Wisconsin Unions Lose First Round, But Win the Luck of the Draw in the Second
Wisconsin unions seem to have lucked out with the federal judge assigned to their latest lawsuit trying to stop the state’s new collective bargaining law for state employees. The Wisconsin Education Association, the AFL-CIO, the Wisconsin State Employees Union, and other unions that have been violently and belligerently protesting the law lost big on June […]
New Al-Qaeda Leader, but the Game Remains the Same
Al-Qaeda officially has a new leader in Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahiri, the man who long served as Osama bin Laden’s number two in command. But does that have any impact on America? Heritage’s James Carafano says “Not much, actually.” Threats against America remain unchanged: First off, al-Qaeda is still determined to foster global terrorism and attack […]
Al Zawahiri as Leader of Al Qaeda Does Little to Alter Its Waning Influence
The announcement that Osama bin Laden’s longtime second in command, Ayman al Zawahiri, will lead the fractured terrorist group came as no surprise to pundits and observers. Since joining forces with bin Laden in 1998, al Zawahiri had jointly pursued a series of dramatic assaults on the United States and Western interests abroad, including the […]
California Attempting to Add “Language” to State’s Civil Rights Act
California State Senator Leland Yee’s (D-San Francisco) disastrous bill (SB 111) would add “language” to the state’s civil rights act. This week, the House Judiciary Committee approved the bill by a vote of 6 to 3, so it could come up for a House floor vote at any time! Yee authored the same legislation in […]
Al Qaeda Seizes Part of Southern Town in Yemen
Islamic terrorists in Yemen launched Wednesday a surprise dawn attack and seized parts of a southern town of Al-Hota after a street by street gunfight with government forces, the Associated Press reports. Yemeni officials said one soldier was killed and three were wounded in the fighting. The terrorists, said to include Al Qaeda members numbering […]
Circumcision Ban Fight Turns Ugly with Anti-Semitic Comics
The fight to ban circumcision in San Francisco moved on to stereotypic anti-Semitism as a promoter of the ban distributed a technologically modern, but all-too reminiscent of medieval, Nazi and Tsarist Jew-hatred, comic book that seeks to delegitimize the circumcision procedure. The comic is entitled “Foreskin Man” and its hero is shown as he attempts to stop circumcisions from […]
Obama Couldn’t Run a Lemonade Stand
(Washington Times) The Obama administration has mindlessly flooded the country with hundreds and hundreds of billions of federal tax dollars. The government gurus claim the reason for opening the federal-money floodgates was to jump-start the sluggish economy, which was strangled to begin with by Fedzilla’s housing policies – or lack thereof. Just as you would […]
Video: Arabs Dump Drinking Water Offered by Israel Defense Forces Officer
A video shows an IDF officer offering water to Arab protesters on a sweltering day. An Arab woman dumped the water on the ground, and other protesters then threw rocks at the troops. The protest took place during on an unusually hot and dry day near Bethlehem, immediately south of Jerusalem and adjacent to Efrat […]
Israel Defense Forces Train Tunnel Warfare Unit; Prepare for Fighting Terrorists in Tunnels
The IDF is training special units to fight in tunnels in Gaza and southern Lebanon, Ahram Online reports. It was reported Wednesday that every soldier in the new tunnel warfare units will be equipped with a ‘robot’ capable of transmitting high-resolution video images from inside the tunnels, which are used by Hamas in Gaza and […]
Remarkable Israel; Its Success Speaks for Itself
by Daniel Pipes June 13, 2011 Cross-posted from National Review Online: The Corner Israel’s military prowess – operational and technological alike – is renowned; but the Jewish state, population 7.7 million, is no less impressive in other areas too: High technology: “Over the past two decades Israel has been transformed from a semisocialist backwater into […]
Paris Air Show to Feature Top Israeli Technology
If it’s June, it must be time for La Bourget – the Paris Air Show, one of the most important showcases for military, defense, and aviation products and developments. This year marks the 49th anniversary of the show, which begins June 20, and Israel will, once again, put on display some of the groundbreaking defensive and […]
