Jerusalem Day
Camie Davis, AT:
This week in Israel, Jerusalem Day was celebrated. It was a day to commemorate the liberation and reunification of Jerusalem under Jewish sovereignty during the Six Day War — a historical moment that Israelis will never forget. Yet as talk of pre-1967 borders surfaces again and the insistence of Jerusalem being on the chopping block remains, Obama is asking Netanyahu to forget Israel’s valid historical moments, and instead “seize an historic opportunity” to make peace with the Palestinians through a process that is predicated on decades of lies and propaganda.
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Rejecting a Toothless Dialogue
posted by Baron Bodissey, Gates of Vienna:
Emanuel AydinBishop Emanuel Aydin of the Syrian Orthodox Church in Austria spoke last week at a conference in Macedonia. The conference was one of the usual ecumenical feel-good “dialogues” which are so beloved by the Vatican, Reformed Jews, and the Muslim Brotherhood. Bishop Aydin’s message, however, was tough and uncompromising in its stance about Islam. One suspects that many of the delegates to the conference were not at all happy with what he had to say.
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Today, we Christians must take note that many of the public dialogue forums held worldwide, in which “commonalities,” “solidarity” and “cooperation” are invoked, have not contributed to a better understanding of the Christian faith. In publications from Islamic countries, in concord with Islamic source texts, Christians are still condemned as “polytheists” or “infidels.” The Christian belief in the most sacred Trinity is misrepresented. We Christians believe in Father, Son and Holy Ghost, not in Allah, Isa and Maryam!
We Christians are not “people of the Book.” We are “people of Jesus Christ.”
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PolitiZoid: Money for Nothing
PJTV:
PolitiZoid and RightChange.com are back! This time Dem Straits are here with a new hit, and it has nothing to do with Speaker Pelosi’s very large mallet. Spreading lies on the NBC? It must be Money for Nothing:
H/T: Linda via Instapundit
WATCH HERE
Supreme Court To Face Mecca
by Ann Coulter:
Americans can thank the Supreme Court for the attempted car bombing of Times Square, as well as any future terrorist attacks that might be less “amateurish” and which our commander in chief will be unable to thwart unless the bomb fizzles.
Over blistering dissents by Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, John Roberts and Samuel Alito, five Supreme Court justices have repeatedly voted to treat jihadists like turnstile jumpers. (Thanks, Justice Kennedy!)
That’s worked so well that Obama’s own attorney general is now talking about making massive exceptions to the Miranda warnings — exceptions that will apply to all criminal suspects, by the way — in order to deal with terrorists having to be read their rights as a bomb is about to go off.
Let’s be clear: When Eric Holder thinks we’re being too easy on terrorists, we are being too easy on terrorists.
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Cheap cancer drug shows promise in shrinking tumours: Canadian study
By Elise Stolte, Edmonton Journal:
Canadian doctors have successfully finished the first clinical trial in cancer patients for DCA, an inexpensive drug whose tumour-shrinking abilities were heralded as a long-sought miracle by patients around the world when the effects were first highlighted in rats.
Recent human tests were performed on a small sample — just five patients with brain tumours and a life expectancy of only seven months — but the results were enough to confirm the drug has the ability to stop, even reverse tumour growth.
At the end of the 15-month study, four of the five patients were still alive and several were cancer-free.
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‘The Mentalist’: A Case Study in How Hollywood Maligns Conservatives
by Warner Todd Huston, BH:
We all know of the great slights that Hollywood deals out to the American right. We see them all the time. From the TV shows that casts Republicans as villains, the movies that make Christians out to be hypocrites or even outright evil. Traditional motherhood and fatherhood also find constant ridicule at the hands of Hollywood. The overt examples are everywhere, of course. But the grand swipe isn’t all that Hollywood indulges. There are also these ubiquitous, small, quick, too fast to notice swipes against the right perpetrated by Hollywood. A fine example of the side-swipe approach to denigrating the right came in the April 29 episode of The Mentalist, a CBS detective show starring Australian actor Simon Baker.
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Anti-Christian Motives Suspected in Evangelist’s Slaying in India
Compass Direct News:
The gruesome nature of the May 2 murder of an evangelist in Bihar state who had no enmity with anyone has led area Christians to suspect anti-Christian motives.
The mutilated body of Ravi Murmu, 32, was found in Jamalpur, Munger district, with the right hand nearly severed by means of a sharp weapon, and the jaw and neck were similarly slashed.
