http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/to-preserve-the-peace-or-the-state?f=puball Everything done by the Obama administration since its inauguration in January 2009, every word, every gesture, every silence, every dog-and-pony show, has been to preserve the peace – of the state. In this endeavor, the public peace – or, as our Founders might have called it, the public “general welfare,” that is, the non-coercive, […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/deciphering-the-iranian-red-line-controversy Of late, the mainstream media has been attacking Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s demand that President Obama set a specific “red line” which, if crossed, would trigger an immediate U.S. military response against Iran’s nuclear facilities. The common theme is that such a demand is an intrusion into U.S. presidential politics and contrary to American […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/the-real-rules-of-the-un-human-rights-council The good news is that genocide-tainted Sudan has withdrawn its bid to join the United Nations Human Rights Council, a move that suggests there may actually be some outer limits to the travesties of the U.N.’s leading human-rights body. Sudan’s withdrawal appears to be due largely to a vigorous non-governmental campaign led by a […]
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/note-romney-s-arrogant-and-stupid-remarks_652548.html
BILL KRISTOL ON ROMNEY:
It remains important for the country that Romney wins in November (unless he chooses to step down and we get the Ryan-Rubio ticket we deserve!). But that shouldn’t blind us to the fact that Romney’s comments, like those of Obama four years ago, are stupid and arrogant.Indeed: Has there been a presidential race in modern times featuring two candidates who have done so little over their lifetimes for our country, and who have so little substance to say about the future of our country?
BILL KRISTOL ON THE ARAB SPRING
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/arabs-spring-and-ours_556139.html
Still, the Arab Spring deserves to be greeted with enthusiasm and support. It’s been clear at least since September 11, 2001, that decades of “stability” in the Middle East had produced a waste land of brutal authoritarianism, Islamic extremism, and corrosive anti-Americanism. President Bush set out to change that, but it seemed for a while that the Middle East would be impervious to change. Some sophisticates rationalized that the status quo was better than any likely alternative—after all, the thinking went, at least the Arab “Winter kept us warm, covering / Earth in forgetful snow, feeding / A little life with dried tubers.” No more. The Arab winter is over. The men and women of the Greater Middle East are no longer satisfied by “a little life.” Now it’s of course possible that this will turn out to be a false spring. But surely it’s not beyond the capacity of the United States and its allies to help reformers in the Arab world achieve mostly successful outcomes—in Iraq, where we need to be sure that we don’t fritter away the extraordinary gains that have been made in the last four years, and in Egypt and Tunisia. In Libya, halfway competent Obama administration policies should enable the Libyan people to get rid of Muammar Qaddafi. Regime change in Syria looks possible, and would surely be more likely with our aid and encouragement, and without our saying that nation’s hereditary thug ruler, Bashar al-Assad, is a “reformer.” And if at some point the House of Saud totters—well, goodbye to them too, and good riddance.Here, early in the twenty-first century, the Arabs seem to be rising to the occasion. The question is, will we?
http://pjmedia.com/spengler/2012/09/19/thank-obama-for-russias-resurgence/
Russia has expelled USAID, and the pundits are wagging a collective finger at the Kremlin. Complaints about the lack of democracy in Russia recall the late Sam Kinison’s monologue about food in the desert. There has never been democracy in Russia, least of all during Boris Yeltsin’s presidency. Yeltsin and his oligarch friends stole more than any thieves in world history, which is why so many of the world’s richest people are Russian and why Russia went bankrupt in July 1998. The free-for-all following the collapse of Communism ultimately gave us the Putin regime, and there he remains. It is easy to to support a noble democracy activist like Garry Kasparov, the former world chess champion. It’s a bit harder to cheer for the women of Pussy Riot, who didn’t deserve long prison sentences for their disgusting behavior in a Moscow cathedral. In America, we would ignore them, while Russia characteristically made a horrible example of them.
But it really doesn’t matter much. Russians never learned how to stand up for their rights, and most of the prospective leaders of a hypothetical Russian democracy did what Kinison advised in the case of world hunger: they moved to where the democracy was. Their kids take a lot of the science prizes in New York public schools and ace medical school admissions in Israel.
