DANIEL GREENFIELD: THE WEEK THAT WAS- PART 2
NO, NO, NO
“1. For $26 billion more a year, we could provide a basic education to every child in the world by 2015.”
26 billion dollars is roughly the education budget for New York City alone. New York has 8 million people. The world has 7 billion people.
“2. For $990, a farmer can get training in dairy production and four milk-producing animals.
In most parts of the world where these animals are sent, between 50 and 95 percent of the population can’t drink milk due to lactose intolerance.
A Liberal and Someone Else’s Money are Swiftly Parted
The Kerry Plan: Mandatory Global Warming Plan for US in 2015
HISTORY ISN’T HISTORY
Samantha Power, who once discussed invading Israel, decided to use the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz to link it to the Syrian Civil War.
“In 1945, Russian soldiers liberated Auschwitz. Sixty-nine year later, if the United Nations is to live up to the noble purposes for which it was founded, the world again needs Russia to use its influence, this time, to ensure that food reaches the desperate and starving people imprisoned in besieged Homs, Yarmouk, the Damascus suburbs, and elsewhere,” she added.
The Red Army did indeed take Auschwitz, but the Soviet Union’s pact with Nazi Germany had helped make Auschwitz possible.
What Samantha Power Forgot About the Soviet Role in the Holocaust
DON’T TELL ME WORDS DON’T MATTER
The GOP insists on borrowing leftist rhetoric. No one is punishing the kids of illegal aliens by not legalizing them. They’re just not eligible for it. To become eligible, they would have to move back home and apply to immigrate like everyone else.
Not giving them a freebie is not a “punishment”. They’re not being punished because their parents came here illegally. But they’re not being rewarded for it either.
GOP House Principles: “National and Economic Security Depends on Illegal Alien Amnesty”
Senator Jeff Sessions summarizes it neatly.
Once again, we have the same recycled talking points—crafted, it would appear, with the help of the same consultants and special interests. Each time, the talking points are followed by legislation that fails to match the promises—legislation that, at bottom, ensures only the amnesty and not the enforcement. The leadership talking points look like an attempted repackaging of the tired Gang-of-Eight-style formula that has been proposed, rejected, and re-proposed for years.
Is it not time we pushed aside the stale proposals stitched together in concert with the same lobbyists, and asked what is in the best interests of the hardworking American citizen—and the nation?
What a crazy idea. Maybe then we could even win a presidential election.
Income Inequality: ObamaCare Call Center Workers Sue Over Unpaid Wages
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
Waxman helped craft ObamaCare and now he retires to spend time with his money, a big chunk of which happens to be invested in health care industries.
Congress Waxman spent a horrifying 40 years in Congress and another six years in the California legislature. Now he can move on to a productive career of frightening small children at state fairs.
ObamaCare Architect Retires After 40 Years in Congress to Spend More Time W/his Health Care Investments
Paul Krugman is Wrong About Jobs and Income Inequality
WE MUST HELP DESTROY THE VILLAGE TO SAVE IT
Officially there are no more terrorist attacks, just man-caused disasters brought about by offensive YouTube videos. Also there are no more terrorists. Just Violent Extremists. And there’s no more counter-terrorism, just experts on Countering Violent Extremism.
At the CFR’s Foreign Affairs, McCants joined together with two others to argue that Ahrar al-Sham is, and I quote, “an al Qaeda–Linked Group Worth Befriending.”
With the collapse of the Free Syrian Army, the Islamic Front is now the only game in town for the people who insist that we should counter Al Qaeda by supporting Al Qaeda.
State Department Adviser on Extremism Urges US to “Befriend” Al QaedaTHAT’S RACIST!
I’m not sure how this is racist, but once Chris Matthews, Melissa Harris-Perry and the other good people at MSNBC put their brain cell together, they’ll figure out the answer to that.
This week Gibson has announced the “Government Series” of guitars, to celebrate the end of its tussle with the eager enforcers of the U.S. Customs Department.
The body is painted in a custom color the company has named “Government Tan”–suitably drab–a nod to the joyless reality of living under the heavy thumb of stifling bureaucracy.
Wait… government tan. That’s racist!
Gibson Commemorates Obama’s Raid with Government Series Guitars
THE LEFT GETS LEFTIER
Dean said the United States has not placed enough emphasis on human rights issues in its talks with Iran… and added that if Tehran walked away from a deal due to pressure over human rights issues, then the regime is “most likely going to kill the negotiations as soon as they get out of the economic problems their sanctions are causing them.”
“We need to stand up to the mullahs,” said Dean. “These are not people we ought to be negotiating with.”
