JAMES M. TAYLOR: USA TODAY EXPLAINS THE BENEFITS OF KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE

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USA Today has published an excellent house editorial explaining why it is important for the Obama administration to approve construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline that would deliver oil from Canada’s oil sands to refineries along the U.S. Gulf Coast.

USA Today points out that the United States imports approximately half of its oil, “which puts the nation at the mercy of the mercurial world oil market. Imports from Mexico and Venezuela, two of the USA’s biggest suppliers, are declining, and that’s projected to make the nation even more reliant on producers in the unstable Middle Eastand Africa. The Keystone pipeline would provide about a half-million more barrels a day from one of this nation’s closest and most reliable allies.”

JAMES ROSEN: ARAB SPRING OPTIMISM GIVES WAY TO FEAR OF ISLAMIC RISE

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10/28/arab-spring-optimism-gives-way-to-fear-islamic-rise/?cmpid=NL_FNTopHeadlines_20111028 Fox News From the first stirrings of change in the Middle East nine months ago, optimism at the prospect of 100 million young people rising up to seize their democratic freedoms has been tempered by fear in Western capitals that radical Islamists might also rise up and try to hijack the so-called Arab Spring. […]

MARILYN PENN: MADOFFS REDUX

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.10687,css.print/pub_detail.asp Not to be outdone by the teary interview of her daughter-in-law, Stephanie, on ABC’s 20/20, Ruth Madoff has now surfaced with her own interviews claiming that she and husband Bernie also attempted a joint suicide after their two sons turned Bernie in. And mirabile dictu, remaining son Andrew has his own book coming out shortly, […]

AMIL IMANI: ISLAMISM AND SADISM

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It is not about God or love, it is about control and domination—just as sadism is not about human intercourse or love; it is about control, torture, punishment and domination.

Why else name a so-called religion “submission?” Islam’s provisions are intended to dominate every waking moment in the life of a believer. Islam seeks nothing less than a total global domination. There is no room for being a half-hearted Muslim and no toleration of watering down its invocations.

How do the Islamists prey upon their victims? For one, Islam is stamped on the impressionable mind of the child from birth. The parents and immediate members of the family are the ones who make the very first impressions on the tabula rasa of the young mind. These early impressions are the grid-work for further formation of the person’s mind and belief system. It is by far easier, as life goes on, to incorporate “items” that readily fit into the grid-work, than to modify it or dismantle it altogether and begin anew. It is in recognition of the importance of early training and education that people such as Saint Augustine and Freud considered the first few years of life as critical for molding the person.

It is some consolation; however, to realize that there are many practicing religions who are willing to stand up to the extremists, even at their own great peril. It is also quite human to fight against control and domination. However, marrying Islam with government is stoking fire with explosives. That is what the Islamic Republic of Iran currently represents.

BEN SHAPIRO: THE POPE OCCUPIES WALL STREET ***

The Pope Occupies Wall Street Posted By Ben Shapiro URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/10/28/the-pope-occupies-wall-street/   On Monday, the Vatican called for creation of a “global public authority” and a “central world bank” to regulate the world’s financial institutions.  As Reuters reported, “The document from the Vatican’s Justice and Peace department should please the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ […]

HOT PICKS AND VIDEOS FROM FSM

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.1769/pub_detail.asp 1. INTENSE VIDEO: Muslims trying to compel a U.S. private Catholic University to change their Catholic practices to accommodate Muslim prayer time. Watch this HEATED DISCUSSION with Sean Hannity 2. VIDEO: Obamacare Catch for Married Couples? Greater health care incentive to singles? 3. Teacher‘s Union Offered Grant to Create ‘Activists’ Out Of 1st & […]

P.DAVID HORNIK: REWARD FOR THE NEXT KIDNAPPED SOLDIER

Reward for the Next Kidnapped Israeli Soldier Posted By P. David Hornik URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/10/28/reward-for-the-next-kidnapped-israeli-soldier/   In the aftermath of the Gilad Shalit deal, in which last week Israel freed 477 security prisoners (to be followed by 550 more) for its kidnapped soldier, a prominent Saudi has called for more kidnappings. Ynet describes Awad […]

BRUCE BAWER: OSLO’S EPIDEMIC OF RAPE

Oslo’s Epidemic of Rape Posted By Bruce Bawer

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Back in May it was reported that every rape assault in the city of Oslo in the last five years had been committed by a person with a “non-Western” background – a Norwegian euphemism for Muslim. Now it turns out that there have already been twice as many rape assaults in Oslo so far this year as there were in all of 2010. At least one member of Parliament, André Oktay Dahl of the Conservative Party, calls the situation “critical” and is brave enough to acknowledge that many of the perpetrators come from cultures “with a reprehensible attitude toward women.”

The Conservative Party has proposed several measures to combat what is being described as a rape epidemic: more money for the police; more police in the streets and doing investigations; faster results from DNA tests; the introduction of volunteer auxiliary police. There is something to be said for these proposals. Policing in Norway is a scandal. This summer it was reported that police departments all over Norway were so short-handed that they were unequipped to deal with the armies of drunks staggering home from bars on weekends after closing time. It was also reported that only fourteen of 430 new graduates of Norway’s police academy had been offered jobs.

RAYMOND IBRAHIM: TUNISIAN ELECTIONS AND THE ROAD TO THE CALIPHATE

Tunisian Elections and the Road to the Caliphate Posted By Raymond Ibrahim

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Tunisia, where the 2011 Arab uprisings began, remains an ominous model for where these uprisings will end.

The nation’s first round of elections are in, and, as expected, the Islamist party, al-Nahda, won by a landslide, gaining over 40% of the seats in the national constituent assembly. As usual, the mainstream media, interpreting events exclusively through a Western paradigm, portrayed this largely as a positive development.

Thus, a Washington Post editorial, “Tunisia again points the way for Arab democracy,” asserts how “the country’s leading Islamic party claimed victory—and that, too, could prove a positive example.” Other reports, perfunctorily prefixing the word “moderate” to “Islamist”—an oxymoron to common sense, an orthodoxy to the MSM—gush and hail “democracy.”

Such sunny depictions are not mere products of Western projection but augmented by conniving Islamists who spoon-feed the world what it wants to hear. Thus, an MSNBC report, “Tunisia’s Islamists Seek to Reassure Secularists,” optimistically talks of how the Islamists “said they would share power and would not try to push through radical measures.”

Of course they did.

NETANYAHU’S FOLLY: DEROY MURDOCK*****

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/281510 Netanyahu’s Folly The terrorist swap was a disproportionate and likely deadly decision. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, previously counted among the toughest leaders in the civilized world, has become softer than the secretary general of the United Nations. Netanyahu recently ransomed a kidnapped Israeli soldier whom Hamas had held hostage since 2006. The price […]