“Efforts were made to chop off his hand and neck, trying to separate it from his body,” Shekhar Kumar, a member of his church, told Compass.
Police are investigating but have made no arrests so far.
“All his belongings were intact, which included his motorbike, Bible, cell phone, wristwatch and some cash,” Murmu’s brother-in-law, Shiv Kumar, told Compass. “This seems to be a planned murder. That is why Ravi was targeted when he was alone. To me the motive seems to be anti-Christian.”
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The Fox jihad continues
Joseph Farah:
This is not a new story – sadly.
It’s one I’ve touched on before, hoping that calling out Fox News’ irresponsible shilling for a Muslim Brotherhood front group might give Rupert Murdoch and his Saudi investors something to think about.
Obviously, the gentle nudging did not work.
Not only has Fox News continued to showcase the Council on American Islamic Relations as if it were truly a “Muslim civil rights group,” it has actually stepped up its shameless promotion of the Hamas-connected unindicted terrorist co-conspirators at CAIR.
The latest example came last Friday, when “America Live” host Megyn Kelly asked CAIR’s national legislative director, Corey Saylor, to comment about radical Muslims who threatened the creators of the cartoon “South Park” with violence. Naturally, Kelly never bothered to mention CAIR’s own deep links to radical jihadist Islam.
In fact, not once has Fox News, joined at the hip itself with Saudi ownership, ever mentioned these well-documented connections in all of the hundreds of appearances CAIR officials have made on the network.
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Mock them all
Lorne Gunter, National Post:
There are several disconcerting aspects to the incident in which the animated series South Park allegedly insulted Muslims by blaspheming Muhammad.
The death threats made to the creators of the show for their “outright insult” to the prophet came from a radical Muslim group inside the United States, not one in some far-off land. The network the show airs on, Comedy Central, and the company that owns the network, Viacom, instantly bowed to the threats and censored out depictions of and references to Muhammad from a subsequent episode. Authorities seemed not to treat the threats as a criminal matter. And the satirical references to Jesus that followed slipped by without incident.
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‘Fight for Jerusalem – fight for truth’
By JPOST.COM:
The fight for Jerusalem is the fight for truth, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu declared on Tuesday evening at the capital’s prestigious Mercaz Harav Yeshiva.
Speaking on the eve of Jerusalem Day, the prime minister highlighted of the interaction between truth and justice, stressing that any distortion of justice concerning the Jewish people and Jerusalem was also a distortion of truth.
“The truth is that Jerusalem is our lifeblood,” he said. “We have an indissoluble connection to it. Thousands of years, three thousands years. We have never relinquished this connection. We didn’t relinquish it when the temple was destroyed the first time, we didn’t relinquish it when the temple was destroyed a second time.”
‘The Jewish people are unjustly portrayed as invaders’
In an apparent allusion to oft-voiced Palestinian claims that Israel was trying to ‘Judaize’ Jerusalem, the prime minister said that Israel was “not banishing anyone,” but rather reasserting the connection of the Jewish people to the capital, “a connection no other nation possesses.” Israel, he added, grants unprecedented freedom of religion and freedom of movement to those belonging to faiths other than Judaism.
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U.K.: Catholic schoolchildren told to dress as Muslims — headscarves included — for mosque visit, or be marked as truants
Jihad Watch:
From our You Can’t Make This Stuff Up Department, conveniently located down the hall from our You’ll Want to Read This Sitting Down Department. “Parents’ outrage as Catholic school children told ‘dress as a Muslim for mosque trip – or you will be branded a truant’,” from the Daily Mail, May 12 (thanks to Tziona):
A Catholic schoolgirl has been branded a ‘truant’ by her teachers after she refused to dress as a Muslim for a school field trip to a mosque.
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Judiciary Committee Chairman Leahy blows off questions about Clinton-era Kagan memos
By Jon Ward – The Daily Caller:
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy on Tuesday grew visibly angry when asked by The Daily Caller whether he planned to insist that the White House turn over writings by Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan from her time working in the Clinton White House.
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The White House has said they will not simply hand over Kagan’s writings.
In 2005, when President George W. Bush, a Republican, nominated John Roberts to be chief justice, a Republican Judiciary Committee chairman, Sen. Arlen Specter, threatened to subpoena Roberts’s writings from his time at the White House under President Ronald Reagan as well as from his time at the Justice Department.
The Bush White House produced the memos.
