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		<title>Al-Qaeda’s Younger Brother in Florida</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2014 05:14:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Kaufman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is Nabil el-Shukri trying to fill the shoes of his extremist lineage?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Nabil.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-248049" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Nabil-450x330.jpg" alt="Nabil" width="262" height="192" /></a>Nabil el-Shukri’s terrorist family has been decimated. His father, who was the imam of what has been labeled one of the most dangerous mosques in America and the translator for the spiritual leader of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, has long been gone. And now his older brother, a top-ranking al-Qaeda Commander, has been killed by the Pakistani military. With his two biggest influences dead, will el-Shukri choose to lead a similar path? The extremism he has exhibited and is exhibiting today leads one to believe that it is a foregone conclusion.</p>
<p>Nabil el-Shukri is the administrator and the acting imam at the Alazhar School for children, PK – 8th Grade, located in the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Tamarac, Florida. He has been with the school, since it was incorporated in September 2008. While he is married with a child, today he no doubt feels quite lonely, as he has lost yet another piece of his radical Muslim family.</p>
<p>On a raid in the tribal district of South Waziristan, which began Friday, December 5<sup>th</sup> and ended the following day, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/06/world/asia/pakistan-al-qaeda-death/">al-Qaeda Commander Adnan Gulshair el-Shukrijumah was killed</a> and confirmed dead by the Pakistani military. According to a resident from the area, he had been living there for two weeks, after having been forced out of North Waziristan during a military operation against militants <em>there</em>.</p>
<p>While with al-Qaeda, Adnan had quickly climbed ranks to reach the lofty position of head of external operations, a title once possessed by 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. In that capacity, he had been indicted by a federal grand jury for his role in the 2009 terrorist plot to blow up New York City&#8217;s subway system. At the time of his death, he was 39 years old, born in 1975 to a mother who was merely 16 years of age and a father who was 47.</p>
<p>Adnan had been on the radar of the intelligence community, since he abruptly left town in May 2001. Two years later, his father told the <em>Associated Press</em> that the reason Adnan had left was because he disliked the American lifestyle and was offended by women who wore skimpy clothing.</p>
<p>The father, Gulshair Muhammad el-Shukrijumah, had spent much of his life as a missionary for the Saudi Arabian government. In 1986, he was sent to Brooklyn, New York to head a mosque, Masjid Nur al-Islam. He also had involvement with another mosque that was located only blocks away, Masjid al-Farooq, the home for many of those involved in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.</p>
<p>Gulshair was a translator for the spiritual leader of the attack, the ‘Blind Sheikh’ Omar Abdel-Rahman. As well, during the federal trial concerning the attack, Gulshair was a chief/character witness for Clement Rodney Hampton-El, the individual who was believed to be the one who taught the terror cell how to build the bomb used in the attack. Hampton-El was one of the congregants at Gulshair’s mosque.</p>
<p>In a photo taken at Gulshair’s Brooklyn mosque, which was uploaded to the internet by his son Nabil, Gulshair is pictured reading with two young boys. Behind him, on the blackboard, it is written, “The human being is under the oppression of the kuffar [unbelievers, non-Muslims].”</p>
<p>In 1995, Gulshair moved himself and his family to Miramar in South Florida, where the Saudis once again set him up with a mosque to run. That mosque, Masjid al-Hijrah, has the dubious distinction of being named the No. 2 biggest “Sanctuary of Terror” by author Paul Sperry in his book <em>Infiltration</em>. At this mosque, Gulshair counseled the likes of convicted terrorist “Dirty Bomber” Jose Padilla, who also had dealings with Gulshair’s son, Adnan.</p>
<p>When the subject of his son’s terrorist activity became too hot, Gulshair was released from his duties as imam of al-Hijrah. He did not have to wait long to find a new job, though, as he was soon taken on as a director at the Shamsuddin Islamic Center, located in North Miami Beach. The mosque had recently moved across the street from its original location, at the same address as the American Muslim Association of North America (AMANA), a group run by Shukrijumah family friend Sofian Abdelaziz Zakkout, who was an advisor to the mosque.</p>
<p>Zakkout previously had been the Vice President of the Health Resource Center for Palestine (HRCP), a now defunct Hamas-related group run out of Deerfield Beach, Florida. Earlier this month, Zakkout posted on his Facebook page a photo of late PLO leader Yasser Arafat <a href="http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee431/kaufmanforcongress/Sofian_Zakkout-Ahmed_Yassin_Yasser_Arafat.jpg">embracing late Hamas leader Ahmed Yassin</a>.</p>
<p>In June 2004, Gulshair el-Shukrijumah died at the age of 74, following a series of strokes claimed to have been brought on by news related to his oldest son, Adnan.</p>
<p>With both his older brother and father gone, Nabil el-Shukri has been left as the elder male figure in the radical Shukrijumah household. The question is will things be different with him than were with his two predecessors. The answer is probably no.</p>
<p>El-Shukri’s MySpace page is currently locked and restricted from public view. No longer can anyone go on it to see <a href="http://www.americansagainsthate.org/NabilShukrijumah_MySpace.htm">graphics of jihadis brandishing rifles</a> and al-Qaeda black flags or photos of killed U.S. troops. However, his Facebook and YouTube pages are entirely open for scrutiny, and what is found on them is also very disturbing.</p>
<p>On his Facebook site, el-Shukri posted different items associated with the Muslim American Society or MAS, including a <a href="http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee431/kaufmanforcongress/Nabil_el-Shukri_MAS.jpg">MAS produced video, titled ‘Bassem is Trying.’</a></p>
<p>Last month, it was widely reported that MAS was named a terrorist organization by the UAE, on a list that included al-Qaeda, ISIS and Boko Haram. In the recent past, MAS has used its official websites to praise Hamas and to call for violence upon and/or denigrate Jews, Christians, homosexuals and women. The National Executive Director of MAS, Mazen Mokhtar, is a proponent of suicide bombings and has previously served as a web designer for what was then the main website raising funds and recruiting fighters for al-Qaeda and the Taliban, Qoqaz.net.</p>
<p>In January 2010, El-Shukri posted on his Facebook site a video, titled ‘The Arrivals pt.47 (The Free Human),’ which includes the following anti-Semitic rant from Islamic scholar Imran Hosein:</p>
<p>“What’s the new money that Israel will use to enslave mankind, the way the United States used the dollar? … It will be electronic money. And the strange thing – the dangerous thing – about electronic money is it is controlled by the banking system around the world, and the Jews control the banking system. That’s not an uncharitable statement… That’s the truth. We said that Israel is about to wage a big war. They prepared for this, when the Israeli Mossad and the CIA attacked America on September 11 and put the blame on us, us Muslims.”</p>
<p>In another video el-Shukri posted, titled ‘The Arrivals pt.26 (The Antichrist / Dajjal is Here),’ the same Imran Hosein describes a Satanic conspiracy between Britain, the United States and Israel. The video includes an image of the anti-Semitic fraud <em>Protocols of the Elders of Zion</em>, and states that “9/11 was an inside job.”</p>
<p>El-Shukri has not been shy about voicing his own fanatical views. He has a YouTube page, where he has uploaded a number of extreme speeches he has delivered in front of a mosque congregation. In one speech he posted in February 2010, titled ‘Al-Dajjal (Anti-Christ),’ he discusses his belief that, if Muslims try to become “moderate,” they are rejecting the Islamic religion and, instead, listening to the “Dajjal” or Devil.</p>
<p>He states: “We have to understand that we have to train ourselves – what is acceptable in this dunya [world]? Have we compromised our religion of Allah SWT? How much of our din [religion] has been compromised by this dunya? What is the definition of a moderate Muslim? &#8230; A moderate Muslim does not accept the Caliphate [Islamic rule]. A moderate Muslim wants to live under democracy – abolish the Caliphate. A moderate Muslim does not want the Sharia Law.”</p>
<p>Nabil’s radical views appear to be very much in line with that of his father and older brother. As well, his life seems to mimic Adnan’s. Both Nabil and Adnan had cell phone businesses. They both were involved in website design. They both attended classes at Broward College (Nabil is still attending classes there). And they both lectured in Islam, like their dad.</p>
<p>In December 2006, more than two years after the death of his father, Nabil el-Shukri wrote the following message on the MySpace page he created for Gulshair: “As Salaam Alaikum Dad, you’re still living among all of us, will see you later but not that much later.”</p>
<p>What does “not that much later” mean?</p>
<p>Given Nabil’s radical Islamic preoccupations and family history, these four words imply something very sinister which does not portend well for the future. His present, however, as administrator and acting imam of the Alazhar School is also cause for alarm, as he has been handed a forum to indoctrinate impressionable young minds with his toxic Islamist agenda and ideology.</p>
<p>In a June 2011 video interview with al-Hikmat, the media group run by the Darul Uloom mosque located near the home of the Shukrijumahs, where a number of al-Qaeda, including at least one of the 9/11 hijackers, had come to pray, el-Shukri called himself a “role model” for the Alazhar kids.</p>
<p>Question: What kind of parents would wish for their children to have a role model such as this? Those who keep their kids in this school are giving their tacit approval to the extremism that is represented by el-Shukri and his family’s lineage.</p>
<p><em>Beila Rabinowitz, Director of Militant Islam Monitor, contributed to this report.</em></p>
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		<title>Alan Grayson Wants $20.14 for Being Called &#8220;Chief Maggot of All Liberal Lowlifes&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2014 13:29:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Point]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA["I’m willing to stand up in the face of this brutal character assassination, but I need your help."]]></description>
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<p>Millionaire lawyer Alan Grayson, fresh off accusations of abuse by his ex-wife, is  launching his election campaign by ranting about Joe the Plumber and mean conservative bloggers because he thinks it&#8217;s still 2008.</p>
<p>Grayson&#8217;s site, which looks more and more like Infowars every day, deploys a fundraising email<a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/rep-alan-grayson-sends-out-fundraising-e-mail-denying-he-is-a-piece-of-nose-slime/"> in which he asks supporters to donate money </a>because Joe the Plumber called him a &#8220;piece of nose slime&#8221; after the lefty congressman was accused of abuse by his ex-wife.</p>
<p>&#8220;If disgusting political attacks like calling a Member of Congress a “piece of nose slime” make you feel ill, then click here, and give us the support we need to fight back,&#8221; Grayson writes.</p>
<p>How much do you need to give to assuage the sick feeling experienced by imagining Grayson dripping out of someone&#8217;s nose? $20.14 a month. Why that much? I have no idea.</p>
<p>After ranting for five paragraphs about Joe the Plumber, Grayson asks again, &#8220;Aren’t you sick of right-wing fakers like “Joe” the “Plumber”? Click here to show your support for the Member of Congress whose bumper sticker reads: “Grayson. Truth.”</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t think even die hard lefties are all that obsessed with Joe these days.</p>
<p>After eight more paragraphs of ranting about Joe (yes this fundraising email is already a minor novel) he wraps it up with another request for money.</p>
<p>This follows a previous fundraising letter in which Grayson tries to fundraise off being called a circus clown.</p>
<blockquote><p>For what it’s worth, I like circus clowns. I love the way that dozens of them pop out of those tiny little cars. My kids enjoy the suitcase gags, the juggling, and the magic tricks. But regardless of my affection for circus clowns, I am not one of them. Rather, I am a progressive, and the “most effective Member of Congress,” according to Slate magazine.</p>
<p>If vicious personal attacks like calling a Member of Congress a “circus clown” make you feel ill, then click here, and give us the support we need to fight back.</p></blockquote>
<p>For the record, Alan Grayson would like to state that Slate Magazine can vouch that he is not a circus clown.</p>
<blockquote><p>Lest you think that this is an isolated instance, an anomaly of some kind, here are some other harsh terms that right-wingers have flung at me during the merry month of March alone:</p>
<p>“Chief Maggot of All Liberal Lowlifes” (Downtrend.com)<br />
“loudmouthed maverick liberal” (Gawker.com)<br />
“pretty big POS” (FireAndreaMitchell.com)<br />
“bad caveman” (AngryWhiteDude.com)<br />
“loathsome pest” (Downtrend.com again)<br />
“Lunatic” (“Jammie Wearing Fools”)<br />
“Shrek look-a-like” (SatireWorld.com)</p></blockquote>
<p>This is like watching a wino dance around for pennies.</p>
<blockquote><p>I’m willing to stand up in the face of this brutal character assassination, and continue to fight for the common good. But I can’t defeat them all by myself. I need your help, and I need it now. Every dollar counts</p></blockquote>
<p>Progressives, Alan Grayson can&#8217;t stand up in the face of being called a “Shrek look-a-like” without your money. Send him $20.14. Or throw him a nickel. Leave a sack of old government cheese under his park bench while he sleeps.</p>
<p>Grayson is willing to defy anything that mean people call him on the internet. He will also show up for your dunk tank as long as you send him money.</p>
<p>Won&#8217;t you help out today?</p>
