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August 2013

FRANK GAFFNEY: Willful Blindness, Mortal Peril Fantasizing That Enemies Are Friends is a Dangerous Pastime

http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/6/gaffney-willful-blindness-mortal-peril/ Diana West’s splendid new book, “American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character,” is an expose of a practice that she persuasively argues has cost us dearly in the past and endangers our future. Former federal prosecutor-turned-pundit Andrew C. McCarthy calls it “willful blindness,” and we indulge in it at our extreme peril. […]

Report: Obama Agrees to Meet Muslim Brotherhood Officials at White House

http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Report-Obama-agrees-to-meet-Muslim-Brotherhood-officials-at-White-House-322157
US President Barack Obama has agreed to meet with Muslim Brotherhood officials at the White House, the Egypt Independent reported Tuesday, quoting unnamed sources.

According to the report, Obama was prepared to meet representatives of the Islamist group in order to “hear their opinion.”

Turkish diplomats were also set to attend the meeting, which was expected to take place sometime this month, the Egypt Independent reported.

The Turkish diplomats were expected to lobby for Morsy’s reinstatement, or at minimum, a continued political role for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, the report added.

J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS: SEVEN MORE REASONS TO IMPEACH ERIC HOLDER

URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2013/j-christian-adams/seven-more-reasons-to-impeach-eric-holder/ To order J. Christian Adams’ pamphlet Ten Reasons to Impeach Eric Holder, click here. Power is never vested in just one man. Even the powers of the man in the Oval Office depend on internal checks and balances. A president alone cannot violate the law. His cabinet has to aid him […]

Requiem for a Glacier — on The Glazov Gang

Mental illness reigns supreme as a Global Warming orchestra plays for a melting ice giant.
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/jamie-glazov/obamas-phony-scandals-on-the-glazov-gang/

This week’s Glazov Gang was joined by Michael Finch, Chief Operating Officer at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, Ann-Marie Murrell, National Director of PolitiChicks, and Joe Lappan, a member of the David Horowitz Freedom Center.

The Glazov Gangsters gathered to discuss Requiem for a Glacier. The discussion occurred in Part II and focused on how mental illness reigned supreme when a Global Warming orchestra recently played for a melting ice giant. [See Daniel Greenfield’s coverage of the event here].

MICHEL GURFINIKIEL: YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE ****

Read online at http://mosaicmagazine.com/essay/2013/08/you-only-live-twice/ Vibrant Jewish communities were reborn in Europe after the Holocaust. Is there a future for them in the 21st century? Samuel Sandler, an aeronautical engineer and head of the Jewish community in Versailles, France, announced a few weeks ago that he’d had the local synagogue registered as a national landmark. “My […]

Freedom to Criticize by Samuel Westrop

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3918/freedom-to-criticize Hate preachers are allowed to address audiences with no complaint, but critics of these hate preachers are silenced. Last month, a scholar and critic of Islam, Robert Spencer, was barred entry to the UK, while one of the objects of Spencer’s disapproval, Muhamed Al-Arifi, was admitted to Britain with no objection at all from […]

The Mosque: Center of Religion, Politics and Dominance by Clare M. Lopez

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3912/mosque-religion-politics-dominance Islamic-style authoritarianism is the dominant characteristic shared by both the military and the Muslim Brotherhood, theocrats and non-theocrats: one or the other must be dominant. The cannot share power. One side or the other must come out on top. Both of these conflicts, in Syria and Egypt, are, at their base, about the inseparability […]