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It’s okay to be politically incorrect — if you are Muslim or like Islam

Tweet It’s hard to imagine a more politically incorrect belief system than Islam.  The seriously Muslim world stands for women without legal rights or physical freedoms, wife beating, honor killings, child brides, capital punishment for female adultery, and capital punishment for homosexuality. President Barack Obama, however, feels that Turkey’s Erdogan, a hardline Muslim, is his [...]

In lieu of control, can we surf the wave and land safely?

Tweet It’s winter break, and I’m coming to terms with the fact that, for the time being, my life is not my own.  It belongs to husband, children, mother, children’s friends, neighbors, etc.  I never even looked at the news yesterday, which left me feeling both bereft and relieved.  Bereft because I am a high [...]

Sunday morning Open Thread — plus a mish mash of news and ideas

Tweet Nothing in this morning’s news, or in my own life for that matter, is moving me sufficiently to justify a full post on a single subject or idea.  I did find some interesting things online, though, that I’d like to share with you.  Also, I always appreciate it when you share interesting things right [...]

Is it the end of the world as we know it, or just a new phase in the battle for America’s soul?

Tweet I’ve had the same ten tabs open in Firefox this entire day.  I feel like a madman, trying to create order out of the chaos in my mind.  I’m convinced that there’s a thread tying together these articles, but I can’t figure out precisely what that thread is.  Maybe it’s just that each is [...]

A primer on Palestinian terrorism

Tweet A simple but effective video: Hat tip: JoshuaPundit

Pat Condell says that, as long as Hamas exists (and, worse, is feted) there will be no peace in the Middle East

Tweet Reality, stripped of politically-correct pap — or, Hamas is even worse than the Nazis:

When the combatants are morally unequal, it is immoral to treat them in the same way

Tweet One of the really icky things about the Left is that it lacks a moral compass.  There is no good or evil.  There are only evil haves and victimized have-nots. In a sane moral universe, cultural arbiters would readily be able to distinguish the good guys from the bad guys in the Middle East.  [...]

Random links to interesting things

Tweet I hate cooking.  That’s not hyperbole.  Restaurants are a constant temptation, but I resist because, during my young lawyer days, I spent way too much of my money on restaurants.  With college and old age to plan for, I can’t eat out whenever I like — which is every night.  So here’s one good [...]

This and that — about the Middle East, mostly, with a little Obama stuff thrown in too.

Tweet It’s been another family-maintenance day, which precludes not only blogging but, quite often, even thinking.  Having a house full of children is revitalizing and exhausting all at once. I also took my Mom clothes shopping, which makes her extraordinarily happy, but leaves me limp and floppy.  I am every cheapskate’s dream, because I just [...]

Steve Crowder on Israel hatred (and ignorance) on the Left

Tweet In a sane world, Steve Crowder would have his own TV show, rather than three-minute segments.  Of course, the discipline of a three-minute segment means that every word he says is worthy.  There is no useless, time-consuming filler.  Watch and learn.  (Ah, heck, you guys already know this.  But watch to get talking points [...]

Walking through danger untouched — a personal prayer for Israel

Tweet A friend of mine has a family member who has been called up for duty in Israel.  I know that, all over Israel, young men and young women are being mobilized.  Some sadly, may not come home, although I wish all of them would, just as I wish every one of our troops in [...]

Sheldon Adelson schools an Israeli Leftist in logic

Tweet America’s not the only one with crazed Leftists.  I managed to miss the fact that Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert just accused Sheldon Adelson of using Benjamin Netanyahu as his puppet in this election.  Adelson utterly destroys that canard and, to my delight, he does so in three short paragraphs that are a [...]

Deconstructing straw men arguments about the way conservatives view Obama

Tweet Paul Brandus decided he’d had enough of the innumerable lies about Obama floating through the blogosphere, so he did some research and came up with a post:  “Deconstructing the 5 most ridiculous myths about Barack Obama.“  Unfortunately for him, he forgot the cardinal rule of attacking your enemy:  Know your enemy.  Without that knowledge, [...]

