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		<title>Eric Holder&#8217;s Perfect Successor</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2014 05:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A look at Loretta Lynch's obsession with race.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #12171b;"><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/141108-loretta-lynch-mn-1235_808848110e47a65f68a0851a20700aea.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244989" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/141108-loretta-lynch-mn-1235_808848110e47a65f68a0851a20700aea-381x350.jpg" alt="141108-loretta-lynch-mn-1235_808848110e47a65f68a0851a20700aea" width="335" height="308" /></a>It would be difficult to imagine any Attorney General nominee who could guarantee a more seamless transition from the Eric Holder years than Loretta Lynch, who has been the </span><span style="color: #1b1b1b;">U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York since 2010. Her uncanny ability to detect phantoms of white racism lurking ominously around every corner is proof-positive of her fitness to serve as Holder&#8217;s successor in the Obama administration.</span></p>
<p>Lynch believes that <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1666">voter ID</a> laws are part of a racist effort to suppress minority turnout at the polls. “Fifty years after the civil rights movement,” she <a href="http://gotnews.com/ag-nominee-loretta-lynch-voter-id-racist/">avers</a>, “we stand in this country at a time when we see people trying to take back so much of what Dr. [Martin Luther] King fought for … and [to] reverse the [gains] that have been made in voting in this country.” Consequently, Lynch is eminently “proud” that the Justice Department has filed suit against states which have enacted voter ID laws “seek[ing] to limit our ability to stand up and exercise our rights as citizens.” <span style="color: #1b1b1b;">Lynch also <a href="http://www.justice.gov/usao/nye/pr/August14/2014Aug13.php"><span style="color: #12171b;">supports</span></a></span> efforts<span style="color: #1b1b1b;"> to restore the voting rights of (disproportionately black) convicted felons who “have served their debt to society”—a measure that would “en[d] the chain of permanent disenfranchisement that visits many of them.”</span></p>
<p>By Lynch&#8217;s <a href="http://gotnews.com/ag-nominee-loretta-lynch-voter-id-racist/">reckoning</a>, school discipline policies that result in higher rates of suspension and expulsion for nonwhite children than for whites, are racist as well. “Zero-tolerance programs,” she told a mostly black audience in 2013, “are often used [to] take our babies, minority children, black children, Hispanic children, and they put them out of school before they have a chance to learn.” Building on this theme, Lynch praised the Justice Department for having “gone into the South, although we’re looking further, and brought the first &#8230; &#8216;school-to-prison pipeline&#8217; cases against school districts in Alabama.” The question of whether black youth exhibit disproportionate levels of disruptive behavior in the classroom—perhaps partially as a consequence of the black community&#8217;s high rate of father-absent households—did not spark Lynch&#8217;s curiosity in the least. The tidy, all-purpose explanation of racial insensitivity was sufficient for her purposes.</p>
<p>In April 2014, <span style="color: #000000;">Lynch participated in a <a href="http://gotnews.com/ag-nominee-loretta-lynch-participated-controversial-race-panel/"><span style="color: #011480;">panel</span></a> titled “Strengthening the Relationship Between Law Enforcement and Communities of Color” alongside Eric Holder and none other than <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1527"><span style="color: #011480;">Al Sharpton</span></a>, who has never been known to squander an opportunity to depict white police officers as trigger-happy bigots when dealing with black suspects. One of the panel&#8217;s “action items” stated authoritatively: “Remember that racial bias is pervasive. Research has shown that people who are not consciously mistrustful of African Americans or intentionally racist can still behave in a way that is influenced by racial bias.” In other words, even well-meaning whites in law-enforcement are little more than unwitting Klansmen.</span></p>
<p>Lynch recently <a href="http://www.justice.gov/usao/nye/pr/August14/2014Aug13.php">spoke</a> about the need<span style="color: #000000;"> </span><span style="color: #1b1b1b;">to “eliminate,” from the American criminal-justice system, all forms of “racial discrimination” against “the most vulnerable members of society.” Lamenting that the U.S. “currently … imprisons approximately 2.2 million people” who are “disproportionately people of color,” she emphasized the need to “reform &#8230; this aspect of our criminal justice system.” In particular, Lynch applauds the recently enacted “reduction in the sentencing <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1632">disparity</a>” that once existed between crimes involving crack cocaine (</span><span style="color: #000000;">a drug most often used by poor blacks) </span><span style="color: #1b1b1b;">and powder cocaine (</span><span style="color: #000000;">whose users are typically more-affluent whites). Conspicuously absent from Lynch&#8217;s assessment, however, is any mention of the fact that in 1986, when the strict, federal anti-crack legislation was first being debated, the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7126"><span style="color: #680900;">Congressional Black Caucus</span></a>—deeply concerned about the degree to which crack was decimating black communities across the United States—strongly <a href="http://www.city-journal.org/html/6_2_my_black.html"><span style="color: #680900;">supported</span></a> the legislation and actually pressed for <i>even harsher penalties</i>.</span></p>
<p>Lynch has long <a href="http://gotnews.com/read-lorettalynch-hates-death-penalty-leads-dead-blacks/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">opposed</span></a> capital punishment because of its alleged bias against blacks and Hispanics. “Apply the death penalty to securities fraud prosecutions [committed mostly by whites] and [you'll] wipe out [the racial disparity] just like that,” she said sarcastically during a 2002 roundtable discussion. But even if someone could convince Lynch that capital punishment could be applied without any racial bias whatsoever, she would nonetheless view it as immoral because of the disparate impact it would continue to have on nonwhites, who commit homicides—i.e., the crimes that are subject to the death penalty—at much higher rates than whites. “That, to me, has always been the problem with the death penalty,” says Lynch. “Because you can be as fair as possible in a particular case, but the reality is that the federal death penalty is still going to hit harder on certain groups.”</p>
<p>In recent years Lynch<span style="color: #272727;"> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/27/loretta-lynch-attorney-general_n_6058252.html">collaborated</a> with Attorney General Holder in a high-profile Justice Department investigation that ultimately forced Citigroup to pay a $7 billion fine for having made so many “subprime” mortgage loans with a high probability of default, thereby helping to trigger the 2008 financial crisis that, as Lynch puts it, “</span>devastated the nation and the world’s economies.” Content to depict corporate greed and insufficiently regulated markets as the principal causes of the economic calamity that struck six years ago, Lynch makes no mention of the various <i>government</i> policies<span style="color: #1b1b1b;">—most notably </span>the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=809">Community Reinvestment Act</a><span style="color: #1b1b1b;">—</span>which, in the name of “social and economic justice,” required banks to knowingly lend money to underqualified borrowers, particularly nonwhite minorities, and thereby set the stage for crisis.</p>
<p>Myopic vision. Distrust of the free market. Obsession with race. This is Loretta Lynch, President Obama&#8217;s new Attorney General. It&#8217;s a job she was born for.</p>
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		<title>Holder Pushing to Oust Ferguson Police Chief?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2014 04:36:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the lynch mob promises death and destruction if an indictment isn't delivered.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ferguson-st-louis-protest-police-shooting-1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244190" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ferguson-st-louis-protest-police-shooting-1-433x350.jpg" alt="Activists Protest For Justice After Police Shootings" width="323" height="261" /></a>It would appear that unnamed Obama administration officials, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, and their media cheerleaders have coordinated a narrative with regard to the Ferguson, MO Police Department. <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/28/us/ferguson-police-chief/index.html?hpt=hp_t2"><span style="color: #1255cc;">According</span></a> to CNN, &#8220;government officials familiar with the ongoing discussions between local, state and federal officials&#8221; are saying Police Chief Thomas Jackson is expected to step down &#8220;as part of the effort by city officials to reform the Police Department.&#8221; The proverbial fly in the ointment? Jackson and Mayor James Knowles deny any such plan exists.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">&#8220;Nobody in my chain of command has asked me to resign, nor have I been terminated,&#8221; said Jackson in a phone call with the news network. Knowles affirmed that statement and dismissed the notion that pressure was brought to bear by the feds. &#8220;People have been saying that for months, I mean for him to step down, Knowles explained. &#8220;But we&#8217;ve stood by him this entire time. So there is no change on that.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Apparently Eric Holder has a <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/michael-brown-shooting/holder-wholesale-change-needed-ferguson-pd-n236731"><span style="color: #1255cc;">different</span></a> agenda. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s pretty clear that the need for wholesale change in that department is appropriate,&#8221; he said Wednesday, during an appearance at the Washington Ideas Forum. &#8220;Exactly what the form of that change will be, I think, we&#8217;ll wait until we complete our inquiry.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Holder reiterated his exasperation with the leaks that have been emerging from the various investigations in the case that garnered national attention &#8212; as well as ongoing civil demonstrations often deteriorating in lawless mayhem &#8212; following the shooting of teenager Michael Brown by Officer Darren Wilson last August. The AG declared that the attempt to shape public opinion while the investigation remained ongoing was inappropriate. &#8220;I&#8217;ve said I&#8217;m exasperated. That&#8217;s a nice way of saying &#8216;I&#8217;m mad,&#8217; because that&#8217;s just not how things should be done,&#8221; he declared. &#8220;Whoever the sources of the leaks are needs to shut up.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The irony is rich. Holder is calling for wholesale changes in the police department prior to the ultimate determination of Wilson&#8217;s guilt or innocence, yet somehow the leader of perhaps the most politicized Justice Department in modern history doesn&#8217;t see that statement as a blatant attempt to shape public opinion.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Furthermore, MSNBC has <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/shakeup-ferguson-police-force-expected"><span style="color: #1255cc;">reported</span></a> at least one of those leaks comes courtesy of &#8220;a source within the Obama administration,&#8221; the <i>New York Times</i> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/18/us/ferguson-case-officer-is-said-to-cite-struggle.html?_r=1"><span style="color: #1255cc;">cited</span></a> &#8220;government officials&#8221; as their source in detailing leaks about Wilson&#8217;s testimony, and Daily Caller reporter Chuck Ross <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/10/29/eric-holder-to-ferguson-leakers-shut-up-video/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">reveals</span></a> that Mayor Knowles told the Caller that he was told by CNN &#8220;that the DOJ was the source of their information.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Could it be that Eric Holder himself &#8220;needs to shut up&#8221;? Or is he in the process of fashioning yet another capitulation to the mob that has been so threatening that five felony cases have been <a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/2014/10/30/72918.htm"><span style="color: #1255cc;">dropped</span></a> because Wilson, characterized as an &#8220;indispensable witness&#8221; in all of them, can&#8217;t appear due to threats on his life?</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It is a mob that has regularly chanted, &#8220;Who do we want? Darren Wilson! How do we want him? Dead!