The Mistake of Global Democratization

June 2, 2011 | Filed Under 9/11, Afghanistan, al Qaeda, Barack Obama, Christianity, Constitution, Democracy, Democrats/Leftists, Education, Egypt, Foreign Policy, Frank Salvato, Government, Government, Corruption, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Islamofascism, Israel, Jews, Lebanon, Liberals, Libya, Osama bin Ladden, Pakistan, Palestinians, President, Saudi Arabia, Society/Culture, Taliban, Terrorism, War on Terror, Western Civilization | Comments Off

-By Frank Salvato

We are hearing a great deal about a budding “Democracy movement” spreading throughout the Middle East. Many are calling it an “Arab Spring.” The belief is that after centuries of totalitarian oppression, the Arab street is suddenly pining for more freedom; rebelling against the elitist ruling class of kings, emirs, despots and tyrants. This is most likely true for a great number of those filling the streets of Egypt, Syria, Tunisia, Bahrain and myriad other Middle Eastern, predominantly Muslim nations. But there is a less than honorable component amongst the rebellion that simply waits for the “right” to a democratic vote. Contrary to how the idea of a move to Democracy presents, in the volatile Middle East there are elements in play that could make it a move in the wrong direction.

Each and every day we hear the misnomer that the United States of America is a Democracy. We hear it from the average man on the street, the mainstream media and even from those we have elected to office. But the fact of the matter is this: we are not a Democracy. We are a Constitutional Republic. A thorough and convincing exhibit of the facts surrounding this reality is presented in Notes on Democracy: And the Republic for Which It Stands. The fact that this issue is even in need of address is a scathing commentary on the constitutional illiteracy of the American electorate and serves as a sobering reminder that, often times, what sounds good – what “feels good” – isn’t always as it presents.

The distinction – between the benefits of a Democracy and a Constitutional Republic – is incredibly important, and while some describe our nation as a Democracy in an error of ignorance, others – some with schemes of political opportunism – do so with a nefarious purpose and bad intentions.
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Hey Obama, Let’s Go Back to Pre-1958 Borders, Too…

May 31, 2011 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Anti-Semitism, Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, Foreign Policy, Government, Government, Corruption, Humor, Israel, Liberals, Palestinians, President, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

From the mail bag:

Dear President Obama:

I am writing today with a somewhat unusual request. First and foremost, I am asking that you return America to its August 20th, 1959 borders so that Hawaii is no longer a state and you are no longer a citizen.

Signed:
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

(H/T my friend at Blue Collar Muse)

Roskam Applauds Netanyahu Speech

May 25, 2011 | Filed Under Anti-Semitism, Congress, Conservatives, Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Illinois, Israel, Palestinians, Peter Roskam, Republicans, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

From the office of Rep. Peter Roskam (R, ILL)…

Roskam: “As our strongest ally and only democratic friend in a deeply troubled region, America must stand with our friend Israel and reject any moves that diminish our special relationship.”

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Peter Roskam, Chief Deputy Whip, issued the following statement after Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech to a Joint Meeting of Congress today:
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We Need to Stand with Israel‏

May 24, 2011 | Filed Under al Qaeda, Congress, Foreign Policy, Hamas, House of Representatives, Illinois, Illinois State Government, Islam, Islamofascism, Israel, Jews, Judaism, Palestinians, Peter Roskam, Republicans, Taliban, Terrorism, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

From the office of Rep. Peter Roskam (R, 6th District)…

As I watched the President’s Middle East speech last week, I was pleased to see him affirm America’s support for human rights in the Arab world in light of the Arab Spring.

However, his comments on prerequisites that Israel must offer for peace were downright troubling – and sided squarely against Israel on future peace negotiations. America has always enjoyed a special relationship with Israel, and we simply can’t afford to let this Administration change that.

