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June 2011

MARK STEYN: SPEECHWORLD VS. REALITY

http://www.steynonline.com/ The Democrats seem to have given up on budgets. Hey, who can blame them? They’ve got a ballpark figure: Let’s raise two trillion dollars in revenue every year, and then spend four trillion. That seems to work pretty well, so why get hung up on a lot of fine print? Harry Reid says the […]

BEYOND BELIEF: POLITICAL PROPAGANDA IN THE ANGLICAN CHURCH

http://cifwatch.com/2011/06/24/beyond-belief-political-propaganda-in-the-anglican-church/#respond http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/ Beyond Belief: Political Propaganda in the Anglican Church. A while ago, Elder of Ziyon published an article well worth a re-read in which he explained why these commonly found maps are both inaccurate and deliberately misleading. Commonly found they indeed are, but I for one did not realise just how broad their spread has […]

DAPHNE ANSON: THE LIE OF THE LAND

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/ The Lie of the Land Recognise these four maps? I’m sure you do, for they’re all but ubiquitous – they have found their way into the handouts of anti-Israel organisations, decorate many Israel-delegitimising websites, and take pride of place on the stall the local Palestine Solidarity Campaign – a veritable witches’ coven if ever […]

MODERN IRELAND: PROGRESSIVE, LIBERAL AND JEW HATING:BERNARD McCABE

http://www.thecommentator.com/index.php/article/252/modern_ireland_the_perfect_liberal_state_progressive_european_and_jew_hating_ Ireland is a slave to history with regard to the virulent anti-Semitism problem. What makes it persist? Article In 1904, Limerick’s Jewish community was devastated by an infamous pogrom that saw them largely driven from the city. The words that catalysed this pogrom come as no surprise to anyone: the Jews, said Father John Creagh (who kick-started the […]

DANIEL GREENFIELD: THE WEEKLY ROUNDUP

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ What’s your mental image of prison. Breaking rocks, risky showers and listening to trains go by where rich folks are eating from a fancy dining car? Forget all that. If you’re a Muslim terrorist in Israeli prison, life is smartphones, salaries paid for by American taxpayers and access to your own Facebook fan page. […]

WHO DEFENDS REP. LYNN WOOLSEY’S ANTI-ISRAEL TANTRUM? J STREET, OF COURSE: ALANA GOODMAN

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/06/24/j-street-defends-anti-israel-congresswoman/ Rep. Lynn Woolsey, the congresswoman who joined in an anti-Israel chant during a Code Pink event last Sunday, has been denounced by Jewish groups across the political spectrum – with one notable exception. The activist organization J Street, whose PAC endorses Woolsey and contributed financially to her 2010 campaign, actually defended the congresswoman in […]

THOMAS FRIEDMAN’S RANT ON CHARLIE ROSE’S SHOW…ANTI-OBAMA JEWS …ALL TALKING PURE CRAP

Friedman Goes Sarcastic on Rush’s Climate Skepticism, Confesses to Obama Vote; Anti-Obama Jews Full of ‘Crap’ By: Clay Waters http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20110623010940.aspx ALSO READ :http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2009/03/friedmans-follies.html Obama’s pro-Israel critics are talking “pure crap,” said columnist Tom Friedman on PBS host Charlie Rose’s show Tuesday night. Rose was hosting a roundtable of Times columnists. Along with Friedman there was […]

JIM DENTON, EDITOR: CHESS CHAMPION GARY KASPAROV’S WARNING TO US CONGRESS…READ THE ENTIRE TESTIMONY

http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/new/blogs/editors/Testimony_by_Garry_Kasparov?utm_source=World+Affairs+Newsletter&utm_campaign=c8abd3ae16-Blog_Aswany_Editor_K_M_6_23_2011&utm_medium=email Jim Denton: Chess Champion Garry Kasparov to US Congress: Put Putin’s Russia in Check Last week, one of Russia’s leading and fearless proponents of democracy and rule of law, Garry Kasparov, testified before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on the grim developments in Russia during the Putin era. His testimony presents a succinct […]

SARAH HONIG: REMEMBERING THE TSUNAMI OF 1949 ****

Honig – Remember the tsunami of 1949 http://www.sarahhonig.com/?p=876 Fear-mongering is largely the forte of the fringes. When it infects the mainstream, however, we ought to get seriously worried. This denotes a successful scare-job by forces who, in the words of America’s immortal satirist H. L. Mencken, aim “to keep the populace alarmed – and hence […]

STEVE CHAPMAN: IS RICK PERRY THE BEST OR THE WORST?

Is Rick Perry the Best of the Worst? | Crisis Magazine http://www.crisismagazine.com/2011/is-rick-perry-the-best-of-the-worst Is Rick Perry the Best of the Worst? Steve Chapman, Crisis Magazine.com The Republican presidential field looks less like an assemblage of candidates than a collection of fatal mistakes and irreparable flaws, with occasional embodiments of one or more of the Seven Deadly […]