Obama Abandons U.S. Commitments to Israel
Ezra Greenberg, AT:
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Now that President Obama has reneged on the issue of settlement growth, one must wonder whether other past assurances to Israel are also in jeopardy. President Obama appears willing to re-divide Jerusalem and in recent days has clarified that his demand against natural growth in the settlements includes areas of East Jerusalem, which most Israelis do not even consider to be part of the settlements.
Four years on, the supposed rewards that would accrue to Israel following her wrenching withdrawal from Gaza have completely vanished. America’s new foreign policy makers do not want to be seen as meddling in Iran’s internal affairs, but are happy to demonize half a million Jews living peaceful lives in their ancestral homeland. The sole positive development to emerge from the “disengagement” from Gaza in 2005 is that Israel’s supporters now know that even the most painful concessions will not be reciprocated, and even by Israel’s lone putative ally, because the false myths that drive the so-called peace process require constant concessions by Israel in return for illusive promise of peace.
Where’s The U.N. On Iran?
Claudia Rosett, Forbes:
People are being killed in Iran. Where is the U.N.? What institution could be better positioned to relieve President Obama of his worries about America standing up unilaterally for freedom in Iran? The U.N. is the self-styled overlord of the international community, committed in its charter to promote peace, freedom and “reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights.”Iran’s regime is already in gross violation of a series of U.N. sanctions over a nuclear program the U.N. Security Council deems a threat to international peace. The same regime has now loosed its security apparatus of trained thugs and snipers on Iranians who have been, in huge numbers, demanding their basic rights. Surely top U.N. officials such as Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon should be leading the charge for liberty and justice, with the strongest possible criticism and measures against the Iranian regime.
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Communist U.N. Boss Praises “Mother Earth”
By Cliff Kincaid, AIM:
Armed with a new sex scandal that can further damage Republican opponents of the Obama Administration, our media haven’t found much time to cover the U.N. Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis underway at the world organization’s headquarters in New York. But the Obama White House is working hand-in-glove with a Communist Catholic Priest who gave a bizarre speech on Wednesday devoted to saving “Mother Earth” from evil capitalists.
A performance as gripping as that of South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford admitting to adultery was turned in by Miguel D’Escoto, the President of the U.N. General Assembly, when he declared that “There is a growing awareness that we are all sons and daughters of Earth and that we belong to her.” He urged “a planetary civilization” that is “more respectful of Mother Earth, more inclusive of all people and with more solidarity with the poorest, which is more spiritual and full of reverence for the splendor of the universe and which is much happier.”
D’Escoto, who was suspended from his priestly functions by the anti-communist Pope John Paul II, is an advocate of Marxist-oriented Liberation Theology and received the Lenin Peace Prize
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CHAVEZ STEPS UP ATTACKS ON JEWS
by Tim Mak, New Majority:
This episode of ID the Future tells the story of how philosopher of science Stephen C. Meyer first began his quest for the origin of life. How did one of the architects of the intelligent design movement move from the oilfields of Texas to the study halls of Cambridge to pursue the mystery of where biological information originated? Listen in and find out.
The new book, Signature in the Cell, tells the rest of the story, the culmination of over 20 years of study and research on the origins of life.
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h/t: SDA
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The Making of an ID Theorist: Stephen C. Meyer and the Origin of Life
ID the Future:
This episode of ID the Future tells the story of how philosopher of science Stephen C. Meyer first began his quest for the origin of life. How did one of the architects of the intelligent design movement move from the oilfields of Texas to the study halls of Cambridge to pursue the mystery of where biological information originated? Listen in and find out.
The new book, Signature in the Cell, tells the rest of the story, the culmination of over 20 years of study and research on the origins of life.
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Court Upholds VA Partial-Birth Abortion Ban – Judge Says Future Generations Will “Shudder”
LifeSiteNews.com:
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit ruled Wednesday to uphold the constitutionality of Virginia’s partial-birth abortion ban. The full court reversed a previous decision by a three-judge panel that determined the ban was unconstitutional.
In the opinion issued Wednesday, the 4th Circuit concluded that “little or no evidence” exists to suggest the ban would prevent other types of abortions from being performed without subjecting doctors to criminal liability.
