http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ One of the biggest differences between conservatives and liberals is that while conservatives believe that history is an expression of human nature, liberals don’t believe in history, they believe in historical processes. The shortage of conservatives explains why so many politicians and pundits glowingly endorsed the Arab Spring as the “end of history” because […]
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/08/26/where-is-the-outrage-over-obamanation-flag/ While thousands gathered at the Lincoln Memorial this past weekend to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington, an American flag was waved with President Obama’s image in place of the 50 stars. Photos of the “Obama flag” were included in the galleries of numerous prominent web sites such as […]
http://pjmedia.com/barryrubin/2013/08/26/the-truth-about-syria/?print=1 “It is my pleasure to meet with you in the new Middle East,” said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to the Syrian Journalists’ Union on August 15, 2006. But Bashar’s new Middle East was neither the one hoped for by many since Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s 1991 defeat in Kuwait, nor the one expected when […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324619504579028691595414868.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion
I HAVE A REALLY SOFT SPOT FOR JUAN WILLIAMS….HE WAS THE ONE TO EXPOSE JESSE JACKSON’S INFAMOUS “HYMIETOWN” PHRASE ABOUT NEW YORK; HE WAS FIRED FROM NPR FOR STATING THAT IF HE GETS ON A PLANE WITH MUSLEMS HE GETS NERVOUS; HE WAS OUTSPOKEN AGAINST THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD; AND NOW HE TAKES ON BLACK LEADERS AND PERFORMERS, THE FATHERLESS HOMES OF FOURTH GENERATION TEENAGE MOTHERS, BLACK ON BLACK CRIME….IT MORE THAN BALANCES SOME OF HIS LIBERAL CANT…..RSK
Rap songs celebrating tattooed thugs make a sad contrast with the sweet music of the March on Washington.
Fifty years after the March on Washington, mystical memories of that seminal moment in the civil-rights era are less likely to focus on movement politics than on the great poetry and great music.
The emotional uplift of the monumental march is a universe of time away from today’s degrading rap music—filled with the n-word, bitches and “hoes”—that confuses and depresses race relations in America now.
The poetry of Aug. 28, 1963, is best on view when Martin Luther King Jr. went off his speech script and started using a musical, chanting reprise—”I have a dream.” The transforming insight born of the power of the interracial gathering at that time of turmoil, combined with the power of the spoken word, created an emotional message that still grips the American mind.
“I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood,” King said, in verse that somehow spanned a history of slavery and the Founding Fathers’ uniquely American promise of equality.
“I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injust
http://spectator.org/archives/2013/08/26/loveint-in-the-air NSA continues to play footsie with the law — but most alarmingly as conveyed in Footnote 14. Will Congress respond? What do Hillary Clinton, Anthony Weiner, and the NSA have in common? More than you probably think. The issue at bar is “LOVEINT,” the practice of some NSA employees of gathering intelligence information on […]
Striking Hezbollah-Bound Weapons in Syria: Israel’s Actions Under International Law Louis René Beres
http://harvardnsj.org/2013/08/striking-hezbollah-bound-weapons-in-syria-israels-actions-under-international-law/ Hezbollah, the Shiite terror organization based in Lebanon, has repeatedly sought to justify its armed pro-regime intervention in Syria. Most insistently, it has been arguing that Israel and the United States initially instigated the rebellion against Bashar al-Assad. To be sure, Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, is factually incorrect in this particular allegation. More importantly, […]
http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/obama-acts-like-muslim-godfather-with-his-approach-to-muslim-brotherhood-in-egypt/
Much of the debate surrounding current U.S. policy in Egypt revolves around vague notions of America’s interests in the region. On one side lies the principle that the U.S. must live by its rules — to cease aid following a coup — to demonstrate to Egyptians the morality of a free society and the rule of law.
Similarly, the U.S. must not risk being held in contempt by Egyptians for its association with actions of the military, which many deem to be ruthless and authoritarian.
Image showing some Egyptians consider Obama as supporter of Muslim Brotherhood
A picture taken July 29, 2013 shows posters on a street in Cairo of Egypt’s army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and U.S. President Barack Obama with a beard and bearing a slogan referring to the belief by some Egyptians that the U.S. supports the Muslim Brotherhood. (Photo credit: FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP/Getty Images).
