School text book ‘advocates anti-semitism’
Independent [UK]:
A text book taught in some weekend schools in the UK asks children to list the “reprehensible” qualities of the Jews, an investigation has discovered.
Around 5,000 Muslim school children are taught from text books which claim that some Jews were transformed into pigs and apes, the penalty for sodomy is execution and teach the correct ways to chop off the hands and feet of thieves, according to Panorama.
A spokesman for the programme said the pupils, aged six to 18, attend a network of more than 40 weekend schools across the UK which offer to teach the Saudi national curriculum to Muslim children.
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HT Nat’l Post
Heavy-handed university presidents are the problem
By EZRA LEVANT:
What is it with university presidents threatening to sic the police on their critics?
In March, University of Ottawa president Allan Rock approved a letter written by his deputy to Ann Coulter, the U.S. political commentator, warning she could be prosecuted under the Criminal Code if she said the wrong things in her speech on campus.
Incredibly, Rock was not fired by the university’s trustees for that demolition of academic freedom.
Mamdouh Shoukri, the president of York University, must have been watching, because he took the legal threats business a step further last week.
Last Tuesday, Shoukri’s university hosted a speech by George Galloway, the disgraced former MP from the U.K. On a trip to Gaza last year, Galloway was filmed handing wads of cash to Hamas, an illegal terrorist group.
Shoukri had no problem with Galloway speaking on his campus. But when Aaron Hoch, a local Jewish rabbi, criticized Galloway and encouraged people to participate in a peaceful protest against him, Shoukri leapt into action.
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A Reply to Mona Charen’s “Why Sarah Palin Shouldn’t Run”
Jedediah Bila:
First and foremost, let’s address one of Charen’s opening points as to why Palin should sit 2012 out. She stated, “Americans will be looking for sober competence, managerial skill, and maturity — not sizzle and flash.” Perhaps a walk down policy lane is in order.
As Governor, Sarah Palin actualized AGIA, the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act, the largest private sector infrastructure project in North American history. Palin’s administration opened up drilling for oil and gas at Point Thomson for the first time in several decades. As Governor, Palin reduced earmark requests for Alaska by 80%, established Alaska’s Petroleum Integrity Office to oversee safe energy development, placed the state checkbook online, and reduced spending for Fiscal Year 2010 by over one billion dollars from Governor Murkowski’s Fiscal Year 2007 budget. Palin signed ACES, Alaska’s Clear and Equitable Share bill, into law, incentivizing development and ensuring that Alaskans would receive a “clear and equitable” share of oil profits. She cut costs by selling a private jet purchased by the previous governor and saying “no thank you” to the Executive Mansion’s personal chef. She has served as Chairperson of the AK Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and Vice Chair of the National Governors Association Natural Resource Committee. Prior to her time as Governor, Palin served as Mayor of Wasilla, AK, and city council member in Wasilla. She has also been involved in running a commercial fishing business with her husband Todd.
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The Climate Cash Cow
IBD:
A high-ranking member of the U.N.’s Panel on Climate Change admits the group’s primary goal is the redistribution of wealth and not environmental protection or saving the Earth.
Money, they say, is the root of all evil. It’s also the motivating force behind what is left of the climate change movement after the devastating Climate-gate and IPCC scandals that saw the deliberate manipulation of scientific data to spur the world into taking draconian regulatory action.
Left for dead, global warm-mongers are busy planning their next move, which should occur at a climate conference in relatively balmy Cancun at month’s end. Certainly it should provide a more appropriate venue for discussing global warming than the site of the last failed climate conference — chilly Copenhagen.
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Doing battle with the ADHD-industrial complex
By Katherine Ellison:
As the mother of a teenager who got a diagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in 2004, I wasn’t surprised to read the new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that said the number of ADHD cases in children jumped by 22 percent between 2003 and 2007 – an increase of 1 million kids.
