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		<title>An Illegal Arab Settlement in the West Bank?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2014 04:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Moshe Phillips and Benyamin Korn]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where is the international outrage? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/zhRvN.AuSt_.91.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-240326" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/zhRvN.AuSt_.91-416x350.jpg" alt="zhRvN.AuSt.91" width="347" height="292" /></a>Another illegal settlement has arisen in the Judea-Samaria (West Bank) territories, the New York Times reports. Surely there will soon be an expression of &#8220;deep concern&#8221; from the Obama administration, a furious resolution from the United Nations Security Council, and a letter from twelve angry congressmen mobilized by J Street.</p>
<p>Oh, wait. It&#8217;s not a Jewish settlement &#8212; it&#8217;s an Arab settlement. Cancel the outrage!</p>
<p>A feature article in the New York Times on August 31 reports that the Palestinian Authority is building a new settlement called Rawabi. The first 600 apartments are already complete, out of a projected 6,000 units that will house an estimated 40,000 people.</p>
<p>While Jewish communities in the same area, with even larger populations, are called &#8220;settlements&#8221; by the Times and the rest of the world news media, Rawabi is for some reason characterized as a &#8220;town&#8221; and a &#8220;city.&#8221;</p>
<p>Why is one man&#8217;s community called a &#8220;settlement&#8221; and another&#8217;s a &#8220;town&#8221; ?</p>
<p>Because a &#8220;settlement&#8221; sounds like a foreign implant &#8212; something that has no business being there. A &#8220;town&#8221; sounds normal and natural. Supporters of the Palestinian cause &#8212; whether in the news media, the State Department, or misnamed &#8220;peace&#8221; groups &#8212; want to award Judea and Samaria to the Palestinian Arabs. They want everyone to recognize those territories to be &#8220;Palestinian.&#8221;</p>
<p>The problem they face is that there are three significant obstacles to calling the territories &#8220;Palestinian&#8221;:  international law, history, and a text of religious history called the Bible.</p>
<p>According to international law, Jews have at least as much right as Arabs to build towns in Judea and Samaria. All of the documents related to the governing of those territories throughout the past century &#8212; the Balfour Declaration, the League of Nations Mandate, and so on&#8211;specifically endorse the right of Jews to build there. The territories have never been part of a &#8220;Palestinian&#8221; state which made them legally off-limits to Jews.</p>
<p>And according to the historical record, Judea and Samaria belong to the Jews. That&#8217;s why they have been called &#8220;Judea and Samaria&#8221; since ancient times. The Jews had a sovereign state there for nearly a thousand years, then maintained a continuous presence for the past 3,000 years. Arab roots in the area are remarkably shallow: the vast majority of the Arab residents are the children or grandchildren of migrants from Arab countries who immigrated when the Jews began developing the land in the 1920s and 1930s. The local Arabs traditionally called themselves &#8220;southern Syrians&#8221; and never claimed any separate &#8220;Palestinian&#8221; identity until they began using it as a propaganda weapon against Israel in the 1960s.</p>
<p>Tens of millions of Bible believing Christians in America, and many more around the world, join millions of Jews in acknowledging that the Bible repeatedly and unambiguously refers to Judea and Samaria as the heart of the Jewish national homeland. As birth certificates go, that&#8217;s pretty strong.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s a lot for proponents of the Palestinian cause to overcome. Some of them have used terrorism to try to intimidate Israel into withdrawing. Some have used threats of boycotts and international isolation to frighten the Israeli public and its Diaspora supporters.</p>
<p>And some use the weapon of language to subtly wage war, wielding labels and slogans and assumptions as rhetorical swords to slash their opponents. Exhibit A: The illegal settlement of Rawabi.</p>
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		<title>Jews Marked With Yellow Stars Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 04:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Has Kristallnacht arrived in Scandanavia?]]></description>