As the President prepared his speech, Majority Leader Eric Cantor and I penned an op-ed in Politico calling for the halting of U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority, now that Hamas is an official partner of the Palestinian Authority. Hamas is a terrorist organization responsible for the death of both Americans and Israelis, and committed to Israel’s destruction.

We need to stand with Israel and stand up to terror.
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Obama Was Israiled: Killing bin Laden Was Not Foreign Policy Experience For Prez

May 22, 2011 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Anti-Semitism, Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, Hamas, Hezbollah, Islam, Islamofascism, Israel, Jews, Judaism, Liberals, Palestinians, President, Religion, Terrorism, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

On Friday Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu schooled President Obama — who is clearly out of his depth — on Middle East diplomacy. This would not have been necessary if Obama had not tried to turn decades of American foreign policy on its ear, if he had not turned against our only real Mid East friend, and if he hadn’t made to come to the comfort of radical Islamists without conscience who only want to kill Jews and Americans. Obama also proved that just killing bin Laden does not equal foreign policy expertise.

Coming off his high after presiding over the end of America’s number one enemy, Obama thought he saw an opening to help bin Laden’s Islamist pals win a small battle over Israel. He planned his big speech on America’s new Mid East policy. Unfortunately for President Obama, the Hindenburg had a more successful flight than Obama’s new foreign policy ideas.

Most of the president’s speech was pedestrian and meandering, but one sentence was snuck in that completely changed American Middle East policy, or at least it was intended to.
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Obama vs. Israel‏

May 22, 2011 | Filed Under 9/11, Alan Caruba, Anti-Americanism, Christianity, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy, Government, Government, Corruption, Hamas, Hezbollah, Islam, Islamofascism, Israel, Jews, Judaism, Liberals, President, War on Terror | Comments Off

-By Alan Caruba

Is Obama a Muslim? Does Obama hate Israel? Will Israel be attacked again? Will Iran nuke Israel? Has Maghreb and Middle Eastern turmoil flummoxed the White House? Why did Obama bow to Saudi Arabia’s king? Questions, questions, questions?

Watching President Barack Hussein Obama try to pick winners and losers in the Middle East would be amusing if it were not so deadly serious. Not a word about Syria’s slaughter of its protestors. A demand that Libya’s Gadhafi step aside and a quick retreat behind NATO’s skirts. Throwing Egypt’s Mubarack under the bus when saying nothing would have sufficed. And then there was the infamous and inauspicious start to his presidency with the “World Apology Tour” that included a stop in Cairo.

A May 11th Reuters news article published in the Jerusalem Post was titled “Obama may preempt PM’s speech to U.S. Congress.” Benyamin Netanyahu, at the invitation of Speaker John Boehner, will address the Congress on May 24. If President Obama delivers a speech about “political change in the Middle East and North Africa” prior to the PM, it will be impossible to deny that it is a deliberate effort to rebut in advance anything Netanyahu says.
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EXCLUSIVE Interview with Rep. Peter Roskam About Israel, Unified Palestinian Govt., And US Foreign Policy

May 19, 2011 | Filed Under Congress, Foreign Policy, GOP, House of Representatives, Israel, Palestinians, Peter Roskam, Republicans, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

By Jeff Dunetz

The past few months have seen unexpected developments in the Middle East, the continuing “Arab Awakening,” Egypt’s slide toward being controlled by the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, Syria and Libya in revolt; it seemed as if for the first time in recent history the Israeli-Palestinian dispute represented the calmest place in this violence-prone area of the world.

That all changed in early May when the Palestinian Authority, run by the “moderate” terrorists of the Fatah party, agreed to reunite with the more overt terrorists of Hamas who rule over the Gaza Strip.

…This morning Politico carried an op-ed composed by two members of the House GOP leadership: Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), and Peter Roskam (R-Ill) Deputy Majority Whip and Co-Chair of Republican Israel Caucus.

I had the opportunity to interview Congressman Roskam this morning. We discussed the Politico op-ed as well as other key issues regarding American foreign policy as it relates to Israel and the Middle East. Below is that interview, beginning with an overview of the situation provided by the Congressman….