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		<title>Florida Loss Spells Doom for Democrats</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2014 04:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Vadum]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obamacare supporters hit the panic button.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/florida.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-221049 alignleft" alt="florida" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/florida.jpg" width="252" height="189" /></a>The defeat of an Obamacare-loving Democrat in a closely watched special election in the Tampa area ought to give comfort to Republicans aiming to control both houses of Congress after the upcoming elections in November.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">On Tuesday, Republican David W. Jolly had mainstream journalists across the nation popping Prozac as he polled 48.52 percent in the special election in Florida&#8217;s 13th congressional district, triumphing over Democrat Alex Sink who garnered 46.64 percent and over Libertarian Lucas Overby who received 4.84 percent of the votes, according to still-unofficial results.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">No matter what they say publicly, Sink&#8217;s loss is terrifying to careerist Democrats. President Obama&#8217;s party desperately wants to talk about something other than Obamacare now that it&#8217;s becoming increasingly clear that they have no chance of retaking the House and are very likely to lose control of the Senate.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The FL-13 race was the Democrats&#8217; to lose. &#8220;This wasn&#8217;t some random battle; the deck was stacked for Democrats, yet prevailing political fundamentals pushed the W into the Republican column,&#8221; notes Townhall political editor Guy Benson.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">As even left-leaning </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Politico</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2014/03/13/reports-democrats-in-disarray-on-obamacare-n1808510">observes</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, the Democratic Party is in chaos right now:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">A few Democrats are advocating a drastic rhetorical shift to the left, by criticizing their own party for not going far enough when it passed the law in 2010. Other Democrats plan to sharply criticize the Affordable Care Act when running for re-election. Many plan to stick to the simple message that Obamacare is flawed and needs to be fixed —a tactic that plainly didn’t work for Sink. Taken together, the Democratic Party is heading into an already tough election year divided — instead of united — on the very issue Republicans plan to make central to their campaigns.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Going into the FL-13 vote three days ago, Democrats already had a seemingly impossible task ahead as they lost control of the narrative.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Before Election Day this week, Republicans characterized the vote as a referendum on Obamacare, a program that Democrats across America have been scrambling to distance themselves from. Jolly promised to press for repeal. Sink, who had high name recognition with voters after running for governor in 2010, defended Obamacare in principle but said parts of the program needed to be fixed.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Sink also came across as callous and out-of-touch to left-wingers when she offered a one-percenter&#8217;s rationale for supporting so-called comprehensive immigration reform.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The reforms are important to America because &#8220;we have a lot of employers over on the beaches that rely upon workers and especially in this high-growth environment, where are you going to get people to work to clean our hotel rooms or do our landscaping?&#8221; she said, channeling her inner Ebenezer Scrooge. &#8220;We don&#8217;t need to put those employers in a position of hiring undocumented and illegal workers.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Pundit Stuart Rothenberg previously declared the contest to be a must-win for President Obama&#8217;s party.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“Since most nonpartisan handicappers and analysts have for years expected this seat to go Democratic when it became open, a Republican victory would likely say something about the national political environment and the inclination of district voters to send a message of dissatisfaction about the president,&#8221; Rothenberg said. &#8220;And that possibility should worry the White House.”</span></p>
<p>Although a Republican replacing another Republican as a result of a special election shouldn&#8217;t necessarily be headline news, both parties &#8220;nationalized&#8221; the race and poured vast resources into it. When the GOP defined the contest as a referendum on Obamacare, the mainstream media did not object because in their cavernous echo chambers Obamacare is considered to be a great idea that is only running into trouble because of flawed implementation. Many journalists saw Sink as a shoo-in because they viewed the prospect of Obamacare repeal as an electoral non-starter.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">As the often sensible Noah Rothman of Mediate </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/florida-democrat-alex-sink-ran-against-repealing-obamacare-and-lost/">opined</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, this was &#8220;[a] real-world test case &#8230; in which a Democratic politician running in a swing district, a candidate who did not have a vote for the [Affordable Care Act] to defend, ran against her Republican opponent’s pro-repeal stance. She lost.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Sink was sunk, Rothman wrote, despite the PR shortcomings of her ultimately successful opponent. Rothman continued: </span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">If there was a singular issue on which the special election in Florida’s 13th turned, it was the debate over the value of the repeal of the [Affordable Care Act]. What’s more, the pro-repeal message won in spite of the flawed nature of the messenger. Sink lost to a Republican who should have logically underperformed a generic Republican. Jolly, a 41-year-old lobbyist and Washington insider in the midst of a divorce (who is presently dating a 27-year-old former coworker of Jolly’s) represented the perfect candidate from a Democratic perspective. In theory, he should have been easily framed, polarized, and made toxic. It did not turn out that way.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Democrats apparently underestimated just how toxic Obamacare, which is causing suffering from coast to coast, was (and continues to be) to ordinary Americans.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">And after the torpedoing of Sink, for whom the professional Left had such high hopes, Democratic office holders are in denial.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">White House press secretary Jay Carney </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/03/12/white_house_sinks_loss_not_tied_to_obamacare_121903.html">dismissed</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> out of hand the suggestion that the hated Affordable Care Act doomed the Democratic standard-bearer in Florida.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&#8220;Any fair assessment of the role that the debate about the Affordable Care Act played reaches the conclusion that, at best for the Republicans, it was a draw,” Carney sniffed. “And I think that&#8217;s evidenced by the fact that the Republican candidate himself didn&#8217;t even mention it in his victory speech.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">But the day before the vote a nervous White House political director, David Simas, reportedly called journalists to feed them the don&#8217;t-you-even-think-of-blaming-Obamacare party line in advance in case Sink failed to win. The official narrative formulated on Monday declared that the health care law wasn&#8217;t a big factor in the special election.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">With Jolly&#8217;s victory, it is even more certain that Obamacare will be a huge issue in congressional elections in November. Republican candidates may even draw lessons from the race and build on the things that Jolly&#8217;s campaign did right.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Meanwhile, Democratic National Committee boss Debbie Wasserman Schultz, herself a Florida congresswoman, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/03/11/wasserman-schultz-says-dem-loss-in-special-election-shows-gop-weakness/">has managed to convince herself</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> that the results in FL-13 somehow constitute some kind of moral victory for the Democratic Party.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“Republican special interest groups poured in millions to hold onto a Republican congressional district that they’ve comfortably held for nearly 60 years,&#8221; Wasserman Schultz said in a rushed reaction statement.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&#8220;Tonight, Republicans fell short of their normal margin in this district because the agenda they are offering voters has a singular focus – that a majority of voters oppose – repealing the Affordable Care Act that would return us to the same old broken health care system.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">While Wasserman Schultz&#8217;s cute little trivia point that Democrats managed to shave about 10 percentage points off Republican Young&#8217;s 2012 vote tally happens to be true, it really doesn&#8217;t matter. It is an apples-to-oranges comparison.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The special election was called to replace </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://ballotpedia.org/C._W._Bill_Young">Rep. C.W. &#8220;Bill&#8221; Young</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, the longest serving Republican in the House of Representatives, who died in October at age 82. Young was a </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">cardinal</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, Capitol Hill slang for an especially powerful lawmaker who chairs a subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee. (Young had previously been chairman of the full committee for six years.) From his defense subcommittee perch, he was in a position to hand out favors and bring home the bacon for his Gulf Coast district with greater ease than the typical federal lawmaker, making him virtually invincible in elections. Whenever he faced the voters, he rarely dipped below 60 percent in the popular vote.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">But after representing the 10th congressional district for 20 years, he was redistricted last election cycle into a less reliably Republican district. The 13th congressional district that he was elected to represent in 2012 is a swing district, one that went for President Obama in both 2008 and 2012.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">So of course the GOP vote percentage was bound to go down, especially with a new Republican candidate not all that familiar to the voters. Like a magical curse, the perks and power of incumbency &#8212; media attention, voter goodwill, franking privileges &#8212; all vanish when the incumbent dies. If a Republican candidate other than the unusually </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">interesting</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> Jolly had run, there is good chance that person would have beat Sink by more than Jolly&#8217;s two percentage point margin.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">But wait &#8212; there&#8217;s </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/gop-may-reap-rewards-obamas-unpopularity-midterms-poll-finds-n50341">even more bad news</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> for Democrats.  According to NBC News:</span></p>
<blockquote><p>Barack Obama and his Democratic Party are facing difficult political headwinds less than eight months before November’s midterm elections, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. Obama’s job-approval rating has dropped to a low point of 41 percent, never a good position for the party controlling the White House; By a 33 percent to 24 percent margin, Americans say their vote will be to signal opposition to the president rather than to signal support, though 41 percent say their vote will have nothing to do about Obama; Forty-eight percent of voters say they’re less likely to vote for a candidate who’s a solid supporter of the Obama administration, versus 26 percent who say they’re more likely to vote for that candidate[.]</p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Obamacare is shaping up to be a decisive &#8212; if not </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">the</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> decisive issue &#8212; in the midterm elections that are now just under eight months away.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">If FL-13 is a bona fide bellwether, maybe there is hope for America after all.</span></p>
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		<title>Does the Qur’an Teach Hate?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 04:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A controversy in Florida illuminates the question that must not be asked.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/terrkor.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-204507" alt="terrkor" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/terrkor.jpg" width="240" height="160" /></a>On September 11, 2013, a public information officer for Palm Beach County, Florida named John Jamason <a href="http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/muslim-groups-demands-public-records-after-county-/nZwpQ/">posted a message</a> on his personal Facebook page: “Never forget. There is no such thing as radical Islam. All Islam is radical. There may be Muslims who don’t practice their religion, much like others. The Quran is a book that preaches hate.”</p>
<p>The Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) immediately complained, and demanded that the county turn over to them everything that Jamason had written from a county computer over the previous month. County Administrator Bob Weisman assured CAIR that Jamason had not written the offending Facebook message from a county computer, and stated that county officials were determining whether or not to discipline him.</p>
<p>Left unexamined in the controversy was whether or not what Jamason said was true. In light of the Qur’an’s teachings about jihad and the subjugation of non-Muslims, he certainly had a case that “there is no such thing as radical Islam” and “all Islam is radical,” for there is no mainstream sect of Islam or school of Islamic jurisprudence that does not teach that the Muslim community must wage war against unbelievers and subjugate them under its rule.</p>
