by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner I’m about halfway through the new Cheney memoir, In My Time, and it does not at all resemble the media’s description of it — a highly controversial book preoccupied with scoring points against rivals — which suggests that many of those who have written about it have not read it. […]
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by Raymond Ibrahim Jihad Watch When reading Western reports dealing with Islam, one must learn to read between the lines. Many of these reports do state the actual facts; but without providing proper context, Western readers are often left to interpret the information according to their own understandings. Share This
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by Raymond Ibrahim Hudson New York In his manifesto, Anders Breivik, the perpetrator of the Norway massacre, wherein some 80 people were killed, mentioned the Crusades and aspects of it as an inspirational factor. Share This
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by Bruce S. Thornton Advancing a Free Society The continuing stalemate over raising the debt ceiling is provoking a lot of voters into Mercutio’s “a pox on both your houses” response. Share This
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by Bruce S. Thornton FronpageMagazine.com I get a lot of ragging from my fellow conservatives for reading The New York Times every day. But as I tell them, you have to know how the other side thinks. Share This
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by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Almost everyone who has written about Strauss-Kahn has, quite correctly, used the adjective “allegedly” in relation to the charges against him, which are as yet unproven in a court of law. Share This
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by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Sense Out of Nonsense — A Ten-step Plan I’ve been following the news the last two weeks — Weinergate, the dismal “unexpected” economic news, the new wars in Libya and Yemen — from Europe while leading about 60 on a military history tour of Italy, Corsica, Sardinia, and Sicily.
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by Raymond Ibrahim FrontPageMagazine.com Not only does recent jihadist rampage against Ethiopia’s indigenous Christians highlight the travails Christians encounter wherever Islam has a sizable population, but it offers several insights, including some which should concern faraway, secular nations with Muslim minorities. According to Fox News: Share This
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by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media To posit the significance of Osama bin Laden’s demise, we must first decide which came first — the chicken or the egg? Share This
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by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner The full story is not out on Dominique Strauss-Kahn and he is innocent of forcible sexual battery until proven guilty, but already the case has exposed an ancient abyss between European elite and American popular cultures — accentuated by the differences between New York’s rough-and-tumble media and legal worlds
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