Can the U.S. Congress be called more hostile toward Palestinians and Arabs than even the Israeli Knesset? According to columnist Hafiz al Barghouty of Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah, the speech of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to a joint session of the U.S. Congress should be a lesson to Palestinians and Arabs not to trust the United States. For Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah of the Palestinian Territories, Hafiz al Barghouty...

I get to see Ezekiel Isaac Malekar at least twice a year. A pleasant person wearing a kippah, Malekar is a permanent invitee at many Indian government’s national functions, including the birth and death anniversaries of Mahatma Gandhi at the Gandhi Smriti, in the heart of New Delhi, where Gandhi was assassinated in 1948. Sitting next to a Maulvi, a Muslim teacher/scholar, Malekar recites passages from...

Last Memorial Day our nation was in the midst of a bitter debate over the repeal of “Don’t ask, don’t tell” (DADT); over whether women should serve aboard our nuclear submarines and in combat; over immigration, in particularly whether to provide a path to citizenship to certain undocumented immigrants who have come to our country as children and who go on to serve honorably in our...

It seems that when it comes to the Middle East, President Obama can’t win. With blistering criticism from Israelis over his assertion that peace talks with the Palestinians be based on the 1967 borders, this article from Samidoon of the Palestinian Territories rips into Obama as insincere about wanting justice for Arabs, and criticizes America for long favoring Arab despots and Israel. For Samidoon,...

And the volcanic lava flow that erupted in response to Pres. Obama’s outrageous assertion that Israel does not have the right to permanently annex the Palestinian land that it has illegally occupied since seizing it in the 1967 Six-Day War, continues, via the Wall Street Journal (emphasis is mine): Mr. Obama got some applause Sunday by calling for a “non-militarized” Palestinian state. But...

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Apocalypse, Nu? by Hart Williams “I waited all Tuesday and dear Jesus did not come …” ~Henry Emmons, a Millerite, 1844 William Miller d. 1849 For those who don’t know what’s “nu,” it’s happened once again. The American Zeitgeist Sweepstakes, also known as “Look at me!” has a new winner named something or other, who put up a bunch of billboards and...

WASHINGTON — Sometimes we learn more from the dogs that don’t bark and the wheels that don’t squeak. It’s likely you didn’t hear much about the controversy over House Speaker John Boehner’s recent commencement speech at Catholic University. There are many reasons for this, but one of them is that Boehner’s critics were civil and respectful. The media, it turns out, don’t cover...

As David Headley gets ready to spill the beans at a Chicago court about Pakistan ISI’s direct involvement in Mumbai 26/11 attacks, the White House in Washington is nervous. Headley’s statements during Chicago trial “will be explosive,” said one senior Obama administration official, who confirmed that White House officials are well aware and closely watching, says MSNBC. But that’s...

Another blithering idiot decides he’s qualified to run for President of the United States.

Osama bin Laden’s burial at sea by the crew of the San Diego-based aircraft carrier Carl Vinson, on deployment in the North Arabian Sea, drew a lot of attention and plenty of press. The burial evoked criticism, controversy and raised many questions as to the motives of the U.S. government, ranging from whether it was appropriate and legal to whether such violated religious and social traditions and customs. While...

Andrew McCarthy accuses Pres. Obama of “borderline treachery” for telling Israel that a future Palestinian state must be drawn along Israel’s original 1967 borders, also called “the Green Line.” Here is a chunk of what he writes (emphasis is mine):

This song seems particularly fitting amid reports that some folks spent all their money and sold everthing because they believed a prediction that the world would end today. True, sometimes my posts seem like purgatory — but trust me, the world is still here. So this song seems perfectly fitted to those who were true believers that it would all end today:

A New York Times reporter in California checked out apocalypse predictor Harold Camping’s headquarters in Oakland yesterday. Inside the offices, a reception desk was unstaffed and the door was locked. Several boxes filled with brochures were visible, showing slogans like “Gay Pride: Planned by God as a Sign of the End.” A calendar on the desk had a red circle around the 21st with a note reading: “Rejoice!” Did...

AUTHOR’S NOTE: This column was written in 1994 when Harold Camping made his prediction for the apocalypse. He now says he’s certain—absolutely, positively, 100% certain the rapture begins at 6 p.m., Saturday, May 21. But, what’s telling is that America hasn’t changed since 1994—the issues noted lightly in the column are still here. The facts change, the problems don’t. So, enjoy...

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THIS JUST IN! The world did not end today. The London Telegraph reports: Inhabitants of New Zealand, scheduled to be among the first to meet the apocalypse according to a US fundamentalist preacher, this morning confirmed they were still in existence as the appointed time was reached in their time zone. There were also unconfirmed reports that Tonga has, thus far, failed to boil into the Pacific. Eighty-nine-year-old...

After the audacious mission that took down the mastermind of 9/11, speculation has been rampant as to whether the perverse legacy of this man — his “dead hand” — will continue to control or influence future jihadist terrorist actions. No one knows for sure. Our intelligence agencies are still methodically analyzing the so-called trove of documents and data — “a bonanza of...

As I wrote here, following the dastardly September 11 attacks, the U.S. State Department offered a $25 million reward for information leading to the arrest or conviction of Osama Bin Laden. At the State Department’s “Rewards for Justice” web site, “Seeking Information Against International Terrorism,” one can still see “Usama bin Ladin’s” mug shot; one can still see the “Up to $25 Million...

Days ago, Germany’s Die Welt published an investigative report on a secret agreement between Venezuela and Iran for a joint medium-range missile base on Venezuelan soil. The 1,100 word article by columnist Clemens Wergin, outlines not only the location of the base, but offers details on its design and strategic purpose, which will not only pose a threat to the United States, but to Venezuela’s...

Before you buy another IPhone, or any IPhone if you are a first purchaser, read this article about almost a dozen suicides at the company in China that makes IPhones. The article is dated September 9, 2010, and the horror it describes happened in August 2010, but this is the first I’ve heard of it. And the only reason I heard about it now is because I am on TechRepublic‘s mailing list. The company’s...

No matter what President Obama would say today in a widely anticipated speech on the Middle East had to be tempered with certain expectation-lowering realities. Chief among them is that the pro-democracy fever sweeping the Arab world has much to do with Al-Jazeera and social media and little to do with Obama or Bush foreign policies, and that Israel, determined to be on the wrong side of history, will continue...

The blame-shifting excuses that the American Roman Catholic Church keeps coming up with in its decade-long effort to explain away the pedophile priest scandal have ranged from the sublime to the ridiculous. My favorite is that this was not an epidemic of pedophilia but homosexuality. On the part of the victims. But now a new excuse is being offered and it’s a whopper: A five-year study commissioned by...

At home and abroad, large numbers of people are asking the same question: regardless of the crime or the criminal, is it fitting with common decency to celebrate a man’s death – even a man like Osama bin Laden? For Portugal’s Visao, Filipe Luis writes that even if he and most people see the benefit of eliminating bin Laden, the celebration of the event in and out of Portugal was a shameful...

The Los Angeles Times recently reported that former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife, Maria Shriver, separated after she learned he had fathered a child more than a decade ago … with a longtime member of their household staff. Mr. Schwarzenegger publicly apologized for this prior indiscretion and Ms. Shriver has yet to issue any public statement. Needless to say, other Guvernator mistresses...