http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/342017 ‘Sequester” may be your word for the week, but it’s not mine. I’ve been diverted from the Beltway theater by an enterprise equally fraudulent, the “Arab Spring.” No, the plot line does not feature an Armageddon of budget slashing after which, somehow, Leviathan manages to land on his drunken feet and binge up an […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/342022/un-s-anti-semitic-alliance-claudia-rosett On Wednesday, under the crystal chandeliers of Vienna’s ornate Hofberg Palace, the prime minister of Turkey delivered a speech in which he called Zionism “a crime against humanity” — equating it with fascism, and, for good measure, Islamophobia and anti-Semitism. Following his remarks, Erdogan was thanked, and applauded. The occasion was a February 27–28 […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/342014/sequestageddon-mark-steyn
Government-by-fake-disaster-movie seems to be going swimmingly for Obama.
A few weeks ago, Ann Coulter announced that she was bored of American politics and was spending her days watching Turner Classic Movies. I confess that, when it comes to Beltway melodrama, I too am fighting vainly the old ennui, and minded to plump up the pillows and settle back with a bucket of bonbons and a beribboned Shih-tzu for an all-night Norma Shearer marathon. At least, unlike Washington, there’s a chance you may catch something you haven’t already seen a hundred times before. For example, I’ve a yen to see Roberta (RKO, 1935), in which Irene Dunne sings:
Yesterdays
Yesterdays
Days I knew as happy sweet sequester’d days . . .
I believe that was the last known use of this blameless and mellifluous word until it was conscripted by the political class for this month’s dreary Mayan Apocalypse of the Month thrill ride. Say what you like about those Mayan guys, but they only schedule an apocalypse once every 5,126 years. Only Washington would try to pull it off every six weeks. If I understand correctly, by the time you read this, the planes will be dropping from the skies; the drip-feeds in every emergency room will be dry; every creature on the endangered species list will have broken free from our pristine federally manned national parks to be left for roadkill in the potholed asphalt of America’s crumbling interstates; you’ll turn on your bathroom faucet only to find the town reservoir choked with fecal coliform; the Ebola virus will be rampant across Ohio, Florida, New Hampshire, and other swing states, where it will nevertheless enjoy higher approval ratings than Marco Rubio and every other prospective GOP nominee. The sequester supposedly cuts $44 billion from the federal budget — or from the rate of growth of the federal budget. Whatever. $44 billion is about what the United States government borrows every nine days, so it’s not a lot. But it’s apparently responsible for everything that matters in American life.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/03/01/CPAC-Turns-Away-Pamela-Geller For the last four years, Pamela Geller of AtlasShrugs.com and the American Freedom Defense Initiative have held events at CPAC featuring guests she invites to discuss the influence of Islamism on America. But this year, the American Conservative Union (ACU) has no room for Geller or her message. In 2009, she brought Geert Wilders, […]
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/memo_warmists_australia_is_not_the_world/
The Bureau of Meteorology hypes up the global warming scare:
When it comes to averages over time, January 2013 was the hottest month recorded in the entire observational record for Australia, stretching back to 1910 (the first year for which we can confidently estimate national temperatures)…
Australia has warmed by nearly a degree Celsius since 1910. This is consistent with warming observed in the global atmosphere and oceans. And it’s going to keep getting hotter. Over the next century, the world will likely warm by a further 2 to 5 degrees, depending on the amount of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere.
But Australia is not the globe – and we are talking about global warming. Not Australian warming or German warming.
Professor Ole Humlum summarises the global temperatures for the globe and … gosh, what warming?:
January 2013 global surface air temperatures
General: On average, global air temperatures were near the 1998-2006 average, although with big regional differences
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/if_wilders_is_wrong_explain_this_conference/
“But for me there are even bigger questions. Why are politicians, journalists and Jewish leaders now demonising Geert Wilders for warning against exactly the ideology of Islam as preached by many speakers at this conference?Why do they pretend Wilders has misrepresented Islam when the very things he describes are preached openly?”
Geert Wilders, the Dutch political leader now on a speaking tour of Australia, has not only had his speeches blockaded by violent demonstrators trying to stop Australians from hearing him.
He has not only been vilified in the media for trying to warn that Islam as an ideology is a menace to Western values and freedoms – from the freedom to speak to even identify as gay.
Depressingly, he has even been shunned by Opposition Leader Tony Abbott and Jewish community leaders. It seems to me that political or community advantage is being put before principle – and fear is preventing a rational discussion of Wilders’ message.
It’s driven Abbott, even Abbott, to misrepresent what Wilders is in fact saying and play blind to the issue he actually raises – which is about the nature of Islam, not its followers:
Mr Abbott said Wilders’ was “substantially” wrong about Islam and the preparedness of Muslims living in Australia to integrate.
