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		<title>Arab Spring or Winter of Discontent?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2014 04:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Spencer tells the truth about the war we’re in at the Wednesday Morning Club.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/hn.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-225915" alt="hn" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/hn.jpg" width="183" height="276" /></a><strong>[Watch Robert Spencer&#8217;s talk to the Wednesday Morning Club <a href="http://www.c-span.org/video/?319376-1/book-discussion-arab-winter-comes-america">here</a>. Order his new book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Arab-Winter-Comes-America-Truth-ebook/dp/B00IHGU388/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1400621987&amp;sr=8-1-spell&amp;keywords=arab+wonter+comes+to+america">here</a>.]</strong></p>
<p>In Beverly Hills on May 12, Robert Spencer spoke about his new book, “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Arab-Winter-Comes-America-Truth-ebook/dp/B00IHGU388/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1400621987&amp;sr=8-1-spell&amp;keywords=arab+wonter+comes+to+america">Arab Winter Comes to America: The Truth About The War We’re In</a>,” at the Wednesday Morning Club’s monthly luncheon.</p>
<p>Spencer is the author of 13 books, the most notable of which are “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam” and “The Truth About Muhammad.” His new book, he said, describes how nobody who speaks out about the real goals of Islam is spared by either the liberal main-stream media or those on the political left who seem unable or, worse still, unwilling to define the destructive intentions which Islam has towards America and the West.</p>
<p>Paradoxically, said Spencer, these destructive intentions have been public knowledge for quite some time. In 2008, the Holy Land Foundation, a front group for the Muslim Brotherhood, was convicted of raising money for the terrorist group Hamas, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Muslim Brotherhood. Its leaders were given life sentences for funneling $12 million to Hamas. During the trial documents revealed a strategy paper that stated:</p>
<blockquote><p>The Ikhwan (Arabic for Muslim Brotherhood) must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God&#8217;s religion is made victorious over all other religions.</p></blockquote>
<p>It went on to say that this process requires a &#8220;mastery of the art of &#8216;coalitions&#8217;, the art of &#8216;absorption&#8217; and the principles of &#8216;cooperation&#8217;.&#8221;</p>
<p>In other words, the scheme is to ingratiate and insinuate themselves into our society by appearing to be in favor of pluralism, democratic values and common fellowship, all the time gaining trust and acceptance only to sucker punch us when the time is right. The Muslim Brotherhood is black with menace. Their hatred of America and the West is doctrinally inspired and is entirely due to the religious fanaticism which inspires Islamic supremacism.</p>
<p>In recent history, many Western leaders born and bred in the fear of the Soviet Union failed to see the resurgence of Islamic totalitarianism and the terror it always engenders. Somehow, they have been unable to identify the defining issue of our time and so imperil us all.</p>
<p>How could this have happened? How could so many governments, institutions, and political leaders, in whom so much faith and confidence were reposed, have failed so miserably?</p>
<p>The answer, of course, lies in their devotion to and confident assumptions about two of the most pernicious and utterly destructive ideologies of the last sixty years, namely multiculturalism and political correctness. Like an awful plague, they infect, corrupt, distort, and corrode everything they touch. No form of human activity has been left unscathed or undiminished by their influence. They are the worst and most insulting forms of ingratiation. They are deadly. They are partners in &#8220;Stealth Socialism&#8221; &#8212; a continuation, by other means, of communism that many confidently assumed had vanished with the collapse of the Soviet Union. They are the unindicted co-conspirators of appeasement, defeat and surrender.</p>
<p>The inability to distinguish between the fire and the fire department is the first sign of the appeaser. Appeasement, Spencer noted, has been the preferred policy not only of the Obama administration but also of many European governments towards the theo/political/trans-national movement known as Islam or the so-called “religion of peace.” Spencer said that he, Pamela Geller and David Horowitz are often described as “out of bounds” by the politically correct elites but they never say who is “in bounds” and they go to extraordinary and even bizarre lengths to give cover to Islamists who seek our ruin.</p>
<p>A good example of this was when the Fort Hood massacre was classified as “work-place violence,” and in the official report of those murders the word “Islam” was never mentioned. General George W. Casey said that the shooting was a horrific tragedy but if the diversity of the country or the diversity of the Army became a casualty as a result of the 13 murders then that would be even worse.  This illustrates just how far the termites have traveled and how well they have feasted. Mistakenly arguing that there is a big difference between terrorists and the tenets of Islam the Obama administration removed the words “terrorist,” “Jihad” and “Islamist” from all government training manuals in 2011 and insisted that all security agents be retrained. The administration is determined to deny that “jihad” is done in the name of Islam and that it is a direct precept of it, encouraged and sanctioned in the Qur&#8217;an and in the hadiths, which are Islam’s title deeds.</p>
<p>From 2010, when Spencer helped to train U.S. law enforcement agencies and the CIA about the motives and intentions of Islam, he went to being banned in 2013 although his message had not changed during that time. Instead, U.S. government security agencies were told to invite Muslim Brotherhood front groups to conduct diversity training. In 2013, the British government prohibited Spencer’s entry into the U.K. because they claimed his presence might be disruptive. Yet, a Saudi sheik who had called violent jihad “an honor for the believer” was permitted entry.</p>
<p>Spencer told the audience that he has been called an Islamophobe and an intellectual terrorist merely for exposing the raw nerve of unwanted truth. There is something Orwellian about the circumstances in which Robert Spencer finds himself especially when we remember that it was Orwell who said that telling the truth in a time of universal deceit is a revolutionary act. By renaming acts of terror as “man caused disasters” and the war on terror as an “overseas contingency operation” the Obama administration has demonstrated that it has adopted the narrative of our enemies and thus virtually ensures our defeat.</p>
<p>Stranded in a state of developmental immaturity, Islam steals from history believing that the creation of a new past will justify its right to change the future in its favor. Spencer indicted the main-stream media and our law enforcement agencies as being complicit in this theft.</p>
<p>Charges of “Islamophobia,” an entirely spurious phenomenon, are leveled against anyone who objects to the Islamization of America as it attempts to ingratiate itself into the foundational fabric of our national life. It is Islam’s way of crying before it gets hit and is one of the main reasons why so many Americans are suffering from the very real phenomenon of Islamo-nausea.</p>
<p>Nothing is more disturbing to minds muddled by an impoverished ideology than a dash of clear thinking. Such thinking is, after all, potentially lethal to them. If it were to catch on it might end their careers. It is always such a pleasure to listen to Robert Spencer apply such clear thinking to the treacherous agenda of the Islamists and their fellow travelers whose opinions have been formed by using something other than precise analysis.</p>
