http://www.nationalreview.com/article/348687/autocrat-accountants-mark-steyn Once government is ensnared in every aspect of life, a bureaucracy grows increasingly capricious. Speaking at Ohio State University earlier this month, Barack Obama urged students to pay no attention to those paranoid types who “incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity.” Oddly enough, in recent days the most […]
Rabbi Akiva and the IRS As the IRS scandal unfolds, it is worth recalling that , according to the medieval rabbis, the practice of reciting kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead,originated in the medieval story of Rabbi Akiva found in Mahzor Vitry. Walking in a cemetery, Akiva meets a naked man, carrying wood on […]
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Into-the-Fray-Deciphering-delegitimization-313419 For a secure Israel to regain legitimacy, the idea of a Palestinian state must be discredited as a possible means of resolving conflict. How is it that after all the wrenching concessions it has made, Israel is far more reviled today than during the rigid “rejectionism” of Yitzhak Shamir? I believe we have to […]
http://pjmedia.com/andrewmccarthy/2013/05/17/humas-moonlighting-no-problem-just-dont-mention-her-crescent-lighting/
Well, well, well, the Huma Abedin controversy has finally hit the legacy media. Okay, okay — it’s not the Huma Abedin controversy, but it’s one Obama’s court stenographers apparently feel comfortable talking about.
It seems Ms. Abedin, accurately described by the New York Times as Hillary Rodham Clinton’s ”longtime aide and confidante,” spent her last months at the State Department not really at the State Department. Despite maintaining her title as Secretary of State Clinton’s deputy chief of staff, she was permitted, upon returning to government service from maternity leave in mid-2012, to remain at home in New York with her newborn child and her husband, the disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner — he of the notorious Weiner all aTwitter photos. While the State Department was paying her $135,000 as a “special government employee,” Abedin was also permitted to moonlight as a “strategic consultant” for Teneo, a firm founded by Doug Band, a former adviser to President Bill Clinton. (Teneo, the Times informs us, advises such firms as MF Global, the brokerage firm whose investors were broken by Jon Corzine — the former New Jersey governor and Obama campaign bundler.) In addition, Abedin found time in her busy “special government employee” schedule to do consultant work for the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation.
With that familiar Clinton flare, Abedin did not disclose her consultant income on government financial disclosure forms. According to the State Department, you see, her new “part-time” position as “special government employee” meant the usual disclosure requirements did not apply to her … notwithstanding that, the Atlantic Wire reports, Abedin continued to be referred to in official documents as deputy chief of staff to the United States secretary of state. The arrangement finally came to an end in March when Ms. Abedin officially left the State Department to head up Mrs. Clinton’s six-person “transition office” — i.e., the transition from secretary of state to what the tongue-in-cheeky Atlantic calls Mrs. Clinton’s “version of private life.”
Apparently not to the great delight of the Clintons, Weiner, as part of his effort to come back from his virtual sex scandal and maybe make a run for New York City mayor, decided to release the couple’s 2012 tax returns. They show that these dedicated public servants made just shy of a half-million dollars last year. Turns out Weiner’s been “consulting” too, but the couple is not saying how much of the haul comes from Abedin’s extracurricular activities while she was still on the government payroll.
This story is getting some attention — sure to be fleeting — from the reliably Clinton-adoring press and some “good government” types. But that has more to do with a potential Weiner political campaign than with the tangled web of government policy-making and Clinton cronies (like the Saudis and Qataris — multi-million dollar donors to the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation who do mega-business with the State Department). There has to date been scant media interest in Abedin’s earlier part-time job.
As detailed previsously here at Ordered Liberty, Ms. Abedin began her long professional association with Mrs. Clinton in 1996, as an intern to the first lady in the Clinton White House. In the years that followed, she remained a Clinton staffer from the White House to the Senate, and eventually to the State Department. At the same time, she also served from 1996 through 2008 as assistant editor of the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, a publication founded by Abdullah Omar Naseef, a major financier of al Qaeda whose Islamic “charity,” the Rabita Trust, is a designated terrorist organization (on which Naseef colluded with Wael Hamza Jalaidan, an Osama bin Laden intimate who is one of al Qaeda’s founders).
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MITIGATING ISLAM; BY JASON JAMES BUTLER
Saudi Rape Cases: Little Girl in ICU after being Raped and Serial Child Rapist Caught
12-Year-Old Girl in ICU after Being Raped
A young Saudi man raped a 12-year-old girl just as her parents went to the police station in the Gulf Kingdom after their 16-year-old son was arrested for burglary.
The girl was asleep in her bed room when the 19-year-old man stormed into the house in the western town of Makkah at night, muzzled her mouth with a piece of cloth and carried her to a nearby hill where he raped her.
Police men who rushed to the scene were accompanied by the girl’s parents, who got the shock of their life when they found that …
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GRAPHIC VIDEO WARNING: Western-Backed Syrian Rebels Publicly Execute Three Men
A video has emerged of three men being publicly executed in a town square in Syria.
The footage, filmed in the northern city of Raqqa, shows rebels shooting dead government soldiers.
Posted on the internet this week, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed Tuesday’s killings.
The clip shows three soldiers sitting on a plinth in the centre of the square, surrounded by masked gunmen.
They are wearing green blindfolds and holding their hands together anxiously as a crowd gathers in the background.
A masked gunman can be seen standing next to a van, reading from a piece of paper – it looks as if he is reading …
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Obama’s Indonesia Bans Millions of Porn Sites, for Ramadan
Indonesia’s minister of information said more than 1 million pornographic websites have been shut down in that country ahead of Ramadan, Islam’s holiest month, which begins at sunset Thursday.
