Queen’s gambit Mary Ann Sieghart http://www.spectator.co.uk/ Rania of Jordan’s glamour and eloquence have won her celebrity friends in the West – and comparisons to Marie Antoinette at home To the western world, she is the closest the 21st century gets to Princess Diana: glamorous, beautiful, charitable and royal. But to many of her citizens, she […]
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/inq_ed_board/Susan_Abulhawa_The_dream_at_the_revolutions_core.html FROM AN E PAL…. To the editor, In Susan Abulhawa’s fictional Middle East, “there are Muslims and Christians, women and men, rich and poor, united in a peaceful struggle for freedom.” There are, however, no Jews. And that is only part of where her idyllic vision diverges from the region’s harsh truths. In the […]
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/03/04/hypocrisy-display/ http://www.eyeontheun.org/ ANNE BAYEFSKY Today, Iran officially becomes a member of the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women. Only three days ago, the U.N. General Assembly voted to suspend Libya’s membership on the U.N. Human Rights Council in a desperate bid to save the Council’s tattered reputation and itself. But not a single state, […]
Loughner Indictment: Legally Suspect and Tactically Foolish[1] By Andrew C. McCarthy https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/261386/loughner-indictment-legally-suspect-and-tactically-foolish-andrew-c-mccarthy Dan,[2] I think the Justice Department’s strategy in the Loughner case is legally suspect (to say the least) and tactically foolish. There are federal charges that apply to the shootings of the federal officials. That’s the federal case here. To the contrary, shooting […]
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/03/uk-pulls-plug-united-nations-spending-opposition/ Critics of U.S. spending on the United Nations got a huge boost—and supporters of that spending, especially the Obama Administration, took a body blow—from an unlikely source this week: the British government, long one of the U.N.’s staunchest supporters. In a sweeping and hard-nosed reorganization of priorities for its $10.6 billion multilateral foreign aid […]
Have the Wiki Leaks Been Harmful or Helpful to Democracies Such as the United States and Israel? by Alan M. Dershowitz http://www.hudson-ny.org/1933/have-the-wiki-leaks-been-harmful-or-helpful-to http://www.businessinsider.com/alan-dershowitz-julian-assange-wikileaks-twitter-2011-2 DERSH IS ON ASSANGE’S “DREAM TEAM”…..RSK There is a worldwide debate regarding the leaks of diplomatic cables attributed to Wiki Leaks Julian Assange. Have the leaks done harm or have they done […]
NOW THAT BARBARY PIRATE WARS ARE BEING WAGED FROM SOMALIA…THERE IS MUCH BUZZ ABOUT AMERICA’S BARBARY WARS AND THE STATEMENT “MILLIONS FOR DEFENSE AND NOT A CENT FOR TRIBUTE”…WHICH IS ATTRIBUTE INCORRECTLY TO THOMAS JEFFERSON…..BUT IN FACT IT WAS ELOQUENTLY STATED ON JUNE 18TH, 1798 BY A CONGRESSMAN OF THE FEDERALIST PARTY OF SOUTH CAROLINE…ROBERT […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.8885/pub_detail.asp When Benjamin Franklin emerged from Independence Hall in Philadelphia at the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, he was approached by a Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia. It was then and there that she asked the now famous question, “Well, Doctor, what have we, a republic or a monarchy?” It is said that Dr. […]
Israel: Bastion of Freedom in Turbulent Arab World Region Fred Gedrich http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.8883/pub_detail.asp THIS GOOD COLUMN OMITS THE WEST BANK…AND WITH IT ISRAEL IS 10, 200 SQUARE FEET….RSK While Arab demonstrators in places like Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Oman, Tunisia and Yemen are risking their lives in pursuit of freedom from oppressive governments – it’s quite ironic […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.8887/pub_detail.asp Time and again we are told by the politically correct “experts” not to worry about Islam posing a threat to our way of life. We are repeatedly lectured that only a very small minority of Muslims are troublemakers who are giving the peaceful masses of Muslims a bad name. We are also informed that […]
