Zero Jobs 101 — the Psychology of Alienating Employers
by Victor Davis Hanson:
Zero jobs last month — a net change of zero job growth? It was just announced that last month’s unemployment is still above 9% — despite the nearly five trillion dollars in Keynesian pump-priming, the near zero interest rates, the expanded unemployment and food stamp support, and the government takeovers and subsidies of businesses. There is a scary sort of deer-in-the-headlights look about Obama and Biden that is quite disturbing, as if they are thinking, “This was not supposed to happened to us. Geithner, Goolsbee, Orszag, Romer, Summers assured us that all this borrowing would turn things around — but they are all gone or leaving, so now we are alone? What to do? Hmmm. More them/us class warfare rhetoric? Embrace more of the California/Illinois/New York blue-state model? More European Union emulation? A national high-speed rail jobs program? Bring back Van Jones and “millions of green jobs”? Borrow another $5 trillion? Maybe negative interest rates? Seventy-five million on food stamps? Four years of unemployment insurance? A new Department of Jobs? Call in Jimmy Carter for advice about 1979? $100 billion more in green subsidies to progressive caring companies? Take over Ford? Another speech from Buffett? Unleash the Congressional Black Caucus?”
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A Proms protest with a whiff of Weimar about it
By Stephen Pollard:
Until Thursday night, nothing in the history of Proms broadcasts had forced a concert off air. Certainly not the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. On the very night the tanks moved into Prague, the great Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich was at the Proms with the USSR Symphony Orchestra. And he was performing, with intense poignancy, the Czech composer Dvorak’s cello concerto. I have a cherished recording of the concert. The audience was rapt and not a word was uttered.
When Chinese performers grace the Proms with their presence, there is not a word of protest about their government’s abuses of human rights. Nor should there be. They are musicians, not politicians.
But when the Israel Philharmonic played on Thursday evening, a band of around 30 thugs – none was wearing jackboots, but they should have been – launched into chanting and mock singing, disrupting the concert to such an extent that BBC Radio 3 decided it could not go on with the broadcast.
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London is no longer an English city and that’s how it got the Olympics, says John Cleese
By Hugo Gye:
Mass immigration has turned London into a city that is ‘no longer English’, John Cleese claims.
The former Monty Python star says he now feels like a foreigner walking through the capital’s streets.
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The Jihad is Against the Bible
Diana West:
Beyond the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks looms another signal date in the annals of global jihad. That date is Sept. 20, when the Palestinian Authority’s Mahmoud Abbas is expected to petition the United Nations for statehood.
What would a U.N.-ordained Palestinian state have to do with global jihad? Practically everything, because such statehood would mark a major victory in the long war on Israel’s existence. And, whether unadmitted or unimagined, it is Israel on which the axis of Islamic jihad turns.
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Rush: Obama is creating economic chaos
by The Right Scoop:
Rush delivers a short but fabulous monologue based on the unemployment rate manipulation done by this administration and the economic chaos Obama is creating. It’s excellent:
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New Fast and Furious details indicate gov’t cover-up, White House involvement
By Matthew Boyle – The Daily Caller:
The heated Congressional investigation into the botched Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives program Operation Fast and Furious reached a whole new level on Friday.
New emails obtained by the Los Angeles Times appear to show senior Obama administration and White House officials were briefed on the gun-walking operation. The three White House officials implicated by the LA Times’ reporting are Kevin M. O’Reilly, the director of North American Affairs for the White House national security staff; Dan Restrepo, the president’s senior Latin American advisor; and Greg Gatjanis, a White House national security official.
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Unsettling science
Lorne Gunter, National Post:
Last week, 63 scientists from CERN, the unimpeachable European Organization for Nuclear Research, published a paper in the journal Nature that would seem to prove that the sun, and not humans, is the main “driver” of climate on Earth.
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So why hasn’t this been headline news around the world? After all, global warming and what to do about it has been perhaps the biggest public policy issue of the past decade, with the possible exception of the worldwide financial crisis. (Both revolve around whether more government intervention and spending is the best way to solve large-scale problems.)
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Radio-Canada Shamefully Defends Game Show That Put Jerusalem in “Palestine”
HonestReporting Canada Subscriber,
On August 12, Radio-Canada, the French-language network of CBC News, broadcast a game show called “Connivence” which featured a question that presumed Jerusalem was a city in “Palestine,” despite the fact that Jerusalem is currently in, and an inseparable part of, the State of Israel.
