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http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=7085

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper addressed the Knesset on Monday and delivered a speech that should be required reading for all Israelis, particularly those in positions of power.

“Support today for the Jewish state of Israel is more than a moral imperative,” he said. “It is also of strategic importance, also a matter of [Canada’s] own, long-term interests. … Indeed, Israel is the only country in the Middle East which has long anchored itself in the ideals of freedom, democracy and the rule of law.”

Harper then went on to expose the people who threaten the societies that uphold such ideals, as “those who scorn modernity, who loathe the liberty of others, and who hold the differences of peoples and cultures in contempt. Those who often begin by hating the Jews, but, history shows us, end up hating anyone who is not them. Those forces, which have threatened the State of Israel every single day of its existence, and which, today, as 9/11 graphically showed us, threaten us all.”

Arab members of Knesset were not pleased. After heckling their esteemed guest, they stormed out of the hall. As radical Muslims in Western countries always do, these particular parliamentarians manipulate the tools of democracy to undermine it.

Harper, however, was undeterred; he’s used to getting flak for his unflinching support of Israel and tough stance against the enemies of freedom. If anything, the little Arab walk-out served to illustrate his overall argument.

http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/2752/The-Borders-of-Backlash.aspx

After endorsing the gubernatorial run of conservative California Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, a Tea Party favorite who opposes illegal immigration, actress Maria Conchita Alonso “abruptly” left the cast of a San Francisco play this week.

From the local CBS story:

The actress was to perform next month at the Brava Theater Center in San Francisco’s Mission District in a Spanish-language version of “The Vagina Monologues,” scheduled for a run from February 14th through 17th. The show is being produced by none other than Eliana Lopez, wife of San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi.

“We really cannot have her in the show, unfortunately,” Lopez told KPIX 5. She said Alonso abruptly resigned from the cast on Friday, given the backlash on the immigration issue.

“Of course she has the right to say whatever she wants. But we’re in the middle of the Mission. Doing what she is doing is against what we believe,” Lopez said.

Alonso received an earful from listeners of Spanish-language radio station KIQI 1010 AM in San Francisco on Friday, after she said in an interview that she supported many of Donnelly’s views on illegal immigration. Several listeners took her to task after she used the term “illegal” to describe undocumented immigrants.

http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/2753/The-Aftermath-of-Iraq-in-Colorado.aspx

In 2012, five Iraqi men in their 20s were arrested on charges in Colorado related to the extremely bloody rape and assault of a woman, who has been variously described as elderly or middle-aged. It was a sex crime so violent law enforcement describe it as “rare” and “horrific” and “one of the worst in Colorado history.”

Finally, the last defendant in the crime now comes to trial. His name is Jasim Ramadon, above in orange. A decade ago, Jasim, known as “Steve-O,” helped US troops i.d. Saddam loyalists, including his father.

As the disturbing realization sinks in — that the smiling boy with the US soldier on the book cover above is the same person in the mug shot — it’s worth taking a moment to consider the crime itself: specifically, how it could possibly be that experienced law enforcement officers in Colorado find themselves encountering rape and assault of “new” horror. Where is such “new” violence coming from? If we permit ourselves to keep thinking, we will remember that in recent years we have all come to know of previously unheard of brutality in crime: murders by actual beheading; murders called “honor” killings; murders of people for their deciding to abandon Islam (“apostasy”). These are not crimes Americans grew up reading about. Only a few years ago, these crimes weren’t happening here. If we are honest — a very big “if” — we will recognize that these crimes, perhaps even this “new” act of violent rape in Colorado, are in fact manifestations mainly of Islam and other more violent cultures (Mexican drug cartels, for example) now in our midst.

http://www.nationalreview.com/node/368994/print

DEMOCRAT WENDY IS A STATE REPRESENTATIVE IN TEXAS DISTRICT 10 WHO IS RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR….WHOEVER WINS IN THAT STATE WOULD BE FOLLOWING RICK PERRY (R) ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL GOVERNORS IN AMERICA….SHE IS RUNNING AGAINS THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR GREG ABBOT (R)… http://www.gregabbott.com/ RSK

Now that key details of Wendy Davis’s oft-celebrated “rags-to-riches” story have been exposed as less than accurate, how has the media decided to report on the revelations?

