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http://www.nationalreview.com/article/357858/drawing-al-qaeda-red-line-andrew-c-mccarthy

Why is Assad’s use of WMDs so much worse than Syrian rebels’ allying with jihadists?

Have you noticed who exactly the opposing camps are in Syria’s civil war — the aspect that the side chomping at the bit for American military intervention would prefer not to discuss?

In one corner, we have Bashar Assad. Unlike President Obama and his minions, who spent their first couple of years empowering Assad — Obama reopening diplomatic ties, Hillary pronouncing him a valiant “reformer,” Pelosi huddling with him, Kerry wining and dining him — many of us alleged “isolationists” on the right were never under any illusions about him. Assad is an anti-U.S. thug, the junior partner of Iran, America’s mortal enemy on the Shiite side of the Islamic-supremacist street. While the Obama administration has made an underwhelming case that the Syrian despot has used chemical weapons, let us stipulate for present purposes that the case is airtight. Let’s even concede the more dubious claim that Assad has launched more than one small-scale chemical attack.

Now on to the other corner: the Sunni Islamic supremacists, who are called “rebels” by the Beltway clerisy to avoid the inconvenience that they describe themselves as mujahideen (jihad warriors). The rebels are teeming with al-Qaeda-affiliated and al-Qaeda-inspired operatives — “extremists,” as the Obama administration and the GOP’s McCain wing call them, avoiding the inconvenience that what they are “extreme” about is Islam. Guys who ought to know better, like General Jack Keane, laughably underestimate their number at less than 4,000. But even Secretary of State Kerry conceded in congressional testimony that it is several multiples of that amount — as many as 25,000 (i.e., up to “25 percent” of a force that Kerry put at “70,000 to 100,000 oppositionists”).

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/357797/mccain-unalterably-opposed-gee-sounds-familiar-andrew-c-mccarthy At a townhall in Phoenix Thursday, Senator John McCain faced a crowd of angry constituents opposed to American military intervention in Syria – a cause their “maverick” senator champions. McCain tried to assuage them by committing to draw the line against using American ground troops. Here’s what he told them: I want to begin […]

http://gatesofvienna.net/2013/09/the-totalitarian-impulse/

I know and respect Nina Rosenwald who has been my dear and loyal friend for decades. I also know many members of the board of the Gatestone Institute which publishes excellent columns daily. Among the excellent columns was the one by Clare Lopez which was taken down and now Clare Lopez has been unceremoniously fired. I have to ask myself- which members of the board actually read Diana West’s book enough to demand the firing of Clare Lopez for praising it? There has to have been enormous pressure and possibly threats to Gatestone either from a benefactor or someone on the board who was lobbied or convinced by the smears and invectives perpetrated by David Horowitz, Ron Radosh, Conrad Black, and two “reviewers” on American Thinker who actually confessed that they were “reviewing” a book they had not read. I hope that Gatestone, which effusively praised Clare Lopez prior to this incident will offer her some form of reconciliation, so the incident can be put to bed. For the record Diana West’s rebuttal is ready and Iwill post it all….rsk

As mentioned here Tuesday night, an article by Clare Lopez was published earlier that day at the Gatestone Institute’s website and then immediately removed. Since Ms. Lopez had referred favorably in her article to Diana West’s book American Betrayal, and since Ms. West recently had anathema pronounced against her for that same book, it seemed that there might be a connection between the two events.

And indeed there was. Our suspicions were correct.

I just received this information from a source close to Clare Lopez:

In late August 2013, Clare Lopez, then a Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute, submitted an article for publication at the Gatestone Institute’s website. It was entitled “Recognizing the Wrong People”, and drew on the U.S. government’s 1933 formal diplomatic recognition of the USSR as described in Diana West’s book American Betrayal to form an analogy with the U.S.’s present day recognition and/or support of other fundamentally-anti-American entities, such as the AQ/MB-dominated rebel and opposition forces in places like Egypt, Libya, and Syria.

As with all of Ms. Lopez’ previous articles, this one was well-received by Gatestone’s editor, Nina Rosenwald, who praised it as “so far-sighted.” The article was duly published the morning of Tuesday 3 September 2013 at Gatestone and was sent out to an email list of subscribers. Sometime shortly after that, however, it was pulled from the website, with no notice or explanation.

Word spread quickly as regular Gatestone readers realized something odd had happened.

The real shock came the following morning, though, on September 4, when Ms. Lopez received an email from Nina Rosenwald notifying her that her relationship with the Gatestone Institute had been terminated at the request of the Gatestone Board of Directors. On September 5, Ms. Rosenwald confirmed in an email sent to Ms. Lopez and others what some had already suspected, that her firing was due to her “choice of books to promote…,” a clear reference to Ms. Lopez’ citation of historical events from Ms. West’s book. Although Ms. Lopez also had cited about the same 1933 events to a second book, The Great Terror: A Reassessment, by Robert Conquest, for some reason, that reference did not seem to pose any issues for the Board. Only Ms. West’s book about the very same events seemed to irritate the Board, whose recently-appointed Chairman is former UN Ambassador John Bolton.