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		<title>Caroline Glick at the Wednesday Morning Club</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2014 04:35:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The author of "The Israeli Solution" discusses the one-state plan for peace in the Middle East. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/cg.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-222431" alt="cg" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/cg.jpg" width="260" height="391" /></a>The gravamen of Caroline Glick’s case against the so-called “two-state solution” is the entirely false premise created by the international community that “land for peace” will work. There is a profound flaw in this premise: Israel keeps ceding land, but gets no peace.</p>
<p>During her talk about her new and insightful book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Israeli-Solution-One-State-Middle/dp/0385348061"><em>The Israeli Solution</em></a>, Ms. Glick deftly expanded on this view at the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s Wednesday Morning Club in Beverly Hills on March 25th.</p>
<p>Introducing Ms. Glick to the audience, David Horowitz referred to Ms. Glick’s muscular intelligence, something which is always on display in her articles, her lectures and within the covers of her new book, in which she lays out her “one-state plan for peace in the Middle East.”</p>
<p>Ms. Glick noted that the surrealism and delusion which created the “two-state solution” has infected the White House, the United Nations, the European Union and almost every chancellery throughout the world. The reason for this, she believes, is the accepted fabrication that Israel was reconstituted on someone else’s land and therefore Israel has no right to be there. Israel and the Jews, therefore, are the cause of all of the trouble in the region. Fortified by the propaganda belched forth by the Palestinian Myth Machine, that well-fueled clanking contraption of distortion, the so-called international community has developed an almost endless capacity for realizing hallucinations. One recent example is the University of Michigan&#8217;s siding with virulent anti-Semites in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.</p>
<p>Ms. Glick also tackled the demographic voodoo used to justify the “two-state solution” by explaining that the birthrate amongst the Arab Palestinians is beginning to mirror the collapse of the birthrate in Iran to 1.7% whereas the birthrate amongst Israeli Jews has increased. She also drew attention to the shock waves that travelled through the world when President Obama unceremoniously dumped President Mubarak of Egypt and embraced the Muslim Brotherhood, an organization which is menacing and seeks to destroy the Jews. Another disturbing development has been the training in Judea and Samaria of about 70,000 men in the Palestinian security militia equipped with American materiel and trained by U.S. General Dayton. In the event of Israel’s possible hostilities with Iran, who would this militia support, she asked?</p>
<p>Israel has far greater historical claim to the land and unimpeachable legal rights to it, as confirmed by the Treaty of San Remo of 1920 (Israel&#8217;s Magna Carta) and the subsequent confirmations of that right by the League of Nations and the United Nations. In light of the consistent intransigence of the Arab Palestinians, demonstrated by their naming of streets, sports arenas and public squares after terrorist killers and paying them while in jail, as well as the recent declarations by the Palestinian Authority that it will not recognize a Jewish state, that there will be no end to its claim for a “right to return” and that there will be no end of aggression towards Israel even after the creation of a Palestinian state, Caroline Glick has settled on a “one-plan solution.”</p>
<p>This involves reestablishing sovereignty over Judea and Samaria, a significant part of Israel’s ancient and historic homeland where Jerusalem was its undivided capital a thousand years before Christ and sixteen hundred years before Mohammed.</p>
<p>Taking into account all of the historical revision and the historical amnesia with which the world is afflicted when it comes to most things Israeli, it behooves us to remember something George Will wrote in 2010:</p>
<blockquote><p>Palestine has a seemingly limitless capacity for eliciting nonsense from afar…. The creation of Israel did not involve the destruction of a Palestinian state, there having been no such state since the Romans arrived. If the Jewish percentage of the world’s population were today what it was when the Romans ruled Palestine, there would be 200 million Jews today. After a uniquely hazardous passage through two millennia without a homeland there are 13 million Jews.</p>
<p>In the 62 years since this homeland was founded on one sixth of 1 percent of what is carelessly and inaccurately called &#8220;the Arab World,&#8221; Israelis have never know an hour of real peace. Patronizing American lectures on the reality of risks and the desirableness of peace, which once were merely fatuous, are now obscene.</p></blockquote>
<p>Ms. Glick’s talk showed that with her usual piercing insight she detected this obscenity long ago and that her book “The Israeli Solution” may well contain the long overdue remedy for such obscenity and provide the Jewish people with their one despairing wish to live at peace with their neighbors.</p>
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		<title>George Washington’s Spies &#8212; How They Saved the American Revolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2014 05:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brian Kilmeade gives a riveting presentation on his new book to the Wednesday Morning Club.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/hj.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-217951" alt="hj" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/hj.jpg" width="183" height="276" /></a>&#8220;Gentlemen do not read each other&#8217;s mail&#8221; declared Henry L. Stimson when, as Secretary of State in 1929, he promptly closed the cryptanalysis department of the United States.</p>
<p>Had George Washington been inhibited by such diplomatic niceties, it is likely he would have lost the revolutionary war. This possibility was described by Brian Kilmeade, who cohosts Fox News Channel&#8217;s morning show Fox &amp; Friends, when he spoke about his new book &#8220;<a href="http://www.amazon.com/George-Washingtons-Secret-Six-Revolution/dp/159523103X">George Washington&#8217;s Secret Six-The Spy Ring that Saved the American Revolution</a>&#8221; at the David Horowitz Freedom Center&#8217;s Wednesday Morning Club at the Beverly Hills Hotel on January 16th.</p>
<p>During a riveting presentation, Kilmeade described the activities of Washington&#8217;s group of disparate patriots who frequently risked certain death over many years in order to secure victory against Great Britain, the world&#8217;s only real superpower at the time. Almost nothing was known of them or their activities until a horde of letters was discovered in 1929 and handed over to Long Island&#8217;s premier historian, Morton Pennypacker, for study and analysis.</p>
<p>The letters revealed the identities of the Culper Spy Ring. It included Robert Townsend, a Quaker merchant and reporter; Austin Roe, a tavern keeper; Caleb Brewster, a longshoreman who ferried messages between Connecticut and New York; Abraham Woodhull, a Long Island bachelor with business and family reasons for traveling to Manhattan; James Rivington, the owner of a swanky coffeehouse and print shop where high-ranking British Officers congregated to gossip about secret plans and operations; and Agent 355, a woman whose identity is still unknown but who used her charm to coax information out of British officers.</p>
