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What is now clear is that the only help Barack Obama was willing to give to the Arabs was his coldness to the Jewish nation. Or, and I want to be frank, his hostile indifference to Israel. It has been a not quite sub rosa sub-theme of his presidency since the beginning. He had not the slightest idea or maybe couldn’t care less that Zion and Zionism meant the retrieval of the Jews from a harrowing if remarkable history. The president is of the generation—or perhaps the temperament—that knows not the “long is the road”

The Socialist’s Journal: Activist JudgesJuly 6, 2010 at 07:00 am Trevor Brookins *With the questioning and possible confirmation of proposed Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagen there is the obligatory hand wringing by conservatives over what is assumed to be a liberal leaning mind. One of the favored arguments against liberal judges is that they are activist – meaning their decisions on cases take into consideration their vision for society as much as, or even more so than, the facts of the case in question. On its surface such behavior on the part of the judges would seem autocratic and undemocratic....

Los Angeles - Dozens of people who were blinded or otherwise suffered severe eye damage when they were splashed with caustic chemicals had their sight restored with transplants of their own stem cells--a stunning success for the burgeoning cell-therapy field, Italian researchers reported Wednesday. The treatment worked completely in 82 of 107 eyes and partially in 14 others, with benefits lasting up to a decade so far. One man whose eyes were severely damaged more than 60 years ago now has near-normal vision.

University of California librarians are urging professors not to submit research to Nature or 66 related journals to protest a 400 percent increase in the publisher's prices. A new contract with Nature Publishing Group would raise the university's subscription costs by more than $1 million, library and faculty leaders wrote in a letter this week to professors throughout the 10-campus system. With recent budget cuts, UC libraries simply can't handle the higher price, which would take effect in 2011, the letter said. Boycotting the Nature group would be a huge step for a university that, according to UC estimates, has...

Times Square Is Evacuated in Bomb Scare The scene at Times Square on Saturday night after police found a suspicious package inside a Pathfinder on West 45th Street. RAY RIVERA and KARIN HENRY May 1, 2010 A bomb in Times Square led to the evacuation of thousands of tourists and theatergoers from the area on a warm and busy Saturday evening, the police said. There was no explosion. “It appears to be a car bomb left in a Pathfinder between Seventh and Eighth,” said Deputy Commissioner Paul J. Browne, the Police Department’s chief spokesman. The device, he said, contained “explosive...

Recently, I read what probably amounts to the obituary for the AJC. It joins the growing list of print newspapers in deep, deep financial trouble. The LA Times, NY Times, Boston Globe, Cleveland Plain Dealer, etc. Here’s my horseback analysis of why they’re heading for extinction. As generally liberal statist propaganda outlets, they have for decades supported a government “education” system (and I used the term very loosely) dominated by the NEA and the idiot bureaucrats running the DOE in Washington. The unions and the NEA have largely hurled the traditional three “Rs” and critical thinking skills under the bus...

Eugenics … death of the defenceless The legacy of Darwin’s cousin Galton By Russell Grigg Few ideas have done more harm to the human race in the last 120 years than those of Sir Francis Galton. He founded the evolutionary pseudo-science of eugenics. Today, ethnic cleansing, the use of abortion to eliminate ‘defective’ unborn babies, infanticide, euthanasia, and the harvesting of unborn babies for research purposes all have a common foundation in the survival-of-the-fittest theory of eugenics. So who was Galton, what is eugenics, and how has it harmed humanity?...

This edition features mentoring Iraqi Policeman and an Iraqi Army exercise.

Writes countries must continue to examine the moral, medical, ethical and legal aspects of direct killing of disabled infants By Hilary White July 17, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A professional journal for pediatric nurses has produced an article examining the ethics of infanticide according to the Dutch Groningen Protocol. The Protocol permits the killing of babies in the Netherlands on the judgement of a physician based on "quality of life" criteria. The article, appearing in the May-June 2008 edition of the Journal of Pediatric Nursing, and jointly authored by J. Catlin and Renee Novakovich, talks about the effects of the Protocol...

This edition features a mass re-enlistment ceremony, U.S. service members explaining why they are proud to serve, and a bazaar celebration for the 4th of July. http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=21033&Itemid=163

This Edition features Iraqi Security Forces who are committed to protecting Citizens, Army Nurses in Baghdad and Soldiers in search of Weapons.

