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October 2011

M. CATHERINE EVANS: FAST AND FURIOUS SCANDAL CANNOT BE CONTAINED

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/10/fast_and_furious_scandal_cannot_be_contained.html

Fast & Furious is literally a killer of a scandal, drenched in the blood of victims of a federal government operation. Despite the best efforts of the Obama team to obfuscate, the truth is emerging, so that the media and even some Democrats are focusing on a full unearthing of the facts.

Tuesday, October 18 proved to be an important day in the slow march towards justice for the families of murdered federal agents Brian Terry and Jaimie Zapata, and the hundreds of Mexicans dead from Fast & Furious firearms.

First, the U.S Senate unanimously voted in favor of an amendment prohibiting funds from going to any future gun-walking type operations. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) introduced the amendment in direct response to the 2009 Fast and Furious debacle. The bipartisan consensus prompted Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) to join Cornyn in his demand for answers from Attorney General Eric Holder.

HOT PICKS FROM FSM

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Gaddafi’s death – who pulled the trigger? [REUTERS]
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Obama Admin Gave $ 500,000,000 (Half-Billion-Dollar) Loan to Gore-Connected Electric Car Company to Build Cars in Finland rather than in the U.S. [ABC]
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White House pulls references to Islam from terror training materials, official says [DAILY CALLER]
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Despite a campaign-style push this week by President Obama, the SENATE VOTES DOWN a Trimmed Version of His Jobs Bill [FOX]
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Republican lawmakers lambasted the Justice Department for its “false denials” in the FAST AND FURIOUS gunrunning operation, demanding that the FBI turn over documents in its ongoing probe into the shooting death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent. [WT]
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Muslim Student Prohibited from Marching in ROTC Parade Because of Muslim Head Scarf and After Contacting CAIR and Is Now Trying To Change U.S. Army Policy [FOX]
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Ama Bills For LOBBYING SUPERCOMITTEE As High As During Healthcare Bill Debate [The HILL]
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U.S. ‘Misery Index’ Rises to Highest Since 1983 [CNBC]
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Coptic Christians Protest Administration, Egyptian Govt. Outside White House, Morning Shows Ignore It [NEWS BUSTERS]
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NEW UNEMPLOYMENT CLAIMS PERSIST ABOVE 400,000 – marks little improvement in the job market over the last six months [CNN]

FRANK SALVATO: WHY DEMOCRACY IS DANGEROUS FOR THE ARAB SPRING

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.10636,css.print/pub_detail.asp There is a concerted movement that began in earnest with the Progressive Era to identify the United States of America as a Democracy. To be sure, this movement has made great strides in convincing the American citizenry of just that. This movement has been so successful in delivering this message that Democrats, Republicans, Liberals […]

ALYSSA A. LAPPEN: PAUL R. PILLAR’S “INTELLIGENCE AND U.S. FOREIGN POLICY: IRAQ, 9/11 AND MISGUIDED REFORM”

Paul R. Pillar’s Intelligence and U.S. Foreign Policy: Iraq, 9/11, and Misguided Reform Alyssa A. Lappen

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.10634/pub_detail.asp
Intelligence and U.S. Foreign Policy: Iraq, 9/11, and Misguided Reform
by Paul R. Pillar
Publisher: Columbia University Press (432 pp)

The preface to Intelligence and U.S. Foreign Policy: Iraq, 9/11, and Misguided Reform promises a good read as former CIA officer Paul R. Pillar details perches from which he “observed the end of one misguided war and the beginning of another”—a pair of bookends to his public service career and “two tragically ill-conceived military expeditions.” In 1973, as the Vietnam war wound down, Pillar served as a junior army field officer at Camp Alpha outside Saigon. From 2000 to 2005, he headed CIA national intelligence for the Near East and South Asia in Washington D.C.—albeit with hardly “any more influence on events in one job than in the other.”

Unfortunately, the book quickly disappoints.

On joining any U.S. military or intelligence service, officers must swear a solemn oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic;… bear true faith and allegiance to the same;…[and] obey the orders of the President of the United States….”