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Victim mentality
Mark Steyn:
Yesterday in this space I noted the news that the Toronto Police now include in their official list of “hate crime” victim groups the category of “Nazi”. I mostly played it for laughs (“Nazi is the new black”), since if you took developments in the Demented Dominion too seriously your head would explode. However, my valiant comrade Ezra Levant dug down into the story a little deeper, and in particular the reaction of Book-Burnin’ Bernie Farber, the head of the Canadian Jewish Congress. Mr Farber reacted to the news that the Nazis had joined the Jews as an officially recognized “victim group” by commenting as follows:
‘How does Nazi fit into that,’ questioned Bernie Farber, of the Canadian Jewish Congress, when the category was pointed out by the Town Crier.
‘A Nazi can never be a victim but only a victimizer,’ he said.
Ezra responds:
First: is it really surprising to Burny that another group has weaseled its way into the political class called “victim”?
Seriously, did Burny and the CJC architects and defenders of hate speech laws really think that they could maintain a monopoly over who could use these hate laws?
And then he gets to his main point:
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A Movement of Hate, Pt. III
by Robert Harris, FrontPage:
Israel has been subjected to forceful criticism for decades. When those criticisms are hysterical, irrational and/or do not address Israel’s concerns to the slightest extent, are we not obliged to query why these frequent criticisms seem so unbalanced. If any commentator treats a serious topic in an unbalanced fashion it is quite right to be concerned. Such a viewpoint could cause genuine harm if it gains currency. The questions, “Why is person or movement ‘X’ so extreme? why do they turn the facts upside down and ignore everything not in their favor?” are perfectly legitimate, especially if there was extensive hatred and oppression of the group historically that is now the subject of their ire.
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Two Wrong Deans Are No Better Than One
BY William Kristol:
In today’s Wall Street Journal, former Harvard Law School Dean Robert Clark, defends the policy of refusing the U.S. military the assistance of the school’s Office of Career Services, which was continued by his successor, Elena Kagan.
In the course of his op-ed, Clark refers throughout to “the military’s policy” of don’t ask, don’t tell. Yet, as Dean Clark surely knows, this policy was and is the country’s policy, not the military’s. We do have civilian control of the military in the United States, and this policy is based on legislation passed by Congress and signed by the president. So, to repeat the obvious point: Why punish the military for the policy of the government–in this case the Clinton administration?
Furthermore: Did it occur to no one at Harvard Law School, especially after 9/11, how offensive this exercise in moral preening and posturing might be to other Americans?
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Yearning for a Holocaust
by David Swindle, FrontPage:
On Monday, May 10, Editor-in-Chief David Horowitz gave a talk at UC San Diego to counter the Muslim Students Association’s Israeli Apartheid Week. (Horowitz made a point to properly describe the event as “Hitler Youth” week.) He was literally giving his speech at the same time as notorious anti-Semite Norman Finkelstein.During the Question and Answer period Horowitz had a chilling exchange with a member of the MSA in which he prodded her to reveal the depraved depths of her Jew-hatred. What’s shocking is not so much that she holds such views, but rather that she was willing to admit it:
Transcript:
MSA member: Good evening, I just wanted to say thank you for coming to campus tonight and presenting your point of view, its always important to have to sets of, ah, views going on at the same time. Um, very useful. My name is [Jimena Imad Musa Ahmal Bahiri](sp) and I’m a student here at UCSD. Ah I was reading your literature, I found that much more interesting than your talk, and I found some interesting things about the MSA, which is an organization that is very active on campus and is hosting our annual “Hitler Youth” week, you should come out to those events. Um, if you could clarify the connection between the MSA and Jihad terrorist networks, because last time I checked, we had to do our own fundraising, and we never get help from anyone. So if you could clarify the connection between UCSD’s MSA or if you don’t have such information, if you could connect other MSA’s on UC’s, because the connection wasn’t to clear in the pamphlet, just if you could clarify.
Horowitz: Okay. Will you condemn Hamas, here and now?
MSA member: I’m sorry, what?
Horowitz: Will you condemn Hamas?
MSA member: Would I condemn Hamas?
Horowitz: As a terrorist organization. Genocidal organization.
MSA member: Are you asking me to put myself on a cross?
Horowitz: So you won’t. I have actually had this experience many times. You didn’t actually read the pamphlet, because the pamphlet is chapter and verse. The main connection is that the MSA is part of the Muslim Brotherhood Network as revealed…
MSA member: I don’t think you understood what I meant by that. I meant if I say something, I am sure that I will be arrested, for reasons of homeland security. So if you could please just answer my question.
