Category Archives: Politics

Northbrook screening of “The J Street Challenge” draws almost 400; Did J Street Win by Losing?

Thanks to all of you who attended Sunday’s screening of “The J Street Challenge”. It was great to see so many of you there. There will be more local screenings in the future. For more information on The J Street Challenge. … Continue reading

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Holocaust remembrance week: How armed Jews saved lives

WASHINGTON POST By David Kopel May 2, 2014 ….One thing that increased the number of Jewish survivors during the Final Solution was armed Jewish resistance, as I detailed in my article Armed Resistance to the Holocaust.  (19 Journal on Firearms & Public Policy 144 … Continue reading

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Into the fray: Kerry and the ‘A-word’… actually, both A-words

Kerry’s “apartheid” comment has caused quite a stir.  Hard to believe our top diplomat—and one who represents Israel’s strongest ally—would invoke such a discredited lie. Kerry’s suggestion that an apartheid state is one of two possible futures for Israel suggests not … Continue reading

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Dr. Qanta Ahmed talks about Honor Diaries on The Dennis Miller Show

DENNIS MILLER SHOW May 1, 2014 Short interview, worth your time to hear. Dr. Qanta Ahmed talks about Honor Diaries on The Dennis Miller Show. Where is the women’s movement on this subject ? HONOR DIARIES FEATURES NINE COURAGEOUS WOMEN’S … Continue reading

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Half the people in Illinois want OUT of Illinois

WASHINGTON POST By Niraj Chokshi April 30, 2014 Illinois’s residents are not very happy with their state. Fewer than one in five feel it’s the best (or among the best) state in which to live, a distinction it shares only … Continue reading

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The Donald Sterling Affair; His words were vulgar and bigoted, but private.

AISH.COM By Jeff Jacoby May 1, 2014 A few thoughts on the Donald Sterling scandal, but first a personal disclosure: I have sometimes uttered words in the heat of a domestic squabble that I later regretted. I have expressed thoughts … Continue reading

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Obama’s foreign policy of self-delusion

WASHINGTON POST By Charles Krauthammer May 1, 2014 Barack Obama’s 949-word response Monday to a question about foreign policy weakness showed the president at his worst: defensive, irritable, contradictory and at times detached from reality. It began with a complaint about negative … Continue reading

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Dold on Kerry Israel ‘apartheid’ comment: Should not be tolerated

CHICAGO SUN TIMES By Lynn Sweet May 1, 2014 WASHINGTON–Former Rep. Bob Dold, R-Ill., slammed Secretary of State Kerry for comparing Israel to an “apartheid state” with Kerry using a phrase he later retracted, still touching a nerve in the … Continue reading

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Ben Rhodes at center of plan to whitewash White House on Benghazi

AMERICAN THINKER By Ed Lasky April 29, 2014 We finally know who orchestrated the phony story that an internet video was behind the Benghazi attack.  From Judicial Watch: Judicial Watch announced today that on April 18, 2014, it obtained 41 new … Continue reading

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Checking My Privilege: Character as the Basis of Privilege

PRINCETON TORY By Tal Fortgang, ’17 April 2, 2014 There is a phrase that floats around college campuses, Princeton being no exception, that threatens to strike down opinions without regard for their merits, but rather solely on the basis of … Continue reading

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