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Which of These Presidential Statements Doesn’t Belong?
Edit: Thanks to GOPUSA for the cartoon 1. "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself". 2. "Don't ask what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country". 3. "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall". 4. "We don't have a strategy yet". Which Commander in …
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How Hamas, Representative of the “Religion of Peace”, Works
They attend their morning prayers, and then go out behind the mosque and... In my not-so-humble opinion, Islam is EVIL, and must be destroyed.
Let’s Talk Anti-Semitism
This story is posted on Ricochet, by a new member who is a Swedish Jew. It tells the sorry tale of her and her children's systematic persecution by others in her (formerly) civilized country. Remember when Sweden's society was emulated as an example of a country where all were treated equally and fairly, the standard of …
This is Positively Eerie
Right now, I am reading a wonderful book by Daniel Silva, one of my favorite authors. It's a thriller starring his Israeli spy, Gabriel Allon, and involves the theft of one painting, in the service of finding another famous painting by an Italian Old Master painter. One of the villains is the terrorist dictator of …
The Real View from Israel
Here is the link to an essay by Ricochet Contributor Judith Levy. She is in Israel, where rockets rain down on her family and friends daily. If you can read this without weeping, you have no heart. And if you can read this without getting very, very angry, you have no soul. I am sitting …
OBAMA FAVORS EVIL
Read this, from today's Jerusalem Post. You may be shocked, but I'm not. Author Caroline Glick tells it like it is. Here are the salient points: OTL supports Hamas in its crusade to obliterate the state of Israel from the face of the Earth. Kerry's "truce" proposal would have given Hamas everything it wants. The …
The Natural Order of Things
My hero, Rush Limbaugh, likes to point out that, through much of human history, the natural order of things in our world has been tyranny and misery. Since humans started to live in groups, the vast majority of people have led lives that were "nasty, brutish, and short". Until very recently, human life-expectancy has been …
Fiddling while the World Burns
Here are some of the things taking place in the world, and in the USA this week: Malaysian airliner shot down by a Russian-made missile The US southern border overwhelmed with illegal immigrant people from Central America Israeli-Palestinian war in Gaza, where Hamas shoots rockets from residential neighborhoods Court rulings cast ObamaCare subsidies …
I’m Up to the Challenge: Dinner Party Edition~History’s Best
This week's challenge is a great one for me, as I have already given lots of thought to who I'd invite to my "ideal dinner party" table. First, the table is round, so everyone gets to talk to everyone else. First guests are myself and my husband. We are both middle-aged, Conservatives, and classical musicians …
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