&#8221; It is a mob that has rioted on several occasions, looted and burned down businesses, shot at police and news helicopters, and threatened the lives and property of many innocents. It has been egged on by professional race-baiters and radical leftist organizations, <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/08/breaking-new-black-panthers-rally-at-st-louis-county-courthouse-over-michaelbrown-killing/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">including</span></a> the Tauheed Youth Organization, the pro-Hamas Organization for Black Struggle, the Moorish Science Temple, the New Black Panther Party (NBPP) and racial arsonist Al Sharpton. The NBPP and Sharpton both presented a <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/new-black-panthers.jpg"><span style="color: #1255cc;">list of demands</span></a> that must be met, with the NBPP insisting that Wilson, who had yet to be identified at that point, much less charged, &#8220;be fired and charged with murder,&#8221; and that the Ferguson Police Department must be re-made to &#8220;reflect the racial demography of the community.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Diversifying a police department is a legitimate desire, but easier said than done. &#8220;We hire everyone that we can get,&#8221; Knowles <a href="http://www.psmag.com/navigation/politics-and-law/ferguson-missouri-protest-increasing-diversity-among-police-officers-isnt-enough-88671/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">insisted</span></a>. &#8220;There&#8217;s also the problem that a lot of young African American people don&#8217;t want to go into law enforcement.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Not just in Ferguson. The <a href="http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2014/09/14/achieving-diversity-among-police-ranks-not-easy/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">authors</span></a> of the Law Enforcement Recruitment Toolkit, published by the U.S. Department of Justice, spoke to the reality of peer pressure. “Some nonwhites may view policing as a white-dominated and racist profession and may reject the idea of working for the police because they fear being perceived by their peers as selling out,” they noted. Phillip Atiba Goff, co-founder and president of The Center for Policing Equity at the University of California, Los Angeles echoes that assertion. “If you were taught from the time that you could speak, from the time that you could understand speech, that police are to be feared and that they’re part of an occupying force that is there to circumvent the democratic processes and to strip you of your rights, then it’s very difficult for that department to come into your neighborhood and tell you that they respect you and that you should join their team,” he said, adding that diversity is “no pancea.” Malcolm D. Holmes and Brad W. Smith, co-authors of “Race and Police Brutality: Roots of an Urban Dilemma,&#8221; further explained that diversifying police forces “have not curbed police violence in communities of color” or removed the unique challenges of policing deprived neighborhoods.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Regardless, the mob may get at least one of their wishes fulfilled. In addition to the purported ouster of Chief Jackson, MSNBC is reporting that Officer Wilson is also expected to be &#8220;eased out&#8221; of his job. Both moves are ostensibly a prelude to a &#8220;full-scale take over of the Ferguson force by the St. Louis County police.&#8221; The announcement of these steps could occur as early as next week, according to CNN.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">CNN legal analyst Mark O&#8217;Mara was quick to jump on the bandwagon. &#8220;The animosity that existed in Ferguson were way before Mike Brown&#8217;s shooting, justified or not. So, unfortunately, the leadership in the Police Department has to change,&#8221; he insisted. &#8220;And if [Jackson's] sort of a sacrificial lamb to get this started, it&#8217;s going to have to be. Ferguson&#8217;s going to have to move forward. And it doesn&#8217;t seem they can move forward with this police chief in place.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">O&#8217;Mara was likely taking his cue from Holder, who voiced a similar dissatisfaction last month when he <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/03/justice/ferguson-justice-department-investigation/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">announced</span></a> the Justice Department was conducting an investigation of the force. &#8220;People consistently expressed concerns stemming from specific alleged incidents, from general policing practices and from the lack of diversity on the Ferguson police force,” Holder told reporters at the time. &#8220;These anecdotal accounts underscore the history of mistrust of law enforcement in Ferguson that has received a good deal of attention.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">That would be predominantly media-driven attention, and their initial effort to frame the narrative in this case was reprehensible. Their <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2014/08/15/Robbery-Tape-Humiliates-Media-Gentle-Giant-Narrative"><span style="color: #1255cc;">description</span></a> of Michael Brown as a college-bound &#8220;gentle giant&#8221; was shattered by a video-tape depicting him committing a strong-arm robbery against a far smaller store clerk. Also debunked were the initial reports that Brown was shot in the back. That allegation was made by witnesses Dorian Johnson, Piaget Crenshaw and and Tiffany Mitchell. Johnson was Brown&#8217;s partner in crime, and Crenshaw <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/08/19/hands-up-story"><span style="color: #0433ff;">changed</span></a> her story following the family autopsy conducted by Dr. Michael Baden.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Yet the trio’s other allegation, that Brown had his hands up when he was shot— <a href="http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/official-autopsy-shows-michael-brown-had-close-range-wound-to/article_e98a4ce0-c284-57c9-9882-3fb7df75fef6.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">unsupported</span></a> by the official autopsy—was far more problematic. While several other witnesses contradicted that assessment, the &#8220;hands up&#8221; narrative went national, and remains largely embedded among a portion of black America and their white, leftist enablers who are either uninterested in the truth, or working feverishly to gain as much political mileage as they can from the incident, prior to the grand jury&#8217;s ultimate determination.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">CNN analyst Michael Smerconish believes that the attempt to oust Jackson is another orchestrated sop to the mob that may indicate the grand jury is not going to indict Wilson. &#8220;To me this is all calibrated and intended to take the temperature down of the community,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;m absolutely convinced we&#8217;re headed for no indictment in this case.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The evidence leaked so far points in that direction. The official autopsy <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/new-evidence-supports-officers-account-of-shooting-in-ferguson/2014/10/22/cf38c7b4-5964-11e4-bd61-346aee66ba29_story.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">backs</span></a> Wilson&#8217;s version of the events, as do seven or eight black American witnesses &#8212; who won&#8217;t speak publicly because they fear for their own safety. And the infamous hacker group Anonymous <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2810141/Drug-case-dropped-Ferguson-officer-no-show.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">cites</span></a> yet another &#8220;government source&#8221; indicating that Wilson will not be indicted, adding that the grand jury&#8217;s announcement to that effect, originally slated for January 7, may now be made in as little as 10 days.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In the meantime, Americans ought to ponder the &#8220;chicken or the egg&#8221; order of events if and when such a scenario unfolds. As a simple Google <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=+riots+will+occur+in+Ferguson+if+Wilson+not+indicted&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;aq=t&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;gws_rd=ssl"><span style="color: #1255cc;">search</span></a> reveals, much of the media consider it a virtual given that Ferguson, and perhaps several other communities as well, will erupt in unrestrained violence if Darren Wilson is acquitted. The <i>LA Times </i>offers a <a href="http://www.latimes.com/.../la-na-ferguson-shooting-201409"><span style="color: #1255cc;">quote</span></a> from Kevin Seltzer, who lives at an apartment complex near where Brown was shot. “They’re not going to be looting next time,” he warns. “They’re going to burn the city down.” CNN gots in on the act. &#8220;If there is not an indictment, excuse my French, all hell is going to break loose,” says an unnamed protester. &#8220;Ferguson and St. Louis will be in a state of emergency if Wilson is not indicted,” grad student Jaleah Williams <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/23/ferguson-protesters-darren-wilson_n_6036584.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">told</span></a> the Huffington Post. &#8220;If he’s not indicted, Ferguson will never be same. At the end of the day, the amount of times Wilson shot Mike Brown was excessive. So, if no charges come down, that’s saying it’s okay for police to kill our kids,” he added.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The Guardian <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/08/ferguson-protest-leaders-rally-new-york-michael-brown-shooting"><span style="color: #1255cc;">reports</span></a> that protesters are &#8220;warning police that they are prepared to die on the streets for their cause,” with Millennial Activists United co-founder Ashley Yates insisting that if Wilson is not indicted &#8220;people have every right to go out and express their rage in a manner that is equal to what we have suffered.” Hands Up United activist Tef Poe was far more direct. &#8220;Don’t come to Ferguson if you aren’t ready to die,” he warned. &#8220;Stay at home, as it could happen.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">If it does happen, the blood will be on the hands of the aforementioned race-baiters and their media enablers, as well as Attorney General Eric Holder, whose role in this tragedy cannot be understated. It was Holder who went to Ferguson last August and, absent any evidence of what actually occurred, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/08/21/holder-says-understands-mistrust-police-as-ferguson-protests-dwindle/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">sympathized</span></a> with the residents&#8217; “mistrust” of police because he is not only the attorney general, but a “black man” &#8212; one who proceeded to tell the crowd about his own experience of being stopped on the New Jersey Turnpike and accused of speeding. &#8220;I remember how humiliating that was and how angry I was and the impact it had on me,&#8221; Holder said &#8212; without ever mentioning whether or not he had in fact been speeding. And now, even with the facts as yet unannounced, he has essentially indicted an entire Ferguson Police Department that requires “wholesale change.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It is America itself that requires wholesale change. The nation has reached the point where the politics of division embraced by this administration and its enablers in the Democratic party, egged on by their corrupt cheerleaders in the media, must be forcefully rejected. The race card is maxed out, and only those who profit from the misery of others wish to see the divisiveness continue.</p>
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		<title>Andrew Klavan: Eric Holder: Federal Dick</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #000000;"><strong>In this special episode, our host, best-selling crime author Andrew Klavan, tells the hard-hitting cop-story of the nation&#8217;s top law officer &#8211; Attorney General Eric Holder: Federal Dick. See the video and transcript below. </strong></p>
