http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/2211/The-Slave-Media-and-the-Shackled-Records.aspx Posting wasn’t just “light” for the past couple of weeks, it was non-existent. This was due to finding myself blissfully “off the grid” — the only way to R & R in the 21st century. I wasn’t in a total news vaccuum, however. In fact, I probably absorbed the same basic bulletins that the […]
http://pjmedia.com/blog/fools-errand-in-afghanistan/?print=1 American and Afghan officials in Afghanistan’s Farah province were holding an inauguration ceremony [1] last Friday for new recruits to a village police force. As part of the ceremony, the new policemen were given weapons that they would use for training. As soon as one of the recruits, Mohammad Ismail, received his, he turned […]
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/bruce-bawer/oslo-muslims-demand-sharia-controlled-zone/ After the one-two punch, on a single day last summer, of a deadly explosion in the center of Oslo and an even more deadly shooting spree on a nearby island, the Norwegian government did what it does best: it formed a commission. This one was charged with figuring out just how one man had […]
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/davidhornik/israel-to-obama-no-more-time-for-iran-games/ The open-to-the-public U.S.-Israeli war of words on Iran continued this week. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said he didn’t believe Israel had “made a decision as to whether or not they will go in and attack Iran at this time” and added: “With regards to the issue of where we’re at from a diplomatic point […]
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/bruce-thornton/the-muslim-brothers-are-taking-over-egypt/ We don’t hear much anymore the breathless celebrations of Egyptian democracy that followed our abandonment of the creepy but reliable Hosni Mubarak. The “Facebook kids” who enchanted our media with their tech-savvy cool have been forgotten. It’s hard to find anymore the optimism of Senator Joseph Lieberman, who in Foreign Affairs called the Arab […]
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Travelers across the vast stretches of the Arabian desert have been known to get lost and in their thirst and exhaustion hallucinate oases with palm trees and flowing water. Western policymakers lost in the vast stretches of madness that define the Muslim world are even more wont to hallucinate the oasis of a moderate Islam to take refuge in. Whether you’re dying for a drink or a way to reaffirm your reality, a mirage is sometimes the only way you can find it.
Moderate Islam is a mirage, a projection by desperate Westerners of their own values and culture, on an entirely different religion and culture. It is a mirage that many Muslims are eager to uphold, in the same way that desert merchants might sell goblets and bowls of sand to passing travelers foolish enough to confuse water with dust. And like travelers who think they are drinking water, when they are actually swallowing sand, it is a deception that will eventually kill the deceived.
When the Western cultural elite look at Islam, they see what they have to see to avoid falling into crisis mode. Like the traveler who would rather choke on sand, than face up to the fact that he is lost in a desert, they would rather keep most things as they are, even at the cost of the extinction of the nations they preside over, than confront the full scope of the threat surrounding them. A threat that they had a hand in nurturing and feeding in the name of goals that seemed to make sense at the time.
Romney’s math and the Ryan nomination
by Spengler
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/NH21Dj02.html
As pollsters on both sides of the American political divide point out, the standout fact about the presidential election is the small number of undecided voters. As Jeff Zeleny observed in the New York Times August 15, polls show that only 5% of voters remain undecided.Both the Barack Obama and the Mitt Romney camps, Zeleny adds, are fighting for the enthusiasm of their own supporters rather than the marginal vote from the center: Romney “is now running a campaign more focused on energizing an anti-Obamacoalition than on trying to expand the universe of Romney voters with an argument that he is the most qualified economic steward. Mr Obama has been responding in kind, opening a deeply divisive period in the race in which firing up hard-core partisans is taking priority over trying to pursue relatively small numbers of undecided voters in the middle.”
Polarization of this extreme degree is not ideological, but existential. The great split down the center of America society is not between the rich and the middle class, as the Obama campaign suggests, but within the middle class itself.
This helps explain why Paul Ryan was a smart choice for the second spot on the Republican ticket. There are still more people paying taxes than getting a check from the government, and their patience with tax creep is exhausted.
The home price collapse wiped out nearly half the median family’s wealth during 2007-2010, but the tax burden middle-class homeowners continued to rise.
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2012.08.19 (Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan) – Islamic bombers kill two people at a cemetery.
2012.08.19 (Malgobek, Ingushetia) – A Fedayeen suicide bomber enters a funeral and slaughters at least seven mourners.
2012.08.18 (Mosul, Iraq) – Muslim terrorists kill six family members in their homes.
2012.08.18 (Michni, Pakistan) – Four young men are brutally gunned down by radical Sunnis.
2012.08.18 (Herat, Afghanistan) – Fundamentalist bombers murder four people at a crowded market.
2012.08.18 (Aden, Yemen) – An al-Qaeda rocket attack and suicide bombing leaves twenty people dead.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/08/paul_ryan_the_perfect_anti-gore.html Vice-president hopeful Paul D. Ryan is the polar opposite to former VP Al Gore. Instead of promoting fears, the candidate is a pretty solid skeptic when it comes to catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW). Romney is obviously comfortable with that stance and is using Ryan to reposition himself on the issue of global warming […]
http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2012/08/misogynistic-violence-thats-part-of-our.html
YUSUFF JABAREEN: SENIOR ARAB LECTURER AT TECHNION DISCUSSES …THE ARAB “CULTURE” OF MISOGYNY…..
PALWATCH.COM
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