Why You Should Quit College Posted By Ben Shapiro URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/11/29/why-you-should-quit-college/ Young people spend their time in college getting high, getting drunk, and getting off. So why shouldn’t they major in it? This seems to be the philosophy of Yale University, where a doctoral candidate is leading a course titled “Dance Music […]
Deadly ‘Diversity’ Posted By Bruce Bawer
URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/11/29/deadly-diversity/
The neighborhood of Grønland in Oslo, Norway, is not terribly large. It’s on the east side of town, adjacent to central Oslo, and has traditionally been a place of working-class flats and unpretentious pubs. Ever since Norway began to be the destination of immigrants from the Muslim world, however, Grønland has been home to an increasing number of Muslim families and businesses. In recent years, furthermore, it has become an attractive residential area for young Norwegian singles and families, for many of whom part of the lure of living in this part of town was that they wanted to be part of a “multicultural” community. As a result of the influx of these these young people – including no small number of gays – a number of hip restaurants and cafes have sprung up in the area.
Of late, however, as the city’s Muslim population has boomed, Grønland has been undergoing a transition from a mixed neighborhood to an essentially Muslim one.
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Congress: Establishment media are swooning over the unexpected departure of ultraliberal Barney Frank. But this “champion of the little guy” actually helped cause the mortgage disaster, then kept the system broken.
‘Congress will now be a little dumber,” was the kind of nonsense we heard from the mainstream liberal media after Frank, D-Mass., former chairman of the House Banking Committee, said no to running for re-election next year.
Formally reprimanded by a heavily Democratic House on a 408-to-18 vote in 1990 for ethics offenses regarding his financial relationship with a male prostitute, Frank has for decades been a fast-talking, acidic presence in House debates.
But he wasn’t smart enough to realize that the politically correct poisoning of mortgages would lead to a calamity rivaling the Great Depression. “I, like many others, did not see the crisis coming,” Frank said Monday.
He sure didn’t. Back in 2003, what did he say when the Bush administration proposed what the New York Times described as “the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis a decade ago,” including a new agency to supervise Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? READ AT SITE
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“And no amount of irresponsibility, petulance and obnoxious behavior should give us the impression that our opponent doesn’t want to win. His contempt for us is a weakness, but it’s also a sign of how fortified his position is. We are the ones with the uphill battle and we cannot afford to rest at the bottom of the hill before we have taken the high ground.”
It’s downright strange that at a time when the field of Republican candidates has narrowed down to a few bad choices and the left has finally fielded its own answer to the Tea Party movement, that some pundits on the right are still cheerfully pushing the meme that Obama is all but done.
‘Homeland’ Beats ‘All-American Muslim’ Posted By Daniel Greenfield URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/11/29/homeland-beats-all-american-muslim/ Several weeks ago All-American Muslim debuted on TLC to a storm of publicity and high ratings, but the publicity has vanished and the ratings are dribbling away. The series had premiered to a 1.7 rating, but last Sunday’s episode had dropped to a […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.10919/pub_detail.asp One should always be careful, when criticizing and making fun of others, to not be guilty of the same offense. We try to be very careful, with a name like Accuracy in Media. It can come back to bite you. That is unless you’re some hotshot left-wing “news” person on MSNBC. Then it doesn’t […]
http://news.yahoo.com/military-3-rockets-lebanon-strike-israel-053411455.html Military: 3 rockets from Lebanon strike Israel JERUSALEM (AP) — Rockets fired from Lebanon struck northern Israel early Tuesday for the first time in more than two years, drawing a burst of Israeli artillery fire across the tense border, the Israeli military said. No casualties or major damage were reported on either side, and […]
Stonewall: Napolitano, DHS Still Silent on Mohamed Elibiary Posted By Patrick Poole URL to article: http://pjmedia.com/blog/stonewall-napolitano-dhs-still-silent-on-mohamed-elibiary/ It’s been nearly five weeks since I broke the story [1] exclusively at PJ Media: Homeland Security Advisory Council member [2] Mohamed Elibiary downloaded sensitive Texas Department of Public Safety reports from the Homeland Security State and Local […]
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“The Pakistani generals are not worth much as reliable allies, but they’re all we’ve got. Like all rented allies, they’re sometimes willing to help a little so long as the United States continues to supply them with weapons—just in case they get into a war of their own. There’s no morality among nations, as Newt the Historian knows well. Chipping at the margins of a threat is enough to keep any president too busy to Twitter. Only someone divorced from reality would expect more than that.”
Thomas Jefferson collected old books and French wines, Warren Harding collected poker buddies, and FDR collected stamps. Harry S Truman collected sheet music and played the piano.
THANKS TO YISRAEL MEDAD FROM SHILOH, ISRAEL
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NOT A WHISPER ABOUT THE NUMBER OF NATURALIZED SOMALIS IN MINNESOTA THAT HAVE LEFT TO FIGHT ALONGSIDE THE JIHADIS…NOR A WORD ABOUT THE RADICAL AMERICAN HATING IMAMS THERE…RSK
The Minnesota Break the Bonds Campaign plans to sue the state for its investments in illegal projects that violate the human rights of Palestinians.
Since 1967 more than 500,000 Israeli Jewish settlers have moved into the occupied Palestinian territory of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, inviolation of Article 49 of the Geneva Conventions. The United Nations Security Council passed Resolution Number 446 in 1976 declaring the settlements and settlers illegal. They were also declared illegal by the International Court of Justice, and by the United States State Department [PDF].
In order to settle that many people in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, infrastructure must be built. Many of the settlers live in the West Bank and work inside of Israel, and roads were built to facilitate their commute. Electricity was brought out to the settlements; water distribution networks were constructed; and the more than 430-mile apartheid wall was constructed, all of which is equally as illegal as the transferred civilian population itself. All of the land on which these construction projects were built is confiscated Palestinian property, and in the projects have left thousands of Palestinians homeless and destitute, devastated the Palestinian economy and violated Palestinians’ human rights.
The settlements, their infrastructure, and the separation wall are paid for through Israel’s Ministry of Finance, which sells Government of Israel Bonds to finance these projects. Israel Bonds can be purchased by individuals, organizations and states. Currently 22 U.S. states and the District of Columbia invest in these Israel Bonds, often as part of state pension and retirement funds. Minnesota currently holds over $18 million in Israel Bonds, an amount that is small compared to the overall state investments, but is a significant amount given that the money isused for illegal projects.
Holding investments in illegal projects that violate human rights and international law exposes Minnesota taxpayers to potential lawsuits from aggrieved individuals under the Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA), an 18th century law allowing foreigners the ability to sue entities in the United States for aiding and abetting in the commission of crimes against those individuals.
Illegal under Minnesota law
In addition to the international law violations, Minnesota state statutes governing the activities of the State Board of Investment (SBI) prohibit investment in the government bonds of any foreign country, with the exception of Canada. So, the purchase of Israel Bonds is illegal under Minnesota law. The SBI is madeup of Gov. Mark Dayton, Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, Attorney General Lori Swanson and State Auditor Rebecca Otto and is the agency charged with managing investments for state retirees. The Minnesota Legislature passed divestment bills prohibiting investments in companies doing business in Iran and Sudan, but in neither case did the Legislature prohibit investing in the government bonds of those countries. This was unnecessary since existing legislation already prohibited it.
Minnesota Break the Bonds Campaign (MN BBC) is an organization of volunteers dedicated to human rights and justice who are urging the state to divest from Israel Bonds. Members spent many months meeting with both state legislators and SBI personnel to urge them to divest from the Israel Bonds. Even after it was pointed out to the SBI that the investments were illegal, the SBI refused to divest.