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<p style="color: #000000;">I’m Andrew Klavan and this is the Revolting Truth.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">America’s chief law officer has decided to step down and so it’s time to take a farewell look at the career of&#8230;</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">“Eric Holder, Federal Dick!”</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">In 2008, Eric Holder Federal Dick became the first black Attorney General of the United States.  But that’s all right &#8211; there are plenty of decent, honest African Americans too.  There’s one who lives right down the road from me.  Seems like a great guy.  So you can’t blame all of them for one man.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Shortly after taking office, Eric Holder Federal Dick declared that he would not prosecute the fascist thugs of the new Black Panther party who had paraded in front of a polling place carrying weapons.  Holder said the panthers’ actions weren’t as bad as the sort of voter intimidation once practiced against [quote] “my people,” by which I guess he meant fascists, or thugs, or just any bunch of evil schmucks in leather and dark glasses.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Eric Holder Federal Dick also helped improve people’s lives by refusing to enforce laws like the Defense of Marriage Act because he didn’t agree with them.  Thus he effectively stripped our elected representatives of their constitutional power to make meaningful legislation.  Which improved people’s lives in more lawless countries like Burundi, because now they don’t have to feel so bad when they compare their governments to ours.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">But Eric Holder Federal Dick always took Americans’ first amendment rights seriously and went out of his way to insure they would not be overused.  He tapped the phone calls and emails of Fox News reporter James Rosen, and secretly obtained phone records of reporters and editors at the Associated Press.  Whenever people criticized the attorney general’s actions, he accused the critics of “racial animus,”&#8230; then he hid his face in his hands and said, “Ha, ha, ha, I’m black so no one can see me.”</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">And then there was Fast and Furious, a brilliantly conceived operation in which American law officers were forced to stand idly by while nearly 2,000 weapons were sold to Mexican mobsters.  Who could have ever foreseen that the mobsters would use these weapons to commit crimes, including the killing of a U.S. Border Patrol Agent? Certainly not Eric Holder, Federal Dick.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">When Congress attempted to investigate the Attorney General’s role in this scheme, Eric Holder Federal Dick testified under oath that he had only found out about Fast and Furious recently; when memos were produced showing he’d known about it for nearly a year, he said he hadn’t read the memos; when Congress tried to subpoena more documents, the president shielded Holder by declaring the documents were protected by executive privilege. When congress held the Attorney General in contempt, he hid his face in his hands and said, “Ha, ha, ha, I’m black so no one can see me.”</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">It was because of actions like these that in a recent poll, Eric Holder was rated less favorably than Barack Obama, the Republican Party, hives, toothache, and a suspicious looking sore that breaks out on your lip unexpectedly before a big date.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">So today we lift the tattered pages of what used to be our constitution to wave a fond farewell to Attorney General Eric Holder.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">What a Federal Dick.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">I’m Andrew Klavan with the Revolting Truth.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/carney.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-226718" alt="carney" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/carney-450x312.jpg" width="315" height="218" /></a>In 2008, Jay Carney went from covering the White House to lying for the White House. Carney’s lies weren’t unusual among his media colleagues, but unlike them he began lying in an official capacity, assuring his former colleagues that his bosses were completely unaware of what they were doing.</span></p>
<p>Carney went from covering the presidential campaign for TIME and CNN to covering up for the same people he had been covering.  He didn’t do it for the money. TIME was paying Carney $60,000 more than Obama would. He did it because he believed.</p>
<p>You don’t take on the thankless job of being Biden’s Director of Communications when you have a prestigious position at the top of your profession because your big dream involves chasing after the gaffes of a professional idiot whose whiskey-pickled brain has convinced him that he’s a political genius.</p>
<p>You take it because you believe in the agenda.</p>
<p>Jay Carney was a compulsive liar who truly believed in the cause he was lying for. Like the Communist hacks he had dealt with while working in TIME’s Moscow Bureau, he had faith in the revolution.</p>
<p>In 2008, while still working for TIME, he praised Obama’s &#8220;refreshingly non-ideological declaration about how best to govern&#8221; and called it a &#8220;welcome change from the ideology-first recent past.&#8221;</p>
<p>“Are conservatives really so blind to Gov. Sarah Palin’s true liabilities that they believe this is the reason she was mauled in the press? How appalling,” he ranted.</p>
<p>During the election, Carney had cheered for Obama and booed McCain. He had “fact checked” Republican press releases while drawing pink hearts on anything that came from Obama Inc.</p>
<p>It was as if he had already been on Obama’s payroll without bothering to inform his bosses.</p>
<p>Before Obama began paying him $172,000 a year to lie, Jay Carney was lying for him on his own. But it was when Carney began being paid to lie, when the content of his lies was dictated to him by the White House, when he had to stand in front of his former colleagues and recite the talking points that he used to organically insert into his TIME screeds that everything went wrong.</p>
<p>On his first day on the job, he was already in his familiar defensive mode looking and sounding like a yuppie complaining about a spoiled organic banana. “Look, he is leading,” he whined. “He led for two years. I mean, this is a president who had done big things. He has tackled hard issues.”</p>
<p>Despite his experience on the other side of the table and his claim that he liked being up there, he was nervous and uncomfortable. Carney had been a good liar when he was reporting on the White House, but he was a bad liar as the White House Press Secretary.</p>
<p>Carney sweated and mumbled, he showed a hundred liar’s tells from sudden abruptness to looking down. Robert Gibbs, his predecessor, had played the cheerful jackass. Carney was forced into the role of a little boy with a pocketful of stolen candy overcompensating to hide his fear of being caught.</p>
<p>Whatever revolutionary faith had taken him from TIME to the White House had deserted him at the podium. A briefing with Carney meant hearing a hundred “I Don’t Knows” and a thousand talking point buzzwords of the week. “Sensible,” “Common sense,” “Winning the future” and “investing in the future” were just some of the soulless slogans that he mumbled like magic formulas against the truth.</p>
<p>It was clumsy hackwork. The press corps already knew the talking points. They were only useful for selling the product to the public which wasn’t watching the press briefing.</p>
<p>Carney’s job was to make it look like the White House believed the lies it was telling the media so that its political allies in the press could claim plausible deniability when they dismissed the scandals. Instead he was talking to his former colleagues as if they were the chumps who read their own papers and watched their own broadcasts.</p>
<p>He was treating the media like the public and there wasn’t a worse insult than that.</p>
<p>Jay Carney didn’t get better with time. He got worse until the enduring meme of his career was the words “At no point in time was the Obama Administration aware of what the Obama Administration was doing” running above and below his perpetually befuddled face.</p>
<p>On Friday, the day when bad news is dumped on a lazy media and a bored public, he followed the VA’s Eric Shinseki out the door. Top Democrats had demanded Shinseki’s head in the hopes of holding on to the Senate, but Obama popped in to give Carney a personal sendoff.</p>
<p>And if Carney seemed less than enthusiastic, uncomfortably cracking jokes and taking Obama’s awkward hug with the good grace of a victim of the Boston Strangler, it may just have been him.</p>
<p>Or it may have been something else.</p>
<p>Why did Jay Carney fail so miserably? A clue can be found in his predecessor and his successor. Robert Gibbs was a professional press secretary who had spent decades in politics. Josh Earnest, Carney’s successor, is a newer creature cut from the same cloth. Gibbs never lost any credibility while lying. That was his whole job. He never believed in anything because that would have just gotten in the way.</p>
<p>Carney however represented a media that shamelessly loved Obama, but whose true love was not reciprocated by the White House.</p>
<p>Obama didn’t love his media fans. He treated them with contempt. He locked them in closets and cut them out of the loop. He passed along photos from a White House photographer while closing events to the press. His people reacted to any negative news story with furious phone calls and threats. Reporters who challenged him were fired or smeared. And there were allegations of worse.</p>
<p>The Obama White House was paranoid when it came to the press and Carney was a member of the press brought in to deceive and manipulate his former colleagues. Like an informant at a cop party, he could never really fit in. The awkward hug was the physical manifestation of a behind-the-scenes reality.</p>
<p>Carney was a media rat there to sell out his own kind. Instead of affirming what he believed, he denied what he knew to be true. His old job had been to tell a story, his new job was to say as little as possible.</p>
<p>He had joined Obama Inc. in pursuit of the progressive spirituality of political meaning only to kill his own soul.</p>
<p>Whatever he believed in had died a miserable death at that podium.</p>
<p>Jay Carney had taken a $60,000 pay cut to prostitute himself to a man he believed in only to become a joke to his own colleagues. Now he can go back to journalism and try to recapture whatever it was he believed in or cash in by following other press secretaries into a consulting and communications gig.</p>
<p>Carney’s dilemma is bigger than one man. It’s also the question facing his media colleagues who traded whatever they believed in to believe in Obama. It’s the question faced by liberals who put Obama over everything and now realize that if he goes down, their tattered ideology may go down with him.</p>
<p>They believed that they were lying for a true cause. Now can they ever find the truth?</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/shinseki.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-226582 alignleft" alt="shinseki" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/shinseki-450x300.jpg" width="315" height="210" /></a>Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki is one step closer to falling on his sword as the deadly, politically explosive VA health care scandal forces even Democratic lawmakers to demand his removal.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The added political pressure came after a </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1174886-vaoig-14-02603-178.html">new interim report</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> by the VA&#8217;s inspector general determined that the agency&#8217;s officials were involved in a massive conspiracy to cover up the long, life-threatening delays that America&#8217;s veterans have been subjected to in the assembly-line abattoir that is the Veterans Health Administration (VHA).</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In the words of the report, which followed audits of 216 health-care centers, there was a &#8220;systemic&#8221; push by VA officials to conceal the long wait times veterans faced. Veterans in Phoenix, Ariz., </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/05/29/watchdog-finds-systemic-problems-at-va-top-republican-joins-calls-for-shinseki/">waited</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> 115 days on average for a primary care appointment, which far exceeds what official VA statistics indicated. At least 40 veterans </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/23/health/veterans-dying-health-care-delays/">have died waiting</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> for appointments at the Phoenix Veterans Affairs Health Care system. Many of the dead had been put on secret waiting lists.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">It&#8217;s the latest chapter in this sad but entirely predictable unfolding of events. The needless deaths, doctored documents, and all-around incompetence, are what necessarily happen when the government runs a single-payer health care system. The VA health care scandal provides real-life examples to the American public of the unspeakable horrors that await them if the Obamacare train is not soon derailed.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">After the report came out Wednesday, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who had resisted demanding Shinseki step down, joined the growing, bipartisan chorus seeking the secretary&#8217;s removal.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&#8220;It&#8217;s time for Secretary Shinseki to step down,&#8221; McCain said at a press conference in Arizona. If he won&#8217;t leave, &#8220;then I call on the president of the United States to relieve him of his duties, fire him.&#8221; </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Undeterred, the former Army Chief of Staff is still trying to save his skin.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The retired general has been reaching out by telephone to Democrats on Capitol Hill yesterday, repeating his blame-shifting shtick and claiming to be outraged at the actions of his own agency that he is apparently unable to control.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">As of yesterday afternoon, 11 Democratic senators facing reelection battles this year and several House Democrats had </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/democratic-senators-shinseki-resign">called upon</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> Shinseki to resign, adding to the many GOP lawmakers who have demanded the secretary depart.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">President Obama has claimed to support Shinseki in his current position but that support is lukewarm at best. “When it comes to the current situation . . . the president wants to see the results of these reports,” White House press secretary Jay Carney said yesterday. “He believes there ought to be accountability once we establish all the facts.”</span></p>
