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Enough Already – Just Move the UN to Iran
Claudia Rosett, PJMedia:
Last week, when Iran withdrew its candidacy for a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council, I got messages from a number of folks who were almost sorry to see Iran drop out of the race. That’s not because they like Iran’s regime. It’s because seating Iran on the rotten Human Rights Council would have been an act so grotesque that anyone could grasp the problems with the Council – much as Libya chairing the old Human Rights Commission in 2003 served to discredit that rotten body once and for all.
Well, for all those who were disappointed that Iran’s regime will not become the convenient poster-child for the UN’s travesty of a Human Rights Council, there’s a carnival of cold comfort ahead.
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The Truth about the Redgraves and the ’60s Left: Kudos to journalist Nick Cohen
Ron Radosh, PJMedia:
There is no better précis of how the Left thinks about the world, and acts on it, than the British journalist Nick Cohen’s article appearing in the new issue of Standpoint. Cohen writes a candid appraisal of what left-wing politics did to the mind and life of the late actor Corin Redgrave, brother of the more famous Vanessa, who like her brother, is a lifetime member of a small fanatic Trotskyist sect, the Workers Revolutionary Party, led by a man named Gerry Healy. The group was so fanatic that it accused Trotsky’s American followers of having been responsible for his murder in Mexico, ignoring all the evidence that it was an NKVD operation orchestrated by Joseph Stalin.
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Republicans, Democrats & Israel
By Caroline Glick:
Bipartisan support for Israel has been one of the greatest casualties of US President Barack Obama’s assault on the Jewish state. Today, as Republican support for Israel reaches new heights, support for Israel has become a minority position among Democrats.
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Dems spark alarm with call for national ID card
By Alexander Bolton:
A plan by Senate Democratic leaders to reform the nation’s immigration laws ran into strong opposition from civil liberties defenders before lawmakers even unveiled it Thursday.
Democratic leaders have proposed requiring every worker in the nation to carry a national identification card with biometric information, such as a fingerprint, within the next six years, according to a draft of the measure.
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So if Arizona asks for proof of legal status from a potential illegal that’s termed ‘nazism’ but Democrats want all legal workers to be forced to carry biometric ID cards!?
Obama’s politically correct ‘leadership’ invites military disasters
By: Jed Babbin, Washington Examiner:
Congressional liberals and their amen media chorus often proclaim President Obama a great leader, but the most important nations — and a principled few among our senior military leaders — have declined to follow.
A leader has to inspire confidence and earn loyalty. His success is defined not by the newspapers who laud him, but by his ability to gain the support of skeptics and concessions from adversaries to achieve his goals.
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“Bigotgate” and the British Election
by Jacob Laksin, FrontPage:
Elitism can be a dangerous thing in politics, and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has imperiled both his reelection campaign and the fortunes of his Labor Party after a particularly unflattering demonstration of it.
The British media has dubbed it “Bigotgate.” In one of those unscripted moments that so often spells political suicide, Brown this week suffered a ruinous encounter with a Labor Party voter in the working-class mill town of Rochdale. In the course of meeting “ordinary voters” – part of an electoral strategy designed to make the famously brooding prime minister seem more people-friendly and accessible – Brown paused to talk with one Gillian Duffy. As a 65-year-old widow and lifelong Labor voter, Duffy might have seemed just the kind of constituent Brown needs to burnish his credentials with the average British voter.
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After three millennia in exile, Bnei Menashe lost tribe heads home
Times [UK]:
When Tzvi Khaute landed at Tel Aviv for the first time, he wanted to kiss the earth. Alas, the modern airport was all tarmac and stone, so he kissed the first soil he came across, in a flowerpot. Thousands of diaspora Jews from around the world make aliyah — the migration to Israel — every year, but for Tzvi and his fellow Tibeto-Burmese immigrants from the far northeast of India, the journey was particular freighted with symbolism. They believe they are descendants of one of the ten lost tribes of Israel, sent into exile by the Assyrians almost 800 years before the Romans destroyed the temple in Jerusalem.
About 1,700 members of the Bnei Menashe tribe — the Sons of Manasseh, one of the original 12 biblical tribes of Israel — have migrated to Israel, completing what they believe is an extraordinary, 2,700-year exile that took them from the Middle East seven centuries before the Christian era, through Afghanistan, China, Burma and India, before they heard that a new state of Israel had been created 62 years ago.