<p>Jamason was also correct that “there may be Muslims who don’t practice their religion, much like others.” Indeed, there are many people who identify themselves as Muslims who have no interest in waging jihad against unbelievers, but would prefer to hold down their jobs and take care of their families in peace in the same way as there are millions of people who identify themselves as believers in other religions who are not particularly concerned with living out every teaching of the religion with which they identify.</p>
<p>But what CAIR was most outraged about was not that, of course, but Jamason’s contention that the Qur’an teaches hate. They did not, however, provide any evidence showing that it doesn’t.</p>
<p>So does it?</p>
<p>The Qur’an teaches that Muslims must fight and kill unbelievers “wherever you overtake them” until “religion is Allah’s,” i.e. Islamic law rules all societies (2:190-193). They must fight unbelievers “until there is no fitnah and [until] the religion, all of it, is for Allah” (8:39). Muslims are to fight unbelievers and “prepare against them whatever you are able of power and of steeds of war by which you may terrify the enemy of Allah and your enemy and others besides them whom you do not know [but] whom Allah knows” (8:60).</p>
<p>Allah tells Muhammad to “fight against the disbelievers and the hypocrites and be harsh upon them. And their refuge is Hell, and wretched is the destination” (9:73). The followers of Muhammad should imitate him in this: “O you who have believed, fight those adjacent to you of the disbelievers and let them find in you harshness” (9:123). For “Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah; and those with him are forceful against the disbelievers, merciful among themselves” (48:29).</p>
<p>Muslims should not befriend non-Muslims, unless, as we have seen, it is to deceive them to save oneself from danger: “Let not believers take disbelievers as allies rather than believers. And whoever [of you] does that has nothing with Allah, except when taking precaution against them in prudence” (3:28).</p>
<p>Allah says he will “cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve” (3:151). He tells his prophet: “[Remember] when your Lord inspired to the angels, “I am with you, so strengthen those who have believed. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieved, so strike [them] upon the necks and strike from them every fingertip.”</p>
<p>Among “those who have disbelieved” are the Christians, who have made themselves into disbelievers by worshipping Christ as God: “They have certainly disbelieved who say, ‘Allah is the Messiah, the son of Mary’” (5:17; 5:72). In worshipping Christ, they have associated a partner with Allah, thereby becoming polytheists, and “the polytheists are unclean” (9:28). Both Jews and Christians have ascribed a son to Allah, for which Allah should destroy them: “The Jews say, ‘Ezra is the son of Allah’; and the Christians say, ‘The Messiah is the son of Allah.’ That is their statement from their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved [before them]. May Allah destroy them; how are they deluded?” (9:30).</p>
<p>Chief among those are the Jews. The Muslim holy book also contends that Allah transformed disobedient Jews into “apes, despised” (2:65; 7:166), and “apes and pigs” (5:60). It says that they’re accursed for rejecting the Qur’an, which they should have recognized as confirming their own Scriptures: “And when there came to them a Book from Allah confirming that which was with them &#8211; although before they used to pray for victory against those who disbelieved &#8211; but [then] when there came to them that which they recognized, they disbelieved in it; so the curse of Allah will be upon the disbelievers” (2:89).</p>
<p>The Qur’an says that while Muslims are “the best nation produced [as an example] for mankind,” the People of the Book (primarily Jews and Christians) are mostly “defiantly disobedient” (3:110). The Jews “have been put under humiliation [by Allah] wherever they are overtaken, except for a covenant from Allah and a rope from the Muslims” – that is, except those who have accepted Islam or submitted to Muslim rule. “And they have drawn upon themselves anger from Allah and have been put under destitution. That is because they disbelieved in the verses of Allah and killed the prophets without right. That is because they disobeyed and [habitually] transgressed” (3:112). They killed the prophets because they disliked their messages: “Whenever there came to them a messenger with what their souls did not desire, a party [of messengers] they denied, and another party they killed” (5:70).</p>
<p>Not only have they disbelieved in revelations from Allah and killed the prophets, but they even dare to mock Allah himself: “And the Jews say, ‘The hand of Allah is chained.’ Chained are their hands, and cursed are they for what they say.” They “strive throughout the land [causing] corruption, and Allah does not like corrupters&#8221; (5:64).</p>
<p>Allah gave food laws to the Jews because of their “wrongdoing,” and “for their averting from the way of Allah many [people]” (4:160), and by doing so, “repaid them for their injustice” (6:146). Some Jews are “avid listeners to falsehood” who “distort words beyond their [proper] usages.” These are “the ones for whom Allah does not intend to purify their hearts,” and they will be punished not just in hellfire but in this life as well: “For them in this world is disgrace, and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment” (5:41).</p>
<p>Jews dare to deny divine revelation, claiming that “Allah did not reveal to a human being anything,” to which Muhammad is told to respond, “Who revealed the Scripture that Moses brought as light and guidance to the people? You [Jews] make it into pages, disclosing [some of] it and concealing much” (6:91).</p>
<p>In light of all this, it is understandable that Muslims should not get close to such people: “O you who have believed, do not take the Jews and the Christians as allies. They are [in fact] allies of one another. And whoever is an ally to them among you &#8211; then indeed, he is [one] of them. Indeed, Allah guides not the wrongdoing people” (5:51). What’s more, the Jews are “the most intense of the people in animosity toward the believers” (5:82).</p>
<p>While Muslims are the “best of people” (3:110), “they who disbelieved among the People of the Scripture and the polytheists will be in the fire of Hell, abiding eternally therein. Those are the worst of creatures” (98:6). They are “like livestock” (7:179). “Indeed, the worst of living creatures in the sight of Allah are those who have disbelieved, and they will not [ever] believe” (8:55).</p>
<p>But when John Jamason called the Qur’an “a book that preaches hate,” in the eyes of CAIR it was he who was the one who was preaching hate, not the holy book of Islam. The hypocrisy of their harassment of Jamason was self-evident, but only to those familiar enough with the Qur’an and honest enough to acknowledge the nature of all too much of its contents. That was a small group that did not include officials of Palm Beach County, who were – like so many other officials of all kinds in the United States and elsewhere in the staggering but still marginally free world – all too ready to entertain the complaints about Muslim pressure groups despite being woefully ill-equipped to evaluate those complaints properly. They knew, like Fort Hood jihad mass murderer Nidal Hasan’s superiors, that what was important above all was to avoid being labeled “bigoted” and “Islamophobic.”</p>
<p>How grand that they had their priorities straight. All it cost was thirteen dead and thirty wounded.</p>
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		<title>Diana Nyad Desecrates 50,000 Graves</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2013 04:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Humberto Fontova]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/nyad-swim-P1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-203359" alt="nyad-swim-P1" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/nyad-swim-P1-439x350.jpg" width="263" height="210" /></a>Please excuse the families of an estimated 50 <i>thousand</i> freedom-seekers (men, women, children, infants) who died horribly on Diana Nyad’s exact route from joining her celebration this week.</p>
<p>Many Cubans completed the hundred-mile journey on flotation devices most of us wouldn’t board outside a backyard swimming pool.  Many more died horribly in the attempt from dehydration, sunburn, drowning, sharks and machine-gunnings by Diana Nyad’s hosts and facilitators. Diana Nyad describes Castro-regime apparatchik Jose Miguel Diaz Escrich as a &#8220;good friend.&#8221;  Escrich runs the Castro-regime’s Hemingway Marina from where Nyad started her swim and from where the patrol boats and Soviet helicopters would depart to machine-gun desperate freedom-seekers.</p>
<p>Over <i>twenty-times</i> as many Cubans have died attempting to escape Cuba as Germans died trying to escape East Germany.  And prior to Castroism, Cuba was inundated with more immigrants per capita (primarily from Europe) than was the U.S.</p>
<p>In one day, July 13<sup>th</sup> 1994, 43 freedom-seeking Cubans drowned, 11 of them children. Carlos Anaya was 3 when he drowned, Yisel Alvarez 4. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova">Helen Martinez was 6 months old.</a></p>
<p>“For crying out loud, Humberto!” comes the chorus of complaints. “The entire nation’s rejoicing over Diana Nyad’s amazing and inspiring feat!  You’re a buzzkiller with bells on!  Can’t you give politics <i>a rest</i>!  Nyad herself left all politics out of her triumphal swim! Geeesh!”</p>
<p>Not so fast, amigos. “Millions of us worldwide, but especially here in the United States, have been fascinated by the mystique of this &#8216;forbidden&#8217; island so close to our shores,&#8221; wrote Nyad in a Huffington Post column last year. &#8220;We are aware of the <i>advanced level of medicine and general education on the island</i><b><i>. </i></b><i>We have installed proud posters of Che (Guevara) on our college room walls</i>,&#8221; she elaborated, and described herself as &#8220;someone who grew up with many Cuban friends in South Florida, someone who has now <i>visited Havana some 30 times</i>&#8230;” (emphasis added).</p>
<p>Whoops! Let’s stop right there for now. Overlook for a second her Michael Moore-isms regarding Cuba’s “healthcare,” her parroting of the Castro script on this issue. Skip her boastful idolatry of the psychopathic murderer, sadist, coward and doofus Che Guevara, who almost blasted Nyad and her entire family into cinders that would today fit neatly inside her swim cap.</p>
<p>Skip all that for now. Instead note how she boasts of repeatedly of visiting Castro’s totalitarian fiefdom. For the benefit of those who came of political age after the fall of the Iron Curtain, Communist regimes do not issue celebrity visitor visas randomly. “The vetting procedure starts when the regime receives your visa application,” reports Chris Simmons, the Defense Intelligence Agency’s top Cuban spycatcher, now retired. “When you’re smiling Cuban &#8216;guides&#8217; greet you at the airport they know plenty about you, and from several angles.”</p>
<p>Often they learn much more about you during your stay. “First thing I advised visiting Americans,” an official at the U.S. Interest Section told this writer, “was to check their rooms for bugs—the electronic surveillance type.”</p>
<p>&#8220;My job was to bug visiting American’s hotel rooms,” confirms high-ranking Cuban intelligence defector Delfin Fernandez, “with both cameras and listening devices. And famous Americans are the priority objectives of Castro&#8217;s intelligence<b>.&#8221;</b></p>
<p>In brief, if you’re not there to help the regime’s image abroad, you’re not getting a visa, at least more than once. And if in the Stalinist regime’s estimation you helped their image insufficiently, well, a little “prodding” might be applied, via blackmail. Upon publishing a book critical of the Castro regime’s snooping on visitors and censorship of foreign journalists, for instance, Spanish reporter Vicente Botin promptly lost his Cuban visa. Yet Diana Nyad went back and forth from Castro’s fiefdom repeatedly.</p>
<p>How easy it might have been for Nyad to mention all the watery graves she swam over. Such a dedication during athletic contests is not unheard of. Take the Berlin Ultra-Marathon. <b>“</b>We wanted to organize a 100-mile race partly to commemorate those who lost their lives on the wall and every year we remember a specific victim who was killed trying to cross,&#8221; explained the marathon’s organizers.</p>
<p>“[Nyad] said the Cuban authorities would have preferred that she swim toward the island rather than away from it,” disclosed a Miami Herald article during an earlier try in 2010, “as it may be construed as symbolic of the Cubans who flee the island. But she explained she could swim only in one direction because of the strong currents in the Gulf Stream.”</p>
<p>In other words, Nyad fully<i> recognized the symbolism of her swim</i>. She fully recognized that the Stalinist regime was promoting it. Only the direction of the currents prevented her from following the script exactly as delivered by the Stalinist regime. Still, the Stalinist regime should be very proud of her. She kept studiously mum on the issue of the estimated 50,000 un-marked graves she was swimming over.</p>
<p>Should anyone need further proof of Nyad&#8217;s usefulness to the Castro regime, here&#8217;s the adulatory coverage of her swims by the <a href="http://www.cubadebate.cu/etiqueta/diana-nyad/">Castro regime&#8217;s KGB-mentored propaganda organ</a>.</p>
<p>An aside: was Charles Lindbergh’s flight across the Atlantic a lesser feat than Nyad’s swim? Many would say it was a greater one. But Lindbergh very briefly dallied with a totalitarian regime (Nazi Germany before the war and before the Holocaust). And Lindbergh volunteered for combat against America’s Axis enemies and flew 50 combat missions in the Pacific when the war came.</p>
<p>No matter. That brief dalliance forever contaminated him in view of the establishment. The title of the PBS special on his life summed it up: “Lindbergh: Fallen Hero.”</p>
<p>But today the establishment focuses exclusively on Nyad’s (genuinely praiseworthy) swim. Her long and warm and public romance with the murderous and war-mongering totalitarian regime that facilitated  her swim and used it for propaganda purposes matters not a wit, except to those dependably <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova">contrarian and buzz-killing Cuban-Americans.</a></p>
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		<title>Jesse Jackson Jumps the Selma Civil Rights Shark</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>It&#8217;s hard to find any single moment where the race-baiting hustler abuse of civil rights jumped the shark, but <a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/07/31/3533728/rev-jesse-jackson-calls-florida.html">Jesse Jackson&#8217;s Florida hysteria may</a> mark some kind of peak.</p>
<blockquote><p>Gov. Rick Scott asked that Jackson apologize for calling Florida the “Selma of our time” and “the Apartheid State.”</p>
<p>Jackson said Florida’s post-Trayvon Martin environment is “toxic.”</p>
