Israel/Egypt Border Conflicts

John Robson on the Left’s anti-Semitism

Ezra Levant & Jonathan Halevi On The Arab Underground

Mass arrests of Christians continue in Eritrea

VOM Canada:

Eritrean officials have arrested at least 90 Christians in recent months, including many college students, reports Release Eritrea and our sister missions, VOM USA and Release International.

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Don’t expect ‘Christian’ Obama to do or say anything about this.  He’s too busy playing golf, kissing the Saudi king’s ring (a gesture of muslim obeisance), regulating American business and citizenry to death, running guns to drug cartels, piling up U.S. debt, demagoguing his political opponents, funding abortion pushing Planned Parenthood, unionizing the entire U.S. work force (or at least what’s left of it), undermining our allies whilst empowering our enemies, destroying the military, betraying Israel (the Jewish homeland) and eliminating the U.S. energy industry.

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Arab Spring Smart Power (brought to you by the Obama-Clinton reset Axis)

Egyptians plan million-man rally against Israel

Perry and Global Warming

Jim Lacey:

Last week Rick Perry questioned the prevailing orthodoxy on global warming. There was, as is easy to imagine, no shortage of warmists waiting to pounce. Remarkably, one of the first questions later put to Governor Perry was whether he accepted the correctness of evolution — as if the science behind global warming was supported by even a tenth as much evidence as we have for evolution. What is troubling, however, is that some of the other candidates for the Republican nomination still accept the theory of man-made warming. Worse, they are apparently prepared to act on their beliefs if elected president.

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Evolution is utter bunk, too. And before all you darwinists start bombarding me let me be clear. Microevolution, which more accurately is described as ‘change within a species with fixed limits’ is not evidence of vertical macroevolution.

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Bloomberg Bans Clergy From 9/11 Ceremony but Ground Zero Mosque OK

Bloomberg Bans Clergy From 9/11 Ceremony but Ground Zero Mosque OK

This is a national event and Bloomberg has absolutely no right to do this. What a bigot.

Arab Spring or Biblical End-Time Prophecy? David Rubin – “I told you so!”

They do this with evolution too.

The Journal of Climate & the IPCC… Plus…The Glover Effect

The False WWII Analogy

Victor Davis Hanson:

For decades the liberal argument was that the New Deal cured the Depression. But in a new twist, the war has suddenly been reinvented to support the current arguments of the new Keynesians — despite the irony in the embrace of the old right-wing argument that it was the World War II defense spending, not FDR’s New Deal, that finally got America out of a near-decade-long depression.

In ingenious fashion, the new argument insists that the second downward spiral of 1937–38 — formerly ostensible proof that five years of the New Deal and of anti-business rhetoric had not worked — should be attributed only to FDR’s lacking the will or political muscle to stay the course and accelerate deficit spending, redistribute more income, and grow far bigger government. Then luckily the war came along. That crisis provided the necessary political landscape, which had been lacking during the supposed Keynesian backsliding of Roosevelt’s second term, to force through the long-awaited New New Deal. At last, the really big scare allowed the really big borrowing, and the result was the really big prosperity for the next half-century.

But as many have pointed out, there are all sorts of problems with this account. During World War II, the American public scrimped and saved. If household income increased, so did household savings — not surprisingly, given the rationing of many consumer goods and total unavailability of others. Washers, dryers, hot-water heaters, vacuum cleaners — all those and more were bought for the first time after the war, and often without borrowing.

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Facing facts on O’s Syria miscues

John Bolton:

The end of the Khadafy regime in Libya has focused new attention on the rebels in Syria — as has last week’s belated call by President Obama for the ouster of Bashar al-Assad. But it will take a more radical Obama course correction to make a real difference. After six months of bloodshed, with thousands dead, and only mild White House responses earlier, this belated pronouncement is likely too little too late.

At the very least, the administration needs to recognize the false premises behind its mistakes..

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Public service sure has changed

Expensive massages, top shelf vodka and five-star hotels: First Lady accused of spending $10m in public money on her vacations

 

A passing thought.

I am so old that when I grew up Saturday morning cartoons weren’t 30-minute commercials for action figures. The cartoons were masterpieces too, I might add.

The Five Most Catastrophic Hidden Costs of the Obama Presidency

by Kyle-Anne Shiver:

We well remember candidate Barack Obama’s ’08 throngs laying in breathless wait for the “Lightworker” to appear and speak as “sort of like God” from his teleprompter on high. Now, with nearly everything this president has touched lying in shambles, a shrunken Obama whines from town to town, transported in a taxpayer-purchased bus that resembles a big, fat hearse — the perfect symbol for the harbinger of economic death that Obama’s presidency has become.

It’s painfully apparent now that the American people were scammed in ’08 by Barack the Bamboozler in what will be known historically as the most audacious scheme of fraudulent branding the world has ever seen.

