The Great Mystery

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One of the great mysteries in today's United States is how a country founded on the principle of individual freedom, having achieved great wealth and world influence, could have developed a political class bent on transforming the nation into a collective dominated by a powerful central government.

John Adams wrote in a letter to his wife of his need to study politics and war so his sons could study mathematics and philosophy and his grandchildren could study poetry and music. Surely this grand new experiment known as the United States, based on the rights of the individual and not the state, could avoid the pitfalls that plagued other nations. The peace, prosperity, and lack of national adversity Adams envisioned came to pass, and future generations were able to study subjects other than war.

Unfortunately, destructive modern political philosophies, such as Marxism and socialism, manipulated by the self-absorbed to achieve political power, were matters John Adams and his fellow founding fathers could not have anticipated.

One need only watch many in the committed American Left make pilgrimages to those second- and third-world countries controlled by Marxist governments and fawn over their rulers. The diminished standard of living, the loss of liberty, and the bleak future for the people of these nations are ignored while the power achieved by the head of state is celebrated.

While John Adams and his fellow founders could not have anticipated what has happened to the country they established, they did give it a framework -- a constitution -- which can enable us to avoid the same egocentrism that led to the downfall of other major civilizations.

The country can return to the path of economic and social prosperity and relegate the Left to the background of the nation's politics, where they belong, once and for all. The key is time, and time is something we have little of.

The 2010 elections will be the most important midterm election in our history.

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So much Obama damage control, that David Axelrod even talks to Fox News

Here's how desperate Obama administration spokesmen were Wednesday to fill the info void they'd created by hiding away during the previous night's bad news election returns:

David Axelrod, an ex-newspaper reporter but one of the lead Obama attackers against the Fox News Channel in recent weeks, actually granted an interview to the Fox News Channel. To Major Garrett...

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Bozell Announces 'Dewey Defeats Truman Awards' for 'Incompetent Political Reporting'

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WaPo's Marcus: 'Ignore the Hype,' Virginia Landslide Means Nothing


NBC's David Gregory Downplays GOP Wins on Today


ABC’s Stephanopoulos Spins NY 23 as a ‘Big Loss’ for Sarah Palin, Hits GOP ‘Civil War’


NYT: GOP Is Ripping Itself Apart & Off-Year Elections Don't Matter (Unless Dems Win)

"Last night was a triumph for the conservative movement and repudiation to those who said Republicans had to move away from the conservative ideology to achieve victory,"

Media Research Center President Brent Bozell declared today.

"I hereby grant the Dewey Defeats Truman Awards for the most incompetent political reporting of the year to the following journalists for their impeccably inept coverage"

Bozell noted in a press release earlier today before listing Politico's Mike Allen, CBS's Katie Couric, National Journal's Ron Brownstein, and the entire New York Times editorial board as the recipients of the (dis)honor.

"Congratulations for embarrassing yourselves, your news organizations and the industry for a backfire that only President Truman himself could truly appreciate"

For the full press release, including the quotes that were the catalysts for the Deweys, click here.

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WaPo Warns GOP's 'Ideological Fissures Loom,' Sees No Similar Trouble For Dems

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[Must not exist then.]

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A divided party: Progressives threaten Democratic lawmakers

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MoveOn.org is sending out emails today seeking more contributions for its campaign to defeat any Democratic senator who does not fully support Obamacare. Yesterday the left-wing activist group asked members to contribute "to a primary challenge against any Democratic senator who helps Republicans block an up-or-down vote on health care reform."

Today, MoveOn reports that it has received $2 million in pledges in less than 24 hours. "It's a clear sign of how angry progressives would be at any Democrat who helps filibuster reform," MoveOn executive director Justin Ruben writes in the new email...

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Media Meme on NY-23 Dead Wrong, and the NY Times Proves It

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If you've heard it once, you've heard it 1,000 times: the New York 23rd Congressional District (NY-23) has had a Republican incumbent since the 1870s. It's a helpful talking point for mainstream media types bent on portraying the Hoffman loss in the district last night as evidence of how the Republican mainstream has moved away from conservatism.

The only trouble with the talking point is it is patently false and the New York Times [yes, that NYT] proves it. (h/t EyeBlast.tv's Stephen Gutowski)

[I.e, 17 Republican representatives since the civil war, most recently 1992 - but that didn't stop Pelosi from repeating the canard verbatim on TV).]