Read the rest at YidWithLid.

Hamas Poisons Peace Process

May 19, 2011 | Filed Under Congress, Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy, GOP, Hamas, House of Representatives, Islam, Islamofascism, Israel, Jews, Judaism, Palestinians, Peter Roskam, Republicans, Society/Culture, Terrorism, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston, Western Civilization | Comments Off

-By Rep. Eric Cantor and Rep. Peter Roskam

As the news of Osama bin Laden’s death spread, the free world breathed a deep sigh of relief and praised the United States for its accomplishment.

But in the Palestinian territories, such sentiments were not shared.

In the eyes of Ismail Haniyeh and the infamous Hamas terrorist organization he leads, the operation “marks the continuation of the American policy based on oppression and the shedding of Muslim and Arab blood.” Really?

If killing the man responsible for the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history — not to mention the aggressor who did more to subjugate and kill fellow Muslims who disagree with his worldview than perhaps any other individual on earth — makes us oppressors, then how would Hamas describe bin Laden?
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Slate: Proving Once Again Why Leftists Don’t ‘Get’ Radical Islam

May 18, 2011 | Filed Under 9/11, Afghanistan, al Qaeda, Anti-Americanism, Anti-Semitism, Democrats/Leftists, Egypt, Foreign Policy, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Islamofascism, Israel, Jews, Journalism, Judaism, Lebanon, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, Military, Morals/Sex, Osama bin Ladden, Pakistan, Palestinians, PCism, Religion, Saudi Arabia, Security/Safety, Sharia, Slate, Society/Culture, Terrorism, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston, Western Civilization | 1 Comment

… and Why Liberals are Our Weak Spot

-By Warner Todd Huston

For the online, left-wing magazine Slate, William Saletan thinks he’s found something that will damage Osama bin Ladden’s reputation in the Islamic world. But what he thinks is such a big deal proves that he doesn’t understand radical Islam or even the Muslim world. Worse, it proves why liberals are our soft spot and why they could be the death of us.

Saletan is all excited over the fact that the U.S. found a large cache of pornography in bin Ladden’s living quarters. This, Saleton is happy to say, will undermine bin Ladden’s reputation as a strictly holy man. This hurts bin Ladden, says Saleton, because, “they’re more upset by porn and hiding behind women than by suicide bombing”

Saleton contends that in our fight against bin Ladden, we’ve found the right “argument” to level against our opponent.

Why is porn such a big idea?
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The Middle East Mess

May 2, 2011 | Filed Under Afghanistan, Alan Caruba, Anti-Americanism, Democrats/Leftists, Europe, Foreign Policy, Government, Corruption, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Liberals, Libya, Military, President, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam | Comments Off

-By Alan Caruba

Anyone such as myself who lived through the long years of the Vietnam quagmire knows that the United States is repeating the same errors in the Middle East that we did with that nation. We seem incapable of recognizing a civil war when we see one and incapable of not inserting ourselves in the midst of it.

I speak specifically of Libya and the inchoate decisions and measures taken by the Obama administration. To suggest that the present White House and State Department have a Middle East “policy” is to vastly overstate and misunderstand their ignorance of that region of the world and the forces at work within it.

The United States has been militarily involved in Afghanistan since 2001, shortly after 9/11. What should have been a short sortie to inflict punishment on the al Qaeda and the Taliban has turned into a classic “quagmire”. The invasion of Iraq in 2003 reflects this as well.
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Rep. Walsh Introduces H.R. 1501 to Stop U.N. Bias Against Israel

April 14, 2011 | Filed Under Congress, Conservatives, Foreign Policy, GOP, House of Representatives, Illinois, Israel, Joe Walsh, Republicans, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

From the office of Rep. Joe Walsh (R, 8th District)…

Washington, D.C. — Today, Congressman Joe Walsh (IL-08) introduced H.R. 1501 to withhold U.S. contributions to the regularly assessed U.N. biennial budget until it officially retracts the Goldstone Report, a 2009 U.N. report that accused Israel of war crimes. This bill is a response to last week’s Washington Post Op-Ed by the report’s author, Dr. Richard Goldstone, in which he recanted the entire report. He wrote that the report’s central accusation—that Israeli soldiers deliberately targeted Palestinian civilians during its invasion of Gaza—is false. Goldstone has now concluded that “If I had known then what I know now, the Goldstone report would have been a different document”.

