http://www.timesofisrael.com/in-the-hot-seat/ ASHINGTON (JTA) — As the 2012 campaign heats up in Ohio, Republicans are pinning their hopes on a young Jewish military veteran to unseat Democratic incumbent Sen. Sherrod Brown. Josh Mandel, a 34-year-old US Marine Corps veteran and the current state treasurer, has faced a number of challenges but he is doing well in […]
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Sting and the Police State
WELL DIDN’T MME. HILLARY SAY BASHAR WAS A REFORMER JUST ONE YEAR AGO?
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In terms of lifestyle, dictators and rock stars occupy the same stratum. Consider only a fraction of what they share: palace residences, obsessively broadcast concern for the poor, appearances before strange crowds who chant their names, flattery from identical media sycophants, protection from hired flunkies who allow their eccentricities full expression, an ever-ready foul word for Israel, and another for the United States. Experientially, rock stardom is dictatorship without death squads and the pretense of governance.
Perhaps that’s why newly released pictures of British rock star Sting laughing it up with Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in 2008 seem to capture a moment of natural affinity. Who but a rock star understands the demands of the dictatorial daily grind? Viewing photos in the Daily Mail of the two happy men with glamorous wives in tow, it’s easy to imagine they’re trading stories of bumbling private-jet stewards or the headaches of polo-court installation or condemning rapacious capitalists (present company celebrated, of course) or whatever else the dictator-rock star class gets up to when not dictating or rock starring.
Sting’s second career is self-righteous pontification. He has irritated on the matters of trees, earthquakes, and the poor. He has served since 1981 as “ambassador” for Israel-bashing Amnesty International. He is the unparalleled rock-star activist self-parody. Which, of course, is why his flirtations with human-rights abusers are so delectable. Yes, flirtations—plural. Sting is one of those human-rights promoting singers who take big money to sing for human-rights abusers (while opposing the evil regime of George W. Bush, naturally.)
GAFFNEY: Shariah’s threat to civil rights
Frank Gaffney
02/28/2012 12:28 AM
As we witness surging Muslim violence against non-Muslims in Afghanistan, Egypt and even here, the response seems increasingly that the victims must apologize to the perpetrators. In particular, the United States government — from President Obama on down — has been assiduously seeking forgiveness for giving offense to Islamic sensibilities after accidentally burning Korans. Read more…
Interpol takes hack out of Anonymous with arrests
AP
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Breaking_news
Interpol said Tuesday 25 suspected members of the loose-knit Anonymous hacker movement have been arrested in a sweep across Europe and South America. Read more…
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EDITORIAL: Obama’s goofy green gas
Washington Times
02/29/2012 12:40 AM
President Obama says there are no “silver bullets” that can shoot down gasoline prices that have skyrocketed from $4 a gallon to $5. Nevertheless, he’s seized upon algae – his fuel of the future – as a solution. Read more…
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ANDREW BOSTOM WRITES:
The abject failure of our Balkan Islam policy was based on the same flaws we have seen repeated over and over again since, most notably, disregarding what our jihadist allies’ write and say in their own words.
One needed only read Izetbegovic’s jihadist Islamic Declaration (originally written in 1970; and summarized in my 2008 blog) to see that such a leader’s hopes and dreams–and those of his ardent Muslim followers–could never be compatible with Western aspirations and interests. Our main “regional ally”, pseudo-secular Turkey, also made its aspirations known at an OIC conference in Istanbul in June, 1992: direct military intervention against Serbia, lifting the arms embargo on the Bosnian Muslims, blockading and ultimately dismantling Yugoslovia. Simultaneously, Turkey provided maximal support and aid to Muslim Albania, which became the first European member of the OIC. A Turco-Albanian friendship agreement was signed and Turkey gave unreserved support for the Kosovo separatists and their unabashed ambition to merge with the Albanian “fatherland.” Indeed it was “secular” Turkish President Ozal who openly proclaimed a policy of not only “fencing in the Serbs”, but also made it clear. “..that the Muslims in Bosnia and Herzegovina are to Turkey what the Palestinians are to the Arabs.”