<p>The politically tone-deaf House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) continues to back the hapless Shinseki, siding with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Boehner said he will “continue to reserve judgement” on the VA secretary.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“Is him resigning going to get us to the bottom of the problem? Is it going to help us find what’s really going on? And the answer I keep getting is no,” Boehner said, echoing former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton&#8217;s infamous &#8220;what difference does it make?&#8221; comment on the Benghazi scandal.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“The president is going to need to step up here and show some real leadership,” Boehner said, throwing a lifeline to the embattled Obama administration.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In a desperate bid to prevent being shown the door, Shinseki </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/calls-for-va-secretary-eric-shinseki-to-resign-intensify-following-watchdog-report/2014/05/29/892825fa-e734-11e3-8f90-73e071f3d637_story.html">met with veterans groups</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> Thursday to beg for their support. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">At the hour-long gathering, Shinseki, taking a page from President Obama&#8217;s &#8220;who? me?&#8221; playbook, blamed everyone but himself for the health care atrocities that took place under his watch.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Shinseki claimed he had been too trusting of reports from VA hospital employees, whining that during his 38-year military career he always thought he could rely on reports from the field. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Shinseki also said he planned to hold VA employees who falsified waiting-list records in Phoenix accountable and make sure the 1,700 veterans in that city who are languishing in bureaucratic limbo receive prompt medical care.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Veterans groups were understandably skeptical.</span></p>
<p>“The question for all of us remains how will he address the breach of trust between veterans and the VA,” said Derek Bennett, chief of staff for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“What does accountability mean? Does it mean firing people, demoting them, moving them? . . . I am still waiting to see what action follows the verbiage.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In the end, Shinseki has done the American people a great service. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">As the Supreme Justice of the VA death panel system, Shenseki has become the public face of the heartless, overwhelmed, incompetent government health care bureaucracy that gets to decide who lives and who dies. He has given the public a taste of the nation&#8217;s health care future as government takes on an a bigger and bigger role.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">It is no secret that VA health care and the health care delivery regime under the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare) are fundamentally the same. VA health care is a single-payer system, and so, it is hopelessly sclerotic and Soviet. Obamacare necessarily leads to a single-payer system.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The VA system is outdated and doomed. It cannot work. Like Obamacare, it is based on the ludicrous notion that medical services can be provided effectively outside of markets. History shows conclusively that governments are very, very bad at providing health care services. This is not an arguable point.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The Department of Veterans Affairs itself has a long, inglorious history of patient abuse and neglect that has stretched out over decades. Yet VA health care is held up by the establishment Left as the model for the future.</span></p>
<p>VA health care is a “huge policy success story, which offers important lessons for future health reform,” <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/14/opinion/krugman-vouchers-for-veterans-and-other-bad-ideas.html?_r=0">says</a> Paul Krugman, the alleged economist. Expanding VA health care is “one of my favorite ideas,” <a href="http://freebeacon.com/blog/the-real-reason-liberals-are-madder-than-hell-about-the-va-healthcare-scandal/">says</a> JournoList propagandist-in-chief Ezra Klein.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">It is only a matter of time before Shinseki is offered as a sacrifice to appease critics of the Obama administration.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">And when he is, leftists like Krugman and Klein will blame the VA&#8217;s problems on Shinseki and claim that this inherently unsustainable system needs only to be tweaked a little more.</span></p>
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		<title>UN-Arab League Special Envoy to Syria Quits</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2014 04:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Klein]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Lakhdar-Brahimi-011.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-225519" alt="Lakhdar Brahimi" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Lakhdar-Brahimi-011-450x270.jpg" width="315" height="189" /></a>United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced on May 13</span><sup style="line-height: 1.5em;">th</sup><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> that he regretfully accepted the resignation of Lakhdar Brahimi, the Joint United Nations-League of Arab States Special Representative for Syria. The resignation will take effect on May 31, 2014. He follows former Secretary General Kofi Annan, who tried unsuccessfully to find a formula for a peaceful resolution of the Syrian conflict and resigned in August 2012 after only about five months on the job. Mr. Brahimi stuck it out for almost two years, but finally decided, like Kofi Annan, that he was just spinning his wheels. No successor has been named as of yet.</span></p>
<p>The Secretary General described Mr. Brahimi’s resignation as a “tragedy for the Syrian people” and a “failure” for the United Nations. “He has faced almost impossible odds, with a Syrian nation, Middle Eastern region and wider international community that have been hopelessly divided in their approaches to ending the conflict,” Ban Ki-moon told reporters. “That his efforts have not received effective support from the United Nations body that is charged with upholding peace and security, and from countries with influence on the Syria situation, is a failure of all of us.”</p>
<p>Ban Ki-moon was blunt in laying a good portion of the blame for lack of progress in reaching a peaceful resolution of the crisis on the Syrian government. Bashar Ja&#8217;afari, Syria&#8217;s UN Ambassador, cited such criticism as the reason why Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has refused to even take any phone calls from the Secretary General.</p>
<p>For his part, Mr. Brahimi, who later in the day delivered his final status report to the Security Council meeting in a closed door session, expressed his frustration this way: “It’s very sad that I leave this position and leave Syria behind in such a bad state. I’m sure the crisis will end, but all [stakeholders] should consider how much more death, how much more destruction will occur…before Syria can become a new Syria.”</p>
<p>Although he did not say so outright, the tipping point for Mr. Brahimi’s decision to resign may well have been the decision by Assad to run for another seven-year term in a pro-forma presidential election to be held on June 3rd. This decision runs counter to Mr. Brahimi’s attempts to mediate at meetings in Geneva the terms for a transitional government with full executive powers and a path to free and fair elections acceptable to the opposition as well as the regime. The meetings had ended in failure after the two sides could not even agree on the order of agenda items for their discussions.</p>
<p>When Mr. Brahimi spoke with reporters after the Security Council briefing, he said that he had informed Security Council members of an offer by Iran, Assad’s patron along with Russia, to help in trying to obtain a postponement of the presidential election. “It is too late in the day for that,” Mr. Brahimi said he told the Security Council.</p>
<p>Aside from the political dimension of the conflict, there is a grave humanitarian crisis that continues in most of the country despite a brief pause in fighting in and around Homs which allowed people trapped in Homs to depart unharmed. The conflict in Syria, which began in March 2011, has led to over 150,000 deaths, with many more Syrians injured and displaced. Despite a Security Council resolution calling for all parties to facilitate access for humanitarian relief to those in need in Syria, to cease depriving civilians of food and medicine indispensable to their survival, and to enable the rapid, safe and unhindered evacuation of all civilians who wished to leave, which was passed unanimously in February 2014, the humanitarian situation remains dire. “Far from getting better, the situation is getting worse,” said Under-Secretary General and Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos last month.</p>
<p>There is a stalemate in the Security Council preventing it from following up with measures to enforce its prior humanitarian resolution, largely due to the prospect of a Russian veto. In order to parry charges that his country is being obstructionist, Russian UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin told reporters on May 13<sup>th</sup> that his country had circulated a draft resolution that would use the negotiation of local cease fires, such as in Homs, as the model for enabling the delivery of humanitarian aid nationwide. The United States and France are leading the effort for a stronger enforcement resolution as well as referring the Syrian regime to the International Criminal Court to investigate and prosecute war crimes and crimes against humanity. Ambassador Churkin, not surprisingly, said his country was opposed to such a referral.</p>
<p>The most progress being made in Syria involves the removal of its declared chemical weapons for destruction. The removal is reportedly about 92% completed. However, even this positive development is clouded with some uncertainty. Reports of chlorine gas attacks on civilians are being investigated by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).</p>
<p>France’s foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, claimed there were “indications” that Syria has waged as many as fourteen chemical attacks involving chlorine since agreeing to give up its chemical weapons. “Right now, we are examining the samples that were taken,” he told reporters in Washington on May 13<sup>th</sup> where he was meeting with Secretary of State John Kerry. &#8220;What it shows is that (the) Bashar al-Assad regime in spite of its commitment continues to be able to produce chemical weapons and to use them,&#8221; Mr. Fabius added.</p>
<p>There are also unconfirmed reports that the Syrian government may not have fully declared its chemical weapons stockpile and that some chemical weapons may have been secretly moved over the border to Lebanon where Iran’s jihadist proxy Hezbollah has significant power and presence.</p>
<p>Lakhdar Brahimi recognized the almost impossible odds of success even during the early days of his tenure. More than a year ago he told reporters:  &#8220;Every day I wake up, I think I should resign. But I haven&#8217;t so far. One day, perhaps, one day I will resign, and I assure you, you will find out.&#8221; That day has now arrived.</p>
<p>Mr. Brahimi’s successor, should there be one, will be unlikely to do any better than his predecessors. In reality, there is not really very much that the Security Council or the United Nations as a whole can do to solve the Syrian crisis, any more than the League of Nations was able to deal with the Spanish Civil War during the 1930s. They are both proxy wars, with regional and international players arming one side or the other.</p>
<p>Indeed, nothing has really changed since <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/joseph-klein/united-nations-ignores-al-qaeda-link-to-syrian-rebels/2/">I wrote back in August 2012</a> – well before the latest stand-off between Russia and the West in Ukraine – regarding “the revival of U.S.-Russian Cold War-like rivalries.” It is such East-West rivalries, overlaying the involvement of Iran and its Sunni rivals along with the intervention of foreign jihadists, which have contributed to the paralysis of the United Nations in Syria:</p>