“He is entitled to his view but I think that the Muslims in this country see themselves rightly as fair dinkum, dinky-di Australians, just as the Catholics and the Jews and Protestants and the atheists, we see ourselves as Australians,” Mr Abbott told host Neil Mitchell.
This hypocrisy and fear is exposed best by what is misleadingly called a ”Peace Conference and Exhibition” being organised in Melbourne in March.
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/2827/once_and_for_all_the_leftist_origins_of_national_socialism
THE EFFORT TO LINK CONSERVATIVES WITH FASCISTS KEEPS BUBBLING UP IN “LIBERAL” DISCOURSE…..JONAH GOLDBERG’S BOOK “Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning” is an excellent treatment of this subject……rsk
The debate about where Nazism should be placed on the political spectrum has enjoyed a renaissance of late. The answer is so obvious that we really needn’t have bothered
Okay, let’s pause for a minute, note the above title, and have a collective ‘face palm’ over how absurd it is that this article even needs to be written in the first place. But it does.
This debate has never gone away of course; but recent weeks have been something of a renaissance – largely thanks to the bizarre suspension (and eventual – and sensible – reinstatement) of Dr. Rachel Frosh from the Conservative Party candidate list due to a retweet linking Nazism to socialism.
This rather embarrassing affair is in fact a sad and clear indictment that the words ‘never again’ are little more than a hollow slogan. For if we refuse to accept, and more importantly challenge, the ideological origins of a movement that culminated in the systematic murder of millions of innocent human beings, there is absolutely no way we can prevent the same from happening again.
The easiest way of proving that the origins of Nazism are in no way remotely conservative is to start by looking at some defining features of conservatism itself, specifically the European variety.
These include: the belief that a society rooted in monarchy and aristocracy is preferable to mass democracy; that there is a transcendental moral order (what Kirk called the Permanent Things) which in Western Civilization has been preserved and passed down through the Christian Church; that property rights are the very foundation of ordered liberty; and, of course, the universal conservative belief that any necessary societal change must occur slowly and without structural damage to ancient and proven institutions – that problems in society come not from broken traditions and institutions but from broken men and morals.
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/2839/deny_deny_deny
Chavez isn’t dead, they profess. So where is he then?
After a flurry of rumour over the past few days, the Chavistas are out in force again, proclaiming for all to hear, “Chavez isn’t dead!”
So where is he then?
It was reported that Chavez recently returned to Venezuela, wherein he resumed normal Twitter activity. No, seriously.
This, apparently, is proof enough for a man to remain President, even though he hasn’t been sworn in again since he recent re-election. Opposition figures (naturally, you might add) have raised questions over the constitutionality of the matter.
But Reuters reports that Chavez’s henchmen are ‘mocking’ the reports of his demise, a statement that in fact came from the reliable, former ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS), Guillermo Cochez.
Never, of course, would I callously wish death upon anyone who had not brought it upon themselves (clarifying, for those of you who’ll no doubt critique my defence of tackling terrorism) – but at the same time, it strikes me that Venezuela as a democratic state has been under assault for very many years by Chavez and his thugs, and the demise of even a pretence of democracy is upon us in the country.
It’s a shame that at such a critical time, all Chavez’s yes-men can do is “mock” those concerned for Venezuela.
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/2830/huffington_post_uk_political_editor_bottles_debate_at_cambridge
It was reported yesterday how the ‘shouty triumvirate’ of Mehdi Hasan, Seumus Milne and Jeremy Corbyn MP were tag-teaming up for a debate at the Cambridge Union entitled, “This House Regrets the Consequences of U.S. Dominance”.
But in an apparently not unpredictable turn of events, Mehdi Hasan, Political Editor for the Huffington Post UK site who is famed for his disparaging comments about non-Muslims and atheists, failed to show.
When quizzed by The Commentator’s Executive Editor on Twitter, Hasan wasted no time jumping into insults, proclaiming, “Some trolls want to know why I wasn’t at Cambridge union tonight. Simple answer: I never agreed to do it. Union made mistake in term card.”
Sources at the Cambridge Union Society however, beg to differ. In fact, it is particularly unlike the Cambridge Union, the oldest and arguably most august student debating institution in the country, to make a ‘mistake’ in the term card.
Sources tell The Commentator that it is apparently not the first time that Hasan has failed to show for a debate at Cambridge.
Hasan’s reported refusal to debate makes him the second prominent Left-wing figure in just one week to avoid a public debate, coming hot on the heels of George Galloway’s hasty exit from Oxford University last week.
Hasan remains on the term card at the time of publication.
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/blog/detail/dr-ben-carson-rails-against-political-correctness-and-opens-up-about-his-worldview-with-glenn-beck-part-1
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http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/blog/detail/dr-ben-carson-rails-against-political-correctness-and-opens-up-about-his-worldview-with-glenn-beck-part-2
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