It is well past time for the architects of this failed policy to offer a mea culpa, acknowledge what they have learned since about Islamic goals, and pledge not to advocate similar jihad-abetting, OIC-orchestrated policies in the future
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/292196/epa-s-day-court-hans-von-spakovsky A number of states have joined with industry organizations to challenge new rules from the Environmental Protection Agency on the grounds that they run contrary to the Clean Air Act. Oral arguments began on February 28 before D.C.’s Court of Appeals. Previous cases have not gone so well. In 2007, in Massachusetts v. EPA, the […]
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Editor’s note: The interview below is with Dr. Richard Cravatts, the author of Genocidal Liberalism: The University’s Jihad Against Israel & Jews, a new book published by the David Horowitz Freedom Center. To order a copy, click here.
Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Dr. Richard Cravatts, a Professor of Practice and Director of the Master’s Program in Communications Management at the Simmons College School of Management. He is President of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, a grassroots community of over 50,000 academics on more than 3500 campuses worldwide, and a board member of the Journal for the Study of Antisemitism, the Investigative Taskforce on Campus Anti-Semitism, and the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law. He is also the author of the new book, Genocidal Liberalism: The University’s Jihad Against Israel & Jews (David Horowitz Freedom Center).
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I HARDLY EVER DISAGREE WITH MY FRIEND “THE SULTAN” BUT THIS IS NO MYTH AND I WILL LEAVE THAT RECKONING TO GENERALS AND STRATEGISTS WHO WORK IN SECRET WITH SECRET INTEL…..MAD MULLAHS IN CONTROL OF NUKES IS NOT EVEN COMPARABLE TO STUXNET, THE STRIKE ON OSYRAK OR A REACTOR IN SYRIA…..RSK
In 2007, Israeli Air Force jets crossed into Syria and destroyed an Iranian-backed nuclear reactor. The operation had the backing of the United States and employed intelligence derived from an Iranian defector. There was no regional war afterward. Not even an exchange of fire at the Israeli-Syrian border.
In 1981, Israel struck deep inside Iraq, destroying Saddam’s Osirak reactor. The attack was universally condemned at the United Nations and even by Israel’s allies. Had Saddam used it as the basis for a war, Israel would have had no international support at all. But again no war followed.
Today, Iran and opponents of any attack on its nuclear program hold up the specter of a regional war that will drag in the United States, devastate the region and drive up oil prices. This is the only card in their deck until the mullahs have their own bomb, and it’s an effective card to play. But is any of that a serious risk?
Voting for Santorum Equals Electing Obama in November! URL to article: http://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2012/02/27/voting-for-santorum-equals-electing-obama-in-november/ There is a reason that the United Automobile Workers and its troops are urging its Michigan members to vote Tuesday in the crossover Michigan primary, and to cast their vote not for Barack Obama, but for Rick Santorum. They understand, as evidently many […]
Catching Up with Rep. Allen West
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Q. Congressman West, you have decided to run for reelection in newly drawn Florida District 18, where there are more Republican registered voters, instead of your current Florida District 22 that will also be redrawn to include more registered Democrat voters. This decision points to a realization that your conservative message only plays well in Republican-leaning districts, and that if you stayed in your current District 22 your chances of reelection would have been substantially reduced. Why do your strongly held conservative principles seem to be so polarizing among the general voting population?
A. Conservative principles are not new — after all, our nation was founded on conservative principles of limited government, individual responsibility, and a strong defense. The problem is these principles have been ignored by the liberal progressive politicians and certain media which have convinced much of the voting population that government can solve all their problems, will take care of them from cradle-to-grave, and it is our nation’s fault that our enemies wish to do us harm.
Saving Muslims From Themselves
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After September 11 the reasonable thing to do would have been to take steps to save ourselves from Islamic terror, instead we went on a crusade to save Muslims from themselves. The latest stop on that crusade is Syria, where the foreign policy experts responsible for decades of horrifying misjudgements tell us that we are duty bound to save the Syrian people from their dictator.
Rarely do we ask why it is that Muslims so often need saving from their dictators. Or why a party that campaigned on improving America’s reputation by promising not to bomb Muslims anymore, is now improving America’s reputation by bombing so many Muslims and so often that it makes George W. Bush look like a tie dyed hippie.
The Obama Administration has had a role in regime change in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya all in one year. Along with the other “Friends of Syria” it would like to bomb its way to regime change in Syria. The point of all this regime change is to replace totalitarian Muslim regimes with democratically elected totalitarian Muslim regimes on the theory that will make everyone happier.