Horowitz: If you condemn Hamas, Homeland Security will arrest you?
MSA member: If I support Hamas, because your question forces me to condemn Hamas. If I support Hamas, I look really bad.
Horowitz: If you don’t condemn Hamas, obviously you support it. Case closed. I have had this experience at UC Santa Barbara, where there were 50 members of the Muslim Students Association sitting right in the rows there. And throughout my hour talk I kept asking them, will you condemn Hizbollah and Hamas. And none of them would. And then when the question period came, the president of the Muslim Students Association was the first person to ask a question. And I said, ‘Before you start, will you condemn Hizbollah?’ And he said, ‘Well, that question is too complicated for a yes or no answer.’ So I said, ‘Okay, I’ll put it to you this way. I am a Jew. The head of Hizbollah has said that he hopes that we will gather in Israel so he doesn’t have to hunt us down globally. For or Against it?
MSA member: For it.
Horowitz: Thank you for coming and showing everybody what’s here.
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The Bounds of Silence
Jacob Sullum:
Last month New York Times legal writer Adam Liptak said two recent Supreme Court cases “suggest that the Roberts Court is prepared to adopt a robustly libertarian view of the constitutional protection of free speech.” Elena Kagan, President Obama’s nominee to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens, was on the losing side in both.
As solicitor general, of course, Kagan has an obligation to defend federal laws against constitutional challenges. But her pro-censorship positions went beyond the call of duty. Together with some of her academic writings, her arguments in these cases provide grounds to worry that she will be even less inclined than Stevens, who has a mixed First Amendment record, to support freedom of speech.
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Bill would require FCC report before reclassifying broadband
IDG News Service:
A Florida congressman has introduced legislation to require the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to deliver a detailed cost-benefit analysis to Congress before moving forward with a plan to reclassify broadband as a regulated common-carrier service.
The bill, authored by U.S. Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.), would also require the FCC to conduct a market study to show “market failure” in the broadband industry before moving forward with the plan to reclassify broadband.
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski’s plan to reclassify broadband as a regulated service is a mistake, Stearns said at a press conference Tuesday organized by Americans for Prosperity, an antiregulation advocacy group. The effort will hurt the FCC’s goal of making broadband available to all U.S. residents, he said.
“I think this is a partisan move by him to regulate the Internet,” Stearns said. “This curious step by Chairman Genachowski would reverse course and … do an end run around Congress, where this issue should and must be debated first.”
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The shameless, shocking hypocrisy and lies of President Obama
Rick Moran, AT:
Peter Wehner of Commentary has done us a service. He has written a piece that goes into detail about what can only be construed as Obama’s numerous and continuing outright lies.
Too numerous to list here, a sample will have to do:
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Elite Media vs. Tim Tebow, Christian
By Stuart Schwartz, AT:
What do women, Tim Tebow, and evangelical Christians have in common?
They are all largely despised by the sports journalism division of our media elite. The continuing controversy over the first round selection in the National Football League draft of quarterback Tim Tebow by the Denver Broncos is a reminder that sports journalists are simply smaller and often nastier versions of their elite brothers on the serious side of the business.
Get accused twice of rape (Ben Roethlisberger, Pittsburgh), repeatedly abuse your wife (Michael Pittman, Tampa Bay), regularly strangle and drown hapless dogs (Michael Vick, Atlanta)? Ah, well, boys will be boys, it is society’s fault — and besides, women and dogs don:’t wear Super Bowl rings. But pray, work with the poor, and refuse to engage in casual sex — there’s something seriously wrong with you. Or, as one Sports Illustrated writer put it, you are a certified “wackdo.”
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Bailing out foolish countries won’t fix financial problems
by Lorne Gunter:
The European Union’s decision late last weekend to set up a $1-trillion bailout fund to help Greece and other member nations is about as wise (and as long-term) as maxing out your MasterCard to pay off your VISA.
Remember the Maastricht Treaty? Okay, probably not. The 1992 pact created the EU and laid the foundation for a single European currency, the Euro. More importantly, it set ground rules for European governments on spending, debt- and deficit-to-GDP ratios and borrowing. If Country A’s budget deficit exceeded a set range, it would lose the protection of the EU’s central bank and access to its common market. Or so the theory went. Telling a country it can’t create huge new unfunded liabilities for pensions, civil service wages, health care, welfare and so on is one thing, but as the EU is finding out, it is quite another to enforce such an edict.
It is simply impossible to have a single, stable currency if member states are free to be irresponsible.
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