Glenn Beck Show – February 22, 2010 – Pt 1 of 7
Glenn Beck Show – February 22, 2010 – Pt 2 of 7
Glenn Beck Show – February 22, 2010 – Pt 3 of 7
Glenn Beck Show – February 22, 2010 – Pt 4 of 7
Glenn Beck Show – February 22, 2010 – Pt 5 of 7
Richard the lion-hearted
Melanie Phillips:
I was privileged last night to hear Colonel Richard Kemp, formerly commander of British forces in Afghanistan and co-ordinator of intelligence in the Cabinet Office, speak forcefully and even passionately at a Zionist Federation dinner about the glowing record of the Israeli Defence Force, the vital strategic importance of Israel to Britain and the way in which Israel was being traduced by the British media, including the BBC. It is a measure of the significance of such remarks made by an individual with such a background that, to its credit, the BBC website today carries a story about his speech:
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A World-Historic Find in Jerusalem
Jonathan Tobin, Commentary:
The greatest threat to the hopes of those who think parts of Jerusalem should be off-limits to Jews comes not when Jewish-owned buildings go up in the city, but rather when Jews start digging into the ground of East Jerusalem. Because the more the history of the city is uncovered, the less credible becomes the charge that Jews are alien colonists in what the media sometimes wrongly refer to as “traditionally Palestinian” or “Arab” Jerusalem.
That’s the upshot from the release of an amazing archeological dig conducted just outside Jerusalem’s Old City.
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It’s a miracle! (cough)
Lockerbie bomber Megrahi living in luxury villa six months after being at ‘death’s door’
A message from Spectator and Times columnist Hugo Rifkind: you’re all ignorant scum
By James Delingpole, Telegraph [UK]:
The main reason so many left-liberals so loathe and fear the internet is that it is a medium that favours the libertarian right. It completely bypasses all those institutions that Gramscian Marxists fought so hard to capture: broadcasters like the BBC, the liberal-dominated print media, the seats of learning. It allows real people to say what’s really on their mind, unfettered by politically correct pieties. It is part of the same grassroots phenomenon that has seen the Tea Party movement flourish in the US and it expresses a wave of public revulsion at the dishonesty and cant of our political leaders, as well as a yearning cry for liberty in the face of growing dominance by the state.
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Can Democracy Survive Capitalism?
By Carl J. Schramm, Claremont Institute:
Joseph Schumpeter ominously speculated that as capitalism succeeded, democracies in time would come to expect its end (wealth) but reject its means (free-market competition). He worried that because of the inequality and creative destruction it brings, capitalism would provoke a kind of adverse reaction. A popular call would arise for government to plan market outcomes according to some utopian view of society’s good, and this democratically guided central planning would inevitably slow economic growth. Schumpeter predicted, in turn, that if economic expansion faltered, individual liberty would be directly imperiled or quietly ceded by citizens resigned to having their diminished economic position protected by the state.
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Issa vs. ACORN
Kevin Williamson, NRO:
Republicans on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, led by Rep. Darrell Issa, have issued a scalding report on ACORN and the SEIU. The main thesis — that ACORN and SEIU are, operationally, in effect the same organization, an organization that illegally channels restricted money into political activity — is argued persuasively, but the authors slopped the report up with tangential complaints and grossly exaggerated claims about ACORN’s role in the housing bubble.
The odds are vanishingly small that Eric Holder’s Justice Department, which could not be bothered to prosecute armed New Black Panther–party thugs brandishing weapons to scare off would-be voters, is going to do much about an organization at the heart of its boss’s political coalition and fundraising operation. Issa’s report may be the closest thing to an indictment ACORN ever sees — which makes its flaws all the more of a shame.
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Bennett v. Beck
Jonah Goldberg, NRO:
I’m proud to be a friend and fan of Bill Bennett’s, but I guess I’m going to disagree with his take on Beck as well. Bill’s point about Beck using his own experience with alcohol is a good one, but I think he overstates it. He may be right that it’s a bad habit, but that strikes me more like an argument to be had within the recovery community than the world of politics. Allusions to “twelve step” culture are commonplace in political discourse, and while they may or may not be over-done from time to time, I don’t know that they rank all that high on the “dangerous rhetoric” scale compared to other language one hears out there, including at CPAC. The audience certainly understood where Beck was coming from.
