Mark Steyn: Armageddon will be brought to you by ‘the experts’
ABC:
Canadian born Mark Steyn is one of the world’s best known conservative commentators. His new book is After America: Get Ready For Armageddon. He depicts a country in rapid decline presided over by an aloof ‘creditentialled class’. But it is not all bad news, as one reviewer has said: ‘only Mark Steyn can write about the decline of America and leave you laughing.’
Threatening Divine Wrath Against Israel
by Mark D. Tooley:
Just in time for the impending United Nations vote on Palestinian statehood, two prominent Evangelical Left thinkers and activists released their public salvo against Christian Zionism this week, called: “An Open Letter to America’s Christian Zionists.” They denounced American Christian Zionism as “sinful” and evidently want these sinners to repent at the altar by touting Palestinian statehood. They also warn of possible divine, even nuclear, judgment upon Israel if it doesn’t accommodate the Palestinians.
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New Fast & Furious document: ATF bought guns with taxpayer money and sold them to illegal buyers directly
by Allahpundit:
In case anyone’s still bitterly clinging to the “botched sting” theory of this clusterfark, cling no longer:
According to documents obtained by Fox News, Agent John Dodson was ordered to buy six semi-automatic Draco pistols — two of those were purchased at the Lone Wolf gun store in Peoria, Ariz. An unusual sale, Dodson was sent to the store with a letter of approval from David Voth, an ATF group supervisor.
Dodson then sold the weapons to known illegal buyers, while fellow agents watched from their cars nearby.
This was not a “buy-bust” or a sting operation, where police sell to a buyer and then arrest them immediately afterward. In this case, agents were “ordered” to let the sale go through and follow the weapons to a stash house.
According to sources directly involved in the case, Dodson felt strongly that the weapons should not be abandoned and the stash house should remain under 24-hour surveillance. However, Voth disagreed and ordered the surveillance team to return to the office. Dodson refused, and for six days in the desert heat kept the house under watch, defying direct orders from Voth.
A week later, a second vehicle showed up to transfer the weapons. Dodson called for an interdiction team to move in, make the arrest and seize the weapons. Voth refused and the guns disappeared with no surveillance.
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Mark Levin got a big kick out of Obama’s Jew…janitor gaffe
by The Right Scoop:
Mark Levin seemed to really enjoyed Obama’s gaffe from over the weekend confusing Jews and janitors, himself being a Jew.
It’s a fun clip:
Bibi The Peacemonger
IBD:
Outside of public view, Netanyahu is undoubtedly not counting his chickens. After all, in May he had to give President Obama a Mideast history lecture after our president said the indefensible pre-1967 borders should be the basis of negotiations.
Moreover, last week the ever-unhelpful Bill Clinton unjustly and absurdly declared that Netanyahu has no interest in peace. But in 2000 at Clinton’s Camp David talks between Yasser Arafat and former Israeli Prime Minister Barak, “It was the Palestinian side who walked away from his own parameters,” Netanyahu reminded Clinton and “Meet the Press” viewers.
The Palestinians and the leaders of Arab nations seem to be hoping that someday, an Obama/Clinton mindset will hold power long enough to force the Jewish state into surrender.
But Netanyahu warned that unilateral Israeli concessions invariably cause war. And he reminded the U.N. assembly that “when Israel left Lebanon” in 2000 “and Gaza” in 2005, “the moderates didn’t defeat the radicals; the moderates were devoured by the radicals.”
And he made it clear that “Israel is prepared to have a Palestinian state in the West Bank, but we’re not prepared to have another Gaza there. And that’s why we need to have real security arrangements, which the Palestinians simply refuse to negotiate with us.”
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Britain’s message to Argentina over the Falklands: back off
By Nile Gardiner:
The Israeli-Palestinian issue dominated media coverage of the UN General Assembly meetings in New York last week. But almost completely slipping under the radar was a war of words between London and Buenos Aires over the Falklands sovereignty question. After a good deal of sabre-rattling by Argentine president Cristina Kirchner in the past few months, which included this rant back in June, the UK Mission to the United Nations issued a robust statement underscoring that Britain will not enter into any negotiations over the sovereignty of the islands:
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Why Does the Good Life End?
by Victor Davis Hanson:
People just don’t disappear. Look at Germany in 1946 or Athenians in 339 B.C. They continue, but their governments and cultures end. Aside from the dramatic military implosions of authoritarian or tribal societies — the destruction of Tenochtitlan, the end of Nazism, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the annexation of tribal Gaul — what brings consensual states to an end, or at least an end to the good life?