<p>These formerly unknown warriors were responsible for uncovering Benedict Arnold&#8217;s plot to surrender West Point to the British and exposing him as a traitor. They also found out that the British intended to flood the country with counterfeit American money. Washington frustrated this scheme when he issued a proclamation declaring all American currency in circulation up to 1778 would be honored. After that date new American currency was printed. They were also adept at disinformation, making sure that false maps and battle plans fell into the hands of the British. The spy ring also used encryption. New York was 56, George Washington was 711 and the mystery female spy was known as 355. Other secret codes and ciphers were employed. Today, a history of their means and methods is taught to all new recruits at the CIA.</p>
<p>Kilmeade pointed out that these were ordinary Americans doing extraordinary things, not for public adulation or glory but because they believed in their cause, which, as it turned out, became the greatest experiment in freedom the world has ever seen and of which we are the fortunate beneficiaries. It is pleasing to know that with the publication of Kilmeade&#8217;s book these selfless patriots have now received the recognition they never sought but richly deserve.</p>
<p>Major George Beckwith, a British Intelligence office from 1782-1783, noted, &#8220;Washington did not really outfight the British, he simply outspied us.&#8221; By 1940, when he was Secretary of War, Henry Stimson no longer had any qualms about cryptanalysis and came to rely on it in every aspect. Perhaps he had come to realize that in a time of &#8220;total war&#8221; it was not &#8220;gentlemen&#8221; that were needed but American patriots willing to risk all and silently put themselves in harm&#8217;s way as in the founding years of his country.</p>
<p>Had these brave individuals not taken up that significant task, it may be that the America we know and love would have been very different.</p>
<p><em>Paul Schnee served as the Western Regional Director of the Zionist Organization of America in 2010 and is now the President of their Los Angeles chapter. His blog is: Paulschnee.com where he comments on current affairs.</em></p>
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		<title>Victor Davis Hanson on the &#8216;Savior Generals&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Aug 2013 04:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Revealing the shared traits of the great men who turned around lost battles. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/hansonjpg-e1ceadbeecba7ea4.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-201443 alignleft" alt="hansonjpg-e1ceadbeecba7ea4" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/hansonjpg-e1ceadbeecba7ea4-417x350.jpg" width="250" height="210" /></a>Victor Davis Hanson is an American military historian, former classics professor, scholar of ancient warfare, a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution and the author of some 20 books. He has been a commentator on modern warfare and contemporary politics for National Review and is a nationally syndicated columnist for the Tribune Media Group. Thus, it was particularly interesting to hear him talk about his new book, &#8220;<a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Savior-Generals-Commanders-Ancient/dp/160819163X">The Savior Generals</a>,&#8221; at the David Horowitz Freedom Center&#8217;s Wednesday Morning Club luncheon held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills on August 12th.</p>
<p>The major theme of the book, he said, was how contrarian and unpopular generals have often saved the day, defying the odds, snatching victory from the jaws of defeat to win a campaign and sometimes an entire war. To illustrate this, Hanson spanned almost 2,600 years, choosing Themistocles, Belisarius, Sherman, Ridgway and Petraeus as examples. Hanson noted they all shared certain traits: They all enjoyed their reputations for bucking conventional wisdom; they were all highly literate; they all spoke well and they all led by example.</p>
<p>When confronted with catastrophe, all of Hanson&#8217;s examples had one question in mind: &#8220;What is the plan of attack?&#8221; These great men also understood that in war the status of aggressors and defenders and of the victors and the vanquished is not interchangeable. Hanson lamented that in the current political climate, this one simple fact seems to get overlooked. He expressed his dismay when shortly after army psychiatrist Major Nidal Hassan, who was a Muslim, murdered 13 troops and injured 32 others at Fort Hood, the best that Army Chief of Staff General Casey could say was that he hoped that the U.S. Army&#8217;s &#8220;diversity&#8221; would not become a casualty of this massacre.</p>
<p>None of Hanson&#8217;s generals led from behind or were what Byron called &#8220;those Pagod things of sabre-sway/With fronts of brass and feet of clay.&#8221; Nowhere in the &#8220;Art of War&#8221; by Sun Tzu, Caesar&#8217;s &#8220;Commentaries&#8221; or the war manuals of von Clausewitz will one read that one should love one&#8217;s enemy. What one will read is the categorical imperative that one should kill, crush and defeat one&#8217;s enemy and keep on doing so until he has had enough of it. Themistocles, Belisarius, Sherman, Ridgway and Petraeus were all soldiers who forged their own path and who knew that without victory there would be no chance of survival.</p>
<p>For these men, however, fate has often been unkind. Themistocles was subjected to trumped up charges of corruption; Belisarius had an unfaithful wife and an ungrateful emperor; Sherman was slandered as a terrorist because he had humiliated the enemy and often had many personal feuds; Ridgway was forced to resign as Chief of Staff by President Eisenhower with whom he had strong disagreements about the role of the U.S. Army; and Petraeus resigned as Director of the CIA due to an extra-marital affair.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, when President Reagan awarded General Ridgway the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom">Presidential Medal of Freedom</a> on May 12, 1986 saying that &#8220;Heroes come when they&#8217;re needed; great men step forward when courage seems in short supply,&#8221; he could have been talking just as much about Themistocles, Belisarius, Sherman and Petraeus as he was about Ridgeway.</p>
<p>Victor Davis Hanson spoke for 45 minutes without notes and it was clear that he took delight in his subjects. He displayed an encompassing range of historical knowledge and, with his subjects in the &#8220;The Savior Generals,&#8221; confirmed that people of great courage and character can change the course of history.</p>
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		<title>Ben Shapiro Exposes Leftist Bullies at Horowitz&#8217;s Wednesday Morning Club</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/paul-schnee/ben-shapiro-exposes-leftist-bullies-at-horowitzs-wednesday-morning-club/bullies-book-cover1-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-185656"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-185656" title="Bullies-Book-Cover1" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Bullies-Book-Cover1.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="439" /></a><strong>To order <em>Bullies, How the Left&#8217;s Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences America</em>, <a href="https://secure.donationreport.com/productattribute.html?productId=7187">click here</a>.</strong></p>
<p>When fighting a bully you must punch twice as hard. It&#8217;s war. Conservatives must define who the bullies are: Democrats. This was Ben Shapiro&#8217;s message during his talk about his new book, &#8220;<a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/jamie-glazov/bullies-how-the-lefts-culture-of-fear-and-intimidation-silences-america/">Bullies, How the Left&#8217;s Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences America</a>,&#8221; which he gave on Tuesday, April 9 at the David Horowitz Freedom Center&#8217;s Wednesday Morning Club in Beverly Hills.</p>
