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American Foreign Policy Council’s Ilan Berman Exhorts the West to Find Its Backbone
October 14, 2009
Ilan Berman’s new book,“Winning the Long War, Retaking the Offensive Against Radical Islam,” (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2009) catalogues American successes and failures to defeat radical Islam post-9/11. In its quiet,...
Let President Obama’s Honor Remind Us Appeasement Will Not Produce Peace
October 9, 2009
Today President Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize. Good for him; it is nice to see our President honored.
But now more than ever, the always noble effort to attempt nonviolent solutions should not be confused with appeasement, or the...
Regarding Iran and Tomorrow’s Meeting, Engagement Must Be Seen as a Tactic, Not a Strategy
September 30, 2009
In anticipation of tomorrow’s meeting among U.S. diplomats, their Russian, Chinese, and European counterparts, and Iranian officials, analyst Michael Rubin points out in today’s New York Daily News that “engagement is a...
The Free World Must Unite to Stop Iran’s Mad Mullahs
September 29, 2009
Last week brought the revelation that Iran has an additional secret nuclear enrichment facility inside a mountain near the city of Qum in addition to its much larger enrichment complex at Natanz.
There is now zero doubt that Iran, a country that...
Iranians and Jews Show Unity Against Ahmadinejad Yesterday Outside the United Nations
September 25, 2009
Yesterday thousands gathered at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza outside the United Nations in New York to protest Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s pledge to destroy Israel, and to show solidarity with Iranian protestors who have faced down...
Notes from New York on the Eve of the Stand for Freedom in Iran Rally
September 24, 2009
Tomorrow (Thursday September 24), thousands of Iranian-Americans will gather at noon outside the United Nations, in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, Second Avenue and 47th Street, to protest the human rights abuses and fraudulent...
Obama’s Missile Defense Decision Wrong-Headed, Says Gaffney
September 18, 2009
President Obama’s decision to scrap the plan to establish a new system of missile defense in Poland and the Czech Republic to protect U.S. allies in Europe as well as to protect the United States from intercontinental-range...
Patrick Swayze: This Jewish Girl Will Miss You
September 18, 2009
You Are More Than a Ghost to Us
For Jewish women of a certain age, Patrick Swayze will always occupy a special corner of the heart. Tough and tender, he embodied for some of us — ok for me, at least — a certain fantasy. Let’s call it the Jewish...
Why Not Apply the Oath of Hippocrates to Health Care Reform?
September 10, 2009
Tonight in his speech on health care, President Obama acknowledged the values of “self-reliance, rugged individualism, love of freedom, and healthy skepticism of government,” which, held dear by so many American...
Tacoma-based artist R. R. Anderson Recently Immortalized Yours Truly:
September 2, 2009