From the day my son started school, I’ve watched popular awareness of disabling distraction rise, to the point where it’s easy to believe the CDC estimate that one in 10 U.S. children – a total of 5.4 million kids – now has ADHD, as reported by their families. This might even be positive news, in that at least some kids who need medical attention are getting it. Except for one problem. Growing along with those numbers is one of the most aggressive, lucrative, bewildering and often just plain useless sales forces humanity has ever seen – call it the ADHD-industrial complex.
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Muslims vs. Martyrs
By Jeannie DeAngelis:
President Obama has assumed the role of a traveling advocate for Islam. Every chance the president gets, he climbs on a soapbox to address issues of callousness toward the Muslim faith. The president is well-practiced in Muslim apologetics, and regardless of nation or venue, he stresses the need for tolerance, understanding, and acceptance of all things Mohammad.
When traveling abroad, America’s living example of ecumenical tolerance makes it a priority to identify first with the religious roots of his childhood, while at home, the president forfeits religious neutrality only when hosting Ramadan celebrations at the White House.
As far as Christianity is concerned, Obama takes a “not just” approach to clarify America as “no longer a Christian nation.” In fact, Obama mentions his personal conversion to the Christian faith only as an addendum. Moreover, the president has yet to expound upon how someone so obviously enamored of Islam could leave such a “great religion” (he was registered as a Muslim in school in Indonesia) for Christendom if convinced that foundational principles of “advancing justice, progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings” are common to both faiths — a belief proven false daily.
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If Obama is a Bible-believing Christian then I am Joy Behar.
Who’s the ‘Occupier’?
By Rabbi Aron Hier:
How do you bring two opponents to the peace table when their world views are separated by millennia?
In the Palestinian timetable, the Israelites’ 3,200 years of history in the land of Israel have mysteriously vanished. According to the Palestinians’ worldview, Israel Standard Time commences with the 16th or 19th century. They tell us of an incipient Palestinian nation but make no mention of a much older Jewish-Israeli civilization. And thus, they unilaterally decide when the historical narrative should rightfully begin.
History must start at the beginning. Here is one page from history (1948, Benny Morris) the Palestinians definitely don’t want you to see:
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Gun Control Advocate Traver to Head ATF
by Bob Owens:
Inexperienced and politically connected, Traver has developed a reputation as a gun control advocate. Like President Barack Obama, Traver has been tied to the left-wing Joyce Foundation, which bankrolls various anti-gun organizations and which counts among its many initiatives an attempt to subvert Second Amendment scholarship. Traver lent his voice to a deceptive NBC News article, purposefully blurring the lines between fully automatic military machine guns and civilian-legal semi-automatic rifles that fire one bullet when the trigger is pulled. Traver is also member of the anti-gun International Association of Chiefs of Police.
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Disturbing mysteries of danger and betrayal
By Dr. Laurie Roth:
Just this week I interviewed two guests who exposed things that cannot stand and can’t just be whisked by as we stare at the bright shiny thing flying by our left side. Neither story has been in the news, but I intend to tell you about them both. You have a right to know and make up your own mind if these events matter.
First of all: Each week I visit Michael Carlin, editor and publisher of Century City News in LA., on Thursdays. We explore an idea he is cultivating and writing about called the ‘Why not plan.’ This is a comprehensive idea as to how to really deal with illegal immigration, our national security and economic needs and risks. Check it out Whynotplan.info.
This week on Michael’s segment we explored the national security risks and dangers coming across the border and in the course of our conversation, he revealed to me something that he was told directly by detectives in the LA area. This event was completely hushed up and did not hit the media. In fact, when the Detectives were told that Michael Carlin was an editor and publisher of a major paper in LA, he was begged not to print anything about this story. Being a man of honor, he said he would not. However, he never said he would not tell the truth to the American people, thus he shared what happened with me on air. No one ever told me not to write about it.
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Candidly Speaking: Harper and Obama on Israel
By ISI LEIBLER:
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Although on the surface the US appears to be offering incentives to Israel to persuade it to accede to its requests, anyone reading between the lines recognizes that nothing new is being offered. The exercise of the veto in the face of UN resolutions demonizing Israel and offering to maintain Israel’s security needs have been fundamental tenets of the relationship between Israel and the US. In reality, Obama issued an ultimatum to Netanyahu by threatening to abandon Israel unless it capitulates to his demands.