<p>This advice should be obvious, but, noted Shapiro, it is hard for conservatives of all stripes to absorb. The Left does not have &#8220;positions&#8221;; it has &#8220;feelings,&#8221; and that is why it goes about demonizing its opposition. This trait was on full display during the presidential election when every attempt was made to marginalize Governor Romney as someone who was an elitist with a wife who went horse-riding and was out of touch with mainstream America; a man who strapped his dog to the roof of his car and who enjoyed firing people so their wives could die of cancer. He was portrayed as being opposed to a woman&#8217;s right to contraception or to have an abortion. The usual canards of racism, bigotry and homophobia were strenuously applied to Romney to the extent that many people believed that Barack Obama was more like them: someone to whom they could relate much more easily and who was more concerned about their own personal circumstances. The Liberal Myth Machine, that well-oiled, extravagantly funded, clanking contraption of distortion, went into top gear spreading its muck around with unprecedented vigor and it prevailed by characterizing Republicans as obstructionists.</p>
<p>According to the liberal psyche, if you are opposed to gay marriage then you hate gay people; if you approve of voter I.D. requirements then you are a racist; if you don&#8217;t want sequestration then you dislike poor people; if you oppose certain gun-control measures then you don&#8217;t care about dead children.</p>
<p>The Liberal Myth Machine distorts everything it touches and, said Shapiro, the righteous indignation of the Left is always in inverse proportion to their ability to argue the facts. That is why the Left lies about what it really is and hides its agenda from view. It has to give the impression that it supports the down-trodden, the dispossessed and the disenfranchised. If people really understood the totalitarian nature of its goals, the Left would never get elected to anything. Who would have voted for the results produced by Stalin, Castro or the Greek government if they had known of them beforehand?</p>
<p>Shapiro observed that Obama&#8217;s policies are designed to fail. That failure will overload the system and create more and more dependence on government. The policies of Democrats have deliberately impoverished inner city black communities in favor of their friends who control the big unions. The more people who are unemployed and receiving food stamps, the more people you have who will vote for Democrats. The more illegal immigrants who are granted some sort of amnesty, the more potential voters Democrats will gain. The more people receive welfare checks, the more people will vote for those who promise to keep the checks coming. The goal is to create a permanent majority for Democrats through the guarantee of one long stroll in the government perambulator. When you combine all of this with the habit of coddling those who complain about the results they did not get from the work they did not do, you will have the Left in charge of America for as far as the eye can see. It&#8217;s hard to vote against Santa Claus.</p>
<p>As Shapiro&#8217;s talk highlighted, Obama&#8217;s stewardship proves that attending Harvard is not sufficient proof of brilliance. His administration confuses mere activity with political achievement. This, in fact, has become the administration&#8217;s habit and illustrates its preference for style over substance. In this regard, Obama himself is much like the policies he promotes: they look good and sound good, but, on closer examination, they are actually highly destructive and counter-productive. It is all part of his moving curtain of lies on everything from the economy to health care reform to so-called global warming and to our national security. Obama is a political wrecking ball swinging violently out of control landing here, there, and everywhere, but seldom on the proper target, at least as far as most ordinary Americans are concerned. If you ever wanted to see Saul Alinsky&#8217;s &#8220;Rules for Radicals&#8221; in action then you need look no further than Obama&#8217;s administration. Grasp that and you will have grasped the essence of Obama &#8212; a man who actually dislikes the country he is supposed to be leading. Grasp that and you will understand why he and his fellow-travelers consider the U.S. Constitution to be a mere list of suggestions.</p>
<p>Ben Shapiro entered UCLA at age sixteen and graduated <em>summa cum laude</em> with a BA in political science. He then attended Harvard Law where he graduated <em>cum laude</em> in 2007. To say that he is a &#8220;wunderkind&#8221; is no exaggeration. Piers Morgan found this out the hard way. When he had Shapiro on as a guest to discuss his book and gun-control, Morgan mounted his high horse, an animal he always keeps closely tethered, and tried to make Shapiro&#8217;s position look callous and unfeeling. Shapiro eviscerated Morgan using reason and evidence &#8212; two things as distasteful to the Left as garlic is to vampires. At that moment Piers understood the central message of Shapiro&#8217;s new book when Shapiro hit him back twice as hard and right between his eyes (with intellectual wisdom of course). As for the rest of us, we can learn the lesson the easy way by listening carefully to what Ben Shapiro has to say and by acting upon the perceptive insights contained from cover to cover in &#8220;Bullies.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Pat Caddell Speaks at the Wednesday Morning Club</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2012 04:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/paul-schnee/pat-caddell-speaks-at-the-wednesday-morning-club/pat_caddell_predicting_ruin_for_democrats_again-460x307/" rel="attachment wp-att-163284"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-163284" title="pat_caddell_predicting_ruin_for_democrats_again-460x307" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/pat_caddell_predicting_ruin_for_democrats_again-460x307-432x350.gif" alt="" width="302" height="245" /></a>During has talk about &#8220;November 6th: What to Expect&#8221; given at the David Horowitz Freedom Center&#8217;s Wednesday Morning Club on October 25th, Pat Caddell demonstrated his gift for political punditry as well as his disgust at what he believes is superficial and biased reporting on the part of the mainstream media. Caddell was a life-long Democrat who worked for 5 Democratic presidential candidates. His electioneering expertise was believed to have been essential in securing Jimmy Carter&#8217;s victory in 1976. A grateful Carter awarded Caddell with a good deal of influence in his White House, but not enough of it to protect him from a humiliating defeat by Ronald Reagan in 1980. Unfortunately for Barack Obama, Caddell is of the opinion that, like Jimmy Carter, our 44th president will be denied a second term.</p>
<p>Since retiring from political advocacy, Caddell has served as a consultant to various films and television shows, written for various publications, including <em>The Wall Street Journal</em>, and he appears regularly on television as a Fox News contributor.</p>
<p>Noting that it is impossible for Obama to run on his record, Caddell observed that the position of the Democrats seems to be that people should vote for Obama because of what Clinton did when he was president. He also said that there are three teams in this race: the Obama team, the Romney team and the media team. The media, said Caddell, will try to block Romney every chance they get and he said that inexplicably the Republicans won&#8217;t challenge the media. In late September, he contended, the Romney campaign was slipping badly but the first debate changed the course and had a dramatic effect by showing people that Romney was not the ogre he had been portrayed as by Team Obama. Still, Caddell said, the Republicans have failed to frame the national debate. States being run by Republican governors are doing well and that is the message the Republicans should be telling. The huge electoral gains in November of 2010 were due to the fierce opposition to Obamacare and, so far, the Republicans have failed to build on that. He lamented that Romney didn&#8217;t start to tell his own story early enough.</p>
