http://www.thecommentator.com/article/1407/irony_of_ironies_europe_switches_to_coal_as_us_gas_switch_drives_down_emissions Which raft of energy policies gets proven ‘greener’ results? The anti-fossil fuel regulatory regimes of socialist Europe or those set by the ‘evil’ capitalists in the Bush White House? Is it the anti-fossil fuel, cap-and-trade regulatory regimes of socialist Europe? Or is it the path of technological innovation set by the ‘evil’ capitalists in […]
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/1411/another_glimpse_into_delusional_british_attitudes_to_israel Recently, The Commentator offered some insight into attitudes towards Israel within the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Further illumination was available this week when Matthew Gould, the British Ambassador to Israel, spoke at a sub-committee meeting in the Knesset in Jerusalem. There is much in the Ambassador’s speech (which, obviously, reflects the attitudes of […]
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Drudge posted a scare piece last night that gave me nightmares: Condi Rice is supposedly a frontrunner for the Romney 2012 ticket.
This Condi-flutter happened before in 2008 and I was horrified then, too.
Just on the most basic political calculations, you don’t have to be a high-priced political consultant to know that no voter who isn’t already attracted to Romney will flock to a Romney-Rice ticket. No black person, no woman, no state, no constituency would suddenly decide boost a Romney vote count just because Condi was there.
Second (and I can sense the Obama camp licking its chops), selecting Rice would link (manacle) Romney to George W. Bush — a political bonanza for Democrats!
Third, fourth, fifth, etc. are contained in a series of columns and posts I’ve previously written about Rice. The bottom line is that Condoleezza Rice looks at both the United State and the world through a very murky prism of race, seeing in the segregated South she was born in not only the template for struggle everywhere, but also the actors in struggle everywhere. This shockingly parochial view sharply limits her understanding of war and peace at home and abroad. Football Commissioner, fine. Nominee for Vice President, disastrous.
A selection below:
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Rather than contend with the bitter consequences of his policy, Obama and his surrogates have opted to simply deny the dangerous reality he has engendered through his actions. Even worse they have come up with explanations for maintaining this policy despite its flagrant failure
JewishWorldReview.com | Two weeks ago, in an unofficial inauguration ceremony at Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt’s new Muslim Brotherhood President Mohammed Morsi took off his mask of moderation. Before a crowd of scores of thousands, Morsi pledge to work for the release from US federal prison of Sheikh Omar al Rahman.
According to the New York Times’ account of his speech, Morsi said, “I see signs [being held by members of the crowd] for Omar Abdel Rahman and detainees’ pictures. It is my duty and I will make all efforts to have them free, including Omar Abdel Rahman.”
Otherwise known as the blind sheikh, Rahman was the mastermind of the jihadist cell in New Jersey that perpetrated the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. His cell also murdered Rabbi Meir Kahane in New York in 1990. They plotted the assassination of then president Hosni Mubarak. They intended to bomb New York landmarks including the Lincoln and Holland tunnels and the UN headquarters.
Rahman was the leader of Gama’at al-Islamia — the Islamic Group, responsible, among other things for the assassination of Anwar Sadat in 1981. A renowned Sunni Muslim religious authority, Rahman wrote the fatwa, or Islamic ruling permitting Sadat’s murder in retribution for his signing the peace treaty with Israel. The Islamic Group is listed by the State Department as a specially designated terrorist organization.
After his conviction in connection with the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Rahman issued another fatwa calling for jihad against the US. After the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, Osama bin Laden cited Rahman’s fatwa as the religious justification for the attacks.
http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2012/07/13/moderate-indonesia-jails-shiite-cleric-for-blasphemy/ Moderate Indonesia Jails Shiite Cleric for “Blasphemy” An update on this story [2]. Shiite cleric Tajul Muluk was accused [3] of telling his followers that the modern Koran was not the original version, and the “true” Koran remains in the hands of Imam Mahdi. The judge’s succinct verdict [3]: The defendant was proven to […]
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Brotherhood threatens boycott of Jordan elections…..IN ABDULLARD’S PHONY KINGDOM THINGS ARE GETTING DICEY FOR THE ROYAL FRAUDS….RSK
Associated Press
Friday, July 13, 2012
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A spokesman for Jordan’s powerful Muslim Brotherhood says his group will boycott the upcoming parliamentary elections in protest over recent changes in the kingdom’s election legislation. Read more…
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ASEAN summit ends in acrimony over S. China Sea
Days of heated diplomacy ended in fa…Read more…
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Report: Condi at top of Romney veep list HORRIBLE, AWFUL CHOICE!!!! SAY IT ISN’T SO….RSK
The Drudge Report, the conservative …
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Beleaguered: Obama campaign on the defensive AW SHUCKS….RSK
News.com.au
Friday, July 13, 2012
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Beleaguered: Obama campaign on the defensive
Less than four months from election day, Barack Obama’s back is to the wall. A sluggish economy, persistent unemployment and ominous opinion polls threaten to make him a one-term president, and Obama himself must understand the political calculations as well as anyone. Read more…
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U.S. to send $50m to Asia for environment, health
CBS News
Friday, July 13, 2012
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The United States says it will provide five counties in Southeast Asia with $50 million over three years to assist them with health, education and environment programs. Read more…
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L.A. put on alert as Occupy takes over streets
NBC News
Friday, July 13, 2012
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Los Angeles was placed on a citywide tactical alert Thursday night when hundreds of people, including Occupy LA protesters, gathered near downtown LA as part of a demonstration by the group that set up camp on the City Hall lawn late last year. Read more…
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http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=277319 Evangelicals use their political, financial and spiritual leverage to help Israel withstand whatever attack might come next. Since its reemergence as a nation in 1948, Israel has suffered opposition on nearly every level possible. It has been attacked repeatedly in the military arena by its Arab neighbors, in the public relations arena by the […]
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/07/what_i_miss_about_america.html
Here are just a few of the things I miss since America entered the golden age of Hope and Change in January 2009.
