U.S. effectively deems Jerusalem (the capital city of Israel) Arab

The US government forgets what country Jerusalem is in

Glenn Beck: Barack Obama … Big Brother

The God Who Bleeds

By Jonah Goldberg, NRO:

All presidents go through rough patches, and Obama’s no exception. Odds are his poll numbers will get better — and worse — in the years to come. All of this is typical.

But this misses a crucial point: Obama isn’t supposed to be a typical politician. He was supposed to be The One. He was supposed to change Washington. Transcend race. Fix souls. Bake twelve-minute brownies in seven minutes.

Oprah promised Obama would help us “evolve to a higher plane.” Deepak Chopra said Obama’s presidency represented “a quantum leap in American consciousness.” Last month, Newsweek editor Evan Thomas proclaimed that Obama stood “above the country, above — above the world, he’s sort of God.”

Well, now he’s the god who bleeds, and once you’re the god who bleeds, it’s hard to get the divinity back in the tube, as it were.

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Iran: Background to Present Troubles

The View from 1776:

Slater Bakhtavar explains how President Jimmy Carter created the conditions for today’s nuclear blackmail by Iran.

President Carter’s foreign policy was based, as is President Obama’s, upon the ideology of the socialist international’s one-world government.  President Carter championed an abstraction called human rights.  President Obama espouses Senator John Kerry’s “sensitivity” in foreign affairs.

Liberal-progressives, including notably Carter and Obama, believe that abandoning the realities of international power politics will magically bring peace and harmony to the whole world.  As did early socialist theoretician Auguste Comte, they appear to believe that the world is inevitably driven by the force of a reified “history” toward a scientific, one-world, socialist government that will transform humanity.

Both Carter and Obama are attracted to the most oppressive dictators, from Cuba’s Castro to Iran’s Khomeini, and Venezuela’s Chavez, whom they see as victims of American imperialism.

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The lonely Israeli Left

Caroline Glick, THE JERUSALEM POST:

Israel’s leftists are lonely these days. This was the central thrust of an opinion column in Tuesday’s New York Times authored by Aluf Benn, editor-at-large of the left-wing Haaretz newspaper.

Benn’s article, “Why won’t Obama Talk to Israel?” was a plaintive call for US President Barack Obama to woo the Israeli public. As Benn put it, “Next time you’re in the neighborhood, Mr. President, speak to us directly.”

Benn’s article has been touted by Obama supporters and detractors alike as evidence that the president has a credibility problem with Israelis. Jewish Obama supporters sought to soften the impact of Benn’s article on their fellow Jewish leftists by claiming that Obama is listening to the likes of Benn. For instance, the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg reported without irony that administration officials defend Obama’s silence toward Israel by arguing that his June 4 speech to the Muslim world in Cairo was also geared toward Israelis.

The June 4 address of course was the one where Obama compared Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians to the Nazi Holocaust of European Jewry and to black slavery in the antebellum American South. It was also the speech where he embraced Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s claim that Israel owes its existence to the Holocaust and not to the Jewish people’s legitimate right to self-determination in our homeland.

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Stimulus stimulus – Ohhhbama!

Stimulus Bill Funds Go to Art Houses Showing ‘Pervert’ Revues, Underground Pornography

h/t: Linda at The Great Pumpkin

Obamascare

Obamacare: Will Seniors Have a Duty to Die?

h/t: Linda at The Great Pumpkin

Phony courts, phony racism

Lorne Gunter, National Post:

As if more proof were needed of how out-of-control Canada’s human-rights commissions have become, and what a threat they pose to impartial justice, along comes the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal’s ruling last month against Michael Shaw, a white Toronto police officer.

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