<p>Caddell said that it&#8217;s a mistake for either party to think that there is only an election in seven states. Moving numbers in swing states is a hard slog. Hardly a penny has been spent in Minnesota, Michigan or Pennsylvania but Obama has spent $60 million in Ohio on negative advertisements. He knows Ohio hates Obamacare. President Bush lost Ohio by a narrow margin in 2004 and Romney has almost closed the gap there this time. Obama, he said, is running scared in Pennsylvania.</p>
<p>Obama&#8217;s strategic failure, asserted Caddell, is thinking that all he needs to do is to discredit Romney. Obama has offered no rationale to vote for him, while the Republicans are wasting their time calling Obama a socialist. Instead they should be attacking Obama&#8217;s record and scandals under his watch, said Caddell.</p>
<p>Caddell&#8217;s greatest scorn was reserved for the media. Discussing Benghazi, he said the press has been in the tank on this in a way he had never seen. He was appalled, he said frustratedly. The White House and the secretary of state are willing, apparently, to cover up and lie for the cheap prospect of getting reelected. The worst thing about the scandal, Caddell contended, is that the very people who are supposed to protect the American people with the truth &#8212; the mainstream media &#8212; have become a fundamental threat to American democracy and the enemies of the American people. These people have no honor, he went on to say, and &#8220;cover up is too nice of a word&#8221; for them.</p>
<p>Somewhere on Pat Caddell&#8217;s journey he has moved from the left of American politics towards the center, a position from which he surveys the American political landscape with a critical but objective eye. Along the way, it is evident that Caddell has engaged in rigorous introspection, and he is no longer prepared to pay the price of self-delusion. In a nostalgic chamber of his mind one can glimpse a sentimental attachment to the likes of earlier Democrats who were patriots and not prisoners of the poisoned political correctness which has done much to polarize the political landscape over the last several decades.</p>
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		<title>Ann Coulter Speaks at Wednesday Morning Club</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 04:34:27 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/paul-schnee/ann-coulter-speaks-at-wednesday-morning-club/mugged/" rel="attachment wp-att-149207"><img class="size-full wp-image-149207 alignleft" title="Mugged" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Mugged.jpg" alt="" width="338" height="512" /></a>During her lively talk about her new book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mugged-Racial-Demagoguery-Seventies-ebook/dp/B0085DONJI">MUGGED</a>, given at the Oct. 11th meeting of the David Horowitz Freedom Center&#8217;s Wednesday Morning Club, Ann Coulter, the conservative enfant terrible and the New York Times best-selling author of six books, described and exposed the golden age of racial demagoguery in America &#8212; a period that lasted from the 1970s to the present day. Coulter noted that this is the 7th of her books to be on the &#8220;best seller&#8221; list. Liberals, she said, never learn that when you attack her, the more books she sells.</p>
<p>White guilt, she stressed during her talk, has never produced anything good but has allowed absurd notions (such as the KKK having undue influence in the New York Police Department) to proliferate in popular culture.</p>
<p>The charge of racism is the atom bomb of accusations and one which has been exploited, whether validly or invalidly, by race hustlers of every color and political stripe in America. These individuals seek to maintain their image as champions of the downtrodden, the dispossessed and the disenfranchised, which provides them with fame, fortune and endless opportunities to appear on television spouting their overtures of ingratiation.</p>
<p>For the first hundred years of American history, Coulter noted, the liberal Democrats refused to treat blacks as human beings and for the second hundred years they have refused to treat them as adults.</p>
<p>This should come as no surprise when one considers that the Democrats are the party of the Ku Klux Klan, the party of segregation, the party of secession, the party of slavery and now the party of extreme left-wing socialism. They opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act until they realized they could keep blacks oppressed by making them hapless wards of the nanny state, a permanent underclass that would vote for Democrats in election after election. They wrapped up the black community in the mantle of their own form of racism: the racism of low expectations out of which affirmative action was born &#8212; a system which rewards the undeserving, results in inappropriate job placements and stigmatizes its presumed beneficiaries.</p>
<p>It has become obvious to millions of Americans that the pendulum of fairness has swung too far in the opposite direction such that false cries of racism on any subject are taken seriously and confound rational thought. Such was the case, said Coulter, with Rodney King, the Duke rape trial, Tawana Brawley and O.J. Simpson. Black or white, the race hustlers, with their greedy appetites and racial rhetoric, have deliberately inflamed passions, distorted justice and caused bloodshed, while keeping their feet firmly planted on the ladder of preferment and suffering no consequences.</p>
<p>Some resentments in life spring from a yearning for fairness, but the agenda of those who use racial demagoguery has nothing to do with justice or the empowerment of the alleged victims they claim to defend. It has everything to do with keeping the lid on a stew of concocted discontent so leftists can nurture the illusion of being society&#8217;s heroes to whom the rest of us should defer. It&#8217;s impossible for them to keep the balloon rising without the necessary infusion of hot air. This has become the modus operandi of Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and even our Attorney General, Eric Holder, whose reluctance to prosecute the New Black Panthers for voter intimidation in 2008 puts the American people in the unenviable position of no longer being able to trust the umpire.</p>
<p>Thus do small men cast large shadows, but not as large as the moving curtain of lies that Ann Coulter sweeps aside in her new book. Coulter expertly exposes the crass falsifications, the calcified cynicism and the sanctimonious racial demagoguery that has stained, corrupted and corroded every aspect of our national existence. If these rifts are not mended, America will never become a unified country, but one riven with deep racial divisions &#8212; which is good for the political fortunes of the Left, but not very good for the future of the country.</p>
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		<title>David Horowitz Discusses &#8216;The New Leviathan&#8217; at the Wednesday Morning Club</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/DavidHorowitzWesternRetreat011-1.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-136086" title="DavidHorowitzWesternRetreat011-1" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/DavidHorowitzWesternRetreat011-1.gif" alt="" width="375" height="263" /></a><strong>To order &#8220;<em>The New Leviathan: How the Left-Wing Money Machine Shapes American Politics and Threatens America&#8217;s Future</em>,&#8221; the new book by David Horowitz and Jacob Laksin, click <a href="https://secure.donationreport.com/productlist.html?key=QXL3SUOKZ05M">here</a>.</strong></p>
<p>Attendees of the Freedom Center&#8217;s June 22nd meeting of the Wednesday Morning Club were treated to an invaluable lecture by Center President David Horowitz on his new book, &#8220;The New Leviathan,&#8221; coauthored by Jacob Laksin. The book, which exposes the unrivaled financial heft of the Left, comes at a most opportune time, as the nation enters full election mode and contends with the might of these overflowing leftist political coffers.</p>