“This is just another example of the United Nations’ long-time bias against Israel,” said Walsh. “I find it outrageous that the United Nations has yet to distance itself from a report that even its author has discredited and disavowed.”
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Christians Barred By NYPD From Muslim/ANSWER Sponsored Anti-War Rally

April 11, 2011 | Filed Under Afghanistan, Anti-Americanism, Anti-Semitism, Anti-War, Christianity, Democrats/Leftists, Egypt, Foreign Countries, Government, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Islamofascism, Israel, Lebanon, Liberals, Libya, Religion, Saudi Arabia, Terrorism, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Two Christians were told by Police that they were not allowed to attend an anti-war rally held by a conglomerate of Muslims groups, unions, and Barack Obama’s Organizing for America organization on April 9 in New York City.

About 1,000 people came together at Union Square on Saturday to protest the U.S. military at a rally sponsored by the group Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER).

James Simpson reports, though, that two Christians were removed from the scene by police because the jackboots claimed that they were “disturbing people.”

According to a counterprotester on the scene, “Besides the sea of them, there were two Christians peacefully preaching about how Jesus died for our sins, and the police told them to leave because they were “disturbing people.”

This event was co-sponsored by the usual, anti-American suspects, of course. A group calling itself the Muslim Peace Coalition USA was one of the sponsors. So was the Islamic Circle of North America. As well as a host of radical, anti-American groups many with ties to The Worker’s World Party socialists.

As Simpson notes, this rally got much favorable TV time in Iran and acted to assist that murderous regime with it’s anti-American propaganda. It’s great that they could aid and abet our enemies, isn’t it?
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Evangelical Christians and American Jews, Allies or Foes?

March 4, 2011 | Filed Under Anti-Semitism, Catholicism, Christianity, Democrats/Leftists, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, Islam, Islamofascism, Israel, Jews, Judaism, Liberals, Religion, Republicans, Society/Culture, Terrorism, Warner Todd Huston, Western Civilization | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

This is the text of an address I gave to a men’s luncheon in Niles, Illinois on March 3, 2011. Niles and its neighbor Skokie are heavily Jewish areas in the northern suburbs of Chicago. I hope it was fairly well received and that you will similarly find it interesting.

We all know there has been a complicated and often unfortunate history between European Christians and their Jewish fellows. There is an earned suspicion that Jews have for European Christians that goes back centuries. Over time relationships between Jews and European Christians has swing wildly from acceptance, to indifference to outright antagonism and back again.

Sadly, it seems that these days the pendulum is swinging back to Europeans again seeing Jews as an unwanted element and crimes against Jews in many parts of Europe have been on the rise. Some of this is due to the influx of Muslim immigrants in Europe, but not all of it by a long shot.
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Why Islam is Different and Dangerous

February 14, 2011 | Filed Under Afghanistan, al Qaeda, Alan Caruba, Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, Egypt, Foreign Policy, Government, Government, Corruption, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Islamofascism, Israel, Liberals, Military, Republicans, Saudi Arabia, Society/Culture, State Department, Terrorism, Turkey, War on Terror, Western Civilization | 1 Comment

-By Alan Caruba

Imagine that every day of your life begins with a morning call to prayer from minarets around the city or village in which you live.

Imagine that you are required to pray five times throughout the day, every day.

Imagine that the law of the land is based on Sharia, taken from the Koran.

Imagine that you live in a nation where stoning women, beheading criminals, and other draconian, ancient punishments are deemed acceptable.