Optimism
Going for minutes, hours, even days, without worrying about what weird insanity the government is dreaming up next
Having money
The Border Patrol
Looking up at the moon and thinking, “America – we own space!”
Having a president whose background isn’t more closely guarded than the formula for Coke
Going on vacation without the TSA auditioning me for “Stella Does Dallas”
Jobs
Not feeling like I have to whisper, if I say something that’s not completely, 100% complimentary about our president
Listening to the latest rant against Israel at the UN, without wondering if it’s coming from the American Ambassador
Feeling protected
Having a president who doesn’t want to fundamentally transform me
Getting a doctor’s appointment right away and not thinking, “That was nice while it lasted.”
Having a president who would never, ever bow to the Saudi king, the Chinese premier, the Japanese prime minister and the mayor of Tampa
Gazing up at the sky and not wondering if that’s a bird or a drone
Snacking on whatever I want, while the First Lady remains calm and indifferent
Having a president who thinks it would be unimaginably crazy to bring the 9/11 conspirators to New York for a civil trial
Privacy
Separation of State and Media
College graduates with a future in America, not China or Hong Kong
Having a president who inspires us to feel that Americans are all in this game together
A dollar that’s worth 100 cents and isn’t signed by a tax cheat
America’s Triple-A rating
Having a president who doesn’t seem needier for attention than Paris Hilton
Strolling through the mall without worrying about racially-motivated flash mobs
Looking at maps without trying to figure out where I can run
Reading 1984 as an interesting work of fiction
Dignity
Pride
What do you miss?
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The IOC and the value of Jewish lives
In 2005, I met Donald Cohan, an American Jew who had won a bronze medal in yachting at the 1972 Olympics in Munich. At the time, I was writing for a major newspaper in my home state, working on an essay about Steven Spielberg’s upcoming movie Munich – which drew fire for its lack of fidelity to historical fact and its attempt to reduce Israel’s justified response to a thin gruel of moral equivalence.
I had conducted a lot research, but with Cohan, I struck gold: a bright, articulate man who had kept every German newspaper printed since the moment the press knew the Palestinians had taken the Israeli athletes hostage.
Cohan was nearly shot himself. He had brought his wife to Munich, but spouses were not allowed to stay in the athletes’ dorms. Cohan would steal out evenings to visit her. He had no idea that while he was gone, Black September terrorists had, with the help of some unsuspecting drunken Americans, scaled the fence to get to the Israeli athletes.
Not long after, Cohan, dressed in his athletic suit (not unlike the generic garb which the terrorists had worn to blend in) tried to sneak back to his room, climbing over that same fence. He was stunned: German police were screaming at him with rifles cocked and dogs barking. Using panicky bits of German, Cohan barely avoided being shot.
http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=277350
Until recently, J Street says, it’s worked defensively, “Now we’re taking it to the next level.”
WASHINGTON – J Street opened up a new front in its lobbying efforts Thursday, releasing ads that attack two candidates for not being “pro-Israel” because they don’t endorse a two-state solution.
Until recently, according to J Street spokeswoman Jessica Rosenblum, “J Street has been working defensively, standing up for candidates who stake out pro-peace, pro- Israel positions. Now we’re taking it to the next level.”
The ads represent a new offensive posture of going after politicians whom the organization believes hurt the cause of peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
One ad targeting Representative Joe Walsh, an Illinois Republican, will be broadcast during the Sunday morning news shows in the Chicago media market, while the ad targeting Florida Republican Allen West will only be shown online.
Both productions are similar and accuse the congressmen of “playing with fire” by opposing a two-state solution, noting that Israel’s last three prime ministers have all called for the creation of a Palestinian state.
But the candidates and their staff don’t see the J Street attacks changing their tactics or their appeal to voters.
“J Street does not support the strength and security of the State of Israel, and is in fact anti-Israel,” West fired back in response to the lobby’s ad. “J Street’s efforts to attack me only embolden my stand for our greatest ally and my spiritual home, the State of Israel.”
