Guess who missed Iran’s atrocities?

BY STEVE HUNTLEY, Chicago Sun-Times:

For months, the streets of Tehran ran red with blood. After June’s fraudulent presidential election, Iran’s security forces and paramilitary thugs arrested, beat, shot and murdered protesters whose only crime was to be fed up with dictatorial rule. Those unfortunate enough to land in prison were raped, forced to lick toilet bowls, tortured by, for example, having their fingernails ripped out, and killed, some from abuse and some from show executions. All this is common knowledge because the whole world is watching, right?

Well, not exactly. Though the horrors of a theocratic-military regime brutally crushing dissent were spread via media around the world, all that has happened in Iran seems to have escaped the notice of the U.N. Human Rights Council.

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It’s not that the council doesn’t see bad actors in the world, it’s just that the bad actor nearly always turns out to be — you guessed it — Israel. More than 80 percent of its condemnatory resolutions — 27 out of 33 — have been aimed at the Jewish state. A council double-standard offers cover to Hamas, Hezbollah and other terrorist murderers.

The most notorious slander against Israel was the 2009 Goldstone Report, a “fact-finding” mission about last winter’s Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip. That was the response forced on Israel to combat thousands of rockets fired from Gaza in a Hamas campaign of terror.

In an unprecedented effort to limit civilian casualties, Israel used hundreds of thousands of cell phone calls and leaflets to warn innocent Palestinians of danger zones. That foreshadowed the tactics used by the United States in announcing beforehand the current military offensive in Marja in Afghanistan. Just as Americans occasionally kill civilians there, the Israeli Gaza operation inadvertently killed some civilians, but mostly it took out Hamas terrorists and their allies.

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Global Warming Fraud: The Big Picture

John Hinderaker, PowerLine:

The recent revelations of scientific errors (not to say fraud) in the U.N.’s global warming documents are important, but Fred Singer reminds us not to lose sight of the most important point: the IPCC’s fundamental conclusions, relating to the allegedly unprecedented warming of the past half-century, are based on bad surface temperature data and are contradicted by more-reliable satellite data and by our knowledge of the earth’s climate history. We know for a fact, in short, that the computer models that are the only basis for the AGW theory are wrong:

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Islamic Iran: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said “existence of Jewish Homeland is an insult to the entire humanity”

Pam Geller, Atlas Shrugs:

So Israel, the beacon of science, technology, medicine, art, music, beauty, and humanity is an “insult to the entire humanity” but the crushing brutal and violent ideology of Islam and the sharia that brutalizes, slaughters,honor kills, clitorectomizes, beheads, annihilates non-believers, imposes dhimmitude, proliferates Islamic Jew hatred, persecutes, Christians, Hinuds, Sikhs, Serbs, Zoroastrians et al demands jiyza, crushes dissent, democracy and basic human freedoms, converts or kills, commits, 9/11, 3/11, 7/7/ Mumbia, London, Bali, New York, Madrid, jihad piracy,misogyny, slavery, litigation jihad, economic jihad, academic jihad, is a ………blessing to the entire humanity“?

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The Exodus Case, Lennart Moller

It is in English.

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When Responsibility Doesn’t Pay

Mark Steyn:

While Barack Obama was making his latest pitch for a brand-new, even-more-unsustainable entitlement at the health-care “summit,” thousands of Greeks took to the streets to riot. An enterprising cable network might have shown the two scenes on a continuous split-screen — because they’re part of the same story. It’s just that Greece is a little further along in the plot: They’re at the point where the canoe is about to plunge over the falls. America is farther upstream and can still pull for shore, but has decided instead that what it needs to do is catch up with the Greek canoe. Chapter One (the introduction of unsustainable entitlements) leads eventually to Chapter Twenty (total societal collapse): The Greeks are at Chapter Seventeen or Eighteen.

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The British Aren’t So Special to Obama

by Warner Todd Huston, BG:

Barack Obama, it was claimed, would “repair” our reputation both with our enemies and our friends. So how has he done? Let’s take Britain for example. Has he “fixed” our special relationship with the British Isles? Well, if by fixed you mean he has fastened that relationship to a negative track, well then “fixed” it is.

Let’s review some of the slights that Barack Obama delivered to our closest allies, the British.

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Christian Nihilism

By Nancy Coppock, AT:

The above-quoted high-toned twaddle is evidence enough that a culture steeped in generations of dismissal of the Great Books of Western Civilization has now accepted reeducation, with the ability to defend graffiti and defamation as reasoned thought. Christian Nihilism explains how the academic intelligentsia, mainstream media, and political hacks can be so certain of their spiritual superiority with no practicable evidence, while so equally convinced that their customers and fellow citizens are immoral idiots. This, combined with a Mao-esque sense of nihilistic benevolence, underscores their conviction that the state collection plate is never full enough to show their compassionate nature.

Read the transcript of this Democrat strategy session to understand how Christian Nihilism is practiced for political opportunism. Christian Nihilists show their piety by ensuring that others give accordingly by requiring more sacrifice from the American taxpayers while excusing themselves through tax-avoidance chicanery.

The Christian Nihilism pop culture mistakes cunning for intelligence and savvy for integrity. Severe personal development flaws are flippantly described as character. As Algore in Wonderland said, “Everything that should be up, is down, and everything that should be down, is up.” Stir in a few Alinsky/Luciferian ideas concerning the separation of church and state, and morality is turned on its head.

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Stern’s appointment to the deficit commission a mockery

Greg Halvorson, AT:

Jaw-dropping. Just when you thought it couldn’t get stranger, the White House has appointed Andy Stern, head of the S.E.I.U., to the bipartisan deficit commission.

For those unfamiliar with the S.E.I.U., it’s America’s fastest growing union, and is largely responsible for the rise of the public-sector, which has eclipsed its private counterpart in “represented” employees. Public unions, by draining budgets (in the words of Mark Levin, “That’s right, I said it!”) foster an environment in which politicians back unions which, in turn, fund campaigns.

Stern’s appointment is pay-back. Since

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A Government that doesn’t know where babies come from

Telegraph [UK]:

Teenagers know very well how babies are made, partly because they have been repeatedly instructed on the topic since they were six. They also know how to stop them. The reason Britain has such a high rate of teenage pregnancy is because we have so many teenagers who want to get pregnant: they don’t do it out of stupidity or ignorance, but knowing full well what the consequences will be.

Why is this happening? Part of the answer is painfully low ambitions and expectations. Teenage pregnancies are heavily concentrated among the least well-off. They know that having a child will damage their education and seriously hamper their chances of getting a well-paid job. But to those who do not think they have much chance of ever getting off the dole, that is not a disincentive. Aspiration is the best contraceptive: our high rate of teenage pregnancy is testament to the dismal level of ambition of many of our teenagers.

But it is also a testament to the British state’s success in reducing the penalties involved in single parenthood. It is striking that in the 1930s, during the last major depression, the fewest births out of wedlock occurred in the poorest London boroughs. At the time, there was virtually no economic support from the state for unmarried women who had babies, which must have acted as a very powerful disincentive. There were also strong social sanctions against unmarried mothers, of course, but those were just as powerful in the richer London boroughs such as Chelsea, where the illegitimacy rate was four times as high.

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Fox News Sunday With Rep. Paul Ryan