12-21-09http://www.hnn.us/articles/121494.html The War Over Jerusalem By Daniel Mandel Dr. Daniel Mandel is a Fellow in History at Melbourne University and author of H.V. Evatt and the Establishment of Israel: The Undercover Zionist (Routledge, 2004). Israeli-Palestinian negotiations are foredoomed for now. The party conference of Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah in August – where the platform, resolutions and […]
Lying About Climate Change powerlineblog.com The despicable Al Gore features in this story of how climate alarmists have knowingly and persistently lied to support their cause (or obsession). But so do prominent scientists who presumably should be held to a higher standard. Paul Reiter, a professor of medical entomology, writes in the Spectator: “I am […]
December 11, 2009 Britain, Long a Libel Mecca, Reviews Laws By SARAH LYALL LONDON — England has long been a mecca for aggrieved people from around the world who want to sue for libel. Russian oligarchs, Saudi businessmen, multinational corporations, American celebrities — all have made their way to London’s courts, where jurisdiction is easy […]
 http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/  Red Lights, Green Lights and the Inefficiency of Energy Efficiency With snowstorms in the air, cities that decided to “go green” by switching from incandescent to LED traffic lights are discovering that their new “green” traffic lights don’t melt snow through waste heat. The alternative requires sending crews out to actually clean […]
 ” Ending Arab Terrorism for Good and the Awful Question of the Moment http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2006/07/ending-arab-terrorism-for-good-and.html In 1775 the American colonies had an awful question facing them. So do we today. So do we always. The awful question does not go away merely because it remains ignored, unasked or dismissed as impractical. The awful question is […]
David Solway’s Hear, O Israel!: A Feast for the Conservative Mind Posted By Barbara Kay By David Solway Canadian Values Press (Mantua Books) 181 pages; $25 On September 10, 2001, Canadian David Solway was merely an acclaimed poet, educator, and literary critic, warming himself (and his unexamined 1960s-era left-wing views) on a tranquil Greek island. […]
How bad is it? Posted By Roger Kimball The bad news is that Senator Ben Nelson is not up for reelection until 2012. The good news is that today, December 19, 2009, is the day we got clarity on the Obama-Pelosi-Reid effort to steal medical care and call it “reform.†I hope that Ben enjoys […]
http://nrd.nationalreview.com/print/?q=YTI5YzVjYzAwZDEzYzNjOGY1NzliN2U4MDZlNmIwYzc=  MARK STEYN   Czar Vlad’s Guano We pundit types are expected to have opinions on everything, but I confess I would have been momentarily stymied had I chanced to be in the big geopolitical-analysis chair on some cable network the moment the news broke that Nauru had recognized Abkhazia. If you can’t […]
Climate Hypocrites Island nations underwater, and offsetting princes. By Mark Steyn The best summation of the U.N. climate circus in Denmark comes from Andrew Bolt of Australia’s Herald Sun: “Nothing is real in Copenhagen — not the temperature record, not the predictions, not the agenda, not the ‘solution.’†Just so. Reuters, for example, carried a […]
My Word: Prosecution or persecution in the UK? Liat Collins , THE JERUSALEM POST I was born and raised in London and although I long ago gave up drinking tea with milk, I still have the lower-middle-class tendency to swallow the letter “t” in words like “better.” And now and again I discover that nobody […]
