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The New York Times’ true colors
By Rachel Raskin-Zrihen (bio)

In a recent article, the New York Times appears to blame the Jews – or more specifically, one particular Jew – for growing sentiment against Shariah law in the United States.

Posted by Rachel Raskin-Zrihen on July 31st, 2011
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Stop “Son of Boehner”
By Monica Crowley (bio)

Speaker of the House John Boehner put forth an ill-conceived plan after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid killed the ONLY plan that would deal with the debt for real: Cut, Cap and Balance. Why the onus is STILL on the House GOP after they passed a repeal of ObamaCare, a 2012 budget with real structural reforms, and Cut, Cap and Balance is beyond me. But here they are, falling into the trap of producing yet another plan that is actually worse than bad. Boehner’s first draft “cut” a measly $850 billion over 10 years. Excuse me….where is the $1.2 trillion he promised?

Posted by Monica Crowley on July 28th, 2011
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Indiana’s Daniels Supports Boehner Debt Proposal
By S. T. Karnick (bio)

Statement from Governor Daniels regarding Speaker Boehner’s debt proposal

Posted by S. T. Karnick on July 28th, 2011
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Beach Bums
By Marilyn Penn (bio)

It isn’t hard to find Jews who will identify with their enemies under the rubric of their allegiance to liberal thought. Recently, there was the holocaust survivor granny who had sailed on the first flotilla and re-enrolled for this year’s aborted cruise. She was concerned about the oppression of Palestinians in Gaza (high on the international list of politically correct causes), yet unconcerned about the fate of Jewish victims of Hamas missiles and terror attacks (high on the list of politically incorrect causes). Jewish celebrities and entertainers will cancel their performances in Israel, yet perform for Arab leaders who believe in stoning women and homosexuals and killing Jews. Jewish academicians, writers and artists will call for boycotts of Israel while ignoring the mass slaughter by Muslims of Africans and Asians and their acts of terrorism throughout the world.

Posted by Marilyn Penn on July 27th, 2011
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The King’s Speech
By Monica Crowley (bio)

Some thoughts on President Obama’s speech to the nation last night on the debt crisis that he created:

Posted by Monica Crowley on July 26th, 2011
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A reader asks — what do you learn being a newspaper columnist?
By Neil Steinberg (bio)

‘Good column today,” Neil Liptak, a reader in the far southwest suburban town of Elwood writes. “Made me want to ask you: What have you learned after writing your column all these years?”

Posted by Neil Steinberg on July 26th, 2011
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On Treaty, Team O is ‘LOST’ at Sea
By Peter Brookes (bio)

After inking the scary new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty and pushing to revive the once-dead Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the Obama administration is acting like it belongs in a foreign-policy horror flick: “Stop Me Before I Sign Again!”

Posted by Peter Brookes on July 24th, 2011
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Here’s The ‘Compromise’
By Monica Crowley (bio)

There is great gnashing of teeth and renting of clothing in Washington and in the media over the lack (so far) of a deal to reduce our monstrous spending and suffocating debt. The so-called elites are running around yammering about “compromise” and the need for more of it. The assumption is that compromise for the sake of compromise is an inherently good thing. The truth is that compromise usually leads to a bad deal with unintended and disastrous consequences.

Posted by Monica Crowley on July 24th, 2011
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An Email from Dr. Bill Stinde: Join “Never Again”
By Julia Gorin (bio)

The following email came to me from Dr. Bill Stinde, business leader, professor, and author (We don’t need no badges: The Use of Governmentally Instituted Civil Litigation to Establish Public Policy and Control Business; Accounting for the Construction and Development Industry; A Military History of the First 30 Years of Islam):

Posted by Julia Gorin on July 21st, 2011
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Loyalists and losers
By Lloyd M. Green (bio)

Jeffrey Goldberg bemoans the fact that Michele Bachmann and Christian Zionists love Israel too much, warts and all.

Posted by Lloyd M. Green on July 21st, 2011
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We Lost Our Power- Who Did It?
By Cory Franklin (bio)

The enforced neighborhood bonhomie was because no one had electricity. The friendly chats at the fence ended once the 21st Century returned and electricity was finally restored 77 hours after violent storms supposedly knocked out power. Of course, that is the “official story”. But the neighbors aren’t buying that stuff about downed power lines, damaged transformers, and lightning. That’s what “someone” want you to believe. That thunderstorm ruse is just a devious cover story. We know what really happened

Posted by Cory Franklin on July 18th, 2011
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We are what we teach
By Rachel Raskin-Zrihen (bio)

Ever since Gov. Jerry Brown signed the gay history bill last week, I’ve been wrestling with how I feel about it.

