Politics | Op-Ed

Jussie Smollett and the Hard Lessons about Facts and Assumptions | National Review

As Jussie Smollett’s case enters its last act, the cracks in his initial story are further deepened, suggesting that what started as an alleged hate crime likely never happened.

Politics | Op-Ed

Call it what it is: Andrew McCabe plotted a coup to overturn results of the election

Will leaker McCabe face justice?

Politics | Op-Ed

AOC: The Perfect Graduate of Today's Biased Colleges

Reforming our educational system is the most important mission of our time.

Politics | Op-Ed

Publishing Stupid 'Hot Takes' Is Why We Can't Have National Discussions

Is there any American newsroom left that has the good sense not to publish outlandish hot takes on hot-button issues? Where?

Politics | Op-Ed

Termites, Bigots and GOATs: Rationalizing Complicity with Anti-Semitism

Consider the front page story in the New York Times Sunday Review, which singled out the Palestinian issue as "one of the great moral challenges of our time" -- ignoring Syria, Ukraine, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Chechnya, Tibet, Cyprus and many far greater

Politics | Op-Ed

The Right Should Reject Tucker Carlson’s Victimhood Populism | National Review

Carlson accurately identifies certain maladies, but they are maladies that public policy can’t cure.

Politics | Interesting Links

The only way to unify America is to kick California out

The 2000 election was boring. With both candidates trying to out-moderate each other, they were almost indistinguishable. The biggest breach of civility was Democratic candidate Al Gore’s very practiced sighing during the debates. The campaign did not b

As a Californian who was born and raised in the state:I approve of this message.

Politics | Op-Ed

Prager: What the Tree of Life Synagogue Massacre Means

The dishonest now have the Pittsburgh massacre to blame on Trump.

Politics | Op-Ed

Dennis Prager: When I First Realized America Is Exceptional

Only in America.

Politics | Op-Ed

DNA Doesn’t Define Who We Really Are | National Review

Should we cast aside our family heritage because of a pie chart on a DNA test?

Politics | Op-Ed

Stop Apologizing for Our History | National Review

Today’s ill-informed critics of Churchill would be speaking German if he had not led the fight against Hitler.

Politics | Trump

Trump the Indestructible | National Review

The fact that the learned anti-Trump clarion call has become so faint is a persuasive barometer of the pre-electoral weather.

Today’s Kavanaugh vote will transform America and undo much of the legislative damage from the Obama years

News | News

‘He would be the first to kneel’: Pat Tillman exploited to attack Kaepernick, biographer says

The death of Pat Tillman has been used to strengthen political talking points since he was killed in 2004.

This is one person's opinion. I have no idea what Tillman would think so I wouldn't be surprised either way. Personally, I have no problem with Kaepernick's actions and I'm retired Navy vet. This might be a surprise to a lot of people (tho it shouldn't be) but a LOT of vets support him and what he did. I know quite a few and many of them have been in the thick of combat so when anyone says what Kaepernick did was disrespectful to our veterans they need to keep in mind that veterans are just as divided as the civilian population at large. It actually get's fucking annoying when people think they are speaking on my behalf because again we vets are not cyborgs who all think alike. Do I think Kaepernick a hero? I don't know if I'd go that far. I said I'm not the least bit offended but I really don't know his mind and heart. I actually think it's kind of entertaining watching both sides go at it. I'm sure that will make me enemies on both sides but whatever. I DO think it's rather inappropriate how so many are appropriating what happened to Tillman's image for their talking points. Oh well, makes for entertaining internet banter.

Politics | Media Bias

David French: The Ideological Blindness at the Heart of Media Bias | National Review

Most mainstream-media newsrooms are overwhelmingly populated by progressives who think alike.

Politics | Op-Ed

Why I'm boycotting Nike: Get woke and go broke

Nike should understand that sports represents the best of America, not the loudest and most divisive protester.

Politics | Politics

The Democratic Party versus the Jewish People (Michael Lumish) ~ Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News

I understand that most American Jews do not want to hear this message, but there is no getting away from certain obvious political truths.

