Two more arrested as London terror probe expands

Fox News  "Late Wednesday, riot police fanned out in Woolwich as about 50 men waving the flag of the far-right English Defense League gathered, singing nationalistic songs and shouting obscenities about the Quran.
"Meanwhile, Muslim groups quickly condemned the attack, calling for the police to calm tensions. The Muslim Council of Britain called it a "barbaric act that has no basis in Islam," adding that "no cause justifies this murder."

"Britain has been at the heart of several terror attacks or plots in recent years, the most deadly being the 2005 rush-hour suicide bombings when 52 commuters were killed. More recently, Parviz Khan was convicted in 2008 of plotting to kidnap and behead a British Muslim soldier in Birmingham.
"Some extremists have lashed out at Britain's involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq. Recently, groups have also criticized Britain's assistance in the French-led mission to Mali to root out Islamic extremists in the north." 

WH planted the Code Pink Protester

RedState   Hat tip to Andy Miller at Conservative Bloggers on Facebook
"C’mon now that is just one of those vast right-wing conspiracy theories to get you to come read my blog… Really? This one pretty much wrote itself.
Yesterday, I came across this tweet…

honestly, how does Medea Benjamin get into anything anymore. the CIA's russia operation should have her teach classes

"How does she get in? That’s a damned good question!
A little while later, I see this tweet…

The President of the United States staging a heckler in his own audience? Why that's just kah-razeee talk       http://www.ndu.edu/NDU%20Statement%20on%20Disturbance%20During%20President's%20Speech.pdf …

"It made me curious, so I ended up at the National Defense University website…

There’s a fly in my soup; Obama’s shameful ad hominem presidency.

Ad hominem;

1: appealing to feelings or prejudices rather than intellect

2: marked by or being an attack on an opponent's character rather than by an answer to the contentions made. 

Charles Krauthammer  "In such grim proceedings one should be grateful for unintended humor. Horrible customer service is when every patron in a restaurant finds a fly in his soup. But when the maitre d’ screens patrons for their politics and only conservatives find flies paddlewheeling through their consomme, the problem is not poor service. It is harassment and invidious discrimination."
....
"It’s not unlawful to run an ad hominem presidency. It’s merely shameful. The great rhetorical specialty of this president has been his unrelenting attribution of bad faith to those who disagree with him. He acts on principle; they from the basest of instincts.
"Well then, why not harass them? Why not ask the content of their prayers? "Why not read their e-mail? Why not give them especially horrible customer service?
"Waiter! There’s a fly . . . "

Strassel: Conservatives Became Targets in 2008 

The White House insists President Obama is "outraged" by the "inappropriate" targeting and harassment of conservative groups. If true, it's a remarkable turnaround for a man who helped pioneer those tactics.

 "If the country wants to get to the bottom of the IRS scandal, it must first remember the context for this abuse. That context leads to this White House." 

The slain British soldier and his Royal Artillery Regiment

Woolwich Attack: British soldier butchered on London Street identified as Drummer Lee ‘Riggers’ Rigby

Royal Regiment of Fusiliers  Rigby pictured at left.

Rigby with son and wife, below

So Much for Land for Peace: The Deal the Palestinians Rejected, The History That Was Never Made

The Tower  "In a stunning development that calls into question the basic willingness of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to accept any peace agreement with the Jewish state, TheTower.org has obtained a hand-drawn map created by Abbas documenting a 2008 peace proposal outlined to him by then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert – which Abbas rebuffed – and has confirmed the existence and details of the settlement offer in an exclusive interview with Olmert.

The front of Abbas’s map

"Given the chaos sweeping the Middle East since the September 2008 offer was rejected by Abbas, and the security deterioration on multiple Israeli borders, Olmert’s offer contains elements likely to be seen as essentially incompatible with Israel’s fundamental security requirements."
...."The two men discussed Olmert’s proposal in great detail, poring over a large map Olmert unfurled showing the dramatic territorial concessions Israel was prepared to make. Abbas acknowledged the offer and returned to Ramallah."