<p>The book&#8217;s subtitle, &#8220;How the Left-Wing Money Machine Shapes American Politics and Threatens America&#8217;s Future,&#8221; gives us a strong hint about its content. As Horowitz explained, the new Leviathan is a conglomeration of thousands of 501(c)3 organizations, think-tanks, government unions, and radical groups with a combined treasury in the many billions of dollars. They are, he said, a kind of shadow political universe that indulges in trench warfare. These organizations make mischief in order to carry on the debate between election cycles whilst doing their utmost to pursue their ultra-left agenda. They have innocuous and worthy-sounding names that disguise their real purpose of advancing &#8220;progressive&#8221; goals.</p>
<p>As a former radical and left-wing activist, Horowitz knows which tune the devil is whistling since he once whistled it himself before he experienced an epiphany and transitioned to the right. Horowitz provided mountains of detailed and specific information about how the left wing is funded and he exposed as false the conventional wisdom that most of the money in politics comes from conservative organizations.</p>
<p>Horowitz described how most of the great American foundations no longer represent the original intentions of their founders. For example, in his letter of resignation from the board of the Ford Foundation, Henry Ford II stated that the foundation&#8217;s money was being spent attacking the very principles of free enterprise, principles that were responsible for the enormous financial success that allowed the Ford Foundation to be established in the first place. The same story can be told at the Carnegie, John D. MacArthur, Pew, Packard and Rockefeller Foundations &#8212; their founders would be positively apoplectic with fury if they knew how their money was being spent.</p>
<p>Horowitz went on to explain that there are 553 anti-free market, left-wing organizations with about $9.5 billion in assets at their disposal as opposed to 32 free-market organizations with approximately $38 million in their coffers. When it comes to immigration, the picture is just as alarming. There are, he said, 117 open-border, illegal immigrant organizations, most of which regard assimilation as a racist idea. Conservatives are outmatched both in numbers and fire-power. One knows, at last, how Custer must have felt.</p>
<p>Later in his talk, Horowitz went on to describe the social apocalypse that has been induced by the policies promoted by the tax-exempt organizations that are accountable to nobody and have been elected by no one. Affirmative action, for example, rewards the undeserving, results in inappropriate job placements and stigmatizes its presumed beneficiaries. Government has been steadily blighting the poor and blacks, Horowitz claimed. The sub-prime mortgage crisis was an example of how leftists, obsessed with imposing affirmative action standards on lending practices, were actually responsible for the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression. They bullied lenders into granting loans to blacks, Hispanics and poor whites and thereby granted by fiat what was normally obtained through thrift: ownership of a home.</p>
<p>Thus, courtesy of Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) and Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) America was introduced to the concept of so-called &#8220;affordable housing&#8221; which meant that even people on welfare, with no credit, no job, no assets, and no collateral, could buy a home under &#8220;desk top&#8221; underwriting rules mandated by the Democrats in Congress. A political ploy to get votes turned into a national and international disaster after Wall Street took all of that FHA, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac worthless paper and made them CDOs (collateralized debt obligations) which were then easily sold to greedy investors because they paid high interest rates. The riskier the loan, the higher the interest rate. When the economy went into a recession it was only a matter of time before the mortgagors defaulted.</p>
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		<title>Robert Spencer&#8217;s Talk at the Wednesday Morning Club</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 04:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A leading scholar of Islam explains why the more one looks for Muhammad, the less of him one finds.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/rob.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-132488" title="rob" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/rob.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="300" /></a>If Islamists keep a list of people they never wish to see or hear from again, then Robert Spencer&#8217;s name must be high up on it. In his talk about his new book, &#8220;Did Muhammad Exist?&#8221; given at David Horowitz&#8217;s  Wednesday Morning Club on May 16th, Spencer said that he was interested in the health of honest discourse in America, for nobody is ever accused of being a racist, a bigot or a hate-monger about inquiries into the existence of Jesus or the truth of Judaism. Spencer already knows the answer to his question about the health of honest discourse. Since the publication of two of his other books, &#8220;The Truth About Muhammad&#8221; and &#8220;The Politically Incorrect Guide To Islam,&#8221; the so-called &#8220;religion of peace&#8221; has been so peaceful in its intentions towards him that he now finds it necessary to live in a secure and undisclosed location.</p>
<p>The more one looks for Muhammad the less of him one finds, asserted Spencer. Although Muhammad is alleged to have lived from 570 A.D. to 632 A.D., and his thirty or so conversations with the archangel Gabriel started around 610 A.D., no mention is made of him for more than another seventy years. By 690 A.D. the Muslim conquerors of the Middle East, North Africa, Persia, and India never referred to him in any way when they might well have been expected to do so, since Islam today claims he had already become their sole object of veneration by that time. Surely the vanquished would have noted how a new religion had come to conquer in the name of Muhammad and the teachings of the Quran. Again, there is only silence.</p>
<p>There is also doubt about the exact meaning of inscriptions inside the Dome of the Rock completed in 691 A.D. It is unclear whether the inscription predated the Quran or vice-versa or whether the inscriptions are actually referring to Jesus. But one thing is certain, noted Spencer: by that time the specifics of Islam had nowhere been elaborated, although there was the beginning of an effort to question the divinity of Jesus.</p>
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		<title>Charles Murray at the Freedom Center&#8217;s Wednesday Morning Club</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 04:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conservative titan pinpoints how we lost the personal government of ourselves.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/poor_charles_murray_underpaid_by_liberal_media-460x307.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-130805" title="poor_charles_murray_underpaid_by_liberal_media-460x307" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/poor_charles_murray_underpaid_by_liberal_media-460x307.gif" alt="" width="375" height="250" /></a>Charles Murray&#8217;s new book, &#8220;Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010,&#8221; was the subject of his April 30th talk at the David Horowitz Freedom Center&#8217;s Wednesday Morning Club. The purpose of the book, Murray explained, was to set up a candid conversation on the overlooked existential crisis facing America: the formation of the new upper class and the formation of the new lower class in the United States along the lines of morality. Indeed, this candid conversation unfolded with alarming clarity throughout the lecture.</p>
<p>Murray asserted that the formation of this new class system in American society is primarily due to our increasing abandonment of traditional American values and our increasing embrace of secularism, which always engenders relativism. In such a world, there is no good, no evil, just a static government-imposed lackluster conformity masquerading as equality. We have lost, he said, the personal government of ourselves.</p>
