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August 2010

AFGHAN WOMEN: HAS ANYTHING REALLY CHANGED? PATRICIA O’CONNOR

Afghan Women: Has Anything Really Changed? Patricia O’Connor Co-founder, Executive Director, “The Beauty School of Kabul” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/patricia-o/afghan-women-has-anything_b_671679.html Over the weekend an article titled “Afghan Women Fear Loss of Modest Gains” appeared in the New York Times. The writer, Alissa J. Rubin, repeated a theme that has been popping up all over the media these days: […]

PAST AS PROLOGUE? CAPITULATION TO ISLAM…THE NEW YORK TIMES IN 1955

Apparently NYC “elites” have LONG had a problem with capitulating to Islam!!! http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2010/08/05/nyc%e2%80%99s-insane-capitulation-to-islam-circa-1955%e2%80%94past-as-prologue/ NYC’s Insane Capitulation to Islam, Circa 1955—Past as Prologue? Past as Prologue, 55 years ago?—Elegant statue of Muhammad “quietly” removed from the roof of the Appellate Division Courthouse on Madison Square, New York City in 1955, when seven feckless appellate judges, “encouraged” […]

SHMUEL KATZ ON JABOTINSKY IN 1980

DAVID ISAAC, EDITOR http://www.shmuelkatz.com/wordpress/ Reflections on Jabotinsky August 3rd, 2010 [Editor’s note — Today marks the 70th anniversary of the death of Vladimir “Ze’ev” Jabotinsky, the greatest Zionist leader of the last century. A brilliant orator, writer and statesman, he was in addition a linguist, poet and playwright. He was also Shmuel’s mentor. Therefore, we […]

PANTANO FOR CONGRESS N.C. DISTRICT 7: ELECTIONS ARE COMING

READ ALL ABOUT THIS OUTSTANDING CANDIDATE…HE IS WHAT CONGRESS NEEDS AND WE NEED IN CONGRESS…..RSK www.pantanoforcongress.com/ A mosque at Ground Zero? By Illario Pantano | Published: 12:00 AM 06/18/2010 A candidate for Congress in North Carolina.  Pantano is one of the GOP’s great hopes for wresting control of the House away from the Democrats. North […]

THE DAY THE ACLU JOINED AL QAEDA: THE SULTAN

The Day the ACLU Joined Al Queda http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ December 1944. American artillery near the Belgian village of Losheim opens fire on advancing German troops during the Battle of the Bulge. Suddenly a jeep pulls up and a lawyer jumps out waving a piece of paper. “Stop what you’re doing immediately! I represent Obersturmführer Gunther Stoltz […]

THE NEW YORK TIMES FINDS MODERATE MUSLIMS….BUT GUESS WHAT? ROBERT SPENCER

The New York Times Finds Some Moderate Muslims http://frontpagemag.com/2010/08/05/the-new-york-times-finds-some-moderate-muslims/ By Robert Spencer The recent New York Times Sunday trumpeted this MPAC video [1] as a rebuttal of Islamic “militants,” although it is long on vague generalities but (surprise, surprise) short on Qur’anic specifics, which are the only thing, could they be produced, that might actually […]

THE WEST’S ABSURD CLAIMS OF ISRAELI RACISM: BARRY RUBIN

An All-Purpose Paradigm: The West’s Absurd Claims of Israeli Racism URL to article: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/an-all-purpose-paradigm-the-wests-absurd-claims-of-israeli-racism/ By Barry Rubin As the waitress whose family had come from Ethiopia put the pizza on the table at the Tel Aviv Italian restaurant, I contemplated the ridiculous misuse of “race” as a factor in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Regardless of skin […]

THE MEXICO CARTEL GETS DESPERATE….

http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20100804_mexicos_juarez_cartel_gets_desperate?utm_source=SWeekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=100805&utm_content=readmore&elq= 79ecf75641b64475a432475b329e7932 By Scott Stewart On Aug. 3, the U.S. Consulate in Juarez, Mexico, reopened after being closed for four days. On July 29, the consulate had announced in a warden message that it would be closed July 30 and would remain closed until a review of the consulate’s security posture could be completed. The […]

ADRIAN MORGAN: AL SHABAAB IN SOMALIA

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.6956/pub_detail.asp Al-Shabaab in Somalia: A Magnet for American Jihadists? August 5, 2010 – The Editor Shaker Masri’s Arrest Yesterday, news came that a U.S. citizen from Chicago was charged with plotting to go to Somalia to join the Islamist terror group, Al-Shabaab. Twenty-six-year old Shaker Masri was born in Alabama but did not grow up […]

MAYOR BLOOMBERG’S CONFLICT OF INTEREST:MARILYN PENN

Mayor Bloomberg’s Conflicts of Interest August 5, 2010 – Marilyn Penn http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.6954/pub_detail.asp The NYC Landmark Preservation Commission is comprised of eleven people appointed by the mayor, with the approval of the City Council, to serve a three year term. The powerful chairman and vice-chairman of this agency are designated by the mayor alone. In the […]