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White House enemy Fox News pulls huge election day ratings

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If you followed the suspense of Tuesday's elections, odds are you landed on Fox News.

Fox News Channel absolutely crushed the other networks in prime-time election coverage ratings.

Between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. (8 p.m. to 11 p.m. Eastern time), Fox News grabbed 4.04 million viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research.

The other stations weren't even close.

MSNBC had 974,000 viewers. The CNN-owned HLN (previously CNN2 or CNN Headline News) had 842,000, and CNN trailed with 826,000.

Even with the CNN networks' combined 1.67 million viewers, it was still way behind Fox News in viewership.

Fox News even dominated in the younger 25-54 age demographic with 1.13 million. The three other networks combined don't even touch that number.

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Somebody Slap Me

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Tell me if I have seen this before: Swine flu, Russian subs off the American coast, indecision toward Afghanistan, hot summers followed by cold winters. And then there is high unemployment and soon-to-be high inflation. Am I imagining things or is this a return to the 1970's?

Today, we have a president given to us by the Democratic Party, just like Jimmy Carter in the 1970's. Both followed increasingly unpopular wars, at least to the media. Both seemed to be novices, which the media deemed virtuous. Both have proven woefully inept at handling the demands of the office, but the media conveniently glosses over this fault.

Popular during the Carter years was a "survivalist" publication called Ruff Times. The end was near to the American way of life, according to Howard Ruff. It was time to head for the hills.

The only person who could put a stop to the bumbling incompetency of Jimmy Carter's presidency was Ronald Reagan...

[Then let's hope history does repeat itself {albeit likely with a skirt}.]

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Obama Will Not Travel to Germany for 20th Anniversary of Fall of Berlin Wall

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President Obama will not travel to Germany to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9. White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs said today that President Obama’s schedule will not allow for a visit to Germany. “Obviously, we have a lot to work on here and we have commitments for an upcoming Asia trip,” Gibbs said.

















Behind Obama's Berlin Wall Snub

In his first year in office, Barack Obama has visited more foreign countries than any other president. He's touched ground in 16 countries, easily outpacing Bill Clinton (three) and George W. Bush (eleven). It's an itinerary befitting a "citizen of the world."

But there's one stop Obama won't make. He has begged off going to Berlin next week to attend ceremonies commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall. His schedule is reportedly too crowded. John F. Kennedy famously told Berliners, "Ich bin ein Berliner."

On the 20th anniversary of the last century's most stirring triumph of freedom, Obama is telling them,

"Ich bin beschäftigt"

- i.e., I'm busy.

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Fall Of The Wall? U.S. Sends Regrets

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Cold War: The White House has announced our absence at ceremonies marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Meanwhile, Russia has been practicing a nuclear invasion of an abandoned Poland.

We need to press the reset button again, back to the days when American presidents stood in Berlin and echoed the cry of Scottish patriot William Wallace: "Freedom!"

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Re-imposing totalitarian information control in Russia

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The internet, Russia's last source of information free of state control is now under threat. Seizing control of internet freedom could be the next step in the re-imposition of totalitarianism in Russia.

Over the past decade, while proud KGB spy Vladimir Putin has held power, there have been two alarming trends.

First, the Russian government has taken control of all the traditional mass media organs. The Russian counterparts to ABC, CBS, NBC, The New York Times, The LA Times and The Washington Post are all directly owned and operated by the Russian government.

Second, one after another -- starting with legislator Galina Starovoitova and continuing to most recently include human rights activist Natalia Estemirova -- the Russian government's critics have been murdered. Needless to say, these killings have not been reported on the traditional mass media, much less has any complicity by the Kremlin been alleged.

The Kremlin's response to Western criticism of this neo-Soviet media crackdown has been singular: "Don't worry," we're told, because "the Russian Internet remains free and vibrant" and it picks up any slack left by the traditional media. Most recently, Russian "president" Dmitri Medvedev repeated this claim while being interviewed by CNN's milquetoast-in-chief, Fareed Zakaria, who let it pass without a word.

To put it bluntly, that claim is a shameless lie...

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Putin tells Russian filmmakers to conquer foreign market

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'Prime Minister' Vladimir Putin Tuesday told Russia's top directors that Russian movies were not attracting big enough foreign audiences and the domestic film industry had to raise its game. Proving himself capable of talking tough on culture as well as politics, Putin said that despite state support Russian movies were not sufficiently popular abroad and therefore did not promote the country.

