Friday, March 18, 2011
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Support States Constitutionally Creating A Health Care Compact Against Obamacare
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UN Security Council Calls No-Fly Zone Against Libya
Right here, provided by the Inner City Press, is the text of the UN Security Council draft resolution, which authorizes member states to “take all necessary measures” to establish a no-fly zone over Libya. . Tweet
Michael Medved: Don't Call Them "Settlements"
Michael Medved writes:
Media outlets in the United States habitually distort a key issue in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by using the term “settlements” to identify Jewish communities on the West Bank.
Actually, most of the so-called “settlers” live in well-established, middle-class suburban communities just minutes from Jerusalem. Maale Adumim, for instance, is a well-established bedroom community of Jerusalem, founded more than 36 years ago and now with 35,000 middle class inhabitants.
Families in Maale Adumim have seen children and grandchildren raised in the town. Insistence on identifying even life-long residents as “settlers” conveys the mistaken idea of hostile colonists in lonely, tentative outposts. A recent New York Times headline described victims of a Palestinian terror raid as “5 West Bank Settlers”—though three of those so-called settlers were tiny children as young as three months, hardly aggressive intruders.
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House Votes To Defund NPR
CBS News reports that in "a largely party-line vote, the Republican-led House of Representatives voted Thursday afternoon to prohibit federal funding for National Public Radio and prohibit public radio stations from using federal funds to pay dues to NPR and other public radio distributors or purchase their programming. The vote was 228 to 192, with one member voting present. Every Democrat opposed the bill, along with seven Republicans. The bill voted on Thursday prohibits all federal funding from going to NPR (which distributes "All Things Considered" and other programs) as well as to distributors like Public Radio International (distributor of This American Life and other programs) and American Public Media (distributor of Marketplace and other programs)."
The taxpayers should never have been funding the liberal news outlet that pretends to be unbiased that is National Public Radio. This is a wonderful development for the taxpayers and for America. Let us hope the Senate shows the same common sense as those in the House.
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Follow Up Segment From Glenn Beck On The Itamar Massacre Reporting On The Grandfather/Father's Response To The Murder
To view Beck's original report of the massacre visit http://www.stevelackner.com/2011/03/glenn-beck-on-itamar-massacre.html
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Israeli Soldiers And Settlers Save Arab Baby Just Days After Palestinian Terrorists Slit The Throat Of A Newborn In Their Town
Ynetnews.com reports: After massacre, settlers help bring new life into world: IDF forces and local paramedics helped save the life of a Palestinian woman and her newly born infant Wednesday, at the settlement where Fogel relatives are sitting Shiva for the five Israelis brutally murdered last week. Just as IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz arrived in Neve Tzuf to offer his condolences, a Palestinian cab raced towards the community's entrance. In it, soldiers and paramedics discovered a Palestinian woman in her 20s in advanced stages of labor and facing a life-threatening situation: The umbilical cord was wrapped around the young baby girl's neck, endangering both her and her mother.
The following is another article showing the contrast: http://www.haaretz.com/new
Here is the prayer that the 11 year old victim of the brutal killers had hanging over his bed: http://israelmatzav.blogsp
The Bully Body Slam
The Sydney Morning Herald reports:
It lasts just 41 seconds but is a distressing insight into schoolyard and cyber bullying.
A slightly built 12-year-old Year 7 student antagonises a larger 16-year-old boy from Year 10, punching him in the face as a friend records it on his mobile phone and at least four other students watch.
The fight does not go according to plan. The larger boy appears to snap.
He grabs the other boy, picks him up with two hands and throws him head-first on to the concrete. A "crack" sounds as the 12-year-old's ankle connects with a timber bench.
The Sydney school involved, Chifley College's Dunheved Campus at St Marys North, has suspended both students and called police after footage of the fight, which took place on school grounds about 10.30am yesterday, was aired on a television station.
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011
47.7% Of Germans Believe Israel Is Conducting A "War Of Extermination" Against Palestinians
Benjamin Weinthal reports for the Jerusalem Post:
TweetThe study – “Intolerance, Prejudice, Discrimination: A European Report” –questioned roughly 1,000 people in each of the selected EU countries....