Imagine being Muslim and knowing that conversion from Islam is punishable by death.
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Xmas Sing Along: Jihad Bells, Jihad Bells, Jihad all the Way…

December 26, 2010 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Anti-Semitism, Hamas, Iran, Iraq, Islamofascism, Israel, Lebanon, Liberals, Palestinians, Saudi Arabia, Terrorism, Video, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

The good folks at LatmaTV are back with a rousing Palestinian Christmas carol. It is suitably titled “Jihad Bells” and gives us a first hand look at why Christians have been “mysteriously” disappearing from The PA controlled areas and in the Muslim world.

Could it be that the Muzzies persecute them mercilessly? Let’s find out…

Barack Obama at the Arab American Action Network Gala‏

September 29, 2010 | Filed Under 9/11, Anti-Americanism, Anti-Semitism, Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Islam, Islamofascism, Israel, Liberals, Palestinians, President, Religion, Terrorism, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Michael Zak

On Friday, an anti-terrorism task force of the FBI conducted eight raids in Chicago and Minneapolis. Among the targets was Hatem Abudayyeh, executive director of the Arab American Action Network Network (AAAN). Agents seized laptop computers and other evidence from Abudayyeh’s Chicago home. This much has been reported in the media.

What has received less coverage is the connection between the AAAN and the President of the United States. A photo of Michelle and Barack Obama was taken on May 24, 1998 in Burbank, IL, where state senator Barack Obama was an honored guest at a gala dinner. Hosting the event was — drumroll, please — the Arab American Action Network.

In this photo, Obama is speaking with the keynote speaker, PLO advisor Edward Said, who passed away in 2003.

The organization hosting the gala dinner, the AAAN, had been funded by Barack Obama, his terrorist friend Bill Ayers [here, standing on the American flag] and other directors of the Woods Fund. The AAAN had been established by another one of Obama’s friends, Rashid Khalidi.
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Illinois Professor Says Chanting ‘USA’ is Bellicose Propaganda

September 24, 2010 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Anti-Semitism, Anti-War, Chicago, Christianity, Democrats/Leftists, Education, Government, Illinois, Iran, Islam, Islamofascism, Israel, Jews, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, Military, Palestinians, Patriotism, Society/Culture, Terrorism, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston, Western Civilization | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Oh, you ignorant Americans with your venal patriotic chants of “USA, USA” at sporting events. Your bellicosity isn’t patriotism, it’s propaganda and lowly militarism… so says David Green, University Administrator and member of the University of Illinois Institute of Government & Public Affairs.

Green’s poisoned pen letter to American patriots was published by the Daily Illini, an “independent newspaper” at the U of I, and features every manner of attack on America.

Green’s vituperation covers the gamut of anti-Americanism: America is “imperialist,” she is unconcerned over the deaths of Muslims, America is”nativist,” and patriots are prone to “obnoxious, fake-macho, chicken-hawk” chants. In other words all that is wrong with the world is evinced in the United States of America.

The professor’s screed was short, but filled with hate for America:
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Did Bush Offer to Take 100,000 Palestinians Into the USA?

September 21, 2010 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Foreign Countries, George W. Bush, Government, Corruption, Immigration/Immigrants, Islam, Islamofascism, Israel, Jews, Judaism, Palestinians, President, Religion, Terrorism, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Israel’s Haaretz news agency recently reported that on Sept. 19 former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that President George W. Bush promised to take in 100,000 Palestinian refugees, giving them automatic American citizenship in exchange for a mid east peace deal.

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday that the Bush administration had assured him that the United States would be willing to absorb some 100,000 Palestinian refugees immediately as American citizens, should Israel reach a permanent settlement with the Palestinian Authority.

