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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U.N. to Emerge as Global IRS
By Cliff Kincaid:
If implemented, the document would officially mark the end of the United States as the world’s leading economic power.
While our media sleep, the United Nations is proceeding, with President Obama’s acquiescence, to implement a global plan to create a new international socialist order financed by global taxes on the American people.
The Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development that begins on Wednesday will consider adoption of a document calling for “new voluntary and innovative sources of financing initiatives to provide additional stable sources of development finance…” This is U.N.-speak for global taxes. They are anything but “voluntary” for the people forced to pay them.
The most “popular” proposals, which could generate tens of billions of dollars in revenue for global purposes, involve taxes on greenhouse gas emissions and financial transactions such as stock trades.
The document was agreed to at an informal meeting of expert “facilitators” and was made available on Monday afternoon at 3 p.m. It is doubtful that any changes will be made to it.
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BioEssays Article Admits “Materialistic Basis of the Cambrian Explosion” is “Elusive”
Posted by Casey Luskin on ENV:
A recent paper in BioEssays, “MicroRNAs and metazoan macroevolution: insights into canalization, complexity, and the Cambrian explosion,” admits the lack of a “materialistic basis” — that is, a plausible materialistic explanation — of the Cambrian explosion. As the article states:
Thus, elucidating the materialistic basis of the Cambrian explosion has become more elusive, not less, the more we know about the event itself, and cannot be explained away by coupling extinction of intermediates with long stretches of geologic time, despite the contrary claims of some modern neo-Darwinists.
(Kevin J. Peterson, Michael R. Dietrich and Mark A. McPeek, “MicroRNAs and metazoan macroevolution: insights into canalization, complexity, and the Cambrian explosion,” BioEssays, Vol. 31 (7):736 – 747 (2009).)
The authors give no indication that they themselves support intelligent design (ID), and it seems they are still hopeful for a “materialistic” explanation for the Cambrian explosion, but they nonetheless give a witty nod to some observations and arguments made by ID proponents:
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Modern Evolutionary Theory Unclear on Where Biological Information Comes From
Robert Crowther, Evolution News and Views:
As David Klinghoffer reported yesterday, Dr. Meyer kicked off his new book Signature in the Cell with an address to the Heritage Foundation in Washington DC, during which he explained why materialistic theories are drawing a blank in origin of life research. They can’t explain where biological information comes from. Now you can watch Dr. Meyer as he talks about how he answers the question that evolutionists can’t in his new book.
WATCH HERE
Warren Buffett to CNBC: U.S. Economy In “Shambles” .. No Signs of Recovery Yet
CNBC:
In a live interview on CNBC today, Warren Buffett said there has been little progress over the past few months in the “economic war” being fought by the country. “We haven’t got the economy moving yet.”
While the economy is a “shambles” and likely to stay that way for some time, he remains optimistic there will eventually be a recovery over a period of years.
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H/T:DRUDGE
Obama Disbands Bush Bioethics Panel
by Nima Reza, CitizenLink:
Group advised White House on issues such as embryonic stem-cell research and human cloning.
The remnants of President George W. Bush’s pro-life policies are fading quickly now that the Obama administration is in office. The latest casualty? The President’s Council on Bioethics.
The irony in Obama’s dismantling of the group is that it was actually filled with experts from both sides of the life issue. Topics covered included embryonic stem-cell research, human cloning and organ donation.
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Where’s Obama’s ‘evil empire’ speech?
Lorne Gunter, National Post:
All of which brings me to current U. S. President Barack Obama’s flaccid endorsement of the freedom protesters in Iran today.
On the weekend, White House apologists were all over the news interview shows in the U. S. and elsewhere insisting Mr. Obama was merely taking a “measured” approach, not a timid one. He was choosing his words carefully so as not to give Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei rhetorical ammunition they could use against the West and to keep forces for reform from gaining ground within Iran.
Oh, please. Does anyone honestly believe that Ahmadinejad, who thinks nothing of denying the Holocaust (which, in and of itself, is an act of monumental dishonesty) — or insisting an oil-rich country needs a nuclear program only to generate electricity, or consorting with Hezbollah, or sending troops into the streets to have his own citizens clubbed and shot– needs real words from Mr. Obama to demonize the West?
