Aponte: A Loyalty Risk for Ambassador?
by Richard McCarty, NetRight Nation Blog:
President Obama made a terrible mistake nominating Mari Del Carmen Aponte to be ambassador to El Salvador. Aside from the fact that Aponte has given tens of thousands of dollars to Democrats, why would Obama waste more political capital trying to get this controversial and incompetent nominee into government?
Nearly a dozen years ago, President Clinton nominated Aponte to be ambassador to the Dominican Republic. Several months later, her nomination was withdrawn because Aponte did not wish to answer Senators’ tough questions about her past.
Aponte’s biggest problem was her eight-year relationship with Roberto Tamayo, a man who was friendly with and indisputably in regular contact with Cuban intelligence. Some have even called him a spy. Tamayo loaned Aponte money, which allegedly came from the Cuban intelligence service; and Aponte never repaid the loan.
A Cuban defector once even asserted that Cuban intelligence wished to recruit Aponte. Of course, she denied any knowledge of Cuban intelligence efforts to recruit her.
The FBI questioned Aponte about her contact with Cuban intelligence, and she gave somewhat inconsistent answers. The FBI then requested that she take a polygraph test, but she refused saying that she was not subject to a background check.
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When a Book Review Is Not a “Book Review”
Posted by David Klinghoffer, ENV:
As a former book review editor (at National Review), I take a professional interest in book reviews and all the things that can go right or wrong with them. I confess, though, I’ve never seen anything quite like the treatment of Stephen Meyer’s book, Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design, on BioLogos, the curious website funded by the Templeton Foundation and specializing in Christian apologetics for Darwin.
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Christian’s speech deemed ‘hateful propaganda’
OneNewsNow:
A Christian student in the Los Angeles Community College District is carrying his free-speech case to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Jonathan Lopez had an assignment in a public speaking class and was required to give an informative speech on any topic. Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) attorney David Hacker tells OneNewsNow that Lopez chose to speak about his Christian beliefs. “And during that speech, when he mentioned that marriage is between a man and a woman according to his Christian beliefs, the professor called him this horrible name, refused to let him finish the assignment, and told other students in the class, ‘If you’re offended, you can leave,’” Hacker explains.
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Archaeological Discovery Supports Scripture
By Chuck Colson:
Once again, archaeology confirms the accuracy of biblical history. That’s good news, but should it affect how we believers view Scripture?
Israeli archeologist Eilat Mazar has reported an exciting discovery—evidence that newly unearthed fortifications in Jerusalem were built 3,000 years ago. Based on the age of pottery shards that she found at the site, Mazar believes that the fortifications were built by Solomon, just as described in the Old Testament.
Of course that’s interesting news for Jews and Christians, but there’s a lot more to this than you might expect. As the Associated Press reported, “If the age of the wall is correct, the finding would be an indication that Jerusalem was home to a strong central government that had the resources and manpower needed to build massive fortifications in the 10th century B.C.”
That’s a direct contradiction to the views of some scholars who believe, as the AP puts it, “that David’s [and Solomon’s] monarchy was largely mythical and that there was no strong government to speak of in that era.”
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Sean Penn Wants Me Thrown In Jail
Michael C. Moynihan:
Appearing on Real Time With Bill Maher, amateur Latin America scholar Sean Penn details his recent humanitarian trip to Haiti, reveals that he has started an NGO, and praises the United States military’s reconstruction efforts in Port-au-Prince, calling it the “most noble [military] mission since World War II.” (Penn has apparently forgotten the 2004 operation to provide relief to parts of tsunami-ravaged South Asia.)
But as is his wont, Penn couldn’t get through the interview without reference to the beneficent Venezuelan and Cuban governments (who supplied “narcotics” in Haiti, despite their own drug shortages) and how Hugo Chavez is unfairly maligned in the United States media. How should one combat this misinformation campaign? Penn has a plan:
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I can’t decide who is more stupid, Penn or Danny Glover.
Archbishop: ‘Face to face with Satan’ in Jos, Nigeria
Ruth Gledhill, Times [UK]:
Thousands have been killed in religious clashes in Nigeria. In a recent article in Christianity Today, Archbishop of Jos, Ben Kwashi, described the confrontations as coming ‘face to face with Satan.’
Yesterday I interviewed Archbishop Kwashi by telephone for our report in today’s Times. He said he began to hear about the massacres as he was conducting a confirmation service. A messenger from one of the three predominantly Christian villages attacked ran to the church where he was celebrating, to show him photographs of the massacres on their digital cameras.
As the day went on, he heard about the two others. He went to one of the villages to look for himself but decided to stay on the boundaries and not get too close as he could not cope with the stench and the terrible wounds he saw on babies and children in particular.
He believes the Muslim occupants of the villages were tipped off as they all left before the massacres, he reported. Also, he believes a significant organisation was behind the killings because they happened during curfew with the army in the area, as it has been since the January killings.
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h/t: Linda at TGP
The Climate Funding Trough; The Canadian Example
By Dr. Tim Ball:
Exposure of corrupt climate science and fraudulent claims has completely upended the climate debate. Now the climate skeptics and deniers are those who pushed the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) claim. Falsely accused of receiving oil company money, I know how they used funding to smear people. In reality, almost all the funding came from government and because of the political objective went to block science and promote propaganda. The US Department of Energy (DOE) and other government agencies provided a portion of the approximately $21 million research funding obtained by climate researchers at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia.
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The Obama Way: Bluster, Bully, Bribe
by Michelle Malkin, FrontPage:
As the National Law Journal pointed out at the beginning of this year, “the Obama administration has been slower than the Bush administration was in sending judicial nominations to the Senate, submitting 12 circuit nominations last year compared with 28 for Bush in 2001. The White House last named a circuit nominee on Nov. 4.”
