Accepting the unacceptable
By CAROLINE B. GLICK:
Last weekend the mullahs took a big step towards becoming a nuclear power as they fueled the Bushehr nuclear reactor.
Israel’s response? The Foreign Ministry published a statement proclaiming the move “unacceptable.”
So why did we accept the unacceptable? When one asks senior officials about the Bushehr reactor and about Iran’s nuclear program more generally, their response invariably begins, “Well the Americans…”
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HOT AIR: Quotes of the day
Allahpundit:
The Democrats are going to get beaten badly in November. Not just because the economy is ailing. And not just because Obama over-read his mandate in governing too far left. But because a comeuppance is due the arrogant elites whose undisguised contempt for the great unwashed prevents them from conceding a modicum of serious thought to those who dare oppose them.
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Uprooting the cross
By Robert Knight, The Washington Times:
While the furor over the proposed mosque at Ground Zero has New York Gov. David Paterson offering public land as a peace offering, a more familiar symbol – the cross – is systematically being uprooted around the country.
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The Oz show
David Warren:
Complicating this, and slowing that electorate, is an Australian electoral process designed for soi-disant “fairness” by rocket scientists of the usual progressive sort. Australia no longer has “first past the post” federal elections, as Canada still has. Instead, there is an incredibly abstruse system of voter preferences, such that, for instance, an Independent running in the riding of Denison, in Tasmania, who finished third in the direct poll with 21 per cent of the vote, has emerged as the winner after the “preferential” hocus-pocus.
He in turn is one of four Independents who now choose the new government in a hung Parliament, where Labour and the (conservative) Liberal/National Coalition are in a dead draw, even though the latter won the popular vote by a six-point margin.
Moreover, such is the complexity of the system that it will take more days to determine the precise result, which cannot be confirmed until October.
Needless to say, progressives in Canada, and every other country with a direct voting system that everyone understands, long to introduce similar hocus-pocus systems. They offer a way to get Greens and other crackpot Left parties into Parliament, and to prevent conservatives from governing until they have won by huge landslides.
But that is an unrelated issue. Even with hocus-pocus, plus recent redistricting, it appears that Australian Labour have gone down, and it may actually be worse for them if they succeed in buying off enough Independents to remain nominally in power.
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Politicking Justice
IBD:
It’s bad enough that our rules of engagement dictated that a U.S. warship visiting a known terrorist haven “was defended by sailors with unloaded guns,” as the London Daily Telegraph reported several weeks later. “If we had shot those people, we’d have gotten in trouble for it,” Petty Officer Jennifer Kudrick, a sonar technician and Cole survivor, told the Telegraph. “We would have gotten in more trouble for shooting two foreigners than losing 17 American sailors.”
It’s also bad enough that the only reason the Cole was in Yemen to begin with was apparently because the Clinton administration was trying to get the Yemeni government’s support for Middle East peace initiatives.
But now insult is added to those sailors’ memories as our vacationing commander-in-chief has decided to sacrifice justice for the suspected mastermind of the Cole attack, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, on the altar of politics.
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Karl Giberson v. Al Mohler on Darwin: The Grudge Match
ENV:
It’s always a bad sign when people start publishing “open letters” to one another. Our BioLogos friend Karl Giberson is embroiled in a strangely bitter dispute with Albert Mohler Jr., president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Bitter, at least, on Dr. Giberson’s side. In this dustup, theistic evolutionist Giberson displays a lot less dignity than the object of his ire, Dr. Mohler, and less regard for truth notwithstanding that it’s precisely a lack of truthfulness with which he seeks to tar Mohler.
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Jihadis Big Day in Kenya: Sharia Backed Constitution Signed, Obama Backed Defeat of Democracy, Sudan Jihadist Slaughterer Bashir Invited and Present
Pam Gellar, ATLAS SHRUGS:
Sharia was signed into law today, a victory for the Obama backed Odinga putsch. Obama campaigned as far back as 2006 and $upported Islamist Raila Odinga in Kenya and today, the poisnonous fruit of that dangerous liason became law.
Present at the signing of the new sharia constitution in Kenya was Sudanese President Umar al- Bashir, wanted by the International Criminal Court for genocide, responsible for the death of millions in a jihad against the people of Darfur and Sudan.
Islamic governments have targeted Kenya as a key element in the spread of Islam in Horn of Africa and ultimately the world. The Kenyan Diaspora including Presidential candidate Sen. Barack Hussein Obama has also played a part. [Atlas Shrugs quoting David Jonsson, February, 2008]
I am sure it was Obama backed Odinga that invited Bashir. When Obama back Odinga lost the election last year he unleashed a wave of unspeakable violence. Back in Janurary 2008, I first posted on Obama’s disturbing and unqualified support of violent inciter, Raila Odinga. He was aligned with Kenyan Muslim leaders who urged the Kenyan government to cut off diplomatic ties with the United States Kenya’s first truly free and fair democratic election was in December 2002, won by Mwai Kibaki and a multi-ethnic coalition party NARC (National Rainbow Coalition). One of the leaders of that coalition was Raila Odinga.
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Pakistan Christians denied aid
news24.com:
About 200 000 Christian refugees in the Punjab province and about 600 000 Christians and Hindus in the Sindh province are affected by the phenomenon, Fides said, citing NGO sources on the ground.
“The Christian refugees are often ignored. They are purposely not identified and registered. Thus, they are automatically excluded from any health care or food, as they supposedly do not exist,” said a local NGO worker cited by Fides.
