Nine Years Since 9/11

Cliff May "It should go without saying but probably does not: Most of the world’s Muslims are not participating in this struggle, are not eager for bloodshed, and do not want to live under clerical dictatorships. But if, as has been conservatively estimated, only seven percent of the world’s Muslims support Jihadism and/or Islamism, that’s more than 80 million people – a formidable force backed by enormous Middle Eastern oil wealth. By contrast, Islamic reformers and peacemakers are isolated, targeted and without substantial resources."

The Eternal Flame of Muslim Outrage "Shhhhhhh, we're told. Don't protest the Ground Zero mosque. Don't burn a Koran. It'll imperil the troops. It'll inflame tensions. The "Muslim world" will "explode" if it does not get its way, warns sharia-peddling imam Feisal Abdul Rauf. Pardon my national security-threatening impudence, but when is the "Muslim world" not ready to "explode"?
"At the risk of provoking the ever-volatile Religion of Perpetual Outrage, let us count the little-noticed and forgotten ways."

ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11 "Sure, the attacks were carried out by small groups of radicals .. but the celebration of that attack was widespread in Islamic countries. The perpetrators were small in number, the celebrants were vast.
"Today, on the eve of the 9th anniversary, we're fighting a battle over whether or not Islamists should be allowed to construct a victory mosque at the site of their achievement. Again .. yes. It is a victory mosque. Only on Fox News Channel and in Talk radio (plus a few columns here and there) will you hear or read about the centuries-old Islamic custom of building a mosque at the site of great Islamic victories."

The Constitution Trumps Islamic Law

Diana West, Townhall "When reading stories about that formerly obscure Florida preacher who wants to mark the ninth anniversary of 9/11 by burning a stack of Qurans, bear in mind that the only law he breaks in doing so is Islamic law. With this in mind, it should become clear that the extraordinary global campaign against this stunt is yet another concerted effort, aided by an army's worth of useful fools, to bring our constitutional republic into conformance with Islamic law."


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The lights are going out in America

Ethel C. Fenig "Meanwhile, while Obama was touting his policies that will bring jobs, jobs and more jobs, especially green ones, over the border in Virginia, the lights were going out. Literally. Because of green jobs.
"Peter Whoriskey of the Washington Post reports on the closure of the last GE factory in the country manufacturing incandescent bulbs throwing 200 middle aged, middle class people out of work. Their chances of finding new jobs are dim."

DARKER SIDE OF INNOVATION: GE closing its last incandescent bulb factory in the U.S. "What made the plant vulnerable is, in part, a 2007 energy conservation measure passed by Congress that set standards essentially banning ordinary incandescents by 2014. The law will force millions of American households to switch to more efficient bulbs.
"The resulting savings in energy and greenhouse-gas emissions are expected to be immense. But the move also had unintended consequences.
"Rather than setting off a boom in the U.S. manufacture of replacement lights, the leading replacement lights are compact fluorescents, or CFLs, which are made almost entirely overseas, mostly in China."

Castro's Cathartic Conversation

Jeannie DeAngelis "...Fidel came clean with American journalist Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic magazine.
"Goldberg asked the Cuban revolutionist if “Cuba’s economic system was worth exporting to other countries?” Over a casual lunch, Fidel nonchalantly replied in the following way: “The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore.""

Consequence of contempt for American law

Ralph Alter  "Like other Sanctuary Cities in the United States (see the remarkably long and detailed list here), Los Angeles offers an open invitation to illegals to settle in their city. Never mind that no real thought was ever given as to whether the native locals were willing or able to support a raft of semi-skilled aliens with enormous social service needs. Nor was consideration given as to what the community might do once the illegal population reached critical mass, as it clearly has done in Los Angeles."

NBC’s ObamaVision: ‘Law and Order’ — ‘This Is Why We Need Health-Care Reform’

Big Hollywood "Insurance companies are also evil. Even though they stopped paying for a drug which the writers make clear should not exist, they still come in for criticism for discontinuing payments. In utter frustration, Jack McCoy blurts out, “This is why we need health care reform.” Why is that Jack? The drug company used misleading advertising and made bribes. Don’t we already have laws against that? Or do we need to force people not to take life-extending drugs? What does health-care reform have to do with any of this? When shows just follow talking points it is hard to stay coherent."

Our Waning Obama Worship

Victor Davis Hanson "But now a grouchy elite and a petulant president see that they were sorely mistaken about us, and Mr. Obama’s election was more flukish than predestined. Americans were given government takeovers of business, multi-trillion-dollar deficits, promised higher taxes, a path to socialized medicine, and an end to building the odious border fence — with, to top it all off, accusations from the likes of Van Jones and Eric Holder, apologies and bows abroad, and the beer summit. And yet the rustic ingrates are rejecting both the benefactor and his munificence.

"Forgive us, Barack Obama, for we know not what we do."

If you have bedbugs, thank Al Gore

Ethel C. Fenig "DDT was banned under the influence of Rachel Carson's 1960s book Silent Spring, the founding bible for the nascent eco and environmental movement. Advocating the now discredited theory that insecticides, especially DDT, which wiped common pests destroying crops, moved up the food chain into the birds, ultimately killing them, budding environmentalists lobbied vigorously until its use was prohibited. That was one of the earliest environmental victories in contemporary times."

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October Surprises

Victor Davis Hanson "Neither event is likely to change things in November. Only a headline crisis could rally Americans around their now-unpopular commander in chief and his beleaguered supporters in Congress. What would that entail?
"Most probably something like a showdown with soon-to-be-nuclear and widely despised Iran.
"Obama ran on criticism of the Bush administration that it had not reached out and talked with Iran's theocratic leadership. Obama did that. He even muted criticism of the brutal Iranian crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations. But Obama soon found that the Iranians considered his outreach appeasement, and so have only increased their breakneck efforts to get a bomb."

How Obama Thinks

Forbes "He has expanded the federal government's control over home mortgages, investment banking, health care, autos and energy. The Weekly Standard summarizes Obama's approach as omnipotence at home, impotence abroad.
"The President's actions are so bizarre that they mystify his critics and supporters alike. Consider this headline from the Aug. 18, 2009 issue of the Wall Street Journal: "Obama Underwrites Offshore Drilling." Did you read that correctly? You did. The Administration supports offshore drilling--but drilling off the shores of Brazil. With Obama's backing, the U.S. Export-Import Bank offered $2 billion in loans and guarantees to Brazil's state-owned oil company Petrobras to finance exploration in the Santos Basin near Rio de Janeiro--not so the oil ends up in the U.S. He is funding Brazilian exploration so that the oil can stay in Brazil.
"More strange behavior:"... Dinesh D'Souza