What really happened in the Gingrich ethics case?
byByron York:
Given all the attention to the ethics matter, it’s worth asking what actually happened back in 1995, 1996, and 1997. The Gingrich case was extraordinarily complex, intensely partisan, and driven in no small way by a personal vendetta on the part of one of Gingrich’s former political opponents. It received saturation coverage in the press; a database search of major media outlets revealed more than 10,000 references to Gingrich’s ethics problems during the six months leading to his reprimand. It ended with a special counsel hired by the House Ethics Committee holding Gingrich to an astonishingly strict standard of behavior, after which Gingrich in essence pled guilty to two minor offenses. Afterwards, the case was referred to the Internal Revenue Service, which conducted an exhaustive investigation into the matter. And then, after it was all over and Gingrich was out of office, the IRS concluded that Gingrich did nothing wrong. After all the struggle, Gingrich was exonerated.
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World War
by Michael Ledeen:
Speaking at the Pentagon on January 5th, President Obama proclaimed: “Even as our troops continue to fight in Afghanistan, the tide of war is receding.”
He could not be more dangerously mistaken. As he spoke, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was packing his bags for yet another foreign sortie, not, as you might imagine, to Damascus to bolster the morale of Bashar Assad — alongside whom Iran’s killers are conducting mass murder in Syria’s cities and villages — but rather to Latin American capitals much closer to us, including Caracas, Quito, Guatemala City, Havana, and Managua. The Nicaraguan visit was on the occasion of the inauguration of our old enemy, Daniel Ortega. The others are to discuss matters of “mutual interest.”
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GBTV: Glenn reveals a new theory about what is coming on a global scale Pt 1
GBTV: Glenn reveals a new theory about what is coming on a global scale Pt 2
GBTV: Glenn reveals a new theory about what is coming on a global scale Pt 3
Walid Shoebat: Rescue Christians Together with Our International Partner Petition Italian Government
Walid Shoebat: Rescue Christians Together with Our International Partner Petition Italian Government
Google announces privacy changes across products; users can’t opt out
By Cecilia Kang:
Google said Tuesday it will require users to allow the company to follow their activities across e-mail, search, YouTube and other services, a radical shift in strategy that is expected to invite greater scrutiny of its privacy and competitive practices.
The information will enable Google to develop a fuller picture of how people use its growing empire of Web sites. Consumers will have no choice but to accept the changes.
The policy will take effect March 1 and will also impact Android mobile phone users, who are required to log in to Google accounts when they activate their phones.
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Student threatened with suspension after op-ed opposing gay adoption
by The Right Scoop:
A 15 year-old student was ask to write an op-ed on the topic of gay adoption. He wrote in opposition to the topic using the Bible as his primary source for the basis of his argument. A gay parent saw the op-ed and complained and thus the student was bullied by the superintendent and threatened with suspension because of his ‘offense’.
Lefty intolerance on display. Here’s the article from Todd Starnes at Fox News:
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The Unlearned Lessons of Daniel Pearl’s Murder
by Bruce Thornton:
Most commentary also ignored the Koranic-inspired anti-Semitism of the words Pearl was forced to say in the execution video: “My name is Daniel Pearl. I am a Jewish American from Encino, California U.S.A. I come from, uh, on my father’s side the family is Zionist. My father’s Jewish, my mother’s Jewish, I’m Jewish. My family follows Judaism. We’ve made numerous family visits to Israel. Back in the town of Bnei Brak there is a street named after my great grandfather Chaim Pearl who is one of the founders of the town.”
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Soros-Manufactured Chaos in Israel
by Daniel Greenfield:
In the warm summer of 2011, a twenty-something Israeli named Daphne Leef set up a Facebook protest page agitating against the high cost of housing in Tel Aviv. She pitched a tent and helped touch off a social protest movement that received national and international attention.
While the protests were billed as grassroots, there was nothing grassroots about them. The protests had been organized and funded by the New Israel Fund. Daphne Leef worked as a video editor for the New Israel Fund.
In the winter of that same year, as the protests had died down, a woman named Tanya Rosenblit boarded a bus which runs through religiously hyper-conservative neighborhoods and staged an incident with the passengers. Rosenblit was dubbed an Israeli Rosa Parks and her stunt helped generate waves of articles about major social problems in Israel.
Rosenblit was associated with One Voice, an organization funded by the New Israel Fund, whose board included Alon Liel, the husband of New Israel Fund director Rachel Liel. Hardly had the NIF gotten through manufacturing one phony social protest movement than it was hard at work on another.
The pattern in both social protests was traditional divide and conquer methodology that pitted the segments of society against each with the goal of creating maximum disruption and mobilizing warm bodies to call for political change.
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Former German President to Praise Anti-Israel Theologian
by Malcolm Lowe:
Since 1992, the German concern Media Control has awarded an annual prize, known as “Deutscher Medienpreis.” According to the company website, it is given “to a person who had outstanding importance in the media during the past year.” Remarkably, the list of yearly awardees has mostly lived up to that ambitious description, including many illustrious and deserving personalities. Until this year, that is.
