It is with a heart full of gladness that I wish a happy birthday to the America that I love. I had been worried for a while there, that the America that my  father  and maternal grandmother had both come to, fleeing Cossacks and Nazis, as so many other millions of other immigrants had...
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Over the last several days, we have witnessed how a bureaucratic blunder and a poorly timed announcement of building apartments on a hill in  Jerusalem has flared up into a major international incident between the Obama administration and the Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. This has happened, despite the fact that Prime...
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From Jpost, (h/t Carl in Jerusalem): “I do not see any chance of establishing a viable Palestinian entity in Judea and Samaria and/or the Gaza Strip that could sustain itself economically,” Ya’alon said. “The gap between Israel as a First-World country and a Palestinian Third-World country is a recipe for instability. I also don’t...
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An article from Pakistani columnist Irfan Husain, where he takes the Pakistani army and political leadership to task for failing to successfully fight the Taliban insurgency. (h/t israpundit): One positive outcome of this atrocity  coming to public knowledge is that it has opened many eyes to the reality of the Taliban, and what they...
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From the Chicago Tribune on Sunday comes the scary, but perhaps predictable story, of Obama administration officials lobbying congress to loosen terror finances rules for Hamas if that Islamist terror group joins a unity government with the Palestinian Authority. (h/t Daily Alert): The Obama administration, already on treacherous domestic political ground with its outreach...
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From Frontpage Magazine, a nice round-up of the various studies which point to a fact which those of us who have been studying radical Islam already know, which is that poverty and terrorism do NOT go hand in hand: Several studies have been conducted both before and since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks (some...
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Following the successful rescue of Captain Phillips by U.S Navy Seals earlier this week, the Somali pirates have vowed revenge, and appear to be stepping up attacks on U.S flagged ships.CNN reports pirates have already opened fire at the Liberty Sun. (H/T) Jules Crittenden : “The pirates fired rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons at...
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