5-21-08

Wretched at The Belmont Club: Israel Matzav and Richard Landes have the first word on a story that is still only in the French papers. “Israel Radio’s Paris correspondent Gil Michaeli has just reported that the French Court of Appeals has overturned the libel judgment against Phillipe Karsenty and has determined that Karsenty did not libel France 2 correspondent Charles Enderlin when he reported that the ‘death’ of 12-year old Mohamed Al-Dura at Netzarim in the Gaza Strip in September 2000 may have been staged, and that it was unlikely that the death was caused by IDF soldiers.”

Joe Lieberman spanks Lefties: A great Democratic secretary of state, Dean Acheson, once warned “no people in history have ever survived, who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.” This is a lesson that today’s Democratic Party leaders need to relearn.

Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit: FORGET THE RECESSION-TALK. WANT REALLY BAD ECONOMIC NEWS? Try this report: By firing its actuarial consultant last week, the New York State Legislature shone a light on one of the public sector’s deepest secrets: All across the country, states and local governments are promising benefits to public workers on the basis of numbers that make little economic sense. . . .This has the potential to be much, much worse than Enron, and with much, much less accountability — because, you know, it’s government instead of those greedy selfish businessmen.

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