I've been away from LJ for a while because I'm so busy over here. I really want to post something in my own thoughts as opposed to just dumping a bunch of links, but I rarely have the time. Today, as a way to ease back into the old system, I'll write some thoughts I heard from the Lubavitcher Rebbe in a video then I'll dump some links ( Read more... )

New from NR:

1) Forget solidarity with Palestinians, harassment of military recruiters, and “Free Mumia!” rallies. The latest fad among campus activists, who seem to have far more time to spare from their studies than is proper in a competitive academic environment, is a campaign against the Coca-Cola Company. Coke, you see, has a bottling plant ( Read more... )

There are an estimated 200 political prisoners in [Chinese-occupied] Tibet, almost all monks and nuns whose only crime is to have pledged support to the Dalai Lama, the head of the Buddhist faith, who leads a government in exile in India but whom Beijing regards as a separatist threat ( Read more... )

If only he were alive today to reproach Durbin and Amnesty Int'l.

"The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violations heard from there. The greater the number of complaints being aired, the better protected are human rights in that country." -Daniel Patrick ( Read more... )

One of the incredibly positive effects of the campaign in Iraq (and one of the main reasons I supported the war) is the growing democratic movement in the Middle East. A few examples from NRODT ( Read more... )

Recently, sensationalist newspapers and all manner of lefties were calling the new Pope a Nazi. This next example is far worse ( Read more... )