[No dictator here.]

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Iran Raises Uranium Output as Photos Show Need for Wider Checks

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Satellite photos indicate that Iran has increased production at a uranium mine, underscoring the need for wider UN inspections to determine whether the country is trying to build a nuclear weapon. Evidence of stepped-up activity at the Gchine mine, near the Persian Gulf coast city of Bandar Abbas, is seen in pictures obtained by Bloomberg News and the Washington-based New America Foundation,

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Al-Qaeda's Chicago Terror Plot

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Humour will be the legal defense in the future trial for a Chicago man arrested last week on suspicion of planning terrorist attacks in Denmark and India. The lawyer for Tahawwur Hussain Rana, 48, a Canadian national originally from Pakistan, claims his client thought the terrorist plot was all just a lark and that he was fooled by his friend and co-accused David Coleman Headley.

In a recent interview from a hideout in Waziristan, Kashmiri indicated this may be al Qaeda’s strategy. In response to a question whether there would be more Mumbai-like terrorist attacks against India, Kashmiri told a journalist:

“That was nothing compared to what has already been planned for the future.”

[GWOT]

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http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifYesterday Communism, Today Radical Islam

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As we mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the emphasis should not be on speeches and ceremonies but rather on the lessons of the fall of communism for the war on terror. Although they seem different — one claims to be religious whereas the other was, supposedly, a perfect science — communism and political Islam are essentially the same. Both are radical ideologies that divide the world into the elect.

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Replacing Black Power With Militant Islam

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Even with the age of Obama dawning, for too many black Americans life is still fraught with the same old “us against them” sort of thinking. Where once militant blacks paraded in pseudo military garb claiming the mantle of “black power” and patterning themselves as “panthers” thrusting an angry fist into the air, now they cling to the separatist ideals of militant Islam...

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Climate change belief given same legal status as religion

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An executive has won the right to sue his employer on the basis that he was unfairly dismissed for his green views after a judge ruled that environmentalism had the same weight in law as religious and philosophical beliefs. In a landmark ruling, Mr Justice Michael Burton said that "a belief in man-made climate change ... is capable, if genuinely held, of being a philosophical belief...

In a landmark ruling, Mr Justice Michael Burton said that "a belief in man-made climate change ... is capable, if genuinely held, of being a philosophical belief for the purpose of the 2003 Religion and Belief Regulations".

The ruling could open the door for employees to sue their companies for failing to account for their green lifestyles, such as providing recycling facilities or offering low-carbon travel...

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Historical Perspective re: Sea Level

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"Greenland and West Antarctica are such massive amounts of ice each one of would lead to a six to seven metre increase in sea level if it were to melt... Each one metre of sea level rise is associated with 100 million climate refugees in the world."

Al Gore, Oct. 27, 2009.

Source: Global Warming Art, prepared by Robert A. Rohde from published data. Similar graphs appear in NASA and Canadian government sources.

Approximate sea level rise since the last ice age (20,000 years): 400 feet (120 meters). (See above chart.)

Estimated sea level rise from 1880 to 2000 (120 years): less than 8 inches (0.2 meters).

Predicted sea level rise from 1990 to 2090 (100 years): 7 inches (0.18 meters).

[I.e., same as it ever was.]

Source: The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2007, Table SPM.1.

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Boxer Breaks Climate Bill Committee Rules Two Days Running

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Apparently, rules don’t apply to zealots-with-gavels convinced they were put on this planet to secure its salvation. Lacking a single occupied Republican seat in the room, Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee chair Barbara Boxer (D-CA) has nonetheless moved markup of the climate bill she cosponsors ahead for a second straight day. And in doing so, the ever-arrogant eco-crusader appears to be walking a thin green legal line.

So here we are at the second day of Kerry-Boxer markup and the second day Boxer chose to proceed without GOP representation, despite committee rules requiring two members of the minority be present in order to provide a quorum for a markup.

From a layman’s reading, one would surmise that although the bill can be reported out of committee with even less than a majority, at least 2 Republicans need be present to consider any amendments. In which case, Boxer’s decision to continue markup sessions without minority representation would be as illegal as it is unprecedented.

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Gore's Profits Of Doom

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Junk Science: The oracle of climate disaster has a new book out on global warming that should be on the fiction list. He asks us to commit economic suicide while he rakes in millions from his green investments.

'Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis," Al Gore's sequel to his 2006 tome "An Inconvenient Truth," came out Tuesday. Printed on recycled paper using low-VOC (volatile organic compound) ink, it will undoubtedly be a best seller to his acolytes.

What Americans need to realize is that he is advocating policies based on junk science that, while he enriches himself, will devastate the American economy, causing huge losses in jobs, economic growth and GDP... [snip]

The American consumer and taxpayer are on the wrong end of his green Ponzi scheme. Somewhere, Bernie Madoff is smiling...

[Despite the hundreds of trillions we're speaking of, the monetary costs pales in comparison to what such a state-run religion will do to our individual liberties, as we hand government the means to control all activity as it sees fit...]

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Health Care Bill Regulate Snack Machines at Cost of $56 Million First Year

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The House health-care reform plan unveiled last week by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) would do more than regulate insurance companies [SURPRISE] – it would even regulate vending machines.

The bill, which is posted online, would require that vending machine operators either create new machines that allow the customer to view nutrition facts or post nutritional information for each product near ''each article of food or the selection button.''

[Are we really foolish enough to let these folks 'manage' our health care?]

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AARP To EndorseHouse Health Bill

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[Despite overwhelming senior opposition to it.

It's not about health care, it's about bilking the American people of their money and their liberties]

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House Conservatives Break With GOP Leaders in Fight Against ObamaCare

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Republican leadership, at all levels, should have learned a quick lesson about the mood of America’s conservatives from the Dede Scozzafava debacle in upper New York state.

Unfortunately, the GOP House Leadership [seems to get its 'news' from TV, and so] might need some remedial instruction.

And a group of conservative Republican lawmakers met Tuesday to draft that lesson plan.

Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has been one of the more vocal opponents of ObamaCare...

[But they will not be able to stop this juggernaut alone....]

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Gallup: Conservatives outnumber liberals 2-1

It's not surprising - we've been tracking this since Obama was elected. And here we are 10 months into the Age of Obama and all the talk about a "transformative" election where the country took a wild swing to the left last November has all but disappeared.

The election of Barack Obama was a political anomaly - a hiccup in an otherwise conservative body politic. The reasons are pretty obvious, beginning with a terrible GOP candidate who ran an abysmal campaign, coupled with the Republicans turning away from conservative principles while being corrupted by power in Washington.

Here are the raw numbers from Gallup going back to 1992:

Victory is inherent in those numbers...if:

1. If the Republican party returns to its conservative roots.

2. If the GOP can come up with a winning, positive agenda that will attract independents who are more responsive to that kind of message.

3. If Republicans can convince conservatives that they have mended their profligate spending ways and are now ready to make the hard choices on the budget to save us from bankruptcy.

Unfortunately, I see very little of this taking place at the national level. Obviously, reform will have to bubble up from the bottom.

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Gallup: GOP would win the House of Representatives

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Psst. Don't tell anybody, but Republicans would win control of Congress if the election were now, instead of next year.

It's sure to remain the biggest political secret not in the news.

Maybe, to get some coverage, the Republicans could claim to have hidden somebody in a weather balloon, or something.

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[So how is it that a 2:1 center-right nation seems perpetually represented by liberal progressives?

A: Because too many Americans continue to get their news from the MSM, which ceaselessly portrays conservatism as radicalism {despite the word meaning precisely the opposite}.

Exhibits A and B... ]

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The Dede Media

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The New York Times editorial page is a perfect weather vane for the way the liberal media's hot air is blowing. In an October 26 editorial called "Torching the Big Tent," they lamented: "The feeble pulse of moderation in the Republican Party is in danger of flat-lining in the Nov. 3 Congressional election in upstate New York."

The "moderate" the Times was backing for Congress was Dede Scozzafava - pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage, pro-union power, pro-tax hike. The Times found these positions to be proof of "refreshing tinges of centrism."

The Times lectured the conservative movement to embrace this candidacy, since "creative ideas and candidates, not right-wing zeal, are the obvious way to get back in the game of democracy."

Any New Yorker foolish enough to follow the political advice of The New York Times deserves what he gets.

[It's not 'zeal', it's conservative {as in the limited application of government - the word's (political) etymology} principle, period.

Again and again; the 'McCain' strategy: convince the right it must move left and so run liberal-lites that either lose to liberal-progressives or act like them once in office.

