Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Israel as the next Saudia Arabia? According to this article in the Wall Street Journal, Israel’s unusually large and high-quality shale oil reserves may yield as much oil as all of Saudi Arabia’s proven oil reserves. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703806304576242420737584278.html These discoveries are in addition to of Israel’s recently diclosed gas
Continue readingPoor Cassandra was cursed by the Gods with the gift of making accurate prophecies that no one would believe. The disasters she foresaw always came true, but she was helpless to stop people (and nations) from racing towards their doom. The endings were always so terrible — and Cassandra was
Continue readingIn honor of Mubarak’s strategic retreat to Sharm El Sheikh, here is the anthem of the 1967 War, which saw Sharm El Sheikh end in Israel’s hands, a situation that lasted up until Egypt got it back in 1982, as part of the peace treaty: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE2YDp00evk[/youtube]
Continue readingI struggled for a few minutes to find a clever title for this post that would convey the volume of information I’m about to download from my brain, but realized I couldn’t. A laundry list description will just have to do. You see, last night, I had the pleasure of
Continue readingSometimes, a reader leaves a comment that is too good not to elevate to post status. This time, it was Spartacus, writing in response to my question about real ways (not stupid, embarrassing, intrusive ways) to improve airport security: *** A childhood friend of mine got married in the Tel
Continue readingYes, you read that post caption correctly. British Liberal Democrat Jenny Tonge, in a speech in the House of Lords, claims that terrorism around the world is Israel’s fault, because Israel treats the Palestinian’s badly: On the issue of world conflict prevention, Tonge then said: “It is a disgrace to
Continue readingJudo, which I don’t do, is a beautiful martial art predicated on using your opponent’s own momentum against him. Gabriel Latner, a 19 year old Canadian, has proven himself to be a master of intellectual judo. You can read here the overall context within which he exercised his intellectual martial
Continue reading[Despite being about the pompous and boring Tom Friedman, this is not an appropriate post for the under-18 crowd.] I don’t think that there’s any doubt BUT that Tom Friedman is an idiot. His worship for Communist China — which in typical Friedman fashion routinely takes the form of acknowledging
Continue readingBarry Rubin thinks he knows. I would say “what a sad, pathetic little man,” except for the fact that his “sad, pathetic little man” is one of the richest people in the world, and is using his personal pathologies to destroy a nation and its people.
Continue readingJosé María Aznar. It’s not a name that meant much to me in the past, since Spain’s internal politics weren’t of overriding interesting to me. It’s a name that interests me a great deal now, because it is the name of a man of extraordinary integrity, of true righteousness. It
Continue readingI spent yesterday at the Marin County Fair. It was, for the most part, a very pleasant experience and could have been any county fair, anywhere in America. The kids wanted to spend all their time on the midway, standing in long hot lines, spinning to the point of acute
Continue readingIn 1989, when it became clear that the former Soviet Union could no longer stop the spread of Democracy in the Eastern Bloc countries, many of us naively assumed that a new dawn of peace and harmony was about to arrive. We envisioned lions and lambs frolicking together, all bedecked
Continue readingWhile Obama’s team slobbered all over itself to join up with the UN crowd to investigate Israel’s blockade against a hostile country and its efforts to enforce that blockade, the Jewish Community Relations Council is seeking signatures on a petition asking for a somewhat more useful investigation: one into the
Continue readingAre you aware that Iran was caught smuggling weapons into Gaza? Do you think Israelis have any legitimate reason to be concerned that Hamas may try to receive weapons via boat? Did you know that Hamas activists have shot about 4000 rockets into southern Israel since Israel withdrew form Gaza?
Continue readingIn my post about Helen Thomas, I focused on her incredible stupidity in saying that Jews are the interlopers and “Palestinians” the indigenous people. In fact, the opposite is true. Jews have lived in Israel non-stop since about 1800 B.C. The “Palestinians” — a name I put in scare quotes
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