Many of us today yearn for an American president who would be more considerate of our needs than the present incumbent. It would perhaps be an impossible dream to have someone of the caliber of Stephen Harper leading the US, but alas, today, we are becoming increasingly reconciled to the reality that the US president is no friend of Israel and is paving the way for an imposed settlement with potentially disastrous long-term repercussions on the security of our nation.
Margaret Thatcher was right
National Post:
Who could have predicted today’s currency mess in Europe? Margaret Thatcher. And she did. Unfortunately, no one listened:
Today, Margaret Thatcher’s autobiography, published in 1993, reads like a prophecy. It shows how deeply and with what extraordinary wisdom she had examined proposals for the single currency. Her overriding objection was not ill-considered or xenophobic, as subsequent critics have repeatedly claimed.
They were economic. Right back in 1990, Mrs. Thatcher foresaw with painful clarity the devastation it was bound to cause.
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Allen West: Civil Rights Icon John Lewis is a hypocrite
by therightscoop:
Civil Rights Icon John Lewis, admitting he didn’t know the facts of the case, proceeded to defend Charlie Rangel against his ethics violations by dredging up Rangel’s involvement in the Civil Rights movement. I guess the facts of the case or rather the actual ethics violations themselves don’t matter to John Lewis if you are one of his friends. Yet Allen West says that while he was being viciously attacked during his recent campaign, having his social security number mailed to all of his constituents and being accused of being a member of an all white motorcycle gang, that John Lewis came down and campaigned against him, supporting the man who was playing the race card and egregiously smearing him. West sees this as duplicitous and asks if instead of defending Charlie Rangel, Lewis should have stood on character.
West also has strong words for the Congressional Black Caucus that he criticizes for ‘preaching victimization and dependency’ and supporting ‘liberal social welfare policies that are failing in the black community’.
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A prison epistle sheds light on otherwise unknown Christians suffering in secret cells
Mindy Belz:
In October Sayed Mossa handed a letter to a Westerner who came to visit him several times in jail in Afghanistan. He also asked the visitor not to come back, fearing that any misstep could lead to his death.
The letter, a copy of which WORLD received in late October (and can be viewed in its entirety below, except for several people’s names redacted for their protection), begins with a plea “to the international church of the world and to the President Brother [Barack] Obama and to the heads of ISAF force in Afghanistan.” It describes his imprisonment since late May “due to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, saviour of the world.” It also describes daily beatings and torture: “They did sexual things with me, beat me by wood, by hands, by legs, mocked me (“he’s Jesus Christ”), [spit] on me. No body let me for sleep night and day.” He also has received death threats.
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Throw the book at university types who try to assault free speech
By MICHAEL COREN:
Blatchford was recently booked to speak at the University of Waterloo in southwestern Ontario.
Before she could begin her lecture, however, a group of political thugs screamed Blatchford and the audience were Nazis and racists, and then three of them ran onto the stage and chained themselves together by their necks.
Their leader, one Dan Kellar, is a PhD student in geography who teaches courses in — wait for it — climate change. Asked why he was acting as a little fascist, Kellar replied Blatchford was like the Nazi propagandist Julius Streicher.
“He was hung for presenting information which led to misunderstanding and hatred,” Kellar explained. Actually, comrade, the word is “hanged,” but then PhDs aren’t what they were, especially when your tax dollars are funding them.
“It’s no longer a free-speech issue,” Einstein continued. “When people are lying about the situation, it’s just not appropriate to have them speak.”
In other words, if he and his buddies decide we are wrong, if they disagree with us, if they find anything we say to be in any way offensive, they will use violence and threats to silence us.
What is most bothering is why the police or campus security did not drag these idiots from the stage and arrest them. The explanation as to why they didn’t is that there were safety concerns. So what?
