Pollard Guilty, U.S. “Allies” Innocent? by Mudar Zahran http://www.hudson-ny.org/2256/pollard-guilty-us-allies-innocent As a Palestinian, I never thought I would ever end up writing in Jonathan Pollard’s defense, especially as, when he was convicted of espionage in 1987, I was 13 years old. It seems Pollard will remain in jail for his crime against US national security — […]
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4092335,00.html Who will help real victims? Op-ed: When will European groups send flotillas to help people of North Korea and Syria Freedom House’s Freedom in the World survey showcases an alarming decline in freedom, democracy and respect for human rights around the world for a fifth consecutive year. Only 60% of the world’s 194 countries […]
http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2011/07/07/whittaker-chambers-communism-and-islam/ Whittaker Chambers, Communism, and Islam Whittaker Chambers (April 1, 1901-July 9, 1961) Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives continually after a condition of freedom. God alone is the inciter and guarantor of freedom. He is the only guarantor. External freedom […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.9898/pub_detail.asp After watching one of the lawyers on Casey Anthony’s defense team jump up and down like a giddy schoolgirl, I realized how damaging an adversarial legal system can become when it sacrifices professional respect for justice to the baser glee of winning, a la Charlie Sheen. High profile criminal trials have assumed the same mantle as […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.9895/pub_detail.asp Gaza today is a middle class society being portrayed by the flotilla, and BDS crowd, as one of the greatest humanitarian disasters on earth. The 2011 flotilla is sailing just days after Gaza City opened its second super shopping mall replete with a wide range of goods, mostly supplied by Israel. By the way, […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.9894/pub_detail.asp The Fourth of July, a Day for Barbecues and – Global Warming? Peter Gadiel Ah, the Fourth of July holiday! It has passed for this year, but the joys of it remain in our memories: burgers & steaks on the barbecue, the NY Times op-ed page, Harvard scholars, global warming. What more could one ask for […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.1769,css.print/pub_detail.asp 1. White House’s Economists: ‘Stimulus’ Has Cost $278,000 per Job 2. VIDEO: Rush Limbaugh’s Independence Day speech to Joplin, Missouri 3. VIDEO: L.A. Times: Current Congress is Least Productive in Recent Years 4. VIDEO: Juan Williams: Media Matters ‘Trying to Ruin People’s Lives’ 5. VIDEO: ‘Wahhabis of American Gov’t’: MSNBC’s Matthews Likens GOP to […]
Remembering Pre-Obama America Posted By David Solway URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/07/07/remembering-pre-obama-america/ It is pretty much common knowledge by this time—except to his diehard supporters—that President Barack Obama is ill-equipped to occupy the highest office in the country. The only campaign promise he has not broken is the pledge to “fundamentally transform” America, which he has […]
Illiberal Immigration http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/271209 The old liberal ideal of a racially blind, melting-pot society is dead. Recently, in symbolic fashion, spectators of Mexican ancestry in Pasadena’s Rose Bowl did not merely cheer on the Mexican national soccer team in a game against the U.S. national team — such nostalgia would be natural and understandable for recent […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/271154 Surveying the Muslim World The curse of living in interesting times Most observers seem to be wearying of the Arab Spring, just as it is becoming interesting. The idea of a democratic contagion that would suddenly sweep away centuries of autocratic misrule and replace it with Tocquevillean civic-mindedness was too far-fetched for all but […]