GOP also caucusing on Saturday You might not know it, but there's also a Republican caucus in Nevada on Saturday. While the Democratic candidates have been showering attention on the Silver State in order to sway voters in preparation for their Saturday event, Republican hopefuls have been largely absent, preferring to campaign in Michigan and South Carolina. Thus the GOP caucus here hasn't garnered nearly the attention of the Democratic one. As it stands now, there is no clear Republican front-runner nationally. Mike Huckabee won Iowa, John McCain took New Hampshire and Mitt Romney picked up Michigan. The race in...

Press Conference Update – BG Jim Yarbrough Iraqi Security Update. Stryker Operation – Strykers work toward security in Baghdad. 5/7 Cav – Soldiers remain focused on fight. The “Raid Report” – Daily update on Iraqi and Coalition security progress. Weather News Desk – Headlines from around the region. Iraqis celebrated the re-opening of the famous Abu Nawas street. The Bush administration is focusing its efforts on achieving several more limited, but achievable political goals. And finally, the Iraqi National Orchestra, composed of Shia, Sunni and Kurds, continues to play despite kidnapping and death threats from extremists. Courthouse – Opening a...

Air Power Update – Air Component Commander talks about Air Power contributions to the War on Terrorism. Runway Reconstruction – Navy Seabees work on a crucial air strip at al Taqadum. Air Strike Kills Insurgents – Apache helicopter takes out terrorists. The “Raid Report” – Daily update on Iraqi and Coalition security progress. Weather News Desk – Headlines from around the region The American Ambassador to Iraq expects to meet his Iranian counterpart in Baghdad in the coming weeks to discuss the situation in Iraq, the Government of Iraq announced more than 3,000 families have returned to their homes in...

Reduction in Violence • Massive Weapons Cache Watch Now Reduction in Violence – LTG Ray Odierno highlights reduced overall levels of violence directly attributable to Surge operations. Balad Aerial Port – Airmen at the busiest DoD Aerial Port supply missions in Iraq. Massive Weapons Cache - Soldiers uncover a huge weapons cache containing 124 fully assembled EFP’s. The “Raid Report” – Daily update on Iraqi and Coalition security progress. News Desk – Headlines from around the region. Provincial Reconstruction Teams – PRTs work with Iraqi leaders to better direct rebuilding efforts. Task Force Vigilant – Members of Task Force Vigilant...

<p>It only took the nation's most prominent business newspaper a decade and a half to figure it out, but the Job Market's Strength May Have Been Overstated.</p> <p>That was the headline the other day in The Wall Street Journal, which considers itself the nation's pre-eminent financial newspaper.</p>

Can smaller be better? As the AJC shrinks, it promises to upgradeFirst they took Furman Bisher out of Valdosta. Then the Atlanta Journal-Constitution dropped weekly news sections for Cherokee, DeKalb, Fayette, Clayton and Henry counties. Now, the city’s literati are up in arms over the newspaper’s plan to cut a book editor’s job. “Perhaps you are planning to hire a video game reviewer to speed the decline of America,” wrote Ellen Lewis, one of more than 2,400 people who signed an online petition organized by the National Book Critics Circle. “Please reconsider the book review position. The great Atlanta tradition,...

WSJ: The We’re Schizophrenic Journal The Wall Street Journal has a reputation for being conservative (at least on economic issues) and Republican. It’s true that the editorial department consistently takes pro-business, country club Republican positions. But the news department is a different story. It’s filled with journalists who went to the same lefty journalism schools as their peers at the New York Times and the Washington Post. Witness these different takes on Barack Obama’s record in the Illinois legislature. An editorial from the editorial department: http://www.opinionjournal.com/federation/feature/?id=110009664 -------------------------------- Obama downplayed his thin federal experience while championing his record on the state...

NEW YORK Managing Editor Paul Steiger of The Wall Street Journal and Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. of The Washington Post were both asked to be part of last weekend's unique joint Op-Ed piece by the editors of The New York Times and Los Angeles Times, which defended the publication of stories about the secret SWIFT bank monitoring program, E&P has learned. But each declined. "We had talked about doing something together," Steiger said. "But when I looked at it and thought about it, our position was so different from theirs -- that nobody asked us not to publish [our...

I am looking for recommendations for interesting and well written conservative publications. Not ones that regurgitate each other but new cutting edge thinking. I need to spice up my bedtime reading.