Communicated: TefillaChillul Tefila Bifarhesia, as well as halachicly challenged verbiage and dress, are external manifestations of a critical lack of personal yiras shomayim which has lethal consequences.
Israel, Hamas, PA Encounter the Paradigm Shift
Posted on: November 15th, 2012
Sections → Special Features → Israel At War: Operation Amud AnanNo summary of today’s events would be complete without mentioning the backstory on the IDF’s operation name.
Israel Under Fire: The New Paradigm
Posted on: November 12th, 2012
InDepth → Analysis → J.E. DyerAttacks from Gaza on Israel have ramped up significantly in the last several days. An Israeli patrol was hit by what was thought to be a roadside bomb on Tuesday (three were wounded), near the border fence with Gaza. On Saturday, terrorists in Gaza fired an anti-tank missile at an Israeli jeep with four infantrymen in it, as the patrol operated in the area of the roadside bomb attack. The four soldiers were wounded, one severely. More than 80 rockets have been launched from Gaza into Israel since the attack on the jeep on Saturday, 10 November. At least three Israeli civilians were injured in the rocket attacks. Geography is beginning to rear its head again, as Israel has also sustained incursions into the Golan from Syria in recent days.
Attacks on Israel and One on an Arms Factory in Sudan
Posted on: October 25th, 2012
InDepth → Analysis → J.E. DyerIn the early dawn of 24 October, an arms factory in Sudan was attacked in the Yarmouk Industrial Complex approximately 6 miles south of central Khartoum. Video of the exploding building makes it clear that it was an arms factory, with an extended series of powerful secondary explosions characteristic of ammunition dumps. A Sudanese official claims that four Israeli aircraft conducted a strike on the factory.
Bayonets, Horses and Ships, Oh My
Posted on: October 24th, 2012
InDepth → Analysis → J.E. DyerRomney sees the Navy as a core element of our enduring strategic posture. For national defense and for the protection of trade, the United States has from the beginning sought to operate in freedom on the seas, and, where necessary, to exercise control of them. We are a maritime nation, with extremely long, shipping-friendly coastlines in the temperate zone and an unprecedented control of the world’s most traveled oceans, the Atlantic and Pacific.
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Panetta Stonewalls House Committee Chairman McKeon on Benghazi
Posted on: October 22nd, 2012
InDepth → Analysis → J.E. DyerThe news keeps getting worse. The Washington Free Beacon reports today that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has “blocked” four senior military officers from answering questions on the Benghazi attack posed by Congressman Howard “Buck” McKeon (R-CA), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC).
Er, No, Obama Didn’t Win the Debate
Posted on: October 18th, 2012
InDepth → Analysis → J.E. DyerWe’ve reached a watershed here, where we either live in our own heads affirming reality, regardless of spurious inputs from demagoguery or sentiment, or we give up on reality and let demagoguery and sentiment take over at the decision table. Did the president pull off a performance last night, in terms of sounding passionate and full of conviction? To some extent, yes. Does that mean he won the debate, or even achieved a draw with Romney? No.
Why Obama is Likely to Blow Debate No. 2
Posted on: October 16th, 2012
InDepth → Analysis → J.E. DyerThe short answer is: because he’s got nothing. There is no record to run on, no argument to make for four more years. The ideology that drives him is outdated and bankrupt. He has, in fact, implemented his policies – Republicans have had little means of stopping him – and those policies are the problem. But there’s a slightly longer answer too.
Pulling Out of Benghazi: These Colors Run Scared
Posted on: October 5th, 2012
InDepth → Analysis → J.E. DyerInstead of sticking with our commitment to a new Libya, one in which Americans have friendship and influence – one in which we can walk free, and so can Libyans – we have closed our post in Benghazi and drawn down our embassy staff in Tripoli to “essential” personnel only. It will be of some interest to see how long it takes al Qaeda or other terrorist savages to attack us in Tripoli.
Twenty-Eight Years Later, it’s Finally 1984
Posted on: September 25th, 2012
InDepth → Analysis → J.E. DyerThe year 1984, by Gregorian reckoning, came and went, and Americans seemed to have dodged the Nineteen-Eighty-Four bullet. We weren’t being interned for reeducation by a Ministry of Love. Although conservative, constitutionalist, limited-government ideas came under relentless attack in the mainstream media and the academy, those who expressed the ideas remained free to do so. (They in fact became freer with the lifting under Reagan of the genuinely Orwellian-named “Fairness Doctrine.”) In 2012, the atmosphere has changed.
