The ad, which cost some $70,000, aired on approximately seven different television markets in Pakistan. On Thursday, September 20, President of the United States Barack Obama and Hillary R. Clinton, the US Secretary of State, were featured in a thirty second television spot paid for by American taxpayers that was intended to make clear […]
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/korol Just to be sure I wasn’t asking more of CBS’s 60 Minutes than is reasonable, I researched Journalism Ethics. I discovered that while the media is not legally bound, the public assumes and expects it to be honor bound to enforce the rules and avoid irresponsible and destructive journalism. But with this production, Christians […]
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3352/bbc-islam-untold-story Islam is “a legitimate subject of historical inquiry. I think there’s a degree to which Muslims, far more than Christians, have felt that the foundation myths of their religion are somehow historical fact, and it seems to me that they’re clearly not.” Tom Holland, author, Islam: The Untold Story, cancelled by BBC, after threats. […]
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3359/blasphemy Like Hearst, the Muslim policy on blasphemy is, “You furnish the pictures, I’ll furnish the war.” One might as well call the Fourth of July a reaction to fireworks. If the Salafis hadn’t come upon a properly blasphemous movie, then they would have found an offensive cartoon, book, song or cave painting. And if […]
Amount of Antarctic sea ice hits record high
Forbes
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
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Antarctic sea ice set another record this past week, with the most amount of ice ever recorded on day 256 of the calendar year. Please, nobody tell the mainstream media or they might have to retract some stories and admit they are misrepresenting scientific data. Read more…
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Clinton to battle Tea Party on aid to Libya, Egypt
The Hill
Thursday, September 20, 2012
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is scheduled to visit Congress on Thursday in an attempt to beat back Tea Party pressure to cut foreign aid to Egypt and Libya in the wake of anti-American violence in those countries. Read more…
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GOP seeking more ousters in Fast and Furious
The Hill
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
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GOP seeking more ousters in Fast and Furious
Republicans are calling for more heads to roll in the wake of a lengthy inspector general report on the botched “Fast and Furious” operation that culminated in the immediate resignations of two top officials. Read more…
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Germany considers ban on Islam video
USA Today
Thursday, September 20, 2012
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Europeans are worried over becoming the next battleground over an anti-Islam video. German officials are considering a ban on a screening in Berlin. Read more…
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http://frontpagemag.com/2012/magdi/my-middle-east-reality/ Recently, I made a visit that was specially arranged by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) to the Holocaust museum in Washington. It was my first visit to the Museum as I usually try to avoid coming face to face with the barbaric acts that humans commit against one another, and would rather […]
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Gaffe, a word that temporarily came to be associated with political misstatements, has returned to its origins as a social faux pas, such as saying something at a dinner party that everyone knows to be true, but that know mustn’t be said out loud.
The media is still doing its best to pretend that a gaffe is a mistake, when they are actually using it to mean the telling of inconvenient truths. Obama’s reign of error is a constellation of inconvenient truths, economic, security and legal, that cannot be discussed in public. The telling of these inconvenient truths has been met with cries of racism, no matter how little they have to do with race. Now they are being met with cries of “Gaffe, Gaffe”, when Romney brings them up.
Did Obama skip presidential intelligence briefings on the most serious national security threats for a week before September 11? Did the Benghazi consulate lack basic security in a city where Islamist militias were running rampant and attacks on foreign diplomats had already taken place? Was the entire situation a result of an illegal war fought by Obama under false pretenses that armed Islamist militias and set them loose to persecute Libyan Sufis and seize half of Mali? Did Obama sleep through the beginning of the largest wave of attacks on America during his term while partying in Vegas?
Such inconvenient truths can only be met by accusing their teller of committing the horrible gaffe of politicizing the formerly apolitical and bipartisan arena of unilateral wars and the violence arising from them– an area that the Democrats decided was off-limits ever since they stopped criticizing such wars and began fighting them four years ago.
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/to-preserve-the-peace-or-the-state?f=puball Everything done by the Obama administration since its inauguration in January 2009, every word, every gesture, every silence, every dog-and-pony show, has been to preserve the peace – of the state. In this endeavor, the public peace – or, as our Founders might have called it, the public “general welfare,” that is, the non-coercive, […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/deciphering-the-iranian-red-line-controversy Of late, the mainstream media has been attacking Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s demand that President Obama set a specific “red line” which, if crossed, would trigger an immediate U.S. military response against Iran’s nuclear facilities. The common theme is that such a demand is an intrusion into U.S. presidential politics and contrary to American […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/the-real-rules-of-the-un-human-rights-council The good news is that genocide-tainted Sudan has withdrawn its bid to join the United Nations Human Rights Council, a move that suggests there may actually be some outer limits to the travesties of the U.N.’s leading human-rights body. Sudan’s withdrawal appears to be due largely to a vigorous non-governmental campaign led by a […]
