THIS SUBJECT IS DEAR TO MY HEART. AT THE URGING OF ZEEV JABOTINSKY, MY FATHER LEFT POLAND THROUGH SWITZERLAND, WHERE HE BECAME A PHYSICIAN AND WAS OFFERED A JOB IN BOLIVIA TO SERVE IN THE CHACO WAR IN 1932. BECAUSE OF HIS SERVICE IN THAT WAR BOLIVIA REWARDED HIM AND MADE HIM SURGEON GENERAL. 10,000 […]
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Is it fair that some of Mr. Obama’s largest campaign contributors received federal loan guarantees?
President Obama has frequently justified his policies—and judged their outcomes—in terms of equity, justice and fairness. That raises an obvious question: How does our existing system—and his own policy record—stack up according to those criteria?
Is it fair that the richest 1% of Americans pay nearly 40% of all federal income taxes, and the richest 10% pay two-thirds of the tax?
Is it fair that the richest 10% of Americans shoulder a higher share of their country’s income-tax burden than do the richest 10% in every other industrialized nation, including socialist Sweden?
Is it fair that American corporations pay the highest statutory corporate tax rate of all other industrialized nations but Japan, which cuts its rate on April 1?
Is it fair that President Obama sends his two daughters to elite private schools that are safer, better-run, and produce higher test scores than public schools in Washington, D.C.—but millions of other families across America are denied that free choice and forced to send their kids to rotten schools?
Is it fair that Americans who build a family business, hire workers, reinvest and save their money—paying a lifetime of federal, state and local taxes often climbing into the millions of dollars—must then pay an additional estate tax of 35% (and as much as 55% when the law changes next year) when they die, rather than passing that money onto their loved ones?
JUST IMAGINE THE FOLLOWING HEADLINES:
MAY 23, 1944: IN SECRET CONVERSATIONS WITH CHURCHILL, IKE REVEALS THAT ON JUNE 6TH, AN INVASION OF NORMANDY NAMED OPERATION OVERLORD IS PLANNED. IT WILL BEGIN WITH PARACHUTE AND GLIDER LANDINGS, MASSIVE AIR ATTACKS AND NAVAL BOMBARDMENTS. THIS SHOULD REALLY SURPRISE THE HUNS.
MAY 1981: SOURCES IN ISRAEL REVEAL THAT A TOP SECRET ATTACK ON IRAQ’S NUKE REACTOR 17 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BAGHDAD IS IN FINAL STAGES OF PREPARATION. THE ACTION CODE NAMED OPERATION BABYLON ON JUNE 7TH SHOULD CERTAINLY SURPRISE SADDAM HUSSEIN.
JUNE 31, 1976: TOP SOURCES IN ISRAEL HAVE CONFIRMED A SECRET OPERATION TO RESCUE THE ENTEBBE HOSTAGES ON JULY 3. A HERCULES PLANE WILL LAND IN ENTEBBE AIRPORT AND SWOOP UP THE HOSTAGES. THIS SHOULD CERTAINLY SURPRISE IDI AMIN.
IF ISRAEL IS GOING TO DO IT….JUST DO IT….AND STOP THE MEDIA BABBLE.
Obama Seeks New Ways to Insult the American Warrior Community!
http://letthemfight.blogspot.com/2012/02/obama-seeks-new-ways-to-insult-american.html
While I understand that only a fraction of the population of this nation is directly affected by what you are about to read, I would never-the-less like to remind you that the remainder of the population is affected coincidentally. While the majority of the American population probably never even considered the Armed Forces as a possible career objective, there are those who never considered life without serving their country, in uniform, on a field of combat. Most of these young men and women never take the time to internalize some idealized vision of charging death for God and Country, they just have a burning desire for the call on their lives to do so and then, most importantly, they act!
President Obama, however, was apparently never burdened with that urgent call to serve others – or his country selflessly. And because the only thing he ever answered to was a call to “self-empowerment” and self-ingratiation, he has been a brutal failure as a moral leader and Commander in Chief. In addition, his unquenchable desire to “win over” that portion of the world population to whom he has sold his soul has led him to a new round of actions that should anger every red blooded American and will disgust every American who has ever donned the uniform of a United States Marine!
This week, President Obama blocked legislation that would hold Iran accountable for
the Hezbollah bombing that killed 241 U.S. Marines in 1983 . This inexplicable move hasn’t any bearing on the current crisis except for it’s ability to tilt world opinion in favor of US interests. The Obama administration’s actions to derail this legislation in Congress, then, can only be seen as an effort to bolster support for the Iranian regime which can only be understood through the prism of this sitting President’s indefatigable efforts to “reconcile” with the Islamic nations of the world.
If three plus years of his purposeful attempts to insult the country he has sworn to defend through his many prostrating speeches on Islamic soil and this latest otherwise despicable move haven’t enlightened you, then maybe this next story will help finish your education!
http://spectator.org/archives/2012/02/06/pushing-israel-to-war
When one ally abandons another, the latter is left with no choice.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta believes that Israel will attack Iran in April, May, or June. This is according to a 2 February Washington Post column by David Ignatius, apparently relying on a conversation with Panetta. Ignatius’s column came out at the same time as Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak’s speech in which Barak declared that Iran would soon enter a stage where its nuclear program would be immune from attack.