Imagine that. If Olmert can be believed the one president that built his reputation on being a fighter of terrorism was willing to let 100,000 Palestinians into the U.S. Worse, Bush was willing to push them ahead of people that had been waiting years for the privilege of becoming American citizens and make these 100,000 Palestinians instant American citizens!
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Movie Review: Newt Gingrich’s America At Risk

September 16, 2010 | Filed Under 9/11, Afghanistan, Air Force, Anti-Americanism, Anti-Semitism, Army, Barack Obama, Chemical Weapons, Christianity, Coast Guard, Democrats/Leftists, Egypt, Europe, Foreign Countries, Guantanamo Bay, Hamas, Hezbollah, History, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Islamofascism, Israel, Jews, Judaism, Lebanon, Liberals, Marines, Military, Movies, National Guard, Navy, Newt Gingrich, Nuclear Bomb, Pakistan, Palestinians, Patriotism, Religion, Saudi Arabia, Security/Safety, Taliban, Terrorism, Turkey, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

In Washington D.C. on Sept. 12 I attended the star studded premiere of the new film America at Risk: The War With No Name, featuring Newt and Callista Gingrich and a dozen well respected experts on the subject of the War on Terror. The event was held at the Newseum, a block or so from the National Mall.

America At Risk clearly reveals the dangers that radical Islam still presents to American security and safety. We are still at war with radical Islam and it is a war we are at best treading water on and at worst actually losing. The biggest problem, according to the film, is our current president. Obama refuses even to recognize that we are at war and is constantly undermining our past efforts and leaving us open for future attack.

In fact, the movie makes a strong case that the U.S.A. doesn’t even have a serious global strategy to fight radical Islam and that the only reason we haven’t had a new major attack is because we’ve been lucky more than we’ve been good at preventing them. The film says that it isn’t a matter of “if” we get hit again, but when.
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Report: Pollak for Congress Luncheon raises $150,000 for Campaign (Ill, 9th District)

September 2, 2010 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Budget, Business, Chicago, Cook County, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Elections, Government, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Illinois, Illinois State Government, Israel, Jobs, Liberals, Lobbyists, Military, Paul Ryan, President, Republicans, Stimulus, Taxes, Uncategorized, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

400 supporters packed the Four Seasons Hotel in beautiful downtown Chicago, Illinois to attend a luncheon for Joel Pollak who is running for Congress from the 9th Congressional District. Pollak’s special guest was Representative Paul Ryan (R, Wis), he of the famous “Roadmap for America’s Future.”

It is encouraging to see so many come out for a Republican candidate in so blue an area as Obama’s home town, Chicago. A wide range of supporters showed from all walks of life.
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One Loud Jew Sends Media Spinning

August 30, 2010 | Filed Under Government, Islam, Islamofascism, Israel, Jews, Journalism, Judaism, Media, Media Bias, Palestinians, Religion, Terrorism, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

The newest faux outrage comes from the mouth of controversial Jewish Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. In a sermon from Israel, Rabi Yosef as much as called for God to commit genocide against the so-called Palestinians. I say “as much as” because he didn’t actually call for genocide, but he came awfully close for comfort. In fact, even as he didn’t say it explicitly it’s hard not to see it being implied.

“Abu Mazen and all these evil people should perish from this earth,” said Rabbi Yosef, head of the Israeli Shas party. “God should strike them and these Palestinians — evil haters of Israel — with a plague,” he added.

Naturally, the Palestinians are outraged and Reuters, the Associated Press, and other news outlets are playing the story for all its worth. By Monday it’ll likely be everywhere.
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Rep Peter Roskam (R,IL) Returns from Israel after meeting with Netanyahu

July 30, 2010 | Filed Under Congress, Cook County, DuPage County, Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy, Government, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Illinois, Illinois State Government, Israel, Peter Roskam, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

< ‬p>From the Office of Illinois Representative Perter Roskam…‏

‪< ‬p>Greetings from Washington! In this town, it’s easy to get swept up in the critical domestic issues facing our country each day. With the mid-term elections less than four months away, a Democratic majority unable to draft a budget, and unemployment near ten percent, there is plenty keeping us busy.

