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May 2011

DAVID MAMET’S BOOK “THE SECRET KNOWLEDGE” REVIEWED

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703730804576319122938720438.html?KEYWORDS=DAVID+MAMET By ANDREW KLAVAN In a celebrated 2008 essay for the Village Voice, David Mamet made the startling announcement that he was “no longer a brain-dead liberal.” I think it only fair to mention here that I rejoiced. Mr. Mamet is a terrific playwright, maybe even a great one (“American Buffalo,” “Glengarry Glen Ross”) and […]

UGANDA: LEGISLATION PITS MUSLIMS VS. CHRISTIANS By Ioannis Gatsiounis

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/30/ugandan-legislation-pits-muslims-vs-christians-ove/ SHARIA CALLING?….RSK KAMPALA, Uganda — Christians call a proposed religious law a sly attempt to favor Muslims in this predominantly Christian country and warn that it could promote Islamic fundamentalism. Muslims say the reaction to the bill just shows Islamophobia. The Muslim Personal Law bill – which would give more power to Islamic Kadhi […]

DANIEL JOHNSON: THE WAR OF THE ROSES…OVERRATED JACQUELINE A MILITANT ANTI-ZIONIST AND GILLIAN AN UNDERRATED VOICE IN JEWISH THOUGHT

http://www.jidaily.com/Udu Overrated: Jacqueline Rose DANIEL JOHNSON June 2011 According to The Jacqueline Rose Reader (Duke University Press, £16.99), “Jacqueline Rose is a major public intellectual of and for our times.” Her mentor, the late Frank Kermode, describes her in his memoirs as “an academic celebrity on both sides of the Atlantic”. Is an academic celebrity […]

PHYLLIS CHESLER: EQUATING ANTI-SEMITISM WITH ISLAMOPHOBIA

http://frontpagemag.com/2011/05/31/equating-anti-semitism-with-islamophobia/ Equating Anti-Semitism with ‘Islamophobia’ Posted By Phyllis Chesler Did you know that Jews and Muslims have a shared history in Europe? That Muslims have “deep roots” on the European continent and that Muslims are as imperiled by “Islamophobia” as Jews are by anti-Semitism? Nothing could be further from the truth, and yet the first […]

ERNIE PYLE REPORTING FROM THE LINES ON THE DEATH OF CAPT. HENRY WASKOW 1944 SEE NOTE

http://www.texasmilitaryforcesmuseum.org/36division/archives/waskow/appenda.htm THIS TREASURE TROVE OF REPORTING ON HEROES BY A HERO NAMED ERNIE PYLE WAS SENT TO ME BY NRG…PUBLISHER OF THE CONNECTICUT JEWISH LEDGER….THE BEST JEWISH INTEREST PAPER IN THE COUNTRY….RSK AT THE FRONT LINES IN ITALY, January 10, 1944 — In this war I have known a lot of officers who were loved […]

BEN SHAPIRO : EXPLORING THE HOLLYWOOD PROPAGANDA MACHINE

http://townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/2011/05/31/exploring_the_hollywood_propaganda_machine Hollywood matters. It matters because we watch Hollywood product day in and day out. Your children spend six or seven hours at school, and couple of hours with their friends, and a couple of hours with you. They spend a full three hours with the television. Primetime Propaganda: The True Hollywood Story of How […]

CAL THOMAS: OBAMA AMERICAN IDOL

http://townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/2011/05/31/obama_american_idol “Obama is to Winston Churchill as Lady Gaga is to Ella Fitzgerald. Both are singers, but that’s where the comparison ends.” DUBLIN, Ireland — Observing the start of Lord and Lady Obama’s (aka president and Michelle) grand European tour and the fawning press coverage, one might conclude they were imbued with royal blood. The […]

DANIEL GREENFIELD: IMMEMORIAL

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Nearly 1.3 million Americans have died in the nation’s wars. That is one soldier for every hundred families living today. One soldier for every 270 of us has died somewhere between the shot heard round the world’ fired at Lexington and the shots being fired now as you read this on some dusty patch […]

THOMAS SOWELL: SEDUCTIVE BELIEFS

http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2011/05/31/seductive_beliefs/page/full/ One of the painfully revealing episodes in Barack Obama’s book “Dreams From My Father” describes his early experience listening to a sermon by the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Among the things said in that sermon was that “white folks’ greed runs a world in need.” Obama was literally moved to tears by that sermon. This […]

ISRAEL GETS “FISKED” AND SO DOES OBAMA….SEE NOTE

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/who-cares-in-the-middle-east-what-obama-says-2290761.html?service=Print AMONG ISRAEL HATERS ROBERT FISK IS A BLACKBELT….AS HUGH FITZGERALD HAS SAID FISK IS A “MYTHOMANE” AND ANYTHING COMING FROM HIM IS VERY DUBIOUS AND NASTY….RSK Who cares in the Middle East what Obama says? President Obama has shown himself to be weak in his dealings with the Middle East, says Robert Fisk, and […]