Blog

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

Andrew McCarthy: We Could Not Successfully Get Terrorists Without Help of Muslim-American Patriots & Chilling News: Top Terrorist Al-Awlaki Trained U.S. Muslim Chaplains at Pentagon

November 9, 2010

6026_200_150.jpgRadical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born terrorist on the CIA’s kill or capture list who yesterday released a tape calling for the death of Americans and is considered one of al Qaeda’s top ideologues,...

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Dershowitz Vs. Horton on Lawfare: Real Threat or Illusion?

November 6, 2010

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Rhetorical sparks flew in Manhattan Friday as Alan Dershowitz, Felix Frankfurter professor of law at Harvard University, and Scott Horton, contributing editor of Harper’s magazine, sparred on the subject of Lawfare, or the...

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Speak Up to Save Mother of Two from Hanging in Iran

November 3, 2010

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Today the Iranian regime is planning to execute, by hanging, a 43-year-old mother of two whose plight at the hands of Iran’s radical Islamist government has prompted an international outcry.

In September I wrote about this woman,...

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Jewish Voters, Do Not Let President Obama and the Dems Take You for Granted

November 1, 2010

With 78 percent of Jewish voters going for President Obama in the 2008 election despite his tendency to trivialize Jewish-Americans’ concerns about Israel’s security, is it any mystery that during the past two years,...

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Clooney to Obama: Stop a Genocide Before it is Too Late

October 25, 2010

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Earlier this month actor George Clooney met with President Obama at the White House to urge him to prevent bloodshed in Sudan in advance of the controversial referendum planned for January 9 in which the mostly Christian South is predicted to...

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Alusi: Normal Muslims Say, “Why are You Leaving Us in the Hands of the Iranians?”

October 20, 2010

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Interesting piece in today’s New York Post about how Sunni sheiks and others in Iraq and Afghanistan are switching sides for fear that the U.S. will abandon them as President Obama draws down troops.

This state of affairs echoes what...

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Maureen’s Hypocrisy-Fest

October 18, 2010

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Just have to write a word or two about the hypocrisy of Maureen Dowd’s column today.

Generally I avoid writing posts that critique other journalists and columnists. We have enough malcontents disparaging us already–cranks of the...

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The Original Darfur

October 7, 2010

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Escaped slave and human rights champion Simon Deng arrived in Washington D.C. today, leading a group of several dozen determined activists who walked with him 300 miles from the United Nations in New York to the Capitol building to raise...

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How U.S. Tax Dollars Enable Ahmadinejad to Practice Press Censorship at the U.N.

September 27, 2010

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The brilliant and intrepid Claudia Rosett, the investigative journalist who exposed the oil for food scandal, has a sharp blog post about a shocking incident that took place at the U.N. last week when Ahmadinejad, President of Iran, kicked out...

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Standing Up to Ahmadinejad at the U.N.

September 23, 2010

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Crowds gathered yesterday at the U.N.’s Dag Hammarskjold Plaza to protest the appearance at the United Nations of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani addressed the crowd, saying:...

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