‪< ‬p>However, our country is also facing critical security issues on the international stage. Recently, I had the privilege of leading a bipartisan Congressional delegation to Israel – our nation’s only democratic ally in the tumultuous Middle East – to get a first hand account of the situation on the ground as it relates to American interests. As the co-chair of the House Republican Israel Caucus, this trip was particularly insightful.
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Osama Bin Laden Is Laughing

July 30, 2010 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Christianity, Democrats/Leftists, Foreign Countries, Government, Corruption, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Islamofascism, Israel, Jews, Judaism, Liberals, Military, Nancy Morgan, Pakistan, President, Religion, Security/Safety, Terrorism, War on Terror | Comments Off

-By Nancy Morgan

Terrorists the world over are laughing into their turbans and praising Allah five times a day for the naive Americans who were responsible for electing Barack Hussein Obama as president of the U.S. And they’re giving a special thanks to the American media, specifically, the Washington Post, for giving them all the information they need to target the security agencies created in response to 9-11.

bin Laden is laughing because America’s political and media elites are doing his job for him. The Washington Post just gave bin Laden all the intelligence he needs to effectively counter any remaining efforts to combat Islamic terrorism.
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Obama’s Weak Foreign Policy Shows Again

July 27, 2010 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Foreign Countries, Israel, Palestinians, State Department, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Barack Obama once again shows his fecklessness and weakness in foreign policy with a decision by the State Department to allow the Palestinian Mission in Washington D.C. to fly the flag of its non-existent country.

Recently the flag of the Palestinian Authority was authorized for display by the State Dept. even though there is no such country as Palestine and the U.S. government does not officially recognize it as such. The State Dept. also agreed to upgrade its designation of the Palestinian mission to that of a “General Delegation.”

The State Dept. claimed that this was “an improvement in relations” with the Palestinians.

The Obama administration has been meekly asking that the Palestinian Authority engage in direct face-to-face negotiations with Israel, but PA President Mahmoud Abbas has rebuffed all requests.
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Peter Roskam Working to Keep Ally Israel Close

June 30, 2010 | Filed Under Congress, Conservatives, DuPage County, Foreign Countries, GOP, Government, House of Representatives, Illinois, Israel, Peter Roskam, Republicans, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

Israeli Ambassador: ‘Tectonic Shift’ between Israel and U.S. Diplomats

Roskam Visit to Israel Next Week

From the Press Shop of Congressman Peter Roskam (R, ILL): In case it wasn’t already obvious, Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren made it clear this weekend. As reported by Laura Rozen at Politico: “Israel’s Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren is reported to have told Israeli diplomats that the U.S. and Israel are experiencing a “tectonic rift,” not a temporary crisis… According to the Israeli diplomats, Oren said … ’Relations are in the state of a tectonic rift in which continents are drifting apart,’”…. Oren noted that contrary to Obama’s predecessors – George W. Bush and Bill Clinton – the current president is not motivated by historical-ideological sentiments toward Israel but by cold interests and considerations…”
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Video: ‘The Three Terrors’ Skewers Palestinian Supporters

June 22, 2010 | Filed Under Government, Corruption, Islam, Islamofascism, Israel, Jews, Judaism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, Military, Palestinians, Religion, Terrorism, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

The folks at the Hebrew language opinion and news site Latma have done it again. A new effort revealing the hypocrisy of the Palestinians and their slavish supporters across the world are skewered in yet another parody video.

