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CAMERA addresses delegitimization of Israel

By Shai Afsai & Paul Rocchio:

Hundreds of people attended the CAMERA conference in Boston. /Source: CAMERAHundreds of people attended the CAMERA conference in Boston. /Source: CAMERABOSTON – The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) held a conference, “War by Other Means: The Global Campaign to Delegitimize Israel,” on Oct. 10-11 at Boston University. The event, which drew a crowd of approximately 700 people each day, included such speakers as Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard University law professor; political cartoonist and Dry Bones creator Yaakov Kirschen (whose work often appears in The Voice & Herald); Yigal Carmon, president of the Middle East Research Institute (MEMRI); Irwin Cotler, a member of the Canadian Parliament; and Mark Steyn, a Canadian writer, political commentator and cultural critic who now lives in the U.S.

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Olives of wrath

YNET:

In recent years, the olive harvest in Judea and Samaria has been a time of excitement not only for the farmers, who are eager to reap their harvest, but also for international media and NGOs, eager to sow their stories. The press and international “peace” groups are eager to portray Jewish residents harassing Arab farmers, damaging the groves and crops.

The validity of these reports is rarely, if ever, questioned, investigated, and re-reported according to in-depth information gathering. Another aspect of these reports that is rarely questioned is the driving force behind the stories.

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Why Doesn’t Everyone Know Jan Schakowsky’s Husband Wrote ObamaCare in Jail?

By Stella Paul:

I know who’s got my vote for the cutest couple since Bonnie and Clyde. It’s the larcenous lovebirds from Chicago: Jan Schakowsky, the most far-left member of Congress, and her bank robber husband, Robert Creamer, who wrote Obamacare in jail.

What a romance! She waited as he served time for sixteen counts of bank fraud, selflessly devoting herself to trying to impeach Dick Cheney and to showering federal funds on her biggest, most ethically challenged contributors.

And he persevered inside the graybar hotel, aflame with the inspiration that became Stand Up Straight! How Progressives Can Win, a 628-page manual for how “to reshape the structure of one-sixth of the American economy” — namely, health care.

Endorsed by David Axelrod and SEIU honcho Andrew Stern, Stand Up Straight! gave Democrats the perfect voodoo recipe of lies, lies, and boiled frog’s eyes they used to cook up ObamaCare.

Here’s how David Horowitz’s Discover The Network describes it:

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So, How Much Sanity Was There in D.C. Yesterday? (Updated)

by Charlie Martin:

What if they held a political rally and a rock concert broke out?

The “Rally to Restore Sanity/Fear” in Washington, D.C., on Saturday looked like it was probably generally a lot of fun. The crowd looked cheerful, and I generally like Jon Stewart and sometimes like Stephen Colbert. The music was okay — I’m a big fan of Cat Stevens, and the guy with the beard (Yusuf something?) who sang “Peace Train” did a pretty credible cover version.

But Roger didn’t ask for a review; he wanted the now-traditional Pajamas Media crowd size estimate.

As always, this would be much easier if I could get a photo of the crowd from directly overhead, and as usual, I can’t find one. Apparently, for some reason, they no longer let aircraft fly over the Capitol and White House, so we have to settle for the usual photos from locations from the Washington Monument or the like.

The AP provides us several in a slideshow. Here’s a good one:

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Mark Levin on his fight against Saul Alinsky

by therightscoop:

Mark Levin took some time on Friday to talk about where he started with conservatism and how he ran into Saul Alinsky along the way of his career. It gives us a bit more insight into how he understands Obama and the radicals like him.

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Goodbye Global Warming, Hello Biodiversity

By Alan Caruba:

After three decades of trying to push the global warming scam to a point where billions could be made selling and trading bogus “carbon credits”, the global schemers have abandoned it in the wake of 2009 revelations that a handful of rogue climate scientists were literally inventing the data to support it.

If there is one lesson to be learned from and about environmentalists, it is that they are utterly relentless. The ultimate goal is one-world government directed from the United Nations by unelected bureaucrats who are soulless strangers to the truth, to morality, to humanity.

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John T. Flynn: A True Liberal

The View from 1776:

From the 1920s until the late 1940s, John T. Flynn was a highly regarded and influential journalistic analyst of American political and economic affairs.

His descriptions of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal and Mussolini’s fascist state corporatism, in important respects identical political revolutions, are paralleled by the gulf between President Obama’s campaign rhetoric and promises and his performance in office.

When liberal still meant support for personal freedom from arbitrary interference by the political state, John Flynn recognized that progressivism, now called liberalism, was more akin to fascism than to political liberty.

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Palin: ‘Corrupt Bastards’ At Alaska CBS Affiliate Tried To Create False Controversy About Joe Miller

By Mark Finkelstein:

Calling them “corrupt bastards,” Sarah Palin has asserted that reporters at a CBS affiliate in Alaska tried to gin up false controversies surrounding the Republican senatorial candidate, Joe Miller.

Palin said she has tape of CBS reporters in Alaska at a Miller rally that Palin organized this past Thursday saying “let’s find a child molester in the crowd as a supporter for Joe Miller” and blast that, and seeking to suggest there was some kind of chaos along the lines that occured recently at a Rand Paul rally.

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‘Sanity’ rally features ‘Death to Salman Rushdie’ fatwa endorser

Rick Moran:

Irony was lost on the organizers and most of the participants at yesterday’s “Sanity” rally on the mall. In order to “get” irony, one must have an ability for introspection – a quality that does not emerge in abundance from the “hipsters” and nearly all white mass of cooler-than-you dudes and dudettes who demonstrated a cluelessness so profound, even liberal pundits didn’t quote know what to make of the whole thing.

That cluelessness extended to their embrace of the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens (now Yusaf Islam) who, back in the day when these sort of things actually mattered, supported the call of Ayatollah Khomenei for the death of “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie.
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