Written by Daniel Greenfield

Even as an NPR associate was admitting that it had marginalized itself by targeting a liberal culture elite (which she generously estimated at 11 percent of the country), David Brooks was making the case that America needs PBS to provide it with a common culture. So which is it. Is public ...
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Written by Daniel Greenfield

The budget stalemate between the right and the left comes down to a basic difference in economic views, the left feels that we need to tax more in order to consume more money, and the right believes that we need to consume less money in order to tax less. Whichever side of the argument you come ...
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Written by Daniel Greenfield

We'll never know if Congressman Keith Ellison (AKA Keith Hakim, AKA Keith X Ellison, AKA Keith Ellison-Muhammad, AKA BooHoo Kaboom) brought along an onion with him, a pinch of snuff or just thought of all the CAIR campaign contributions he risked losing if the hearings fulfilled their intended ...
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Written by Daniel Greenfield

In 2002, France was denouncing any proposed US led liberation of Iraq from Saddam Hussein as 'unilateral'. But now suddenly France is leading the call for air strikes against Libyan government forces and what amounts to unilateral action against Khaddafi. In 2002, France demanded a UN mandate for ... Read more: Friday Afternoon Roundup - Bomb, Bomb Libya... Not
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Written by Joan Swirsky

It’s a funny thing about itches…the more you scratch, the more you itch. This is because scratching floods your system with histamine, which causes – itching! Oh, you can get rid of the itching with an over-the-counter medication or go to the doctor for something stronger. But people with chronic ...
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Written by Dani Reshef
March 9, 2011 Maalot, Israel
It is hard to believe that a world super power like the United States behaves so capriciously when they come to their own interests, the so called free world's interests and the destiny of other nations. US foreign policy always was swinging between aggressive interests ...
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Written by Joan Swirsky
If you visit any online or neighborhood bookstore, you will see dozens of books about leadership, all of them—except Rudy Giuliani’s Leadership—written by corporate or policy wonks who wrote their treatises based more on high-falutin’ theory than on “real life” experience.
In fact, Giuliani’s 2005 ...
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Written by Daniel Greenfield

The sweep of revolutions across the Middle East has optimists cheering and realists preparing for the worst. And the worst is generally a good thing to prepare for in the region.
The regimes targeted by the movement have invariably either been allied to or achieved a stalemate with Western ... Read more: 5 Reasons why the Talibanization of the Middle East may not be a Bad Thing
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Written by Daniel Greenfield

Capitalism had won. It was not people's revolutions, but the slow industry of a rising middle class that toppled feudal monarchies. Productivity led to prosperity, and succeeding generations of new money made the class system nearly irrelevant. The process moved swiftest in the new American ... Read more: The Economic Counterrevolution of the Environmentalists
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