1. Christine
Douglass-Williams:
Can Islam Be Reformed?
2. Jeff Ferry: Steel - Famous
Economists Get It Wrong
3. Daniel Greenfield: Why Are We Funding
Islamic Terror in Israel?
4. Howard Comen: The Trinity of
Equality in Kenya
5. Mark Tapson: The Left’s Next Step - Redefining ‘Hate Speech’ as Violence
6. Dr. Elaina George: Healthcare Reform - A
Way Forward
Can Islam Be Reformed?
It
is an often-repeated view that Muslims must be violent to be true to their
faith, and that Islam cannot be reformed, but in the vast world of today, such
a view does not offer solutions. It does not address the fact that 1.6 billion
Muslims are not going to disappear, and ignores the facts that human change and
ideological evolution are historic phenomena. Bernard Lewis wrote eleven years
prior to 9/11: "Islam has brought comfort and peace of mind to countless
millions of men and women," and notes that "the Muslim world is far
from unanimous in its rejection of the West." [more...]
Steel - Famous
Economists Get It Wrong
By
Jeff
Ferry
When
a large number of famous economists from all sides of the political spectrum
agree on something, the odds are that it is wrong. A new letter on the subject
of steel tariffs is a good example of that rule. In a public letter dated Wednesday July 12th, economists
including ex-chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke, former chairman of
the Council of Economic Advisors Jason Furman, and Nobel laureate Joseph
Stiglitz argue that the U.S. should not impose tariffs on steel by invoking
Section 232 of the trade law referring to national security concerns.
Their arguments defy common sense, are forty years out of date, and ignore the
national security issues. [more...]
Why Are We Funding
Islamic Terror in Israel?
Master
Sgt. Haiel Sitawe, the father of a newborn baby, and Kamil Shnaan, who was
newly engaged, were murdered in an Islamic terrorist attack in Jerusalem. The
two Israeli police officers were members of the Druze community in Israel. The
terrorists who shot them were killed by other police officers. While Israel
will compensate the families of the dead police officers, the Palestinian
Authority will compensate the families of the terrorists. And American
taxpayers will compensate both. This is typical of a foreign policy in which we
fund both the terrorists and the terrorized. Sooner or later, we are going to
have to choose a side. [more...]
The Trinity of Equality
in Kenya
By
Howard
Comen
The World Conference of Mayors is
developing a trinity of equality and a civil defense initiative prior to
the Kenyan elections on August 8th. Our mayors will use its team of economists,
educators, attorneys and health care professionals to develop strategies to
bring about equal economic opportunity, education, justice and health care. In
these days of terrorism, all our communities must band together to develop a
civil defense anti-terrorism posture involving all our citizens. The 2007 Kenyan elections were marked with
killings, violence, and destruction fueled by tribalism and ethnicity. Hatred
and distrust has spread worldwide. The WCM is dedicated to developing a
model for the world by uniting the tribes and their leadership into a team
dedicated to economic opportunities and self-preservation for the benefit of
all. [GoFundMe...] [more on the story...]
The
Left’s Next Step - Redefining ‘Hate Speech’ as Violence
By Mark Tapson
Liberals
are hell-bent on weaponizing words to advance their totalitarian agenda. The
left has spent decades successfully normalizing the intentionally vague term
“hate speech” in the culture, even going so far as to insist that it should not
be protected by the First Amendment. But what is “hate speech?” It’s anything
the left wants it to be, of course. When the media elites of CNN, HBO, The View or late night talk shows
openly bash Christians or the traditional values of flyover Americans, it is
never, ever condemned as hate speech; but those same elites leap to denounce
virtually everything the right says as such. It is a brilliantly effective way
to delegitimize conservatives and their ideas, and to exclude them from the
public sphere. Now liberals want to take the concept of hate speech to the next
level, redefining the word “violence” to include emotionally hurtful language. [more...]
Healthcare Reform - A
Way Forward
The
healthcare reform impasse is a distraction. Whether you are for free market or
single payer, the status quo is designed to keep you locked in the maze where
promises of winning at all costs or fixing the broken system is the cheese that
everyone is chasing after. Over the past 8 years there has been one constant no
matter who is in power – our healthcare system continues to get worse. Since
the passage of the ACA healthcare costs have gone up, choice of doctors has
gone down, access has narrowed and our healthcare system is now last among the
developed countries for delivering efficient, cost-effective quality medical
care. Maybe it is time we step back and ask a few simple questions: [more...]
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