<p>“ &#8216;Stand your ground’ laws must end,” Jackson told reporters. “The manipulation of African-Americans here is disgraceful.”</p>
<p>“We’ve seen Southern governors before change their minds,” Jackson said Tuesday. “Wallace said we couldn’t go to the University of Alabama. He had to change his mind.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Jesse Jackson is comparing Florida to Selma and South Africa, based on a single case whose outcome he didn&#8217;t like. He&#8217;s been a joke for a while, but this may be the <a href="http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/blogs/political-pulse/os-jackson-posttrayvon-martin-environment-in-florida-is-toxic-20130730,0,1020184.post">first time he has become an official joke</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Jackson, like the Dream Defenders, wants Florida to revisit the “stand your ground” law that was passed in 2005. Scott has said he supports the law and won’t call a special session to address it.</p></blockquote>
<p>So Jesse Jackson tactfully compared Rick Scott to George Wallace because the Governor of Florida won&#8217;t call a special session to get rid of a law that he wants eliminated.</p>
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		<title>Jesse Jackson Vows to &#8220;Bring Down&#8221; Florida like South Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jul 2013 13:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Considering that the GDP of Illinois is behind Florida and Chicago is basically a Detroit waiting to happen, Jesse Jackson might look to his own backyard]]></description>
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<p>Considering that the GDP of Illinois is behind Florida and Chicago is basically a Detroit waiting to happen, <a href="http://weaselzippers.us/2013/07/27/jesse-jackson-calls-for-boycotting-florida-over-states-stand-your-ground-laws/">Jesse Jackson might look to</a> his own backyard instead of trying to &#8220;bring down&#8221; a state which has oranges while his own hometown has gangs.</p>
<p>But boycotting Florida has become the cool thing to do for civil rights activists who don&#8217;t seem to grasp that the boycotts will</p>
<p>1. Not change the Zimmerman verdict</p>
<p>2. Hurt black Floridians who are near the bottom of the economic ladder the most</p>
<p>But since when has Jesse Jackson actually cared about black people?</p>
<blockquote><p>“We can boycott Florida, cut conventions in Florida, for its ‘stand your ground’ laws,” said Jackson, speaking on a panel at the National Urban League’s annual conference in Philadelphia. “If we can boycott South Africa and bring it down, we should boycott Florida and bring it down.”</p></blockquote>
<p>What does bringing down Florida mean anyway?</p>
<p>Florida is a state with a democratically elected government. Does bringing it down mean reducing it to the level of Chicago?</p>
<blockquote><p>Benjamin Crump, the attorney for the Martin family, also spoke at the conference Friday, where he said that changing “stand your ground” was the way to “properly honor” the legacy of Trayvon Martin.</p></blockquote>
<p>Wouldn&#8217;t getting high and attacking some Latino guy be the best way to properly honor the legacy of Trayvon Martin?</p>
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		<title>Congressional Black Caucus to Protest Verdict by Putting Black People Out of Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jul 2013 21:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A number of House Democrats are lining up behind the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s threat for an economic boycott of Florida]]></description>
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<p>I won&#8217;t even bother pointing out that three of the members of the Congressional Black Caucus are from Florida. Are<a href="http://weaselzippers.us/2013/07/20/congressional-black-caucus-members-support-jesse-jacksons-threat-to-boycott-florida-over-zimmerman-verdict/"> they proposing to boycott themselves</a>?</p>
<blockquote><p>A number of House Democrats are lining up behind the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s threat for an economic boycott of Florida following the not-guilty verdict in the death of Trayvon Martin.</p>
<p>The lawmakers, all members of the Congressional Black Caucus, are fierce critics of the process that led to George Zimmerman’s acquittal in the fatal shooting last year of the Florida teenager. Exerting pressure on Florida’s economy as Jackson is suggesting, they said, could help overturn the state’s controversial stand-your-ground laws that many contend contributed to the tragedy.</p></blockquote>
<p>Stand Your Ground had nothing to do with the actual legal issues of the case. And those laws statistically benefit black people more than white people.</p>
<blockquote><p>“That’s probably the best strategy, because people understand dollars and cents,” Rep. Lacy Clay (D-Mo.) said Friday. “And they understand, if there’s a significant drop-off in revenues – at conventions, at Disney World and Universal Studios – that that will get the attention of the powerful.”</p></blockquote>
<p>I&#8217;m sure no black people work at either of those places. Or in Florida&#8217;s hospitality industry. The Congressional Black Caucus&#8217; brilliant plan is to put black people out of work to protest a jury verdict that was already made.</p>
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		<title>Jesse Jackson Declares Florida an &#8220;Apartheid State&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jul 2013 00:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wonder if the large Jewish community in Florida had something to do with Jesse Jackson's decision]]></description>
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<p>I wonder if the large Jewish community in Florida had something to do with Jesse Jackson&#8217;s decision. In any case <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2013/07/18/Jesse-Jackson-Calls-To-Boycott-Florida-as-Apartheid-State">Florida is now officially an Apartheid State</a> as defined by Jesse Jackson in his official role as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/With_Apologies_to_Jesse_Jackson">Emperor of Black People</a>.</p>
<p>What makes Florida an Apartheid State considering that the last Democratic candidate for governor was black? And there are three black congressmen from Florida? <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/18/jesse-jackson-blasts-florida-apartheid-state/">Take it away Jesse</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>The Rev. Jesse Jackson has called to boycott the “apartheid state” of Florida if the Department of Justice does not lodge a civil rights case against George Zimmerman.</p>
<p>“Trayvon is a symbol of a deeper malady,” the reverend said in a CNN interview Thursday.</p>
<p>“No doubt, the inclination is to boycott Florida, stop conventions, to isolate Florida as a kind of apartheid state” if the DOJ does not act, Jackson said.</p></blockquote>
<p>Florida has no connection to a Federal decision. You would think a man who ran for president would know that. Boycotting Florida because the Justice Department didn&#8217;t do something Jackson wanted is like Jesse Jackson&#8217;s wife suing Japan because of his infidelity.</p>
<p>It just doesn&#8217;t make sense.</p>
<blockquote><p>Jackson charged that homicides against blacks have tripled since stand your ground laws were put in place in Florida. The Daily Caller reported Tuesday that the law actually benefits blacks in the state disproportionately, saying blacks made about a third of Florida’s total stand your ground claims in homicide cases, a rate nearly double the black percentage of the state’s population.</p></blockquote>
<p>That just proves it&#8217;s an Apartheid State. How? Err&#8230; you&#8217;re a racist. That&#8217;s how.</p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jun 2013 18:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If we had addressed these issues in 1985, two billion people in the world now living on less than two dollars a day would never have been born.]]></description>
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<p>There&#8217;s a fine line between crazy, stupid and evil. Michael E. Arth, who ran for Governor of Florida in 2010 on a platform of biking around the state and whose career makes Bloomberg seem like a libertarian <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/06/it-begins-2010-democratic-gubernatorial-candidate-pushes-chinese-style-population-control/">does a nice dance over that line</a>.</p>
<p>At Vice, which is more than just a place that reports on whom John McAfee killed this week, Arth lets out some of his great ideas to play. Arth starts out by predicting that we&#8217;ll all be immortal shortly as &#8220;within the next several decades we’ll figure out how to solve the related problems of ageing and dying.&#8221;</p>
<p>And since we&#8217;re all about to become immortal, it&#8217;s time to start doing away with all those useless babies.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;That’s why we have to get started now. Waiting just compounds the problem. World population increases by 220,000 every day, after accounting for the 155,000 who die. It&#8217;s truly a hydra-headed problem, because for every person that is cut down by death, more than two are born.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>If only someone would give Arth some nuclear missiles and an underground lair, he could really help tackle this problem.</p>
<blockquote><p>The market would determine the price of a birth credit. In all cases, the cost of the birth credit would be a tiny fraction of the real cost of raising a child. The birth credits would work very well because it’s a very small price to pay for solving the problem, and it leaves choice firmly in place. Each person would be issued half of a birth credit, which he or she can combine with a partner to have one child, or a person can sell his or her (half) credit at the going market rate. Each additional child costs one more credit. Noncompliance would bring a fine greater than the cost of the credit, and there would be sanctions for non-compliant countries (such as migration restrictions).</p></blockquote>
<p>So that&#8217;s a one child plan. At least for the poor. Arth is advocating that having children should be restricted to people who can pay for it.</p>
<blockquote><p>The limit to individual freedom is where the exercise of an individual right begins to infringe on the rights we hold in common. One aspect of the tragedy of the commons is the belief that people should be able to breed without any regard for others.</p></blockquote>
<p>If we define having children as infringing on the rights of others, then nearly every conceivable behavior also infringes on the rights of others.</p>
<blockquote><p>The solution to immigration pressure isn&#8217;t securing the borders, it&#8217;s addressing overpopulation in developing countries where economic and environmental problems are causing people to migrate. Low-consuming people who move to rich countries not only begin consuming at a much higher rate, they also tend to bring their high birth-rate patterns with them.</p></blockquote>
<p>The issue can&#8217;t be addressed. Not short of some kind of invasion. It&#8217;s about culture and economics. You aren&#8217;t going to fix those things by trying to impose a birth quota that only Western liberals would follow.</p>
<blockquote><p>If we had addressed these issues in 1985, two billion people in the world now living on less than two dollars a day would never have been born.</p></blockquote>
<p>Would those people rather be dead than living on two dollar a day? Is it really a mercy to wipe out people to fight poverty? Does caring for the poor mean wanting to wipe them out?</p>
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		<title>A Florida Megachurch Pastor&#8217;s Islamist Associations</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 04:17:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Mauro]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Influential church leader joins with Muslim Brotherhood front groups to oppose ban on foreign law. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/ryan-mauro/a-florida-megachurch-pastors-islamist-associations/northland_church/" rel="attachment wp-att-184722"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-184722" title="northland_church" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/northland_church-450x299.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="179" /></a>Pastor Joel C. Hunter of Florida’s Northland Church is under fire for his stance against the state’s proposed legislation based on <a href="http://publicpolicyalliance.org/legislation/american-laws-for-american-courts/">American Laws for American Courts</a>. He chose a peculiar individual to help make his case: Atif Fareed, former chairman of the Council on American-Islamic Relations-Florida.</p>
<p>The influence of Pastor Hunter is not to be dismissed. His church’s congregation numbers around <a href="http://www.northlandchurch.net/staff/dr_joel_c_hunter/?JoelHunter/">15,000</a> and he sits on the boards of the National Association of Evangelicals and the World Evangelical Alliance. He has served on President Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships and remains a “spiritual advisor” to him.</p>
<p>Hunter <a href="http://www.charismanews.com/us/38877-joel-hunter-responds-to-accusations-of-islamist-association">opposes</a> the legislation, which is designed to stop foreign law from superseding American law, because he sees it as an “unnecessary law that increases bias and heightens animosity between Christians and Muslims.” Although it is often described as “anti-Shariah” legislation, it doesn’t mention Shariah or Islam. It is focused on all foreign law.</p>
<p>The Florida Family Association <a href="http://floridafamily.org/full_article.php?article_no=216">went into action</a> when Hunter asked Atif Fareed, a former chairman of the Florida branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), to read a statement to the Florida Senate Committee on Governmental Oversight and Accountability for him. CAIR was labeled an <a href="http://media.radicalislam.org/misc/pdf/List+of+Unindicted+HLF+Co-conspirators.pdf">unindicted co-conspirator</a> in the country’s largest terrorism-finance trial and was listed among “individuals/entities who are and/or were members of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee and/or its organizations.” The Palestine Committee is a secret Brotherhood body set up to support the Hamas agenda in America.</p>
<p>Fareed was <a href="http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/2633">interrogated</a> by the FBI for three hours in 2004, but he has provided sensitivity training to FBI agents since then. He was a representative for the Muslim Public Affairs Council, a group founded by Brotherhood ideologues, and was involved in a <a href="http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/5270">rally</a> to defend Sami al-Arian, a convicted Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader. He is the <a href="http://www.amccenters.org/boardmembers.php">chairman</a> of American Muslim Community Centers, which has a facility in the same city as Hunter’s church.</p>
