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September 2011

BORIS JOHNSON:Gaddafi: first we fete them, then we bomb them – but that’s politics

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/borisjohnson/8741255/Gaddafi-first-we-fete-them-then-we-bomb-them-but-thats-politics.html
Politicians will soon be sucking up to people like Gaddafi again if it’s in the national interest, writes Boris Johnson.

We cannot know what is going through the mind of crazed ex-despot Muammar Gaddafi as he continues to flee Nato bombs and rebel snipers — but we can have a good guess. He may be holed up gibbering in a basement in Sirte. He may be in Venezuela or working as a suspiciously taciturn short-order chef in a falafel bar in Tripoli.Wherever he is I wager there is one thing that causes the old dyed ringlets to shake with rage, one thought that brings the foam to the corner of his champing jaws — and that is the treachery of all those he thought of as friends. And of those who have ratted on him in the last six months, there is one particular group of traitors that he would like to cast — I bet — to the nethermost fire-bubbling pit of hell. Never mind the rebels, and all those snaky ex-ministers who chose to defect as soon as the going got tough. Forget the buxom female “bodyguards” who took the first plane back to Ukraine. For sheer duplicity there is no one to beat – the British! May the fleas of a thousand camels infest their armpits!

APPALLING HONOR KILLING IN JORDAN: SHE HAD JUST GIVEN BIRTH TO TWINS AND HER FATHER SHOT HER…

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/09/honor-killing-in-jordan-i-was-enraged-and-shot-her-dead-because-she-did-something-shameful.html Honor killing in Jordan: “I was enraged and shot her dead because she did something shameful.” She had just given birth to twins, and her father shot her. Yes, murders happen everywhere, and cases of parents killing their children exist across the world, but the crucial difference here is how the killings are rationalized […]

MARCO RUBIO’S COURAGEOUS SPEECH: STAR PARKER

http://townhall.com/columnists/starparker/2011/09/05/marco_rubios_courageous_speech/print Florida’s young Republican Senator Marco Rubio gave an important speech at the Reagan Presidential Library in California that has set off the liberal talking head universe. He had the temerity to suggest that the huge growth in government’s role in American life over the last century “actually weakened us as a people.” The resulting […]

LORI LOWENTHAL MARCUS FOR Z-STREET: NEW ISRAEL FUND’S VISION FOR A MORE DEMOCRATIC ISRAEL….ARAB MAJORITY

New Israel Fund’s vision for a more democratic Israel: an Arab majority state! Lori Lowenthal Marcus president, Z STREET WWW.ZSTREET.ORG 09/04/11 A new batch of Wikileaks has been posted, and there’s quite an interesting entry about the background to the effort in the Israeli knesset to pass an NGO transparency law which would require NGOs […]

A GREAT SUGGESTION FOR 9/11 REMEMBRANCE

A MESSAGE FROM NRG….PUBLISHER OF THE CONNECTICUT JEWISH LEDGER…BEST JEWISH INTEREST NEWSPAPER IN AMERICA On September 11th 2001 our country was attacked. On Sunday, September 11th, 2011, display our flag. This will Honor those who lost their lives on 9/11/2001. Remind your family and friends by forwarding this note.

THE ONE AND DONE: MAUREEN DOWD

One and Done? – NYTimes.com  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/opinion/dowd-one-and-done.html?_r=1 The days of spinning illusions in a Greek temple in a football stadium are done. The One is dancing on the edge of one term. ONE day during the 2008 campaign, as Barack Obama read the foreboding news of the mounting economic and military catastrophes that W. was bequeathing […]

JEFF JACOBY: A PONZI SCHEME….THAT’S NOT THE POINT

http://www.jeffjacoby.com/10235/a-ponzi-scheme-that-not-the-point CHARLES PONZI was a Boston swindler who in 1920 bilked thousands of people out of millions of dollars by selling them bonds that guaranteed a fabulous rate of return — 100 percent in just 90 days. The funds entrusted to Ponzi were never invested in legitimate enterprises. Instead, they were deployed in a classic […]

MARK DURIE: DO WE WORSHIP THE SAME GOD? A REVIEW OV MIROSLAV VOLF’S BOOK “ALLAH”

http://markdurie.blogspot.com/2011/09/do-we-worship-same-god-review-by-mark.html “Do we worship the same God?”  This has become a hotly contested and divisive question, posed in these troubled days by many Christians about Muslims and Islam.  Influential theologian Miroslav Volf, who is Henry B. Wright professor of Systematic Theology at Yale, offers an answer in his latest book, Allah: a Christian response (HarperOne 2010).  […]

BILL GERTZ: JIHADISTS SPRINGING UP IN LIBYA: US “ON ALERT”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/sep/4/jihadists-plot-to-take-over-libya Jihadists among the Libyan rebels revealed plans last week on the Internet to subvert the post-Moammar Gadhafi government and create an Islamist state, according to U.S. intelligence agencies. U.S. officials said spy agencies are stepping up surveillance of Islamist-oriented elements among Libyan rebels. A government report circulated Tuesday said extremists were observed “strategizing” on […]

THE DUMBEST RABBI RACHEL KAHN TROSTER WRITES THE DUMBEST OP-ED OF ALL TIME:”THE LEGACY OF OF 9/11 SHOULD BE ENDING TORTURE”….SEE NOTE

http://www.jta.org/news/article/2011/09/01/3089213/op-ed-eradicating-torture-should-be-the-legacy-of-sept-12 IT IS PURE TORTURE TO READ THIS POSTURING, SELF RIGHTEOUS IDIOT OF THE CLOTH…..RSK (Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster, of Teaneck, N.J., is director of North American programs for Rabbis for Human Rights-North America. She is a member of the board of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture.) TEANECK, N.J. (JTA) — What is the legacy […]