http://www.thecommentator.com/article/687/america_s_moment_of_truth_reverse_defence_cuts_that_will_harm_the_united_states_and_its_allies_ The Super Committee’s failure to find $1.2 trillion in long-term deficit cuts should not surprise anyone. The prospect of an ad hoc panel of lawmakers, equally divided between Republicans and Democrats, finding sufficient common ground to recommend serious spending reductions was always slight. However, extreme danger still remains with the so-called “sequestration” cuts now mandated by […]
Holder Lashes Out at Media Over Fast and Furious
URL to article: http://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2011/11/30/holder-lashes-out-at-media-over-fast-and-furious/
Attorney General Eric Holder blames the media for Fast and Furious and mounting calls for his resignation. No, he really does. More, including the audio, at the Daily Caller.
A couple of things today about this latest loss of cool. First, it isn’t just the Daily Caller covering the story as Holder wrongly claims. Every corner of the media is covering it. This sounds like something Press Harpy Tracy Schmaler at DOJ might be telling him, that only just one or two outlets are covering the story, but it isn’t true. She has a reputation of lying to the media, so maybe she also lies to her boss. She also has a reputation of lashing out at the media, like Holder did. (Memo to Press Harpy Schmaler: You’re blowing it, Tracy. This guy is getting clobbered on your watch. And your catty tactics are just antagonizing outlets.)
Secondly, blaming the Daily Caller ignores all the great work PJ Media has done on this!
Thirdly, it seems that every day more on the Hill are calling for Holder to resign. The irony is that Holder’s resignation would do more for Obama’s reelection chances than almost anything else that could happen, apart from the worst economy in decades suddenly growing wings. Hatred for Holder is visceral across the country. He represents the worst and most base aspects of this administration. So if he goes, and a new, cleaned-up attorney general replaces him, it defuses a powerful weapon the GOP is going to use against Obama in the fall. Yes, Holder is going to be a major issue in the election campaign. Holder stepping down would undo those plans. Those calling for his resignation (and make no mistake, he is unfit for the office) need to realize that whomever replaces him will share the same ideology that led to the Black Panther dismissal and mirandizing terrorists. Meet the new boss…
If Holder resigns, we will get a shiny new radical in the office, without blemish. Of course it is a lot more fun covering and writing books like Injustice about the wounded, flailing Holder, but he’s a disaster for the country.
http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1967/Three-Cups-of-COIN.aspx
Since I can’t quite get over the latest on Greg Mortenson, I went back to examining the disgraced author-guru’s unrenounced, unrepudiated impact on US COIN strategy in Afghanistan, a large subject I’ve touched on before. In a nutshell, as written here:
Mortenson’s unusual life as counselor to generals started back in September 2007, when then-Lt. Col. Christopher D. Kolenda “reached out” to him. Kolenda’s wife had sent “Three Cups” to Kolenda in Afghanistan where, as the New York Times put it, “Kolenda knew well the instructions about building relationships with elders that were in the Army and Marine Corps’ new counterinsurgency manual, which had been released in late 2006. But ‘Three Cups of Tea’ brought the lessons to life.”
By the end of 2008, the Wall Street Journal reported, Mortenson was in the Pentagon for a private meeting with Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen. By the summer of 2009, Mortenson had met with Mullen several times, Mortenson wrote on his blog, “to consult on new approaches to strategic policy in Afghanistan.” And “in the frantic last hours of Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal’s command in Afghanistan” last year, the Times reported somewhat breathlessly, Mortenson was among those the general “reached out” to via email en route from Kabul to Washington. This, the Times wrote, showed the extent to which military leaders “have increasingly turned to Mortenson … to help translate the theory of counterinsurgency into tribal realities on the ground.”
How did Margaret Marcus — a middle-class Jew from Larchmont, N.Y. — become Islamic ideologue Maryam Jameelah? http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | (TCSM) Biographer Deborah Baker was “on the prowl” in the New York Public Library — not looking for anything in particular. But while “idly clicking” through library files, she glimpsed the name “Maryam Jameelah” — apparently […]
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/11/30/palestinian-solidarity-day-uns-annual-attempt-to-turn-back-clock/
Notwithstanding alleged U.N. support for a two-state solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict, at New York Headquarters Tuesday only the flag of the non-state of Palestine was flown alongside the U.N.’s own flag. The flag of the member state of Israel was barred.
This is how the U.N. General Assembly marked the anniversary of November 29, 1947 when it adopted the partition resolution that sanctioned a Jewish and another Arab state in the former Mandate for Palestine. “International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People,” as it is called, is the U.N.’s annual attempt to turn the clock back.
This year Palestinian U.N. Ambassador Riyad Mansour tried to gather momentum for propelling the unilateral Palestinian statehood bid forward. A controversial statement of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, delivered by his Deputy, appeared intended to do just that.
The Secretary-General announced: “The Palestinian Authority is now institutionally ready to assume the responsibilities of statehood…” No matter that the Palestinian gambit violates UN resolutions, the Roadmap, bilateral agreements and repeated international and bilateral commitments to negotiations. Ban also said “Jerusalem must emerge from negotiations as the capital of two states” – despite remembering near the end of his statement that “the goal” was “a negotiated peace agreement on all final status issues including…Jerusalem.” And Ban called “settlement activity” “contrary to international law,” while explaining to “those in Gaza who fire rockets at Israel and smuggle weapons” that “these actions are unacceptable and contrary to Palestinian interests.”