<p>The organization’s <a href="http://www.amccenters.org/amccbylaws.php">bylaws</a> state that if it were to be dissolved, its assets are to be distributed to the “North American Islamic Trust (NAIT) or another recognized National non-profit Islamic organization.” NAIT, like CAIR, is an unindicted co-conspirator in the trial of the Holy Land Foundation and is listed as a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity. A 1991 U.S. Muslim Brotherhood <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/Muslim_Brotherhood_Explanatory_Memorandum">strategic memorandum</a>, which describes its work as a “kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within,” lists NAIT as one of its fronts.</p>
<p>“I am not aligning myself with CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood, or any other Muslim organization. I am not for Shariah or any other foreign law to compete with our Constitution,” Hunter <a href="http://www.charismanews.com/us/38877-joel-hunter-responds-to-accusations-of-islamist-association">said</a> after the controversy began.</p>
<p>Though Hunter insists the legislation is not necessary, the Center for Security Policy has compiled <a href="http://shariahinamericancourts.com/">50 instances</a> where Shariah-based legislation from 16 countries influenced the court case. As the American Public Policy Alliance <a href="http://publicpolicyalliance.org/answering-the-critics/aug-16-2011-response-to-cair-mi-disinformation-on-alac/">explains</a>, unclear state law has resulted in “the courts and the litigants hav[ing] repeatedly failed to recognize that granting comity to a foreign judgment may be at odds with our state and federal constitutional principles…”</p>
<p>The website has <a href="http://publicpolicyalliance.org/faq/ten-american-families-and-shariah-law/">10 cases</a> where American-Muslim court cases where there was conflict between American law and Shariah-based foreign law. The results are as follows: “In cases 1-3, the Appellate Courts upheld Shariah law; in cases 4-7, the Trial Courts upheld Shariah, but the Appellate Courts reversed (protecting the litigant’s constitutional rights); in cases 8-10, both Trial and Appellate Courts rejected the attempts to enforce Shariah law.”</p>
<p>Hunter’s view of himself as a rival of “Christian Zionists”  may help explain his relationship with Fareed, who said in 2002, “[Israeli Prime Minister] Ariel Sharon is a warmonger and only the United States can stop him.”</p>
<p>“There is a part of the evangelical family, which is what I call Christian Zionists, who are just so staunchly pro-Israel that Israel and their side can do no wrong, and it’s almost anti-biblical to criticize Israel for anything. But there are many more evangelicals who are really open and seek justice for both parties,” Hunter <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/29/us/29evangelical.html?pagewanted=print&amp;_r=0">said</a> in 2007.</p>
<p>In his March 2012 newsletter, Hunter <a href="http://www.pastorjoelhunter.com/?p=891">spoke at</a> the <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/mark-d-tooley/christ-at-an-israeli-checkpoint-2/">&#8220;Christ at the Checkpoint&#8221; conference</a> put together by Palestinian Christians at Bethlehem Bible College. An article posted on Hunter’s website <a href="http://www.pastorjoelhunter.com/?p=877">reports</a> how the audience, including students from Wheaton and Eastern Universities, “were moved by the testimony of Palestinian men and women who shared the pain and suffering they experience on a daily basis caused primarily by the continuing occupation.”</p>
<p>The Bethlehem Bible College’s President, Dr. Bishara Awad, is an <a href="http://www.emeu.net/media/bulletin_february_12.pdf">&#8220;old friend&#8221;</a> of the executive director of Evangelicals for Middle East Understanding, who attended the conference.</p>
<p>As we <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/ryan-mauro/israel-haters-invade-wheaton-college/">documented when the group held an event at Wheaton College</a>, Evangelicals for Middle East Understanding’s objective is to battle Christian Zionism, which it accuses of seeking to trigger Armageddon. Its former director even spoke at an <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/brotherhoodhamas-linked-activists-gather-illinois-extremist-event#frm">American Muslims for Palestine convention</a> full of Islamist speakers linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas.</p>
<p>When groups like CAIR talk about interfaith engagement, they are talking about political coalition-building. For Islamists, the true test of one’s tolerance is their willingness to join their campaigns.</p>
<p><em>This article was sponsored by the <a href="http://www.theird.org/">Institute on Religion and Democracy.</a></em></p>
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		<title>A Last Look at the Battleground States</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 04:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/arnold-ahlert/a-last-look-at-the-battleground-states/ballotbox_320x245/" rel="attachment wp-att-164123"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-164123" title="ballotbox_320x245" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/ballotbox_320x245.gif" alt="" width="315" height="241" /></a>On October 24, I reported on the polling data in the 11 battleground states&#8211;Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin&#8211;that will likely decide the election. Here are the latest data, compared to the earlier totals, courtesy of Real Clear Politics (RCP), on the eve of the election. (Electoral vote totals for each state are in parentheses.)</p>
<p>In Colorado (9), where Obama beat John McCain by 9 points in 2008, the race was a virtual tie, with only two-tenths of a percentage point separating the candidates on October 24. Before the first the debate, which was held in Denver, Obama had a three-point lead. As of yesterday, the president had inched forward to a 1.5 point edge, 48.8 to 47.3, in the historically Republican state.</p>
<p>In Florida (29), RCP gave Romney a 1.8-point lead on October 24, in a state Obama won by 2.8 points in 2008. As of yesterday, Romney&#8217;s edge there had shrunk to 1.5 percent, 49.7 to 48.2, in a state where Jewish Americans and the elderly will likely cast the decisive votes one way or the other.</p>
<p>In Iowa (6), which Obama carried by a 9.5-point margin in 2008, the president maintained a lead of two percentage points on October 24. Yesterday his lead was 2.4 points, 48.7 to 46.3, in a state where Democrats have carried five of the last six presidential elections.</p>
<p>In Michigan (16), Obama led by five points on October 24, despite a landslide 16.4-point victory in 2008. As of yesterday, Obama&#8217;s lead had shrunk to 3.8 points, 49.2 to 45.4. A Romney win here would be shocking, given that Michigan has voted Democrat in the last five presidential elections, and is a state where union workers, especially those in the auto industry, remain tried and true Democrats.</p>
<p>In Nevada (6), Obama held a 2.8-point lead on October 24, in a state he won by 12.5 points four years ago. Yesterday that lead remained exactly the same, at 50.2 to 47.4, despite Nevada’s reputation as the state with both the highest unemployment rate and the highest home foreclosure rate in the nation.</p>
<p>In New Hampshire (4) the race had tightened considerably in the two weeks leading up to October 24, despite a 9.6-point Obama victory in 2008. A 50-44 lead had been narrowed to a 1.4-point edge for the president. As of yesterday, that edge has widened marginally with the president maintaining a 2-point lead, 49.9 to 47.9, in a state that is fiscally conservative, but socially liberal.</p>
<p>In North Carolina (15), where Obama eked out a razor thin 0.3 percent victory in 2008, the move had been solidly in Romney’s direction, from a dead heat three weeks before October 24, to a 5-point lead. Romney&#8217;s lead has shrunk to 3 points as of yesterday, 49.2 to 46.2, in a state that has voted Democrat only twice in 40 years (for Carter and Obama), and one where Democrat campaign strategist Paul Begala <a href="http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/22/obama-strategist-to-cnn-romney-likely-to-carry-north-carolina/">admitted</a> to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Democrats had essentially conceded the race to the Republican challenger.</p>
<p>In Ohio (18), a state no Republican has ever won the presidency without taking, Obama&#8217;s former lead of 5.5 had shrunk to 1.9 on October 24. The state where Obama beat McCain by almost five points in 2008 has now moved back in the president&#8217;s direction again, and Obama holds a 2.9 edge, 50.0 to 47.1 as of yesterday.</p>
<p>In Pennsylvania (20), the president’s lead had narrowed from almost nine points to 4.8 on October 24, in a state he carried by a comfortable 10.3-point margin in 2008. As of yesterday, the president&#8217;s lead had narrowed to a 3.8-point lead, 49.4 to 45.6.</p>
<p>Unsurprisingly, Romney plans to spend today <a href="http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/05/14947371-romney-adds-election-day-stops-in-ohio-pennsylvania?lite">making </a>two final campaign stops: one in Pittsburgh and one in Cleveland.</p>
<p>In Virginia (13), the race had tightened, from a five-point Obama lead in September, to a 48-48 dead heat October 24. Virginia is traditionally a red state whose only Democratic presidential vote in the last 40 years went to Obama by 6.3 percent in 2008. As of yesterday, the president had edged in front by a razor-thin 0.3-point lead, 48.0 to 47.7.</p>
<p>Finally in Wisconsin (10), a state Obama won convincingly by almost 14 points in 2008, a 6-point lead two weeks before October 24 had dwindled to 2.7 points. As of yesterday, Obama had increased his margin back to 4.2 points, 50.4 to 46.2.</p>
<p>Looking at these totals, it would appear that much is in Obama&#8217;s favor. Yet, testerday, on Florida&#8217;s TalkRadio 610 WIOD&#8217;s Rich Minaya Show, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush made an interesting observation. He noted that in presidential elections, the incumbent&#8217;s last point totals tend to be the totals with which he winds up, and that anything under 50 percent is an ominous sign. As the above battleground state polls reveal, the president has crossed that threshold only in Ohio and Wisconsin. Furthermore, RCP has Obama&#8217;s overall lead nationally below the 50 percent threshold as well, at 48.8 percent, compared to 48.1 percent for Romney.</p>
<p>In short, this election is too close to call, and as such has brought out all sorts of &#8220;what if&#8221; scenarios, most of which center around a possible reprise of the 2000 election, where Al Gore won the popular vote, but George Bush prevailed in the Electoral College. It has also brought out <a href="http://cronkitenewsonline.com/2012/11/thousands-of-lawyers-nationwide-gear-up-for-challenges-on-election-day-and-after/">thousands of lawyers</a> to monitor the process&#8211;and UN <a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/is-un-monitoring-of-us-elections-truth-or-fiction">representatives</a> as well. Ironically, those monitors, aka the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), will not be looking for voter fraud, but <a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/263141-international-monitors-at-polling-places-draw-criticism-from-voter-fraud-group">voter suppression</a>&#8211;by conservatives.</p>
<p>With a modicum of luck, America will know who is running the country by tomorrow. If not, expect the rancor that has seemingly become part of the American fabric to ramp up considerably. Whatever the outcome, here&#8217;s hoping Americans respect the process. It&#8217;s that respect that informs an integral part of American exceptionalism.</p>
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		<title>Democrats Furious with Cuban-American Voters</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2012 04:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Humberto Fontova]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/humberto-fontova/democrats-furious-with-cuban-american-voters/orlandovotersignpalmtree-e1348172451506/" rel="attachment wp-att-163924"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-163924" title="orlandovotersignpalmtree-e1348172451506" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/orlandovotersignpalmtree-e1348172451506.gif" alt="" width="315" height="226" /></a>As we go to press, polls are showing America’s largest swing state in a dead head between Romney and Obama. Florida has 29 electoral votes and the third largest “Hispanic” population in America. Normally this means a cakewalk for any Democrat.</p>
<p>But whoops! Turns out that about a third of these Florida Hispanics (Cuban-Americans) are <em>actually</em> Hispanic—as in Americans whose ancestors hail almost exclusively from Europe’s Iberian Peninsula known as &#8220;Hispania&#8221; by the Romans. So, as a broken clock is right twice a day, the term “Hispanic” as used by the mainstream media, can actually be correct about 1/1000 of the time (i.e. when it refers to Cuban-Americans).</p>
<p>A poll last week of voters in Florida’s Miami-Dade county by the <em>Miami Herald</em> found the following breakdown:</p>
<p>Obama     Romney    Undecided</p>
<p>White:       64%             30%             6%</p>
<p>Black:        95%               2%              3%</p>
<p>Hispanic: 33%            62%              5%</p>
<p>&#8220;Hey, wait a minute!&#8221; liberals wail. “But every poll on the planet shows Obama with at least 70% of the U.S. Hispanic vote. So what’s going on here?”</p>
<p>Americans of Cuban heritage as usual, that’s what’s going on. The <em>Miami Herald</em> poll broke it down further, noting that Cuban-Americans support Obama 19%, Romney 76% and 5% are undecided.</p>
<p>In brief: no ethnic group in the U.S. comes even close to matching Cuban-Americans in their level of disdain for President Barack Obama in particular and the Democratic Party in general.</p>
<p>Their nonconformity is such that these insufferable Cuban-Americans drove an exasperated pollster to stop polling in areas they are known to infest, including in south Florida. “Eduardo Gamarra, a registered Democrat of Bolivian descent,” reports the <em>Miami Herald</em> about a pollster from Florida International University last week, “actually had to scale back the number of Cuban-American respondents in the poll, a process known as &#8216;weighting,&#8217;….Gamarra stopped polling in South Florida all together when he concluded the three-day survey last week in order to reach other Hispanics.”</p>
<p>“The difference [with polling] in Florida,” reads the <em>Miami Herald</em> story, “are Cuban voters. Without them, the FIU poll shows, Obama would handily win likely Florida Hispanic voters 65-32 percent. Not only are Cubans reliable Republican voters — they’re about 70 percent of Miami-Dade’s registered Republicans.”</p>