DAVID SOLWAY: GENEVIEVEISM GONE GLOBAL….THE OWS

Genèvievism Gone Global Posted By David Solway URL to article: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/genevievism-gone-global/ I once had a neighbor who went stark raving mad. I remember Genèvieve as an altogether delightful woman, lively, companionable, generous, and highly competent in all the small necessary tasks of daily life. For many years she was the ideal next-door person — until […]

J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS:ISLAMIC SPEECH POLICE LOBBY ERIC HOLDER’S DOJ

URL to article: http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/10/20/islamic-speech-police-lobby-eric-holders-doj/
Also please read: http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.10507/pub_detail.asp
INTERVIEW: J. Christian Adams, author of “Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department”: Ruth King

This Daily Caller story must be read to be believed:

Top Justice Department officials convened a meeting Wednesday where invited Islamic advocates lobbied them for cutbacks in anti-terror funding, changes in agents’ training manuals, additional curbs on investigators and a legal declaration that U.S. citizens’ criticism of Islam constitutes racial discrimination.

The department’s “civil rights lawyers are top of the line — I say this with utter honesty — I know they can come up with a way” to redefine criticism as discrimination, said Sahar Aziz, a female, Egyptian-American lawyer.

“I’d be willing to give a shot at it,” said Aziz, who is a fellow at the Michigan-based Muslim advocacy group, the Institute for Social Policy & Understanding.

MICHELLE MALKIN: THE OWS AND ROBIN HOOD****

http://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2011/10/21/robin_hood_vs_the_occupiers/print

We have entered a new phase of the endless Occupy Wall Street sleepover. Not working is hard work. After a month of tying up the police, generating mounds of trash, railing against Jews while holding up “Nazi Bankers” signs, grappling with pervs, rapists and thieves in their ranks, communing with avowed communists, and hobnobbing with 1 percenter celebrities donning 99 percenter costumes (phew!), the Occupiers are rallying around a new mascot: Robin Hood.

The crime-plagued Carnival of 1,001 Demands is now focused on one unified agenda item: a soak-the-rich tax on financial transactions worldwide. The corporate-bashing Canadian magazine “Adbusters” (funded by left-wing Wall Street trader Robert Halper) initiated the Occupy Wall Street siege last summer and published a new online manifesto this week explaining the call for an October 29 “Robin Hood march”:

“Across the globe the 99 percent are marching! … It’s now time to amp up the edgy theatrics … deviant pranks, subversive performances and playful detournements of all kinds.” There’s been no shortage of deviance, unfortunately, what with protesters defecating on police cars, urinating on each other’s tents, stealing food and phones, and exposing themselves to children. But I digress. As the movement “matures,” the leaders overseeing an unruly mob in Guido Fawkes masks exhorted the masses to “occupy the core of our global system.”

MICHAEL YOUSSEF: WHY DO MEMBERS OF THE SECULAR MEDIA HATE BIBLE BELIEVING CHRISTIANS?

http://townhall.com/columnists/michaelyoussef/2011/10/21/why_do_the_members_of_the_secular_media_hate_bible-believing_christians/print The clearest answer comes from a statement reputedly made by President Harry Truman during his 1948 Presidential election campaign. One of his supporters yelled out to him, “Give ‘em Hell, Harry!” Truman responded, “I don’t give them Hell. I just tell the truth about them and they think it’s Hell.” That is precisely the […]

OTTAWA BOOTS PALARAB ENVOY AFTER SHE TWEETED OFFENSIVE DIATRIBE AGAINST JEWS: CAMPBELL CLARK

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/palestinian-envoy-is-asked-to-leave-ottawa/article2204367/ Palestinian envoy is asked to leave Ottawa after controversial tweet CAMPBELL CLARK The Palestinian envoy to Canada has been told she’s not welcome in Ottawa after she tweeted a link to a video that the federal government deemed an offensive diatribe against Jews. Now, Linda Sobeh Ali, the chargé d’affaires of the Palestinian delegation […]

GIULIO MEOTTI: NEW SOFT-CORE VERSION OF HOLOCAUST DENIAL

The New Softcore Version of Holocaust Denial http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/10738 Far more problematic than “hardcore” Holocaust deniers, relegated to the extremist neo-nazi fringes, this new perversion of the Holocaust is a kind of “softcore” denial – but it has lasting and spreading effect. In a time when there is an ever-growing river of books, essays, museums, symposia […]