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October 2011

EUROPE’S LEADERS ARE CONTEMPTUOUS OF DEMOCRACY BUT ARE THEY EVEN SANE?

http://www.thecommentator.com/article/534/clearly_europe_s_leaders_are_contemptuous_of_democracy_but_are_they_even_sane_ After another shameful assault on democracy, EU leaders can now go ahead with their EFSF euro bailout plan. But it’s doomed from the start and could cost taxpayers trillions So, it’s all smiles in Brussels again. Slovakia’s parliament duly did as it was told on Thursday and reversed Tuesday’s rejection of the European Financial […]

WES PRUDEN: AN EVIL WIND IN THE “ARAB SPRING”

http://www.prudenpolitics.com/index.php/pruden/full_column/an_evil_wind_in_the_arab_spring

“From Paris, the patriarch was meant to travel to Washington to see President Obama, but his visit was abruptly canceled when the White House learned of the patriarch’s politically incorrect warning. Mr. Obama, who never sees a Muslim potentate without bowing low enough to bang his head on the floor, was eager to avoid the patriarch lest meeting him offend harsh Muslim regimes.

Saddest of all, self-satisfied pastors, priests, prelates, bishops and assorted other divines in the West have been uninterested in speaking up for their fellow Christians marooned in the Islamic world. Fear, indifference and cowardice reigns.”

We’ve “enjoyed” the Arab spring, celebrated by one and nearly all. But if you’re a Christian under the wheels of an Egyptian army truck, it looks a lot like winter.

“SPENGLER” AKA DAVID P. GOLDMAN: NEVER HAVE SO FEW BEEN BLAMED BY SO MANY

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MJ12Ak02.html

“Rarely in the course of human events have so few been blamed byso much for so many. There are precedents, for example, when Adolf Hitler claimed that a Jewish “stab in the back” lost World War I for Germany. The notion that the problems of three hundred million Arabs revolve around the governance of a few million Palestinians has the same order of credibility. ”

Here’s your final exam question in Middle Eastern studies:

A mass of Coptic Christians marches through Cairo to protest the military government’s failure to protect them from Muslim radicals. They are attacked by stone-throwing, club-wielding rowdies. Armed forces security personnel intervene, and the Copts fight it out with the soldiers, with two dozen dead and scores injured on both sides. Who is to blame?

The full credit answer is: Benjamin Netanyahu, for building apartments in Jerusalem. If that’s not what you wrote, don’t blame me if you can’t get a job at the New York Times.

MICHELLE MALKIN: THE WALL ST PROTESTS…TRASH AND MONEY PILING UP

http://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2011/10/14/costs_of_the_occupiers/print The trash generated by the “Occupy Wall Street” protests keeps piling up. So do the bills. Liberal media outlets claim the anarchic, anti-capitalist movement is more popular than the tea party. But wait until Americans across the country get a full picture of the costs of the aimless occupiers. In New York City, government […]

RAYMOND IBRAHIM: HILLARY TO THE RESCUE OF EGYPT’S CHRISTIANS?…NO WAY

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/10/raymond-ibrahim-hillary-clinton-promises-to-save-egypts-christians.html Raymond Ibrahim: Hillary Clinton Promises to Save Egypt’s Christians? Soon after Sunday’s Maspero massacre, where the Egyptian military slaughtered Christians demonstrating over the destruction of their churches—including by running them over with armored vehicles—some Egyptian media began reporting that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, having seen enough, declared that the U.S. plans on […]