The derailing of the “Peace Train”

Stand for Israel Blog "In a better world – a saner world, in fact – Yusuf Islam and those who hold similar views would not be invited to share the podium at high-profile events. They would be called on to disavow, strongly and in no uncertain terms, their previous support for violence against innocents, and to back up those disavowals with actions. Until they did, it would be made clear to them that they stand outside the bounds of civil society.
"But this is not our world. Today radical Islamists, who use religious convictions to legitimize their oppression and murder of Jews, Christians, and anyone else they disapprove of, have found allies in a legion of apologists in the West.

Obama to present US Israel-Palestinian border map within 3 months

DEBKAfile "Our sources disclose that the boundaries the US map will adhere a lot more closely to Palestinian territorial aspirations than to Israel case. While no one is talking about imposing it on Israel, a rejection by the Netanyahu government would place it on a collision course with the Obama White House."....
"According to our Washington sources, Obama believes that leaving Israel with no more than 4-4.5 percent of the pre-1967 West Bank area should satisfy its essential security requirements. In terms of population, this would entail the evacuation of dozens of settlements plus two important towns, Efrat in Gush Etzion in the south which has a population of 8,000, and Ariel in Samaria which has 20,000 inhabitants."  Logo: standforisrael

A Compromise Verdict, and No Winners

Andrew C. McCarthy  "Similarly, the jury was not allowed to learn that Ghailani had confessed, and that after the bombing he had become a celebrity in al-Qaeda circles.
"That is, swaddled in the protections of civilian due process, Ghailani was allowed to pose before the jury as a victim of circumstances who had no idea that the terror network was preparing simultaneous massacres at American embassies.
"It seems to have worked, at least with one juror, who reportedly held out for a complete acquittal for several days. But even without the key witness and the post-bombing evidence, the circumstantial case against Ghailani seemed strong — strong enough to convince most of the jurors."  One  juror...ONE.

Voting Present Beats Losing / With enemies like Michael Moore and Bill Maher, Obama needs fewer friends.

Victor Davis Hanson "The economy is bound to recover, especially when Americans with capital are assured that Obamism has stalled and it is time to reenter the market — to resume investing, hiring, and buying equipment. Consumers have reduced debt. The world economy is healing. Obama can do very little and take credit for very much. Things should be better by November 2012 than they are now — as long as the private sector is assured that Obama will do no more harm."

Repudiated at the Polls, Will the Left Resort to Violence?

American Thinker "Cliff Kinkaid, editor of Accuracy in Media, penned a column this week that warns of a leftward move towards violence in the wake of the Tea Party-Republican victories in the Congressional elections. His focus was nationally syndicated cartoonist Ted Rall who said on MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan Show that a “revolt” is necessary. He claimed that peaceful avenues for change had been fruitless and embraced violence as a last resort. Rall was promoting his new book "The Anti-American Manifesto." "

Cartoonist Ted Rall to Appear at Communist Bookstore " Some have called Rall a crank. But his appearance at Revolution Books suggests he knows exactly what he’s doing. A critic of the Tea Party, Rall has no problem in appearing at a bookstore that celebrates an ideology that has resulted in more than 100 million deaths since the Communist Manifesto. Rall seems proud of his scheduled appearance at the communist bookstore, having posted it on his blog."  Cartoon: u2r2h.blogspot

Counterpoint: Two Overblown Scandals

PowerlineBlog "Many of our friends on the right won't agree, but I think that two scandals currently in the news are mostly faux. The first is the Transportation Security Administration's full body scanner/pat-down policy. Large segments of the country are up in arms, but, as one who flies somewhere almost every week, I haven't seen much of a problem. Relatively few airports have the new scanners; I have gone through a handful of them without incident."

Government Takeover of IRAs

Kerby Anderson "Last month Senator Tom Harkin held a recess hearing to consider a way for the federal government to take over Americans' investment plans. In previous commentaries I have talked about the possibility that the government would try to manage 401(k) and IRA plans. Until last month, this idea was mostly speculation."

The Blind Who Will Not See: The President, the Secretary of Defense, and the Iranian Death Spiral

Michael Ledeen  "I don’t get it. Is there some sort of evidence? ... So I try to imagine one of the tens of millions of Iranian opponents of the regime. Perhaps he’s got a relative in prison; he probably knows people who have lost a family member or two to the regime’s killers and torturers. He dreams of a free Iran, of an end to the humiliating circumstances in which Iranians now find themselves: widely considered to be terrorists, barbarians, and savages. And then one day somebody blows up a bunch of nuclear labs, some secret military installations, and RG headquarters in the major cities. Does that guy now rally round the supreme leader? I don’t think so.

Terror Verdict Tests Obama’s Strategy on Trials

NY Times  ..."But because a jury acquitted him on more than 280 other charges -- including every count of murder -- critics of the Obama administration’s strategy on detainees said the verdict proved that civilian courts could not be trusted to handle the prosecution of Al Qaeda terrorists. "

Does The FDA Really Need More Power?

Heritage " And the government would be reaching into a lot of new places as well. The act requires that all food “facilities”—including those home-based businesses that make jam, bread, and cheese for local markets—would be required to undertake periodic hazard analyses and produce “risk-based preventive controls.”"
Liberals being liberals.

Toy Pig's Bacon Is Saved By Angry Mums

Sky News  "A toy shop has been branded "ridiculous" by mothers after it removed a pig from a children's farm set – in case it offended Muslim and Jewish parents."

Whom should we fear more, Muslims and Jews or guilt-ridden WASP liberals?

Bernanke's `Cheap Money' Stimulus Spurs Corporate Investment Outside U.S.

Bloomberg  "Southern Copper’s plans illustrate why the Fed’s second round of bond buying may not reduce unemployment, which has stalled near a 26-year high. Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and his colleagues appear to be fueling a foreign-investment surge, underscoring the difficulty of stimulating the economy through monetary policy with interest rates already near record lows."

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