No room for Republicans on all-Obama U.S. networks
Sheldon Alberts, NP:
When Barack Obama spoke on the weekend to a black-tie audience of the nation’s leading television journalists, the inside jokes were very definitely on them.
“A few nights ago, I was up tossing and turning, trying to figure out exactly what to say,” Obama said at the annual Radio and Television Correspondents Association dinner. “Finally, when I couldn’t get back to sleep, I rolled over and asked Brian Williams what he thought.”
The punch line aimed at the NBC Nightly News anchor – who recently hosted a warm and fuzzy, two-night prime time White House special on Obama – produced guffaws among the assembled correspondents because it played on a perception, among U.S. conservatives at least, that the top U.S. networks are in bed with the new administration.
But Republicans aren’t laughing.
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‘Democracy’ is a dirty word for Obama
By Jeff Jacoby:
On one side: a brutal theocratic regime that jails and tortures its critics at home and is a deadly sponsor of terrorism abroad; that loudly proclaims its enmity for the United States and has murdered many Americans to prove it; that barely conceals its drive to amass a nuclear arsenal; that lusts for the annihilation of Israel; and that for 30 years has pursued a far-flung Islamist jihad.On the other side: throngs of Iranians calling for an end to their government’s abuses.
With whom should America stand – the bloody tyranny or the people opposing it?
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Unions ‘fairness’ a farce
By PETER WORTHINGTON:
One thing the present garbage and municipal strike proves is the only people who can afford to strike during a recession are those in unions on the public payroll.
At a time when welfare rolls are up, the car industry is in the process of collapsing, and the private sector is cutting back on jobs, the ones who flourish best are those who feed off the taxpayer.
Politicians are worse than public service unions when it comes to venality, and Toronto’s councillors had no trouble giving themselves a 2.42% wage while arguing the city can’t afford union pay raises.
Without a political example of decent behaviour, why should anyone expect unions to behave better than the people we elect? The “we’re all right, Jack,” syndrome is alive and well in Toronto.
Perhaps the most outrageous benefit the garbage workers (and others) get is annual sick leave of 18 days a year, accumulative for up to six months pay if you don’t get sick.
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Could Australia Blow Apart the Great Global Warming Scare?
By Robert Tracinski and Tom Minchin, RCP:
As the US Congress considers the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill, the Australian Senate is on the verge of rejecting its own version of cap-and-trade. The story of this legislation’s collapse offers advance notice for what might happen to similar legislation in the US—and to the whole global warming hysteria.
Since the Australian government first introduced its Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) legislation—the Australian version of cap-and-trade energy rationing—there has been a sharp shift in public opinion and political momentum against the global warming crusade. This is a story that offers hope to defenders of industrial civilization—and a warning to American environmentalists that the climate change they should be afraid of just might be a shift in the intellectual climate.
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Making up the news
Leo Rennert, AT:
The Washington Post’s June 24 edition carries an erroneous report by Jerusalem correspondent Howard Schneider that Benjamin Netanyahu is the first Israeli prime minister to demand that, as part of a final peace settlement, the Palestinians must recognize Israel as Jewish state.
The headline reads: “Netanyahu’s Peace Stipulation — Israeli Premier Is First to Seek Recognition of Jewish Homeland.” Schneider’s article — a classic example of historical distortions — reinforces the headline by selectively pointing to the Oslo accords of 1993 and the U.S. sponsored Annapolis process of 2007 as not stipulating Israel’s Jewish identity.
Schneider then goes on to nail down his false thesis by adding a quote from an erstwhile Oslo negotiator who tells him that insistence on defining Israel as a Jewish state “has never been an Israeli demand.”
The inaccuracy of these assertions — by the headline, by the article and by this Oslo negotiator — is easily demonstrable. Ehud Olmert, Netanyahu’s predecessor as prime minister, repeatedly declared that in launching his negotiations with Mahmoud Abbas last year, he would insist on Palestinian acceptance and recogniton of Israel as a Jewish state.
Bibi merely echoed Olmert’s negotiating demands. He hasn’t broken new ground.
