Israel

As President Obama departed for Israel, there came a startling report. Bashar Assad’s regime had used poison gas on Syrian rebels. Two Israeli Cabinet members claimed credible evidence. Justice Minister Tzipi Livni said, “It’s clear for us that (gas is)…

Infantile Conservatism

by Pat Buchanan on February 26, 2013 · 5 comments

Regularly now, The Washington Post, as always concerned with fairness and balance, runs a blog called “Right Turn: Jennifer Rubin’s Take From a Conservative Perspective.” The blog tells us what the Post regards as conservatism.
On Monday, Rubin declared that…

Years of rumours that Ethiopian women were pressured into having contraceptive injections by Israeli officials have finally been confirmed. The Health Ministry has ordered immigration officials in Ethiopia and health workers in Israel to stop coercing or coaxing women into…

Women in Combat?

by Robert R. Reilly on January 30, 2013 · 5 comments

Men fight to protect their women. Or, at least, that’s the way it used to be.
On Thursday, however, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said, “Today Gen. Dempsey and I are pleased to announce that we are eliminating the ground…

CUTAWAYS: SUPERMAN II – GUILTY!

by David January 21, 2013

Is there anybody who reads this blog who doesn’t know this clip by heart?

What brought this scene to mind was a sobering statistic I ran into over at Servant and Steward which noted that while approximately 133,115,440 children have…

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THE TWELVE CLIPS OF CHRISTMAS: DAY 2–THE INSECT’S CHRISTMAS

by David December 27, 2012

Well, as fate (or good planning) would have it, Day 77 of reading through the Catechism in one year as a part of the Year of Faith recounts a familiar tale. “Jesus was born in a humble stable, into a…

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Holy Land Conflict: No Peace Among Wolves

by Matt Barber November 27, 2012

At times, complicated issues are most clearly understood in simple terms. Speaking before the Knesset in 2006, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu captured, in two brief sentences, that which lies at the heart of the ongoing, centuries-old Arab-Israeli conflict: “The…

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The Gaza Trap

by Dr. Earl Tilford November 23, 2012

Even though Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has announced an Israel-Gaza ceasefire, it’s apparent that Gaza still holds many traps for Israel.
For example, there’s the media trap. Hamas, like other Islamic terror groups, manipulates the Western media while toying…

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Benjamin Netanyahu: Leader of the Free World

by Matt Barber November 19, 2012

There has been much talk of late about America’s “fiscal cliff.” As troubling as our impending (Obama-spurred) economic collapse may be – and it is more troubling than even our most pessimistic economists are willing to admit – I’m even…

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War and Bluff: Iran, Israel and the US

by George Friedman September 25, 2012

For the past several months, the Israelis have been threatening to attack Iranian nuclear sites as the United States has pursued a complex policy of avoiding complete opposition to such strikes while making clear it doesn’t feel such strikes are…

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