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<p>In the Copenhagen township of Nørrebro that has been solidly in Muslim hands <a href="http://www.pi-news.net/index.php?s=N%C3%B8rrebro" target="_blank">for a long time</a>, Jews must hide their faith in order to avoid persecution. <a href="http://diepresse.com/home/politik/aussenpolitik/546769/index.do?_vl_backlink=/home/politik/aussenpolitik/index.do" target="_blank">Yellow stars get stuck to the backs</a> of Norwegian schoolchildren, and the teachers don’t intervene. In the “enriched” Swedish town of Malmö, many Jewish families have already fled (<a href="http://www.pi-news.org/2010/02/hate-jews-fleeing-from-malmoe/" target="_blank">PI reported</a>).</p>
<p>In all of Scandinavia, the persecution of Jews by “persons from the Near East” has increased enormously. The <em>Frankfurter Rundschau</em> <a href="http://www.fr-online.de/top_news/2430283_Hass-auf-Juden-in-Skandinavien-Gelbe-Sterne-auf-den-Ruecken.html" target="_blank">reports</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>The attacks escalated in the previous year, when 200 Jewish demonstrators held rallies for peace and compassion for the civilian victims of both sides but were hounded out of the place by an even larger group of Palestinian counter-demonstrators with rocks, bottles and Molotov cocktails</p>
<p>Teachers and parents reported on Norwegian TV that the class instruction about the Holocaust was boycotted and statements like “The Jews were behind 9/11″ went unanswered. When one pupil complained that he was mortally threatened because he was a “Jewish pig,” the teacher dismissed him with the statement that these things could happen to anyone.</p></blockquote>
<p>Okaaaay. So, we are daily insulted with “Jewish pigs,” mortally threatened, and “halal-”murdered… The non-intervening teachers are simply fostering their own festering anti-Jewish sentiments and building themselves up in their own conceits with “acceptance of cultural distinctions” and their “tolerance.”</p>
<p>It’s better as a secret Jew hater to wash one’s hands in the innocence of Political Correctness, and let the Jews accuse “persons from the Near East” as fair game.</p>
<p><strong>To watch on a video on this subject, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fC-QjF9RKI&amp;feature=player_embedded#">click here</a>.</strong></p>
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		<title>A Day in the Life of a Coptic Christian in Egypt</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attacks on the Christian-Coptic minority by incited Muslim mobs have become a way of life.]]></description>
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<p>On Wednesday, January 6, 2010, following the Coptic Christmas Eve celebrations in the Southern Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi, masked gunmen opened fire on the exiting worshipers, <a href="blog.christianitytoday.com/ctliveblog/...orthodox_christ_1.html">killing seven Copts</a> and injuring scores of others.  The gunmen, most likely a radical jihadist offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood intended to assassinate the <a href="http://www.asianews.it/index.php?/=en&amp;art=17293">Coptic Bishop Kirollos</a>. Attacks in Egypt on the Christian-Coptic minority by incited Muslim mobs have become a frequent occurrence in recent years.</p>
<p>An unnamed eye witness to the shootings told the Coptic News Bulletin at the Nag Hammadi hospital that the situation was critical for the injured because of shortages of blood for transfusions. He quipped that, “The Muslims promised us a wonderful Christmas, and I think the message has now been received&#8230;”</p>
<p>Bishop Kirollos accused the security services of negligence in dealing with the events which led to the massacre and added: “Not one single security man intervened to prevent casualties.&#8221; He criticized the absence of adequate State Security forces guarding the church, which is customary during such events and especially in light of the unrest which took place in the area in November 2009.</p>
<p>Bishop Kirollos had recently received a death threat for criticizing the Egyptian authorities and speaking out in defense of the Christian victims of the November 2009 attack, in the areas of Farshout, Abu Shusha, Aerky, and Alshokeify, all part of the Nag Hammadi parish.</p>
<p>In a letter sent to Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak by Dr. Monir Dawoud, President of the American Coptic Association he wrote:</p>
<blockquote><p>“<em>The failure to protect the lives and properties of the Christians, to implement Presidential decrees and to uphold the law not only defeats the leadership’s efforts to improve the human rights situation of the Copts, but also embarrasses Egypt in a time when more States than ever are making leaps forward towards protecting human rights. As the tide of democratization ushers in our region, Egypt is called upon &#8211; through your Excellency &#8211; to take all necessary practical measures: constitutional, legal, political and social to respect the rights of all its citizens.”</em></p></blockquote>
