Category Archives: Politics

GOP blasts President Obama’s ‘capitulation’ to U.N. on Iran

POLITICO by Burgess Everett July 20, 2015 But there are scant signs the White House’s move to seek the organization’s blessing will cost it votes in Congress Influential Republicans and a handful of Democrats howled in protest Monday over President … Continue reading

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Trinity: 2015. The nuclear age began 70 years ago today

TABLET MAGAZINE by Warren Kozak July 16, 2015 One of history’s most important dividing lines was etched in a remote and desolate part of New Mexico exactly 70 years ago today, and the world knew nothing about it at the … Continue reading

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Chuck Schumer’s profile in courage moment

JEWISH JOURNAL by Douglas J. Workman July 20, 2015 Dear Senator Schumer: I write to you in desperation.  Somehow I believe that the fate of the Iran Agreement will come down to you.  As the foremost defender of the State … Continue reading

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Israeli Opposition Leader: Iran Deal Will Bring Chaos to the Middle East

ATLANTIC MONTHLY by Jeffrey Goldberg July 16, 2015 Isaac Herzog, foreign-minister-in-waiting, believes Israel is endangered by the Vienna agreement Last December, when I interviewed the leader of Israel’s left-leaning Labor Party, Isaac “Bougie” Herzog, at the Brookings Institution’s Saban Forum, … Continue reading

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The ICC Channels the Queen of Hearts on Israel

COMMENTARY by Evelyn Gordon July 17, 2015 If the International Criminal Court ever had any pretensions of being a serious legal institution, they were effectively demolished by yesterday’s ruling overturning Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda’s decision not to investigate Israel’s botched raid on … Continue reading

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Obama’s awesome new race database even more awesome than you imagined

HOT AIR by Jazz Shaw July 19, 2015 We recently discussed a story that wasn’t particularly popular here (to be charitable) which dealt with a new White House plan to implement enforced neighborhood diversity in American towns and cities through … Continue reading

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Germany tells Iran: Improve ties with Israel in order to gain favor with West

JERUSALEM POST by Reuters July 19, 2015 German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel is on a three-day visit to the Islamic Republic. …..Gabriel, who is also economy minister, is the first senior figure from a large western government to visit Iran … Continue reading

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Yes, there is an Alternative

ISRAEL HAYOM by Ret Ambassador Yoram Ettinger July 19, 2015 ….A reasonable alternative to the July 2015 agreement with Iran would reject the Carter state of mind, resurrecting U.S. confidence in its moral and strategic exceptionalism and restore U.S. power-projection … Continue reading

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Charlie Hebdo Editor: No More Mohammed Cartoons

MIDDLE EAST FORUM by Raheem Kassam July 17, 2015 The editor of satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo has declared that he will not publish any more cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, just six months after the Islamist terrorist attack on … Continue reading

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The World Requires Voter ID, but George Soros and Hillary Clinton Are Determined the U.S. Won’t

NATIONAL REVIEW by John Fund July 16, 2015 What the rest of the world calls an anti-fraud measure, Democrats call racist. It’s been over seven years since the Supreme Court, in a 6–3 decision that was written by liberal favorite … Continue reading

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