To cite but one example, here’s what Olmert, as prime minister, declared on Nov. 11, 2007: “I do not intend to compromise in any way with the issue of the Jewish state. This will be a condition for our recognition of a Palestinian state.”
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After Global Warming
By Larrey Anderson, AT:
Science and ideology don’t mix. They never have and they never will. The house of cards that is the science behind “climate change” is collapsing at exactly the same time it is being imposed by the Obama administration and Congress as an ideological “truth.” America is facing the perfect storm of an imploding scientific theory that will be enforced by the rule of law.Make no mistake: the big bad wolf of truth is about to blow the straw house of global warming to bits. This is why there was a sudden shift, in the last nine months, from the use of “man made global warming” to “climate change” by the proponents of the theory.
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Dying seconds that last for ever
Cassandra Jardine, Telegraph [UK]:
You tick the box saying you are over 18. You notice the warning that the material you are about to see could be upsetting. But nothing can prepare you for the horrible immediacy of watching a young woman die, as Neda Soltan does on YouTube.
The instant the “Play” button is pressed you are pitched into the streets of Tehran, where a woman in jeans is lying on the ground while several men attempt to help her. As the camera moves around the scene, away from her legs, past the striped T-shirt of a helper, we see the face of the 27-year-old philosophy student. She is young and beautiful, but it is her eyes that are unforgettable. They stare at you with a look of animal panic, as the first blood begins to trickle out of her mouth.
The film lasts only 40 seconds, but it is enough to affect world opinion.
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Where’s the Choice in This?
By Chuck Colson:
Last year, a young Chinese woman—let’s call her Dan Li—ran afoul of the Chinese government. She had become “illegally pregnant.” By the time the authorities found out, Dan Li was seven months along. Family planning officials tied her to a bed, induced labor, and, when the baby was born, killed the baby.What happened to Dan Li is an abomination—one, however, that tragically takes place regularly in China. But now, thanks to the U.S. Congress, you and I will be paying for it.
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Obama’s hostility to Israel is clear
Richard Baehr, AT:
The Obama administration seems to have fallen into a pattern: the more outrageous the behavior of the Iranian regime, the more Obama lashes out at… Israel.Yesterday, a State Department official confirmed that for the Obama administration, any part of Jerusalem beyond the pre Six Day War boundary is occupied territory. Hence Jews living there are in settlements, which Obama considers illegal. Of course that means, there can be no natural growth — babies, marriages in these areas, and Israel will need to remove its setters to get a peace deal.
Think about this for a minute; with the exception of 19 years when Jordan illegally occupied and annexed the West Bank and East Jerusalem from 1948 to 1967, Jews have lived continually in the old city and in and around Jerusalem for 3,000 years. But because of those 19 years, the Obama administration considers the Jews to be interlopers, illegally in the city.
This is not Obama promoting a way to have a Palestinian capital in Jerusalem as part of a final settlement between the two sides. This is about making large sections of Jerusalem Judenrein. That is now the policy of the Obama administration.
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Media Cheer Obama’s Golf Outings; Criticized Republicans’ Trips to Course
CNSNews.com
President Barack Obama has gone to the golf course at least 11 times since he took the oath of office a little more than six months ago–three rounds were played during the late January, 12-day holiday Obama took with his family in Hawaii; one at Andrews Air Force Base; and seven at Ft. Belvoir Golf Course, including a round on Sunday, Father’s Day, with Vice President Joe Biden.
These 11 rounds played by the president are documented through media reports of his golf trips. The White House press office told CNSNews.com that to confirm every round of golf played by the president since he took office would take “hours” because the only records kept are those sent to the media through e-mails that are not posted on the White House Web site because they are for media planning only.
Despite ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, ongoing violence in Iran, and an economy that Obama has described as the worst since the Great Depression, the president has golfed multiple times in the past several weeks–on April 26, May 16, May 25, May 31, June 7, June 9, June 14 and June 21.
Obama’s golf outings have generated favorable reports from the media, in contrast to his predecessor, George W. Bush.