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In his concurring opinion, Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson wrote, “The fact is that we – civilized people – are retreating to the haven of our Constitution to justify dismembering a partly born child and crushing its skull. Surely centuries hence, people will look back on this gruesome practice done in the name of fundamental law by a society of high achievement. And they will shudder.”
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Praising the “Fairness” of an Old Fellow Traveler
By: Mark D. Tooley, FrontPageMagazine.com:
I.F. Stone was an infamous far-left journalist, certainly a fellow traveler who supported pro-Soviet Popular Front activity in the 1930’s. For decades, scholars of Soviet intelligence have pondered the extent of Stone’s direct ties to the KGB and its predecessors.
So how amusingly and disturbingly odd that the chief lobbyist for the 7.9 million United Methodist Church recently penned an ode to Stone in his weekly newsletter for church constituents, few of whom likely remember the radical old gadfly who died in 1989.
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Top Bush advisor validates Israeli claim there was agreement on settlements
YNet:
“Despite fervent denials by Obama administration officials, there were indeed agreements between Israel and the United States regarding the growth of Israeli settlements on the West Bank,” a former senior advisor to the Bush administration wrote in the Wall Street Journal on Thursday.
The editorial, penned by former Deputy National Security Advisor Elliot Abrams, validates the Israeli government’s claim that then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and President George W. Bush came to an agreement that would allow for some degree of growth within existing settlements.
Titled ‘Hillary is wrong about the settlements,’ the opinion piece rejects the current US administration’s repeated denials about the existence of such an understanding. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has explicitly denied any such exchange.
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The will to rise
David Warren:
The notion that “knowledge is power” is a cliché to which I was exposed early and often in childhood. It is one of the secular myths of the modern West: a version of the myth of technology, that underpins our magical belief in quick fixes.
Nietzsche came much closer to the truth by associating “will” with power. Freedom exists so long as we will it (including freedom from Nietzscheans), and the knowledge that supports it is a moral knowledge, quite different from technical expertise, which can be hired, ultimately, for any cause at all.
The former U.S. president, George W. Bush — a man of solid moral convictions, ridiculed for his supposed ignorance — was abundantly clear about Iran, and about North Korea for that matter. These two regimes have continued to offer the most pressing threats to the peace of the world since Saddam Hussein’s lawless regime was eliminated. Bush referred to all three as an “axis of evil.” Continued close co-operation between Iran and North Korea vindicates both terms.
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The Darwinians admit that Darwinism is not proved
View From The Right::
As they work themselves into a proper celebratory frenzy over the bicentennial of the birth of the man who, they fondly imagine, successfully murdered God and who is thus himself the ultimate god of modernity, the priesthood of the Darwinian cult are engaging in the same doublethink that I have frequently noted before in their periodic boasts of triumph. The doublethink consists in the fact that right in the middle of their assured, oh-so-confident, sweeping-aside-all-doubts declarations of the absolute, unquestionable truth of Darwinism, that truth that is “the bedrock of modern biology,” and indeed of modern civilization itself and of all that is good and decent, that truth that no one but low IQ backwoodsmen and Christian bigots dares deny, the Darwinists quietly but clearly let on that the core and essence of Darwinism–the evolution of new species by means of random genetic mutations and natural selection–has not been proved. Repeat: the Darwinians openly admit that Darwinism has not been proved. Yet such is the hypnotic power of the Darwinian ascendancy over men’s minds that even as the emperor strips himself naked before the populace, no one notices that he is doing this.
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h/t: The View From 1776
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Suzuki silliness
By LORRIE GOLDSTEIN:
So far, not many people have seen Canadian environmentalist Tom Adams’ clever YouTube video Home Invasion David Suzuki Style. I’m hoping that together, we’re going to change that.
An independent energy and environmental consultant, Adams was for 11 years, until 2007, the highly-respected executive director of Energy Probe, a sister organization of Pollution Probe.
Adams believes so-called “green” energy decisions by governments are best made by paying attention to such old-fashioned ideas as democracy, due process and paying for the real costs of electricity.
