After 10 years of seeking security through “land for peace” deals, Israel has finally rediscovered the formula for real security: war for peace. Notice what you have seen in the news for the past few weeks: Europeans screaming about civilian casualties at...
POLITICS
The Hollywood Left on Guns
With the Academy Awards behind us, we now turn our attention to the SAP Awards, honoring the biggest Second Amendment Phony. And the nominees are: — “The West Wing.” In a recent episode, President Josiah Bartlet, played by Martin Sheen, pronounced...
Fun-with-Dim-Activists Day: A Day At The IMF/World Bank Protests
I’d planned on writing a snarky, mocking narrative of my day at last weekend’s IMF/World Bank protests. A friend and I had set our sights on infiltrating the great unwashed activists, blending in, then collecting great stories to tell about the twisted...
The Wall Street Journal on Illegal Immigration: Bordering on Idiocy
What does combating illegal immigration have to do with combating Middle Eastern terrorists in America? Well, duh. Let’s review: Three of the 19 Sept. 11 hijackers were illegal visa overstayers. Seven of the 19 obtained fraudulent ID cards with the help of...
Ms. Coach vs. Mr. Coach
“There’s a lot of outcry now over the serious lack of female coaches, but not enough being done to solve the problem,” said a former physical education professor. According to Linda Carpenter, the co-author of the Women in Intercollegiate Sport...
The Problem with Washington
Why on earth would you want to move to Washington, D.C.? Inside the Beltway, this is an absurd and unthinkable question. Washington, after all, is the Center of the Universe. The Pillar of Power. The Dominion of Movers and Shakers. Who wouldn’t want to live and...
Race Rationales vs. Results
Can you think of any reason why the past or present sufferings of blacks would justify letting a white student get admitted to an elite public high school in San Francisco over a Chinese American student with higher qualifications? Most people would think that such a...
The Palestinian Victims?
As Israel pulls out of the West Bank — a foolish move that will only allow Palestinian terrorists to regroup — the media is being flooded with piteous tales about Palestinian victims, who, we are told, are innocent civilians. But a glance at the stories...
“Good” Teachers
The next time someone receives an award as an outstanding teacher, take a close look at the reasons given for selecting that particular person. Seldom is it because his or her students did higher quality work in math or spoke better English or in fact had any tangible...
From Time Immemorial – Evidence of Unrecorded Arab Immigration (Part 5 of 6)
The central thesis of Peters’ book is that a significant proportion of Arabs living in the area that became Israel were actually immigrants or migrants from other parts of Palestine, who made up a large proportion of the 590,000 Palestinian refugees in 1948....
From Time Immemorial – Peters’ Book From Time Immemorial Lacks Objectivity (Part 6 of 6)
The central contentions of Peters’ book have been shown to be undermined by her lack of objectivity. Time does not permit checking the rest of her work with equal rigor; however, several examples will serve to show that Peters’ characteristic misuse of...
See Dick and Jane Weep
Home schooling is looking more and more like the only sane educational option these days. The latest news of the weird in our public schools comes from Seattle. Last week, The Seattle Times reports, nearly 300 students from two middle schools were subjected to three...
From Time Immemorial- Natural Increase and the Growth of Palestine’s Arab Population (Part 4 of 6)
Peters’ main contention is that many of the Arabs living in the area that became Israel did not descend from Arabs who had been there “from time immemorial” but were relatively recent arrivals. One indication of this migration, she argues, is that...
Another War Brought on Pacifism
It is ironic that the current Middle East conflict is taking place on the 20th anniversary of the Falkland Islands war because both involved the same key factor — war brought on by pacifism. In both cases, a weaker force attacked a stronger force, secure in the...
Do States Have a Right of Secession?
Do states have a right of secession? That question was settled through the costly War of 1861. In his recently published book, “The Real Lincoln,” Thomas DiLorenzo marshals abundant unambiguous evidence that virtually every political leader of the time and...
From Time Immemorial – The British Mandate (Part 3 of 6)
The British assumed control of Palestine as a result of World War I; their administration of the territory was later recognized by League of Nations mandate. Peters persistently interprets the Mandate as having the goal of developing a Jewish state in Palestine:...
