BUSY, BUSY WEEK FOR JIHADIS

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2012.12.11 (Pattani, Thailand) – A school director and teacher are murdered in the cafeteria by Islamic ‘insurgents’.
2012.12.10 (Yathrib, Iraq) – Three Iraqis are machine-gunned by Muslim terrorists.
2012.12.10 (Kaki, Pakistan) – At least six innocents are killed when Shahid suicide bombers assault a police station near a mosque.
2012.12.10 (Laghman, Afghanistan) – The acting head of women’s affairs is brutally shot to death by fundamentalists on her way to work.
2012.12.09 (Shaikh Yousuf Chowk, Pakistan) – Islamic militants are thought responsible for opening fire on a group of vegetable traders on their way to market.
2012.12.09 (Miramshah, Pakistan) – Two local soldiers are kidnapped by the Taliban and executed.

CHARLES COOKE; WHEN WORDS LOSE THEIR MEANING

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/335519/when-words-lose-their-meaning-charles-c-w-cooke In 1946, a frustrated George Orwell, tired of “the special connection between politics and the debasement of language,” put pen to paper. “A bad usage,” Orwell averred, “can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better.” Those of us who had the misfortune of being alive during the […]

WHO IS CHUCK HAGEL?: A COLUMN BY ED LASKY FROM JUNE 2010

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/06/antiisrael_former_senator_chuc.html

Anti-Israel former Senator, Chuck Hagel, was Obama’s preferred pick for Director of National Intelligence
Former Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel and Barack Obama have been close for years. Hagel campaigned for Obama.Hagel has also appeared before numerous Arab-American groups to castigate Israel. Hagel has castigated the so-called Israel Lobby in America. He has soft-pedaled the threat from Iran.Hagel’s animus for Israel is a matter of record.I have written about Hagel and Israel numerous times.

I don’t know why Hagel rejected the position. I have speculated in the past that he may be appointed as Secretary of Defense one day (he is a Vietnam vet). Maybe he thought after Chas Freeman went through the grinder , partly because of his anti-Israel bias, he took a pass.One more sign, as if any more were needed, that Barack Obama has an agenda and it is not one that is helpful or supportive of our friends.

ELIANA JOHNSON: CHUCK HAGEL FOR DEFENSE?

http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/335499 Republican Chuck Hagel, a former Nebraska senator, is supposedly on the short list to succeed Secretary Leon Panetta at the Department of Defense, and he is reportedly being vetted by the Obama administration. This should be no surprise: Hagel has been putting himself in position for a top cabinet post and has warmed noticeably […]

ALAN CARUBA: AMERICANS AT RISK FROM ANTI-TERRORISM LAW

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/americans-at-risk-from-anti-terrorism-law?f=puball While Americans were going about their lives Wednesday evening, the U.S. House of Representatives voted for the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), said to provide the government with great means to fight terrorism. One of its provisions would permit government law enforcement authorities to detain terror suspects without trial and thus eviscerate the Fourth […]

EDWARD CLINE: TURN LEFT AT HOLLYWOOD AND VINE

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/turn-left-at-hollywood-and-vine Reading Ben Shapiro’s Front Page article, “Hollywood Hates Corporations, LovesCorporate Cash” (December 5th) caused me to reflect again on the esthetic, political, and moral gulf between the films of yesteryear and of today. What underscored the reflection was a recent watching of Director/Producer Sam Wood’s For Whom the Bell Tolls, one of my favorite […]

ANDREW McCARTHY: MORSI STAGGERS REFERENDUM ON CONSTITUTION

http://pjmedia.com/andrewmccarthy/2012/12/12/morsi-staggers-referendum-on-constitution/ Amid the continuing unrest in Egypt, President Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood has now decided to bifurcate the referendum on the proposed sharia constitution. The voting will go forward as scheduled this Saturday, but only in ten governorates. The rest of the country will then vote the following Saturday, December 22. The whole […]

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Will Egyptian “Liberals” Condemn Blasphemy Sentence of Coptic Christian Blogger? Posted By Andrew Bostom

http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2012/12/12/will-egyptian-liberals-condemn-blasphemy-sentence-of-coptic-christian-blogger/ Reuters is reporting [1] (12/12/12) that a court in Cairo has sentenced Coptic Christian blogger Alber Saber to a three year imprisonment for alleged “blasphemy and contempt of religion.” The offense for which Saber was convicted was sharing on Facebook the amateurish “Innocence of Muslims [2]” trailer—a film accurately [3] depicting some of the […]

JACK ENGELHARD: IT’S GOOD TO BE JEWISH ON CHRISTMAS AND ANY DAY IN AMERICA

http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/novelists-view-world/2012/dec/12/its-good-be-jewish-christmas-or-any-day-america/

WASHINGTON, December 12, 2012 – Irving Berlin wrote White Christmas, the most popular Christmas song of all time. Berlin came from Russia. His original name was Israel Beilin.

Emma Lazarus wrote the sonnet The New Colossus that welcomes refugees seeking shelter: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” This is now enshrined in the Statue of Liberty, and remains a beacon to the world. Emma Lazarus was the daughter of Moses and Esther Lazarus.

Biblical Moses, in marble, stands throughout Washington’s government buildings as the model of justice, righteousness and freedom. From Moses in the flesh we have the call from Leviticus that tolls forth from our Liberty Bell: “Proclaim liberty throughout the LAND unto all the inhabitants thereof.”

The Jewish influence upon America is indelible. Upon this good American earth Jews and Christians live in harmony as in few other places. Throughout the generations, Jews overseas packed their bags as swiftly as did Christians to escape prejudice, intolerance and persecution. In so many places outside America it is best to keep silent lest you be overheard and denounced.

This place, America, is the House of Refuge.

The Puritans fled discrimination to embark upon an Exodus of their own. They viewed the Israelites as ancestors. King James I was their Pharaoh. The Atlantic Ocean was their Red Sea. They landed upon this, their New Canaan. Washington was their Moses. John Adams was their Joshua.