Archive | March, 2009
Charles Murray: The Europe Syndrome and the Challenge to American Exceptionalism
America’s elites must once again fall in love with what makes the United States different. The advent of the Obama administration brings this question before the nation: Do we want the United States to be like Europe? President Obama and his leading intellectual heroes are the American equivalent of Europe’s social democrats. There’s nothing sinister [...]
Continue reading...Judea Pearl: Is anti-Zionism hate? Yes.
Published Sunday, March 15, 2009 at 8:54 pm
Anti-Zionism rejects the very notion that Jews are a nation — a collective bonded by a common history — and, accordingly, denies Jews the right to self-determination in their historical birthplace. It seeks the dismantling of the Jewish nation-state: Israel. Anti-Zionism earns its discriminatory character by denying the Jewish people what it grants to other [...]
Continue reading...Tawfik Hamid: Islam Should Prove It’s a Religion of Peace
Published Thursday, March 12, 2009 at 10:53 am
The film “Fitna” by Dutch parliament member Geert Wilders has created an uproar around the world because it links violence committed by Islamists to Islam. Many commentators and politicians — including the British government, which denied him entry to the country last month — reflexively accused Mr. Wilders of inciting hatred. The question, however, is [...]
Continue reading...Charles Krauthammer: The Sleight of Hand Behind Obama’s Agenda
Published Friday, March 6, 2009 at 9:12 am
At the very center of our economic near-depression is a credit bubble, a housing collapse and a systemic failure of the banking industry. One can come up with a host of causes: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pushed by Washington (and greed) into improvident loans, corrupted bond-ratings agencies, insufficient regulation of new and exotic debt [...]
Continue reading...TED Video: Mike Rowe: Celebrating work — all kinds of work
Published Thursday, March 5, 2009 at 8:20 pm
Hat tip: Scobleizer
Continue reading...Christopher Hitchens: A U.N. resolution seeks to criminalize opinions that differ with the Islamic faith.
Published Wednesday, March 4, 2009 at 1:39 pm
Though it is written tongue-in-cheek in the language of human rights and of opposition to discrimination, the nonbinding U.N. Resolution 62/154, on “Combating defamation of religions,” actually seeks to extend protection not to humans but to opinions and to ideas, granting only the latter immunity from being “offended.” The preamble is jam-packed with hypocrisies that [...]
Continue reading...Andrew C. McCarthy: Obama’s Third Way: Release the Terrorists
Published Tuesday, March 3, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Let’s imagine we’ve captured a highly trained terrorist al-Qaeda was attempting to embed in the United States, à la Mohamed Atta and company, to carry out mass-murder attacks in American cities. For eight years, our national-security debate in the United States has been divided into two camps on these cases. In the first are those [...]
Continue reading...Phil’s networks
Published Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 6:03 pm
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