Four awardees were named for the 2011 prize in a press announcement on January 13, 2012. While three seem to be meritorious enough, the fourth is a Palestinian pastor who has devoted all his theological energies to delegitimizing the State of Israel. No, he does not just oppose “the occupation.” He maintains that Israel is a foreign European body that lacks his own DNA connection to the people of the Bible. Moreover, Media Control has lined up a former President of Germany, Prof. Roman Herzog, to come and praise him.
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The Third Reich is re-appearing, but this time it won’t be confined to Germany, it’s becoming worldwide.
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America and the Arab Spring
By CAROLINE B. GLICK:
A year ago this week, on January 25, 2011, the ground began to crumble under then-Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak’s feet. One year later, Mubarak and his sons are in prison, and standing trial. This week, the final vote tally from Egypt’s parliamentary elections was published. The Islamist parties have won 72 percent of the seats in the lower house.
The photogenic, Western-looking youth from Tahrir Square the Western media were thrilled to dub the Facebook revolutionaries were disgraced at the polls and exposed as an insignificant social and political force.
As for the military junta, it has made its peace with the Muslim Brotherhood. The generals and the jihadists are negotiating a power-sharing agreement. According to details of the agreement that have made their way to the media, the generals will remain the West’s go-to guys for foreign affairs. The Muslim Brotherhood (and its fellow jihadists in the Salafist al-Nour party) will control Egypt’s internal affairs.
This is bad news for women and for non-Muslims. Egypt’s Coptic Christians have been under continuous attack by Muslim Brotherhood and Salafist supporters since Mubarak was deposed. Their churches, homes and businesses have been burned, looted and destroyed. Their wives and daughters have been raped. The military massacred them when they dared to protest their persecution.
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Neither rain nor sleet
Emily Belz:
A freezing rain fell from the sky and mud mixed with ice on the ground as pro-life marchers in the nation’s capital mixed celebration with anger at recent setbacks.
The annual March for Life, held the day after the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, seemed to draw its largest crowd yet, despite the miserable weather. The mostly young crowd added up to at least tens of thousands, if not more than a hundred thousand. Teenagers gamely stood for hours and some marched shivering in soaked sneakers. At one point in the march, a teen couple kissed in the middle of the crowd, perhaps in a strategy to stay warm. One high schooler was dressed up as a Who from Whoville, a Dr. Seuss character—which didn’t make sense until you saw her friend’s sign quoting from the Seuss book Horton Hears a Who, saying, “A person’s a person no matter how small.”
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Is This the Reason Obama Said ‘No’ to the Keystone Pipeline?
by Mike Opelka Mike Opelka:
Was it done because:
A. – As the administration has said publicly, there is not enough time to do a proper environmental impact study?
B. – Thanks to alternative energy companies like Solyndra, we’re on the path to becoming an oil-free energy generating country?
C. – Billionaire Warren Buffett (and Obama advisor) has an investment in a Canadian railway that would benefit from killing Keystone?
D. – Is it because Brazil, the country whose deep-water oil fields we agreed to fund, is going to be selling us cheap and plentiful oil?
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Barak slams EU oil embargo’s delay to July. Israel’s hand ever near trigger
Barak slams EU oil embargo’s delay to July. Israel’s hand ever near trigger
Two-Minute Warning: Arab Democratic Winter; Elections Prove Worldview Matters
Two-Minute Warning: Arab Democratic Winter; Elections Prove Worldview Matters
Rick Santorum slams MSNBC guest: MSM’s Job to defend Obama, not mine
by The Right Scoop:
Here is some red meat from this morning on Morning Joe where John Heilemann tried to pin Santorum down over comments made yesterday by an audience member at one of his town halls where they accused Obama of being a Muslim and unqualified to be president. But Santorum, taking a page out of Newt’s playbook, used it as an opportunity to hit back hard at the premise of the question and then blamed them for hypocrisy on the issue.
Excellent clip:
Senate Democrats have refused to propose a budget for three years.
by Roger Morse:
One thousand days is long enough to get a lot done. An elephant needs only about two-thirds of that time for a full-term pregnancy. In the past 1,000 days, the Egyptians figured out how to overthrow their government. The Libyans figured out how to overthrow their dictator. Theoretically, man could travel to Mars and back in that time.
However, the U.S. Senate has failed to figure out how to propose and pass a budget for this country as required by law in that time.
It is only fitting that President Obama will deliver his State of the Union address on January 24, which will mark 1,000 days since the Senate last complied with the budget law.
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Guardian Report Misses the Real Child Abuse
by Simon Plosker:
NBC News reports:
The images grow no less shocking with time — a gaping wound on a tiny skull, the hair matted with blood; a gunshot that pierced the skin of a small torso and went straight toward the kidney; and finally, the broken neck and severed penis of a 13-year-old boy, his mangled body contorted on a plastic sheet.
This isn’t, however, a story from Israel but the shocking example of what is happening to Syrian children being tortured and murdered by the Assad regime.
Meanwhile, in Israel, The Guardian runs a special report on the alleged mistreatment of Palestinian children detained by the Israeli military. With the report is an 11 minute video which includes footage of an interrogation. A Palestinian child cries, not as a result of torture but because he is going to miss some school exams.
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