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Elizabeth Warren and the Frauds of Diversity Posted By Bruce Thornton

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For anyone familiar with the American university and its gospel of multicultural diversity, the revelation that Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren exploited her 1/32 Cherokee ancestry to pass as a minority is a dog-bites-man story. For decades now universities have depended on the superficially non-white “other” to fulfill and tout their “commitment to diversity” and their doctrine of “multiculturalism.” Meanwhile, the only diversity that counts, the diversity of minds and points of view, is ignored. Instead, the rigid leftist ideology of American historical wickedness and oppression is imposed on the presumed bastions of truth and free minds.

The phoniness of such “diversity” is evident on multiple levels. Warren’s ploy is not that much more egregious than the thousands of Caucasians with Hispanic surnames who pass as minorities in American universities. White Chileans, Argentines, and Mexicans come to American colleges and are transformed into “Chicanos,” a category that has little reality outside a college campus. Hiring Basques or Spaniards counts as increasing “diversity,” even though they have nothing culturally in common with the mestizo or Indian children of farm-workers. So too with African or Caribbean blacks, who are hired not because they bring the unique perspective of their homelands to their intellectual work or teaching, but because they count as “black,” and thus are assumed to have some mystical connection with American black students and their cultural identity, which owes much more to American culture and history than to African.

Merchants of Despair URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2012/05/07/merchants-of-despair/ Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Dr. Robert Zubrin, president of Pioneer Astronautics and a Senior Fellow with the Center for Security Policy. A well-known innovator in the fields of aerospace and energy, he has a PhD in Nuclear Engineering, 10 patents, numerous publications, and 8 books, including The […]

The Genocide that Obama Refuses to Prevent

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On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Obama unveiled an “Atrocities Prevention Board” to, in his own words, “prevent and respond to mass atrocities”. The “Atrocities Prevention Board” is notable mainly for what it is not and his speech was notable for the topic that it avoided. Genocide.

While Obama mentioned ‘atrocities’ twelve times in his speech, he only mentioned ‘genocide’ three times and one of those times he was quoting from the mission statement of the Holocaust Museum. The list of examples from his own policies contained only one example of genocide, the mass murder program carried out by the Sudanese government.

Tellingly Obama described this actual genocide as a ‘conflict’ rather than an atrocity and urged both sides to negotiate, a sharp contrast with his next three examples, in Cote D’Ivorie, in Libya and in Uganda, where he clearly placed the blame on three leaders and described military and pseudo-military actions that he had taken to end the violence.

President Omar al-Bashir, whom he urged in his speech to have the “courage” to negotiate and make peace, is wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. There is no comparison between the actions of Gaddafi or Gbago and those of Bashir. Yet Obama ignored actual genocide, and defiled the Holocaust Memorial Museum by using it as a stage for whitewashing one of the world’s worst ruling mass murderers.

http://news.investors.com/articleprint/610303/201205040824/obama-life-untruths-david-maraniss-book.aspx

He was tall and darkly handsome, in a chiseled sort of way. Clearly intelligent. Quiet and attentive, yet distant in a way that intrigued her as they both drew closer together during those long evenings sipping cheap wine and practicing sophistication on each other.

Both were new to adulthood, trying out the public personalities each wanted the world to see, not the inner tremors that corroded their intestines during long nights when dark personal fears crept into the corners of their lonely apartments.

Like most others from somewhere else who found themselves living in New York City, they told each other how wonderfully exciting and diverse the filthy place was. One minute you could hear distant gunshots, sirens or witness a mugging in the musty subway. And the next you were in a lovely park watching someone declare their contempt for capitalism’s greed by defecating on a car, which is actually much harder than it looks on TV.

The young man and woman were drawn to each other by mutual inner emotional struggles and estrangement from America’s abundant appetite about affluence. He seemed so worldly to her, talking of the 57 states he’d visited and foreign languages he spoke fluently, like Canadian and Austrian. And he was a great conversationalist, always interested in what she thought of anything he’d just said.

He had lived in exotic foreign places, he claimed, consumed strange foods and painfully recounted his longing for an absent father that caused him to wildly over-spend other people’s money, desperately seeking to fill some hidden void by repairing bridges and hiring union teachers. He regularly talked of receiving dreams from his father.

He also claimed to have a fantastic jump shot, but always passed on any chance to show it. He said he’d done very well in school, but modestly demurred revealing the records — for fear of shaming her, he said. Nor, even after they’d shared showers, did he once produce his birth certificate, short or long form.

He even confided his plans to change his first name to something harder, tougher to replace Casper.