Politics | Op-Ed

U.S. is Taking an Axe to the "Peace Process." That’s Good. – Jewish Policy Center

The Trump administration has restored the United States to the position of honest broker – emphasis on “honest” – and taken a hatchet to a series of fantasies underlying the notion of an Israeli-Palestinian “peace process.”  

The entire framework for the so called “peace process” has been built on a series of lies, false assumptions, and wishful thinking. The United States is changing that. Finally.

Politics | Op-Ed

How to Think about Privilege | National Review

Progressives misuse the term “white” as a catch-all for everything they dislike.

Great opinion piece about the idiocy of the idea of “whiteness.”

Politics | Politics

Wilmette girl's solo dog walk indeed shameful — we should be ashamed of this nanny state. - Chicago Tribune

John Kass: Investigation of Wilmette mom for letting her daughter walk the dog around the block is further evidence of the Nanny State's failure to our children.

Politics | Op-Ed

Israel and the grave danger of media bias

Misinformation matters because media outlets have great power. They shape the way we understand the world and, ultimately, drive our behavior.

Politics | Op-Ed

Dennis Prager: Explaining the Left: Part II

The governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, did Americans a favor last week.

Politics | Op-Ed

Andrew Cuomo Was Never That Great | National Review

Try as he might to convince us otherwise, New York’s shape-shifting governor remains a failure.

Politics | Politics

Millennial Socialism: Stupid, Evil, or Both? - Kurt Schlichter

Congratulations, oh most insufferable of generations – against all odds and confounding the experts, you have still somehow managed to make yourselves even more annoying. Apparently, the hep new jive among your tiresome cohort is “Democratic Socialism,” resurrecting a poisonous nineteenth-century political death cult and putting a kicky new spin on it to make it palatable for the suckers. It’s the political equivalent of hipsters who insist vinyl records are superior because they didn’t grow up forced to crank their tunes on that miserable format.

Politics | Election: 2020

Ocasio-Cortez: The Unserious Face of an Unserious Movement | National Review

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the Great Young Hope progressives deserve.

Politics | Op-Ed

Explaining American Leftists: Part I | National Review

The combination of affluence and secularism produces boredom as surely as the combination of hydrogen and oxygen produces water.

Politics | Op-Ed

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Generation Know-Nothing’s Perfect Representative

It’s not what Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez doesn’t know that gets her into trouble; it’s what she knows for sure that just ain’t so.

Politics | Trump

The Likeliest Explanation for Trump’s Helsinki Fiasco | National Review

Even if Russia hadn’t meddled in the election at all, Trump would still admire Putin because Trump admires men like Putin — which is why he’s praised numerous other dictators and strongmen.

I think that the president has been doing a great job overall. BUT, that doesn't excuse his horrific performance in Helsinki. You NEVER side with a foreign power against your own people. Our intelligence agencies have been compromised, BUT ultimately they are still there working for the president and it's his responsibility. Aside from that, everyone understands at this point that Russia meddled.

Politics | Op-Ed

Yes, We Should Fight for Montenegro | National Review

If the NATO alliance cracks, then Europe takes a giant step back to the great-power politics of the past, which led Americans to fight in unimaginably brutal European wars. If it endures, peace prevails.

Of course we should. NATO, all of it, is the reason for the longest sustained period of peace in European history. Duh.

Politics | Op-Ed

Shapiro: How Trump Haters End Up Helping Trump

“Trump is a Nazi.” “Trump is ruining America.” “Trump supporters are Nazis who are ruining America.” It’s difficult to live in Los Angeles without hearing

Politics | Op-Ed

Terror kites, terror tunnels, suicide bombings, stabbings, rock-throwing: the lie of the Palestinian “right of return”

Nazi politician and propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels once advised: “When one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. [One should] keep up the lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous.”

This is one of the best opinion pieces about the Palestinian issue I have read in a very long time...