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U.S. conservatives form new pro-Israel lobby group
Haaretz:
Washington observers may feel there is no obvious shortage of pro-Israel lobbyists in the city – but a group of leading American conservatives thinks otherwise and has set up a new campaign group to attack President Obama over his “anti-Israel” stance, U.S. website Politico reports.
The Emergency Committee for Israel presents a potent combination of Republican Party neoconservatives and Evangelical Christians. The new group’s board includes Weekly Standard Editor William Kristol and Gary Bauer, a former Republican presidential candidate who leads the group American Values, as well as Rachel Abrams, a conservative writer and activist.
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Canadian posties pay for union’s anti-Israel policies
National Post:
What does this have to do with Gaza?
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers is supporting an attempt to break the Gaza “blockade”. Canadian posties will no longer bring mail direct to the door in many nieghbourhoods, avoid homes with dogs and cancelled delivery to a community where they were bothered by nesting hawks. But boats to Gaza is OK. Seriously, should a corporation tasked with delivering the mail be using members dues to sponsor foreign policy?
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Katrina’s Race-Baiting Legacy
by Michelle Malkin, FrontPage:
This weekend, on the 5th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, civil rights activists and hip-hop stars will hold what they call a “healing ceremony” to commemorate the disaster. President Obama will speak at a separate event in New Orleans on Sunday. But don’t expect any of these reconciliation-seeking leaders to confront the indelible stain of racial demagoguery left by the left in Katrina’s aftermath. Hating George W. Bush means never having to say you’re sorry.
The Olympic gold medal for racial grievance-mongering went to rapper Kanye West, who railed during a supposedly nonpolitical nationwide telethon that the government was shooting “us,” that “those are my people down there,” and that “George Bush doesn’t care about black people!” West’s vulgar exploitation of a charity drive — which was meant to unite America — left most viewers with the same aghast, frozen expression as the one on comedian Mike Myers’ face as he tried to rescue their fundraising segment from the sewage.
Not to be outdone, the Congressional Black Caucus convened a press conference to blast news reporters for describing Katrina victims as “refugees.” Yes, really.
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Fareed Zakaria Paints Hezbollah as More ‘Tolerant’ Than GZM Protesters
by Ron Radosh:
Fareed Zakaria spoke last Sunday on CNN — on his weekly program Fareed Zakaria GPS — with his usual haughty display of what he considers to be the great wisdom he regularly presents to his audience. The would-be secretary of State told his viewers this:
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Follow the Money: Could Mayor Bloomberg’s Media Business Interests in the Middle East Have Anything to Do with His Support of the Ground Zero Mosque?
Posted by Mondo Frazier:
Call us cynical but we wonder whether Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s passionate backing of the building of a controversial mosque near Ground Zero stems as much from Bloomberg’s belief in America’s “freedom of faith” as it might from the Mayor’s belief in the “virtues of Islamic finance?”
Does the Mayor’s unshakable support have anything to do with The Bloomberg (company) becoming a ‘single provider of information that caters to the Islamic business market’? A Bloomberg five-year business plan for an Islamic finance portal via a Bloomberg hub at the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) is already a reality.
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Administration halts prosecution of alleged USS Cole bomber
By Peter Finn, Washington Post:
The Obama administration has shelved the planned prosecution of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the alleged coordinator of the Oct. 2000 suicide attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, according to a court filing.
The decision at least temporarily scuttles what was supposed to be the signature trial of a major al-Qaeda figure under a reformed system of military commissions. And it comes practically on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the attack, which killed 17 sailors and wounded dozens when a boat packed with explosives ripped a hole in the side of the warship in the port of Aden.
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“It’s politics at this point,” said one military official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss policy. He said he thinks the administration does not want to proceed against a high-value detainee without some prospect of civilian trials for other major figures at Guantanamo Bay.
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A reminder to stay vigilant
Lorne Gunter, National Post:
In the wee hours of Oct. 12, 1984, the IRA attempted to blow up British prime minister Margaret Thatcher while she was attending her Conservative party’s annual conference in the seaside resort of Brighton. They failed. The bomb, placed by an IRA terrorist weeks earlier, killed five, wounded 31 and did considerable damage to the city’s Grand Hotel, but left Mrs. Thatcher unscathed.
The next morning, the conspirators sent an ominous message to media outlets, a message that should forever stand as a warning to security officials, police, policymakers and the public: “Today we were unlucky, but remember we only have to be lucky once. You will have to be lucky always.”
It’s true: Free people must be constantly vigilant against the foes of liberty if they are to remain free. The forces of chaos only have to be successful once in a while — 9/11, Bali, Madrid, the London Tubes — to disrupt democracy and peace. Meanwhile, the forces that protect us must be constantly and completely on guard.
(That, incidentally, is why the Tamil boat people pose such a problem. If our immigration officials mistakenly allow even one Tiger terrorist into the country in disguise as a legitimate refugee, the consequences for Canada could be deadly, as well as for their innocent victims in Sri Lanka. But that’s a topic for another day.)
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The last refuge of a liberal
By Charles Krauthammer:
Liberalism under siege is an ugly sight indeed. Just yesterday it was all hope and change and returning power to the people. But the people have proved so disappointing. Their recalcitrance has, in only 19 months, turned the predicted 40-year liberal ascendancy (James Carville) into a full retreat. Ah, the people, the little people, the small-town people, the “bitter” people, as Barack Obama in an unguarded moment once memorably called them, clinging “to guns or religion or” — this part is less remembered — “antipathy toward people who aren’t like them.”
That’s a polite way of saying: clinging to bigotry. And promiscuous charges of bigotry are precisely how our current rulers and their vast media auxiliary react to an obstreperous citizenry that insists on incorrect thinking.
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