<p>“You keep hearing about a liberalization of the vote with younger, second-generation Cubans,” wailed Democratic pollster Gamarra. “But the polls are not showing it. Young Cubans are starting to look more Republican than their parents.”</p>
<p>Which is saying a lot.</p>
<p>These insufferable political mavericks have often goaded the Democratic/media axis into enraged sputterings against them. “Truly disgusting,” was how Bryant Gumbel characterized the Cuban-Americans demonstrating against shanghaiing Elian Gonzalez back to Castro. Five years ago Georgetown professor Norman Birnbaum, an advisor to three Democratic presidential candidates and today a columnist for The Daily Beast, labeled &#8220;Miami-Cubans” a “truly reprehensible” group. In 2008, one of America&#8217;s most influential newspapers, the <em>Washington Post</em>, ran a cartoon celebrating Cuban-Americans’ <a href="http://babalublog.com/2012/09/latinos-want-bias-probe-of-media-says-a-washington-examiner-headline/oliphant-on-cuba/">expulsion from the U.S. en masse.</a></p>
<p>Study the cartoon and imagine the fire (literal, perhaps) if instead of fedoras (which are rarely worn by Cuban-Americans) the group depicted in the cartoon had worn kuffiyehs, burkhas and chadors. What if the boat&#8217;s passengers had been labeled &#8220;nappy-headed&#8221; and were headed for Africa? Imagine the rallies in Los Angeles, Phoenix and Chicago if they&#8217;d worn sombreros.</p>
<p>Such cartoons are indeed imaginable with other ethnic groups &#8212; but only with Uncle Sam cast as the villain, wearing a white hood, a swastika, or an Ann Coulter mask. In dispatching Cuban-American Republicans, Uncle Sam smiles benevolently while handing the boat&#8217;s ethnic occupants off to a Stalinist gulag. “Ha-ha!”</p>
<p>The head explodes imagining the mainstream media reaction against such depictions against any other ethnic group.</p>
<p>&#8220;Cuba Policy isn&#8217;t made in Washington,&#8221; once griped Bill Press in a CNN column. &#8220;It&#8217;s made in Miami by former Batista supporters who think they can reverse history.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Bush&#8217;s defense of the [Cuban] embargo serves a family voting bloc and little else,&#8221; griped Kathleen Parker in a column years ago.</p>
<p>&#8220;A small number of powerful exiles in South Florida cow our politicians into keeping the crazy Cuban policy,&#8221; once griped media baron Al Neuharth in <em>USA Today</em>.</p>
<p>All this takes talent, amigos. Around our domino tables we snicker derisively at those bumbling Trilateralists. Between sips of our <em>mojitos</em> we guffaw and slap our thighs at the incompetence of the Bilderbergers and Rothschilds. We Cuban-Americans are the Illuminati to beat all Illuminati, the slickest of the slick. We watch &#8220;Godfather II&#8221; and snort scornfully. That was a chump operation Mikey Corleone pulled on Nevada Senator Geary with that dead prostitute. We would have had him in our pocket for half the trouble.</p>
<p>We watch &#8220;Mr. Smith Goes to Washington&#8221; and direct our boos and hisses at Jimmy Stewart. What a fuddy-duddy.</p>
<p>Cuban-Americans have managed to get Bill Buckley and Gore Vidal, Chris Dodd and Larry Craig, The Brookings Institution and the Cato Institute, the <em>Wall Street Journal</em> and <em>The Nation</em>, The U.S. Communist Party and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce &#8212; all on the same side of an issue. All of the above have come out publicly against the <a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/HumbertoFontova/2010/08/04/castro_prepares_for_a_us_bail-out">so-called</a> Cuban embargo. All blame it on the &#8220;politically powerful&#8221; and &#8220;well-heeled&#8221; Cuban-American lobby.</p>
<p>Thank you kindly.</p>
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		<title>The Battleground States That Will Decide the Election</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 04:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/arnold-ahlert/the-battleground-states-that-will-decide-the-election/web-tv-debate_001-4_3_r560/" rel="attachment wp-att-159777"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-159777" title="web-tv-debate_001-4_3_r560" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/web-tv-debate_001-4_3_r560.jpg" alt="" width="336" height="253" /></a>Now that the debates are over, the most significant information Americans will get regarding how the candidates are doing will be from the polls. If those polls are any indication, it is Republican challenger Mitt Romney who has been the beneficiary of a bump that most likely came from his obvious win in the first debate, followed by two debates in which no clear cut winner emerged. This week Romney <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/oct/23/debates-deliver-favorability-edge-romney/">moved</a> above 50 percent in his favorability rating with the voters for the first time. Yet it is no secret that this election will be decided by 11 battleground states. Those states are Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin. The current polling numbers, <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/?state=nwa">according</a> to the Real Clear Politics website (RCP), which averages the polling data from a number of independent sources, reveal an incredibly close and intense race between the president and Mitt Romney. Of particular note is that President Obama has seen his once-huge margins of victory against 2008 challenger John McCain virtually vanish. Yet it is far from certain that this will translate into a victory for 2012 GOP nominee.</p>
<p>In Colorado (9 Electoral College votes at stake), where Obama beat John McCain by 9 points in 2008, the race is a virtual tie, with only two-tenths of a percentage point separating the candidates. If there&#8217;s any momentum evident at all here, it is due to the first debate, which was held in Denver. Prior to the debate Obama had a three-point lead. Colorado has been a <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/colorado-presidential-race-dead-heat/story?id=17378472">historically</a> Republican state, but a growing Latino population in one of the fastest growing states in the nation has moved it towards the Democratic column. Like most states, the economy is the number one issue, but environmental concerns are also important.</p>
<p>In Florida (29), RCP gives Romney a 1.8-point lead in a state Obama won by 2.8 points in 2008. The issues in this state revolve around the economy, as unemployment remains higher than the national average. Two voting blocs, Jewish Americans and the elderly, will likely have enormous influence on the outcome. Their <a href="http://forward.com/articles/163178/how-can-mitt-swing-florida-jews/?p=2">concerns</a> include, among other things, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and Israel. Another factor is the reality that Florida was one of the hardest hit states in the nation with respect to the housing crisis. That crisis has abated somewhat, but substantial numbers of Floridians remain  underwater on their mortgages.</p>
<p>That Iowa (6) remains a tight race is relatively surprising, since Obama won the state by a 9.5-point margin in 2008. Currently the president maintains a lead of two percentage points there. Despite a large population of evangelical Christian voters, Democrats have <a href="http://usliberals.about.com/od/BattlegroundStates2012/a/Iowa-In-2012-Elections.htm">carried</a> five of the last six presidential elections. The issues that concern Iowans are healthcare, due to the nation&#8217;s fifth largest number of residents over 65, federal subsidies of certain crops, and renewable energy sources, of which Iowa is a net exporter.</p>
<p>Michigan (16) currently leans Obama by five points, despite a landslide 16.4-point victory in 2008. A Romney win here would be a big upset, given that Michigan has voted Democrat in the last five presidential elections, and remains a state where union workers, especially those in the auto industry, remain tried and true Democrats. The only thing likely to change that dynamic between now and the election would be unequivocal evidence that the economy is stalling&#8211;or that GM is irrefutably headed for bankruptcy again. Neither scenario seems likely to occur before November 6th.</p>
<p>Nevada (6) is a state where the race has tightened in recent weeks, with Obama holding a 2.8-point lead in a state he won by 12.5 points four years ago. Nevada has both the <a href="http://usliberals.about.com/od/BattlegroundStates2012/a/Nevada-In-2012-Elections.htm">highest</a> unemployment rate and the highest home foreclosure rate in the nation, thus jobs and real estate values are the most presiding  issues. Immigration reform is also important in a state where more than a quarter of the residents are of Hispanic origin.</p>
<p>New Hampshire (4) is another state where the race has tightened considerably in the last two weeks, despite a 9.6-point Obama victory in 2008. On October 6th, the president was up 50-44. As of yesterday that lead had been narrowed to 1.4 point margin. Key <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/for-obama-and-romney-small-new-hampshire-could-have-a-big-impact/2012/10/18/a34c91d4-1948-11e2-ad4a-e5a958b60a1e_story_1.html">issues</a> in New Hampshire are the residents&#8217; dislike of taxes, debt and big government, favoring Romney, and their liberal attitude towards social issues, including abortion rights, and a 2010 law legalizing same sex marriages, that favor for Obama.</p>
<p>In North Carolina (15), where Obama eked out a razor thin 0.3 percent victory in 2008, the move has been solidly in Romney&#8217;s direction, from a dead heat three weeks ago to a 5-point lead. On Monday, Democrat campaign strategist Paul Begala <a href="http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/22/obama-strategist-to-cnn-romney-likely-to-carry-north-carolina/">admitted</a> to CNN&#8217;s Wolf Blitzer that the Obama camp had given up on the state where Democrats held their national convention. Considering that North Carolinians have voted Democrat only <a href="http://usliberals.about.com/od/BattlegroundStates2012/a/North-Carolina-In-2012-Elections.htm">twice</a> in 40 years (Carter was the other winner) and economic issues dominate, it is a move fueled by campaign spending allocation issues.</p>
<p>Ohio (18) is a state where the president&#8217;s lead has fluctuated from a high of 5.5 points to 1.9 points currently. Obama beat McCain by almost five points in 2008, and like Florida, Ohio is one of the key states that could tilt the election one way or the other. No Republican has won the presidency without winning Ohio. The key to taking the state is <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57427208-503544/working-class-voters-in-ohio-key-to-presidential-election/">winning</a> the working class vote, which can only happen for Romney, who has trouble connecting with such voters, can convince them Obama&#8217;s economy is worse than the one he would create. Ohio&#8217;s current unemployment rate is 7.5 percent, down from 9 percent last year. Obama wants to convince Ohioans that he&#8217;s responsible for the drop. Romney wants to convince them that Republican John Kasich should get the credit. Whoever wins that argument will likely win the state.</p>
<p>In Pennsylvania (20), the president&#8217;s lead has narrowed from almost nine point to 4.8 in a state he carried by a comfortable 10.3 percent margin in 2008. Pennsylvania has gone Democrat in the last five presidential elections. Labor union members and the elderly comprise the nation&#8217;s fourth highest percentage of both groups, yet the vote here likely <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/oct/23/presidential-race-tightens-in-pennsylvania-big-lea/">comes down</a> to major urban centers where Obama reigns supreme, versus the suburbs and rural areas where small business owners are feeling the economic pinch, and the administration&#8217;s environmentally driven “war on coal” works in Romney&#8217;s favor.</p>
<p>Virginia (13), is another state where the race has tightened, from a five-point Obama lead in September, to a 48-48 dead heat. Virginia is traditionally a red state whose only Democratic presidential vote in the last 40 years went to Obama by 6.3 percent in 2008. The key to winning this state likely comes down to whether or not Obama can <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/keep-an-eye-on-virginia-too/2012/10/22/f0a0ffa4-1c56-11e2-8817-41b9a7aaabc7_blog.html">maintain</a> the coalition of minority and college-educated people he won in 2008 &#8212; and get them to turn out in the same numbers &#8212; or Romney can siphon off enough disaffected voters. Three third party candidates could also <a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/21/davis-warner-weigh-in-on-presidential-race-in-virginia/">affect</a> the outcome.</p>
<p>In Wisconsin (10), a state Obama won convincingly by almost 14 points in 2008, a 6-point lead as of two weeks ago has dwindled to 2.7 points. Wisconsin&#8217;s travails over the past two years have been well documented, and no other battleground state has seen more <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/wisconsin-ohio-now-form-linchpin-to-presidential-election-157aeg0-175279301.html">erosion</a> for the president than this one. Yet Wisconsin hasn&#8217;t gone Republican in a presidential election since the 1980s. Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan&#8217;s selection as the VP candidate may change that dynamic, but the state was polarized by the fight between Gov. Scott Walker and government employees. Unions are itching for revenge, yet it remains a reality that given a choice, Wisconsin voters opted to keep Republican Scott Walker in office. Which faction turns out the most voters on November 6th will likely be the key.</p>
<p>The overall key is momentum. Romney generated a considerable amount of it after the first debate, but reality suggests he must keep the pedal to the metal if he hopes to prevail on November 6th. While the overall voter preference leans his way, the the battle for 270 electoral college votes is another story altogether. RCP&#8217;s average &#8212; minus the toss-up states which include all of the above except North Carolina which &#8220;leans Romney&#8221; &#8212; the Republican challenger holds a 206-201 edge in Electoral College votes. Yet if all the toss-up states stay exactly as they are now, Obama prevails with a 281-257 margin, and is re-elected. It&#8217;s going to be a long two weeks.</p>
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		<title>Electrified RNC: &#8216;We Can Do This&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 04:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A night of intensely anticipated speakers brings down the house. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/RNC174_1551039e.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-142195" title="RNC174_1551039e" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/RNC174_1551039e.gif" alt="" width="375" height="253" /></a>It took the second day of the Republican convention in Tampa for the fireworks to go off. Condoleezza Rice got a rise from the crowd, and Paul Ryan brought down the house. There were a number of themes, but the one that seemed most prevalent was that Romney and Ryan can win. This produced elation from the political right and left progressives noticeably shaken.</p>