<p>This loss has induced an acceptance of destructive trends as being normal. Full of alarming statistical data, Murray&#8217;s book points out that the marriage rate of upper middle-class white Americans is 83% while it is only 48% for white working-class Americans. The consequences of these statistics play out in a number of ways: Married men tend to be more productive than unmarried ones. This leads to a certain amount of cultural inequality, said Murray. Unmarried fathers, he notes, are unlikely to coach the little league and unmarried mothers are less likely to attend PTA meetings. Murray contended that we are not so much materially poor as we are spiritually poor, and that this stems from a lack of kinship with our family and neighbors. There is a far greater chance of gaining satisfaction from our lives when we interact with our families, within our vocations, with our respective faiths and with our community.</p>
<p>Books like &#8220;McGuffey&#8217;s Reader,&#8221; a six-volume primer of American values encouraging independence and self-reliance, which sold 120 million copies between 1836 and 1960, and which was used in a majority of classrooms during that period, has now virtually disappeared, along with the principles and values it sought to inculcate. This, Murray said, is how we ended up with a recent proposal to reduce the tax deduction for charitable donations, which reflects the government&#8217;s fundamental belief that only the government can or should help the poor. Private and community charity is now thought to be wrong. Only government welfare does not stigmatize its recipients, it is believed in some circles. In this way, people are able to buy off their conscience by telling themselves that they pay so much in taxes that it really is the government&#8217;s job to take care of those in need. However, it used to be thought that we should not do by legislation what properly belongs to charity.</p>
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		<title>John Stossel Unmasks the Fraud of Big Government</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 04:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The evangelist of common sense regales the Freedom Center with insights from his new book, "No They Can't." ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-129884" title="628x471-(1)" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/628x471-1.gif" alt="" width="375" height="250" /></a>During his April 23rd talk before the David Horowitz Freedom Center&#8217;s Wednesday Morning Club about his new book &#8220;No They Can&#8217;t,&#8221; his first work in eight years, John Stossel reminded everyone that if he had been alive in 1776, his signature might well have appeared on <em>The Declaration Of Independence</em> or, at the very least, one might have seen him later on at the Constitutional Convention giving advice.</p>
<p>Stossel, an escapee from ABC, now has his own program on the Fox Business Network. He is a self-confessed libertarian and an evangelist of common sense, who would agree with Adam Smith&#8217;s observation that: &#8220;I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.&#8221; Certainly, &#8220;that government is best which governs least,&#8221; a sentence often attributed to George Washington but was first seen in an essay written by Thoreau, is a notion to which Stossel would also subscribe.</p>
<p>Channeling his inner John Stuart Mill, Stossel noted that the &#8220;We&#8221; in &#8220;Yes We Can&#8221; is the &#8220;We&#8221; of the government and not the &#8220;We&#8221; of &#8220;We The People.&#8221; For Stossel, therein lies the rub: He believes that from birth we have been programmed with a desire to be &#8220;looked after&#8221; and that this programming can lead to an easy acceptance and an eventual dependence on the government, government solutions, and in the well-meaning but cold embrace of the welfare state, which so often provides its recipients with one long swing in the government hammock. The unintended consequence of this government largesse, he says, is more dependency resulting in programs which have now become unsustainable.</p>
<p>There is a big difference between self-interest and narrow selfishness. Business, Stossel said, is not a zero-sum game. The merchant is happy when he sells his product and the consumer is happy to have acquired a product he desires. To demonstrate this, Stossel alluded to Adam Smith&#8217;s observation that:</p>
<blockquote><p>It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves not to their humanity but to their self-love and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages.</p></blockquote>
<p>Grasp that and you will have grasped the very heart of the matter, for capitalism reaps from the natural activities of man whereas socialism, and its concomitant central planning, requires an intellectual construct.</p>
<p>It has become fashionable, Stossel affirmed, for people to condemn capitalism as being unfair and to believe that only the government can curb its greedy appetite and create a level playing field providing equal opportunity for all. Its critics often expect that equal opportunity will lead to equal results and get upset at any hint of wealth disparity, which, as Stossel pointed out, is actually a natural by-product of freedom. Here he was partly reflecting Churchill&#8217;s view that &#8220;some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse pulling a sturdy wagon.&#8221;</p>
<p>Compare, Stossel noted, the best automobile produced by a planned economy, like the one in the former Soviet Union and it satellites, with the worst automobile you could buy in America and you will see how capitalism and the competition it induces always produce a better product. Within a short time after the Berlin Wall collapsed, the Trabant, the East German motorcar, had disappeared from the marketplace. It just could not compete. Central planning has long been discredited as an economic theory except by the devotees of John Maynard Keynes and all left-wing liberals who still keep a romantic attachment to it prominently lodged in a nostalgic chamber of their minds.</p>
<p>Why is it, asked Stossel, that on a planet of about 7 billion people, over 2 billion of them live on less than $2.00 a day? How did Hong Kong, with no natural resources, go from being poor to rich within 50 years? Economic freedom and the rule of law does not exist in those poorer countries, he said, but where those two ingredients exist then human innovation and entrepreneurship will take root and bloom. This is how the United States accounted for over 50% of the world&#8217;s industrial production by 1890. It is what gave us the likes of Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, Levi-Strauss, Sears Roebuck, Thomas Edison, Harvey Firestone, J.P. Morgan, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Warren Buffet.</p>
<p>It was clear throughout his talk that Stossel&#8217;s <em>b<em>ê</em>te noir</em> is the size, growth and inefficiency of government. Big government reduces our control over our own lives as it spreads its tentacles over every aspect of our existence. It cannot solve our problems but that is not to say that &#8220;We The People&#8221; cannot. He made the point that we can travel the globe making credit card purchases and withdrawing money from ATM machines abroad and within a month our statement will arrive with every transaction neatly posted and accounted for whereas the government can&#8217;t even supply machines capable of counting votes properly. This is the same compelling objection we have heard about handing over the supervision of our health care to the same government that gave us Amtrak and the Post Office, a notion that should alarm even the slowest of minds.</p>