This as opposed to turning the energy market into a giant casino where governments arbitrarily decide winners and losers among energy producers and consumers by cabinet decree, after consulting with favoured environmental groups and renewable energy industry lobbyists, who then gush support for the government’s “green” initiatives.
All this while treating taxpayers like mushrooms — covering them with manure and keeping them in the dark.
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Does this mean Canada won’t need a navy up there after all?
Arctic temperature is still not above 0°C – the latest date in fifty years of record keeping
The Real UN Resolution 242
By Sammy Benoit, AT:
Since we are about to embark on another fruitless peace effort in the Middle East, it probably makes sense to take another look at the UN Resolution we will be hearing a lot about over the next few months, UN Resolution 242.You will hear politicians and diplomats claim that Israel must withdraw to the pre-1967 borders per UN Resolution 242. These people have no Idea what the resolution calls for, which is
“…withdrawal of Israel armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict;”It all surrounds the use (or non-use) of one simple article “the.”
The Arabs and their supporters say that 242 calls for Israel to withdraw from “the” territories taken during the Six Day War. The resolution actually says that ‘Israel should withdraw from territories’ taken during the war (no article). If include that “the” would mean all territories.
It was no accident “the” was left out. Diplomats are very exact in their language. During the negotiations to create resolution 242, Arab governments tried three times to have “the” inserted into the resolution and their request was rejected. But, by repeating what they wanted the resolution to say all these years, the Arabs succeed in convincing many people to accept their distorted interpretation of 242.
But, if you read the statements of the drafters of the resolution there is no ambiguity about what they meant. Below are those statements by country and participant:
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Obama to Iran: Let them eat ice cream
By Ann Coulter:
On Iran, President Obama is worse than Hamlet. He’s Colin Powell, waiting to see who wins before picking a side.
Last week, massive protests roiled Iran in response to an apparently fraudulent presidential election, in which nutcase Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner within two hours of the polls closing. (ACORN must be involved.)
Obama responded by boldly declaring that the difference between the loon Ahmadinejad and his reformist challenger, Mir Hossein Mousavi, “may not be as great as advertised.”
Maybe the thousands of dissenters risking their lives protesting on the streets of Tehran are doing so because they liked Mousavi’s answer to the “boxers or briefs” question better than Ahmadinejad’s.
Then, in a manly rebuke to the cheating mullahs, Obama said: “You’ve seen in Iran some initial reaction from the supreme leader” – peace be upon him – “that indicates he understands the Iranian people have deep concerns about the election.”
Plumb the depths of our in-the-tank news industry with “A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (and Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media”
Did FDR give speeches referring to Adolf Hitler as “Herr Fuhrer”? What’s with Obama?
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The Adolescent Angst of Barack Obama
By Michael Barone:
There is a tendency for newly installed presidents, like adolescents suddenly liberated from adult supervision, to do the exact opposite of what their predecessors did. Presidents of both parties indulge in this behavior, though Democrats who campaign as candidates of hope and change are more likely to do so.
Some of this is a legitimate response to the political process: Voters tend to elect presidents who seem to possess qualities and views they thought lacking in their predecessors. But some of it, and especially in the case of Barack Obama, seems to come from an adolescent-like confidence that everything done by those who came before is (insert your own generation’s expletive here).
We have seen this spectacularly in the dozen days since the June 12 Iranian election. Back in July 2007, Obama said that he would meet with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other tyrants without preconditions. Grownup squares like George W. Bush wouldn’t talk to these guys, so as the avatar of the generation of hope and change, Obama would. Obama figured he was cool enough to get the mullahs to agree to renounce nuclear weapons and all that hate stuff.
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Washing hands in the daddy state
By William Watson, NP:
The scandal is not that bureaucrats behaved like bureaucrats. The scandal is that people in Ottawa are signing off on whether people living thousands of miles away get hand sanitizer. If you go on eBay and look under “Soap Dispensers, Restroom Supplies, and Bathroom Supplies,” you get 183 hits on what look like the dispensers you see these days at every hospital entrance. We’re not talking nuclear isotopes here. There’s no worldwide shortage of sanitary hand sanitizer — if only because the private sector, not bureaucracy, produces it.
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