“Jews do not refer to the slaughters, pogroms, property confiscation and deportations they endured in Arab countries as nakbas (the Arabic word for catastrophes). Instead of using these slaughters and expulsions to drive their narrative, Jewish Israelis have chosen to build a country. None of them, including the Holocaust survivors who (to put it mildly) had the right to be heart-wrenchingly furious after losing most of their families, have ever returned to their countries of origin to throw bombs, stab civilians, run down people with vans, and commit other acts of terror and revenge.”

Politics | Op-Ed

Justice Kennedy Retires, and the Legal and Political Ramifications Are Immense | National Review

The next few months may well define the Supreme Court for a generation — and help decide who controls Congress. Buckle up. It’s going to be a wild ride.

Politics | Op-Ed

George Will: The Charles Krauthammer I knew

When he was asked how to become a columnist, Charles Krauthammer would say, with characteristic drollery, "First, you go to medical school."

Politics | Politics

How low can they go?

With respect to the 1,500 “missing” kids, those in the know argue the descriptor is innacurate. These “unaccompanied alien children” (UACs) aren’t missing they say, but have been placed with vetted sponsors, often relatives already living in the

Politics | Politics

Trump's poll numbers confirm the media is still just 'crying wolf'

The disconnect between the nightly news and the average Joe must frustrate the president as he makes progress on a number of fronts.

I didn’t vote for the man. But the incessant attempt by the media to undermine the administration has to stop. It’s bad for the country, and that is all that should matter.

Politics | Politics

Opinion | Three Cheers for Cultural Appropriation - The New York Times

If we make people stay in the ethnic and racial lane assigned to them by accident of birth, we’ll lose everything that makes this country great.

This article should be required reading for everyone. The idea of "cultural appropriation" is diametrically opposed to the very American idea of the melting pot, or "e pluribus unum," which means "out of many, one." The best of what Americans are comes from a shared culture derived from many sources. Cultural appropriation is a regressive, foolish, and dangerous idea.

From the article (a comment that I especially related to:

"Consider the simple act of eating a meal in an era of cultural purity. This weekend I had dinner in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, cooked by a Palestinian who was raised in Israel where her brother served in Parliament. Yet her restaurant is billed as Lebanese. And she accents her traditional dishes with herbs that would never be found on a plate in the Levant. But if proponents of cultural purity had their way, I’d have spent the evening cordoned on the Upper West Side watching “Yentl” and eating gefilte fish."
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Politics | POLITICS

David Brooks: The Decline of Anti-Trumpism

The quality of the opposition is deteriorating.

I didn’t vote for Donald Trump. I don’t regret that decision. But the opposition is almost comically detached.

Music | Music

Another legend remembered | My Rick Springfield crush

There's such collective sadness in our world today. Not only is there still the aftermath of earthquakes, hurricanes, floods and fires, there's the horrifying news out of Las Vegas of the mass shooting at an outdoor concert, with 58 confirmed dead and mor

A nice article, written by someone who I really respect, that encapsulates my own feelings about a day that has been depressing at the national level.

Politics | Op-Ed

The Left’s Dictator Envy

The more you learn about Kim Jong-un, the scarier things get. Don’t tell that to Chelsea Handler, however ...

Politics | Op-Ed

The RINO Hunters Become the Hunted

As Donald Trump sides with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer over their Republican counterparts, one of his allies lobs a telling insult at a movement conservative.

Led by unprincipled talk show hosts and internet pseudo-pundits, it's obvious to me that Republixans are now fully engaged in the type of disconnected from logic emotionalism that they have accused democrats of for decades. P

"A surfeit of bombastic huckster-enablers in right-wing media ensured that, over time, attacks on so-called RINOs were less and less grounded in substantive disagreements."

Politics | Politics

North Korea Says It Successfully Tested a Hydrogen Bomb—Is It Time to Nuke Kim’s Economy?

Little more than a week ago, President Trump claimed North Korea was ‘starting to respect us.’ On Sunday, they claimed to have successfully detonated a hydrogen bomb.