Americans instinctively sympathize with democracy movements everywhere. I sympathize, too: I took part in the first wave of neo-conservative economists commuting to Moscow in the early 1990s, trying to help the Russians build a free market, as chief economist for a supply-side consulting firm. The fact is that complaining about the Putin regime’s misbehavior is about as effective as shooting spitballs through a straw at the bears in the zoo. Go and do it if it makes you feel brave or self-righteous, but keep the expectations down.
Let’s talk about how to tame the bear, rather than just tease it.
http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2012/09/death-to-jews-sounds-no-prettier-in.html
‘On September 15th, 2012, 200 extremist Muslims demonstrated violently in the 8th district of Paris and on the Champs-Elysées. They tried to attack the US embassy , offended France, roared ” Allah u akbar! “And” Death to the Jews”! five times! in Arabic at 2.35 mn and finally prayed illegally on the most beautiful avenue of the world.’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJZF-Vvv3wg&feature=player_embedded
Explains the uploader:
‘Dans la vidéo, les musulmans crient “Souvenez-vous de Khaybar, Juifs !” (bataille après laquelle Mahomet et ses sbires ont assassiné tous les Juifs de la ville de Khaybar), ce qui signifie “Mort aux Juifs !”, comme les musulmans et arabisants le savent.’
Meanwhile, across the Channel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=F6KoC2dxdlk
muslim extremists threaten to dominate world usa embassy london 14th sept 2012
That’s the event the BBC failed to show the great British public.
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/1671/iran_s_crazed_gay_bashers
Conspiracy is rife in certain sections of Iranian society when it comes to issues such as Israel, the US, and homosexuality. Sadly, mainstream media outlets also play their part
The ideologues of the Islamic regime in Iran know all too well how to use external enemies to persecute enemies closer to home. According to those in power, the Jews, the Israelis, the United States, and even the West more generally are the causes of Iran’s domestic problems.
One such “problem”, as perceived by Tehran at least, is homosexuality – of which the West is considered to be the root cause. This of course implies that homosexuality has not existed in Iran and the Arab world for thousands of years, until very recently.
In this regard, anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism are the tools that the Islamist rulers of Iran use to legitimise the execution of homosexuals. The ruling Islamists in Iran not only treat homosexuals with prejudice and disdain, but go so far as to execute those convicted of homosexuality – just as in Nazi Germany.
The Iranian news agency Mashregh News, an organisation with close ties to the Revolutionary Guard, recently published an article entitled, “Open and covert dimensions of homosexuality.” Mashregh News writes that Western culture, particularly that of the U.S. and Britain, with the help of Jews, spread homosexuality among their own people and among other nations.
The newspaper asks why the British government supports homosexuality even though homosexuals play a minor role in its society. For its answer, Mashregh News turns to conspiracy theories.
“For example, in England, only 1.5 percent of the population is homosexual. The official recognition of this minority is not adequate to their power and influence on the politics and society of that country.”
The author of the article then asks why homosexuals have received government support in the UK, even though they are politically insignificant.
http://news.yahoo.com/tax-penalty-hit-nearly-6m-uninsured-people-194442599.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 6 million Americans — significantly more than first estimated— will face a tax penalty under President Barack Obama’s health overhaul for not getting insurance, congressional analysts said Wednesday. Most would be in the middle class. The new estimate amounts to an inconvenient fact for the administration, a reminder of what […]
Obama Hands Middle East Over to Islamists — on The Glazov Gang
by Jamie Glazov
Ben Shapiro, Leon Weinstein and Gershon Kelman analyze the nightmare in the Middle East — and in our leadership.
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/jamie-glazov/undercover-in-ramallah-on-the-glazov-gang/
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3358/australia-geert-wilders A sympathizer for jihad is allowed into the country as part of the “normal” process for of British applicants, but an opponent of jihad — a man never convicted of a crime, and a member of the Dutch parliament — is blocked from coming. Geert Wilders, the Dutch MP who frequently warns about the […]
