The Religious Left Goes Truthing

By Mark Tooley:

Blogging recently for Jim Wallis’s Sojourners, former CIA staffer Ray McGovern described how he was ostensibly roughed up by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s security detail during a recent speech at George Washington University. A few years ago, he had a less violent scofflaw during a Donald Rumsfeld speech. “I wonder if this show of brutality may be a signpost on a path to even wider and more brutal repression,” he darkly suggested for Sojourners. McGovern is with a leftist group called “Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity” and is often aligned with 9/11 conspiracy theorists.

Why Wallis’s Religious Left group, which aspires to be mainstream, would uncritically publish a 9/11 “truther” is unclear. Wallis is a prominent Obama supporter and boasts of access to the White House. In his Sojourners article, McGovern complained his treatment possibly foreshadows an impending “fascist” state in America. Such rhetoric recalls Wallis’s own angry and radical anti-Vietnam War years but not his last decade of more soothing appeals to suburban evangelicals.

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Egypt crisis leaves Obama diminished

Rex Murphy:

Singular or great events have been the prism through which some politicians find the measure of themselves.

The dynamic is familiar from history. Great challenges or crises sometimes call out the extrordinary personalities or leaders that alone can deal with such challenges or crises. The time, so to speak, evokes its redeemer. Not invariably. We are not always lucky. Not every crisis finds its manager. But then, lucky we sometimes are: we have but to think of Lincoln and Churchill — two men whose extraordinary abilities and capacity were only to be revealed in their full scope and exercise, stimulated into existence by (in their case) — the near apocalpytic challenges they had to face.

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Breitbart speaks with NRO in Madison

Susan Rice’s Illegitimate U.N. Folly

William A. Jacobson:

To call the performance of the Obama administration at the UN, through Ambassador Susan Rice, “folly” would be far, far too kind.

Mahmoud Abbas, despite repeated U.S. requests, insisted on pressing for a U.N. Security Council resolution declaring Israeli settlement construction “illegal.” The U.S. vetoed the resolution.

Standing in isolation, all was good.

But the fact is that the U.S. was all too happy to sign onto a Presidential Statement from the President of the Security Council denouncing the “illegitimacy” of Israeli settlements. This proposed compromise was rejected by Abbas, despite a phone call from Obama. The U.S. was willing to throw Israel under the bus, but not all the way; throwing our friends only half-way under the bus is what passes for standing by our friends these days.

But it was far worse. The statement made by Susan Rice immediately after the vote was outrageously one-sided, the type of pandering to the worst elements in the world which has become a pattern for Obama’s foreign policy (emphasis mine):

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What do Climate Data Really Show? The Berkeley Climate Data Project

By S. Fred Singer:

However, the most serious revelation from the e-mails is that they tried to “hide the decline” in temperatures, using various “tricks” in order to keep alive a myth of rising temperatures in support of the dogma of anthropogenic global warming. There have now been a number of investigations of the activities of this group, mainly in the UK. These have all turned out to be complete whitewashes, aimed to exonerate the scientists involved. None of these investigations has even attempted to learn how and in what way the data might have been manipulated.

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Communist Protester in Wis.: ‘People Are Open’ to a ‘Revolutionary Movement’

by Jonathon M. Seidl:

Yesterday we brought you video of socialists openly rallying in Madison, WI and trying to recruit new members. Today, we show you that the communists are joining the fray too.

Once again, the MacIver Institute was down at the Capitol capturing video of those flocking to the protests in Wisconsin. This time, videographer Bill Osmuski caught up with some admitted revolutionaries from Chicago who came up to try and spread their message, and told Osmuski they definitely think “people are open to the possibilities of building a revolutionary movement.”

What did the communists cite as evidence? If you said “Egypt” and the unrest “around the world,” you’re right:

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President’s campaign forces seize Wisconsin statehouse

The Washington Times:

Message to Wisconsin taxpayers: President Obama and the Democratic National Committee have declared war on you. Message to other states: You’re next.

The political unrest in Wisconsin, billed as some kind of grass-roots uprising, is being organized and directed by Barack Obama‘s Organizing for America and the Democratic National Committee. This development is consistent with Mr. Obama‘s instructions for supporters to “get in the face” of those who oppose them, but in this case, they are seeking to derail a lawful legislative process.

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Is the taboo on reporting about the ineffectiveness of MAD and Iran beginning to crack?

Mladen Andrijasevic:

After years of silence finally we see Iran’s intentions exposed to the American audience. The movie Iranium is now being shown all around the US.

Two days in a row Fox News had broadcasted programs about Iran. On Thursday there was Glenn Beck with Who Is the 12th Imam? and last night Sean Hannity with Iran’s Ticking Time Bomb on the documentary Iranium.

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