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On the anniversary of Climategate the Watermelons show their true colours
By James Delingpole:
Watermelons: green on the outside, red on the inside. This is the theme of my forthcoming book on the controlling, poisonously misanthropic and aggressively socialistic instincts of the modern environmental movement. So how very generous that two of that movement’s leading lights should have chosen the anniversary of Climategate to prove my point entirely.
The first comes courtesy of German economist and IPCC official Ottmar Edenhofer who has openly admitted what some of us have been saying for some time: that “Climate Change” has nothing to do with man’s modest and thoroughly unthreatening contribution to global mean temperatures, nor even with the plight of baby polar bears so sweet you could almost hug them if you didn’t know they’d take your arm off in a trice. All it is, really, is a Marxist exercise in minority grievance-mongering and wealth redistribution on a global scale.
Or, as Edenhoffer so helpfully puts it it Neue Zurcher Zeitung: (H/T Global Warming Policy Foundation):
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Brave Old World
By Robert Ferguson:
The effort to discredit global warming skeptics is warming up globally. Australian blogger Graham Readfearn reports on Naomi Oreskes’ speaking tour of Australia:
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The horrible truth starts to dawn on Europe’s leaders
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard:
My own view is that the EU became illegitimate when it refused to accept the rejection of the European Constitution by French and Dutch voters in 2005. There can be no justification for reviving the text as the Lisbon Treaty and ramming it through by parliamentary procedure without referenda, in what amounted to an authoritarian Putsch. (Yes, the national parliaments were themselves elected – so don’t write indignant comments pointing this out – but what was their motive for denying their own peoples a vote in this specific instance? Elected leaders can violate democracy as well. There was a corporal from Austria … but let’s not get into that).
Ireland was the one country forced to hold a vote by its constitutional court. When this lonely electorate also voted no, the EU again disregarded the result and intimidated Ireland into voting a second time to get it “right”.
This is the behaviour of a proto-Fascist organization, so if Ireland now – by historic irony, and in condign retribution – sets off the chain-reaction that destroys the eurozone and the European Union, it will be hard to resist the temptation of opening a bottle of Connemara whisky and enjoying the moment. But resist one must. The cataclysm will not be pretty.
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Critics Slam Obama Administration for ‘Hiding’ Massive Saudi Arms Deal
ABC:
The Obama administration has quietly forged ahead with its proposal to sell $60 billion worth of fighter jets and attack helicopters to Saudi Arabia unhampered by Congress, despite questions raised in legislative inquiries and in an internal congressional report about the wisdom of the deal.
The massive arms deal would be the single largest sale of weapons to a foreign nation in the history of the U.S., outfitting Saudi Arabia with a fully modernized, potent new air force.
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No wonder Obama bowed so low to his Saudi king.
ht DRUDGE
Israel to Syria
by “David Green”:
We never wanted anything from you but good neighborly relations when we established our state in accordance with a U.N. majority decision.
Instead, we were obliged to fight three wars, two started by you (1948 and 1973) and one provoked by you (1967). In all these, you were soundly defeated. In the first, you failed in your objective of preventing the establishment of the Jewish State. You succeeded only in preventing the establishment of the Palestinian state – a dubious success. This succession of your defeats was compounded by the defeat in the cold war of the Soviet Union, leaving you with no patron or protector and a legacy of hate and fear with the free world.
We did not take advantage of this, as we might have done, because we still want nothing but good relations with our northern neighbors. So we responded gladly – under previous prime ministers and the present one – to suggestions for a “peace of the brave”.
What you have given us is not a peace of the brave but a war of cowards, waged by proxies, while you sit safely at home, trusting our decency and moderation. Your Hezbollah proxies wage hit-and-run warfare, using innocent Palestinian and Lebanese civilians both as shields and as sacrificial victims.
Your logic is no better that your strategy or your morality.
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Obama Won’t Run…His Work Is Done
By Joan Swirsky:
The drivel the media are blathering about Obama’s 2012 race for reelection is absolute baloney! All those talking heads and print [so-called] journalists should be ashamed of themselves for prattling on about this unserious subject while studiously avoiding the urgent issues that threaten the very life of our country.
