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Obama campaign gets $1m boost from Bill Maher
Politico
Friday, February 24, 2012
Blogs
Comedian Bill Maher announced that he will donate one million dollars to President Obama’s re-election campaign at the end of his groundbreaking comedy special, “CrazyStupidPolitics: Live from Silicon Valley.” He said, “This is the wisest investment I think I could make.” Read more…

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Afghan Koran riots spread to Pakistan
AFP
Friday, February 24, 2012
Breaking_news
Hundreds of Pakistani activists took to the streets on Friday, chanting death to America, demanding that their leaders resign and setting fire to a U.S. flag over the burning of Korans in Afghanistan. Read more…

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Prayers turn violent on Temple Mount
Ynet News
Friday, February 24, 2012
News
Friday prayers at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount turned into a scene of violent riots as protesters hurled stones at security forces who in turn broke into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound. Police dispersed the protesters using shock grenades. Several officers were injured. Read more…

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Times Opinion
DANNER: Dubious facts behind Obama’s economic optimism
Dan Danner
02/24/2012 12:30 AM
On the march to the November elections, President Obama has been painting an optimistic outlook for the economy. On the campaign trail last week, he noted, “People are starting to get a sense that the economy is on the rebound.” But Americans are still downtrodden, and we have heard these same promises for too long. Read more…
MILLER: Obama doubles down on windmills
Emily Miller
02/24/2012 12:29 AM
President Obama winked and nodded his intention Wednesday to close tax loopholes in exchange for lower tax rates. It was just for show. One day later, the commander in chief flew Air Force One to Florida to reiterate his support for expanding tax carve-outs for his political allies. Read more…
MURDOCK: Democrats rise against Obamacare
Deroy Murdock
02/24/2012 12:30 AM
The ongoing controversy over President Obama’s universal female-contraception entitlement decree reportedly found Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta, former Chief of Staff Richard Daley and five Democratic senators opposing Mr. Obama’s fusillade against religious liberty and economic freedom. Read more…

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http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/291868
In recent days, President Barack Obama has been stressing that his national-security record will help him get reelected. In a January interview with Time magazine, in his State of the Union address, and elsewhere, he not only recalls, with justifiable pride, the killing of Osama bin Laden, but also claims credit for “restor[ing] American leadership in the world.”
In common parlance, leadership abroad means something along the lines of identifying the U.S. national interest and enlisting foreign partners to join us in achieving it. What Mr. Obama means, however, is more or less the opposite.
Before entering office in 2009, Mr. Obama and his administration’s top foreign-policy intellectuals wrote extensively in favor of a less assertive, less militarily capable, less independent United States. This prescription fit their characterization of America’s post–World War II history as a story of bullying, selfishness, militarism, and violations of the rights of others.

http://www.translatingjihad.com/2012/02/saudi-study-nearly-quarter-of-children.html
Saudi Study: Nearly a Quarter of Children Raped; Up to 46% of Students Suffer from Homosexuality
Posted by Translating Jihad Video translated from clip posted on YouTube in December 2008. Clip originally aired on the Arabic-language satellite station ‘al-Hurra’, on the program ‘Misawa’. Subtitled video is above, full transcript below (thanks to Nonie Darwish for finding the video):

Guest – More than 23% of children in Saudi society have been raped.

http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/

“Mohammed is God’s apostle. Those who follow him are ruthless

to the unbelievers but merciful to one another” Quran 48:29

2012.02.23 (Musayyib, Iraq) – Children are heavily represented among the casualties of an al-Qaeda car bombing near an elementary school.
2012.02.23 (Mandali, Iraq) – Two children are taken out by an al-Qaeda bomb at a soccer field.
2012.02.23 (Karrada, Iraq) – Body parts are strewn across roads as terrorists kill at least ten people with a bomb in a residential Shiite neighborhood.
2012.02.23 (Kadhimiya, Iraq) – Six patrons are taken apart by an al-Qaeda car bomb at a restaurant.
2012.02.23 (Kohat, Pakistan) – A Religion of Peace car bomb rips through a bus station, leaving at least a dozen dead.

2012.02.22 (Maiduguri, Nigeria) – Islamists slit the throat of a pastor’s 75-year-old mother and leave a note in Arabic for her son.

Islam is a religion that inspires violent outrage over the destruction
of inanimate objects, such as Quran copies, and relative indifference
toward the extermination of human beings in the name of God.

PJ Media Poll: Obama Losing Some Minorities, Independents Posted By Rich Baehr

http://pjmedia.com/blog/pj-media-poll-obama-losing-some-minorities-independents/

Yesterday, Roger L. Simon summarized the results [1] of a PJ Media-sponsored poll which compared the four contending Republican candidates in head-to-head matchups with Barack Obama. (Topline results here. [2]) The survey of 800 registered voters, conducted by the firm CrossTarget, also looked at potential matchups of various candidates who could be late entrants into the race — or consensus choices at a deadlocked convention — versus President Obama. The alternative candidates included Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan, and former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.

The poll, conducted February 21 and 22, produced generally more favorable numbers for the GOP candidates than some other surveys conducted contemporaneously [3].

An examination of the crosstabs (see below) indicates that an equal number of those participating in the survey identified as Democrats and Republicans. In surveys that have produced the most favorable numbers for President Obama, the number of Democrats has exceeded the number of Republicans, sometimes by ratios of four to three.