<p>The night began with a peace offering to the convention’s numerous Ron Paul supporters in the form of a short Ron Paul video, lauding the longtime U.S. Senator, soon to be followed by a speech by Paul’s son, Rand. Paul supporters have been upset due to a disagreement with the Republican Party over the presidential nomination process.</p>
<p>Rand Paul’s speech included a number of issues, first of which was President Obama’s health care law. Paul stated that, after the Supreme Court ruling, “I still think it’s unconstitutional… The whole damn thing is still unconstitutional.”  He mentioned the “You didn’t build that” line that was the tag line of the previous night’s speeches and which was peppered throughout this second night. As well, he made a number of veiled references to his opposition of the Patriot Act, which appeared out of place at this convention but was red meat for his dad’s followers. “We should never trade our liberty for any promise of security,” he stated to large applause.</p>
<p>It seemed appropriate that, right after Rand Paul, a video presentation was shown featuring President George W. Bush along with a reference to the 9/11 attacks spoken by former First Lady Laura Bush.</p>
<p>Senator John McCain excoriated President Obama on actions regarding defense and foreign policy. He took issue with the Obama administration’s treatment of Israel (“a nation under existential threat”), Russia and China policy, the leaking of military secrets, and massive cuts to America’s defense. He stated that the President “missed an opportunity” regarding Iran and failed to protect Syrians from the Assad government, which he described as a “savage and unfair fight.” McCain spoke with the toughness that many consider was lacking in his personal run for President in 2008.</p>
<p>The issue of energy independence was only mentioned in passing the first night, but the issue was given a little more prominence on Wednesday. Tad True, the Vice President of Belle Fourche and Bridger Pipelines, located in Caspar, Wyoming, criticized Obama during his speech, stating that the President’s “policies are driving us away from energy independence, not towards it.” He spoke about “rebuilding a nation that can once again power itself” and that he believes Mitt Romney “understands that America needs that pipeline,” alluding to the Keystone Project that Obama shut down.</p>
<p>Senator Rob Portman of Ohio spoke of the differences between Governor Romney and President Obama. He stated that Obama hasn’t passed a budget in the nearly four years he has been in office. Portman said, in that same time period, “FDR and Truman won an entire war.” He reminded the audience that Obama “got zero votes” for his personal budget and called it a “lack of leadership.”</p>
<p>The Hispanic community was featured prominently Wednesday night, as it was the night before. Governor Luis Fortuno of Puerto Rico spoke, stating that “Freedom is the essence of who we are as Americans.” And Governor Susana Martinez of New Mexico spoke, voicing in Spanish, “En America todo es possible” (“In America everything is possible”). She said that, if President Obama can “take credit for government building small business, then he can accept responsibility for breaking his promise and adding $5 trillion to the national debt – <em>because he did build that.”</em></p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2012 04:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We need adults to solve our problems, not these people.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/315071_355924627819494_165791135_n.gif"><img class="size-full wp-image-141965 alignleft" title="315071_355924627819494_165791135_n" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/315071_355924627819494_165791135_n.gif" alt="" width="375" height="257" /></a>Last February, when the City of Tampa finally mustered the backbone to evict Occupiers from the public parks where they were illegally squatting, Tampa “porn king” Joe Redner stepped up to play <em>in loco parentis</em> to the protesters.  Redner is Tampa’s low-rent version of Larry Flynt: when he isn’t busy peddling young female flesh for cash, he seeks elected offices and collects awards from civil libertarian-types.</p>
<p>Playing sugar daddy to the Occupy movement was therefore a perfect fit.  Despite the media’s best efforts to portray it otherwise, the movement was small and dysfunctional.  Local columnists might have praised Occupiers for “braving police, hard sidewalks, and cold rain to say things aren’t right,” but television footage of patient-looking police standing by as whiny twenty-somethings shoved their detritus into cardboard boxes told the real story.  The police looked no older than the protesters they were evicting, but they had careers and were supporting families.  In contrast, the activists came across as too confused or immature to mount any type of “protest” — that is, without a great deal of help from the media.  Luckily, the media was more than willing to make up stories about them, in order to re-live their own glory days as protesters.</p>
<p>Relocation to free digs at Joe Redner’s private “Voice of Freedom Park” gave the rag-tag Occupiers a little breathing room.  They immediately reciprocated by filling their new urban playground with more junk, to the consternation of their new “neighbors.”  Community residents petitioned to have the camp disbanded, complaining of piles of debris, bad smells, and an increase in police calls and homeless activity.  &#8220;Slack-you-py Tampa” observed one local.  Even Joe Redner finally realized he’d have to kick the kid off the couch and make him look for a real job.  Redner announced that the residents of Voice of Freedom park would be evicted on September 15, after the convention.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, no matter how hard local newspapers worked to invent an heroic and articulate Occupy Movement, they came up empty-handed.  In July, columnist Sue Carlton abandoned both common sense and decency in a column that exploited an unstable-seeming protester.  For unexplained reasons, the middle-aged woman painted a plastic gun with a black magic marker  and tried to bring it into a courtroom.  She might have precipitated a tragedy with her bizarre stunt, but Carlton did not linger over  consequences.  Instead, she depicted the woman as a freedom fighter demanding “constitutional rights.”  What the plastic gun-toting activist probably needed was mental help, but both Carlton and an ethically challenged “homeless activist” named Bruce Wright egged the woman to “take a stand against oppression” instead.</p>
<p>And so it went.  As the rest of the city prepared for the upcoming Republican National Convention, Joe Redner’s Voice of Freedom Camp, and another site dubbed Romneyville, played host to a growing array of mentally-ill homeless people, young druggies, activists typing away at computers, and, as was reported to me by a camp bouncer, gang-bangers from one zip-code looking to fight gang-bangers from another zip-code.</p>
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<p>None of this was reported in the papers, although the reporters who regularly paid visits to the camps could not have failed to observe what was happening there; the chaos and the prevalence of homeless in the throes of addiction or mental confusion.  But they continued filing stories about bearing witness to a new era of “fighting the man.”  Why they bother to show up at all to write such stories is a mystery.</p>
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<p>Romneyville borders a freeway underpass near a Salvation Army shelter.  Voice of Freedom Park is situated in an economically depressed neighborhood and is surrounded by empty storefronts. There is a shiny-new Metro PCS mobile phone store across the street from the park, but other than that, the businesses are small groceries anchored by large EBT signs.</p>
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<p>Everything else that is literally <em>not</em> falling down is owned or directly subsidized by the government: social service agencies, day-care operations, public schools, and public housing.  Police patrols protect the protesters from the high crime endemic to the area, and also protect the protesters from each other, because the movement attracts its share of dangerous characters as well.</p>
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<p>The activists participating in Occupy the RNC say that they are choosing to live among the “dispossessed” because these are precisely the people they want to encourage to rise up against the Republican overlords “taking food out of children’s mouths.”  But like the fake stories written about the movement by local journalists, this message is also a fake one.</p>
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<p>As soon as Food Not Bombs moved into VOF Park, they turned the site into a self-important summer camp for their own adolescent preoccupations and hobbies: beer-brewing, puppet-making, endless general assemblies, craft sessions for making furniture out of trash, clown lessons, a scavenger hunt, lectures on things like “Voudou and the Haitian Revolution,” and, most jarringly, a screening of the French art-film, <em>The Gleaners and I, </em>which celebrates the insights of well-off dropouts who choose to dumpster dive in order to express anarchic fellowship with actually poor people who dumpster dive in order to eat.</p>
<p>Not that the Occupiers are dumpster diving.  They are relentlessly demanding donations to subsidize their camps and complaining that people aren’t giving them enough money to support their cause.</p>
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<p>It is difficult to imagine more offensively self-referential or narcissistic behavior.  Occupiers and Food Not Bombers in peasant skirts sit cross-legged decorating bits of scrap metal with poster paint, while homeless men sit on stoops outside boarded-up businesses watching them.  In the end, city sanitation workers will clean up after the aging children, and real homeless people will reclaim the park.</p>
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		<title>Eric Holder&#8217;s Corrupt Agenda</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 04:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/111208_holder_testify_605_ap.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-134941" title="111208_holder_testify_605_ap" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/111208_holder_testify_605_ap.gif" alt="" width="375" height="251" /></a>On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it was <a href="http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/June/12-crt-746.html">filing a lawsuit</a> against Florida over the state&#8217;s push to clean its voter roles of dead and foreign voters. The move comes on the heels of Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA), the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/face_it_you_re_screwed_gAnQ0WYVlPyvIcqzFIGEVK?utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_content=National">scheduling a vote</a> by his panel on June 20th aimed at holding U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over documents in the Fast and Furious gunrunning scandal. While the corrupt practices of Holder&#8217;s DOJ may finally be getting the attention they deserve, it is also becoming apparent that the department is not just degrading the principles of law and order to advance a radical leftist agenda &#8212; but to enhance president&#8217;s Obama&#8217;s re-election chances by any means necessary.</p>
<p>The DOJ&#8217;s lawsuit against Florida is little more than the latest evidence of the highly politicized nature of the department and the man at its helm. As mentioned above, the state has been singled out for attempting to purge its voter rolls of non-citizens. Yet as <a href="http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/04/18/pj-medias-j-christian-adams-testifies-before-house-judiciary-subcommittee/">testimony</a> by former DOJ attorney J. Christian Adams to the House of Representatives revealed, the department has taken <em>exactly the opposite </em>approach with other states, &#8220;deliberately refusing to enforce Section 8 and require states to purge rolls because of philosophical disagreement with the purging statute.&#8221; He further testified that during his time in the Voting Section, &#8220;political appointees expressed open and outright hostility to enforcing Section 8.&#8221;</p>
<p>The DOJ&#8217;s sudden interest in enforcing Section 8 in Florida rests on two contentions. One, that Florida has conducted its effort &#8220;within the 90-day quiet period before an election for federal office established by the law&#8221; and that &#8220;Florida’s use of inaccurate and unreliable voter verification procedures violates the requirement in Section 8 of the NVRA that any such program be uniform and nondiscriminatory.&#8221;</p>
<p>Both contentions are easily debunked. On Tuesday, Republican Governor Rick Scott <a href="http://thehill.com/video/policy-areas/232185-florida-gov-scott-doj-stonewalling-attempt-to-protect-voting-rights">revealed</a> that Florida has been forced to use state databases to cleanse voter rolls because the Department of Homeland Security has refused to allow his state access to the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE), a national immigration database needed to confirm citizenship status. According to Scott, the DHS  has stonewalled the state for <em>nine months.</em> This undercuts both of the DOJ&#8217;s arguments, even as it reveals the Orwellian nature of an Obama administration willing to deny Florida a more reliable database and timely access to it, while suing the state for &#8220;violations&#8221; it forced the state to preform.</p>
<p>Scott has taken notice. He announced that Florida will file suit for access. &#8220;We&#8217;ve done all the right things,&#8221; he said in an appearance on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;Starting Point.&#8221; &#8220;We&#8217;re put in a position where we don&#8217;t have a choice but to sue them to get access to a database&#8230;to make sure that your right as a citizen is not diluted by a non-citizen.&#8221; Scott also revealed the critical reason why. &#8220;We tried to use our own database to do it&#8230;even with that database, we&#8217;ve found 100 people not entitled to vote and we know 50 of them have voted.&#8221;</p>
