Pensioner spends 30 years building amazing model of Herod’s Temple … but admits he won’t be around to finish it Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1155962/Pensioner-spends-30-years-building-amazing-model-Herods-Temple—admits-wont-finish-it.html#ixzz160H7c52R Brick by brick, tiny figure by tiny figure, Alec Garrard has painstakingly worked for 30 years on an astonishing recreation of Herod’s Temple. But despite spending all that time and effort the […]
Two of his novels are available in English translation: The Death of the Adversary, and Comedy in a Minor Key. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/nov/21/hans-keilson-novelist-holocaust Hans Keilson interview: “Genius? I’m not even a proper writer!” Hans Keilson may be the greatest novelist you’ve never heard of. Born a German Jew in 1909, he wrote his first book aged 23. […]
http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/newt-gingrich-conservative-tea/2010/11/21/id/377722?s=al&promo_code=B28E-1 Gingrich: Holder Should Resign for Handling of Terrorism Cases Sunday, 21 Nov 2010 06:26 PM Article Font Size By Dan Weil and Kathleen Walter Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is outraged that convicted terrorist Ahmed Ghailani was just acquitted in civilian court of all but one of the 286 charges against him. “It’s clear […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703506904575592783814697048.html?mod=WSJ_newsreel_opinion Remembering JFK in an Age of Terror He offered no apology for our strength, declaring we have both the ‘will and weapons’ to defend freedom. By WARREN KOZAK For many Americans over the age of 55, Nov. 22 rarely passes without a wistful sense of sadness and the thought: What if? But today, 47 […]
REVIEW & OUTLOOKhttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704170404575624643400449172.html The Doctor Con The AMA gets its payment fix—for all of four weeks. One of the tragi-comic sideshows of passing ObamaCare was the Democratic attempt to buy off the American Medical Association by promising a permanent fix to the Medicare payment formula for doctors. Apparently permanent is four weeks. That’s the upshot […]
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ The Liberal Solution to Terror has Failed The chief liberal critique of the War on Terror has been that George W. Bush wrongly treated 9/11 as an act of war, rather than a criminal act. Instead of passing the Patriot Act, invading Afghanistan, torturing terrorists and trying them under military tribunals, he should have […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/253545 I AGREE THAT PALIN SHOULD NOT RUN…..BUT CHAREN’S IDEA THAT SHE SHOULD BECOME AN OPRAH IS LUDICROUS….PALIN IS A WONDERFUL CAMPAIGNER FOR OTHERS; A LIKABLE GADFLY WHO KEEPS THE GOP ON THEIR TOES; A REAL CONSERVATIVE…AND VERY, VERY GOOD ON ENERGY ISSUES…SHAME ON CHAREN…SHE JOINS THE OTHER HARPIES IN SLAMMING SARAH…RSK November 19, 2010 […]
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/ben_macintyre/article3634609.ece Nietzsche and his Nazi sister The philosopher’s work – and his grave – was hijacked by his viciously anti-Semitic sister Ben Macintyre Two gravestones stand side by side in the churchyard of the little village of Röcken, south of Leipzig: one belongs to Friedrich Nietzsche, one of the greatest and most misunderstood philosophers; the […]
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-bizarre-case-of-nietzsche-the-pro-jewish-writer-who-inspired-a-million-anti-semites/ The Bizarre Case of Nietzsche: The Pro-Jewish Writer Who Inspired a Million Anti-Semites Posted By Barry Rubin No serious thinker has done more harm to the Jewish people than Friedrich Nietzsche, whose writings were an important inspiration for Adolf Hitler and Nazism. Yet far from being an anti-Semite, Nietzsche was one of the most […]
Muslims vs. Martyrs By Jeannie DeAngelis Page Printed from: http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/11/muslims_vs_martyrs.html President Obama has assumed the role of a traveling advocate for Islam. Every chance the president gets, he climbs on a soapbox to address issues of callousness toward the Muslim faith. The president is well-practiced in Muslim apologetics, and regardless of nation or venue, he […]