<p><em> </em></p>
<p>The letter to President Mubarak enumerated all the recent attacks on Copts:</p>
<blockquote><p>“<em>We are writing to you to express our deep concern over the latest attacks on Coptic churches in Sinnouris of Fayoum preceded by that of Shebin El-Kom, Menoufia where the churches had been set on fire leading to complete destruction. This has been going on for a very long time and the security forces and government have been closing their eyes. To mention some of these attacks we may go back to a few of them. The attacks on the defenseless Christian citizens in the churches of Alexandria, on April 14, 2006, resulted in the death of one man and later another, besides seriously injuring several dozens of the worshippers inside their churches.</em></p></blockquote>
<p><em> </em></p>
<p>Dr. Dawoud added:</p>
<blockquote><p>“<em>These attacks were preceded by other attacks couple of months ago at the same city.  These followed attacks on the Christians of Al-Udeisat village in Luxor, which took place on January 18, 2006.  The attacks left behind two dead, scores injured, many lives shattered and properties destroyed. To anybody’s astonishment, the violence &#8211; according to Egyptian press &#8211; was instigated by some members of the National Democratic Party, local government and security officials.” </em></p></blockquote>
<p><em> </em></p>
<p>While hosing Mubarak in the White House last August, President Obama described the Egyptian president as a “<a href="http://www.worldpress.org/Mideast/3417.cfm">force of stability</a>,” deliberately ignoring an abysmal human rights record and turning a blind eye to the persecution of the Christians in Egypt. And while the Obama administration has given the Egyptian regime unqualified support, the Egyptian government has practiced a two-faced policy towards the U.S.</p>
<p>To assuage the growing influence and power of Islamists in Egypt, and to counter the political ambitions of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Mubarak regime has implemented a more Islamic educational system, and the “Vatican of Sunni-Islam”- Al Azhar Islamic University in Cairo has been allowed to become even more radical in its rulings.</p>
<p>The Egyptian government including its Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit incited anti-western (Christian) demonstrations in the Muslim world when he circulated a report on the Danish cartoons labeling them as anti-Islamic. This same government outwardly condemned the Hezbollah in the 2006 Israeli-Lebanese War while portraying the group as a heroic band who defeated Israel.  Mubarak also called for an unconditional cease-fire in direct opposition to the U.S. policy.</p>
<p>The Mubarak regime has encouraged the violent campaign against Coptic Christians as a diversion from its oppressive domestic policies, which have stifled democratic opposition groups, human rights and religious freedom.  By maintaining the status-quo with Egypt, the Obama administration is endorsing the continued suppression and discrimination policies against the Copts.</p>
<p>Coptic-Christians are denied social, economic, and educational opportunities.  Although Copts comprise over 10% of the Egyptian population, Christians are under-represented in government positions, are discriminated against in courts, and denied due process as well as basic civil rights.</p>
<p>The Obama administration has given Mubarak a free pass.  Egypt’s aid package of $2.2 Billion in U.S. taxpayers’ money is secure, all in the name of preventing Egypt from becoming another radical Muslim state.  But, Mubarak’s police state and lack of accessibility to power by legitimate means, makes the future of the regime uncertain.  To appease the Islamists who threaten his regime, Mubarak has made the Coptic-Christians the scapegoat for the frustrations of the Muslim masses.</p>
<p>The attacks against Copts and Christian churches as demonstrated by the Christmas Eve attack in Nag Hammadi must not be allowed to continue.  American must use its aid dollars as leverage in applying pressure on the Mubarak regime so that Copts gain equality and protection under the law.</p>