Are the American voters idiots?
Posted on: September 3rd, 2012
InDepth → Analysis → J.E. DyerThere has been a tremendous growth in vague, elliptical, and/or tendentious narration of what’s going on in the nation and the world. The people can be pardoned for being tired and confused.
Defense Round Up: U.S. Showing Weakness Abroad
Posted on: September 2nd, 2012
InDepth → Analysis → J.E. DyerThe U.S. is being made to look weak in Egypt, and is actually acting weak with allies and foes alike.
2016: Effective, Well Done, a Caveat or Two
Posted on: August 27th, 2012
InDepth → Analysis → J.E. DyerDinesh D’Souza’s film, 2016: Obama’s America, is very good at putting the viewer in the milieu of Jakarta or Nairobi, which continue to feel “different” enough to engage the American viewer’s sense of distance and wonder. Conveying the difference of Barack Obama’s childhood and his idea of cultural roots – the difference from American life – is the movie’s most effective accomplishment.
Paradigm Shift: Why Iran Now Needs the Bomb
Posted on: August 15th, 2012
InDepth → Analysis → J.E. DyerIran’s relative situation has deteriorated. To regain a sense of leadership and invulnerability – as well as to vindicate Shia Islam over the recent Sunni triumphs in the region – Iran needs a big strategic win. She needs a trump card over the emerging Sunni centers of gravity in Cairo and Ankara.
Overregulation: The Problem We Can’t Outproduce
Posted on: August 14th, 2012
InDepth → Analysis → J.E. DyerProsperity has met its match. Regulation will kill prosperity by stealth unless we the people wake up to what’s going on. We are wildly, insanely overregulated today, and if we don’t attack the idea of the regulatory state on those terms – on the premise that regulation itself is mostly a bad thing, and we need far less of it than we have – then we will never recover.
J.E. Dyer: Peace in our time – Asian Navies Converging on the Mediterranean
Posted on: August 7th, 2012
InDepth → Analysis → J.E. DyerIndia has just conducted an unprecedented four-day port visit in Haifa, during which Indian sailors roamed Israel as American sailors have for many years, and joint ceremonies were held with the local population. A naval visit to Israel is a big political signal; India would not be sending it lightly.
Olympic Opening Ceremonies and the Death Throes of a Civilization
Posted on: July 29th, 2012
InDepth → Analysis → J.E. DyerWatching the ceremony last night, I had a profound sense of sadness for the hollow revelry. There was no dignified memorializing of the greatness, uniqueness, and courage of Britain’s past. There was “irreverent, idiosyncratic” entertainment, and a very long segment of writhing self-abasement before the shibboleth of socialized medicine.
The Art of “Gray-Hull Diplomacy”
Posted on: July 18th, 2012
InDepth → Analysis → J.E. DyerHow should an American president use the military in an intimidating, persuasive manner, to induce Iran to give up her nuclear-weapons purpose? Very little has been discussed on this topic in the forums of punditry; virtually all treatments focus on the feasibility or proper method of a military attack campaign. Is there an “intimidation option,” short of a shooting war? And if so, what would it look like?
J.E. Dyer: America – This time, it’s personal
Posted on: July 11th, 2012
InDepth → Analysis → J.E. DyerThe period of the Obama tenure, and now the 2012 election, are forcing Americans to reconsider, in a way I’m not sure we have for a good 200 years, what the vote means, and what politics means to our lives. Since 1792, the sense has gradually crept upon us that when we elect a president, we are electing our collective future. That sense took a giant leap forward with the FDR presidency, and frankly, it took another one when Reagan entered office.
J.E. Dyer: Tumultus Post-Americanus
Posted on: July 10th, 2012
InDepth → Analysis → J.E. DyerThe Tumultus Post-Americanus is now well underway. There is no initiative on our collective part – we have done nothing but react in the last three years – and possibly even less appreciation of how the world is changing. The forms of international discourse – the processes of the UN, the G-8 and G-20, the IMF – are being adhered to now because they are a convenience, not because they produce anything useful.
J.E. Dyer: A Fun Independence Day List of Things That are Now Considered Taxes
Posted on: July 4th, 2012
InDepth → Analysis → J.E. DyerWe must not let our concept of the purpose and character of a tax be corrupted, precisely because taxing us is a power accorded Congress in the Constitution. The definition of “tax” is, in fact, the most important limit on what Congress can do with its power to tax. In the wake of the Obamacare ruling, defining “tax” is defending our liberty – or, from the opposite perspective, attacking it.
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