http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/climate-reductio-ad-absurdum?f=puball Recently, three researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, had a study published that claimed that a “substantial” correlation between violence and climate change could be made. They cited sixty studies from around the world that, according to a BBC World Service article, demonstrated that “even small changes in temperature or rainfall correlated with […]
http://www.mideastoutpost.com/archives/the-brave-and-the-blow-hards-rita-kramer.html
What does it mean to be brave? In what does courage consist? These are questions that come to mind thinking about men and women who have stood up against tyranny, put their freedom and even their lives at risk by taking a stand and comparing them with activists and protestors in our country today. Movie stars, film makers, and other celebrities famous for being famous preen and pose and pretend that they are standing up against powerful forces when they make political statements in public. The only real threat they face is exposing their ignorance of complicated issues.
The left-leading media loves them and headlines the names and faces and pronouncements of such as Michael Moore and Oliver Stone, Barbra Streisand and Jane Fonda, Alec Baldwin and Susan Sarandon, Matt Damon and Harry Belafonte–directors, actors, entertainers all drawn from the world of Hollywood where fantasy substitutes for knowledge and the uneducated pass as gurus, hailed for their presumed willingness to stand up against threatening conspiratorial powers.
How little these Hollywood celebrities risk, how little they stand to lose becomes glaringly clear when they are compared with men and women of undeniable courage whose words–and actions–put them at real risk of losing their freedom and finally their lives. From time to time we are reminded of such figures and of what it means to take a stand against real tyranny, to enter the fight against undeniable evil.
A recent book tells the story of one such man, a Capuchin priest who repeatedly risked his life to help rescue thousands of Jews in France and Italy during the dark days of Nazi occupation. His story is told by Susan Zuccotti in Pere Marie-Benoit and Jewish Rescue. Zuccotti is the author of earlier books on France and Italy during the Holocaust and brings impressive background knowledge and practiced research skills to this latest account.
http://www.nationalreview.com/node/356718/print The Los Angeles Times recently published a devastating case study in the malign effects of academic racial preferences. The University of California, Berkeley, followed the diversocrat playbook to the letter in admitting Kashawn Campbell, a South Central Los Angeles high-school senior, in 2012: It disregarded his level of academic preparation, parked him in the […]
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ One of the biggest differences between conservatives and liberals is that while conservatives believe that history is an expression of human nature, liberals don’t believe in history, they believe in historical processes. The shortage of conservatives explains why so many politicians and pundits glowingly endorsed the Arab Spring as the “end of history” because […]
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/08/26/where-is-the-outrage-over-obamanation-flag/ While thousands gathered at the Lincoln Memorial this past weekend to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington, an American flag was waved with President Obama’s image in place of the 50 stars. Photos of the “Obama flag” were included in the galleries of numerous prominent web sites such as […]
http://pjmedia.com/barryrubin/2013/08/26/the-truth-about-syria/?print=1 “It is my pleasure to meet with you in the new Middle East,” said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to the Syrian Journalists’ Union on August 15, 2006. But Bashar’s new Middle East was neither the one hoped for by many since Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s 1991 defeat in Kuwait, nor the one expected when […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324619504579028691595414868.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion
I HAVE A REALLY SOFT SPOT FOR JUAN WILLIAMS….HE WAS THE ONE TO EXPOSE JESSE JACKSON’S INFAMOUS “HYMIETOWN” PHRASE ABOUT NEW YORK; HE WAS FIRED FROM NPR FOR STATING THAT IF HE GETS ON A PLANE WITH MUSLEMS HE GETS NERVOUS; HE WAS OUTSPOKEN AGAINST THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD; AND NOW HE TAKES ON BLACK LEADERS AND PERFORMERS, THE FATHERLESS HOMES OF FOURTH GENERATION TEENAGE MOTHERS, BLACK ON BLACK CRIME….IT MORE THAN BALANCES SOME OF HIS LIBERAL CANT…..RSK
Rap songs celebrating tattooed thugs make a sad contrast with the sweet music of the March on Washington.
Fifty years after the March on Washington, mystical memories of that seminal moment in the civil-rights era are less likely to focus on movement politics than on the great poetry and great music.
The emotional uplift of the monumental march is a universe of time away from today’s degrading rap music—filled with the n-word, bitches and “hoes”—that confuses and depresses race relations in America now.
The poetry of Aug. 28, 1963, is best on view when Martin Luther King Jr. went off his speech script and started using a musical, chanting reprise—”I have a dream.” The transforming insight born of the power of the interracial gathering at that time of turmoil, combined with the power of the spoken word, created an emotional message that still grips the American mind.
“I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood,” King said, in verse that somehow spanned a history of slavery and the Founding Fathers’ uniquely American promise of equality.
“I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injust
http://spectator.org/archives/2013/08/26/loveint-in-the-air NSA continues to play footsie with the law — but most alarmingly as conveyed in Footnote 14. Will Congress respond? What do Hillary Clinton, Anthony Weiner, and the NSA have in common? More than you probably think. The issue at bar is “LOVEINT,” the practice of some NSA employees of gathering intelligence information on […]
Striking Hezbollah-Bound Weapons in Syria: Israel’s Actions Under International Law Louis René Beres
http://harvardnsj.org/2013/08/striking-hezbollah-bound-weapons-in-syria-israels-actions-under-international-law/ Hezbollah, the Shiite terror organization based in Lebanon, has repeatedly sought to justify its armed pro-regime intervention in Syria. Most insistently, it has been arguing that Israel and the United States initially instigated the rebellion against Bashar al-Assad. To be sure, Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, is factually incorrect in this particular allegation. More importantly, […]
http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/obama-acts-like-muslim-godfather-with-his-approach-to-muslim-brotherhood-in-egypt/
Much of the debate surrounding current U.S. policy in Egypt revolves around vague notions of America’s interests in the region. On one side lies the principle that the U.S. must live by its rules — to cease aid following a coup — to demonstrate to Egyptians the morality of a free society and the rule of law.
Similarly, the U.S. must not risk being held in contempt by Egyptians for its association with actions of the military, which many deem to be ruthless and authoritarian.
Image showing some Egyptians consider Obama as supporter of Muslim Brotherhood
A picture taken July 29, 2013 shows posters on a street in Cairo of Egypt’s army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and U.S. President Barack Obama with a beard and bearing a slogan referring to the belief by some Egyptians that the U.S. supports the Muslim Brotherhood. (Photo credit: FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP/Getty Images).
The better case for supporting the Egyptian military and current leader Gen. Abdel al-Sisi, references keeping the Suez Canal open, ensuring that the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel continue to be upheld, maintaining continued good relations with pro-Western neighbors, and keeping the Sinai Peninsula free from terrorist control.
These arguments demonstrate great concern for what’s happening “over there” but fail to identify America’s primary interest — the Muslim Brotherhood is a serious and immediate threat here. The simple reality is that the Brotherhood has declared itself America’s enemy, and all that is happening over there is intimately connected with an effort here to take down the West in general and our nation specifically. [The problem, however, is that such a threat is generally too severe for the American mind to accept, much less process and act upon. Instead, the American mind tends to rely on what this author has called the Control Factor — that active and continuous process to distort our perceptions so as to make us believe we are in control of something that we very much are not.]
