Cross the River, Burn the Bridge by Mark Steyn on National Review Online http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YjU5OTJmODE4MGM5YmNiZDEyZDU5ZWU3NThhYjdmNGY= Cross the River, Burn the Bridge Mark Steyn, NRO.com Last week, during a bit of banter on Fox News, my colleague Jonah Goldberg reminded me of something I’d all but forgotten. Last September, during his address to Congress on health care, […]
http://www.legal-project.org/blog/2009/12/oic-places-the-united-states-in-its-crosshairs OIC places the United States in its crosshairs – but only in Arabic by Daniel Huff and Aaron Eitan Meyer • Dec 26, 2009 at 10:26 pm http://www.legal-project.org/blog/2009/12/oic-places-the-united-states-in-its-crosshairs On December 23-24, 2009, the Organization of the Islamic Conference (“OIC”) and the League of Arab States held a joint high level conference in Cairo to […]
THIS FOR AN E-PAL: “But if you do as the last sentence requests, you are then called a racist and an Islamaphobe and CAIR will come after you! … VS” That’s right…remember the “hurt feelings ” of the flying imams?…rs Reports: NWA passenger was trying to blow up flight into Detroit By ZLATI MEYER AND […]
December 26, 2009 Is Shi’ism the Iranian Regime’s ‘Achilles Heel?’ By Andrew G. Bostom The death of Iran’s Grand Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri at age 87 on December 20, 2009 has been accompanied by decidedly hagiographic post-mortems. But perhaps the most curious of these assessments, by Michael Rubin, includes a contention that “…the real Achilles […]
http://www.ushistory.org/washingtoncrossing/history/index.htm The History In the winter of 1776, General George Washington and his ragged army had experienced only defeat and despair. The War for Independence was going badly, with failure following failure. In the preceding months, Washington’s campaign in New York had not gone well; the Battle of Long Island ended in a loss when […]
GEOSTRATEGYDIRECT….DECEMBER 30 ISSUE…NO URL  LONDON — The shifting sands in Syria’s geopolitical neighborhood has strengthened its ties to Iran, a relationship that is unlikely to be affected by Western incentives. A report by the International Crisis Group asserted that Syria would not sever its strategic alliance with Iran. ICG, regarded as close to the […]
Ehud Barak’s Dismal Record By Victor Sharpe On Christmas Eve, Palestinian terrorists belonging to a gang linked to the Palestinian Authority’s Fatah organization murdered a young rabbi, firing seven bullets into his head in a drive by shooting. The atrocity occurred in Samaria, the northern part of the so-called West Bank and was a direct […]
Column One: Israel’s PTA commander-in-chief Dec. 24, 2009 Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Unbeknownst to most Israelis, this week marked a critical shift for the worse in the regional balance of power. While IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi was busy demanding that the government pay a ransom of more than a […]
http://www.forbes.com/2009/12/23/christmas-obama-climate-change-opinions-columnists-claudia-rosett.html Freedom’s Edge A Bureaucratic Christmas Claudia Rosett, 12.24.09, 12:00 AM ET ‘Twas the week before Christmas, and with the East coast buried in snow, I was doing some last-minute gift shopping from home, surfing the online catalogs. The room was warm, and in the background the TV news muttered on–the Copenhagen climate summit, the […]
EDITORIAL: The house that Ruth built http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/25/the-house-that-ruth-built//print/ THE WASHINGTON TIMES Although the young woman was a stranger to Bethlehem, she arrived there in the company of a Bethlehem native. The residents did not know what to make of her and did not have room for her at first. But they recognized that her heart was […]
