The third party no one talks about
Kevin Libin:
The influence of third parties that intervene in Canadian political matters doesn’t usually get much attention. Then again, by law, they’re not supposed to have much influence.
But on Tuesday, a top story on CBC’s The National reported that America’s National Rifle Association (NRA) “has been hard at work on this side of the border” meddling, allegedly, in the gun registry debate, causing Liberal House Leader David McGuinty to worry aloud in a news release Monday that the government would “listen to a powerful foreign influence” when considering Canadian policy.
But during the last federal election, Avaaz, an internationally based liberal activist group, registered for the first time as a third party in Canada — meaning it raised and spent money on campaigning, but wasn’t an official party or candidate.
It spent tens of thousands of dollars aimed at defeating three Conservative candidates in three federal ridings, even though the Elections Act puts a tight limit on that kind of targeted spending to just a few thousand dollars. It has lately been lobbying the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission’s chairman to influence his decisions.
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MoDo, D’Souza and the Shame of the New York Times
Posted by Andrew Klavan:
We all know by now how the left reacts to the presence of the truth: the screaming, the name-calling, the hysterical slander; the way they designate the craziest Koran-burning, abortionist-shooting nutcase they can find to represent the right; the way they demonize commentators like Rush and Coulter and Glenn Beck, without ever engaging with their ideas, and then use their names as insults to fling at people who have nothing to do with them.
In short, the left reacts to the truth the way a vampire reacts to a cross… or the way the left reacts to a cross, come to think of it. So when I see their brains start to smoke, I know one of the good guys is talking sense.
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Political Appointees Involved in New Black Panther Case, and More DOJ Stonewalling
BY Daniel Halper:
Jennifer Rubin follows up on several recent stories she’s written for THE WEEKLY STANDARD (see here, here, and here) with this email:
The Obama administration for over a year has insisted that the decision to dismiss an egregious case of voter intimidation against the New Black Panther Party was made by career attorneys. In a series of letters to Republican Reps. Lamar Smith and Frank Wolf, and in sworn testimony by the head of the civil rights division Thomas Perez, the Obama team stuck to its story that career attorneys made the call. (In fact the two individuals the Justice Department identified, Loretta King and Steve Rosenbaum, were then the interim head of the civil rights division and the deputy, both political positions.) THE WEEKLY STANDARD, however, previously reported that in written discovery responses to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights the Justice Department let on that both the associate attorney general (the number three man in the Justice Department) Thomas J. Perrelli and his boss Eric Holder had been consulted on the dismissal. Today, further evidence came to light indicating the Obama Justice Department has lied about the involvement of political appointees.
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Soros’s Anti-Human-Rights Agenda
Anne Bayefsky:
George Soros’s enormous gift of $100 million to the non-governmental organization Human Rights Watch is a serious shot across the bow for Republicans and conservatives. Billionaire Sheldon Adelson once said he would become “the Right’s answer to George Soros,” but he has not. Although “human rights” is the most powerful political currency of our time, no one on the right has stepped up to the plate, and Soros has the playing field to himself.
The significance of his gift can be understood only by appreciating the web of connections associated with this human-rights organization and its resulting influence.
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Obama’s U.N. Record
John Bolton:
Barack Obama will make his second address as president to the opening of the United Nations General Assembly on September 23, and engage in the customary ceremonies, social events, and consultations with other heads of government. Twenty months into the tenure of our most multilateral president, what has he accomplished at the U.N.? The short answer: Not much.
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The Counter-Revolution Has Begun
By J.R. Dunn:
The Tea Party victories of last week have clearly revealed the movement for what it actually is: not a tantrum, not a voter mutiny, not a short-term insurrection, but something never actually seen before in this country — it is a counter-revolution.
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Proof: New Records Show DOJ Lied About New Black Panther Dismissal
by J. Christian Adams:
Judicial Watch made an explosive announcement today about the Justice Department’s stonewalling in the New Black Panther voter intimidation case dismissal. Forced to bring a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit after DOJ rebuffed its public records request (so much for transparency), Judicial Watch obtained a privilege log from the DOJ last week.
It shows — in a rather dramatic way — that the DOJ has been untruthful about who was involved in the dismissal of the case.
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A Badge of Muslim Courage: Raheel Raza
by Jamie Glazov, FrontPage:
Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Raheel Raza, a leading Muslim reformer, award winning writer, professional speaker, diversity consultant, documentary film maker and interfaith advocate. A founding member of the Muslim Canadian Congress, she is the author of Their Jihad . . . Not My Jihad. Visit her site at RaheelRaza.com.FP: Raheel Raza, welcome to Frontpage Interview.
I would like to talk to you today about the courageous battle you have been fighting, as a Muslim, on the frontlines of our battle against radical Islam. Your pronouncements against the Ground Zero Mosque and your collision with Tariq Ramadan are the recent examples of your noble stand for justice and freedom.
Let’s start with your battle against the Ground Zero mosque and also the threat you received from Ground Zero mosque developer Sharif El Gamal after your meeting with the organizers of the mosque in New York.
Raza: Thanks Jamie.
It’s been almost a month since my article was published in the Ottawa Citizen regarding the proposed mosque at Ground Zero, which was followed by my trip to New York to attend a meeting of the organizers of the mosque and then the follow up — which has been good, bad and ugly.
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Defaming Israel
by Joseph Puder, FrontPage:
Karl Vick’s report in Time magazine entitled Why Israel Doesn’t Care About Peace was driven by his own ideological bent toward Israel and the issue of Middle East peace; one that he clearly shares with the editorial board of Time magazine. The article’s validity was additionally compromised by the imbalance of those individuals the author chose to interview and the accompanying pictures.
In his article, Vick cited a recent poll that asked respondents to name “the most urgent problem facing Israel.” He did this in order to demonstrate that Israelis are not concerned with peace and are instead, more preoccupied with education, crime, national security and poverty. Yet he missed several points. The most obvious is that Israelis have always listed peace with the Arabs as their top concern. When, however, Israel unilaterally withdrew from Gaza and abandoned settlements in Samaria only to be repeatedly rocketed by Hamas, it became clear that peace is simply a pipe-dream. You simply cannot have a one-sided peace.
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Israel’s Allies in 1948; The USSR, Czechoslovakia, American Mainline Churches and the Left
By Dr. Norman Berdichevsky:
The nearly universal belief, never challenged by the media, is that the United States was wholly or largely and “morally” responsible for fully supporting Israel on the ground from the very beginning of its independence in May, 1948. The world has been inundated with a tsunami of Arab propaganda and crocodile tears shed for the “Palestinians” who have reveled in what they refer to as their Catastrophe or Holocaust (“Nabka” in Arabic).
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