The better case for supporting the Egyptian military and current leader Gen. Abdel al-Sisi, references keeping the Suez Canal open, ensuring that the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel continue to be upheld, maintaining continued good relations with pro-Western neighbors, and keeping the Sinai Peninsula free from terrorist control.
These arguments demonstrate great concern for what’s happening “over there” but fail to identify America’s primary interest — the Muslim Brotherhood is a serious and immediate threat here. The simple reality is that the Brotherhood has declared itself America’s enemy, and all that is happening over there is intimately connected with an effort here to take down the West in general and our nation specifically. [The problem, however, is that such a threat is generally too severe for the American mind to accept, much less process and act upon. Instead, the American mind tends to rely on what this author has called the Control Factor — that active and continuous process to distort our perceptions so as to make us believe we are in control of something that we very much are not.]
http://www.jpost.com/National-News/George-Lichter-A-pioneer-in-the-pantheon-of-the-IAF-323101
Already a US veteran of WWII, when six Arab armies attacked Israel on May 15, 1948, Lichter threw in his lot with his fellow Jews and the nascent IAF.
World Machal pays its last salute to Machalnik George Lichter, an outstanding fighter pilot, a superb flying instructor, and an accomplished test pilot.
Lichter passed away in Boulder, Colorado, after a short illness on August 2, and he most certainly earned a well-deserved place in the pantheon of the Israel Air Force.
Born in Brooklyn in 1921, Lichter signed up for the US Army Air Force pilot training course on the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
He finished his training with distinction, and as a pilot in the 361 Fighter Group he flew P-51 Mustangs and P-47 Thunderbolts in 88 combat missions over Germany and occupied Europe.
Lichter returned home at the end of 1944 as a decorated war hero.
When six Arab armies attacked Israel on May 15, 1948, Lichter threw in his lot with his fellow Jews. He volunteered to fly in the nascent IAF. In the first stage in the process, he landed up in Czechoslovakia with a group of other volunteer ex-World War II pilots, mainly from the US, South Africa, Britain and Canada.
Israel had just acquired its very first combat aircraft – 25 Czech-built Avia S-199s (known as the “Czech Messerschmitts”).
These aircraft were modeled on the famous German ME-109 fighter aircraft, but had been cobbled together with ill-fitting German aerial engines, air frames, landing gears etc., which resulted in a devilishly dangerous aircraft to fly.
Even the Czech instructors who had undertaken to train the IAF pilots had the utmost difficulty in flying these planes, but the one pilot who mastered the art of flying this dangerous and awkward aircraft was George Lichter.
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And let us not forget the puff piece in Vogue about Assad’s wife…”Rose of the Desert” http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/01/the-only-remaining-online-copy-of-vogues-asma-al-assad-profile/250753…..And now the fashionista publisher of Vogue Anna Wintour is all giddy about Hillary for President. She probably thinks Assad’s use of chemical weapons is the fashion equivalent of chemical peels for wrinkles and sun spots…..rsk
Bashar al-Assad is in the running for the most dangerous man in the world. There are not too many world leaders who would acquire such reserves of chemical weapons and then seek to use them against anyone, let alone civilians. While the U.S. military conducts lessons-learned exercises all the time in order to learn from their mistakes and make themselves a more effective force, I am not aware of a single time in which the State Department or senior U.S. government officials have acknowledged error and conducted a similar lessons-learned exercise to identify where they went wrong.
Let’s hope that, if they ever start, they consider how the Syrian regime pulled the wool over their eyes. Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad may have spent some time in the West, but just because Islamists and autocrats spend time in the West does not mean that they acquire Western values; instead, they learn only how to speak to Westerners and cultivate useful idiots.
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3951/german-elections-eu-islam German voters already know that whichever party wins September’s election will only bring more of the same: more restriction of German sovereignty. It is therefore no surprise that, at least for indigenous Germans, the turnout is expected to be low. The Islamic immigrants, however, hope that by turning out massively, they will be able […]