Well, most outlets have treated her admitted fabrications as news, although some have been noticeably generous in their framing of the issue. “Wendy Davis tells a fuller version of her rags-to-riches story,” CBS News tweeted on Monday. CNN observed that Davis’s life story is now “more complicated” than the “compelling narrative” she had originally presented. MSNBC was quick to cast the story from an anti-GOP angle: “Right pounces on news that Wendy Davis embellished life story,” a familiar position from which to launch the inevitable follow-up: “Will Republicans overreach?”

According to MSNBC, the real reason conservatives “pounced” on the story is that they loathe Davis for “making life choices they disagree with — including the decision, as a mother, to prioritize her career.” And adding to the charge of sexism, MSNBC adds, “It’s hard to imagine those choices generating criticism were Wendy Davis a man.” Which raises a number of interesting questions, such as: Would disgraced former MSNBC host Martin Bashir have condoned the defecation into the mouth of a male politician?

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/to-defeat-the-taliban-we-must-defeat-the-ideology?f=puball Just last week the Taliban executed a horrific well-coordinated attack against a restaurant in Kabul often frequented by westerners. It was not a location where any Afghan or Coalition military personnel gave patronage but rather expatriates and UN civilian workers. In a classic military attack, first the homicide bomber detonated to the front of […]

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/obamas-war-on-us-energy

There is no reason for the U.S. to be in such a slow recovery from the financial crisis of 2008. If President Obama would get out of the way, our national debt could be dramatically reduced and hundreds of thousands of jobs would be created in the nation’s energy sector, leading to the expansion of its manufacturing sector and still more jobs.

As Daniel Simmons, the Director of Regulatory and State Affairs for the Institute of Energy Research told the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Healthcare and Entitlements in February 2013:

“The federal estate contains vast energy resources, but the federal government allows energy production on a very small percentage of taxpayer-owned federal lands. The Interior Department has leased just two percent (2%) of federal offshore areas and less than six percent (6%) of federal onshore lands for oil and gas development.”

“These technically recoverable resources total 1,194 billion barrels of oil and 2,150 trillion cubic feet of natural gas that is owned by the federal taxpayer…the value of the estimated oil resources is $119.4 trillion and the value of the estimated natural gas resources is $8.6 trillion for a grand total of $128 trillion.”

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/01/20/white-house-rings-in-start-of-iran-nuke-agreement-hails-its-strong-and-disciplined-democracy/?print=1

The Obama administration hailed the first day of the interim nuclear agreement with Iran while quietly chiding Tehran over an invitation from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for the Islamic Republic to join Geneva talks on Syria.

Syrian opposition figures threatened to pull out of the talks and the U.S. said Iran needs to endorse the end of Assad’s rule in favor of a power-sharing transitional administration. Both parties also oppose Iran’s continued supplying of arms and other support to Bashar Assad’s regime.

“Today, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported that Iran has taken the initial specific steps it committed to on or by January 20th, as part of the Joint Plan of Action between the P5+1 (the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Russia, and China, coordinated by EU High Representative Catherine Ashton), and Iran. As a result, implementation of the Joint Plan of Action will begin today,” White House press secretary Jay Carney announced in a statement this morning.

“Specifically, the IAEA has verified in a written report and subsequent briefing for P5+1 technical experts, that Iran has, among other things, stopped producing 20% enriched uranium, has disabled the configuration of the centrifuge cascades Iran has been using to produce it, has begun diluting its existing stockpile of 20% enriched uranium, and has not installed additional centrifuges at Natanz or Fordow. These actions represent the first time in nearly a decade that Iran has verifiably enacted measures to halt progress on its nuclear program, and roll it back in key respects. Iran has also begun to provide the IAEA with increased transparency into the Iranian nuclear program, through more frequent and intrusive inspections and the expanded provision of information to the IAEA. Taken together, these concrete actions represent an important step forward,” Carney continued.

