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November 2012

TIME MAGAZINE ON HOW OBAMA PULLED OFF ANOTHER TERM….MICHAEL SHERER

Four More Years: Obama Wins Re-election In late spring, the backroom number crunchers who powered Barack Obama’s campaign to victory noticed that George Clooney had an almost gravitational tug on West Coast females ages 40 to 49. The women were far and away the single demographic group most likely to hand over cash, for a […]

Mosque Plan Called Too Large for Rural Howard County In Maryland: Arthur Hirsch

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/howard/bs-md-ho-sunday-mosque-20121108,0,7633340.story Leaders of the Dar-us-Salaam community in College Park have been looking for years for a new home, a place for a school and a mosque close enough to be convenient for members living in several counties. They’ve scouted hundreds of spots and looked closely at a handful, and now they think they’ve found what […]

“SPRING”TIME FOR EGYPTIAN AIRLINES: STEWARDESSES BEGIN TO WEAR HIJAB

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/middle-east/EgyptAir-stewardesses-begin-wearing-hijab/articleshow/17183802.cms CAIRO: EgyptAir stewardesseswho campaigned to wear the Muslim headscarf have begun donning the hijab for the first time since the national carrier was founded in 1932, a company official said on Sunday.The first flight attendants dressed in the hijab, which mainstream clerics say is mandatory, worked on flights to Jeddah in Saudi Arabiaon Saturday.Under […]

Juliana Pilon Reviews ‘The State of the Jews: A Critical Appraisal’ By Edward Alexander

Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs http://www.iwp.edu/news_publications/detail/juliana-pilon-reviews-the-state-of-the-jews-a-critical-appraisal Juliana Geran Pilon, Director of IWP’s Center for Culture and Security and Professor of Politics and Culture, recently reviewed The State of the Jews: A Critical Appraisal by Edward Alexander (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2012), 248 pages.  The review will appear in the Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs VII:1 (2013). The intentionally ambiguous title of […]

FBI Scrutinized on Petraeus The Stories Just don’t Add Up

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324073504578113460852395852.html?mod=us_most_pop_newsreel Complaints by Female Social Planner Led to Email Trail That Undid CIA Chief By EVAN PEREZ, SIOBHAN GORMAN and DEVLIN BARRETT A social planner’s complaints about email stalking launched the monthslong criminal inquiry that led to a woman romantically linked to former Gen. David Petraeus and to his abrupt resignation Friday as Central Intelligence […]

Why Obama Won — on The Glazov Gang

Why Obama Won — on The Glazov Gang
by Jamie Glazov
Dwight Schultz, Nonie Darwish and Tommi Trudeau shed light on why Americans embraced the pain of more “hope and change.”
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/jamie-glazov/why-obama-won-on-the-glazov-gang/

Militant Muslims Cutting Out Tongues by Raymond Ibrahim

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3445/militant-muslims-cutting-out-tongues Why so much violence against the tongue? As the Sheikh of Islam himself: Ibn Tamiyyah, once wrote, “Waging war verbally against Islam might be worse than waging war against it physically.” A professor of Islamic exegesis at Cairo’s preeminent Islamic university, Al Ahzar, Dr. Abdullah Badr, recently proclaimed on Egyptian television that a new […]

Europe Loses One of Its Most Courageous Politicians by Peter Martino ****

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3447/uri-rosenthal Civil servants posted good riddance messages, criticizing the minister and welcoming his successor. It is easy to forget that Israel fights a defensive war 365 days a year. And that its enemies never grant the Jewish state a moment of peace. Last month saw a significant increase in the number of terrorist attacks: 166 […]

Douglas Murray: On Boycotting Israel

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3444/boycotting-israel There are a lot of Nazi caparisons being thrown around these days. Where might they be most accurately directed? Toward the State of Israel? Or against the growing number of people who believe that it is permissible to boycott any herb, any product or indeed any tune if it comes from the hand or […]