<p>“President Obama’s policy of trying to push a re-set button in the relationship between the two countries has backfired.  As evidenced by its intransigence at the United Nations, Russia is protecting the Assad regime to thwart the West and its NATO ally Turkey in their efforts to extend their reach through regime change in a region where Russia believes it has vital strategic interests… Hopefully, after the protracted deadlock at the Security Council, the Obama administration is starting to come to grips with the futility of relying on the United Nations to confer some sort of international legitimacy on its foreign policies. We’ll have to wait and see.”</p>
<p>We have waited nearly two more years and the Obama administration still has not learned.</p>
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		<title>The Left Isn’t Pro-Gay &#8212; It’s Pro-Power</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2014 04:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no truce in the culture war.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/brendan-eich-mozilla-firefox-square.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-222875" alt="brendan-eich-mozilla-firefox-square" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/brendan-eich-mozilla-firefox-square-350x350.jpg" width="280" height="280" /></a>Libertarians and liberal Republicans have been proposing a truce on social issues in order to be able to concentrate on fiscal issues, but there is no such thing as a truce on any issue with the left.</span></p>
<p>Brendan Eich offered the left a truce on gay marriage. He talked about tolerance and diversity and he got his head handed to him. His forced departure from the Mozilla Foundation, which is behind the Firefox browser, should be a wake up call to anyone on the right who still thinks that social issues can be taken off the table and that we can all agree to disagree.</p>
<p>Those on the right who insist that conservatism should be reduced to fiscal issues imagine that the culture war is a fight that the right picked with the left. Nothing could be further from the truth.</p>
<p>The left does not care about gay marriage. In most left-wing regimes, homosexuality was persecuted. It was illegal in the USSR. Gay men were locked up in Cuba and are still targeted in China. Nicolas Maduro, the current hero of the left, openly uses homophobic language without any criticism from his Western admirers. It goes without saying that homosexuality is criminalized throughout the Muslim world.</p>
<p>Engels viewed homosexuality as a perversion born out of the bourgeois way of life that would be eliminated under socialism. The Revolutionary Communist Party of the United States stated that homosexuality “is a product of the decay of capitalism” and vowed that once the revolution took place, a “struggle will be waged to eliminate it and reform homosexuals.”</p>
<p>The left’s shift on this issue, as on many issues, was purely tactical. The left’s leading lights were racists who jumped into civil rights. They were sexists who became feminists. They were advocates for the working class who despised the idea of working for a living.</p>
<p>The culture war does not emerge from the left’s deeply held beliefs. Its leaders could care less about the things that they pretend to care about. It emerges instead from the need to maintain a constant state of domestic conflict.</p>
<p>You can’t have a truce when the other side wants a war.</p>
<p>Did the activists who claimed Eich’s scalp care about him or his $1,000 donation to defend marriage? They’re already forgetting his name and moving on to the next target. Eich just happened to make a good target. The Mozilla Foundation is shaky, its board was insecure, and once an online dating company cynically came out with a publicity stunt to keep the news cycle churning, the scalp of the man behind Javascript was claimed. If he had hung on for another few days, the whole thing would have gone away.</p>
<p>Next week it will be someone else. And then the week after that.</p>
<p>Opting out of the conflict means standing by while men like Eich are torn down, not because they did anything wrong, but because destroying them allows the left to feel the thrill of its power over people.</p>
<p>Every gang needs to hurt and terrorize people in order to feel its power. Unlike a Chicago street gang which goes in for an honest mugging or beating, the online activists of the left do their dirty work in this way. Afterward there is no blood and there are no bruises, but lives are destroyed and its social justice activists chortle to themselves coming off an adrenaline high before going after someone else.</p>
<p>The purpose of these purges is not to make the country more tolerant, but to make it more afraid. The message of the Eich purge is not, “accept gay marriage,” it’s “don’t question us.” As many have pointed out, Eich had the same view of gay marriage at the time he made that donation as Obama and Hillary.</p>
<p>But Eich wasn’t “us.” He wasn’t a member of the club.</p>
<p>Members of the club can and do make racist jokes. They can oppose gay marriage. They can sexually harass female employees, pay them less and even kill them. They can do all these things because the &#8220;club&#8221; is not about gay marriage or equal rights for race or gender.</p>
<p>It’s about the supreme power of the club.</p>
<p>You can call the club, liberalism, progressivism or simply &#8220;the left.&#8221; You can call its members Marxists, Socialists or anything else you like. They go by many names, some real and some fake, but they are the &#8220;club&#8221;; a totalitarian organization dedicated to absolute power in the name of any available lie.</p>
<p>The left is a totalitarian movement that inverts everything it touches. It fights against poverty by making more men poor. It helps black people by keeping them down, and it promotes tolerance through displays of intolerance. Its endgame is simply raw power. It wants as much of it as it can get its hands on.</p>
<p>We can stand aside, but it will affect us sooner or later. Even if we don’t get picked to be the teachable moment of the day, we will find ourselves in a country that is less free and more oppressive every year.</p>
<p>The idea that any part of the left’s agenda can be delinked and ignored is wishful thinking. The left’s incessant accusations of racism show that the refusal to engage an issue does not take it off the table. It’s the left that determines the content and the context of the conflict. And that’s why the right is losing. It imagines that it can unilaterally retreat to more favorable ground.</p>
<p>That’s a strategy that has yet to work.</p>
<p>The left doesn’t do truces. If the right cedes gay marriage, all it will have won is the right to be called homophobes for the next hundred years. And the culture war will move on to the next issue and the one after that. The purges will continue and more criminals guilty of thought crimes will be paraded for the virtual cameras. Yesterday’s commonplace idea will be tomorrow’s act of unspeakable bigotry that prevents you from being employed, opening a business or even staying out of prison.</p>
<p>You may be in the clear today, but you won’t be tomorrow.</p>
<p>Wars aren’t won by constantly retreating. They’re won by taking a stand for what you believe in.</p>
<p>The left constantly takes stands, but it believes in nothing. Like all totalitarian movements, it worships at the feet of the bronze bull of power. It believes in the virtue of its outrage, the might of its rhetoric and the pleasure of trampling an enemy underfoot. Every one of its beliefs are baseless and expendable in the name of its true god of power.</p>
<p>The right has sold its moral birthright in the hopes of being tolerated by a movement with no morals or beliefs except in the virtue of its own intolerance. It strategically embraces the left’s ideas and hopes that this process will eventually lead to a truce.</p>
<p>It can’t and it won’t.</p>
<p>The left does not hate the right because of gay marriage. It does not hate the right because it thinks that the right is racist, sexist, transphobic, semaphoric or plasmatic. It hates the right because it is not of the left. The right stands in the way of its absolute power. These two things are enough to be hated.</p>
<p>Totalitarian movements are destructive. They feed off conflict and desire absolute power. They cannot be compromised with, reasoned with or appeased. Instead they have to be exposed for what they are.</p>
<p>The only way to beat a totalitarian movement is to expose the dirty little secret that it is not pro-black, pro-gay, pro-woman or pro anything except pro-power. It is a greedy, corrupt and selfish movement that does not stand for a better world tomorrow, but for unlimited abuses of power in the world today.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2014 05:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Vadum]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is the attorney general's reign of corruption coming to an end? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/evil-holder1.gif"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-218882" alt="evil-holder1" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/evil-holder1.gif" width="300" height="205" /></a>Embattled Attorney General Eric Holder told the </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">New Yorker</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> magazine he plans to step down from his post later this year, but a Holder spokesman now denies he made any such commitment.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">It&#8217;s just another confusing day in the increasingly chaotic Obama administration, where, as the president&#8217;s approval ratings continue to fall, the left hand never quite seems to know what the extreme-left hand is doing.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In an interview that appears in the </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">New Yorker</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">’s Feb. 17 issue, Holder </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://p.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/feb/10/eric-holder-step-down-year-report/">told</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> Jeffrey Toobin that he intends to remain in his position &#8220;well into&#8221; the year. Holder &#8220;told me that he will leave office sometime this year,&#8221; Toobin writes in the feature article.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Although Holder has been instrumental in protecting the Democratic Party&#8217;s voter fraud rackets, stirring up racial antagonism, covering up scandals such as Benghazi and the IRS targeting of conservative nonprofits, and keeping President Obama out of legal trouble, largely by lying and stonewalling, rumors have long persisted that the conservative-hating cabinet member was on his way out at the U.S. Department of Justice.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In what appears to be an inept attempt at semantic game-playing, a Department of Justice spokesman </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/eric-holder-resign">now claims</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> Holder didn&#8217;t tell the </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">New Yorker</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> he was planning to resign. In damage control mode, DoJ spokesman Brian Fallon tried to spin away the resignation story by arguing that the attorney general did not explicitly say he would quit this year, but that he would stay &#8220;well into 2014.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“The most the Attorney General has said is that he still has a lot he wants to accomplish on issues like criminal justice reform, voting rights and LGBT equality,&#8221; Fallon said. &#8220;He did not speak about his plans any further than that.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Of course, an admission that Holder is staying &#8220;well into 2014&#8243; isn&#8217;t exactly a denial that he&#8217;s resigning this year.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">And any public utterance by a Justice Department official must be taken with a grain of salt.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In the Obama era DoJ spokespersons aren&#8217;t exactly known for their honesty. They </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/09/19/confirmed_again_doj_working_with_media_matters_to_squash_reporters">openly collaborate</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> with George Soros-funded slander shop Media Matters for America (MMfA). Investigative journalist Matthew Boyle </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/18/emails-reveal-justice-dept-regularly-enlists-media-matters-to-spin-press/">discovered</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> that Holder’s communications staff conspired with MMfA in what Boyle described as &#8220;an attempt to quell news stories about scandals plaguing Holder and America’s top law enforcement agency.&#8221; DoJ and MMfA also worked together to attack journalists covering DoJ scandals, Boyle found when he obtained internal government emails through a Freedom of Information Act request.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">It is true that Holder told CBS News in November that he didn&#8217;t have &#8220;any plans&#8221; to step down but things change. With the attorney general&#8217;s mounting problems, now would be an opportune moment for Holder to leave.