The racial/ethnic makeup of the survey: 70% white, 11% African American, 11% Hispanic, and 8% other. The GOP candidate always won the white vote and always lost the votes of every other group in the survey.

http://bigpeace.com/dloesch/2012/02/23/will-karzai-apologize-to-obama-for-afghan-rioting-and-murder/ Troops at a Bagram Airfield were ensnared in controversy after burning copies of the Koran, it was revealed this week. The Korans, as reported by CNN, weren’t just Korans; they apparently also served as a form of communication between detainees with “extremist” writings in them: A military official said the materials were removed from […]

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5 Biggest Whoppers In Obama’s Energy Speech

02/23/2012 06:55 PM ET – Energy: The White House billed President Obama’s energy policy speech as a response to mounting criticism of record high gas prices. What he delivered was a grab bag of excuses and outright falsehoods. Obama’s main message to struggling motorists was: It’s not my fault, so stop … More »

Oil Execs Say Obama Lead Us To “Energy Abyss”

02/23/2012 06:05 PM ET – Energy: Industry leaders gathered in Houston say rising fuel output comes in spite of, not because of, the president’s policies and the pain at the pump will soon be excruciating. Energy executives and other industry players gathered for the North American Prospect Expo (NAPE) in … More »
Growing Solyndra Green Scandal Is Just One of Many

02/23/2012 06:55 PM ET – Corruption: Outrageous bonuses and White House stonewalling guarantee that the Solyndra scandal, in which betting on green lost taxpayers $535 million, won’t go away. But Solyndra is no isolated failure. With 24 million Americans either without any job or underemployed, and 7 … More »

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Prominent Anglo-Jewish pro-Israel activist Jonathan Hoffman (pictured), a longterm leading figure in the Zionist Federation, has written an Open Letter as follows to the Vice-Chancellor of Middlesex University, Professor Michael Driscoll. I understand that blogger Richard Millett will be describing the events herein described in more detail, but meanwhile here’s Jonathan’s letter, which also appears on the Jewish Chronicle blogs:

Writes Jonathan Hoffman:

‘Last night‘s Middlesex University Palestine Society meeting at Hendon was every bit as vile as might have been expected given the speakers – Ken O’Keefe, Ghada Karmi and ‘Jihad’ Jenny Tonge. O’Keefe was subsequently reported to the Police for aggravated Public Order Act Offences.

Let me introduce you to O’Keefe if you have not had the pleasure:

http://hurryupharry.org/2011/04/15/ken-okeefe-celebrates-hamas-murder-of…

It being Hendon there were quite a few Israel supporters in the audience and O’Keefe’s worst statement was to them:

You like the Nazis [he meant the Germans who resisted the Nazis] have a special obligation [to oppose Israel]”.

You must know that Jew/Nazi comparisons are antisemitic:
http://fra.europa.eu/fraWebsite/material/pub/AS/AS-WorkingDefinition-dra…

He also repeated the “troofers'” lie that “Israel and Mossad was directly involved in 9/11.

Tonge alleged falsely that “the Jewish Constitution is being changed to make Israel a Jewish-only state”

O’Keefe falsely claimed that Mandela compared Israel to apartheid South Africa. The truth is that in April 2000 Mandela came to London and spoke to the Board of Deputies of British Jews. He spoke of the need for Israel to leave the lands taken in 1967 but not unless there was first recognition of the Jewish State by the Arab States: “I added a second position, that Israel cannot be expected to withdraw from the Arab territories which she legitimately conquered when the Arab States wanted to whip her out of the map of the world.” No mention of ‘apartheid’ in Israel – from a man who spent 27 years as a prisoner of the loathsome apartheid regime in South Africa.

O’Keefe said that Israel’s objective was “to maintain perpetual conflict”

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/02/24/sean-penn-hugo-chavezs-honored-guest/

Sean Penn, Hugo Chavez’s Honored Guest

Sean Penn was Hugo Chavez’s guest of honor (again) last week, serving as keynote speaker at graduation ceremonies for Venezuela’s Salvador Allende Medical School. “Allow me to impart a little anecdote,” beamed the two-time Oscar winner to the enchanted crowd. “I had the privilege to introduce my children to comandante Fidel Castro and as he posed for a photo between them I told him: ‘President, I’ll now be denounced in the U.S. for educating my children as socialist revolutionaries.’”

So Castro responded: “That’s among the best things that could happen to them.”

Besides his fame as a baseball bat-swinging wife beater, Sean Penn also claims fame as an advocate against the death penalty. His Oscar–winning role in “Dead Man Walking,” where he played a convicted rapist and murderer who perished by lethal-injection in Louisiana seems to have made a deep impression upon Penn.

Unlike Louisiana’s penal system, however, the role model for Penn’s kids used firing squads, forced labor and prison beatings to murder his thousands of defenseless victims. And their “convictions” were curtly explained by Castro’s chief hangman, Che Guevara: “Judicial evidence is an archaic bourgeois detail. We execute from revolutionary conviction,” he once said.

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/02/24/israel-builds-obama-administration-squirms/

Israel Builds, Obama Administration Squirms Posted By P. David Hornik

This week Israel’s Civil Administration approved a plan to build 500 housing units in the West Bank community of Shiloh. U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner complained like clockwork that such building is not “constructive.”

In so doing, he was following a U.S. practice of frequently publicly criticizing its ally Israel. No other U.S. ally gets this treatment; when was the last time you heard Washington publicly take Britain, Germany, or Japan to task? And this in a week when the U.S. is already heavily pressuring Israel both publicly and behind the scenes not to defend itself against a growing existential threat from Iran.

But is Toner right about the Israeli building plans not being “constructive”? In a world where there are mounting crises in Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Egypt, severe human rights abuses in America’s trading partner China, and so on, are housing units in Shiloh what Washington should fret about? In fact, these building plans not only pose no problem for the U.S. but are constructive, for several reasons.