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Bush Unplugged
By: Dr. Paul Kengor, FrontPageMagazine.com:
Last Wednesday evening, I witnessed a remarkable event, which is being misreported and misperceived—from the Drudge Report to the White House—in antagonistic ways I plainly didn’t see. I shouldn’t be surprised, since it involved George W. Bush.
It was the 104th annual event of the Erie-based Manufacturer & Business Association, which attracts top speakers from all over the world. June 17 was no exception, as Ralph Pontillo and his staff brought in the 43rd president of the United States.
As president, George W. Bush was, of course, widely disregarded for his oratorical shortcomings. His failure to communicate his core message, especially regarding his Middle East vision, was central to his record disapproval.
And yet, Bush was magnificent last Wednesday. He spoke with no teleprompter and few notes. After formal remarks, he reclined in a leather chair and answered audience-supplied questions. It was Bush unplugged.
I can’t do justice to all that was said. I’ll share a handful of items not getting the wider attention they deserve:
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Obama calls on HuffPost for Iran question UPDATE
Politico:
In what appeared to be a coordinated exchange, President Obama called on the Huffington Post’s Nico Pitney near the start of his press conference and requested a question directly about Iran.
“Nico, I know you and all across the Internet, we’ve been seeing a lot of reports coming out of Iran,” Obama said, addressing Pitney. “I know there may actually be questions from people in Iran who are communicating through the Internet. Do you have a question?”
Pitney, as if ignoring what Obama had just said, said: “I wanted to use this opportunity to ask you a question directly from an Iranian.”
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US: Settlement freeze must include J’lem
J’Post:
Jewish neighborhoods in east Jerusalem are included in the US demand that Israel halt “settlement” construction, including for natural growth, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told The Jerusalem Post during a press briefing on Monday.
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Israel has always insisted that it has a right to build anywhere in Jerusalem because the state incorporated that land into the municipality and under Israeli law it is not considered part of the West Bank. But the international community considers Jewish neighborhoods in east Jerusalem to be settlements and has condemned any new Jewish construction there.
Har Homa has been a particular sticking point because of its location on the city’s southeast edge, next to the Palestinian city of Bethlehem.
The Obama administration had not officially clarified its position on Jewish neighborhoods over the Green Line but within Jerusalem’s municipal boundaries, but the Netanyahu government had been working under the assumption that US officials’ call to halt even natural growth in the settlements did not refer to neighborhoods in the city, according to high-placed government officials.
Kelly’s comments Monday, however, made clear that Jerusalem was included, suggesting that efforts to finesse the disagreement could be further complicated.
US President Barack Obama has called the settlements illegitimate and said that their expansion must stop, including natural growth.
While Israel has expressed its willingness to take down unauthorized West Bank outposts, it has balked at halting natural growth in the settlements, arguing that communities need to continue to function normally.
The dispute between the two allies has been unusually public, including messy wrangling over tacit arrangements sketched out far from the spotlight under the Bush administration.
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Obama and the State Department need to study history.
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Jewish Leader: Obama May Be ‘Most Hostile President to Israel’
The Obama effect
Caroline Glick, THE JERUSALEM POST:
“Could there be something to all the talk of an Obama effect, after all? A stealth effect, perhaps?”
So asked Helene Cooper, the New York Times’ diplomatic correspondent in a news analysis of the massive anti-regime protests in Iran published in Sunday’s Times.
It took US President Barack Obama eight days to issue a clear statement of support for the millions of pro-freedom demonstrators throughout Iran risking their lives to oppose the tyranny of the mullahs. And after eight days of vacillating and hedging his bets and so effectively supporting Iranian dictator Ali Khamenei against the multitudes rallying in the streets, Obama’s much awaited statement was not particularly forceful.
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Islam faces internal clash that may fundamentally change region
Ophir Falk, YNet:
With the end of the cold war in late 1989, marked by the fall of the Berlin wall and the end of the bipolar world order, two major, yet contrasting, views of the paradigm to come were raised.
One view advocated “The End of History,” whereby the world would be immune from ideological wars and future conflicts would be very limited, effectively posing no substantial threat to Western civilization. Others advocated the view that ethnically volatile regions previously viewed as stable satellite entities of the Soviet Union would inevitably erupt, leading to a “Clash of Civilizations.”