Posted by Rachel Raskin-Zrihen on July 16th, 2011
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Does Pamela Geller Really have to Fight Alone? Sued for $10,000,000 by the Murderous Muslim Parents of the Girl she Saved
By Julia Gorin (bio)

It’s almost as if she’s fighting against the jihad alone. Pamela Geller, the face of the resistance in America, is the single most responsible individual for having saved the life of Rifqa Bary, the then 16-year-old Ohio girl who converted to Christianity and had her life threatened by her Muslim father. Now Bary’s parents are suing Geller for defamation in a frivolous $10,000,000 lawsuit that is costing Geller and her pro bono lawyers thousands in travel and court fees. She had to fly to Ohio just this week to be deposed.

Posted by Julia Gorin on July 16th, 2011
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I’ve got good news and more good news
By Rachel Raskin-Zrihen (bio)

Not all the news relative to Israel and the Jews is bad, it turns out. This past week has actually been rather rife with good news.

Posted by Rachel Raskin-Zrihen on July 16th, 2011
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What’s happened to journalism?
By William Katz (bio)

A friend recently sent me some old videos of “Meet the Press.” Her father, a prominent Washington journalist, had been a frequent member of the panel. One of the videos was from the early sixties, the other from the early seventies.

Posted by William Katz on July 15th, 2011
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Two Years, Two Obamas
By Monica Crowley (bio)

Somebody’s got to point out the ironies, hypocrisy, madness, and lies of President Obama, so here goes:

Posted by Monica Crowley on July 14th, 2011
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Name That Motive
By Rachel Raskin-Zrihen (bio)

One of the most one-sided A.P. reports I have ever seen came across the wire the other day, and I thought I’d share it with you.

Posted by Rachel Raskin-Zrihen on July 13th, 2011
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You’re Fired
By Monica Crowley (bio)

A thought after watching President Obama’s class warfare extravaganza rehash today:

Posted by Monica Crowley on July 13th, 2011
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Another bad arms-control idea
By Peter Brookes (bio)

So now President “Who Needs Nukes?” Obama wants to re-engage the Senate on the once-rejected 1996 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

Posted by Peter Brookes on July 10th, 2011
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Where the outrage really is
By Rachel Raskin-Zrihen (bio)

While the crazy, pro-Palestinian activists try to make trouble and incite violence in Israel, real and quite horrible violence is being perpetrated against Syrian children by Syrian soldiers.

Posted by Rachel Raskin-Zrihen on July 8th, 2011
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Be afraid
By Rachel Raskin-Zrihen (bio)

It is becoming more and more clear that the veneer of civility is rubbing off the Western World as the Islamo-Fascist mindset makes inroads and anti-Semitism expressed publically by high-level officials becomes more commonplace.

Posted by Rachel Raskin-Zrihen on July 7th, 2011
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The little red books with big old ideas
By Neil Steinberg (bio)

Everybody complains about ancient Greek poetry, but nobody ever does anything about it.

Posted by Neil Steinberg on July 6th, 2011
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Way to Go, Wings of Gold
By Peter Brookes (bio)

I feel the need . . . the need for speed.– Maverick, “Top Gun” (1986)

Posted by Peter Brookes on July 6th, 2011
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Bachmann in Brooklyn: NAZI!?
By Lloyd M. Green (bio)

This past week’s The New Yorker blog offered a window into the liberal soul in it current state of ideological corruption, in which virtually all that remains is reactionary negativism. Chronicling his interviews with a group of Brooklyn bar flies at an Atlantic Avenue dive, The New Yorker’s John Cassidy pronounced that the Bachmann presidential campaign was tantamount to Nazism. According to a Cassidy, “From National Socialism to Poujadism to the Tea Party, the suggestion that the motherland needs reclaiming from alien forces has been central to populist right-wing movements.”

Posted by Lloyd M. Green on July 6th, 2011
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With friends like these?
By Rachel Raskin-Zrihen (bio)