Now, out of nowhere, comes the announcement of Matheson’s nomination — in the heat of White House vote-grubbing to salvage the Democrats’ government health care designs? To quote Dana Carvey’s old Church Lady character on “Saturday Night Live”: How conveeenient.
Let us consider the possibility, for a brief moment, that this is all merely coincidence.
Is the White House so fantastically blind and tone-deaf that it failed to detect the blood-red flags and blaring alarm bells that Scott Matheson’s judicial nomination would raise coming on the very day Obama was wooing his brother? Incorrigibly corrupt or incorrigibly stupid. Take your pick.
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The United States of Argentina: Obama’s Pension Grab
by J.C. Arenas, BG:
Barack Obama’s money train has steamrolled uncontrollably across the country, compiling record-breaking budgets, deficits, and debt along its path. Now, the train is running out of fuel, and the nation’s retirement money may find its way on board, to keep the train on the tracks.
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Video: Beck, Michelle Malkin go toe to toe over Massa interview
by Ed Morrissey:
This starts off as an intellectual discourse on the use of apostates in political arguments, but descends to a pity party on Glenn Beck’s part when he goes after Michelle Malkin for criticizing his decision to give an hour to Eric Massa. It starts downhill at the moment that Beck says, “I don’t understand you people,” which takes the Boss Emeritus aback. The Right Scoop has the video:
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Frankly, I don’t even know what set Beck off in the first place. Having Massa on the show for a segment might make some sense, but the decision to devote an hour to Massa is certainly open for criticism. Beck needs to handle criticism over an editorial decision like that among friends better than this.
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Beck also inferred last night that Geert Wilders [a pro-homosexual rights advocate and personal friend of Ayaan Hirsi Ali) is a far-right fascist! Give it up, Glenn.
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More on Beck’s odd Wilders slam here: Glenn Beck, think before you preach
Climategate: George Monbiot despairs of the AGW cause
By Gerald Warner, Telegraph [UK]:
Sad news: George Monbiot, the high priest of the AGW cult, is feeling frustrated and depressed. He is oppressed by the realisation that, as the politicians phrase it, he is not getting his message across. And this blog, at least in a small way, bears some part of the responsibility. From his pontifical throne in the Vatican of global warming – The Guardian – he has issued an anathema. Quoting from a recent anti-AGW scam posting by me, he observes: “The attack on climate scientists is now widening to an all-out war on science.”
Don’t get carried away, George. It is only an all-out war on bogus science, such as the global warming superstition you champion.
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NYT Tilts Scales Against Israel as Biden, Mitchell Make New Peace Efforts
Leo Rennert, AT:
In a March 8 dispatch about Vice President Biden’s visit to Israel and U.S. envoy George Mitchell’s efforts to restart peace talks, Ethan Bronner, the Jerusalem bureau chief of the New York Times, puts the entire onus on Israel to get the peace process moving, with nary a word about any Palestinian obstacles to move the two sides closer together.
In getting down to the nitty-gritty details of Mitchell’s launch of indirect negotiations, Bronner writes that Jewish settlements in the West Bank and the presence of Jewish residents in East Jerusalem will be a matter of “serious contention.” In this connection, Bronner devotes several paragraphs to Palestinian demands for an absolute construction freeze in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, noting that Israel has failed to go all the way to meet these demands — as if the Palestinians are simply entitled to lay out their objectives for the upcoming talks and Israel must oblige them to the fullest.
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Today’s Revolutionary Aristocracy – Part 2
The View From 1776:
A distinguishing characteristic of the liberal-progressive aristocracy is the dichotomy between its doctrinaire emphasis upon caring for “the people” and its indifference to what actually happens to individuals under its policies.
Liberal-progressives’ profession of concern for “the little guy” is really a propaganda tool for gasping the power to dictate behavioral limits for abstract social, economic, sexual, and racial classes. Imposing liberal-progressives’ vision of social perfection, as Lenin supposedly said, figuratively at least has to come out of the business end of a gun barrel.
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Anti-Israel Activist Attacks Jewish Girl on Campus
IsraelNN.com:
University of California at Berkeley was again the site of a clash involving pro-Israel and anti-Israel activists last Friday when Husam Zakharia, leader of the Students for Justice in Palestine, assaulted Jessica Felber of the pro-Israel Tikvah group with a shopping cart.
The incident occurred during competing events from the SJP-run “Israel Apartheid Week” and “Israel Peace and Diversity Week” organized by Tikvah. Felber was holding a sign that read “Israel Wants Peace” when Zakharia intentionally slammed her from behind with a shopping cart filled with toys donated for the welfare of Arab children in the Hamas-controlled Gaza region.
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From behind …
Canadian human rights law — a contradiction in terms
Ian Hunter, Canadian politics
The Mohawk elders of Kahnawake, Que., have served eviction notices on non-native residents who live on their reserve. Meanwhile, the Quebec Human Rights Commission has evicted a mid-60s woman with a bum shoulder from her condo parking space and given the space instead to a 57-year-old woman who weighs 389 pounds.
The Mohawk Elders of Kahnawake say: Our Reserve is for us. Therefore, non-natives must go. “This is not about ethnic cleansing,” said Mohawk Grand Chief Mike Delisle, “it’s about self-preservation.”
This is not about a parking space, says the Quebec Human Rights Commission, it’s about discrimination.
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Mark Levin At The Ronald Reagan Foundation And Library
It’s an hour plus but well worth your time.
h/t: Linda st TGP
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