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Saturday, February 11th, 2012

Posts Tagged anti-Semitism

Meet David Barton, Bachmann’s constitution class teacher

By | 11.16.10 | 12:28 pm

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) announced last month that she wants to hold weekly “Constitution classes” for new members of Congress in the hopes of preventing them from being “co-opted into the Washington system.” She’s already announced several people she wants to teach the classes, including David Barton, More…

Bin Laden: Back to the Old Time Religion

By | 09.14.09 | 4:18 pm

The NEFA Foundation has a translation of the new Osama bin Laden tape. bin Laden’s message might even be considered cynical in light of how he keeps going back to the radical-Salafist well, particularly on the role of Israel in al-Qaeda’s imagination. (“First, I say: we have shown and More…

Clearly a Law Enforcement Approach to Terrorism Can’t Work

By | 05.21.09 | 9:57 am

NYPD and the FBI busted an apparent homegrown terror cell in the stages of plotting to blow up two synagogues in the Bronx. As someone who used to occasionally hang out in Riverdale — the northwest Bronx Jewish neighborhood in question — I have no shortage of More…