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		<title>Former Texas Rep. Charlie Wilson dies at 76 &#8211; washingtonpost.com</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[DALLAS &#8212; Charlie Wilson, the former congressman from Texas whose funding of Afghanistan&#38;apos;s resistance to the Soviet Union was chronicled in the movie &#8220;Charlie Wilson&#38;apos;s War,&#8221; died Wednesday. He was 76.Wilson died at Memorial Medical Center-Lufkin after he started having difficulty breathing while attending a meeting in the eastern Texas town where he lived, said [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>DALLAS &#8212; Charlie Wilson, the former congressman from Texas whose funding of Afghanistan&amp;apos;s resistance to the Soviet Union was chronicled in the movie &#8220;Charlie Wilson&amp;apos;s War,&#8221; died Wednesday. He was 76.Wilson died at Memorial Medical Center-Lufkin after he started having difficulty breathing while attending a meeting in the eastern Texas town where he lived, said hospital spokeswoman Yana Ogletree. Wilson was pronounced dead on arrival, and the preliminary cause of death was cardiopulmonary arrest, she said.Wilson represented the 2nd district in east Texas in the U.S. House from 1973 to 1996 and was known in Washington as &#8220;Good Time Charlie&#8221; for his reputation as a hard-drinking womanizer.Actor Tom Hanks portrayed Wilson in the 2007 movie about Wilson&amp;apos;s efforts to arm Afghani mujahedeen during Afghanistan&amp;apos;s war against the Soviet Union in the 1980s. Wilson, a member of the House Appropriations Committee, helped secure money for weapons.In 2007, Wilson had a heart transplant at a Houston hospital. Doctors had told Wilson, who suffered from cardiomyopathy, a disease that causes an enlarged and weakened heart, that he would likely die without a transplant.&#8221;Charlie was perfect as a congressman, perfect as a state representative, perfect as a state senator. He was a perfect reflection of the people he represented. If there was anything wrong with Charlie, I never did know what it was,&#8221; said Charles Schnabel Jr., who served for seven years as Wilson&amp;apos;s chief of staff in Washington and worked with Wilson when he served in the Texas Senate.</p>
<p>via <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/10/AR2010021002564.html?hpid=topnews">Former Texas Rep. Charlie Wilson dies at 76 &#8211; washingtonpost.com</a>.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John “Jack” Murtha, a Democrat from western Pennsylvania’s Twelfth District, died Monday of complications from gall bladder surgery. He had been a member of the U.S. House of Representatives since 1974. During the Bush administration, Murtha consistently assailed the manner in which the Iraq War was prosecuted. In a November 2005 statement, Murtha described the U.S. military as “stretched thin” [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>John “Jack” Murtha, a <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6214">Democrat</a> from western Pennsylvania’s Twelfth District, died Monday of complications from gall bladder surgery. He had been a member of the U.S. House of Representatives since 1974.</p>
<p>During the Bush administration, Murtha consistently assailed the manner in which the Iraq War was prosecuted. In a <a href="http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/pa12_murtha/pr051117iraq.html">November 2005 statement</a>, Murtha described the U.S. military as “stretched thin” and “broken.” He added that “the presence of U.S. troops in Iraq” was not only “impeding … progress” there, but was acting as a “catalyst for violence.”</p>
<p>In May 2006 Murtha reacted swiftly and angrily to unsubstantiated allegations that a squad of eight U.S. Marines had killed, without cause, up to two-dozen unarmed civilians in the Iraqi town of Haditha. The congressman appeared on <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6986">ABC</a>’s <em>This Week</em> program, where he <a href="http://www.iowapresidentialwatch.com/pages/MurthaHadithaTimeline.htm">said</a> that the Marines had “overracted because of the pressure on them and they killed innocent civilians in cold blood.” “There’s no question in my mind about what happened here,” declared Murtha. “There was no gunfire [from the Iraqis]. They [the American Marines] killed four people in a taxi and then in addition to that, they went into the rooms and killed them.” He further alleged that the U.S. military was trying to “cover up” what had occurred in Haditha. He would eventually be proven wrong on each of those allegations.</p>
<p>In February 2008 the taxpayer watchdog group Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW), which promotes fiscal responsibility and federal earmarks reform, named Murtha as Congress’ 2007 “<a href="http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/Murtha_Named_Top_Porker_i/2008/02/21/74372.html">Porker of the Year</a>” &#8212; “for flouting the rules and playing games with reform, while filing spending bills with pork and arrogantly threatening anyone that challenges his authority.”</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2148">To view the full Jack Murtha profile, click here.</a></strong></p>
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		<title>Failure Writ Small</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama’s speech in New Hampshire this week sums everything that’s wrong with the administration. ]]></description>
