On Sunday’s edition of Meet the Press, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reed accused the Republicans of putting party loyalty ahead of the needs of the nation. He stated that he hoped that the Republicans had learned their lesson and would work with Obama and give him what he needs to turn the country around. Specifically […]
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Fact checkers and truth squads are the media’s latest tool for blurring the line between the editorial page and the new page. The ubiquitous fact checks are editorializing dressed up as verification. While on some occasions there are actual facts to verify, for the most part the fact checks defend a partisan liberal viewpoint on […]
On January 11th 2012, Stuart Varney from the Fox Business Network defended Mitt Romney’s career at Bain Capital in a report called Capitalism vs. Socialism. However, when Texas Governor Rick Perry claimed that Obama was a socialist, the Socialist Party USA claimed that Obama wasn’t a socialist at all saying, “Socialists know what Obama is: another […]
by Eliana Benador In order to better understand this complex situation, one must consult the Jewish Torah. The Torah is not a prayer book. In Judaism we have prayer books exclusively to pray. We have the *Weekday* Siddur or prayer book; we have *Shabbat* Siddur or prayer book, ad hoc for Shabbat. For Rosh Hashana […]
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Liberty Is Not Complicated
This brilliant book collects 50 short essays by Ron Paul on issues that range from abortion and assassination to unions and Zionism. It is no disparate assemblage, though; rather it is unified around a central theme, the vital importance of liberty. Paul’s defense of liberty and opposition to its contemporary enemies put him at odds […]
A LITTLE URINE WASHES OUT In case you haven’t heard some US soldiers might have urinated on dead Taliban fighters. Hopefully they did it facing in the direction away from Mecca, as American soldiers have been ordered to do to avoid offending Muslims, and that the dead Taliban didn’t have Korans in their pockets at the […]
The psychological nature of a totalitarian dictatorship is created by two closely related phenomena: namely propaganda and terror. Because terror reinforces the monopoly of mass communication, socialist propaganda can only be fully understood within this context. Conversely, terror assumes its all-pervading quality because it is spread about through continuous repetition of the official political narrative. […]
Slightly modified for stand-alone publication, a one-chapter excerpt from my book, Three Days In August: A U.S. Army Special Forces Soldier’s Fight For Military Justice, provides graphic details of then-Green Beret Sgt. 1st Class Kelly A. Stewart’s time on the run after being wrongfully-convicted by a U.S. Army court-martial panel in Germany.
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Compromise Impossible
The Western doctrine of non-violence depends on the willingness to compromise. To resolve any conflict by sitting down at a table, finding points of agreement and then working through the rest. The ruthless killing fields of the twentieth century have not shaken that eternal faith in a diplomatic solution, rather they have only strengthened it. […]
Hearing the mainstream media breathlessly report that the unemployment rate declined to 8.5% makes it sound like all is well and the economy is mending. Unfortunately, there’s more to the story. The official unemployment rate, called “U-3” by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), doesn’t include discouraged workers who gave up looking for work, nor does it […]
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The Paul Phenomenon
ELIZABETHTOWN, PA — Listening to Charles Krauthammer on TV explaining the surging popularity of Ron Paul, I was deeply impressed by the prudence displayed by this usually partisan commentator. Unlike other neoconservatives, Krauthammer recognizes that the Paul-phenomenon is not about to go away. Least of all can it be made to disappear by dumping toxic […]
by Eliana Benador “So teach us to number our days, that we may get a heart of wisdom.” Psalm 90 “If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment […]