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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Written by Daniel Greenfield

When American mother Melissa Bender married Pakistani Mohammad Khan, she brought three children from a previous marriage into the relationship. Today the children are in protective custody after police discovered that her 13 year old daughter, Jessie Bender wasn't taken away by a predator, but that ... Read more: Friday Afternoon Roundup - Muslim Men and Non-Muslim Women
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Written by J. D. Longstreet
America Afloat On An Ocean Of Domestic Oil!
If you are old enough, and wise enough, to remember the Jimmy Carter years then you remember the fiasco that was his administration. But mostly, you will remember the so-called gas shortage or oil crisis with vehicles lined up for blocks waiting to ... Read more: Another Recession Keyed By High Oil Prices, while Sitting on its Own Oil?
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Written by Daniel Greenfield

A Muslim group has announced plans to cover the Statue of Liberty with a burqa and then replace her with a minaret. But there's no reason at all to take such plans seriously. Lady Liberty being treated the way the Muslim world treats women in general, is as unlikely as a massive mosque being built ... Read more: A Burqa for Lady Liberty and a Mosque for Ground Zero
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Written by Daniel Greenfield

Obama chooses not to defend DOMA in court. His attorney general tries to deflect a congressional investigation into his office's Black Panther cover up by playing the race card. Congress passes laws which it does not read. A Federal judge rules that inaction is also a form of action. What all these ...
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