Reagan never bought it. Neither should we. Hoffman, a conservative independent - with no established 'machine' behind him, almost won in New York - think about that {I assure you many democrats are}]

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ABC:Hoffman Race = GOP ‘Civil War’

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Former top Democratic aide turned journalist George Stephanopoulos on Monday spun the upcoming November 3 congressional election in New York as a Republican "civil war."

Recounting the battle between the Conservative Party nominee, a Democrat and a liberal Republican, he claimed, "But, what's most interesting here is civil war inside the Republican Party." Stephanopoulos added, "You saw this conservative candidate just come in and swamp the Republican who was pro-choice, pro-gay rights.

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NKorea threatens to expand nuclear arsenal

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Seoul, South Korea -- North Korea issued a veiled threat Monday to increase its nuclear arsenal if U.S. officials do not quickly agree to the one-on-one talks that the communist regime is demanding. The regime's impatience came days after No. 2 nuclear negotiator Ri Gun came away from meetings with Washington envoy Sung Kim without an agreement to hold bilateral talks.

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China to take softer line with N Korea

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Beijing - China will no longer risk damaging ties with its traditional ally North Korea by pushing it to scrap its nuclear weapons program, says the International Crisis Group. A report by the group implies that six-party efforts for a negotiated end to North Korea's nuclear program will not be fruitful in the near future, given North Korea's insistence on direct talks with the United States and China's role as North Korea's most important source for economic support...

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Navy Ship Built With World Trade Center Steel Visits New York

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The new Navy assault ship USS New York, built with World Trade Center steel, arrived in its namesake city Monday with a 21-gun salute near the site of the 2001 terrorist attack.

The ship is technically known as a San Antonio-class amphibious dock vessel. Four vessels in that class are in service, the USS San Antonio, USS New Orleans, USS Mesa Verde and USS Green Bay. Four others are being built. Of those, two also have been named in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks.

The USS Arlington was named to honor the attack on the Pentagon. The USS Somerset was named after the county in Pennsylvania where United Airlines flight 93 crashed.


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Gaza rights group criticizes Hamas over tunnel death toll

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If they're digging illegal tunnels anyway, the government has a responsibility to protect them…

This is the latest word from a Gazan rights group, which is demanding that the Hamas government take steps to protect workers digging smuggling tunnels under the border between Egypt and the Hamas-controlled Palestinian enclave.

The call comes after another two men died while working in the tunnels, one from an electric shock and another from suffocation...

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Blame-Israel-first mindset

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"They hate us. They want to kill us. So what are we going to do about it?"

These are not the words one would expect to hear about Palestinians at the Oct. 25-28 first annual conference of the left-tilting J-Street, let alone from a left-wing rabbi who has worked extensively for Palestinian human rights.

Rabbis for Human Rights Executive Director Arik Ascherman, though, believes that delusion serves no one's interests, least of all those who genuinely want peace. His love for his adopted homeland of Israel was unmistakable, and he admits that his criticisms of Israel are because he's a "Jewish racist" who's "going to expect more of Jews."

While he was careful to clarify that he wasn't necessarily speaking of most Palestinians and adding that Israel's own failures have played a role in fostering this hatred, Rabbi Ascherman was adamant that excuses should not be made for Palestinian terrorism.

Unfortunately, he was mostly alone - both in his passion for Israel and his willingness to assign some blame to the Palestinians.

Excuses abounded at the J-Street conference for Palestinian terrorism and the popular support it enjoys...

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Iran gave Hamas missile that can hit Tel Aviv

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Iran has supplied Hamas operatives in the Gaza Strip a missile capable of striking Tel Aviv, defense sources said on Tuesday. Military Intelligence Chief General Amos Yadlin told the Knesset foreign affairs and defense committee earlier Tuesday that Hamas has recently tested a missile capable of reaching targets at a distance of 60 kilometers. Hamas has refused to confirm or deny reports of the test. The missile was fired into the Mediterranean Sea...

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Qom facility has no possible civilian use

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The recently-revealed Iranian nuclear facility in the Shi'a holy city of Qom has 'no possible civilian use,'' Military Intelligence chief Maj.-Gen. Amos Yadlin said Tuesday morning, directly contradicting statements made by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in September. Yadlin said that the Israeli intelligence assessment was that Iran was interested in a horizontal expansion of its nuclear production capacity, so that when Teheran decides to advance to nuclear weapons capability, it will be able to do so...

