DANIEL GREENFIELD: THE WEEK THAT WAS….PART TWO
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THERE ARE NO ATHEISTS IN FOXHOLES
The trajectory of persecution is not very difficult to calculate. In the UK, Muslims outnumber Jews six to one. In France, Muslims outnumber Jews ten to one, and in Sweden by as much as twenty-five to one. These are not just numbers; they also accurately chart the trajectory of religious persecution, with the Muslim persecution of Jews spiking horrifyingly in Sweden, high in France, but not as high in England. One reason why the situation is not yet as bad as in the United States is because Jews still outnumber Muslims at least two to one.
Muslim persecution of a hated minority group increases proportionally in relation to their numerical advantage. Atheists are a larger percentage of the population in Europe, but demographics are still catching up to them. In the United States the demographic race may already be done, as far as atheists are concerned.
In the United States approximately 0.7 percent of the population identifies as atheist and 0.8 percent of the population as Muslim. If these surveys are correct then the number of Muslims in the United States has already exceeded the number of atheists. While not a single member of Congress identifies as an atheist, two identify as Muslims.
from my article, The Most Dangerous Place to be an Atheist
BUT HE ONLY SUPPORTS RAPING US AT THE STATE LEVEL
Whether you like a state-wide insurance mandate or not, it’s a world of difference when the federal government does it… It was on account of the difference between state and federal powers that the Supreme Court overturned the federal Violence Against Women Act. The court was not endorsing rape, but reminding us that states make laws about rape, not Congress.
Romney supported the idea of other states doing something along the lines of his health care bill, but always opposed insurance mandates from the federal government (just as I oppose the federal government issuing general laws about rape, but support state laws against rape.)
From that same bulletin from CoulterWorld.
So Coulter’s proposal is that we nominate a rapist because his rapine instincts are governed by the Constitution and though he supports rape at the state level, he will oppose it at the Federal level.
The only thing keeping Romney from raping us at the Federal level (Coulter’s metaphor, not mine) is that he’s apparently solid on State’s Rights. Probably as solid as he is on immigration, the second amendment, abortion, gay rights and well any other issue.
If we do put our faith in Romney as a rapist within the Constitution, then he’ll hand out the state waivers on ObamaCare. But what if he prioritizes rape over constitutionalism just like every other president from both parties going back further than we would like to think about?
If a candidate opposes a policy, then regardless of his Constitutional integrity, we at least have some confidence that he will not implement it. But if a candidate supports a policy, but opposes it only at the Federal level, then we have to put our faith in his restraint to not use the powers of the office that he has, or in this case to actively use them to undermine a policy that he supports in practice, but not in legal principle.
Ron Paul might have an inkling of credibility arguing that he would not enact a policy that he supports at the Federal level. Considering his earmarks dance, it’s a small inkling, but he at least has some credibility on the issue.
With Romney, his establishment defenders have been reduced to arguing that Romney may support the practice of ObamaCare, but he will oppose it to protect states rights. Not only is this position ridiculous, not only does it ask us to take so much on faith that it’s downright mindboggling. In Coulter’s own metaphor it asks us to elect a rapist and trust that his principles will prevent him from raping us.
Worst of all Coulter has conceded and even defended the mandate, and is now just arguing against it on a Federal level.
“In a world where words have meaning, Mitt Romney is not the “moderate” in this race. He is the most conservative candidate.”
The problem is that in CoulterWorld, the words mean something different than they mean here. It’s entirely legitimate to state that none of the remaining three candidates are conservative. That is a defensible view.
Billing a man who called himself progressive and repeatedly disavowed the conservative label until it came in handy, who is conservative is demeanor, but has no consistent conservative record on the issues, as the most conservative candidate is a head spinner.
To seriously believe that Romney is more conservative than Santorum isn’t the worldview of a world where words have meaning, it’s a world where the word conservative has no meaning.
BUFFALOED SPENDERS
Yesterday, the Republican-controlled House passed HR 1022, a bill that would require the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study of the history of Buffalo Soldiers in the establishment of national parks. The study will cost $400,000.
Voting in favor of this fantastic piece of budget cutting legislation was budget cutting hero, Paul Ryan. Michelle Bachmann voted against.
In between various bills about the importance of the budget, Ryan voted to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to study the suitability and feasibility of designating prehistoric, historic, and limestone forest sites on Rota, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, as a unit of the National Park System.
The bill was co-sponsored by five Democrats and one Republican. Can we really afford to be extending the national park system into the Northern Mariana Islands. Is that really the priority now?
SOROS MANUFACTURED CHAOS IN ISRAEL
In the warm summer of 2011, a twenty-something Israeli named Daphne Leef set up a Facebook protest page agitating against the high cost of housing in Tel Aviv. She pitched a tent and helped touch off a social protest movement that received national and international attention.
While the protests were billed as grassroots, there was nothing grassroots about them. The protests had been organized and funded by the New Israel Fund. Daphne Leef worked as a video editor for the New Israel Fund.
In the winter of that same year, as the protests had died down, a woman named Tanya Rosenblit boarded a bus which runs through religiously hyper-conservative neighborhoods and staged an incident with the passengers. Rosenblit was dubbed an Israeli Rosa Parks and her stunt helped generate waves of articles about major social problems in Israel.
Rosenblit was associated with One Voice, an organization funded by the New Israel Fund, whose board included Alon Liel, the husband of New Israel Fund director Rachel Liel. Hardly had the NIF gotten through manufacturing one phony social protest movement than it was hard at work on another.
See the entire piece at Front Page Magazine in Soros Manufactured Chaos in Israel
AND NOW THE ROUNDUP
Western Rifle Shooters has found a truly fantastic illustration to go with my SOTU parody. This should be Obama’s presidential portrait.
Dress for success and the going rate for a 99 percent secretary
Romney hearts Hezbollah’s health care system from Pamella Galler at Atlas Shrugs The takeaway here is that Romney operates on truisms from the same foreign policy experts who helped put the Brotherhood into power. He really does not get it.
Hezbollah and Hamas and the Brotherhood in Egypt are not popular because they offer health services or food. Those are bonuses that help lock in people. It’s their Islamic beliefs that are popular and Romney is foolish to think that if America provided health care to them that it would swing them around.
… in other good news
The inauguration of Egypt’s new parliament is an important step toward fulfilling public demands for the establishment of a regime based on Islam, said Ali Larijani, speaker of the Iranian parliament, in a letter on Wednesday. The letter was sent to Saad al-Katatny, People’s Assembly speaker.
Shouldn’t he have sent the letter to Obama who deserves much of the credit for the Caliphate?
New York Times now outsourcing its stories to CAIR
Learn about the legal claim to the State of Israel, from Eli Hertz, who has done a great deal of research on the topic at a Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors event in February
Another way
Yes, I am an Arab and despite that I love the Jewish people and the Land of Israel. I believe in the responsibility of Arabs to be loyal to the State of Israel and I believe that Jews should be able to settle everywhere in Israel,
With a predictable ending
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