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<p>Before his <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2010/02/03/obama_takes_jobs_pitch_to_nh/">speech in New Hampshire </a>on Tuesday, President Obama visited a small technology company in Nashua called ARC Energy. During his talk, he promoted ARC Energy as an example of the kind of innovation he wants taxpayers to subsidize with what he called &#8220;seed money&#8221; in the form of federal &#8220;green jobs&#8221; funding. We need to do it, he said, so we can get ahead of the Chinese.</p>
<p>Probably few in the audience knew what the people who founded ARC Energy only two years ago know: ARC received no federal startup money. Dr. Kedar Gupta and his wife founded the company with their own money, the same way Dr. Gupta co-founded GT Solar, the world’s largest maker of photovoltaic cells, in the 1990s.</p>
<p>Obama presented a narrative that was fundamentally false – namely that, without federal &#8220;seed money,&#8221; our technology sector won’t advance quickly enough to beat the Chinese. But guess where ARC Energy sells many of its products? China.</p>
<p>That sleight of hand was typical of Obama’s speech. The main point of his presentation was to tout his plan to pump $30 billion into small banks for the stated purpose of providing them with enough money to lend to small businesses. But that cannot possibly be the real goal of the program, for several reasons.</p>
<p>First, community banks are not short of cash for lending. According to Stephen Wilson, the chairman-elect of the American Bankers Association, they aren’t lending because federal bank regulators have forced them to tighten their standards. &#8220;Obama is calling us &#8216;fat cats&#8217; and telling us to be lending more, and then he sends his bank examiners and regulators to stifle our lending,&#8221; Wilson told the <em>Cincinnati Enquirer</em> last month. If Obama wanted to free up cash for small businesses, he could have his regulators back off and let small banks lend.</p>
<p>Second, if Obama were really interested in freeing up more money for lending, why is he proposing to tax large banks? Wells Fargo, one of the large banks Obama wants to punish with a new tax, is the largest small-business lender in America. It expects to loan $16 billion to small businesses this year. Bank of America projects a similar figure.</p>
<p>Those two banks alone would lend about as much (more, if the economy improves) to small businesses this year as the <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/02/02/2010-02-02_obama_proposes_using_30m_in_repaid_wall_street_bailout_funds_to_help_community_b.html">$30 billion</a> Obama wants to spread among smaller banks. But rather than make it easier for them to lend, Obama is making it harder by proposing to tax them simply for being large and by having his regulators restrict their ability to take risks. By encouraging banks to build up larger cash reserves, Washington is reducing the amount of money available for lending.</p>
<p>Clearly, Obama’s interest is not in freeing up money for small businesses. The only explanation for his behavior &#8212; taxing the largest banks and distributing money to smaller ones &#8212; is that he wants to use the power of the state to shift assets (and, thus, power) from large banks to smaller ones.</p>
<p>This is purely an ideological crusade. Obama believes that large banks are generally a bad thing, and small ones are generally a good thing. So, he’s taking from the large and giving to the small. It’s economic idiocy, but in his mind it’s a morally just cause.</p>
<p>What Obama did in New Hampshire is the same as he has done for the past year, and on the campaign trail before that. He presented a façade of an argument to justify actions Americans would not possibly support were he to state their real motives. It’s exactly how he tried to sell health care reform (it’s vital to economic recovery!), his massive transfer of wealth from private producers to government employee unions (it’s shovel-ready stimulus!), and his cap-and-trade bill (it will create green jobs!).</p>
<p>If we take any lesson from his New Hampshire &#8220;town hall&#8221; event (it wasn’t a town hall meeting), it is that we must ignore what the president says his proposals are intended to do and scrutinize what they actually do. More often than not, we will find that they simply transfer wealth and power from people and groups Obama dislikes to those he favors.</p>
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		<title>Iraq&#8217;s &#8216;Chemical Ali&#8217; gets 4th death sentence &#8211; AP</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saddam Hussein&#8217;s notorious cousin &#8220;Chemical Ali&#8221; was convicted and sentenced to death by hanging on Sunday for ordering the gassing of Kurds in 1988, killing more than 5,000 in an air raid thought to be the worst single attack of its kind on civilians. It was Ali Hassan al-Majid&#8217;s fourth death sentence for crimes against [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>Saddam Hussein&#8217;s notorious cousin &#8220;Chemical Ali&#8221; was convicted and sentenced to death by hanging on Sunday for ordering the gassing of Kurds in 1988, killing more than 5,000 in an air raid thought to be the worst single attack of its kind on civilians.</p>
