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Philosophy

Political Correctness – Our Titanic

December 28, 2011
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Pandering will sink us, will weaken our foundations and our unique culture; a culture of tolerance yet of logic, of equality but also of independence. It is our behavior (and not our thoughts) that should be the real issue.  How we treat each other, whether we abuse or respect each other, whether we acknowledge all [...]

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Shari’a and Western Compliance

August 25, 2011
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Article 22 of the 1990 Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam states: 1. Everyone shall have the right to express his opinion freely in such manner as would not be contrary to the principles of the Shari’a.

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The Impossibility of Absolution

July 27, 2011
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God created the universe. Fine. Largely logical and eminently reasonable. Man however invented words, which by definition exist only in the subjective recesses of human existence; every meaning, all implications, therefore, are relative.

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Hypocrisy and Selective Democracy

May 19, 2011
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Egypt was weak and Mubarak was weaker. Egypt – or, rather, Egypt’s government and army – relied on 3 billion dollars of US aid per year, and was allied with the relatively unaggressive but super wealthy Saudi Arabia and associated Arab Emirates. So when ambiguous protests germinated, with a sprinkling of democrats and liberals, Obama [...]

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A Turkish Flotilla – In Reverse

May 4, 2011
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Turkey claimed the moral high ground last year in actively supporting the Mavi Marmara flotilla aimed to break Israel’s “siege” of Gaza. Truth be told the siege was in fact shared with Egypt and relates primarily to armaments, rockets and related war-faring materials

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Speech given by Leslie Sacks at the Women’s Voices Now Film Festival – 3/17/2011

March 30, 2011
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17 MARCH 2011 – Presentation by Leslie Sacks Welcome everyone. Welcome to Los Angeles. Welcome to the Women’s Voices Now first Film Festival. Let me start by addressing my wife, my incomparable wife Gina, whose life support has sustained me and without whom this unique project would not have been born, to my sister and [...]

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10 new COMMANDMENTS

February 3, 2011

1) Men must learn to think with their heads rather than with their (generally useless) genitals 2) Women must lead lives based more on their intellects and less on their (always valuable) hearts 3) Never use violence and intolerance unless combating violence and intolerance 4) Morality exists only in behavior and never in thoughts or [...]

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Freedom vs. Tolerance

June 29, 2009

Transcript of a speech I delivered at the American Freedom Alliance and Council for Democracy and Tolerance annual “Heroes of Conscience” dinner on June 7, 2009. The event paid tribute to Geert Wilders, Dutch politician and leader of the Party for Freedom, and Alan Craig, London councilor and campaigner in opposition to the planned Olympic [...]

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The Emasculation of America

May 26, 2009

It’s as though our modern liberal democracy is so porous and malleable, so rife with insecurity and uncertainty, that we aspire-perversely-to the fascist certainties of our Jihadist adversaries. The victim takes on the jailor’s persona. We worry more about sleep deprivation for the 241 hardened terrorists at Guantanamo than we do about the two million [...]

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You Cannot Kill an Ideology

February 9, 2009

Deepak Chopra, the most prolific of New Age self-help spiritual gurus appears to have expanded his mandate to offer guidance in the angst-ridden realm of international affairs. His résumé speaks for itself—no political, economic, or military training, experience or prior erudition. He has, however, written a series of guaranteed self-help solutions for all our modern-day [...]

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