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The human rights set-up
Karen Selick, Canadian politics
One of the most preposterous cases in the field of so-called human rights law in recent years has quietly evaporated into the ether, leaving a relieved but nevertheless injured victim.
The victim is John Fulton, owner of the Downtown Health Club for Women in St. Catharines, Ont. In 2006, an individual dressed as a woman visited the club and applied for membership. The person then told Fulton, “I’m really a guy” — a man planning to have a sex-change operation.
With only one change room and shower room in the club, admitting this individual would have meant allowing a man to observe the other patrons — all female — in various stages of undress. As well, the women could have been subjected to seeing a naked man in their dressing room. Unable to figure out how he could distinguish the applicant from a voyeur or an exhibitionist, Fulton hesitated to grant him membership. Within a week, two more “transitioning” men tried to join the women’s gym, even though there’s a co-ed gym right next door. The whole scenario screamed “set-up!”
But before he could even obtain legal advice, Fulton had been slapped with a so-called human rights complaint.
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These odious state organs have no place in a free and open country. They are political weapons used exclusively against Judeo-Christian values.
Spy chief: We risk a police state
Telegraph [UK]:
Dame Stella Rimington, the former head of MI5, has warned that the fear of terrorism is being exploited by the Government to erode civil liberties and risks creating a police state.
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A Message to Atlas readers From Rifqa Bary…………..with love
Pamela Geller, Atlas Shrugs:
Atlas readers, here is a belated valentine from our favorite brave infidel heroine, Rifqa Bary. As you know, the sharia-complaint and incompetent courts have gagged Rifqa, so communication has been restricted. Apparently when she spoke almost a year ago here and here, CAIR’s head exploded.
But I am deeply grateful that Rifqa was able to get a message to me regarding the hundreds of good wishes she received from the Atlas Christmas campaign. So incensed were the devout Muslims and Islamic supremacists that the CAIR-appointed attorney for Mohamed Bary, Omar Tarazi, filed a motion to ban and seize all of Rifqa’s Christmas cards. Such cruelty is hard to fathom.
I am redacting the sender for obvious readers. Anyone who does a kind thing for this girl gets into trouble — I will not aid in the Islamic persecution of good and decent people.
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The Ortega-Chávez Axis
BY MARY ANASTASIA O’GRADY:
With Iran and Venezuela in political, economic and military cahoots, Tehran has gained a foothold in South America. Now Nicaragua is at risk of being added to the list of authoritarian governments aligned with Venezuela and by association, its Islamic ally.
Whether that happens will depend heavily on whether Sandinista President Daniel Ortega succeeds in circumventing Nicaragua’s rule of law and destroying its democratic institutions, as he is now trying to do. It would be a mistake to underestimate the magnitude of this threat because of Nicaragua’s relative economic unimportance. This place matters strategically, as the Soviets understood …
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Pin the Bogeyman On the Tea Party
By Bill Frezza, RCP:
Have you watched with amusement as various political commentators have tried to demonize the amorphous Tea Party movement by outing behind-the-scenes bogeymen allegedly pulling the strings of this latter day Great Awakening?
Sarah Palin. Glenn Beck. Dick Armey. Newt Gingrich. Grover Norquist. Jack Abramoff. Lyndon LaRouche. The John Birch Society. The list goes on.
None of it is sticking.
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Negative Impact of Policies Based on False IPCC Reports
By Dr. Tim Ball, AT:
A man called who experienced what is evolving from the lies and deceptions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) used to perpetrate the agenda of Maurice Strong. A group of citizens attended a public briefing on the British Columbia government’s climate change plans. I met them and all were concerned, frustrated and determined to do something. They asked about the science, but the main question was what could they do. Around the world similar plans are filtering down which give government control over almost every aspect of people’s lives using their money. Climate change as the major vehicle for political control requires a popular revolt because most politicians aren’t listening.
