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China's New Hostages
By Angelo M. Codevilla
That Jonathan Pollard spied for Israel nobody doubts. He's admitted it, has acknowledged his crime and has begged forgiveness from any American official who'll listen. So, in wake of Chinagate, why, then, does the Clinton administration vehemently insist on imprisoning him for the rest of his life?
'Male Abortion': A Fiction to Shirk Responsibility
By Dr. Wade F. Horn
Introducing the legal
fiction of a male abortion will have the effect of increasing the reality of
actual abortions. I can hear the conversations now. "If you don't get an
abortion, then I will go to court and you'll never be able to get a dime out
of me!"
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JWR welcomes Michelle Malkin to the JWR family. We are attempting to be the best there is, folks!
David Corn: George W. owes Bubba big time
Cal Thomas: Speaker Hastert wants reinforcements
Mort Zuckerman: America should take pride in honoring its responsibilities
Ben Wattenberg: Crime hawk turns
Sam Schulman: A bet on our kids' future
Mallard Fillmore
Dear JWR Readers |
Ray Shamie, the mentsh
WORD HAS REACHED US that a truly American original has died.
Obituary writers will no doubt recall Ray Shamie as a failed politician. We at
JWR,
however, will forever remember him as a mentsh. And by our lights, a mentsh,
is the only real type of winner there is.
What is truly sad, is that Shamie, who as a youth was destitute but after much toil
and an amazing will to succeed against all odds, died a millionaire many times
over,
did not live a generation earlier. Had he, there is no doubt his real-life rags to riches
story would have been turned into a Frank Capra film. Our own Jeff Jacoby
wrote
about Shamie in these pages
last month and we highly recommend that you, dear reader, read or re-read the article. There is no need to wipe away any resulting tears.
We had the privilege of speaking with Shamie once. It was last December, during
a critical period when JWR almost folded. We were attempting to survive
and our readers, despite numerous requests, simply were not helping us do so. It
was as if they simply did not care.
Anyway, word of our plight reached Shamie, who had never read JWR, but nonetheless sent in a
hefty donation, totally catching us off-guard.
Though weakened with cancer and
hardly able to speak, Shamie said he was motivated to help because we were
making the best out of a bad situation; that we were giving it our all --- and he
knew we'd succeed, even if we ourselves were not so sure.
Jacoby tells JWR that "in 18 years, I never once heard Ray Shamie raise his voice in anger or
berate any person," even if they deserved it.
Like we said, Shamie was a mentsh.
May his memory be blessed --- and serve as an inspiration.
--- Binyamin L. Jolkovsky
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Torah
Reading: Korach: Numbers 16:1-18:32
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