In his speech, according to a report in the Financial Times, Barak said, “The world today has no doubt that the Iranian military nuclear program is slowly but surely reaching the final stages, and will enter the immunity stage from which point the Iranian regime will be able to complete the program without any effective intervention and at its convenience.” He added, “Dealing with a nuclearized Iran will be far more complex, far more dangerous and far more costly in blood and money than stopping it today. In other words, those who say ‘later’ may find that later is too late.”
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Has Mitt Romney’s Mormonism Influenced His Views on Islam?
Timothy R. Furnish, PhD (Islamic, World, African history) is an analyst and writer, US Army veteran and recovering college professor who consults for the US government and military. His website is www.mahdiwatch.org
Mitt Romney’s conservative credentials have been questioned on more than one occasion, probably best exemplified last fall when Rush Limbaugh decreed that the former Massachusetts governor was “not a conservative” because of that state’s “Romneycare” program and his apparent acceptance of the anthropogenic global warming thesis. But the most troubling Romney shortcoming in this regard is his seeming acquiescence to the “Islam is a peaceful religion” worldview. Andy McCarthy did broach this topic last summer, but little has been said about it since, either in print or in the legion of GOP debates—where Wolf Blitzer, John King, George Stephanopolous and Brian Williams are rather obsessed with alleged threats to abortion “rights,” the GOP candidates’ ranking within the “1%” and, most importantly, Newt’s bitter ex-wives.
It seems clear that Romney’s position on Islam is closer to Barack Obama’s than to the mainstream of his own party. In an interview with U.S News & World Report in 2009, he said this:
Islam’s Groundhog Day Posted By Daniel Greenfield
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/02/06/islam%e2%80%99s-groundhog-day/print/
Groundhog Day is the long eternal tragedy of Islam, which always sees its shadow and always ends up with six weeks, six months or six hundred years of more winter. That hopeful time when the bitter cold of winter begins its slow transition into the warmth and renewal of spring never comes for Islam.
In a reversal of the cycle of season, the Arab Spring led to the Islamic Winter, but that is the endless pattern of Islamic attempts at reform and rejuvenation, which rather than finding renewal in their attempts at transformation only go on perpetuating the same cycle of violence, tyranny and oppression.
There is a peculiar tragedy to a religion which cannot escape its own destructive nature, each time it reaches for some form of redemption, its hands come up dripping with blood and it all ends in more bodies and petty tyrannies.
The film Groundhog Day showed us a man who was doomed to repeat the same day over and over again until he learned to use his time to become a better person. Islam has been stuck in its own form of that cycle, repeating the same century over and over again, moving from religious ecstasy to holy war, seeking redemption through religious tyranny, and finding that there was no escaping the internal decay and instability in the veins of its religion.
The Glass Ceiling Myth Posted By Ben Shapiro
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/02/06/the-glass-ceiling-myth/print/
On Thursday, Bloomberg News ran a piece by Carol Hymowitz lamenting Facebook’s supposed sexism. “Most of Facebook Inc.’s more than 800 million users are women,” she wrote. “You wouldn’t know it from looking at the board, whose seven directors are all men.” Hymowitz pointed out that other companies, including LinkedIn and Google, have at least one female director, and only 11.3 percent of public companies have male-only boards.
So what? Facebook is hardly female adverse. Its COO is Sheryl Sandberg, and she’s paid almost $31 million per year. She’ll likely own $1.7 billion worth of the company after it goes public. Some sexism!
This is just the media’s favorite narrative about Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook – he’s a female-hating loner, as portrayed in the movie The Social Network. And it happens to back up another of their favorite narratives: the notion that females have to face a glass ceiling at big companies.
http://frontpagemag.com/2011/12/05/obama-administrations-three-pronged-attack-on-israel/
Worried about losing some of the Jewish vote for 2012, President Obama has been sweet-talking American Jews lately and making some staunchly pro-Israel statements. In September he told the UN General Assembly:
Let us be honest with ourselves: Israel is surrounded by neighbors that have waged repeated wars against it. Israel’s citizens have been killed by rockets fired at their houses and suicide bombs on their buses. Israel’s children come of age knowing that throughout the region, other children are taught to hate them. Israel, a small country of less than eight million people, look[s] out at a world where leaders of much larger nations threaten to wipe it off of the map. The Jewish people carry the burden of centuries of exile and persecution, and fresh memories of knowing that six million people were killed simply because of who they are. Those are facts. They cannot be denied.
Strong stuff—the kind of stuff really pro-Israel people really say, and think.
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/02/06/the-final-countdown-israel-vs-iran/ The Final Countdown: Israel vs. Iran Posted By Bruce Thornton The 33-year farce of Western appeasement of Iran may be reaching its denouement. For the last few months, the pace of events have quickened as the West sanctions and threatens, and Iran blusters about closing the Strait of Hormuz, cutting off oil to Europe, […]
