Et tu, Bibi?

“He was elected to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state and now he declares that there is a consensus on two states for two peoples,” National Union MK Arye Eldad said. “But Netanyahu knows that the only consensus now is that he is a weak leader who crumbles under pressure and will do anything to suck up the American administration.”

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Wrong diagnosis=wrong remedy …

Zero money down, not subprime loans, led to the mortgage meltdown

Fighting fire with fairness

Calgary Herald:

Aruling Monday by the United States Supreme Court against affirmative action in the case of a group of Connecticut firefighters was a useful and necessary attempt to get the U. S. moving on a realistic, post-racial track. The Canadian government, along with many firms which routinely promise to give preference to visible minorities when it comes to hiring, should follow suit. Ability counts for more than ethnicity–assuming otherwise only leads to querulous scorekeeping and ridiculous assumptions about minorities themselves.

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In essence, preferences means prejudice.

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‘Treason against the planet’

By LORRIE GOLDSTEIN, TORONTO SUN:

When the U.S. House of Representatives recently passed, by seven votes, the Waxman-Markey climate-change bill — named for two Democratic Congressmen — the cream of the American media punditariat weighed in with their opinions.

When it comes to that cream, none is any thicker than New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, recent winner of the Nobel Prize in economics.

His take on the narrow 219 to 212 vote … uh … victory, was to smear the 212 legislators who voted against — save for a handful who wanted a tougher law.

Krugman charged most of the naysayers had committed — wait for it — “a form of treason — treason against the planet,” adding they represented “the irresponsibility and immorality of climate- change denial.”

Reading Krugman’s rant, it hit me — folks like him have become the Joe McCarthys of modern American liberalism.

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Feed the world

David Warren:

Amid all the doom gloom algal bloom and media zoom spread by professional environmental alarmists — nearly 50 years now of continuous taxpayer-funded eco-socialist hysteria — it is delightful to spot a little heresy. My attention was drawn to one the other day by an item in the New Scientist, a British magazine whose fastidious political correctness and earnestly addled scientism makes me think of it as Darwin’s Weekly Beagle.

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The new America

David Warren:

The Dow has been tanking again, and new figures show the U.S. economy shedding jobs at an accelerating rate. One might criticize the U.S. government for the first trillion or two of “stimulus” spending, by observing that it hasn’t worked. But that would be too easy.

Yes, it was crazy, in the middle of a crisis created by debt, to see how far they could run up debt. It was crazy to shore up nearly worthless assets, in the face of irresistible market forces. At a time when the entire investment system desperately needs to be de-leveraged, it was crazy to oil the gears.

But it gets crazier. In the middle of this economic mess, the U.S. politicians are debating not one, but two new programs of unprecedented size, without the slightest understanding of the economic consequences. One is a vast new “health care” plan, to be sold almost entirely on emotion, with President Obama’s snake-oil skills. The only thing clear about it, is the intention of the people behind it: to effectively nationalize the U.S. medical system, by making every part of it report to government bureaucracies. This is what we did in Canada in the 1960s, and we’ve spent the decades since trying to persuade ourselves that waiting rooms are natural.

The other is the “cap and trade” legislation. At a time when it has become all but obvious that the “global warming” scare was an imposture, the U.S. government is going to war against carbon fuels, through a program that can only kill jobs, both directly and through outsourcing of American economic activity to places with lower environmental standards; while igniting protectionist trade wars over the latter.

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Ugly, evil, preposterous revisionist bunk

National Geographic blames Israel for Christianity’s decline in Middle East.

h/t: WND