From Jewish World Review
by HEATHER ROBINSON
llinois Republican Congressional candidate Joel Pollak showed up at Chicago’s tax day tea party in Daley Plaza and attacked the idea that the tea party movement is motivated by prejudice.
In his speech, Pollak said, “I’ve been to a couple of Tea Party rallies …
Remember the scene from Woody Allen’s film “Annie Hall” in which a pompous know-it-all is pontificating in a movie line about the ideas of media scholar Marshall McLuhan? After enduring the man’s maundering for several minutes, Woody Allen’s character pulls McLuhan himself from behind a movie poster and McLuhan …
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Late last month, the Dhaka home of Bangladeshi journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, publisher and editor of that country’s largest weekly newspaper, The Weekly Blitz, was broken into. Police in Dhaka have done nothing to investigate the incident.
Choudhury, who faces prosecution by his government on charges of “blasphemy, treason, and sedition”– for …
From Mom Logic
by HEATHER ROBINSON & JENNIFER GINSBERG
Who is a feminist?
We’ve been asking that question since reading “Going Rogue,” Sarah Palin’s autobiography, and after reading columns by prominent feminists deriding the idea that the former Governor of Alaska is a feminist.
Many of these columnists …
Ilan Berman’s new book,“Winning the Long War, Retaking the Offensive Against Radical Islam,” (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2009) catalogues American successes and failures to defeat radical Islam post-9/11. In its quiet, detailed, meticulously researched way, it is a powerful call to action in the war against radical Islam—especially the war of ideas.
The book is …
Today MomLogic.com features my article, co-written with Jennifer Ginsberg, about the evil of Kim Jong-il’s widespread human rights abuses in North Korea. While Americans are justifiably thrilled that Euna Lee and Laura Ling have been spared, we should not allow their release to turn into a propaganda victory for Kim Jong-il.
On Friday Philip Klein of The American Spectator did a great job of highlighting leftist hypocrisy in his appearance on MSNBC.
Klein was on to discuss Rush Limbaugh’s recent comparison of the Nazi Third Reich eagle logo and the Obama Administration’s new health care logo.
While Klein said that there’s “no excuse” for Limbaugh to have …
From MomLogic
by HEATHER ROBINSON & JENNIFER GINSBERG
In the aftermath of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s announcement earlier this month that she plans to resign from office, pundits have been scrambling for an explanation.
Personally, the whole matter has left me feeling a little like …
What Euna and Laura Faced in North Korea
From MomLogic
by HEATHER ROBINSON & JENNIFER GINSBERG
Watching journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee return from North Korea escorted by former President Bill Clinton, no one with a heart could fail to be delighted — and relieved. Mothers across the country were especially moved to …