<p>It was Ali Hassan al-Majid&#8217;s fourth death sentence for crimes against humanity in Iraq. The previous three have not been carried out, in part because survivors of the poison gas attack on the Kurdish town of Halabja wanted to have their case against al-Majid heard.</p>
<p>Relatives of Halabja victims cheered in the courtroom when chief judge Aboud Mustafa handed down the guilty verdict against al-Majid, one of the chief architects of Saddam&#8217;s repression.</p>
<p>Nazik Tawfiq, a 45-year-old Kurdish woman who said she lost six relatives in the attack, fell to her knees upon hearing the verdict to offer a prayer of thanks.</p>
<p>&#8220;I am so happy today,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Now the souls of our victims will rest in peace.&#8221;</p>
<p>via <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_IRAQ?SITE=TXKER&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT"></a>.</p>
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		<title>Britain Moves to Ban Islamic Group &#8211; NYTimes.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON — Britain said Tuesday it was outlawing a radical Islamic group that had incited outrage by planning a protest march through the streets of a town made famous for its somber ceremonies honoring British soldiers killed in Afghanistan. via Britain Moves to Ban Islamic Group &#8211; NYTimes.com.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>LONDON — Britain said Tuesday it was outlawing a radical Islamic group that had incited outrage by planning a protest march through the streets of a town made famous for its somber ceremonies honoring British soldiers killed in Afghanistan.</p>
<p>via <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/13/world/europe/13britain.html">Britain Moves to Ban Islamic Group &#8211; NYTimes.com</a>.</p>
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		<title>Noemie Emery: Secondhand Hate &#8211; The Weekly Standard</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;They have ardent supporters who are nearly hysterical at the very election of President Barack Obama,&#8221; Senator Sheldon Whitehouse roared about his Republican opponents in the closing hours of the Senate health care debate on December 20. &#8220;The birthers, the fanatics, the people running around in right-wing militia and Aryan support groups. It is unbearable [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;They have ardent supporters who are nearly hysterical at the very election of President Barack Obama,&#8221; Senator Sheldon Whitehouse roared about his Republican opponents in the closing hours of the Senate health care debate on December 20. &#8220;The birthers, the fanatics, the people running around in right-wing militia and Aryan support groups. It is unbearable to them that President Barack Obama should exist.&#8221; Two weeks earlier, Majority Leader Harry Reid likened opponents of his bill to those who opposed the end of slavery. On August 10, met by angry protesters at a town hall meeting, Michigan Democrat John Dingell told journalists, &#8220;The last time I had to confront something like this was when I voted for the civil rights bill and my opponent voted against it. At that time, we had a lot of Ku Klux Klan folks and white supremacists and folks in white sheets and other things running around.&#8221;</p>
<p>For years now, those on the left have conflated resistance to any item of their agenda&#8211;high taxes, extravagant spending, laxity on crime, what have you&#8211;with motives of a dark nature: racism, nativism, fear of &#8220;the other,&#8221; and various species of &#8220;hate.&#8221; Ronald Reagan&#8217;s election in 1980, a reaction to overregulation, stagflation, and the foreign policy failures and weakness of one James Earl Carter, was described as the bigots&#8217; revenge for the civil rights era. The midterm elections of 1994, a reaction against Hillarycare and the Clintons&#8217; malfeasance, were seen as a Confederate renaissance. After Bill Clinton was impeached for lies under oath (and terminal tackiness), his allies floated the theory that some of the votes against him came from Southern conservatives, because he was friendly to blacks. (As the &#8220;first black president&#8221;&#8211;vide Toni Morrison&#8211;Clinton was fond of this sort of rhetorical legerdemain until 2008, when his wife ran against a real black for president, and these tactics were turned against him.)</p>