2nd District: Hayes Issues Position Paper on Israel

June 19, 2010 | Filed Under Chicago, Congress, Elections, GOP, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Israel, Republicans, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

From the Hayes for Congress campaign (2nd District)…

CHICAGO: Republican nominee for Illinois 2ndCongressional District Isaac Hayes released the following position paper on the relationship between America and Israel:

Supporting Israel’s Right of Self-Defense

The United States and Israel have a long and trusted friendship. I will continue to support this kind of strong and sincere friendship. Israel has an unfortunate and terrible experience with barbaric guerrilla/terrorist groups on its borders with the Gaza Strip, West bank, and Lebanon. The Israeli armed forces have successfully managed to defeat or curtail these terrorist groups.
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Awaiting Armageddon

June 18, 2010 | Filed Under Alan Caruba, Anti-Americanism, Anti-Semitism, Barack Obama, Christianity, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Corruption, Islam, Islamofascism, Israel, Jews, Judaism, Military, Nuclear Bomb, Pakistan, Policy, President, Religion, Security/Safety, Terrorism, War on Terror, Western Civilization | Comments Off

-By Alan Caruba

I do not know what it is about Islam and liberalism that causes both to turn logic and truth on its head, but we have been witnessing it in different ways in recent days.

First there was the “humanitarian” flotilla running the Israeli blockade of Gaza and then there was the appalling anti-Semitism of Helen Thomas, formerly of the front row in the White House press room.

Suffice it to say that the so-called Palestinians are not living in a state of “occupation.” They have repeatedly been offered a state of their own, but have refused it for some six decades. They exist as wards of the United Nations.

Israel is a sovereign nation and has been since May 16, 1948. Its ancient sovereignty dates back to the days of David and Solomon. I say “so-called” because Palestine was the name applied to Israel by a Roman emperor in an effort to make the world forget that Jews had been living in their own land for over a thousand years before being driven into exile.

Alan Dershowitz Endorses Joel Pollak for Congress (Ill., 9th)

June 16, 2010 | Filed Under Chicago, Congress, Cook County, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Foreign Policy, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Illinois, Islamofascism, Israel, Jews, Joel Pollak, Judaism, Religion, Republicans, Terrorism, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

From the Pollak for Congress campaign (9th District)…

Today I am pleased to welcome Prof. Alan Dershowitz to Chicago, and humbled to receive his endorsement in the race for the 9th congressional district. It is an honor to be one of the few Republicans that Prof. Dershowitz, a life-long Democrat, has supported. And it is a privilege to welcome a sold-out audience to our fundraising luncheon today–200 enthusiastic supporters from both sides of the political divide.

Prof. Dershowitz is an inspiration to me, and to so many others. His book Chutzpah was the first political work I ever read. Later, at Harvard, I was his student and research assistant. We have worked together in debating the fiercest enemies of the U.S.-Israel relationship. Whether standing up for Israel or standing up against corruption, I have tried to emulate Prof. Dershowitz’s courage, and his refusal to yield to political bullying.
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Ron Paul, Whose Side are You on?

June 16, 2010 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Anti-Semitism, Barack Obama, Christianity, Democrats/Leftists, Foreign Countries, Government, Government, Corruption, Islam, Islamofascism, Israel, Jews, Judaism, Liberals, Military, Palestinians, Paul A. Ibbetson, President, Religion, Terrorism, War on Terror, Western Civilization | Comments Off

Paul A. Ibbetson

Everybody takes sides. When the chips are down on important issues, everybody can eventually be found on a side of their choosing. Those that claim to be neutral on the important issues of life are either ignorant of the reality of where they truly stand or are attempting to deceive someone. Percentages are higher on the latter, which is unfortunate because it creates a disingenuous world where people carry false banners of affiliation and advertise ideological beliefs that contradict the way they really think and act.

Texas Congressman Ron Paul’s interview with Don Imus over the Israeli embargo of the Gaza Strip raises a number of disturbing questions about where this self-proclaimed Republican stands on a number of important questions. Ron Paul, a longtime isolationist, shocked many when he not only admonished Israel’s lawful blockage of the Gaza Strip, but also said that Israel’s action were nothing short of an act of war. When Imus mentioned that Israel was not attempting to stop humanitarian aid in the region, rather weapons being smuggled to the terrorist organization Hamas, Ron Paul released a tirade of unbelievable statements.
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