ARABS HECKLED AND LEFT THE HALL WHEN HE DENOUNCED THOSE WHO DISGRACEFULLY CASTIGATE ISRAEL….

http://www.timesofisrael.com/harper-tells-israel-through-fire-and-water-canada-will-stand-with-you/

THE TEXT:

Monsieur le Premier Ministre, Monsieur le Président de la Knesset, Monsieur le Président de la Cour Suprême, Monsieur le Chef de l’Opposition, Mesdames et Messieurs les Ministres, Et les Députes, Distingués Invités, Mesdames et Messieurs,

Shalom. And thank you for inviting me to visit this remarkable country, and especially for this opportunity to address the Knesset. It is truly a great honour.

And if I may, Mr. Speaker, on behalf of my wife Laureen and the entire Canadian delegation, let me begin by thanking the Government and people of Israel for the warmth of your hospitality. You have made us feel extremely welcome. We have felt immediately at home.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Canada and Israel are the greatest of friends, and the most natural of allies. And, with your indulgence, I would like to offer a reflection upon what makes the relationship between Canada and Israel special and important. Because the relationship between us is very strong.

L’amitié entre le Canada et Israël prend ses racines dans l’histoire, se nourrit de valeurs communes et se renforce volontairement aux plus hauts échelons du commerce et du gouvernement ce qui est l’expression de fermes convictions.

The friendship between us is rooted in history, nourished by shared values, and it is intentionally reinforced at the highest levels of commerce and government as an outward expression of strongly held inner convictions.

http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2014/01/20/what-is-pop-culture-polytheism/?print=1

Last year I started experimenting with Instagram. Inspired by PJM columnist Zombie I decided to create an account to A) confuse the hell out of people, B) stir up trouble, and C) explore the truth of what people believe in the world today without the baggage of my existing politically incorrect identity clouding how they addressed me.

As with Zombie, with “Thoth and Ma’at Married” people can’t even tell if I’m a man or woman — the handle includes the names of both male and female Egyptian deities of writing (and thus serves as my stealth so-con way of promoting marriage too). They likewise can’t tell at first glance what my religion, politics, or philosophy are. I use the account to engage with people all across the spectrum of cultures and ideas to try to learn more about where their values come from and how they think. On January 10, one of the atheists that I follow posted a photo in which he asked for anyone to ask him his opinion about anything. I asked which side he supported in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Here’s the exchange that followed and the revealing admission from an atheist about where he really learned right from wrong in our pop culture-dominated world today:

So he simultaneously admits he knows nothing but expresses his preset ideological opinion that the governments are driven by money and the militaries by primitivism.

Here’s when I drop my counterculture conservative provocation, defining the evil in the issue and then seeing how he or any of his followers choose to react to the facts:

Did my provocation catch any fish? Yes, two revealing responses. The first a somewhat innocent, naive idealist, and the second doubting my facts.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/from-martin-luther-king-to-obama/print/

On the day before Martin Luther King Jr’s birthday, the New Yorker unveiled an extended interview with Obama in which the flailing leader blamed his poor approval ratings on racism.

“There’s no doubt that there’s some folks who just really dislike me because they don’t like the idea of a black President,” Obama told the editor of the liberal magazine known for its cloyingly obscure cartoons and overwhelmingly white readership.

Obama began his first term with an approval rating of 68 percent; a figure unmatched since JFK. No Republican had enjoyed a starting approval rating above 60 percent in 60 years, indicating how much more willing Republicans were to give the other guy a fair shot than their Democratic counterparts. At 12 percent, his disapproval ratings were also much lower than those of Bill Clinton or George W. Bush.

If his current approval rating of 40 percent pro and 51 percent con can be put down to anything, it isn’t race. When Obama began his first term in office, he had the approval of 41 percent of Republicans. By the time the year was out, that number had fallen to 16 percent.

At the start of his first term, he had the approval of 62 percent of independent voters. Today he has the approval of less than half that number. Only his support from his own party has remained unchanged.