By Byron York Politically correct Portland rejected feds who saved city from terrorist attack In 2005, leaders in Portland, Oregon, angry at the Bush administration’s conduct of the war on terror, voted not to allow city law enforcement officers to participate in a key anti-terror initiative, the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force. On Friday, that […]
http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/ “I hope and pray that the generations of today will not know the sick despair of September 1939; if we are to avoid that kind of fate under even uglier circumstances, we need to start demanding more of our leaders — and of ourselves.” Things Fall Apart WALTER RUSSELL MEAD As World War Two […]
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/ Sabra hummus referendum By Rachel Jackson Senior Writer Published: Monday, November 29th, 2010 Beginning today, students will be able to register support, opposition or complete apathy toward the Sabra hummus referendum, which has been hotly debated on campus over the past two weeks. The referendum will appear on the USG runoff election ballot this […]
Iran ‘smuggled arms’ to Hezbollah on ambulances http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101129/wl_mideast_afp/usdiplomacywikileaksiranlebanonhezbollah/print BEIRUT (AFP) – Iran used Red Crescent ambulances to smuggle weapons and agents into Lebanon during Hezbollah’s 2006 war with Israel, a leaked US diplomatic cable showed on Monday. The 2008 classified cable which originated in Dubai quotes an Iranian source as saying the Iranian Red Crescent […]
http://www.mideastoutpost.com/ NETANYAHU CAVES AGAIN: HERBERT ZWEIBON After solemnly promising the nine month “freeze” on building homes for Jews in Judea and Samaria would not be renewed, Netanyahu wants to renew it. He thereby betrays his core constituency, destroys his credibility, strengthens Israel’s enemies and diminishes both the number and ardor of her friends—friends the beleaguered […]
Modest Queen covers her head and goes barefoot to the mosque in Abu Dhabi http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1332764/Queen-shoeless-dons-beekeeper-hat-Abu-Dhabi-mosque-visit.html By Robert Hardman Shoeless and wearing a beekeeper-style shawl and hat, the Queen walked across the world’s largest carpet last night as she met Islamic students in Abu Dhabi at the start of her five-day state visit to the Gulf. […]
THIS IS AN ASTONISHING INVESTIGATION THAT HAS BEEN OBSCURED BY SO MUCH NEWS IN THE MIDDLE EAST…..READS LIKE A MOVIE SCRIPT http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/11/19/f-rfa-macdonald-lebanon-hariri.html Neil Macdonald CBC Investigation: Who killed Lebanon’s Rafik Hariri? Last Updated: Sunday, November 21, 2010 | 10:54 PM ET Comments445Recommend713 By Neil Macdonald CBC News It wasn’t until late 2007 that the awkwardly […]
Professor Robert Wistrich’s massive tome A Lethal Obsession: http://www.jewishmediaresources.com/1406/the-still-lethal-obsession The Still Lethal Obsession by Jonathan Rosenblum No matter how many prizes Professor Robert Wistrich’s massive tome A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad garners the book still deserves more attention than it has received. Indeed no amount of attention would be sufficient. […]
No, I Don’t Miss Bush http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ The billboards ask me if I miss George W. Bush, and my honest answer has to be, “No, I don’t.” I do miss Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. I miss John Bolton. But I don’t miss Bush. I appreciate that Bush, who found himself suddenly leading a country at […]
The Iconoclast Jerry Gordon Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff Speech in Copenhagen at IFPS: “The Time That is Given” A tip of the hat to Baron Bodissey at the Gates of Vienna blog, who sent us this stirring address by Austrian Free Speech advocate, Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, who we had interviewed for the NER just prior to her show […]
