Expatriates giving up their nationality at U.S. embassies climbed to 1,131 in the three months through June of last year from 189 in the year-earlier period, according to Federal Register figures published today. That brought the first-half total to 1,810 compared with 235 for the whole of 2008. Why[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Hypocrisy’
Does South Carolina Still Fly The Confederate Flag on Its State House?
Battle of Fort Sumter (April 12–14, 1861) First Act of The Civil Wat They sort of took it down. The compromise is that it flies on the capitol grounds beside a memorial to South Carolina’s Confederate dead. The calim is that it hnors the npoble dead who fount a war to keep humans like [...]
April 10th, 2014 - 9:21 am § in Misc.
Buchenwald 33. Brandeis should be ashamed.
This week, 70 years after the liberation of Buchenwald, Brandeis University has brought shame on itself. This shame, a shame to all the Jewish people, comes from the decision of the University to withdraw an offer of an honorary degree to Ayan Hirsi Ali; the offer was withdrawn, because Ayan Hirsi A[...]
April 8th, 2014 - 3:20 am § in The Ave Scene
Feminism Gone Crazy
14 women have tried Marines’ Infantry Officer Course. All of them have failed. The sad part of this is the bizarre, liberal, feminist idea idea that men and women are identical rather than equal. This is the equivalent of demanding that Hooters, the Bunny Ranch or the Bolshoi ballerinas accep[...]
Knowsitall Award: James Watson on His 86th Birthday
Today we award the Knowsitall Award for Academic Arrogance to James Watson for his amazing success in taking credit for the work of Rosalind Franklin. There is a general misunderstanding about the Nobel Prize. The award os not given for the scientist, but for the discovery and only for a[...]
ISRAEL: Passing off the Zionist Heritage
Is It Jewish If It is Intermarried? Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks glowingly about his 23 year-old son Yair’s relationship with a 25 yea-old Norwegian girl. The relationship between Yair and Sandra Leikanger went viral. Pictures of the couple in Norway over the summer on Lei[...]
April 2nd, 2014 - 11:21 pm § in America, The Ave Scene
From Medical Marijuana to Medical Chocolate
Move over “medical marijuana,” Chocolate may prevent obesity and diabetes The determined effort to legalize marijuana went so far over the edge that many states and even Sanjay Gupta (right) got sold on the idea that a medicinal plant was somehow better than chemically defined drug[...]
March 31st, 2014 - 9:43 am § in Misc.
Russian Hypocrisy
Legitimacy of Ukrainian Election Depends on Transparency – Russian Diplomat The legitimacy of the upcoming presidential election in Ukraine depends upon “transparency, fairness and taking the interests of the regions into account,” a senior Russian diplomat said Monday.[...]
March 27th, 2014 - 3:36 am § in Misc.
Liberal Hypocrisy
(Saudi Arabia’s Arab News) CAIRO: More than 40 women on their way to Gaza as part of a delegation for World Women’s Day are staging a sit-in inside the Cairo International Airport after being refused entry into the country since Tuesday, airport officials in Egypt and activists said Thursday[...]
Why my wife will not eat beans (or rice, or corn) during Pesach
Why Kitniyot Passover Fight Is Literally Full of Beans A take-off from an essay in The Forward. For those who read THE Ave, or just know me, I am (on my father’s side) a Sephard … a descendent of the Jews expelled from Spain by Ferdinand and Isabella. My wife, however is a Rush …[...]