In our critique of Radio-Canada, we noted that Jerusalem “is de facto under Israeli sovereignty – therefore the Radio-Canada question is simply factually incorrect in addition to it being a charged political statement.”
Close to 300 HonestReporting Canada subscribers responded to our call to action which made Radio-Canada acutely aware of the controversy that this show had created. On Wednesday, Radio Canada’s audience relations department officially responded to our subscriber’s complaints stating the following:
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Kiloton Threat: An Interview with General William “Jerry” Boykin
by Mark Tapson:
Lt. General (retired) William G. “Jerry” Boykin spent thirty-six years in the U.S. Army, many of them as an original member of Delta Force, the world’s premier Special Operations unit. His career plays out like a series of Tom Clancy thrillers: he helped capture Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, hunted the notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar, and has served in Vietnam, Iran, Somalia, Iraq, and Afghanistan, in addition to a stint with the CIA, and became the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence under President George W. Bush.
Along the way, Boykin, now an ordained minister, courted controversy with comments that seemed to couch the War on Terror in religious terms. This drew fire from leftist figures such as Sidney Blumenthal, John Kerry, and Seymour Hersh, as well as from the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), the self-proclaimed advocacy group linked to the Muslim Brotherhood.
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John Bolton Positioning Himself For V.P.?
by Rick Amato:
Former UN Ambassador John Bolton has the look and sound of someone about to announce his candidacy for U.S. President, dogging Barack Obama at every possible media opportunity. Or perhaps- given it is this late in the process and there is no apparent infrastructure or exploratory committee in place- does he have the look and sound of someone strategically positioning himself to become a Vice Presidential running mate for one of the leading candidates?
I asked him that question and others recently on my radio show and Ambassador Bolton used some of his harshest language yet in calling Obama a ‘radical’, saying “that he (Obama) cannot walk and chew gum at the same time” .
Below are excerpts from my interview John Bolton:
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Evidence Suggests Cover-Up in ATF Scandal, as More Guns Appear at Crime Scenes
Evidence Suggests Cover-Up in ATF Scandal, as More Guns Appear at Crime Scenes
A good day for Israel at the UN, and that’s news
Leo Rennert:
The UN on Thursday released its long-awaited report on last year’s flotilla raid, focusing on the lead ship where Israeli commandos were savagely attacked by violence-bent Turkish nationals and, in self-defense, fired back, killing nine of them. The flotilla was bent on breaching Israel’s blockade of Gaza.
The conclusions of UN panel, headed by Geoffrey Palmer, a former prime minister of New Zealand, received general approval from Israel, while the Turkish government of Prime Minister Erdogan went ballistic in objecting to virtually every conclusion.
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Reflections on the First Day of School in Israel
by Barry Rubin:
I ask my son how the first day of his elementary school (sixth grade) went. He tells me that the number of guards has been upped from two to five, and now they have metal detector wands. One of the guards, as before, carries a .38 caliber pistol. For good measure, he adds that the guard at the nearby clothing store is now carrying a G36C fully automatic Heckler & Koch. (Daniel’s an expert on small arms and has a high opinion of this weapon, one of his many hobbies.)
They are not carrying this equipment because of concern over random trespassers or shoplifters. I often reflect that if terrorists were to attack the elementary school successfully, they would be regarded as heroes in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and among millions of Arabs and Muslims.
In contrast, of course, Palestinian schools, stores, and malls do not have to fear attack. On the contrary, certainly in the Gaza Strip and to a lesser extent on the West Bank, they are being taught in textbooks that it is proper and virtuous to slay Israelis wherever they find them. Would all this change overnight if there were an internationally recognized Palestinian state? Of course not.
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Israel, unfazed by Turkey downgrading ties, won’t apologize
By HERB KEINON:
Senior gov’t official says that Israel hopes a “way can be found to overcome the disagreements” with Ankara, but adds no apology will be issued “for actions of self defense taken by soldiers.”
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Black conservative to Maxine Waters: “Hell is in the black communities that the Congressional Black Caucus serves”
by Dan Cleary:
Kevin Jackson is the author of the book “The Big Black Lie” and also known as @TheBlackSphere on Twitter. He was on Fox News with Megyn Kelly earlier today, discussing the recent barrage of ugly, racially-charged rhetoric we have heard over the past few weeks from the detestable Congressional Black Caucus. In response to Maxine Waters saying “the Tea Party can go to hell”, Jackson says “hell is in the black communities that the Congressional Black Caucus serves.” Ouch! He also accuses blacks of being racist because they voted for Obama in 2008 based on his skin color, not his qualifications.
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