Arutz Shiva (Israel National News) reports of the lynching of a 70-year old Israeli man in Bethehem Tuesday. The man, who also held U.S. citizenship, was found in a soccer field in PLO-controlled Beit Sachur, his body badly beaten. According to the report, The victim entered Bethlehem with an Arab acquaintance, who apparently reported the lynch to Israel security forces. Lieut.-Col Sharon Levy, commander of the Bethlehem District Coordinating Office,

U.S. intelligence agencies helped Israel track down a Palestinian ship that tried to smuggle a large supply of weapons obtained from Iran, according to U.S. intelligence officials,” The Washington Times reports. “The intelligence assistance was considered vital in Israeli military efforts to pinpoint the exact vessel carrying the arms, which was captured in a daring commando raid earlier this month, said officials familiar with the effort. “‘Our assistance was crucial,’”

In his latest “Impromptus” column, The National Review’s Jay Nordlinger has a great bit on The New York Times and it’s seemingly (seemly?) unbalanced C-Dub elevatin’: I believe I mentioned in a recent column

A bedtime story… The university where many in the protein wisdom crew teach prides itself on it’s newfangled techiness — its cutting edge “laptop communities” and online classroom “experiences” — not to mention its insistence that all teachers maintain (workable) websites and develop technology-laden lesson plans and “teaching tools” (which usually translates to clumsily constructed PowerPoint presentations of age-old lectures, or wriggling GIF email icons). In fact, our university’s marketing