Future historians will eventually conclude which thesis was more accurate, but today – with the pictures coming out of Iran and from other Middle East areas – it seems that Islam is more in clash with itself than it is with other civilizations.
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Birds-Evolved-From-Dinosaurs Hypothesis Takes Big Hit
Evolution News and Views:
Two recent papers, one in the Journal of Morphology and another in Ornithological Monographs, as well as a ScienceDaily news release titled “Discovery Raises New Doubts About Dinosaur-bird Links,” contain criticisms by evolutionists of the dino-to-bird hypothesis that you would normally expect to hear only from skeptics of neo-Darwinism. Their remarks not only cover problems facing the dino-to-birds hypothesis, but also lament the politically motivated drive to push that hypothesis and ignore scientific dissent. The ScienceDaily article observes that some aspects of bird morphology are simply incompatible with the standard hypothesis that birds evolved from maniraptoran theropod dinosaurs:
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Independents’ Warning for Obama
WSJ:
Independent voters are the canaries in the coal mine of American politics, telling a leader whether the air is safe or starting to fill up with some toxic gases.
Bearing that in mind, President Barack Obama and his team ought to start worrying about the health of those canaries.
While the president remains broadly popular, his standing has eroded noticeably among political independents in recent weeks. That slide, among a set of citizens central to Mr. Obama’s sizable victory in last year’s election, means he has reached a politically hazardous juncture at the midpoint of his first, exceptionally hectic year.
The shifting attitude among independent voters, in fact, is the most significant change to emerge from a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, completed just last week. In that survey, Mr. Obama’s job-approval rating among Americans overall slipped a notch, to 56% from 61% in April. That’s not much of a drop, and is in keeping with the pattern for a new president at this point in his term.
But the slide was much more pronounced among self-identified purely independent voters — that is, Americans who express no loyalty to either party.
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Author Presents Clarity to a Misunderstood Messiah
Christian Newswire/:
Author Dan Kane addresses the identity of the Jewish Messiah in his new book, “Is Yeshua the Prophesied Messiah of the Hebrew Bible?” (WinePress, 2009).
“The Jewish people have never been presented with an accurate description of biblical Christianity. The Yeshua many rejected in not the Yeshua of the New Testament, but the Jesus of the cults. My book presents a clear picture of the Jewish Messiah as described by the Jewish authors of the promised second covenant.”
Kane’s book targets questions such as:
• Who was Yeshua, Jesus of Nazareth?
• What is the relationship between the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Bible?
• Where do the Talmud and other historical writings fit into the equation?
• Why did observant Jews use blood sacrifices for atonement and why did they stop?
Kane notes that the Christian Bible, like the Hebrew Bible, was written by HaShem-worshiping Jews. He furthermore posits that the promised new covenant welcomes both Jews and Gentiles.
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Obama doesn’t get it
Guy Bechor, YNet:
When I read that President Obama will call for normalization of ties between the Arab world and Israel at the early stages of his “peace plan,” I shrugged. Yet when I read that he intends to settle the Palestinian refugees in the Arab states they currently live in, and grant them monetary compensation, I was amused.
These are pipe dreams, just like the “Arab democracy” vision of his predecessor that collapsed loudly and brought disaster to the region. This is a rookie plan of an intern who believes that the Israeli-Arab conflict can be resolved with a quick and arrogant gesture. It is clear that whoever came up with this plan lacks understanding of the history, demography, and mostly the fears of the region.
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Reflections on the Iranian Enigma
by Victor Davis Hanson:
Thoughts on Iran
1) Why did we reject the Bush policy of non-engagement with a monster like Ahmadinejad, who oppressed his own and threatened nuclear destruction to Israel? Is it all that moral, or all that wise, or all that much in U.S. realpolitik interests to apologize to a thug? Does it show solidarity with the Iranian people to court a nut? What is so smart in making Iran the center of our attention rather than the Maliki democratic government in Iraq? Hamas rather than democratic Israel? Is what we are now seeing in the streets of Iran proof of all the praise once heaped on theocratic “democratic” Iran by the likes of Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter and the New York Times?
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