<p>via <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/017/386jvsil.asp">Secondhand Hate | The Weekly Standard</a>.</p>
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		<title>Taliban blow up Pakistan girls school &#8211; AP</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Taliban blew up a girls&#8217; school in Pakistan&#8217;s Khyber district, where troops are fighting against militants in the tribal region bordering Afghanistan, an official said Wednesday. Militants detonated explosives overnight at the government-run school in Bazgarah town, about 40 kilometres (25 miles) west of Peshawar, capital of the violence-plagued North West Frontier Province. via [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Taliban blew up a girls&#8217; school in Pakistan&#8217;s Khyber district, where troops are fighting against militants in the tribal region bordering Afghanistan, an official said Wednesday.</p>
<p>Militants detonated explosives overnight at the government-run school in Bazgarah town, about 40 kilometres (25 miles) west of Peshawar, capital of the violence-plagued North West Frontier Province.</p>
<p>via <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091223/wl_sthasia_afp/pakistanunrestnorthwesteducation;_ylt=Av6dVKoYmYgNEQZ.bKn.7jqs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTQ1MmllbzJoBGFzc2V0A2FmcC8yMDA5MTIyMy9wYWtpc3RhbnVucmVzdG5vcnRod2VzdGVkdWNhdGlvbgRjY29kZQNtb3N0cG9wdWxhcgRjcG9zAzQEcG9zAzEEcHQDaG9tZV9jb2tlBHNlYwN5bl9oZWFkbGluZV9saXN0BHNsawN0YWxpYmFuYmxvd3U-">Taliban blow up Pakistan girls school: official &#8211; Yahoo! News</a>.</p>
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		<title>The Depths of Demcare Demagoguery &#8211; by Michelle Malkin</title>
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<p>How low can they go?</p>
<p>The desperate Democratic peddlers of a government health care takeover have proclaimed an insurance &#8220;holocaust in America&#8221; (Fla. Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson), lambasted conservative health care town hall protesters as &#8220;political terrorists&#8221; (Indiana Democratic Rep. Baron Hill), sent SEIU thugs to demonstrate outside Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman&#8217;s private residence, and derided senior citizens questioning President Obama&#8217;s fuzzy math savings claims (California Democratic Rep. Pete Stark: &#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t dignify you by peeing on your leg. It wouldn&#8217;t be worth wasting the urine.&#8221;) Now, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is leading them deeper into demagogic mire.</p>
<p>This week, Reid pummeled opponents with the worn-out race card. Following in the mucky footsteps of former President Jimmy Carter (who blamed GOP Rep. Joe Wilson&#8217;s objections to Obama&#8217;s policy deceptions on a &#8220;racism inclination&#8221;) and Jesse Jackson (&#8220;You can&#8217;t vote against health care and call yourself a black man&#8221;), Reid likened Republicans who object to socialized medicine to slave masters, enemies of women&#8217;s suffrage and Bull Connor.</p>
<p>Reid&#8217;s rhetorical aim was worse than the unhinged Minnesota protester who threw tomatoes at Sarah Palin during a book signing and hit a police officer instead. Splat.</p>
<p>Mustering up as much indignation as his taut face could exhibit, Reid lectured those standing in the way of Demcare: &#8220;When this country belatedly recognized the wrongs of slavery, there were those who dug in their heels and said, &#8216;Slow down. It&#8217;s too early. Things aren&#8217;t bad enough.&#8217;</p>
<p>&#8220;When women spoke up for the right to speak up, they wanted to vote, some insisted, &#8216;Slow down. There will be a better day to do that. Today isn&#8217;t quite right.&#8217;</p>
<p>&#8220;When this body was on the verge of guaranteeing equal civil rights to everyone regardless of the color of their skin, some senators resorted to the same filibuster threats that we hear today.&#8221;</p>
<p>It was the GOP that fought slavery and the Democratic Party that battled to preserve it. It was then-Democrat Strom Thurmond who led the civil rights filibuster that Reid tried to lay on Republicans. And it&#8217;s the Democratic Party, not the GOP, that boasts ex-Klansman Sen. Robert Byrd among its senior leaders. But don&#8217;t confuse Reid with history while he&#8217;s chasing Republicans around with his &#8220;RAAAACISM!&#8221; stamp.</p>
<p>The more the American public learns about the choice-limiting, debt-exploding, bureaucracy-multiplying health care takeover, the more opposition increases. And the more unhinged the Democratic majority and its supporters get.</p>
<p>There is now a $200,000 &#8220;bounty&#8221; on the head of U.S Chamber of Commerce CEO Tom Donohue.</p>