Asked to respond to the statement that “Israel is conducting a war of extermination against the Palestinians,” 47.7 percent of the study’s participants in Germany expressed agreement – the highest number in Western Europe....
The statement “Considering Israel’s policy, I can understand why people do not like Jews” met with 35.6% affirmation in Germany, while 35.9% of British respondents were in agreement. In the Netherlands, 41.1% favored the assertion, as did 55.2% in Poland, 45.6% in Hungary and 48.8% in Portugal. France declined to participate.
The researchers also asked whether “Jews try to take advantage of having been victims during the Nazi era.”
Almost half the Germans questioned responded in the affirmative; the country’s 48.9% result was the highest among the Western European countries. The Netherlands provided the lowest percentage, with 17.2% affirming that Jews were trying to exploit the Nazi era. The number for Poland was 72.2%, and Hungary reached 68.1%. France reached 32.3%, England 21.8%, Portugal 52.2% and Italy 40.2%.
Reason TV: Drug Raids Go Hollywood As Obama Administration Breaks Promise (Again)
The warrants served were federal and law enforcement took one individual into custody, which may result in arrest.
Agents did not want to speak on camera but spokesperson for the DEA Sarah Pullen gave this statement to Reason.tv:
"The DEA, with the assistance of the LAPD and the LASD served federal search warrants at approx. 210 pm this afternoon, March 15, 2011, as part of an on-going investigation. The warrants are federal and under seal by order of the court. Locations were 7800 and 8400 blocks of Santa Monica blvd, West Hollywood. We have one individual in custody right now, which may result in an arrest. Since the warrants are under seal I am unable to discuss any details regarding the warrants or investigation at this time."
When asked about raids on medical marijuana dispensaries in California in February 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder indicated raids would end on state approved dispensaries.
"What the president said during the campaign ... will be consistent with what we will be doing here in law enforcement ... What (President Obama) said during the campaign ... is now American policy," said Holder.
Obama told the Medford Mail Tribune in Oregon during the 2008 campaign "I'm not going to be using Justice Department resources to try to circumvent state laws on this issue."
"I think the basic concept of using medical marijuana for the same purposes and with the same controls as other drugs prescribed by doctors, I think that's entirely appropriate."
On March 10, Los Angeles voters passed Measure M, or the "pot tax," which will tax dispensaries by collecting $50 out of every thousand dollars made.
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A Tribute To Communism
On July 9, 1952, speaking at the Republican National Convention, Senator Joe McCarthy said: "One communist in the faculty of one university is one communist too many. One communist among the American advisors at Yalta was one communist too many. And even if there were only one communist in the State Department, that would still be one communist too many."
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Mark Levin To Marco Rubio: Why Don't You Run For President?
Rush Limbaugh also said that he wants Rubio to run for President:
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Wall Street Journal: "Are Israeli Settlers Human?"
A family of five slaughtered in their beds. Some Palestinians call it "natural." The following article is from the Wall Street Journal in response to the savage murder: http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052748704893604576200270134133028-lMyQjAxMTAxMDEwNDExNDQyWj.html#articleTabs=article Tweet
Originalist, Constitutional Law Professor And Scholar Rob Natelson: "The U.S. Budget Situation Is Even Worse than You Imagined"
Natelson lays in simple terms the scope of the problems in the federal budget, and rightly concludes that if "we had honored the Constitution’s limits on federal power, this appalling situation never would have arisen." To read his article on the federal budget mess visit http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2011/03/the-u-s-budget-situation-is-even-worse-than-you-imagined/ Tweet
Dennis Prager: "The Other Tsunami"
The following is a very worthwhile article by Dennis Prager, "The Other Tsunami," on the heinous murders in Itamar and the unique danger of Jew-hatred emanating from the Islamic world: http://www.nationalreview.
