragged kicking and screaming, past their cover stories, through groundless claims that the […]

DER SPIEGEL WEIGHS IN ON THE TUCSON TRAGEDY BLAME GAME

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,738627,00.html America’s Misguided Debate Blaming Sarah Palin for Arizona Shooting Is Wrong by Marc Hujer Of all people, it is precisely those who have complained the loudest about the culture of debate — about the rhetoric of the Tea Party, the right wing’s harsh words and the baseless Obama-Hitler comparisons — who are now poisoning the debate […]

MICHAEL MUKASEY, TOM RIDGE, RUDY GIULIANI AND FRANCES TOWNSEND WEIGH IN ON DISSIDENT IRAN GROUP

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/256689/mek-not-terrorist-group-michael-b-mukasey-tom-ridge-and-frances-fragos-townsend MEK Is Not a Terrorist Group The material-support statute is fine; the designation is the problem. The moral of this story may be that sometimes it’s better not to have friends, especially the sort with easy access to the op-ed page of the New York Times, or “The Newspaper of Record,” as it sometimes […]

ROGER KIMBALL: CONSERVATIVES IN THE CROSSHAIRS

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/256696Conservatives in the Crosshairs The Left is wrong to tie metaphorical violence to literal violence. It’s been only two days since a murderous rampage left six dead — including a nine-year-old child and federal judge John Roll — and 14 wounded, including Democratic congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot point-blank in the head and who, […]