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Impeachment and removal from office following a trial in the Senate are also possibilities that are now being discussed on Capitol Hill. Twenty House members </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/11/14/20-House-members-demand-Eric-Holder-s-impeachment">have introduced</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> a formal impeachment resolution, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hres411/text">H.Res. 411</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">. The resolution&#8217;s four articles of impeachment accuse Holder of wrongdoing in connection with his involvement in the Fast and Furious scandal, refusing to enforce the Defense of Marriage Act, refusing to prosecute IRS officials who leaked confidential GOP donor tax information, and providing misleading testimony to Congress about whether he approved invasive investigative tactics against reporters like James Rosen of Fox News.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In June 2012, Eric Holder was held in criminal contempt of Congress by the House of Representatives in a 255-67 vote for refusing to turn over documents tied to the bungled Fast and Furious gun-running operation that left hundreds of people dead. That was the first time a U.S. attorney general had ever been held in criminal contempt by the House. Legal proceedings against Holder, arguably the most corrupt U.S. attorney general of all time, could be initiated after he leaves office.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Holder&#8217;s resignation announcement, if he did in fact make one in the </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">New Yorker</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, comes as he leans on states to repeal laws preventing felons, a major Democratic Party constituency, from voting.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Such laws are </span>racist<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/USA-Update/2014/0211/Eric-Holder-Barring-ex-felons-from-voting-is-unfair-counterproductive-video">whines</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> America&#8217;s ultra-politically correct attorney general:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">At worst, these laws, with their disparate impact on minority communities, echo policies enacted during a deeply troubled period in America&#8217;s past – a time of post-Civil War discrimination,&#8221; he said. “And they have their roots in centuries-old conceptions of justice that were too often based on exclusion, animus, and fear.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Predictably, it&#8217;s always about race and racism with Holder.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Of course Holder doesn&#8217;t care about civil rights enforcement unless it pertains to blacks and other Democratic interest groups, and is viscerally opposed to one of the key rights protected in the Bill of Rights, the right to keep and bear arms (Second Amendment). He </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb-staff/2013/01/10/eric-holder-gun-owners-should-cower-shame-smokers">said</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> Americans should be &#8220;brainwash[ed]&#8221; into giving up their Second Amendment rights. People should be ashamed to own guns, just as tobacco users now &#8220;cower outside of buildings&#8221; to smoke, he said.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Holder is irredeemably corrupt. He doesn&#8217;t believe in race-neutral enforcement of laws. This is an incredibly dangerous position for the nation&#8217;s top law enforcement official to take, former DoJ insider and </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">New York Times</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> bestselling author J. Christian Adams </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://pjmedia.com/blog/j-christian-adams-you-deserve-to-know-%E2%80%94-unequal-law-enforcement-reigns-at-obamas-doj-pjm-exclusive/?singlepage=true">argues</a>:<span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><br />
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<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Race-neutral enforcement of civil rights law is a principle nearly all Americans agree with. Equality before the law has been cherished since the founding, and a bloody Civil War sacrificed generations of treasure and life to enshrine race equality into constitutional law.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Yet the &#8220;Obama administration doesn’t believe some civil rights laws protect every American,&#8221; Adams says. Under President George W. Bush, the DoJ&#8217;s Civil Rights Division &#8220;was willing to protect all Americans from racial discrimination,&#8221; but &#8220;during the Obama years, the Holder years, only some Americans will be protected.&#8221;</span></p>
<p>Leftists support this unequal enforcement of the law in lieu of slavery reparations being paid to descendants of slaves. Getting reparations approved by Congress is incredibly difficult politically, but affording preferential treatment to minorities is easy.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&#8220;[M]any of the advocates of limitless leveraging of government power for the benefit of traditional national minorities view this as a backdoor way to achieve reparations for slavery and discrimination,&#8221; according to Adams. &#8220;If the American public won’t tolerate monetary reparations, which they won’t, then a one-way approach to civil rights laws is seen as the next best alternative for their unpopular agenda. Best of all, hardly anybody notices.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The hallmark of Holder&#8217;s tenure has been the radicalization of the Justice Department. If you have the wrong skin color, i.e. white, don&#8217;t bother asking Holder&#8217;s staff lawyers to help you.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This racial radicalism manifested itself early in Holder&#8217;s term of office.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">As a DoJ lawyer, Adams and other officials brought a voter intimidation case against the uniformed, jackboot-wearing members of the New Black Panther Party who brandished a weapon and intimidated voters on Election Day 2008. DoJ &#8220;obtained an entry of default after the defendants ignored the case against them,&#8221; but &#8220;[b]efore a final judgment could be entered, however, our superiors ordered dismissal of the claims.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The higher-ups at the Justice Department claim the &#8220;facts and law&#8221; did not support the case, but this is nonsense, Adams says.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Look at the race-obsessed radicals Obama selected to work under Holder, presumably with his approval.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Assistant attorney general Thomas Perez, who has since become Secretary of Labor, has refused to prosecute hate crimes committed against white Americans. He was reportedly instrumental in getting DoJ to drop the New Black Panther Party case and he led the Obama administration&#8217;s assault on voter ID laws. He was a board member of Casa de Maryland, an advocacy group for illegal aliens funded by George Soros and the late Marxist president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">And then there&#8217;s cop killer enthusiast Debo Adegbile, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/matthew-vadum/mumia-abu-jamals-lawyer-to-obamas-justice-department/">nominated</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> to replace Perez at DoJ. President Obama’s nominee to be the nation’s top civil rights enforcer is a race-obsessed lawyer who tried to permanently free unrepentant cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal. Until fairly recently head of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Adegbile, like Holder, is a staunch affirmative action supporter and doesn’t appear to believe that white Americans are entitled to civil rights protection. Last week a Senate committee </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/debo-adegbile-okd-run-civil-rights-unit-article-1.1605362">barely approved</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> his nomination on a 10 to 8 party-line vote.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Holder himself has bitterly </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/matthew-vadum/a-victory-for-election-integrity/">denounced</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> the U.S. Supreme Court&#8217;s landmark ruling in </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, that struck down part of the Voting Rights Act that gave the race-baiting ballot box stuffers of the Left a distinct advantage in federal elections. Written by Chief Justice John Roberts, it is essentially an official finding from the highest court in the land that America is not the racist swamp of leftist myth. The court finally recognized that the anti-discrimination provisions of the Act, which gave the federal government a veto over changes in state election laws, may have been needed when the law was enacted in 1965, but no longer.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Holder </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/matthew-vadum/government-approved-race-riots/">sent</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> government-paid community organizers to Sanford, Florida, after the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin in order to foment racial tensions. The Community Relations Service (CRS), a division of the DoJ, sent political agitators to Sanford to help organize marches in which participants exacerbated racial anxieties and loudly demanded that shooter George Zimmerman be prosecuted. For a month and a half after Martin’s death, local police declined to press charges against Zimmerman because they believed the criminal case against him was weak. But under pressure from the Left charges were eventually filed and local police chief Bill Lee was fired.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The litany of prosecutorial abuses and selective prosecutions under Holder </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/matthew-vadum/dsouzas-indictment-and-double-standards/">grows</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.</span></p>
<p>There is the DoJ&#8217;s refusal to take up cases involving alleged civil rights victims when the victim is white. There is also: the crackdown on <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/volpe/gibson-guitar-and-the-politics-of-persecution/">Gibson Guitars</a>; using federal resources to help anarchists and activists from the violent Occupy Wall Street movement <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/08/29/Is-Holder-s-DOJ-Community-Organizing-Occupy-Activists-at-the-RNC">agitate</a> at the Republican National Convention in 2012; the DoJ&#8217;s flagrant <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/j-christian-adams/seven-more-reasons-to-impeach-eric-holder/">manipulation</a> of the 2012 election; the failure to investigate crimes committed by ACORN officials; the selective prosecution of Obama critic and filmmaker Dinesh D&#8217;Souza for what are at worst very minor campaign finance law violations; and the selective prosecution of another filmmaker, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, whose anti-Islam video was <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/matthew-vadum/benghazi-a-year-later/">falsely accused</a> of sparking the terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This is not an exhaustive list.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Meanwhile, Holder, America&#8217;s first black U.S. attorney general, knows that whatever he does in office, he is likely never going to be held to account. His misdeeds will not see the light of day because the Obama-worshipping media and opposition party lawmakers are either sympathetic to Obama’s agenda or are too afraid to confront the president and Holder out of fear of being tarred as racist.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">As Adams </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/frontpagemag-com/ten-reasons-to-impeach-eric-holder/">writes</a>:<span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><br />
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<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The havoc Holder has created goes far beyond corruption on any single issue. The damage he has done crosses all components of the Department of Justice, and has trickled down to infect the systems of law and legal jurisprudence throughout the country. He has tried to transform the federal agency intended to be above politics into an institution advocating radical change and extreme remedies.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">It needs to be said that the damage runs so deep that even if Holder resigns, it&#8217;s not clear if his departure would make much of a difference at the Justice Department, at least not while Barack Obama remains president.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">As Adams has noted, the department is already infested with plenty of lawyers and officials who see the world the same way Holder does.</span></p>
