Blog

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

Independent Journalist, Under Attack, Gets Mixed Signals from the U.S.

May 17, 2010

Since 2003, Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, a pioneering Bangladeshi journalist who has exposed the rise of radical Islam in his country and promoted good relations between Bangladesh and Israel, has been harassed by his own...

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Book Showcases Rescued Dogs Who Rescue Others

May 11, 2010

Pretty cute, huh?

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A new book called New Lives: Stories of Rescued Dogs Helping, Healing and Giving Hope tells the stories of abused dogs who were rescued and went on to become “working” dogs–helping the elderly, disabled, and...

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Frank Gaffney and Heather Robinson Discuss Attempted NYC Car Bomb and Baghdad Recount

May 5, 2010

Yesterday I appeared on Securefreedom radio, the Center for Security Policy’s radio show, discussing the attempted Times Square terror bombing and the Baghdad recount. Frank Gaffney, the show’s host, engaged me in some interesting back and...

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Iraqi Liberal Calls on President Obama to Oversee Baghdad Recount

May 2, 2010

From The Huffington Post

by HEATHER ROBINSON

Iraq’s electoral commission announced today that a recount of votes in Baghdad from the March 7 elections will start next Monday.

But a prominent Iraqi liberal is warning that, absent sufficient oversight from the U.S., the recount...

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Congress’s Ironic Outrage At Goldman Sachs

April 29, 2010

In the words of Thinking Man, my finance expert friend, “It was shiesters slamming shiesters” Tuesday on the Hill as senators from both sides of the aisle alternately interrogated and slammed executives of one of New York’s...

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Jonthan Tobin on Today’s NY Times: Obama Has Shifted U.S. Policy Against Israel

April 26, 2010

Jonathan Tobin aptly characterizes, in this piece, the increasingly alarming situation currently facing Israel. He does a good job of outlining the basic reality and President Obama’s fallacious assumptions about it, as well as the...

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Congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen Sparks Campaign for UNRWA Reform

April 23, 2010

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Below is a letter issued this week by Florida Congresswoman ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN, who is taking on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). UNRWA, a U.N. agency with a mandate to care for Palestinians, has received $3.6 billion in...

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Environmental Drama Takes a Fresh Look at Going Green

April 20, 2010

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Having finally emerged from a winter that made my hometown of Pittsburgh resemble a scene from the film Doctor Zhivago, I’m not inclined to put Al Gore’s dire warnings about global warming at the top of my worry list. As Los Angeles...

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Harvard GOP-er who stood up to Barney Frank scraps — and sings — at Chicago’s Tax Day Tea Party

April 17, 2010

From Jewish World Review

by HEATHER ROBINSON

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llinois Republican Congressional candidate Joel Pollak showed up at Chicago’s tax day tea party in Daley Plaza and attacked the idea that the tea party movement is motivated by prejudice.

In his speech, Pollak said, “I’ve been...

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Netanyahu on Holocaust Remembrance Day: Fight Evil

April 12, 2010

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Last Sunday in his speech on Yom Hashoa, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the point that he believes the lessons of the Holocaust are three: “fortify your strength, teach good...

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