BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy Once again, revising history, and having their baseless meme become the theme of the week. That would be the Left, beginning with “Heckuva Job” Sheriff Dupnik, who kicked off the “report” of the shootout in Tucson as being the result of rhetoric. Oh, yes, you may not know this, but President Obama called Sheriff Dupnik to thank him. I just bet he did, since Sheriff Dupnik got the ball rolling blaming Gov. Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann, and other Conservatives, for this heinous crime. There continues to be no evidence whatsoever that rhetoric had anything to do with this – in fact, quite the opposite. Surprisingly, though, some of the bigger media outfits refuse to correct the original unsubstantiated claims against Palin, et. al. I am not kidding. People like George Stephanopoulos refuses to issue a correction . Sadly, pathetically, he is not alone. How about this one: [snip] CNN’s Piers Morgan, who takes over longtime television newsman Larry King’...

BHUTTO: A CULTURAL HONOR KILLING I just read the fabulous Phyllis Chesler's take on the Bhutto Assassination and found it so compelling I am sharing it here with a link back to her site. You should all take a look. And ladies, any of you who haven't read her book WOMEN & MADNESS should go to your local bookstore, log on to Amazon or go to your library and get a copy to read. A true masterpiece from someone who has been there and back and maintained her integrity and strong viewpoints. Ms. Chesler is infinitely admirable in my estimation. So give her wonderful take on the Bhutto assassination a read: Bhutto's Assassination Is a Political and Cultural Honor Killing by Phyllis Chesler In a sense, the assassination of Benazir Bhutto is a political and cultural version of an honor killing. Bhutto was the first woman Prime Minister of a Muslim nation and she symbolized an unacceptably Western form of female ambition and achievement. She had attended Harvard/Radcliffe and O...

BHUTTO ASSASSINATED What a way to end the year! Hashem - please help me if I ever cease to be stunned and saddened at the barbarity and hate of the Islamofascists! I defer to my friend Layla and her post on this one. - CLICK HERE.

The Talibanization of Iraq Under mounting repression, courageous women fight for their rights and their lives. Is this how the U.S. brought “freedom” to the country? by Bay Fang Yanar Mohammed returned to Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime because she thought the veil of tyranny had finally been lifted from her native country. She and two other women started the Organization for Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), with the goal of fighting for women’s rights. But since those days, her OWFI cofounders have fled the country, and Mohammed herself has received numerous death threats for her work. OWFI , one of the few remaining nongovernmental organizations left in Iraq, has been forced to operate in complete secrecy. “Because of the chaos on the streets and in the government, women have been forced to leave work and hide at home,” says Mohammed, 47. “ We live in a state of continuous fear—if our hair shows on the street, if we’re not veiled enough at work,” says Mohammed. “It’s...