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The Times Finds A Lone Crazed Assassin
by Peter Collier, FrontPage:
The New York Times’ front page profile on Saturday of professor Amy Bishop, who allegedly executed three University of Alabama Biology Department colleagues after being denied tenure, appears to be an exhaustively reported piece based on “numerous interviews with colleagues and others who knew her.” It portrays Bishop as violent and unpredictable, rejected by Harvard because of mediocre work and shunned by a series of neighbors and co-workers scared off by the suppressed rage that kept bubbling up to the surfaces of her social life, and also someone who may already have gotten away with the murder of her brother years earlier possibly because of her mother’s political connections in her home town of Braintree, Mass.
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What about the student who called her a “socialist”? What about one report that Bishop complained about a rule issued by University of Alabama administrators regarding underclassmen living on campus because she believed it was destructive of “diversity.” And what about the crowning irony of this case, whether or not she made this complaint: that two of the colleagues she allegedly killed were black and one was South Asian, and that Bishop thus wiped out the 14 person Biology department’s entire diversity in one burst of gunfire?
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Obama’s phony faith
Ed Lasky, AT:
Barack Obama routinely laced his campaign speeches with words and phrases that resonated with voters, particularly those who practiced their faith more often than others in the body politic.
His outreach to the Christian community became more fervent after the scandal caused by his ties to Pastor Jeremiah Wright who used his pulpit to bully and disparage America. Barack Obama attended forums held by the evangelical leader Rick Warren. He was seen in the company of a variety of Christian leaders. His courtship of religious groups in the 2008 race – the most extensive ever by a Democratic candidate for president-paid off on election day.
But that was so 2008. The campaign is over-and so, seemingly, is his embrace of Christianity.
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Time for America to Act on Iran
By Reza Kahlili, AT:
[see also What Iran Sanctions Won't Do and What They Can Do]
It is becoming increasingly clear that President Obama’s policies toward Iran have failed and that disaster is in the offing. President Obama began his relationship with the radical mullahs in Iran determined to show that he represents a new America and that he is truly seeking friendship between the two nations. This has proven to be dreadfully misguided.
The president pursued two tracks at once. First, he initiated the appeasement process by sending his greetings to the mullahs for the Iranian New Year, calling the country “the Islamic Republic of Iran” and therefore legitimizing the rule of the mullahs. He then sent letters to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran, stating that he did not intend to interfere with the way the mullahs ruled and that he wished to resolve any issues between Iran and the USA. President Obama then went even farther and ordered the release of five Quds force commanders captured by U.S. armed forces in Irbil, Iraq in 2007. He did this in spite of the fact that those commanders and their organization had successfully orchestrated the killing of hundreds of our soldiers in Iraq.
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Is Obama Steering the Ship of State Toward the Rocks?
By James Lewis, AT:
According to FOX News, the most mentally fixated president in American history is going for an all-out Medi-Grab, regardless of the results for the country or the Democratic Party. Obama’s Medi-Grab is the biggest wedge the Democrats can drive into the body politic, intended to turn the U.S. forever into a socialist, Left-controlled zombie state, just like Europe.
Medi-Grab couldn’t pass the Senate when the Democrats were playing by the rules. But now Harry Reid, the electorally doomed Majority Leader, is said to be signaling his willingness to commit hara-kiri for Obama. If Reid can push through the “public option,” a 51-vote majority in the Senate will let the Democrats drive private insurance out of business with tax-subsidized Medicare for 330 million people, including illegals — even if it breaks the budget for decades to come.
This is Obama’s Audacity of Desperation.
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Better Dead Than Ted
Mark Steyn:
Jonah, amen on that revolting TR quote. The statism is explicit, and the threat of government coercion hardly less so. Once the state thinks of itself as the sole legitimate arbiter of what “represents benefit to the community”, there’s almost no restraint upon its power, and you’re a fool if you think it can be confined only to the top-hatted plutocrats. In Britain, restrictions on heart-disease treatment for smokers, hip replacements for the obese are justified on the grounds that, while there may be benefits to you, there are insufficient benefits for the broader “community” that has to pick up the tab. It was also a recurring sub-text to my battles with Canada’s “human rights” regime.
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