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/communism-stalin-and-the-great-american-mistakes-of-world-war-ii?f=must_reads   Hanson W. Baldwin (d. 1991), was a military-affairs editor for The New York Times, who authored over a dozen books on military and naval history and policy. Baldwin, a graduate of the United States Naval Academy, joined The Times in 1929, and in 1943  won a Pulitzer Prize for his World War II […]

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/jamie-glazov/iran-threatens-rape-of-one-of-obamas-daughters-if-u-s-hits-syria/

Iran Threatens Rape of One of Obama’s Daughters Over Syria

A former Iranian official has threatened the rape and murder of one of Obama’s daughters if the U.S. attacks Syria. This Islamic threat is simply following traditional Islamic rules of Jihad against the infidel. It is safe to assume, however, that MSNBC, CNN and the NY Times will not any time soon explore why this former Iranian official has made such a pronouncement — and shed light on the aspects of Islamic theology that inspire and sanction owning slaves and raping “kafir” females. Frontpage has therefore decided to rerun Jamie Glazov’s interview with Bill Warner, “Islam, Slavery and Rape,” from our Nov. 23, 2007 edition, which deals directly with this issue.

*Islam, Slavery and Rape

Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Bill Warner, the director of the Center for the Study of Political Islam (CSPI) and spokesman for politicalislam.com. CSPI’s goal is to teach the doctrine of political Islam through its books and it has produced an eleven book series on political Islam. Mr. Warner did not write the CSPI series, but he acts as the agent for a group of scholars who are the authors. The Center’s latest book is The Submission of Women and Slaves, Islamic Duality.

FP: Bill Warner, welcome back to Frontpage Magazine. This is the second part in our two-part series with you on the Center’s most recent book. In the first part we discussed Islam and its doctrine on the submission of women. In this second and final part we will discuss the matter of slavery. Welcome to Frontpage Interview.

The war on Christians continues………
The Air Force has relieved Sergeant Phillip Monk of his duties and is now criminally investigating him after his lesbian commander ordered him to say he supports gay marriage even though he doesn’t.
Do homosexual rights now trump the First Amendment?
If a Muslim officer said that homosexuals should be killed, I doubt there would be any repercussions.
At the Muslim Prayer Day in Washington, D.C. in 2009, a Muslim leader publicly stated that homosexuals should be put to death. End of story.
When Christians shared their gospel in Dearborn, they were arrested for “disorderly conduct” and not exonerated until a full year later……Janet Levy
BY KEN KLUKOWSKY
Updating our earlier report on Senior Master Sergeant Phillip Monk, a Christian serving in the Air Force whose unit is now commanded by a lesbian: according to Monk’s complaint filed with his superiors, he was relieved of duty for refusing his commander’s order to say he supports gay marriage.

AT PRESENT THESE ARE THE LARGE CARRIERS NAMED AFTER PRESIDENTS
USS Nimitz (CVN-68)

USS Nimitz (CVN-68)
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69)
USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71)
USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72)
USS George Washington (CVN-73)
USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75)
USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76)
USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77)

USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23) was named in 2004 (Seawolf Submarine)

COMING SOON.

USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79), is programmed to begin construction in 2012 and to be placed in commission in 2018. USS Lyndon B. Johnson (DDG-1002 A Destroyer), began construction in April 2012 and to be placed in service in 2018.
USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) (planned for 2015)

There are no vessels named for Presidents Clinton or Nixon. Will there be a ship named for President Obama?

THE SS LEADING FROM BEHIND

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/outlook-for-workers-is-worst-in-decades-thanks-to-obama?f=puball President Obama used his weekly Saturday radio address to mark the 131st anniversary of Labor Day. He swore his “highest priority” is to “reverse forces that have conspired – for decades – against American workers.” Yakkity-yak. Don’t believe that demagoguery. The latest Bureau of Labor Statistics data show that workers – especially low-wage workers […]

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/censorship-by-fear Joseph Conrad, the writer, was astonished to learn early in the 20th century that Britain, his adopted country, had a “Censor of Plays.” In a 1907 essay* he wrote about the character of an individual who would assume the power and harbor the hubris as the supreme arbiter of what appeared on the British […]

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3958/eurocrisis-germany Saving the euro would cost Germany so much money that it would bankrupt itself. ” Germany cannot save the Eurozone. Those who believe that [it can] are denying reality.” — German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble All of a sudden the Loch Ness Monster of German politics has raised its ugly head. The eurocrisis, which […]