These are issues that a maniacal Nancy Pelosi, as House Minority Leader in the lame-duck session, is intent on cramming down the already-gagging throats of American voters who loathe her fetish with Marxism so much that on November 2 they decisively returned the House she had appropriated back to We the People. As columnist Ralph R. Reiland writes, it was “…the greatest defeat for a newly elected president in a midterm since…1922.”
Make no mistake about it, when the Obama-Pelosi-Reid-orchestrated disasters listed below take place, this triumvirate will applaud them, as any disaster that befalls our country fits neatly into their vision of Big Bad America. Yes, the very same America that brought them to the pinnacle of prominence, wealth, and power is the country they’re working overtime to destroy.
Here is just a sampling of what’s in store:
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Freezing Citizens to Death to Stop Global Warming
Marc Sheppard:
A leading U.K. fuel poverty charity is predicting deaths to skyrocket this winter as over 5 million homes struggle to pay rising fuel bills.
The Express is reporting that energy prices “have soared more than 80 per cent in the last five years,” and singles out British Gas for announcing a seven per cent hike when “the number of families struggling to pay their heating bills reaches 5.5 million and excess winter deaths this year are expected to be higher than ever.”
What the article failed to explain, or even mention, is the primary reason energy costs have become so dangerously prohibitive in the U.K: Green energy policy.
According to British Gas managing director Phil Bentley, not only is the price of wholesale gas up since spring, but the company is also fighting the ever-increasing costs of meeting its “environmental obligations.”
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Islamists in Pakistan Kill ‘Blasphemy’ Accused, Four Others
CDN:
Police suspect two Muslim extremists shot a Christian to death yesterday in Punjab Province shortly after the victim was granted bail in a “blasphemy” case – and less than a week after Islamist militants killed four members of a Christian family for their faith in the same province.
In Godhpur village in Narowal district, 111 kilometers (69 miles) northeast of Lahore, 22-year-old Latif Masih died after two men with pistols shot him to death near his home. Inspector Rafique Ahmed said that Masih’s murder was likely linked to the case against him for allegedly desecrating the Quran.
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Oilsands debate in Vancouver
By Ezra Levant:
A few weeks ago Ben West, a “community organizer” for B.C.’s Wilderness Committee challenged me to a debate about the oilsands. I happily accepted and we had at it last night in Vancouver, at a function moderated ably by the editor of the Georgia Straight newspaper, Charlie Smith.
Ben and Charlie are some of the friendliest people you’ll ever meet, and both are genuinely dedicated to the public.
I happen to disagree with most of Ben’s views — he made it clear last night that his opposition to capitalism drives his environmental activism — but he’s open to discussions, which is more than one could say for that profiteer David Suzuki.
But not everyone in the room was reasonable. Here’s a charming photoshop picture of me, uploaded to Facebook today by a less peaceful anti-oilsands activist:
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Focus on Sudan’s political referendum obscures trouble in Darfur
By Morton Abramowitz:
Reports are trickling in of increasing government-supported violence against Darfuris, deteriorating humanitarian conditions and widespread attacks on war-torn Darfur’s beleaguered civil society. But the world has done little to acknowledge, much less address, this rapidly declining situation.
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Facing our fears
By CAROLINE B. GLICK:
It is true that the Obama administration could help us if it wanted to. But it doesn’t want to. Happily, Israel has the power to help itself.