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		<title>Former Palestinian Prime Minister Fayyad: A Moderate?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good riddance to another general in the war to wipe the Jewish State off the map.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/1572385327.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-187047" alt="1572385327" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/1572385327-450x309.jpg" width="270" height="185" /></a>Former Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayad, who recently resigned, is being eulogized as the last great hope of moderation for the Palestinian Authority.</p>
<p>The time has come to question such a characterization of Fayyad.</p>
<p>A case in point: In May 2009, our agency, the Center for Near East Policy Research, facilitated an informal briefing for staffers of the Middle East Subcommittee of the US Foreign Relations Committee of the US House of Representatives on the subject of the Palestinian Authority and UNRWA education. Journalist and scholar Dr. Arnon Groiss, who regularly translates new PA textbooks used in Palestinian Authority and UNRWA education, was featured at this briefing.</p>
<p>These translations can be easily perused on the net <a href="http://israelbehindthenews.com/library/pdfs/RightofReturninUNRWASchools.pdf">here</a> and <a href="http://israelbehindthenews.com/library/pdfs/PA-schoolbooks.pdf">here</a>.</p>
<p>Dr. Groiss updated Congress on the content of the new PA texts, which:</p>
<ul>
<li>Deny the historical and religious presence of Jews in Palestine;</li>
<li>Fail to recognize the State of Israel;</li>
<li>Demonize Jews and Israel;</li>
<li>Assign blame for the conflict exclusively on Israel, totally absolving Palestinians; and</li>
<li>Stress the idea of a violent struggle of liberation rather than a peaceful settlement.</li>
</ul>
<p>In August 2009, a delegation of fifty members from both sides of the aisle of the US House of Representatives met with Salam Fayyad when he was appointed prime minister of the Palestinian Authority.</p>
<p>Several members of Congress raised the issue of the Palestinian Authority schoolbooks with Fayyad, who assured the delegation that the school books would be changed for the new school year, which was just about to begin.</p>
<p>Hearing the report from the congressional delegation, our agency immediately dispatched a reporter to Ramallah to meet with Palestinian Authority Education Minister Lamis Al Alami to ask her about the PA curriculum for the new semester.</p>
<p>We asked her about changes in the curriculum. Al Alami answered that she was under strict orders from Fayyad not to change anything in the curriculum.</p>
<p>Yet you would not be surprised by Fayyad&#8217;s real educational policy if you were to read Fayyad&#8217;s position paper for a future Palestinian state, available on the net <a href="http://www.geneva-accord.org/images/Offical%20Paper%20-%20Program%20of%20the%20Thirteenth%20Government,%20August%202009.pdf">here</a>.</p>
<p>In that position paper, Fayyad spelled out his platform, in clear terms and in English.</p>
<p>Every embassy, consulate, and news outlet in the Middle East received a copy of Fayyad&#8217;s platform, entitled “Ending the Occupation, Establishing the State: Program of the Thirteenth Government.”</p>
<p>In his platform, Fayyad asserted that “Jerusalem” will be the Palestinian capital of the Palestinian state – with no mention of “East Jerusalem.”</p>
<p>In case anyone was wondering if Fayyad had made a typographical error by not mentioning “east” Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state, Fayyad repeated &#8212; ten times &#8212; that he meant Jerusalem &#8212;  all of Jerusalem.</p>
<p>Fayyad left nothing to the imagination, and wrote that the Palestinian state will “Protect Jerusalem as the eternal capital of the Palestinian state,” because Fayyad asserted that:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Jerusalem is our people’s religious, cultural, economic and political center. It is the Flower of Cities and Capital of Capitals. It cannot be anything but the eternal capital of the future Palestinian state. Jerusalem.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Fayyad went on to claim that Jerusalem “is under threat” and that:</p>
<blockquote><p>“the occupying authority is implementing a systematic plan to alter the city’s landmarks and its geographical and demographic character in order to forcibly create facts on the ground, ultimately separating it from its Palestinian surroundings and eradicating its Arab Palestinian heritage.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Fayyad further claimed that:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Palestinian life in Jerusalem is under daily attack through systematic violations perpetrated by the occupation regime” and that “It is the right and the duty of all Palestinians to protect their land, reject the occupation and defy its measures,” adding that the Palestinian state “bears special responsibility for nurturing our people’s ability to persevere and protect their homeland.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Fayyad added that the Palestinian government will maintain its:</p>
<blockquote><p>“unreserved commitment to defending the Arab character and status of Jerusalem&#8230;. The Government will continue to do all that is possible to achieve this goal. The Government will work with all organizations to preserve the landmarks of Jerusalem and its Arab Palestinian heritage, develop the city, and secure its contiguity with its Palestinian surroundings.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Fayyad framed Jerusalem as an illegal settlement, postulating that:</p>
<blockquote><p>“the occupying authority is pursuing its intensive settlement policy in and around Jerusalem&#8230;The occupation regime has shut down our national institutions, neglected the development of Palestinian life, continued to demolish and evacuate Palestinian homes, and restricted access to sacred Christian and Islamic sites.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Fayyad went on to present a practical plan to Arabize Jerusalem, by “Maintaining Jerusalem as a top priority on the Government’s agenda&#8221; and highlighting “its predicament in the media.”</p>
<p>Fayyad reassured his readers that a future Palestinian state would not be satisfied with Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza as the national home for Palestinians, and says that the Palestinian government will continue to advocate for “Palestinian refugees in accordance with relevant international resolutions, and UN General Assembly Resolution 194 in particular,” which mandates that Palestinian refugees and their descendants have a right to return to the homes and villages that Palestinians left during the 1948 war and its aftermath.</p>
<p>Fayyad reminded Palestinians that:</p>
<blockquote><p>“the refugee issue will remain under the jurisdiction of the PLO, through its Department of Refugees’ Affairs&#8230;in a manner that does not exempt the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) from its responsibilities.”</p></blockquote>
<p>In Fayyad&#8217;s view, UNRWA will therefore continue to confine Palestinian refugees and their descendants to the indignity of refugee camps, under the premise and promise of the “right of return.”</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Fayyad expressed full support for Palestinians who have been convicted of murder and attempted murder, saying that “the state also has an enduring obligation to care and provide for the martyrs, prisoners, orphans and all those harmed in the Palestinian struggle for independence.”</p>
<p>Fayyad expressed a point of view indicating he could not understand why Palestinians convicted of capital crimes should be jailed.</p>
<p>Fayyad proclaimed that “the continued detention of thousands of Palestinian detainees and prisoners in Israeli prisons and detention camps in violation of international law and basic human rights, is of great concern to all Palestinians” and declared that “Securing the freedom of all these heroic prisoners is an utmost Palestinian priority and it is a fundamental duty all Palestinians feel to honor their great sacrifices and end their suffering.”</p>
<p>Fayyad also asserted that the PLO has signed “all provisions of agreements &#8230; with Israel,” yet forgot to mention that the PLO never ratified the signed agreements with Israel. On October 6, 1993, the now defunct Mapam newspaper Al HaMishmar’s correspondent in Tunis revealed that the late PLO chairman Yasser Arafat could not get a quorum for the PLO executive to ratify the Oslo Accords that Arafat had signed with Rabin on the White House lawn.</p>
<p>Fayyad’s view of justice was clearly presented in his position paper when he stated that “All Palestinians are equal before the law.” Simply put, anyone who is not a Palestinian is therefore not equal.</p>
<p>Fayyad also proclaimed that a future Palestinian State will be an Islamic state and that it will:</p>
<blockquote><p>“promote awareness and understanding of the Islamic religion and culture and disseminate the concept of tolerance in the religion through developing and implementing programs of Shari’a education as derived from the science of the Holy Qur’an and Prophet’s heritage.”</p></blockquote>
<p>In sum, Fayyad concluded with a demand for a Palestinian state in the next two years, along the parameters that he has outlined, with an Palestinian state that will have all of Jerusalem as its capital, in an Islamic Sharia state that will campaign for all convicts to be freed and for all refugees to return to the homes and villages that they left in 1948.</p>
<p>Was Fayyad a voice of reform and moderation?</p>
<p>Think again.</p>
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		<title>Surprise Senate Exit by Jim DeMint</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 04:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Vadum]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tea Party warrior taking over Heritage Foundation.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/matthew-vadum/surprise-senate-exit-by-jim-demint/jim_demint-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-168418"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-168418" title="Jim_DeMint" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Jim_DeMint1.jpg" alt="" width="269" height="206" /></a>One of President Obama&#8217;s most outspoken critics is quitting the U.S. Senate to take over the reins at the Heritage Foundation, the nation&#8217;s preeminent conservative think tank.</p>
<p>As first reported by the <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323501404578161613763222762.html">Wall Street Journal</a>, Tea Party movement-supported Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) said he is leaving public office in order to help the conservative movement regain the upper hand in the war of ideas. Replacing Heritage co-founder Ed Feulner, DeMint expects to take over as president at Heritage early next year.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is an urgent time because we saw in the last election we were not able to communicate conservative ideas that win elections,&#8221; said DeMint, a market researcher before he entered public life.</p>
<p>&#8220;This really gets my blood going again thinking about the possibilities. This is the time to elevate the conservative cause.&#8221;</p>
<p>The three-term senator who frequently clashes with Republican leadership in the Senate said he wants to use Heritage&#8217;s research along with those of state think tanks and &#8220;translate those policy papers into real-life demonstrations of things that work.&#8221; He added, &#8220;We want to figure out what works at the local and state level&#8221; and promote those policy solutions nationally.</p>
<p>DeMint addressed 200 Heritage staffers yesterday.</p>
<p>“This organization is in a position to do more to save our country than any other organization I’m aware of,” he said. ”I believe that we have put together here the power, the muscle, the ideas to turn things around.”</p>
<p>The Heritage Foundation reportedly has an annual budget of $80 million so DeMint&#8217;s fundraising expertise will come in handy. The foundation itself is a nonprofit educational institution recognized under section 501c3 of the Internal Revenue Code. Its sister 501c4 organization, Heritage Action for America, is an advocacy group. Donations to the 501c3 group are tax-deductible to the donor but donations to the 501c4 entity are not.</p>
<p>DeMint founded the Senate Conservatives Fund, an important political action committee that has raised more than $25 million to help elect eight limited-government GOP candidates to the Senate in 2010 and 2012. Among them are Pat Toomey (Pennsylvania), Marco Rubio (Florida), Mike Lee (Utah), and Ron Johnson (Wisconsin), along with Senators-elect Ted Cruz (Texas), Jeff Flake (Arizona), and Deb Fischer (Nebraska). DeMint cut his formal ties to the fund earlier this year, making it a non-affiliated, multi-candidate PAC.</p>
<p>SCF Executive Director Matt Hoskins said DeMint &#8220;has consistently fought for conservative policies and he&#8217;s helped elect a new generation of conservatives who will continue this legacy.&#8221;</p>
<p>DeMint&#8217;s &#8220;new role puts him in a powerful position to fight for conservative principles for many years to come,&#8221; Hoskins said. &#8220;This is a win-win for the conservative movement.&#8221;</p>
<p>With Mitt Romney&#8217;s shocking loss last month in the presidential election, it is clear that the conservative movement needs help getting its message out. At times during the campaign Romney struggled to articulate conservative ideas.</p>