Another 1 million porn sites will be shut down in the days ahead, and perhaps in the future, said the minister, Tifatul Sembiring, according to the The Times of India.
“We will block more porn sites during Ramadan, though that doesn’t mean that we will allow such sites to operate during the rest of the year,” Sembiring said.
The porn websites are based outside of Indonesia, he said. The country is no stranger to such blocking efforts. Last year, …
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England: Christianity in dramatic Decline, Muslim population Rising
According to census data analysis published yesterday, the number of British-born Christians is falling significantly, whilst the number of young Muslims is on the rise.
The figures suggest Christianity is in long-term decline in the UK; there are 5.3 million fewer British-born people describing themselves as Christians, representing a decline of 15% in just a decade, despite a growth in the overall population, calling into question the establishment of the Church of England.
Notably, the proportion of young people who describe themselves as even nominal Christians has dropped below half for the first time. Younger people also drove a shift away from religion altogether, …
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Bill Banning Shariah Law Passes North Carolina House, Heading to Senate
A highly-debated North Carolina bill forbidding the application of “foreign law” in domestic and child abuse cases passed the state’s House vote Thursday.
Although the text of the bill makes no mention of it pertaining to Shariah law, many argue that its close representation to other states’ bills proves that its goal is to prevent the interpretation of Shariah law in state courtrooms.
House Bill 695, which passed the North Carolina House Thursday by 69 to 42 vote, seeks “to protect its citizens from the application of foreign law that would result in the violation of a fundamental constitutional right of a …
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http://www.torontosun.com/2013/05/16/pipes-is-tolerated-geller-is-not
In matters of culture and religion, political correctness circumscribes the right to freedom of expression
GELLER TELLS THE WHOLE TRUTH WHILE PIPES HIDES BEHIND THIS HISTORICALLY INVALID THEORY: “At his lecture, he took a sympathetic view of mainstream Muslims by drawing a distinction between Islam and Islamism. He suggested it is Islamism, a political ideology, that inspires hatred of “the other,” rather than Islam. He said the religion of Islam itself is not inherently hostile to Jews, and Muslim anti-Semitism scarcely existed before the establishment of the state of Israel. He emphasized that while Islam has existed since the age of the prophet Mohammed, Islamism is a recent phenomenon and need not be considered an authentic expression of Islam.”
Huh? Faith driven and violent anti-Antisemitism has existed in every single Muslim country since the advent of Mohammed whether you call it Islam, Islamism, Islamicism or Islamorealism…..rsk
Two renowned Jewish Americans spoke about the issue of Islamic radicalism in the GTA this week.
Both recognize Islamism as a threat to peace and security; both acknowledge the existence of peace-loving Muslims, who must join hands with others fighting extremism; both wish to defend Western values.
Yet one speaker is tolerated more than the other.
Pamela Geller, blogger and author, is known for her virulently anti-Islam views. She was effectively barred from speaking at a Thornhill synagogue by York Region police.
This was followed by a rebuke from the Toronto Board of Rabbis to the Jewish Defense League, for hosting Geller at the Zionist Centre in Toronto. The board was afraid this might exacerbate already tense relations between Jews and Muslims in the GTA.
Meanwhile, The Muslim Committee Against Anti-Semitism, under the umbrella of the Canadian Thinkers Forum formed by Tahir Aslam Gora, invited Daniel Pipes to speak on Wednesday, May 15 on the causes of anti-Semitism, why it now exists predominantly among Muslims and what can be done to counter it.
Pipes is the founder and director of the Middle East Forum and an acclaimed scholar. The Muslim Commitee Against Anti-Semitism is a group of Muslims newly formed to oppose anti-Semitism.
Pipes takes a conciliatory approach towards the fraying dynamics between Jewish and Muslim communities. He also appears sanguine about an Islamic reformation.
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/bruce-thornton/what-the-obama-scandals-reveal-about-progressive-ideology/ The three scandals dominating the news this week all reveal the moral and intellectual corruption at the heart of progressive ideology. Whether are not these revelations gain enough traction to halt the country’s downward spiral is the more important question. Benghazi The moment it came into office the Obama administration bought into the delusional […]
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/frontpagemag-com/pamela-geller-banned-by-a-canadian-synagogue-on-the-glazov-gang/
This week’s Glazov Gang had the honor of being joined by Michael Chandler, a Black American Patriot, Borek Volarik, an anti-Communist Czech Defector, and Morgan Brittany, a conservative TV and movie star.
The Gang gathered to discuss Teaching Class-Hatred to America’s Youth. The dialogue occurred in Part I and focused on how the Left wages war through our children. The segment also shed light on: The Journey of a Black American Patriot and What Does It Mean To Become An American?
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/frontpagemag-com/congressman-louie-gohmert-the-islamist-enemy-within/ Frank Gaffney: I’m very pleased to present to you all tonight a great American, a great Texan, one of my personal heroes and a man I’m very proud to call a great friend, Congressman Louie Gohmert. (Applause) Louie Gohmert: Oh, gosh. Thank you. Well, I’m so glad you did that before I talked. That’s […]
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/tom-thurlow/the-clinton-scandal-playbook-and-benghazi/print/ The punditocracy is pulling out its collective hair, wanting to know why there have apparently been multiple layers of cover-ups in the evolving Benghazi story. An early scandal from the Clinton administration, the so-called “Travelgate” scandal, may be instructive. Recall that in the 1993 firings of employees at the White House Travel Office, a […]
