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http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2013/06/27/free-speech-in-the-uk-sayonara/?print=1

“U.S. Bloggers banned from Entering the UK.”

That’s how a BBC headline [1] broke the news that authors Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer were denied entry to the country that gave the world the Magna Carta.

“Blogger,” you see, is an insinuating term. Not quite a term of abuse, but still a word that imparts diminishment. Who are you going to believe, asked Dan Rather [2] when questioned about his — as it turned out, fraudulent — story about George W. Bush’s military service: me, Dan Rather of CBS, or some blogger sitting in front of his computer in his pajamas?

Good question, Dan! Why don’t you think about that in your ignominious retirement and get back to us — or, on second thought, don’t get back to us. Just think about what a preening fool you made of yourself before even CBS had had enough and cashiered you.

Geller and Spencer are both, in different ways, prominent critics of Islamism — i.e., of that strong current of militant Islam that seeks to spread the intolerant ideology of Islam in the West through the imposition of sharia in Western countries. You might agree with their views, and then again, you might not.

That’s hardly the point, is it?

http://pjmedia.com/blog/failure-deniers/?singlepage=true If not taxpayer-funded, the massive failure of warmism advocates would have been addressed long ago. Tuesday afternoon, as I was reading Barack Obama’s Georgetown University speech on “climate change,” it occurred to me that the biggest and perhaps most consequential difference between the government and the private sector is how each reacts when reality doesn’t behave […]

http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/06/the_only_climate_consensus_is_that_obamas_polls_are_cooling.html

We’ve gone from “change that we can believe in” to “executive orders that we can push through.”

Well, it’s time for another decree and now it’s “climate change.”

There are problems with all of this consensus about climate change. Where is the consensus?

The Economist, hardly a member of “The Flat Earth Society,” posted an editorial that Valerie Jarret should add to President Obama’s morning briefing:

“GLOBAL warming has slowed. The rate of warming of over the past 15 years has been lower than that of the preceding 20 years. There is no serious doubt that our planet continues to heat, but it has heated less than most climate scientists had predicted. Nate Cohn of the New Republic reports: “Since 1998, the warmest year of the twentieth century, temperatures have not kept up with computer models that seemed to project steady warming; they’re perilously close to falling beneath even the lowest projections”.”

OK, let me confess that I know a lot more about batting averages than climate change.

At the same time, the definition of consensus is that there is common agreement about something: General agreement or accord.

We were told 15 years ago that the earth’s temperatures were going up. Someone named Gore made a movie about the poles melting and the East Coast flooding.

We are told today that they may be going down. I guess that means that I will be soon wearing a sweater in Texas in July!

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3786/germany-mosque-loudspeakers “First there was no mention of a muezzin when the mosque was inaugurated; then on Fridays only; then three times a day, now five times a day.” — Interview in Die Zeit A Turkish mosque in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia has begun sounding public calls to prayer from an outdoor loudspeaker system […]

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=2mZC18EAl5o&autohide=1&version=3&autoplay=1

THIS SUMS UP AMERICAN AND ISRAELI POLICIES IN A WORD: AP”PEACE’MENT…..

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/frontpagemag-com/one-nation-under-allah-on-the-glazov-gang/

This week’s Glazov Gang had the honor of being joined by Nonie Darwish, author of “The Devil We Don’t Know,” Michael Chandler, an American Patriot, and Dwight Schultz, a Hollywood actor (dwightschultzfansite.nl).

This week our Gang members gathered to discuss Hassan Rouhani: Moderate Monster. The discussion focused on Iran’s new president-elect and our eternal self-deception about “liberals” in the enemy camp.

The Gang also shed a disturbing light on One Nation Under Allah, wondering why our children in a Colorado public school are saying the Pledge of Allegiance to Islam’s Allah in Arabic. The guests also discussed The Brotherhood Game, focusing on how Islamists play the “moderate” charade that we desperately embrace.

And much, much more. . . .

To see both parts of this two-part series, see below:

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/robert-spencer/britain-bans-freedom-fighters/print/

ROBERT SPENCER: BRITAIN BANS FREEDOM FIGHTERS

Wednesday morning I received an official letter from the British Home Office, notifying me that I would not be allowed to enter the country on the grounds that “your presence here is not conducive to the public good.” My colleague Pamela Geller received a similar letter. We had planned to lay a wreath at a memorial to British soldier Lee Rigby, who was beheaded by Islamic jihadists on a Woolwich street on May 22. But it is not conducive to the public good in Britain to oppose jihad violence and Islamic supremacism.

For that is why the ban came down. The Home Office’s letter to me said:

You are reported to have stated the following:

[Islam] is a religion and is a belief system that mandates warfare against unbelievers for the purpose for establishing a societal model that is absolutely incompatible with Western society because media and general government unwillingness to face the sources of Islamic terrorism these things remain largely unknown.

I said no such thing, of course. I generally speak and write in coherent English. But the point is clear enough. I certainly have pointed out that Islam mandates warfare against unbelievers. This is not really a controversial point to anyone who has studied Islam at all. One man who has done so has said that “Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth.”

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/david-solway/cmon-man/

“The two conjoined words, “President” and “Obama,” are connotatively among the great oxymorons of the current age. ”

ESPN’s Monday Night Football pre-game show is watched chiefly for its “C’mon man!” segment. The phrase, which derives from common speech and was big in the Sixties, has now become iconic, a mainstay of the sports lexicon, and may be cogently applied to the political world as well. Implying as it does an attitude of stunned disbelief or eyebrow-raising amazement at any statement or event so palpably absurd as to beggar credibility, it fits the political domain like a catcher’s mitt burying a perfect strike. It is especially apt when brought to bear on the utterances of Barack Obama. As for example, to cite at random:

“Hope and change”—C’mon man!

“We are the ones we’ve been waiting for”—C’mon man!

“This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and the planet began to heal”—C’mon man!

“The state of our union is strong”—C’mon man!

“I don’t know what the term is in Austrian”—C’mon man!

“Navy corpse-man”—C’mon man!

“Our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes, and I see many of them in the audience here today”—C’mon man!

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/169296#.Ucv9wK8UHQx

STEVEN PLAUT COMMENTS

It is not really news when someone discovers that the bulk of the Arab citizens of Israel (not of the West Bank but inside Green Line Israel) are pro-terror anti-Israel jihadists. What is news is that this time it is the Marxist sociologist Sami Samouha (or Samoha) who is saying so. And if Samouha reports findings of 58% of Israeli Arabs endorsing anti-Jewish violence, I suspect the true number is much higher. After all, Samouha has a long track record of prettifying the political positions of Israeli Arabs and has also participated in “One State Solution Conferences,” which call for Israel’s complete annihilation. For more on Samouha, see http://www.isracampus.org.il/third%20level%20pages/Editorial%20-%20Lee%20Kaplan%20-%20Sammy%20Smooha.htm

Here are the details on the new poll:

Poll: Most Israeli Arabs Support Violent Uprising

Most Israeli Arabs oppose a Jewish majority, support a Palestinian uprising and want Iran to have nukes.GIL RONEN

Gil RonenAbout 58% of the Arab citizens of Israel say that the Palestinian Authority Arabs would be justified in starting a violent rebellion (“intifada”) if the diplomatic process does not advance. A similar percentage advocate an “intifada” by Israeli Arab citizens if their situation does not improve considerably, according to a poll, which was carried out by Prof. Sami Samoha of Haifa University, with the Israeli Democracy Institute.

The views are in line with the call Monday by an Arab Knesset Member, for an Arab intifada inside Israel.