The city-states could not stop 30,000 Macedonians in a way — when far poorer and 150 year earlier — they had stopped 300,000 Persians descending on many of the same routes. The French Republic of 1939 had more tanks and troops on the Rhine than the Third Reich that was busy overrunning Poland. A poorer Britain fought differently at el-Alamein than it does now over Libya. A British battleship was once a sign of national pride; today a destroyer represents a billion pounds stolen from social services.
Redistribution of wealth rather than emphasis on its creation is surely a symptom of aging societies. Whether at Byzantium during the Nika Riots or in bread and circuses Rome, when the public expects government to provide security rather than the individual to become autonomous through a growing economy, then there grows a collective lethargy.
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The 8 Ways Big Brother Facebook’s New Changes Alienate Its Users
The 8 Ways Big Brother Facebook’s New Changes Alienate Its Users
Palestinian State Will Not Accept Palestinian Refugees
by David Meir-Levi:
In his op-ed to The New York Times on May 16, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told the world in no uncertain terms that Palestinian statehood and UN recognition would not end the conflict:
Palestine’s admission to the United Nations would pave the way for the internationalization of the conflict as a legal matter, not only a political one. It would also pave the way for us to pursue claims against Israel at the United Nations, human rights treaty bodies and the International Court of Justice.
But no one seemed to notice that this admission contradicts the core argument for Palestinian statehood: The Palestinians are fighting for their state, so they have told the world, for their political self-determination, for their national self-realization; so the creation of a Palestinian state is the way to end the conflict.
Now we have a new iteration of this rather awkward contradiction in the words of the Palestinian Authority’s ambassador to Lebanon in an interview with the Lebanese English language newspaper, the Daily Star:
When we have a state accepted as a member of the United Nations, this is not the end of the conflict. This is not a solution to the conflict. This is only a new framework that will change the rules of the game.
And still no one seems to notice the contradiction here.
But in addition to telling the world that even after the so-called Palestinian people have their state they will continue the conflict, Ambassador Abdullah Abdullah went on to say that:
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Palestinian (Jordanian Passport Holder) Explains What Palestinians Truly Believe
Walid Shoebat:
Our friends over at United West provide some revealing information on how Jordanian’s or as they like to be called Palestinians truly think. When Walid was young and living in the “West Bank” he saluted the Jordanian Flag and prayed for King Hussein of Jordan. Walid’s father held a Jordanian passport. So this Palestinian woman who lives in Dearborn confirms the truth.
Frank Talk About Marriage: The New Anti-Defamation Project
By Kathryn Jean Lopez
Maggie Gallagher is heading up a new effort to protect and defend those whose livelihoods are threatened by their speaking up in defense of traditional marriage: the Marriage Anti-Defamation Alliance. She chats about the problem it seeks to address, as well as the state of the marriage debate:
KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ: Who is Frank Turek and why should every American care to know him?
MAGGIE GALLAGHER: Frank Turek is a man whose contract was terminated by a major corporation when human resources found out he had written a book opposing same-sex marriage. He is on the front lines of an emerging trend we are hearing about: people losing jobs or other economic opportunities because they have written, spoken, donated, or otherwise peacefully exercised their core civil rights on behalf of marriage as the union of husband and wife.
Frank’s day job is leadership seminars for Fortune 500 companies. He also runs a ministry and has written a book against same-sex marriage titled Correct, Not Politically Correct: How Same-sex Marriage Hurts Everyone.
For many years Frank Turek has done seminars for Cisco, among many other companies. A student who attended his class Googled his name, found out he opposed same-sex marriage and said “I’m going to get Frank fired because he doesn’t represent Cisco values.” And this student succeeded.
A few weeks later Frank Turek was told by a Bank of America executive that his book opposing gay marriage meant he would not be asked to do a seminar again at Bank of America.
As Frank says, this is un-American — to say you have to have a certain view on gay marriage to be treated equally in the workforce.
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Obama’s ‘Hate the Rich’ Campaign
By Lloyd Marcus:
In his so-called jobs speeches, Obama exploits class envy shrouded in fairness. President Obama continues to escalate his divisive assault on achievers, purposely pitting Americans against each other.
Obama’s “Hate the Rich” campaign appeals to our lower nature and encourages the sin of covetousness. If Obama’s despicable campaign proves successful, it will be a sad commentary about who we have become as a people and how far we have fallen as Americans.
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