<p>Decades ago it became evident that there is nothing as permanent as a temporary government program, or that if government spending was all it took to be successful then Sweden would have become the most successful country in the world and the Soviet Union would have won the Cold War. Stossel&#8217;s speech touched on many aspects of his new book in which he illustrates the truth of Milton Friedman&#8217;s quip that if the government were to be in charge of the Sahara Desert within five years there would be a shortage of sand.</p>
<p>Stossel made it plain that our government now operates on an intrusive and regulatory scale that is opposite to the intentions of the Founding Fathers who, it has been said, were more interested in a safe government than an efficient one; to which end they crafted and put in place slowing and blocking mechanisms: three branches of government, two legislative branches, the veto, the veto override, super majorities and judicial review. However, even with all of this it is clear that Stossel believes that the government is in danger of outgrowing the consent of the governed, even as it has already incurred their disapproval, as indicated by the lowest approval ratings for Congress since records started being kept.</p>
<p>For Stossel, the government has more solutions than there are problems, and it can&#8217;t resist jumping to the front of the parade pretending to lead it. But by constant and ever increasing interference, it disregards and diminishes individual freedom, discourages individual responsibility, stifles creativity and is responsible for one crisis after another while assuring us that only government intervention can help prevent the disasters of its own creation. In this regard the spirit of the government has seldom roamed beyond its own selfish interests instead of husbanding the greatest experiment in freedom the world has ever seen. This is what animates Stossel who, in &#8220;No They Can&#8217;t,&#8221; exposes the fraud that only the government knows what is best for us and is best suited to provide it.</p>
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		<title>The History Lesson So Desperately Needed By Israel’s Detractors</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unable to defeat Israel on the battlefield or intimidate her by decades of terror her Muslim tormentors have anxiously turned to a different strategy. In defiance of the mountains of historical and archeological facts, let alone the biblical evidence, they have embarked on a strenuous effort to turn history upside down and wage a campaign to prove that Israel and the Jews have no legal right to the Land of Israel and that it should always have been a land over which Islamic supremacists hold dominion.]]></description>
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<p>Unable to defeat Israel on the battlefield or intimidate her by decades of terror her Muslim tormentors have anxiously turned to a different strategy. In defiance of the mountains of historical and archeological facts, let alone the biblical evidence, they have embarked on a strenuous effort to turn history upside down and wage a campaign to prove that Israel and the Jews have no legal right to the Land of Israel and that it should always have been a land over which Islamic supremacists hold dominion.</p>
<p>Their insatiable appetite for historical revision, bolstered by an American president who conveniently suffers from historical amnesia, has led them into the realm of lawfare, where if you torture the facts long enough eventually the facts will tell you anything you wish to hear.</p>
<p>However, as Howard Grief pointed out in his essay, “Legal Rights and Title of Sovereignty of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel and Palestine under International Law,” before the Arab Palestinians’ romp of fantasy can be realized they need to disprove the legitimacy of the Balfour Declaration of 1917, the Mandates System established and governed by Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations contained in the Treaty of Versailles and all the other peace treaties made with the Central Powers, i.e. Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey.</p>
<p><span id="more-117278"></span>The Covenant was the idea of president Woodrow Wilson and contained his program of Fourteen Points of January 8, 1918 while Article 22, which established the Mandates System, was largely the work of Jan Christiaan Smuts who formulated the details in a memorandum that became known as the Smuts Resolution, officially endorsed by the Council of Ten on January 30, 1919 in which Palestine as envisaged in the Balfour Declaration was named as one of the mandated states to be created.</p>
<p>The official creation of the country took place at the San Remo Peace Conference (1920) where the Balfour Declaration was adopted by the Supreme Council of the Principal Allied Powers as the basis for the future “administration” of Palestine which would henceforth be recognized as the Jewish National Home.</p>
<p>Grief goes on to say that the moment of birth of Jewish legal rights and title of sovereignty thus took place at the same time Palestine was created a “mandated” state since it was created for NO other reason than to “reconstitute” the ancient Jewish state of Judea in fulfillment of the Balfour Declaration and the general provisions of Article 22 of the League Covenant. This meant that Palestine from the start was legally a Jewish state that was, in theory, to be guided toward independence by a Mandatory or Trustee, also acting as Tutor (this turned out to be Great Britain) and who would take the necessary political, administrative and economic measures to establish the Jewish National Home.</p>
<p>The details for the planned independent Jewish state were set forth in three basic documents which may be termed the founding documents of mandated Palestine and the modern Jewish state of Israel that arose from them. These were: the San Remo Resolution of April 15, 1920; the Franco-British Boundary Convention of December 23, 1920; and the Mandate for Palestine conferred on Britain by the Principal Allied Powers and confirmed by the League of Nations on July 24, 1922.</p>
<p>These founding documents were supplemented by the Anglo-American Convention of December 3, 1924 respecting the Mandate for Palestine. It is of supreme importance to realize that these documents are the source of Jewish legal rights and title of sovereignty over the land of Israel under international law. Therefore, it is impossible to “occupy” territory you already own regardless of the mistakes made by successive Israeli governments during the intervening years and, alas, there have been plenty of them but none significant enough to have revoked their root of title or legal sovereignty.</p>
<p>No matter how long or how often they repeat their lies the Arab Palestinians simply have no case. As for the policies being proposed in the United Nations, the European Union, Russia, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and the Oval Office they are a stark reminder of Goethe’s observation that there is nothing so frightful as ignorance in action.</p>
<p>For 63 years Israel has been an embattled outpost of Western values surrounded by genocidal enemies whose undiminished goal is her extinction. She is on the front lines against the relentless march of Islamic totalitarianism which threatens to provide us all with a one-way ticket back to the seventh century. On that journey we would be treated to all the brutality, all the cruelty and all the barbarism enshrined in Islam’s title deed, namely the Koran itself. We must go where the evidence leads.</p>
<p>The annihilation of Israel would be a vital step in the eventual establishment of an Islamic caliphate in the region comprised of Iran, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, and Egypt. As Israel goes so surely will go the rest of us, so for her own survival, as well as for ours, Israel must proclaim her right as she was given that right and defend that right whenever it is challenged and whatever the cost.</p>
<blockquote><p>“What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted!<br />
Thrice is he arm’d that hath his quarrel just,<br />
And he but naked, though lock’d up in steel,<br />
Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.”</p>
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