Politics | Politics

The Rise of the Violent Left

Antifa's activists say they're battling burgeoning authoritarianism on the American right. Are they fueling it instead?

This was written before Charlottesville by a left leaning writer. While I FULLY disagree with the president's assertion that there were "good people" on both sides in Charlottesville, both democrats and republicans need to acknowledge the violence originating on the extremes of their side. Neither is free from violent extremism, and it's time for people to stop pretending that their side is virtuous while the other side has exclusive ownership of the problem.

Politics | Op-Ed

My Party Is in Denial About Donald Trump

We created him, and now we're rationalizing him. When will it stop?

Fantastic opinion piece by a principled GOP senator.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Progressive Groups’ Banning of Star of David Flags Isn’t Anti-Zionism. It’s Anti-Semitism.

Why are some American progressives embracing overt anti-Semitism?

"in practice, intersectionality functions as a kind of caste system ."

Politics | Politics

OPINION: Trump's travel ban victory should force media to examine itself | TheHill

OPINION | The Supreme Court's stay should concentrate minds in both the judiciary and the media on the loss of objectivity in analysis over the president's immigration order.

I agree with this. People MUST judge the things Trump does on the merits and NOT on whether they hate (or like) Trump. I think the SCOTUS was absolutely correct here and agree that:

"The court ruled “when it comes to refugees who lack any such connection to the United States, for the reasons we have set out, the balance tips in favor of the Government’s compelling need to provide for the Nation’s security.”

It's time for everyone to grow up and start thinking about the welfare of the country, and to stop putting the narrative above all else.

Politics | Op-Ed

Why Have Jewish Organizations Been Silent About Otto Warmbier's Death? – Tablet Magazine

Otto Warmbier, an American student at the University of Virginia—who was active in Hillel and who went on Birthright, where he received a Hebrew name—died yesterday after being arrested and tortured by North Korea. You’d think that the cluster of ha

More people need to start putting their values before their politics and ALSO to distinguish between real values and extreme virtue signaling.

"This sort of bigoted nonsense is toxic to all Americans, but it’s particularly hazardous to Jews, whose suffering is too often explained away these days as an acceptable byproduct of excessive power and influence. It’s precisely the kind of anti-Semitic bile Jewish organizations were founded to combat. Their silence throughout Warmbier’s ordeal and murder is shameful."

I agree.

Politics | Politics

It feels like America is descending into chaos | New York Post

I turned 7 in 1968, and though my memories are necessarily fuzzy, I can still sum up a queasy sense of the chaos that pervaded the year as it streamed out of...

Solid article by the always eloquent John Podhoretz.

Politics | Op-Ed

Pro-BDS contributions to Jewish groups -- a Trojan horse? | The Times of Israel

Ahead of the UN's Ambassadors Against BDS conference, a look at the strange bedfellows partnerships between Muslim and Jewish communities may make

Sports | NBA

The Lakers are officially Jeanie Buss' team, so what will she do?

The Lakers are now officially Jeanie Buss' team, so what will she do first?

Politics | Op-Ed

Trump’s Order on Refugees: Mostly Right on Substance, Wrong on Rollout

The instant backlash to Trump's executive order on refugees is the result more of knee-jerk emotion than a sober assessment of Trump’s policy.

Politics | Politics

The Democratic Party Deserved To Die | The Huffington Post

Demographics are not destiny. Candidates do matter. And it is still the economy, stupid.

Miscellaneous | Potpourri

The False Childhood of Instagram - WSJ

Children’s book author Dan Paley writes that in the Instagram age sharing family photos too often involves feigning perfection.

Politics | Op-Ed

Americans Want To Elect Mommy Or Daddy. That's a Problem. | Daily Wire

Americans want to elect Daddy or Mommy.
 
 That's what this election has become. It hasn't been about competing or contrasting visions of government. It hasn't been about rooting out corruption in Washington or bringing change to the syste

"Here's the bigger problem, however: Electing politicians who "understand your problems" is a recipe for disaster. Governing properly isn't about identifying with the feelings of constituents; that position logically leads to a politics of individual "problem-solving" focused solely on curing constituents' ills. Governing properly should be about understanding that government's job isn't to solve Americans' problems; it's about moving aside obstacles so that Americans can solve their own problems."