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<p>Left-wing activist website &#8220;Velvet Revolution&#8221; published a want ad this week with Donohue&#8217;s picture on it, soliciting information leading to &#8220;the arrest and conviction&#8221; of the business leader for &#8220;opposing progressive initiatives.&#8221; The witch-hunt is targeting Donohue for his outspoken criticism of the costs and impact of the Dems&#8217; health care legislation on small businesses across the country.</p>
<p>Such reckless propaganda accusing opponents of &#8220;criminality&#8221; isn&#8217;t limited to nutroots publications. In the august pages of The New York Times last week, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Nicholas Kristof titled his universal care manifesto, &#8220;Are We Going To Let John Die?&#8221; Kristof elevated unemployed Oregon sawmill worker John Brodniak, 23, as the Demcare poster child. Reportedly diagnosed as having a cavernous hemangioma, a neurological condition, Kristof bemoaned: &#8220;Without insurance, John has been unable to get surgery or even help managing the pain.&#8221;</p>
<p>An emergency room asked Brodniak not to return without insurance, Kristof claims (a practice that is prohibited by federal law). No doctor would treat him, Kristof reported (get your grain of salt ready). Isn&#8217;t it &#8220;monstrous,&#8221; Kristof concludes (hanky alert), &#8220;for politicians to avert their eyes, make excuses and deny coverage to innumerable Americans just like John?&#8221;</p>
<p>Ready for the punch line? Brodniak not only has coverage through Oregon&#8217;s Medicaid program, but has also been a patient at the prestigious Oregon Health and Science University in Portland (a safety-net institution that accepts all Medicaid patients) for the past three weeks — a fact Kristof either deliberately ignored and suppressed from readers or didn&#8217;t bother to find out before publishing his screed.</p>
<p>In other words, Brodniak was already being treated and cared for by a top-notch neurologist under our existing health care system when Kristof came along to scream at Congress for letting him die.</p>
<p>Kristof&#8217;s tale follows on the heels of at least two dubious horror stories disseminated by President Obama. In September, Obama told of Illinois cancer patient Otto Raddatz, who supposedly died after he was dropped from his insurance plan when his insurer discovered an unreported gallstone the patient hadn&#8217;t known about. The truth? He got the treatment he needed in 2005 and died just this year.</p>
<p>In another case, Obama claimed, a woman with breast cancer lost her insurance because &#8220;she forgot to declare a case of acne.&#8221; In fact, she failed to disclose a previous heart condition and did not list her weight accurately, but her insurance was restored anyway after intense public lobbying.</p>
<p>But why bother with troublesome facts? In the insatiable pursuit of government control, truth and rationality are the first casualties.</p>
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		<title>Investors.com &#8211; Surge Or Vietnam</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Afghanistan: The month before the one-year anniversary of his inauguration, the president has finally settled on the strategy for what he called a &#8220;war of necessity.&#8221; But leaving, not winning, is the goal.How often in history, if ever, has a British defense secretary slammed a U.S. commander in chief for indecisiveness? Britain&#8217;s Bob Ainsworth last [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Afghanistan: The month before the one-year anniversary of his inauguration, the president has finally settled on the strategy for what he called a &#8220;war of necessity.&#8221; But leaving, not winning, is the goal.How often in history, if ever, has a British defense secretary slammed a U.S. commander in chief for indecisiveness? Britain&#8217;s Bob Ainsworth last week blamed the lack of clear direction from the U.S. as responsible for the British public&#8217;s dwindling support for the Afghan war.Ainsworth, a former auto plant union official, is no right-wing hawk. At a town hall meeting last month, notorious British pacifist Bruce Kent of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament demanded he hold &#8220;talks with the Taliban in neutral countries and talk about their aims&#8221; and said not all Taliban are &#8220;fanatical maniacs.&#8221; Partially agreeing, Ainsworth said, &#8220;Not all the Taliban are fanatical maniacs, but some of them are, and are not reconcilable.&#8221;This is what President Obama is counting on — as many as 10,000 added European and other NATO troops from a European public, and their representatives, who believe in Taliban &#8220;moderates.&#8221;</p>
<p>via <a href="http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=514004">Investors.com &#8211; Surge Or Vietnam</a>.</p>
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