Pigs are flying — Jewish newspaper endorses Republican

Tweet The editor of a Jewish newspaper — let me repeat: a Jewish newspaper — has endorsed a Republican.  Because we’re discussing Jews, it may be wrong to analogize this to pigs flying, but I guess it’s okay as long as we’re not eating those pigs for breakfast. I was at a luncheon today (see [...]

Sheldon Adelson is correct to question Obama’s love for Israel

Tweet Sheldon Adelson has said outright what many Jews do (or should) suspect:  Obama doesn’t love Israel as much as he says he does.  In a Jewish Journal post, Adelson does a good job assembling a damning list of facts, all of which indicate that, if Obama didn’t keep saying “Oooh, I love Israel,” most [...]

Are matters coming to a head this October?

Tweet I’ve got an amazing array of links, all of which indicate that, with three weeks before the election, America and the Middle East aren’t static.  Instead, there are a lot of things that are suddenly coming to the boil in ways that make me pray very hard that Mitt Romney wins. A lot of [...]

A video telling Jewish voters that it’s okay not to vote for Obama in 2012

Tweet There are two constituencies on which Democrats can always count:  Jews and blacks.  And Jews, unlike blacks, give lots of money to their favorite party and they get out and vote.  For many Jews, being a Democrat is an integral part of their identity.  Voting for a Republican is anathema.  It turns them into [...]

Proof that Obama has lost his love for the little country of Israel *UPDATED*

Tweet [Update:  I thought I'd managed to ooze so much sarcasm here that I didn't need to establish first that I was being sarcastic.  From comments I've received, I've learned that a failed in Writing 101, because I did not make my sarcasm t obvious enough.  My apologies.  I know that Obama dislikes Israel.  He [...]

Making people aware of Obama’s peculiar fondness for the Muslim Brotherhood

Tweet The only problem I have with this video is the narrator’s voice.  It grates on me.  Otherwise, I think the video says things that need to be said, and I hope it gets lots of air play: And while we’re on the subject, the Washington Examiner, in its sterling multipart series about the Obama [...]

Mosab Hassan Yousef — a portrait of moral clarity and raw courage

Tweet Yesterday, I wrote about those rare individuals who can rise above fear in a terrorist state to become part of the solution, rather than a mere victim of the problem.  With perfect timing, a friend sent me an article from the Times of Israel, about Mosab Hasson Yousef, a young man of unusual moral [...]

Our feckless president

Tweet We all recall how Michael Moore mercilessly savaged George Bush because, when the first reports about the 9/11 terrorist attacks began, Bush was reading a story book to small children, and chose not to run screaming out of the room.  Fast-forward eleven years and we have a president who boasts that he’s better than [...]

What? Obama couldn’t cancel one golf game to help save Israel from being destroyed? *UPDATED*

Tweet The situation between Israel and Iran is heating up dramatically.  Yesterday, Iran boasted it has a missile that can reach any Israeli city.  For years, Iran has been loud and clear about it’s intense desire to incinerate Israel.  The IAEA has conceded that Iran is on the verge of having nuclear weapons.  With all [...]

There’s a lot of “back” talk this election

Tweet When we say “I’ve got your back,” we’re telling the other person that he (or she) can rely upon us.  We’ll be there to catch them when they fall.  When you turn your back on someone, you are abandoning them, and doing so in a rude and public fashion.  Back metaphors, in other words, [...]

Matched sets, two VDH columns, a second look at Enron, and a little Israel — and an Open Thread

Tweet National Review Online had three articles this morning that I thought worth passing on.  The first two form a matched set, although I suspect it was inadvertent that NRO published them on the same day. We begin with Noemie Emery’s article explaining why Franklin Roosevelt was a singular phenomenon: Put aside the fact that [...]

How do the boots-on-the-ground guys and gals in the American military feel about Israel?

Tweet Various news outlets are reporting that the U.S. is dramatically scaling back joint exercises with Israel, something Israel perceives to be a sign of distrust and an effort (again) to create distance between itself and America: Seven months ago, Israel and the United States postponed a massive joint military exercise that was originally set [...]