Politics | Election: 2020

Melania Trump's Malpractice | National Review

This is simply grotesque political malpractice, bordering on sabotage.

Plagiarism is theft. Period.

"This is simply grotesque political malpractice, bordering on sabotage. While I obviously think plagiarism is bad, the way the journalistic clerisy treats it as a capital offense always bothered me."

Politics | Politics

Elizabeth Warren should apologize to Native Americans (Opinion) - CNN.com

Elizabeth Warren should show she is a real friend to the Native American community by calling Donald Trump out on his rhetoric, writes Simon Moya-Smith.

Politics | Politics

Bad news for Trump? Up to one-third of Tuesday's GOP votes went to people who had already quit

As Hillary Clinton basks in the glow of solid wins in Tuesday’s primaries – she trounced Bernie Sanders in New Jersey and here in California and they split the other four – a curious thing has happened on the Republican side. Donald Trump , who app

Politics | Op-Ed

Supreme Court -- Merrick Garland: Republicans’ Nomination Blocking Is Indefensible

The Republican party’s incoherent response to the Supreme Court vacancy is a partisan reflex in search of a justifying principle. The multiplicity of Republican rationalizations for their refusal to even consider Merrick Garland radiates insincerity.

Politics | Op-Ed

Donald Trump 2016 -- Voters Should Be Above "Burning the System Down"

After a depressing weekend of political violence, and cries of “go back to Africa” and “go to f***ing Auschwitz”, it’s time to bury that rallying cry of immature rage, “Burn it down!”

Politics | Op-Ed

Donald Trump: Culture Rot Created Him

A few years back, I began reliving, in reverse, the most treasured part of my upbringing. On sunny summer Sundays, my son, age seven and falling in love with baseball, would curl up next to me on the couch to watch the game.

He is exactly right....not that it excuses Trump.

Entertainment | Entertain Me

What will win, and what should win, at the 2016 Oscars · Preview · The A.V. Club

Politics | Op-Ed

Dear Democrats, Please Stop Insulting Our Intelligence on Judicial Nominations

Does any sentient human being believe that if the Democrats had the Senate majority in the final year of a conservative president’s second term – and Justice Ginsburg’s seat came open — that they would approve any nominee from that president?

Sports | NFL

All-time Super Bowl team: Brady or Montana is the toughest call | Shutdown Corner - Yahoo Sports

From Yahoo Sports: Our all-time Super Bowl team wasn't about career accomplishments. It's just about what you did on Super Bowl Sunday.

Politics | Op-Ed

Liberalism’s Imaginary Enemies

In The Wall Street Journal, Global View columnist Bret Stephens writes about liberalism’s imaginary enemies. In Paris, it’s easier to battle a climate crisis than confront jihadists on the streets.

GREAT op-ed. When people are too afraid to fight our real enemies, they make up their own.

Politics | Op-Ed

No, George Bush Is Not to Blame for the Paris Attacks | National Review Online

Is there a statute of limitations for blaming George W. Bush for the world’s ills? This weekend, in the aftermath of the Paris attacks, the Huffington Post ran yet another piece repeating leftist conventional wisdom that Bush created ISIS with his disastrous Iraq invasion, that Obama’s missteps were minor by comparison, and oh, by the way, those who supported the Iraq invasion should just shut up.

Politics | The War On Gender

Gender Differences Denied: Feminization of America Is Bad for the World | National Review Online

Last week the New York Times published an article, “Sweeping Away Gender-Specific Toys and Labels,” that contained three sentences that explain one of the most important phenomena in American life. In discussing the increasing move to do away with gender-specific toys — something the New York Times approves of — the article quoted Tania Missad, the “director of global consumer insights” at one of the world’s largest toy manufacturers, Mattel:

"When America retreats from killing bad guys, bad guys kill more innocent people. We are witnessing this right now as a consequence of America’s abandoning Iraq and retreating from the world generally. Islamic State took over more and more territories as America abandoned them. Ironically, therefore, as American foreign policy becomes feminized, more Middle East females are raped."