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May Day, May Day
By Robin of Berkeley, AT:
I’ve never been big on holidays. Growing up Jewish, my family didn’t celebrate Christmas or Easter. And being secular, we didn’t do much for the Jewish holidays either. Since arriving in Berkeley decades ago, one of the few holidays I’ve enjoyed is May Day, also known as International Workers’ Day.
As you can imagine, IWD is a popular day around these parts. In fact, it’s an official city holiday. Along with Malcolm X’s Birthday, Indigenous People’s Day, and International Women’s Day, the school kiddies and the city rank and file get the day off. Even some popular places, like Berkeley’s Cheese Board Collective, close in observance.
I considered it a great honor to celebrate May Day, which represents all things Marxist. My deep and exhaustive knowledge of Communism was limited to the movies, for instance, “The Motorcycle Diaries,” and “Reds.” Warren Beattie and Diane Keaton appeared so courageous and passionate in “Reds,” and the guy playing Che was hecka hot. Anyway, Hollywood wouldn’t mislead us, would they?
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The Terrorist-Loving Left Is Trying To Destroy Me: Radical-Turned-Hero Brandon Darby on the G. Gordon Liddy Show
by Matthew Vadum, BG:
The hardcore haters of the criminal left don’t forgive – and they don’t forget.
Ever since he saved the lives of who-knows-how-many Americans by thwarting the planned fire-bombing of the 2008 Republican convention by left-wing terrorists, Brandon Darby’s been a target.
Left-wing activists have tried to destroy Darby in the court of public opinion. It’s standard operating procedure when you become an informant and turn against the terrorist left, he says.
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Roubini: Debt Crisis Will Spark Defaults, Higher Inflation
By: Dan Weil, NEWSMAX:
The exploding government debt burden in nations ranging from Greece, to the United States, to Japan will end in government defaults or higher inflation, says New York University economist Nouriel Roubini.
“The bond vigilantes are walking out on Greece, Spain, Portugal, the U.K. and Iceland,” Roubini said at a recent conference, Bloomberg reports.
[...]If the debt problems aren’t solved soon, nations will either default on their government debt or monetize them by printing money, which would create inflation, he maintains.
“Greece is just the tip of the iceberg, or the canary in the coal mine for a much broader range of fiscal problems.”
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Oil slick poses political peril for Obama
By Joseph Curl, Washington Times:
The rapidly expanding environmental catastrophe caused by the oil spill off the coast of Louisiana is presenting a growing political challenge to the Obama White House, with Mr. Obama and his aides at pains to defend the response and forestall comparisons to the Hurricane Katrina crisis.
Nine days after British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig blew apart and began spewing 5,000 barrels of oil a day into the Gulf of Mexico, a massive oil slick is set to wash ashore on the southern coast Thursday evening and, experts say, could dwarf the damage caused by the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.
Failure to get control of the relief effort and contain the environmental challenge could pose the same kind of political threat to Mr. Obama’s popular standing that the much-criticized handling of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina did for former President George W. Bush. And unlike Katrina, it is likely the federal government will be the clear lead authority in dealing with the BP spill.
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Oslo Journal, Part II
by Jay Nordlinger:
Welcome to the second installment of these jottings from the Oslo Freedom Forum, here in the historic, smart Norwegian capital. Part I appeared on Monday: here. Sorry for the long delay between installments. With that delay in mind, should I just wade in, without further prelude?
One morning, there is a press conference, featuring a slew of Freedom Forum speakers — about a dozen of them. Most have stood up for human rights in their countries (as well as all over), and paid a serious price for it. These people are amazingly, almost shamingly brave. Let me discuss just a few of them — though each of them deserves a long piece all to himself.
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Obama’s stealth attack on our legal foundations
Walt Elgin, AT:
Bowing to foreign power was not just a matter of misplaced etiquette. As its creeping socialism morphs into a quirky gallop, Obama’s State Department is supporting an International Criminal Court (ICC) with jurisdiction over what has always been sovereign U.S. powers:
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New Group, Keep Israel Safe, Launches with Hard-hitting Ad
BY John McCormack, Weekly Standard:
THE WEEKLY STANDARD has obtained an advance copy of a web ad with which a new organization, Keep Israel Safe, is launching in the near future. Keep Israel Safe is obviously patterned after Liz Cheney’s Keep America Safe (of which—full disclosure!—the boss is a director). Imitation being the sincerest form of flattery, the video resembles some of KAS’s successful ads. It will be interesting to see who’s behind this new pro-Israel effort. For now, if you go to KeepIsraelSafe.com, you get a notice that the website is coming soon (within the next 24 hours, I’m told).
Watch the group’s first web ad:
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