From the yearly archives:

2009

Converting America

December 16, 2009
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We are now increasingly insisting, in this somewhat United States of America, on treating everyone and every regime in the world as we would have them treat us. For a country at pains to further separate church and state, to banish the Ten Commandments from its public areas, this flirtation with a belief that is [...]

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Our Suicidal Impulses

November 25, 2009
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Is American-born Jewish liberalism pushing us, lemming-like, into the morally opaque sea of self-defeating multiculturalism? This may be the defining question for contemporary American Jewry. That over 75% of Jews voted for Obama, and that in the past the Democratic party generally garnered 70% of the Jewish vote or higher, is no accident. The reasons, [...]

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Leslie’s American Freedom Alliance speech

November 24, 2009

Leslie Sacks accepts the 2009 Hand of Freedom Award from the American Freedom Alliance. http://americanfreedomalliance.org/

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Ahmadinejad on Zionism

October 30, 2009
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Iran president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s world view – albeit ludicrous – is actually a fascinating study in imaginative paranoia and anti-Semitism. In particular, his views on Zionism make for an entertaining (if infuriating) read. According to Ahmadinejad, it was in fact the Zionists who installed Saddam Hussein in Iraq and the Taliban-Al Qaeda nexus in Afghanistan.

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Capitalist Truths & Capitalist Labels

October 22, 2009
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It is unfortunate that in media saturated America – with its sound bite obsessed spin-meisters and its attention deficit consumers – the truth behind our ever-present labels is everywhere perverted. “Capitalism,” for example, is condemned by (self-described) socialist-leaning leftists. Yet many on the American left have little in common with authentic Marxism or European Socialism.

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Absolutism and Good Intentions

October 12, 2009

As a youth, I was infatuated with ideas, the power of the word, the magic of conceptual brilliance. I believed that the purity of my soul and the strength of my convictions would light the path before us and open even the most hardened of hearts. Ideas – my first love: they were so convincing, [...]

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A Time For Choosing

September 24, 2009
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According to the intellectual class, Bill Clinton was a political genius – and therefore could do no wrong. By stark contrast, Ronald Reagan was castigated as a dummy, and could do no right – never mind delivering a speech of great courage and foresight. In 1964, Reagan irrevocably established himself as a political force when [...]

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Did Obama Meet Chamberlain?

September 17, 2009
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Neville Chamberlain was by all accounts a kind and clever man, an idealist with the best of intentions. Eminently civilized, he always took high tea at the prescribed time. A confident and highly experienced negotiator, he truly believed that he could successfully appease Hitler and Nazi Germany. His desire for peace was profound and authentic. [...]

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Letter to The Economist

September 14, 2009

The following is my response to a special report on the Arab world in The Economist called “Waking from its sleep,” published on July 23, 2009. The original article can be read at this link The Editor: While generally objective and informative, your report suffers from a disconcerting and revealing inconsistency.

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Is America Like Rome?

July 6, 2009

Rome was a great civilization, perhaps the greatest according to certain accounts. Its citizens – modern, wealthy, empowered – were the envy of the world. Content with their luxuries and successes, the Romans imported slaves until citizens were a de-facto minority. They stopped manufacturing and creating. Instead, Rome became the center of a vast bureaucracy, [...]

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