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My running commentary on events: local, national, and international. Areas of special interest include Israel, Iraq, and dissidents in the Muslim world.

Independent Bangladeshi Journalist’s House Broken Into, Police Do Nothing

February 10, 2010

<!–[endif]–>choudhury-before-after.jpgLate last month, the Dhaka home of Bangladeshi journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, publisher and editor of that country’s largest weekly newspaper, The Weekly Blitz, was broken into. Police in Dhaka...

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NYC Trial Of High-level Terror Masterminds Will Violate Civil Liberties — Of Americans

February 9, 2010

From The Huffington Post

by HEATHER ROBINSON

Just watched this video clip of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani discussing the impending trial of high level al Qaeda operatives, including 9/11 master planner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, in New York City.

Giuliani, who in his capacity as a...

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Will $40 Million US Tax Dollars Subsidize UN Agency That Tolerates Teaching Martyrdom to Palestinian Kids?

February 9, 2010

From The Huffington Post

by HEATHER ROBINSON

Last week the United States announced an initial contribution of $40 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the UN agency dedicated to providing food, jobs and education in the Palestinian territories. According to a U.S....

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Punxsutawney Phil Says No Global Warming

February 5, 2010

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Granted, he’s no Ph.D. But then again, he calls ’em like he sees ’em and is not influenced by partisan politics or ego. Who knows what the future will bring, but with a severe snowstorm on its way to New York City...

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The Legendary J.D. Salinger, Dead at 91, Did it His Way

January 28, 2010

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Last week the author J.D. Salinger died at age 91. I hesitate to eulogize him for fear, as Salinger once told Elia Kazan when the latter asked for permission to produce a play version of Salinger’s masterpiece “The Catcher in the Rye,” that...

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Coast Guard Academy Law Prof. Proposes Hybrid Court for Dealing With Guantanamo Detainees

January 26, 2010

President Obama’s self-imposed January 20th deadline for the closing of the U.S. Detention Facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba has come and gone. Although the President is taking heat from the left for this action (or lack thereof), it seems to...

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Israel, Iceland Lead the Way in Providing Earthquake Relief to Haiti

January 22, 2010

 

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Sarah Palin Is a Feminist

January 14, 2010

From Mom Logic

by HEATHER ROBINSON & JENNIFER GINSBERG

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Who is a feminist?

We’ve been asking that question since reading “Going Rogue,” Sarah Palin’s autobiography, and after reading columns by prominent feminists deriding the idea that the former Governor of Alaska...

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Thank Yoo, Mr. Yoo!

January 13, 2010

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John Yoo, former deputy assistant attorney general in the office of legal counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice during George W. Bush’s first term, sat down with me Tuesday evening prior to his talk before a Manhattan audience...

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Good Morning, Mr. President, Would You Like Some Security With Your Coffee?

January 7, 2010

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Looks like President Obama is waking up to some harsh realities.

Earlier this week the President announced he would not be sending any Guantanamo Bay detainees home to Yemen, an impoverished Arab country that has emerged as a hotbed of...

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