Politics | Op-Ed

Political Correctness Has Peaked | National Review Online

If you’re Social Justice Warrior, you’re a liar. You actively spread absurd falsehoods about the nature of men, women, sex, and culture that can’t withstand even the slightest scrutiny. You change history and conceal facts to fit preferred narratives, even when it costs human lives.

I hope that this is correct.

Politics | Politics

The Right Does Have Answers on Guns, Mr. President - The Dennis Prager Show The Dennis Prager Show

On the assumption that there are good and bad people on both the right and the left and that everyone is horrified by mass shootings, how is one to explain the great divide between right and left on the gun issue as it relates to these mass murders? Why d

I am not completely convinced that we don't need more gun laws. But, I do know that mental illness, faithlessness and a lack of a sense of right vs. wrong is far more responsible for crime than any conceivable lack of laws.

Politics | Op-Ed

How Ahmed’s clock became a false, convenient tale of racism | New York Post

When is America going to get serious about the problem of white kids getting suspended from school for nothing? By now you’ve heard the story of Ahmed Mohamed, crowned by...

EXACTLY. This wasn't about racism, it was about a schools overreaction. But apparently you only get a call from the White House if your are a Muslim victim of an overly aggressive system.

Politics | Election: 2020

Donald Trump vs. James Madison

Donald Trump appeals to the fantasy that one man can deliver a faction's whole agenda. But that's exactly what the Constitution is designed to prevent.

"This kind of fantasy is natural enough for the left, which has faith in the power of government to solve all problems, if only the right people are in charge. You can see how this fueled President Obama’s campaign and—since they never learn—is propelling Bernie Sanders to the top of the Democratic field. But you would think the first commandment on the right would be: place not thy faith in politicians. And place even less faith in the kind of politician who pretends not to be a politician, because he’s starting out by lying to you."

Politics | Op-Ed

Cecil the Lion -- Human Rights Matter Too | National Review Online

The uproar over the killing of a lion named Cecil in Zimbabwe by an American dentist, Dr. Walter Palmer, is further proof that secular society inevitably produces moral confusion.

Dennis Prager nails it (again) here.

News | In The News

Insulting a Police Officer Is Not a Crime - CityLab

U.S. courts have made this clear again and again and again.

I agree. The problem is that too many police officers are allowed to throw professionalism aside at the mere hint of "disrespect." The segment of the community that protects the police no matter what, enables this behavior.

Politics | Op-Ed

1938 and 2015: Only the Names Are Different - Dennis Prager

We say that evil is dark. But this metaphor is imprecise. Evil is actually intensely bright, so painfully bright that people look away from it. Many even deny its existence. Why? Because once people acknowledge evil’s existence, they know they have to c

Dennis Prager is a very insightful guy, he is completely correct here.

Politics | Interesting Links

EVERYONE Needs To Watch This Monologue On Race In America. EVERYONE. - Chicks on the Right

This chick is AMAZING! When can she run for president? Seriously - I wanna know where I can donate to the Kira Davis SuperPAC.Take notes, Obama. This is what you could have been, but chose not to.(h/t The Right Scoop)

I am not a huge fan of "Chicks on the Right" - I find their constant sarcasm and cutesiness annoying and I think it obscures their message. But this video by Kira Davis is EXCELLENT.

Politics | Op-Ed

Sorry, Everyone, America Isn’t That Racist

It’s called “proof by example,” and it happens all the time. We take one event and point to it as evidence of a trend or, even worse, a universal fact—a dog attacked my child, therefore all dogs are vicious and should be put down. Despite its popularity,

Politics | Op-Ed

Time for the States to Declare Independence From the Federal Government - Breitbart

One hundred and fifty years after the end of the Civil War, it is becoming increasingly clear that there are two Americas—one where the principles of constitutionally limited government and individual liberty are still revered, the other where statism a

Is it that time? The constitution remedies malfeasance by judges with impeachment. Obviously we are, as a country, unwilling ti recognize heinously inappropriate judicial activism as an impeachable offense. Maybe we need to find a different way to restore our freedom from the tyranny of the bench.