<p>In addition to hitting Democrats, conservatives, including DeMint, have been harshly critical of leading figures in the Republican Party, accusing them of being too willing to compromise with President Obama.</p>
<p>Right now Republicans are losing the political battle over the so-called fiscal cliff, a potentially toxic combination of steep tax hikes and deep spending cuts scheduled to take effect on January 1, 2013. Negotiations aimed at avoiding the cliff are not going well.</p>
<p>Polling suggests most Americans would blame congressional Republicans — not congressional Democrats and President Obama — if the country goes over the metaphorical cliff.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Republicans will have 43 members in the incoming Senate, down from 45 in the current Congress. DeMint&#8217;s departure should have no effect on GOP standings in the Senate because his home state governor is a Republican who will presumably appoint another Republican to the seat.</p>
<p>South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley will soon decide whom to appoint to succeed DeMint. Of course it&#8217;s early in the process but so far talk has centered on Congressman Tim Scott (R-S.C.), a black conservative with the enthusiastic backing of the Tea Party movement as a potential replacement.</p>
<p>Unlike President Obama, Scott has an inspiring life story that happens to be true. Unlike Obama he was not a &#8220;red diaper baby&#8221; surrounded by Marxists from his first breath. Scott was actually born poor and unlike the president embraced the American Dream, running a business and achieving upward mobility before entering politics.</p>
<p>If appointed Scott would be the first African-American senator from the South since Reconstruction.</p>
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		<title>The Convenient Resignation of General Petraeus</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2012 04:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/robert-spencer/the-convenient-resignation-of-general-petraeus/zumaglobalthree235379/" rel="attachment wp-att-164700"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-164700" title="zumaglobalthree235379" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/zumaglobalthree235379-425x350.jpg" alt="" width="298" height="245" /></a>Apparently overcome with guilt over an extramarital affair, General David Petraeus abruptly resigned as director of the CIA Thursday. A suddenly socially conservative Barack Obama accepted his resignation Friday, as Petraeus explained in a statement made public Friday afternoon (the time when all stories that the administration wants to bury are released). But Petraeus’s statement simply didn’t hold water &#8212; not only because it assumed an Obama as strait-laced as Pat Robertson, but also because it comes just after the House Foreign Affairs Committee asked him to testify in its investigation of the Benghazi jihad attack and subsequent Obama administration cover-up.</p>
<p>“Yesterday afternoon,” Petraeus <a href="http://wtvr.com/2012/11/09/cia-director-petraeus-resigns-over-extramarital-affair/">wrote</a>, “I went to the White House and asked the President to be allowed, for personal reasons, to resign from my position as D/CIA. After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair. Such behavior is unacceptable, both as a husband and as the leader of an organization such as ours. This afternoon, the President graciously accepted my resignation.”</p>
<p>Parson Obama, that well-known moral crusader who praised Ted Kennedy as an “extraordinary leader” and Barney Frank as “a fierce advocate for the people of Massachusetts and Americans everywhere who needed a voice,” may indeed have been so indignant over Petraeus’s affair that he accepted his resignation with alacrity. On the other hand, maybe his willingness to see the last of Petraeus had something to do with the statement that the CIA issued on <a href="https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/261936225106132993">October 26</a>: “No one at any level in the CIA told anybody not to help those in need; claims to the contrary are simply inaccurate.”</p>
<p>This came after <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/26/cia-operators-were-denied-request-for-help-during-benghazi-attack-sources-say/">Fox News had reported</a> that same day that “sources who were on the ground in Benghazi that an urgent request from the CIA annex for military back-up during the attack on the U.S. consulate and subsequent attack several hours later on the annex itself was denied by the CIA chain of command &#8212; who also told the CIA operators twice to ‘stand down’ rather than help the ambassador’s team when shots were heard at approximately 9:40 p.m. in Benghazi on Sept. 11.”</p>
<p>But if it wasn’t Petraeus who ordered that no help be given to Ambassador Chris Stevens and his staff when jihadists attacked the embassy, the order would have had to come from someone who outranked even the director of the agency. Thus Petraeus’s denial that the order had come from him pointed the finger directly at Barack Obama. And while the mainstream media buried that fact before the election, probably the House Foreign Affairs Committee would have asked Petraeus just who did give the order.</p>
<p>For surely it was just a coincidence that Petraeus resigned on Thursday, the very same day that <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/11/07/house-panel-to-hold-hearing-on-libya-attack-with-top-obama-intelligence/">Fox News reported</a> that the Foreign Affairs Committee was planning to call him to testify at their Benghazi hearings, along with Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and Matt Olsen, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center. Surely that had nothing to do with Petraeus’s decision to submit his resignation. This couldn’t have had anything to do with his quitting. It is much more likely indeed that suddenly, just as the news that he was going to be summoned to testify came in to his office, Petraeus was overcome with remorse over his affair, and decided – although apparently the affair began some time ago, since <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2012/11/09/petraeus_resigns_over_affair_with_biographer.html">there were rumors about it while he was still in Afghanistan</a> – that Thursday was the day, right then and there, to come clean and resign his position.</p>
<p>The preposterousness of this scenario is obvious. And the convenience of the timing for Barack Obama cannot be overlooked. Now Petraeus <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/09/petraeus-will-not-testify-in-house-intelligence-committee-hearing/">will not be testifying at the House hearings</a>, and so, barring a subpoena, the primary witness to who ordered the CIA to stand down in Benghazi has been removed.</p>
<p>The transparently flimsy justification given for the resignation is also troubling, reminiscent as it is of the charges that Stalin suddenly brought against his former friends and comrades in the Soviet Union of the 1930s, when overnight heroes of the revolution became hated class enemies. That a Democrat administration as socially to the Left as Obama’s would use a charge of adultery as an excuse to remove a hitherto respected public official already strains credulity well beyond the breaking point. It also has more than a whiff of totalitarian-style denunciations and purges. Will a show trial follow?</p>
<p>And the worst part of all this is that the election is over, the opposition to Obama is reeling and toothless, and clearly the man believes that he can behave this way without worrying about any accountability. And he is probably right.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 04:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou has <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/money/world/story/2011-11-06/greece-crisis-meeting/51095560/1?csp=34news">agreed to step down</a> and help form a coalition government that would be <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/07/us-greece-idUSL6E7M601O20111107?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=topNews&amp;rpc=71">charged with implementing </a>the <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/11/01/f-greece-austerity-measures.html">draconian austerity measures </a>agreed to between Greece and the EU in exchange for default-preventing bailouts. But will the bailouts work to stave off default and stabilize the precarious eurozone? Just as importantly, how much pain is yet in store for the Greeks and will these measures enable the country to overcome its economic morass?</p>
<p>The news of Papandreou&#8217;s departure broke late Sunday evening as talks between Papandreou&#8217;s socialist PASOK party and New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras, brokered by the country&#8217;s President Karolos Papoulias, <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/07/us-greece-idUSL6E7M601O20111107?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=topNews&amp;rpc=71">achieved success </a>in two main areas: Papandreou stepping down and an agreement to call for early elections. February 19, 2012 is the preferred date, but that detail, and other matters including who succeeds Papandreou, as well as the actual makeup of the new cabinet, remain to be decided.</p>
<p>Papandreou&#8217;s decision comes after <a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/world-politics/greek-pm-george-papandreou-survives-no-confidence-vote/story-fn9hkofv-1226186438735">his survival</a> of a no confidence vote in parliament on Friday. But the writing was on the wall regarding his demise when<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/money/world/story/2011-11-06/greece-crisis-meeting/51095560/1?csp=34news"> several socialist deputies </a>came out in favor of the prime minister&#8217;s resignation and the formation of a &#8220;government of national salvation&#8221; that would include members of Mr. Samaras&#8217;s New Democratic party, and other minor parties.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/07/us-greece-idUSL6E7M601O20111107?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=topNews&amp;rpc=71">major purpose </a>of the coalition government will be to implement a series of tax increases, budget cuts, and drastic reductions in the government workforce passed last month that has infuriated Greek unions and ordinary citizens alike. It is the <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/06/us-greece-economy-events-idUSTRE7A52VF20111106">5th time </a>in a little more than two years that the Greek government has instituted austerity measures, all designed to get a handle on Greece&#8217;s out of control public spending.</p>
<p>In return for the cuts in spending and tax increases, the European Union and the International Monetary Fund, along with the European Central Bank, have agreed to implement the $178 billion dollar bailout package <a href="http://www.bworldonline.com/content.php?section=TopStory&amp;title=Europe-strikes-deal-on-Greece,-bailout&amp;id=40697">negotiated last month in Brussels.</a> The package includes a deal with private holders of Greek government bonds that would give them 50 cents on the dollar for their holdings. The austerity measures and bondholder &#8220;haircut&#8221; is designed to bring Greece&#8217;s national debt from its current 180% of Gross Domestic Product down to 120% by 2020 while balancing the budget by 2015.</p>
<p>Papandreou almost blew the entire deal last Monday when, unexpectedly, he <a href="http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2011/11/eu-markets-dive-as-papandreou-calls-for.html">called for a nationwide referendum</a> on the budget package. It proved to be a gigantic miscalculation and his eventual undoing. Not only was the plan for a vote on the austerity measures met with almost universal scorn in Greece and panic on European stock exchanges, it enraged German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy who had labored long and hard to seal the bailout deal with all parties involved. A &#8220;no&#8221; vote on the referendum would have led to Greece being denied the bailout funds, which would have resulted in an uncontrolled default and Greece leaving the euro for the drachma. Many analysts believe that a Greek default would start the dominoes falling of other nations experiencing debt crisis, including Portugal and Ireland. And it would threaten Italy, whose<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/italian-borrowing-rates-soar-14872536"> costs to borrow money</a> has skyrocketed this past week with the political crisis in Greece.</p>
<p>By Thursday, with Papandreou facing a revolt of his own socialist deputies over the plan for a referendum, the prime minister <a href="http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2011/11/03/Papandreou-calls-off-Greek-referendum/UPI-57761320303600/">withdrew it</a>. After <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/05/world/europe/greek-vote-european-debt.html">surviving the confidence vote</a> on Friday and calls for his resignation coming from all quarters, Papandreou determined it was time to go. However, his ploy achieved something he may not have intended. In the end, it forced the opposition &#8212; including the New Democracy party &#8212; to also take responsibility for the austerity measures and see them through.</p>
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