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Putin warns Europe of possible gas delivery 'problems'

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Natural gas deliveries to Europe could be disrupted by a payment row between Moscow and Kiev, Russia's Vladimir Putin told the EU on Sunday. Ukraine is the most important land route for Russian gas into the West.

It would not be the first time Russia has cut gas supplies to western Europe via Ukraine...

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Climate delegates call on US for expensive policy

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Barcelona, Spain -- The United States came under increased pressure Monday to come up with a plan for fighting climate change and to offer an internationally acceptable policy for curbing pollution hastening global warming.

As U.N. climate talks reconvened, countries stepped up calls on Washington for specific commitments on reducing carbon emissions and contributing to a global climate fund to help poor countries deal with the "damage already being caused by climate change"...

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Current Global Temperatures Impossible According to IPCC ‘Science’

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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon says, “Unless we fight climate change, unless we stop this trend, we’ll have devastating consequences for humanity.”

Other leaders make similar silly statements. Obama claims the “threat from climate change is serious, it is urgent, and it is growing.”

But which way is it growing? Which trend are they going to stop? The one predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) or the one Mother Nature is providing? They’ve chosen the IPCC even though all their predictions (scenarios) are wrong.

But it is worse. Global temperatures of the last few years are impossible according to the ‘science’ of the (IPCC).

What’s Actually Happening?

Temperatures were predicted to increase but are declining (Figure 1). Even their lowest scenario says the world should be at least 0.3¬∞C warmer. Doesn’t sound like much but it equals half the warming they claim occurred in the preceding 130 years.

Figure 1: Global average temperature 2002 to 2009 and IPCC scenarios.

As physicist David Douglass said, “If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.”

Since 2002 temperatures declined gradually, making a trend that began in the Southern Hemisphere 10 years earlier global.

AGW proponents are now trying to prove the trend doesn’t exist...

[Recommended > ]

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Vatican protests ruling on crucifixes in Italy

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Rome - The Vatican on Tuesday denounced a ruling by THE 'European' court of human rights that said the display of crucifixes in Italian public schools violates religious and education freedoms.

The decision is expected to force a review of the use of religious symbols in schools across Europe..

[This is the kind of 'progress' progressivism pursues...]

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The Pillars of Liberal Progressivism

Liberal Progressives have fashioned so strong a hold on the American political landscape that to escape their clutches may no longer be possible for most citizens

What I call the 'Pillars of Liberal Progressivism' have infected America with a virus so deadly that fighting it has become extremely difficult. What are these pillars that progressives have worked so hard to erect in order to infiltrate and control?

• 1) University Academia: ... Students schooled in the writings of radical revolutionaries such as Mao, Lenin, Trotsky -- and lesser-known malcontents like Alinsky, Zinn, and Chomsky -- spread their noxious fumes throughout the halls of academia... [snip]
• 2) Law Schools: ... Those infected with this radical new virus could now expand their activities to include law schools. What better way to attain a redress of grievances against a racist, sexist, homophobic nation than to change the Constitution... [snip]
• 3) Primary and Secondary Education: ... The lessons learned in academia could now be spread to the more basic levels of education ... the Hard Left would give no quarter in acceptance of gay lifestyles, wealth redistribution, equality of outcome - these became staples in the indoctrination of the very young... [snip]
• 4) Entertainment: ... The film industry offered itself in humble prostration to these noble ideas. Films depicting the evils of capitalism and the inadequacy of the free market spawned a whole new generation of useful idiots to spread the biblical word...[snip]
• 5) News Media: ... The infection of the newsroom continues unabated today with such lackluster cronies as Brian Williams, Charles Gibson, and Katie Couric reporting a brand of news so skewed to the Left that "embarrassing" would be its most flattering description...[snip]

These are the pillars Liberal Progressives have safely ensconced in their method of attack on America. The restoration of our country to a more reasonable state may lie beyond hope. Those of us who can must make our voices heard to all of the above institutions.

We have to come in from the wilderness of being afraid to confront Liberals on their ground. We must fight the bankrupt ideas of socialism in academia through the media. The internet has given us an outlet that must not be squandered; it may well provide the ground for a last stand...

[Again, it's the control of these institutions which explains how a 2:1 center-right nation seems {as media portrayal is perceptional reality for many} perpetually teetering on socialistic suicide. Recommended > ]

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