Politics | Op-Ed

Left-Right Differences -- The Left Rejects Painful Truths | National Review Online

Here’s a difference between Left and Right that is rarely noted despite the fact that it is at least as important as any other and even explains many of the other differences.

Dennis Prager nails it again here.

News | Fun With Islam

Why Do People Become Islamic Extremists? - Prager University

What makes someone become an Islamic extremist? Is it poverty? Lack of education? A search for meaning? Haroon Ullah, a senior State Department advisor and a foreign policy professor at Georgetown University, shares what he discovered while living in Paki

Politics | Politics

'Does It Do Good?' vs. 'Does It Feel Good?' Left-Right Differences: Part III - The Dennis Prager Show The Dennis Prager

A fundamental difference between the left and right concerns how each assesses public policies. The right asks, “Does it do good?” The left asks a different question. One example is the minimum wage. In 1987, The New York Times editorialized against a

I don't agree with everything that Dennis Prager says (or with everything anyone says), and I am right on some things and more left on others. But he makes some very good, and very reasonable, points here.

Politics | Op-Ed

As ISIS brutalizes women, a pathetic feminist silence

Oh, how the feminist movement has lost its way. And the deafening silence over ISIS’s latest brutal crimes makes that all too clear. Fifty years ago, American women launched a liberation campaign f...

Politics | Op-Ed

The Danger Of The Campus Crusaders - NYTimes.com

Well-intentioned moral fervor on campuses today often slides into a dangerous type of zealotry.

I RARELY agree with David Brooks, but he makes an excellent point here. Just ignore the initial part about how horrible the kids in school today have it...after that Brooks is far more rational (and factual). A small sample:

"Some of their targets have been deliberately impious. Laura Kipnis is a feminist film professor at Northwestern University who wrote a provocative piece on sexual mores on campus that was published in February. She was hit with two Title IX charges on the grounds, without evidence, that her words might have a “chilling effect” on those who might need to report sexual assaults."

Politics | Op-Ed

Peace, the Grand Delusion of the Jews

“Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow.”  —Abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass On one sunny August afternoon in Boston in 2014, I made my way through the Boston Common public park and watched from a distance as people bega

Chloe Valdary is not Jewish and is one of the brightest lights in America today. This is a must read.

Politics | Op-Ed

Netanyahu’s Moment | The Weekly Standard

Sometimes a speech is just a speech. Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech about Iran policy on March 3 will not be his first address to Congress. It will make familiar, if important, arguments. One might assume that, like the vast majority of speeches, it would soon be overtaken by events in Israel and the United States and the world.

William Kristol draws a parallel between this speech and Churchill's in December 1941. Interesting take on both Obama and Netnayahu.

Politics | Op-Ed

No Holds Barred: Susan Rice and the politicization of genocide - Opinion - Jerusalem Post

Is there any dirty job for the Obama administration that Susan Rice is not prepared to do? Need someone to fraudulently blame the murder of an American ambassador in Libya on a stupid film? Send Rice to the Sunday morning talk shows.

"While Israel faces the possibility of genocide, Rice shows gross insensitivity to an Israeli leader for simply speaking out."

Politics | Op-Ed

7 reasons why the Palestinian crisis & the Black struggle for freedom are absolutely nothing alike | Dumisani Washington

The “parallels” between the Palestinian plight and that of African-Americans have been made for decades, and this has always......

Dumisani Washington is a very perceptive man and a VERY good friend of Israel.

Politics | Op-Ed

No Holds Barred: The ferocious battle for Israel at New York University

Over the last few years NYU has emerged as one of the most hostile campuses to Israel in the United States.