<p>Florida is only the latest example of the blatant prejudice that emanates from the DOJ. Both Texas and South Carolina are <a href="http://www.texastribune.org/texas-politics/voter-id/feds-reject-texas-voter-id-law/">being sued</a> for enacting voter photo ID statutes despite a 6-3 ruling by the United States Supreme in 2008 upholding Indiana&#8217;s right to require such identification for voting. This implies that Eric Holder and company believe each state must file individual suits before SOTUS to achieve the same right.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/iPKYYGvJnFGI.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-130933" title="iPKYYGvJnFGI" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/iPKYYGvJnFGI-300x199.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="199" /></a>The shooting of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin has seen the media at its sensationalist worst. Press reports have cast Martin&#8217;s shooter, George Zimmerman, as a trigger-happy <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/america-loves-a-vigilante-until-we-meet-one/2012/04/06/gIQAfcRC0S_story.html">vigilante</a> looking to make trouble where there was none. Attached to this storyline has been the charged subtext that Zimmerman acted out of racial prejudice, confronting Martin simply because the latter was black. Not surprisingly, this media-made version of the shooting has roiled racial passions across the country, turning a tragedy into a referendum on American race relations and setting up one of the most polarizing legal cases in recent history. But there is in fact far more to the story, as a recent <em>Reuters’</em> <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/25/us-usa-florida-shooting-zimmerman-idUSBRE83O18H20120425">investigation</a> illuminates.</p>
<p><em>Reuters</em>&#8216; report provides a complexity to the story that has been so sorely missing until now. Among other things, it calls into question the notion that white racism was the motivating factor in Martin&#8217;s shooting. That narrative was never entirely convincing, and not just because the mixed-race Zimmerman never fit into the media’s neat white-gunman-black-victim allegory. <em>The New York Times</em>&#8216; designation of Zimmerman as a &#8220;<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/post/why-did-new-york-times-call-george-zimmerman-white-hispanic/2012/03/28/gIQAW6fngS_blog.html">white Hispanic</a>&#8221; was only the most strained attempt to impose a racial framework on the shooting.</p>
<p><em>Reuters</em>&#8216; report muddles the racial element even further. It points out that Zimmerman was not only half-Hispanic but he also had black roots, tracing back to his Afro-Peruvian great grandfather on his mother’s side. So far from harboring anti-black racial resentments, he appears to have sought out the company of black friends and colleagues. In 2004, for instance, Zimmerman, an insurance agent, teamed up with a black friend to start up an insurance office.</p>
<p>Even more significant, perhaps, <em>Reuters&#8217;</em> report makes clear that much of the media has simply failed to present the context in which the shooting took place. Yet that context is critical to understanding, if not justifying, why the shooting happened as it did. One would never suspect if from most media accounts, but Zimmerman had good reason to be suspicious of an unknown young black man walking through his neighborhood – and racism had nothing to do with it.</p>
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		<title>George Zimmerman Arrested, Charged</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 04:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Vadum]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The state's case being helped by Eric Holder, who praises racial arsonist Al Sharpton as a hero. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Picture-8.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-128666" title="Picture-8" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Picture-8.gif" alt="" width="375" height="240" /></a>After weeks of agitation by the activist Left, would-be vigilantes across America got their wish Wednesday as George Zimmerman was charged in Florida with second-degree murder in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.</p>
<p>“Three weeks ago our prosecution team promised those sweet parents [of Trayvon Martin] we would get answers to all of their questions, no matter where our quest for the truth led us,” special prosecutor Angela Corey told reporters in Jacksonville. “And it is that search for justice for Trayvon that has brought us to this night.”</p>
<p>It is far from clear what exactly transpired on that fateful February night in Sanford. At the same time it seems crystal clear that the original version of the story that painted a picture of a fanatical cop-wannabe who, without provocation, brutally gunned down a defenseless young man because he was African-American <a href="http://pjmedia.com/blog/why-i-called-george-zimmerman-a-murderer-and-why-i-was-wrong/">isn’t quite true</a>.</p>
<p>At trial Zimmerman may be shown to be guilty of something. Lawyers say that for him to be convicted of murder in the second degree under Florida law it would have to be demonstrated beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant lacked the intent to kill but still acted in such a grossly reckless and negligent manner that the victim died. A jury could also take a pass on &#8220;Murder 2&#8243; and convict Zimmerman of a lesser offense. Florida’s “stand your ground” law could come into play and complicate matters. The key issue seems to be whether Zimmerman was in the circumstances justified in using lethal force against Martin.</p>
<p>These matters are best decided in court and not in the streets. Yet U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder may have already joined the leftist lynch mob and reached his own verdict in the controversial case that, thanks to cheerleader journalism, has divided America. Holder, whose visceral contempt for conservatives is <a href="http://spectator.org/archives/2009/01/29/holder-the-hater">well documented</a>, is the top law enforcement official who has single-mindedly focused on turning the Department of Justice into a postmodernist racial grievance incubator, as brilliantly demonstrated by former DOJ lawyer J. Christian Adams in his excellent book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Injustice-Exposing-Racial-Justice-Department/dp/1596982772"><em>Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department</em>.</a></p>
<p>While the department considers bringing federal civil rights charges against Zimmerman, the agency is “helping the state in its attempt to bring a case as well,” Holder told reporters at a DOJ press conference Wednesday. While Holder’s underlings burn the midnight oil to find a way to prosecute Zimmerman, the DOJ continues to maintain its eerie silence about the New Black Panther Party’s $10,000 “Wanted Dead or Alive” bounty on the accused man’s head. In Holder’s topsy-turvy worldview some Americans are more equal than others. The man has no stomach for offending black militants or any members of the Democratic Party coalition.</p>
<p>But as racial demagoguery related to the Martin killing inflames communities across the nation, it is telling that Holder took time out from his busy schedule yesterday to drop in on racial arsonist <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1527">Al Sharpton</a>, president of the Alinskyite “National Action Network” and host of MSNBC’s “Politics Nation.”</p>
<p>On the opening day of NAN’s 14th annual convention in the nation’s capital, Holder might as well have genuflected before Sharpton. The attorney general hailed the radical charlatan –who seems ready to execute Zimmerman with his bare hands— for “your partnership, your friendship, and your tireless efforts to speak out for the voiceless, to stand up for the powerless, and to shine a light on the problems we must solve, and the promises we must fulfill.” Holder clearly knows how to lay it on thick.</p>
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		<title>The Left&#8217;s Callous Disinterest in Black Shooting Victims</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 04:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where "solidarity" marches are really needed and why they never occur.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Picture-27.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-127521" title="Picture-27" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Picture-27.gif" alt="" width="375" height="269" /></a>While Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson were continuing to stir up racial animosity in Sanford Florida, one of the worst <a href="http://miami.cbslocal.com/2012/03/31/2-dead-12-hurt-in-mass-shooting-in-north-miami/">mass shootings</a> in Florida history was taking place in Miami. Last Friday, 14 people were shot and two men were killed during a funeral for 21-year-old Morvin Andre. A 5-year-old girl was wounded in the exchange as well. Why no outrage or calls for massive demonstrations? Because the shooters were allegedly black gang members attending the funeral. In other words, there&#8217;s nothing that can be politically exploited here by those willing to ignore the harsh reality that, in the overwhelming majority of cases, black Americans are being victimized by other black Americans.</p>
<p>Thus, it was more than a little ironic that one day after former Black Panther Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL) was demonstrating &#8220;solidarity&#8221; with Trayvon Martin by <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/03/30/Hoodie-Wearing-Gunmen-Kill-1-Wound-5-in-Rushs-Chicago-District">donning a hoodie</a> during a speech in the U.S. House of Representatives last Wednesday, 13 people were <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-far-south-side-man-shot-killed-near-home-20120329,0,667576.story?track=rss">shot</a> and two were killed in a single night of violence. The worst shooting of the night left one man dead and five others wounded. They ranged in age from 16-24, and they were victims of two men wearing hoodies, who opened fire inside a convenience store.</p>
<p>That shooting took place in Bobby Rush&#8217;s district. As of this writing, he has had <a href="http://marathonpundit.blogspot.com/2012/03/no-statement-from-bobby-hoodie-rush-on.html">nothing to say</a> about that incident, of any of the others that took place in his own city. He did however do an ABC interview&#8211;wearing a hoodie and sunglasses&#8211;where he <a href="http://chicagoist.com/2012/03/29/walsh_rush_hoodie_black_on_black_cr.php">explained</a> the reason for his mini-protest at the House. &#8220;It seems like the lives of black men in this nation are not given the same value as the life of others, and there&#8217;s something wrong with that,&#8221; said Rush.</p>
<p>Rush is absolutely right, but like so many others with an agenda, he manages to remain willfully oblivious to reality. Those who place less value on the lives of black men are overwhelmingly other black men: the U.S. Justice Department&#8217;s Bureau of Justice Statistics <a href="http://voices.yahoo.com/violence-natural-growth-industry-5343683.html?cat=17">found</a> that between the years 2001 and 2005, <em>nine-out-of-ten</em> black murder victims were killed by other blacks. Seventy-five percent of those victims were killed with a gun. The DOJ also determined that homicide is the leading cause of death for black males between the ages of 15 and 34.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, Delric Miller IV will never even reach the low-end age of that disturbing age demographic. Delric was <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2106552/Delric-Miller-IV-Fight-baby-shower-triggered-deadly-shooting-month-old-boy-slept.html">killed</a> in February when a gunman brandishing an AK-47 pumped 37 bullets into his home on the west side of Detroit Michigan. &#8220;Again, adult behavior has brought another child in Detroit to an end,&#8221; said Police Chief Ralph Godbee at a press conference. &#8220;It&#8217;s actually amazing that more people in that house were not killed. There&#8217;s no question about it. This is gang-related,&#8221; he added.</p>
<p>Delric was nine months old.</p>
<p>Both this shooting and the one in Miami reveal another unpleasant and rarely-talked about reality behind much of the violence that afflicts black America. Much of the killing is senseless. According to police, the Miami funeral turned into a shooting gallery because someone at the wake touched Morvin Andre&#8217;s body in a way deemed disrespectful by other gang members in attendance. This &#8220;disrespect&#8221; triggered an argument that triggered the shooting. Delric Miller&#8217;s death was purportedly the result of his mother, Diamond Salter, getting into an argument with another women over limited seating at a <em>baby shower.</em> &#8220;The shower was overbooked, and there was an argument because there weren&#8217;t enough seats,&#8221; Cynthia Wilkins, Delric&#8217;s grandmother told the Detroit News. Ms. Salter was followed home by a group of men and women, one of whom is believed to have perpetrated the shooting at 4:30 a.m. the next day.</p>
<p>Two other killings make even less sense. Twelve-year-old Kade&#8217;jah Davis was <a href="http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/region/wayne_county/12-year-old-girl-killed-over-a-cell-phone-dispute-that-someone-had-with-her-mother">killed</a> in Detroit when a gunman fired shots into her home &#8212; allegedly as a result of a dispute over a cell phone. In the same city, 17-year-old Je&#8217;Rean Blake was killed when a man on a moped allegedly didn&#8217;t like the look on Blake&#8217;s face. The man returned with a gun and sprayed bullets into a crowd, killing Blake in the process.</p>
<p>Such is the &#8220;value of life&#8221; as it is measured far too many times within black American communities. In Philadelphia, <a href="http://articles.philly.com/2012-01-06/news/30598180_1_black-on-black-killings-murder-big-cities">according to statistics</a> from the Philadelphia PD, 75 percent of 324 victims killed last year were black men, 80 percent of whom were killed by black males. In the first three months of this year, Chicago, the city with the <a href="http://www.bet.com/news/health/2012/02/01/chicago-has-highest-murder-rate-in-the-u-s.html">highest</a> murder rate in the nation, has been <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/30/chicago-murder-rate-up-35_n_1392494.html">victimized</a> by 114 homicides, a 35 percent increase compared to the same period last year. In New York City, <a href="http://city-journal.com/2009/eon0219hm.html?PHPSESSID=1c2f585bc47641b95cbe3f48eaa0e709">83 percent</a> of all gun assailants were black during the first six months of 2008. Overall, the homicide rate for black men between the ages of 18 and 24 is well over ten times that of whites. And lest anyone think that such killing is equally divided among the races, completed law-enforcement investigations in 2009 <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/black-black-crime-widely-ignored-african-american-activists-190404331.html">reveal</a> that 352 blacks were killed by known whites&#8211;a category that includes Latinos&#8211;while 4,094 blacks were killed by other blacks, according to FBI data.</p>
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