Speaking on behalf of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Mansour clearly relished his annual moment at UN center stage. He accused Israel of the alleged offense of “Judaization,” in addition to “ethnic cleansing” and “apartheid.” Without batting an eye over the preposterous distortion, he claimed Israel’s membership in the UN was “conditional” upon “Israel’s commitment to the partition resolution” which he stressed gave it less area than it has now. He never mentioned that in 1947 Jews accepted the resolution and Arabs rejected it.
Solidarity Day also featured Yahya Mahmassani, speaking for the League of Arab States, who explicitly rejected Israel’s “insistence on recognition as a Jewish state.” Only one representative of “civil society” was invited – Americans United for Palestinian Human Rights. The reasons for his invitation quickly became clear as he called Israel an “apartheid state,” demanded “boycotts, divestment and sanctions,” claimed Israel was guilty of “pogroms,” and alleged that U.S. support for Israel resulted from our being “held hostage to domestic politics.” Ambassador Mansour clapped when the rant finally ended.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4155550,00.html
DON’T POP CHAMPAGNE JUST NOW……THE ALBANIAN SKANERBEG DIVISION IN WW2 WAS CONGRATULATED BY HITLER FOR THEIR EFFICIENCY IN ROUNDING UP AND HOUNDING JEWS…WHEN TITO INVITED ALBANIAN REFUGEES FROM FAMINE AND WAR TO KOSOVO THEY NOT ONLY MADE THEMSELVES AT HOME BUT DECLARED THEIR OWN LITTLE MUSLIM STATE IN WHAT WAS A HISTORIC AND LEGITIMATE PART OF SERBIA…FOR THE MOMENT FRIENDS ARE HARD TO FIND…BUT A LITTLE CAUTION IS ADVISED……RSK
Albanian PM: Ahmadinejad is the new Nazi
He may be a Muslim country’s leader, but that doesn’t stop him from voicing pro-Israel opinions. Albania’s PM Sali Berisha views Iran as biggest threat to world peace, opposes Palestinian statehood bid. ‘The world must learn from the Holocaust,’ he says
Itamar Eichner
When Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha talks about , one might mistake him for a Zionist leader who could easily fit into the or parties. But when these statements are made by a Muslim leading a moderate European Muslim country – they are definitely surprising.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/150282
“Kristallnacht” Strikes Jewish Stores in New Jersey
Highland Park targeted in a series of anti-Semitic attacks on at least five Jewish-owned establishments.
By Chana Ya’ar & Elad Benari
The central New Jersey community of Highland Park was targeted Tuesday night in a series of anti-Semitic attacks on at least five Jewish-owned establishments.
Vandals hurled bricks through the plate glass windows of a kosher restaurant, a kosher pizza shop, two Judaica stores, and a Jewish-owned hardware store.
At least three other Jewish-owned establishments in nearby New Brunswick were also similarly attacked, including the Rutgers Chabad House, the Rutgers Hillel and an Israeli-owned falafel eatery.
The destruction took place on the anniversary of the 1947 United Nations Partition Vote to create the Jewish State in Palestine.
Smashed glass (illustration)
Smashed glass (illustration)
Israel news photo: Flash 90
A report published by the Algemeiner Journal quoted “Facebook rumors” relating two separate incidents in which a local individual made anti-Semitic remarks and threatened to launch a new Kristallnacht — a reference to the 1938 “night of broken glass” pogrom in which thousands of Jewish stores and synagogues were destroyed and that launched the Nazi Holocaust in Germany.
It is not clear whether the two incidents were related, nor is it clear whether all the attacks were perpetrated by the same vandal or vandals.
The newspaper pointed out that Highland Park has recently elected an Orthodox Jewish man as its mayor.
Local police said in a statement detectives were “actively investigating these incidents and are in contact with and coordinating efforts with other law enforcement agencies that may be able to expedite the investigation.”
However, police cautioned that it was “too soon to reach a conclusion” as to the nature of the crimes.
“We would also like to briefly address the fear that these are acts motivated by anti-Semitism or that these are bias crimes,” the statement said. “The Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office has been notified, but it is too soon to reach a conclusion.
“All of our officers are aware of the sensitivity of this situation and we will make every effort with patrols and surveillance to keep everyone safe. We would like to encourage you to communicate with your congregants and urge them to avoid speculation which could lead to unnecessary anxiety.”
http://townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/2011/12/01/a_december_to_remember
Seventy years ago this month, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and brought America into a war that had begun in Europe in 1939.
In his masterful new book “December 1941: 31 Days That Changed America and Saved the World,” Craig Shirley takes readers back to a very different America. Through hundreds of stories and advertisements culled from newspapers, Shirley not only transports us back to that tumultuous time, but reminds this generation that denial about an enemy’s intentions can have grave consequences.
Each chapter in the book deals with a single day of December 1941. We go to the movies with Clark Gable and Betty Grable, view the “cafe society” of New York, and listen to radio stars like Jack Benny and Walter Winchell, the acerbic columnist and powerful radio gossip.
http://townhall.com/columnists/emmetttyrrell/2011/12/01/barney_shuffles_off/print WASHINGTON — When Barney Frank announced the other day that he was shuffling off stage after three decades in the Congressional limelight, I was brought back to 1980, when some very thoughtful friends from Harvard told me to watch him. Paul H. Weaver had been an aide to Irving Kristol, the godfather of neoconservatism, […]
http://www.hudson-ny.org/2629/lebanon-hezbollah-digs-in Hezbollah is the Shiite outpost of Iran on the Mediterranean, largely supplied through Syria, Iran’s ally, while training and on-the-ground-assistance is supplied by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps [IRGC]. While parts of Lebanon –- a “semi-sovereign” country — are occupied by Palestinian refugee camps that are “no go zones” for the government, the south […]
