Melissa's Musings(My opinionated view of life)

Caroline B. Glick: Norway's Jewish problem Jewish World Review August 9, 2011 / 9 Menachem-Av, 5771 Norway's Jewish problem By Caroline B. Glick Norway's government attacked the author for merely pointing out in various ways, that Norway should not use Breivik's attack as justification for further weakening Norwegian democracy http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | In the wake of Anders Breivik's massacre of his fellow Norwegians, I was amazed at the speed with which the leftist media throughout the US and Europe used his crime as a means of criminalizing their ideological opponents on the Right. Just hours after Breivik's identity was reported, leftist media outlets and blogs were filled with attempts to blame Breivik's crime on conservative public intellectuals whose ideas he cited in a 1,500 page online manifesto. M...

Is Flag Day a Jewish holiday? | The Archive Blog | JTA - Jewish & Israel News : "Beyond perhaps identifying the date, June 14, few Americans today could identify any characteristics or traditions that surround Flag Day. Fewer still know that a Jewish philanthropist from St. Louis has been called 'the father of Flag Day.'"

Caroline B. Glick: Yale, Jews, and Double Standards Jewish World Review June 10, 2011 / 8 Sivan, 5771 Yale, Jews, and Double Standards By Caroline B. Glick http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Last week Yale University announced its decision to close down its institute for the study of anti-Semitism. The move has been widely criticized as politically motivated. For its part, the university claims that the move was the result of purely academic considerations. While not clear-cut, an analysis of the story lends to the conclusion that politics were in all likelihood the decisive factor in the decision. And the implications of Yale's move for the scholarly inquiry into anti-Semitism are deeply troubling. The Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism (YIISA) was founded in 2006. Its purpose was to provide a scholarly approach to the study of contemporary and historical an...

Shh, Obama adopts the Bush Doctrine - chicagotribune.com Charles Krauthammer May 23, 2011 ...