Their Gradual Palestinianization and Stalinization
Excerpt:Yale University’s Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism hosted a major conference in which I was privileged to be a participant. “Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity” was envisioned by Professor Charles Asher Small who founded the Initiative. The conference was also sponsored by the [...]
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The battle continues to rage over the proposed Islamic Center a mere few hundred feet from the site of the worst attack by Muslim extremists ever perpetrated on U.S. soil., the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York. Nearly three thousand people perished that day at the hands of [...]
Mark Taylor, author of “Crisis on Campus: A Bold Plan for Reforming Our Colleges and Universities,” discusses why the increase in higher-education costs is far outpacing the increase in American salaries. (Source: CNBC)
In a speech to the nation, President Barack Obama says he spoke to former President George W. Bush about the end of the Iraq war. He says the two didn’t agree about the war from the outset but that it’s time to move on. (Source: Associated Press)
I’m glad that Ken Mehlman finally worked up the courage to acknowledge what had been pretty much an open secret for years — that he is gay. But as hypocrisy goes, Mehlman hit a grand slam considering that he tacitly backed anti-gay legislation when he was chairman of the Republican [...]
There’s no question that the federal budget is bloated, but lawmakers have become so desperate to reduce it that one influential former U.S. senator is floating the idea that looking into reducing benefits to disabled veterans is an idea whose time may have come.
Alan Simpson, a Wyoming Republican who served [...]
I did not think that the pro-Muslim/pro-Islamist and anti-Western propaganda could get any worse—and yet it just has.
TIME magazine has an August 30 cover story titled “Is America Islamophobic?” Within, the article is titled: “Islam in America: It’s part of the fabric of life, but protests reveal a growing hostility to [...]
Upgrading the memory of a computer can improve its functioning. Upgrading the memory of a nation can have a similar effect. That is exactly what Glenn Beck’s rally in Washington was. And on a much smaller scale, that’s what I hope these columns are − an effort to remind us of what made us exceptional. [...]
Mr. Jefferson, Tear Down This Wall
Political cartoon from 1800
Library of CongressI learned something very interesting one day while watching the Glenn Beck program on Fox News, two things that most likely just sent any Liberal reader heading for the exits. Knowing this, I couldn’t write this piece using Glenn Beck as a source, so I [...]
In researching our Iraq editorial for tomorrow, I came across this quote in the New York Times from Marine Colonel Alan Baldwin, whom the Times identifies as being the chief Marine intelligence officer in Iraq during the invasion. He privately told reporters before the war that we were headed for [...]