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R-E-S-P-E-C-T, Let’s Find Out What it Means To Us
June 4, 2009
In his speech last Thursday in Cairo, President Obama emphasized his respect for the Muslim world. While the notion that, with superior diplomatic skills, Obama can sweet talk fanatics like Iran’s Ahmadinejad into becoming statesmen...
Interview With C. Holland Taylor, Co-founder of LibForAll Foundation, an NGO That Argues for Rejecting Extremists’ Definition of Islam
May 29, 2009
It has been less than five years since the founding of the LibforAll Foundation, a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization dedicated to supporting moderate Muslims and promoting a nonviolent, pluralistic interpretation of Islam....
Thank You Service Members and Veterans
May 25, 2009
Today and every day I am grateful to our service members and veterans for keeping me safe. As a woman, as a journalist and commentator, as a Jew–all categories of individual that the enemies of this country and of civilization reserve...
The Furor Over Gitmo was Absurd from the Get – Go
May 21, 2009
Looks like the U.S. Senate has been reading Jewishworldreview.com.
At any rate, with yesterday’s Senate vote of 90 to 6, U.S. Senators, at least for now, have thrown a wrench into the President’s plan to shut down...
U.S. Attorneys, Activists, and Journalists Convene to Defend Free Speech in Washington D.C. Today
May 19, 2009
United in their commitment to defense of free speech against the threat of harassment by radical Islamists, speakers at today’s “Islamist Lawfare” conference, hosted in Washington D.C. by Daniel Pipes’ Middle East Forum, debated...
Hold the Line Today in Washington, Bibi, and Remind Our President of These Painful Truths
May 18, 2009
While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is on his way to the White House later today to meet with President Obama, Israel faces a potentially existential threat from Iran, whose leadership has repeatedly stated its intention to destroy the...
It’s Gone from High Noon to Kumbayah at the AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington D.C.
May 5, 2009
The mood at this year’s American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference – the yearly gathering that drew thousands of Israel-supporters from Sunday till today to be briefed on issues related to the U.S.-Israel...
Waterboarding of 9/11 Mastermind and Murderer Enabled C.I.A. to Glean “Intelligence Riches,” according to Today’s New York Times
May 2, 2009
Looks like even The New York Times acknowledges that the C.I.A.’s use of water boarding as an enhanced interrogation technique was effective in gleaning vital intelligence from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, mastermind of the...
Durban II Would Have Been Good Comedy, Were Abuses by the Self-appointed Arbiters Not So Appalling
April 23, 2009
Serious defense of Israel shone alongside clever and zany protest at the United Nations Conference Against Racism in Geneva, Switzerland earlier this week.
For representatives of countries like China, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Cuba to sit on...
The Founding Fathers Would Have Been Proud of Tea Party Demonstrators
April 21, 2009
This opinion piece, which ran in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review today, discusses the significance of the tax day tea parties as a healthy expression of the right to petition government for redress of grievances. As the piece...