I would just love to see a crackerjack team of litigation attorneys put together a class action suit with a dollar amount on both the tangible and intangible “pain and suffering” costs of the Obama presidency. In fact, if I were a Republican strategist, I would commission a legal team to devise such a case and put it in a PowerPoint presentation for voters by next fall.

The all too apparent costs, of course, are those numbers economists lob forth every day, to a mouths-agape public:

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Roger Cohen Discovers Antisemitism

by Ben Cohen:

For some years, the New York Times columnist Roger Cohen thrived in his role as a bete noire of pro-Israel advocates in the United States. In his writings on Iran, especially, Cohen attracted considerable ire for discounting Israel’s anxieties about the nuclear ambitions of the ruling mullahs, and for generally pushing the idea that the unresolved Palestinian question lies at the heart of the myriad conflicts in the Middle East and wider Islamic world.

And then he moved to London.

Back in the city where he grew up, Cohen has now — as his latest column announces — discovered that antisemitism is not some dastardly fabrication of the Israel lobby, but a real phenomenon experienced on many levels by many Jews. Off the back of that revelation, Cohen declares himself nostalgic for those same assertive Jews with whom he tussled back in the States.

Here, in brief, is what lay behind this sudden transformation.

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‘Midnight Cowboy’ Rides Tall in Jerusalem

by Fern Sidman:

“We are facing a new Holocaust, and people of all faiths must demand that the truth be heard,” declared Oscar-winning American actor Jon Voight on Monday evening, August 22nd in Jerusalem. Voight, 72, joined former FOX News personality Glenn Beck​ as the featured speaker at the central train station in Jerusalem in an event commemorating the Holocaust. As a lead up to Beck’s “Restoring Courage” rally on August 24th, Monday evening’s event, which was carried on Beck’s new television network, featured a powerful film about Holocaust survivor Rudy Wolf’s visit to his childhood home in Germany. Other speakers at the event noted the significance of holding a Holocaust-themed evening at the former Jerusalem train station, which recalled the train tracks leading to Auschwitz — tracks that could have been destroyed, but weren’t.

Assuming a flinty posture on the exacerbation of terrorism aimed at Israel, Mr. Voight intoned, “The Palestinian radicals have only one prayer on their lips: To remove every Jew from Israel.” He received a standing ovation when he said, “We will not bend to terrorism in any way, shape, or form for the sake of peace.”

“How have we come to a time when blowing up babies and cutting their throats are an acceptable means to a political goal?” Voight queried his audience, referring to the barbaric murders of five members of the Fogel family in the settlement of Itamar in March of this year. “I feel complete contempt for anyone not intelligent enough to see that the media propaganda portraying the Palestinians as victims endangers the state of Israel,” he continued to rousing applause.

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Earth Moon Telescope Pointing at Comet Elenin

Yes, the title is a bit hokey but put aside your discomfort and at least watch the clip and I also recommend you read the comments beneath the clip.  The end of the clip is absolutely hopeless, I’m afraid.

Iran Gets a Pass?

by Adam Daifallah:

While the world’s attention is focused squarely on Libya and Syria, and with good reason — both countries are in rapidly-changing states of crisis — this focus is allowing other rogue Middle Eastern nations to get away with things that would normally face harsher scrutiny. Case in point: Iran.

Iran recently started moving its uranium enriching centrifuges from its main atomic complex in Natanz to an underground bunker in Fordow. The bunker is reportedly impervious to air-strikes and can accommodate up to 3,000 centrifuges. The Iranian excuse of wanting to enrich uranium for “peaceful purposes” is getting more laughable all the time.

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Why Obama Can’t Lead

By Michael Bargo Jr.:

For 22 years he attended the church services led by Rev. Jeremiah Wright. African-Americans who attended his and other black liberation theology church services in Chicago are taught that their options are limited by the “other,” and this other is white society. Personal choice is not the route to success; choices are limited by the overwhelmingly oppressive power of dominant white America. America is not, for Rev. Wright’s paradigm, a land of opportunity, but instead a land of oppression.

In this political culture, the black political leader does not encourage his people to move forward, but rather convinces them that they cannot move forward. Whatever choices they make, their future is determined not by personal choice, but by the restrictive confines of white society. This is why actor-comedian Bill Cosby is viciously attacked when he suggests that African-Americans take responsibility for their own choices. His comments are perceived as an existential threat to the politics of black liberation and the entire political belief system that keeps the black political elites in power.

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The FDA’s Hazardous Plan to Regulate Mobile Medical Apps

By Ira Brodsky:

One of the few bright spots in the current economy is sales of smartphones, tablet computers, and e-readers. Led by three U.S. companies — Apple, Google (Android), and Amazon — the worldwide market for these gadgets is expected to reach $190 billion this year. Driving much of the growth is a rapidly expanding universe of “apps” that offer exciting new capabilities such as helping patients manage their diabetes and letting physicians pull up CT scans from any location.

Now the U.S. Food and Drug Administration wants to apply the brakes to this growth market.

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