Woman of the Year Editorial of The New York Sun | August 27, 2010 http://www.nysun.com/editorials/woman-of-the-year/87058/ It’s a classic movie plot. Think “Woman of the Year,†with Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. At first the man and the woman hate each other, then they fall into each other’s arms? Well, feature the fight that has erupted […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704125604575449171253677444.html?mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTTopStories An Architect of U.S. Strategy Waits to Pop Cork By CHARLES LEVINSON Retired U.S. Army Col. Pete Mansoor invested nearly three years of his life deployed in Iraq, a period he calls the defining experience of a 26-year military career. But as the combat mission there officially ends, he says he doesn’t feel like […]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11094968 26 August 2010 Last updated at 08:10 ET Maid ‘tortured’ with nails to have surgery Ms Ariyawathie (left) was deeply traumatised, doctors said A Sri Lankan housemaid with nails embedded in her body is to undergo surgery, her doctors said. LP Ariyawathie, 49, said her employer in Saudi Arabia inflicted the injuries as a […]
http://shmuelkatz.com/wordpress/?p=228&Source=email Reason for Pessimism by David Isaac “Almost everyone thinks direct talks will start in a blind alley and end up in a dead end,†according to a recent Israel National News report, which buttonholed both Arab and Jew on the upcoming talks. Both sides expressed pessimism that the new round of negotiations would lead […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 25, 2010 CONTACT: contact@zstreet.org 610.664.1184 610.664.1186 IRS SUED FOR DISCRIMINATION AGAINST ORGANIZATIONS THAT DON’T SHARE ADMINISTRATION’S POSITIONS ON ISRAEL Z STREET, a pro-Israel non-profit corporation, filed a lawsuit in federal court charging that the IRS violated the organization’s First Amendment rights. The suit was filed after Z STREET was told by […]
http://www.jewishpress.com/printArticle.cfm?contentid=45030 Preserving Israel At The Eleventh Hour: By: Louis René Beres Faced with the daunting prospect of seemingly endless terrorism, and with staggering global opposition to any of its essential and altogether permissible forms of self-defense, Israel now requires a complex and capable counter-terrorism strategy merely to survive. Simultaneously, the major threats to Israel’s physical […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/aug/25/texas-fights-global-warming-power-grab/?page=1 Texas fights global-warming power grab Peggy Venable, Washington Times.com The state’s slogan is “Don’t mess with Texas.” But the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is doing just that, and at stake is whether the Obama administration can impose its global-warming agenda without a vote of Congress. President Obama’s EPA is already well down the […]
http://townhall.com/columnists/DianaWest/2010/08/26/do_not_tolerate_the_intolerant/print?showfull=true Diana West Do Not Tolerate the Intolerant “We are Americans, each with an equal right to worship and pray where we choose,” New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said this week. “There is nowhere in the five boroughs of New York City that is off limits to any religion.” Our founding documents guarantee that […]
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100827/ap_on_bi_go_ec_fi/us_economy/print Snapshot of economy about to get a lot bleaker By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER, AP Economics Writer Christopher S. Rugaber, Ap WASHINGTON – The government is about to confirm what many people have felt for some time: The economy barely has a pulse. The Commerce Department on Friday will revise its estimate for economic growth […]
http://www.ynet.co.il/english/articles/0,7340,L-3944498,00.html Is Israel’s Left in denial? Op-ed: Leftists focus on technical issues, dodge religious aspect of Israeli-Palestinian conflict Moshe Dann During a debate on Tuesday between former Meretz MK Yossi Beilin, left-wing architect of the Oslo Accords and right-wing National Union MK Aryeh Eldad, the latter challenged the former’s elaborate scheme of moving towards the […]