Howard Dean Now More Right-Wing on Iran than Obama
DAMOCLES SIGHS in RELIEF
During the election, Obama kept claiming that all the bridges are falling down. Last year he kept claiming that all the bridges are so old that “they are ready for Medicare.” That was bad news for the senior citizen bridges, because ObamaCare cuts Medicare.
In the last State of the Union address, there were more falling bridges. 70,000 of them. Then the number grew to 100,000 bridges.
In 2012, Obama wanted to invest 50 billion dollars into crumbling bridges. In 2013, he wanted to invest 40 billion dollars into crumbling bridges.
Obama’s Bridges Have Finally Stopped Falling Down
IMAGINE
Imagine French academics boycotting US History professors over the Iraq War and you get a taste of how ridiculous the whole thing is. And not just because the godfather of BDS is a foreigner who studies in an Israeli university that he wants everyone else to boycott.
And then there’s SodaStream. Its CEO is liberal, his rationale for keeping the factory going is helping Muslim workers, he claims, and it likely is true, that everyone in the company opposes the “occupation”.
Again, picture Europeans trying to get back at the Tea Party by boycotting a Warren Buffett owned company.
SodaStream and the Absurdity of BDS
STUDY FINDS POLAR BEARS GET STRESSED BY BEING HUNTED AND KILLED
Last year, a team reported that fluctuations in climate and ice cover are closely related to stress among polar bears in East Greenland as indicated by levels of the stress hormone cortisol in hair samples.
For the collaboration with Thea Bechshøft of Aarhus University and colleagues, Meyer’s lab received blind hair samples from 88 polar bears legally killed between 1988 and 2009 in Greenland by indigenous people who have an arrangement with researchers to provide biological samples.
Is it at all possible that the polar bears were stressed because they were being killed, rather than because of Global Warming?
Warmist Researchers Claim Dead Polar Bears Upset over Global Warming
HOWARD ZINN DIDN’T WRITE ANY HISTORY BOOKS
Finally, the American Temperance movement was often associated with a liberal strain of reform, particularly in New England. Some of these people did have a weakness for agrarian utopianism, but that was a general problem for the left until fairly recently when it decided to abandon rural areas and entrench in the cities.
The people most likely to push temperance were exactly the kind of liberal reformers who today go to work as community organizers.
They weren’t the rural gun-clinging Tea Partiers that Charles Schumer imagines them to be. They were anti-slavery, anti-Catholic, pro-Negro, social reformers who fought urban political bosses with vigor, were wealthy, lived in cities, would eventually favor Socialist schemes, opposed immigration and were ahead of their time in gender roles and had a tendency to believe in communication with spirits and the coming of a new age of transcendence.
Schumer is Ignorant and Wrong About the Temperance Movement
TOTALITARIANISM 101
Stealth censorship. It’s all of a piece in the name of domestic tranquility. Its feasibility must be “studied.” The nation must be made “safe” from provocative words. If that means shutting up anyone who offends with his words, and preventing projected or hypothetical or imaginary violence, so be it.
It won’t be called “censorship.” It will be called the enforcement of “responsible speech.” “Irresponsible” speech must be codified into the criminal law and punished.
It is uncommon knowledge – I say uncommon because not everyone is anchored to reality – that when the government begins to “study” a problem, it usually leads to legislation to control or eradicate the problem. The government studied the meat-packing industry, and wound up regulating it. The government studied farm prices, and decided they needed to be “stabilized” with subsidies. The government studied cars, and wound up regulating them. The government studied smoking, and wound up regulating it. The government studied nutrition, and wound up regulating it. The government has studied climate change, and wishes it could regulate it. The government studied birds, bees, trees, and rocks, and wound up regulating or at least protecting them.
from Edward Cline at Rule of Reason
SAME OLD STORY
According to Israel Radio… diplomats and foreign officers have warned against this trend. According to officials based in foreign missions, the Israeli government is increasingly being viewed as fanning the flames among American Jews by encouraging them to promote the official government position while making no room for opposing viewpoints.
Not only does the hypocritical charge of “no room for opposing viewpoints” sound all too familiar, but this “revelation” is likely a foreshadowing of things to come. How long until we are forced to revisit widespread accusations of dual loyalty, poisoned wells and such from the Obama,Walt & Mearsheimer Post-American Left™ ?
UNDOCUMENTED SANITATION ENGINEERS
We’ve written before about how open-borders supporters carefully and successfully manipulated our language by branding long-standing terms such as “illegal alien” or “illegal immigrant” racist even though the terms are race-neutral.
This paragraph has an interesting title: Individuals Living Outside the Rule of Law
And you thought “undocumented immigrant” was too politically correct? The GOP will jump even higher.
That’s from Prof. Jacobson at Legal Insurrection. It’s more than PC though. The lobbyist caucus is carefully framing the issue as being a problem of individuals living outside the law so that the logical solution is to… legalize them.
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