Monday, March 14, 2011
VA Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli Applauds Supreme Court Decision In Military Funeral Case
The Washington Post reports that "Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (R) says an 8 to 1 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday that the First Amendment protects speech by a fringe church that targets military funerals "vindicated" his decision to stay out of the case. Cuccinelli was one of only two state attorneys general who did not sign on to an amicus brief expressing support for the family of Matthew Snyder, a Marine killed in Iraq whose funeral was targeted for protests by Westboro Baptist Church. Cuccinelli had faced rare criticism from fellow Republicans when he declined to sign the amicus brief -- and even rarer praise from some liberal voices.
"The First Amendment is designed to protect ideas, even ideas that upset, that inflame, or that the majority of the country would find offensive," Cuccinelli said in a statement. "It protects the rights of speakers we agree with, but also -- and more importantly -- it protects those speakers we would condemn."
"If the court had found against Westboro, the case could have set a precedent that would severely curtail certain valid exercises of free speech. If protestors -- whether political, civil rights, pro-life, or environmental-- said something that offended the object of the protest to the point where that person felt harmed, the protestors could successfully be sued," he said.
TweetTelegraph Asks "Why Is There No Looting In Japan?"
The Telegraph reports that the "landscape of parts of Japan looks like the aftermath of World War Two; no industrialised country since then has suffered such a death toll. The one tiny, tiny consolation is the extent to which it shows how humanity can rally round in times of adversity, with heroic British rescue teams joining colleagues from the US and elsewhere to fly out. And solidarity seems especially strong in Japan itself. Perhaps even more impressive than Japan’s technological power is its social strength, with supermarkets cutting prices and vending machine owners giving out free drinks as people work together to survive. Most noticeably of all, there has been no looting, and I’m not the only one curious about this. This is quite unusual among human cultures, and it’s unlikely it would be the case in Britain. During the 2007 floods in the West Country abandoned cars were broken into and free packs of bottled water were stolen. There was looting in Chile after the earthquake last year – so much so that troops were sent in; in New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina saw looting on a shocking scale. Why do some cultures react to disaster by reverting to everyone for himself, but others – especially the Japanese – display altruism even in adversity?"
The simple answer is that the Japanese have a sense of honor and dignity that too many communities lack. In fact, too many have replaced honor and dignity with a sense of entitlement and perceived victimization.
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Law Professors Debate: Illegal Immigration, The Arizona Statute, And E Pluribus Unum
The panel includes the notable scholar Professor Kris W. Kobach, formerly of the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law. In 2010 he was elected to and currently serves as the Secretary of State of Kansas. He was instrumental in drafting the Arizona's illegal immigration statute.
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Human Rights Situation In North Korea Is Deplorable
Voice of America reports that "a United Nations report is criticizing the lack of freedom of expression and association and other fundamental rights in North Korea. A report submitted to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva finds violations have increased because of, what it calls, unprecedented tension in the region. In his report, the special investigator on the human-rights situation in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea focuses on the plight of separated families and the ongoing tragedy of nationals abducted in Japan and South Korea. Investigator Marzuki Darusman urges North Korean officials to resume the stalled family reunions between the North and the South out of compassion for the families who have been separated for decades. He highlighted the question of abduction, affecting nationals of South Korea, Japan and several other countries. He noted more than 3,800 people reportedly have been abducted since the ceasefire of the Korean War. He said the cases of 500 people missing from South Korea and 12 from Japan are still pending. Darusman said human-rights violations are widespread in North Korean correctional facilities and the conditions of detention are appalling... North Korea rejected requests from the U.N. special investigator to visit the country. So instead, he had to gather his information from government officials, private organizations and victims of North Korean human-rights abuse who have fled to South Korea and Japan."
“Correctional officers would sometimes beat inmates, but it is understood that more often it is the inmates who would beat up other inmates upon instruction from the officers. It is further claimed that human-rights abuses, including deaths, are rampant inside correctional centers. These are serious allegations that need to be investigated and rectified immediately. Apart from the official correctional centers, North Korea is reported to have been operating a number of political concentration camps, collection centers, and labor-training camps,” said Darusman.
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Israeli PM Netanyahu: Abbas Needs to Denounce Massacre in Arabic
IsraelNationalNews.com reports that "Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said that Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas needs to denounce the massacre in Itamar when his own people are listening, and not just on an Hebrew-language radio station. Abbas denounced on Monday the massacre of the Fogel family, in an interview on Voice of Israel state-owned radio."