One night as they made long passionate love he cried out, “Julia! Julia!” Which attracted his lover’s attention because her name was Genevieve. Asked to explain Julia nano-seconds later, he cited a long private obsession with Fred Flintstone’s mini-skirted wife.

Informed that her name was Wilma, he suggested Genevieve had surely mis-heard him which, he added, was not an unprecedented opinion during the routine rapture he brought to female voters. “Trust me,” he suggested firmly. So, as millions of her countrymen would blindly do in the future, she did.

Sometimes, he would speak to her romantically noting, for instance, that her voice sounded to his immense ears like wind-chimes. But then he could act strangely too. One day on an idealistic impulse to combat poverty, Genevieve bought a tiny West Highland terrier, a white ball of bouncy, barky fluff.

Her lover routinely spent long evenings at work, outlining his future life plans day-by-day and week-by-week up through the age of at least 51. Inspired by his favorite American philosophers Thompson, Wenner and someone named Al Linsky, he wanted to appear to improve the lot of urban Americans while improving his own even more.

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The big news in Friday’s employment report was not the miserable 115,000 jobs the economy added in April, but the disappearance of 340,000 workers from the labor force. We haven’t seen unemployment on this scale since the Great Depression. Indeed, since Obama took office, the labor force participation rate has fallen from 66% to 63% as almost 5 million American adults stopped looking for work. About a fifth of working-age Americans aren’t working — and a fifth of all personal income is transfer payments. These numbers are astonishing and without precedent. If they continue, America will go bankrupt. Obama’s hope for re-election lies in dependency. No one could run for re-election as dogcatcher with this record — except for the cynical presumption that Americans have become so dependent on the state that they have lost hope of working again, and will vote for more state dependency.

If you’re not scared, you haven’t read the numbers. Here they are, courtesy of the St. Louis Fed’s excellent free data base.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/05/muslim_brotherhood_wants_to_re-elect_barack_hussein_obama.html In this YouTube video from Walid Shoebat‘s site, Tom Trento, of United West, describes the recent collusion of the president of the United States with the terrorist group known as the Muslim Brotherhood. Besides heading United West, Tom Trento is the executive director of the Florida Security Council; both organizations “specialize in international terrorism […]

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/islams-war-on-wilders-and-us?f=must_reads I had the great honor and pleasure of interviewing Dutch Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders yesterday. Wilders is in the United States to mark the long-awaited publication of his book, Marked for Death: Islam’s War on the West and Me, with a packed round of radio, TV and print interviews. So far, these include […]

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/reliving-911-one-joke-after-another As I watch the KSM (Khalid Sheikh Mohammed) trial unfold, one thought comes to mind: Jihad Justice Joke. Problem is, it’s not funny. April 19, 1995 a truck bomb exploded at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. It killed 168 people; including 19 children and hundreds more were injured. Timothy McVeigh […]

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/is-fast-and-furious-the-next-watergate When suspects in a crime are interrogated, they often develop memory loss. When the crime is running guns to drug cartels on both sides of the border, the crime involves the murder of a U.S. Border Patrol officer, Brian Terry, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, Jaime Zapata, and countless Mexican citizens. Katie Pavlich has […]

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3050/antisemitism-europe

Ominously, an inversion of victim and perpetrator has taken place.

The virus of antisemitism persists in haunting Europe. In recent months, antisemitism has been exhibited all too often in European countries, not just in theory but in practice. France has been the scene for the murder of Jewish schoolchildren in Toulouse; attacks on Jewish property in Paris and Dijon; desecration of Jewish graves in Nice, and anti-Semitic graffiti throughout the country. Malmo, Sweden, with a now considerable Muslim population, has witnessed increasing outbreaks of violence against Jews. It is disquieting that Ilmar Reepalu, the mayor of the city, has denied these attacks, and dismissed criticism of his denials as the work of the “Israel lobby.”

Over the last decade, antisemitic incidents have occurred not just in France and Sweden but also throughout Europe; some of the more notable have been in the Kreuzberg section of Berlin populated by Palestinians and Turks; even more significantly, in other neighborhoods of Berlin that are not populated by Middle East immigrants; in Stockholm, Amsterdam, and major French cities besides Paris; on the island of Corfu in Greece, and in Rome.

In the 1997 Treaty of Amsterdam, the European Union called for joint efforts to combat prejudice and discrimination experienced by individuals and groups on the basis of their ethnic features, cultural background, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, or disability. As a result of this treaty, comprehensive data and an analysis of the state of discrimination in Europe with special emphasis on antisemitism is now available in a just-published comprehensive study by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Berlin.