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Phyllis Chesler wrote a new blog post: The History and Psychological Roots of Anti-Semitism Among Feminists   6 hours, 46 minutes ago

Their Gradual Palestinianization and Stalinization
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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 [...]

Daniel James Wood wrote a new blog post: Missing the Symbolism of Cordoba   8 hours, 52 minutes ago

Missing the Symbolism of Cordoba

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 [...]

Editor wrote a new blog post: Higher Education Costs Skyrocketing   13 hours, 49 minutes ago

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)

Editor wrote a new blog post: Obama Spoke to Bush About Iraq War   13 hours, 53 minutes ago

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)

Shaun Mullen wrote a new blog post: Hypocrite of the Millennium Award   13 hours, 56 minutes ago

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 [...]

Shaun Mullen wrote a new blog post: Keep Yer Hands Off Veterans' Benefits   13 hours, 57 minutes ago

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 [...]

Phyllis Chesler wrote a new blog post: Is Time a Muslim Magazine?   1 day, 13 hours ago

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 [...]

David C. Stolinsky wrote a new blog post: A Rally to Remind Us What Honor Means?   1 day, 16 hours ago

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. [...]

Daniel James Wood wrote a new blog post: Mr. Jefferson, Tear Down This Wall   1 day, 18 hours ago

Mr. Jefferson, Tear Down This Wall

Political cartoon from 1800
Library of Congress

I 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 [...]

William McKenzie wrote a new blog post: Iraq: Winning by Not Losing   2 days, 13 hours ago

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 [...]

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