"I heard [Abbas] denouncing the murder at Itamar this morning on the Voice of Israel," Netanyahu said at a Likud faction session. "There is importance in what he said. In my eyes - what is more important, and this is what I meant - that he should say these things on Palestinian radio and not just on Israeli radio."
Netanyahu noted that at about the same time that Abbas denounced the massacre, one of his ministers was heard saying that the murders may have been carried out by "the settlers and the Government of Israel."
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Israel Rightly To Expand West Bank "Settlements" In Response To Savage Slayings Of Five (Including Newborn And Infants) In Home
The Washington Post reports that the "Israeli government said Sunday that it had approved the construction of hundreds of new homes in West Bank settlements after a couple and three of their children were stabbed to death in their home in a Jewish settlement Friday night... In a response to the slayings, the office of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said senior ministers had approved "measured construction" of up to 500 housing units in several settlements in the West Bank: Maa'leh Adumim, Ariel, the Etzion settlement bloc and Kiryat Sefer."
"They murder and we build, and we will build our country," Netanyahu told relatives of the victims after a funeral that was broadcast live on national radio and television.
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NY Orthodox Jewish Democrat Assemblyman Dov Hikind On Opposition To Gay Marriage
The following speech was delivered in the NY Assembly on May 12, 2009:
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Sunday, March 13, 2011
David Horowitz At Brooklyn College: The "Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Myths And Facts"
Leftists tried to turn David Horowitz's "night in Brooklyn into a nightmare." To read David Horowitz's article about his night at Brooklyn College visit http://frontpagemag.com/2011/03/13/killing-the-messenger-the-left-strikes-back/
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Gay Marriage Defeated In Maryland House
The Washington Post reports that the "Maryland House of Delegates effectively killed a measure Friday that would legalize same-sex marriage in the state — halting momentum in a year in which proponents thought they would prevail. Just two weeks ago, it appeared the bill could sail to the governor’s desk. Supporters were optimistic after the legislation cleared the Senate, generally considered the state’s more conservative chamber. Objections to the speed at which the measure was being considered and opposition from the constituents of some wavering members led the House on Friday to return the bill to committee, a tacit acknowledgment that it lacked enough votes to pass during this year’s session." Tweet
Islamoterrorists Savagely Murder West Bank Family, Three Year Old Stabbed In The Heart, Baby's Throat Slashed
Israel National News reports that "the initial findings of the investigation into the terrorist massacre in the Israeli town of Itamar in Samaria Friday night show that the Fatah ‘Freedom Fighters’ stabbed the Fogel family's sleeping three year old in the heart and slashed the throat of his three-month-old sister... Between 22:20 and 22:30 the terrorists entered the house through the living room picture window, did not notice the 6-year-old boy sleeping on the couch and continued on to the bedroom where they slashed the throats of the father and newborn baby who were sleeping there. The mother came out of the bathroom and was stabbed on its threshold. The evidence shows that she tried to fight the terrorists. They then slashed the throat of the 11-year old-son who was reading in bed. They did not notice the 2-year old asleep in his bed, but murdered the 3-year old with two stabs to his heart. After that, they locked the door, exited through the window and escaped. Exactly two hours after the infiltration, there was another warning signal from the same spot on the fence, as the terrorists left the way they had come. Once again, the patrol did not identify the source of the signal as infiltration. The 12-year-old daughter returned home at 00:30 and found the door locked. She asked a neighbor, Rabbi Yaakov Cohen, of the Itamar Yeshiva, to help her. He brought a weapon with him once he noticed tracks and mud near the house. The two woke up the 6-year old sleeping in the living room by calling through the window and when he opened the door, the Rabbi returned to his home. When she entered the bedrooms, the young daughter saw the horrific bloodsoaked scene and ran out of the house screaming. The neighbor ran back and fired several shots in the air to alert security personnel. Within a short time, large police and IDF forces arrived and began intensive searches to see if the terrorists were still in the community. At 03:30 a.m., military trackers discovered footprints leading to the Arab village of Avrata."
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