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Phosphorous fired from Gaza
Ynet:
Witnesses report six Palestinians injured as Air Force bombs targets in Strip in response to four phosphorous shells, three mortars fired at Negev. Army of Islam members go into hiding. PRC: Rocket fire a response to ‘Israel’s crimes’
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Lieberman tells UN envoy to file complaint on Gaza rockets
Cap and Trade Returns
by Rich Trzupek, FrontPage:
The document in question is entitled “PSD and Title V Permitting Guidance for Greenhouse Gases.” It was released to the public on Wednesday. The fact that it is a guidance document, as opposed to a formal regulatory proposal, is very significant. Regulations have to be proposed in certain forms, economic costs have to be considered, and there is a long, detailed public process involved. Guidance, on the other hand, isn’t subject to any of these sorts of annoying requirements. Guidance is the EPA offering its “opinion” on a subject and, when the criticism begins, Jackson will surely hide behind this accurate, but ultimately deceptive, detail. Few states outside of Texas will ignore EPA guidance, for such a document is traditionally treated as Holy Writ by state and local agencies. After all, their permitting decisions are ultimately subject to the EPA’s approval. How can a state regulator expect to have a decision approved by the overseeing federal authority if he or she ignores federal guidance?
It’s a subtle, yet devilishly brilliant policy. Few people understand the legal distinctions that come into play and Jackson will be able to con much of the mainstream media into believing that industrial advocates like me are making a mountain out of a molehill. We’re not. For those readers not aware of it, I am an expert on environmental regulation in general and the Clean Air Act in particular. Helping industry deal with both has been my primary career for over twenty-five years. Believe me: the implications of what Jackson is trying to do will have severe repercussions on our beleaguered industrial sector.
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Is Washington Post coverage of Israel crossing the line into anti-Semitism?
Leo Rennert:
Accusations of anti-Semitisms should be used with the greatest of care, especially when aimed at critics of Israel and some of its policies. Yet, there is also a a growing awareness that such criticism all too often does cross the line and morphs into anti-Semitism.
So how does one distinguish perfectly permissible criticism of Israel from downright anti-Semitism?
The latest such attempt comes courtesy of the U.S. State Department, which just issued a stern warning about “significant increases of anti-Semitism around the world.”
One such strain of anti-Semitism was described at an international conference in Ottawa on new and old forms of anti-Semitism by Hannah Rosenthal, a State Department official who holds the rank of special U.S. envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism.
The State Department, she announced, uses Natan Sharansky’s framework for identifying when someone, or some institution, or some government crosses the line into anti-Semitism?
So what are these criteria that State borrows from this most famous of Soviet refuseniks? And do they fit the incessant barrage of Israel-bashing articles in news sections of the Washington Post, coupled with the paper’s silence about warts, blemishes or shortcomings on the Palestinian side?
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Internet Censorship Bill Threatens Free Speech, Rule of Law
by Timothy B. Lee:
On Thursday the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved the Combating Online Infringements and Counterfeits Act. Its backers, including Hollywood and the recording industry, are hoping to rush the legislation through Congress during the current “lame duck” session. The legislation empowers the attorney general to draw up a list of Internet domain names he considers to be “dedicated to infringing activities,” and to obtain a variety of court orders designed to block access to these sites for American Internet users.
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HT Instapundit
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Don’t touch my junk
By Charles Krauthammer:
Ah, the airport, where modern folk heroes are made. The airport, where that inspired flight attendant did what everyone who’s ever been in the spam-in-a-can crush of a flying aluminum tube – where we collectively pretend that a clutch of peanuts is a meal and a seat cushion is a “flotation device” – has always dreamed of doing: pull the lever, blow the door, explode the chute, grab a beer, slide to the tarmac and walk through the gates to the sanity that lies beyond. Not since Rick and Louis disappeared into the Casablanca fog headed for the Free French garrison in Brazzaville has a stroll on the tarmac thrilled so many.
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Calgary teen belted his sister for flirting
Calgary Herald:
A Calgary teen will avoid a criminal record after beating his younger sister with a belt for flirting with boys at school.
Court heard a relative had told him it was his duty to punish her under Islamic culture, but a local imam says that’s not part of the religion’s teachings.
In a judgment released on Thursday, youth court Judge Lillian McLellan granted a conditional discharge to the offender, who pleaded guilty to assault with a weapon and says he wants to become a police officer.
Defence lawyer Jim Conway said there was definitely a cultural aspect to the case.
He said the sister, then 16, was doing something improper and a relative told the brother he had a duty to discipline her as the oldest male in the family.
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Move along, move along folks, nothing to see here.
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