Campaign Finances and Corruption
In one of the great ironies of contemporary politics, Congress [last month] passed an economic “stimulus” package the day after the recession was declared to be over. Obviously, the legislators didn’t really care about stimulating the economy, which...
From Time Immemorial – Palestine on the Eve of Zionist Settlement: An Empty Land? (Part 2 of 6)
In 1901, Israel Zangwill wrote, “Palestine is a country without a people; the Jews are a people without a country.” 1 Joan Peters takes up this view, claiming a “profusion of evidence of an uninhabited Palestine [p.170],” and citing many...
Sick: Kiddie Suicide Bomber Chic
As I helped my toddler get dressed this morning, in a crisp white T-shirt imprinted with an American flag and a pair of embroidered blue jeans, I couldn’t erase a heinous picture from my mind. It was an Associated Press photo taken Saturday in Berlin, Germany,...
From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict Over Palestine (Part 1 of 6)
In 1984 Joan Peters’ book From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over Palestine appeared to much critical acclaim. The book won the National Jewish Book Award; the New Republic said it would “change the mind of our generation.”...
Congresswoman Maxine “B” Waters: Disrespected
Congresswoman Maxine Waters, D-Calif. — offended! At a meeting last month, Los Angeles Police Commission head Rick Caruso allegedly referred to Waters as a “bitch.” Others attended the meeting, but no one confirmed or denied that Caruso made the...
Powell’s Insane Mission to Reward Terrorism
If the definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result, Secretary of State Powell’s mission to the Middle East is crazy. “However long the Israeli incursions continue,” he said on Thursday, “the...
Homegrown Terrorism: Militant Environmentalism
For years Islamic terrorists attacked Americans throughout the world, and we failed to heed the warning signs: the bombings of Pan Am flight 103 in 1988, of our embassies in Africa in 1998, of the USS Cole in 2000, of the World Trade Center in 1993. This past Sept. 11...
Smile, It’s Patriot’s Day!
It’s a shame so many taxpayers get upset paying for their beloved government services. Why continue to let April 15th be a day of nausea and nose bleeds? We need a little attitude adjustment. Let’s take a hint from Congress and their passage of the Patriot...
Why Israel Must Not Withdraw
Colin Powell has failed, so far, in his attempt to browbeat Israel into joining America’s official surrender in the War on Terrorism. Yet Ariel Sharon has repeatedly stated that his armies will eventually withdraw from the West Bank, and that Israel does not...
Eliminate Double Taxation of Dividends
In attacking the credibility of many public companies’ financial statements, and calling for yet more stringent regulations, the U.S. government claims to champion the small investor; but in reality its own dividend taxation policy is largely to blame for the...
Irrationality in Our Legal System
When the sentence for Andrea Yates’ killing her five children was announced, most of the media reported it as a life sentence and some noted that she would be eligible for parole in 40 years. In reality, Andrea Yates can be freed at any time by any present or...
Should Genes Be Patented?
On October 2000, I argued in “ Who Owns Your Genes? ” that naturally occurring genes should not be patented because they are not inventions, but discoveries of what already exists in nature. On January 2001, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO)...
The Price of Peace “At Any Price” is Death
You cannot make sense of the Israeli-Palestinian war without first making sense of 1993. That year found Israel in reasonably good shape. Its economy was the most powerful in the Middle East. Its military power was respected and feared throughout the region. Its...
A Reparations for Slavery Scam at Tax Time
At tax time this year, some blacks are going to end up paying more than they owe — and not all of it to the Internal Revenue Service. Confidence men are especially targeting elderly blacks in the South, charging them a fee for filing claims for tax refunds based...
Ozzy and Busta: MTV’s Drunken Stupor
Once again, MTV is basking in the glow of critical acclaim. This time it’s a cultural breakthrough called “The Osbournes,” a “brilliant” (Time magazine) reality show chronicling the family life of heavy metal has-been Ozzy Osbourne....
Cloning In A Free Society?
“Life is creation, not a commodity,” says President Bush, defending his view that all cloning should be permanently outlawed. Life is a creation of whom — and for whose purpose? Do we make our own lives, for our own sakes, or is somebody else doing...
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