Boko Haram: the real war on women

Legal Insurrection

 

... "And this sort of thing has been going on for quite some time. The group is composed of fundamentalist Islamist terrorists who are especially against the education of women, although education of the secular variety for any child or young person in Nigeria is their target as well, and they will murder or sell into sexual slavery (let’s not mince words here) anyone they can get their hands on, all in the name of their religion. Special targets are often Christians, but Muslims are hardly except from their violence." ...

Putin’s Anti-Fracking Campaign; He knows that European greens can help further his dreams of conquest.

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE 

 ... "The fact that Kremlin opposition to European fracking has nothing to do with environmental concerns should be clear even to the dullest among us, because Russia has massive fracking projects of its own underway in Siberia. The real goal is to keep Europe dependent upon Russia for its fuel supply. Natural-gas prices in Europe are quadruple those prevailing in the United States, and by maintaining a near-monopoly on overpriced European natural-gas imports, the Putin regime assures itself of a vast source of revenue. This allows it to rule and rearm Russia without permitting the freedom necessary to develop the country’s human potential. Furthermore, so long as Europe is kept critically dependent upon Russia for fuel, Moscow can paralyze and render ineffective any Western response to its plans for conquest, whose initial steps are currently being demonstrated in Ukraine. More, and much worse, is certain to follow so long as Europe remains helpless.
...
"If Europe’s fuel supplies remain under Russian control, the continent is doomed to fall under Russian domination. America could help supply gas, but its exports are being bottled up by the Obama administration, which refuses to approve the necessary permits for constructing liquid-natural-gas export terminals."

 

 

Odessa Jewish community mulls emergency evacuation

WW2: the last pictures of the Jews in this Russian community. Europe's Jews have
seen this all before, sadly.

Jerusalem Post    " ‘Future looking very violent,’ fears local rabbi; Jewish community hunkers down, tries to ride out the storm."

 
"Odessa’s Jews are prepared to evacuate should the violence in the western Ukrainian city get significantly worse, several community leaders told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday.
"Odessa’s Jewish community numbers some 30,000, down from nearly 40 percent of the city’s population before the Holocaust." ...

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.

Fox’s Brit Hume devastates Democrat guest over Benghazi

Respected news programs such as this must know that when they hire any political hack to be on a discussion panel that they will get political hackery in the conversation. (As they once did by putting Sally Kohn on the Bret Baier Special Report panel; she dropped the phrase "war on women" into a completely unrelated discussion.)

Human Events

 

"If we had a real media, every network would be ripping Benghazi apologists like former Rep. Jane Harman to shreds, the way Brit Hume (with a timely assist from Chris Wallace) did on Fox News over the weekend.

"After a laughably ineffective attempt to compare the serious questions about Benghazi to an Area 51 alien conspiracy theory – a slap in the face to the Americans who died in the attacks and their families – Harman actually tried claiming the Administration’s fraudulent “video protest” narrative was an intelligence failure.  When Hume calls her on it, she starts babbling talking points about how it was all just an honest mistake… without ever coming within a thousand miles of answering Hume’s questions.
...
"Listen to Harman’s response after Hume asks her who, exactly, in the intelligence community gave the White House spin team the idea that Benghazi was a video protest.  She appears stunned for a moment, then ventures, “I think it came from people who weren’t sure about it,” and then utterly fails to name a single such individual." 

 

She would have been patted on the back and cheered on MSNBC.

Today is Israel Independence Day, and I’m going to Vassar

By William A. Jacobson at Legal Insurrection
"It wasn’t planned this way. It’s just a coincidence. Really.

"By the time you read this, I’ll probably be in the car driving to Poughkeepsie, NY, where I will appear tonight at 7 p.m. to give a speech in support Israel and academic freedom.

"And against the Open Letter signed by 39 Vassar faculty members — none of whom took up my debate challenge — who support of the American Studies Association boycott of Israel.

"Maybe I’ll play this recording of David Ben-Gurion reading the Israeli Declaration of Independence: 

 

"Things have been tense lately at Vassar when it comes to Israel.

"While I’m not expecting “trouble,” I thought you like to see what trouble for pro-Israel speakers on campuses looks like, in the video below taken at UC Davis in February 2012:
 

 

More demagoguery from the left, whose tyranny wants to shut off all speech by those who want to resist socialist, pro-Islamist doctrines. The armchair demagogues usually sit at home responding to conservative articles such as this (that they have not read) with remarks like "moronic post", "delusional", and the like. They respond to reasoned argument with little more than shallow invective.

There are Muslims in Israel whom I feel are more decent than the anti-Israel leftists we see too much of on America's streets and campuses. To wit:

 

Arab, Jewish youth combat ‘price tag’ with paint

Young residents of Shfaram repair the town's ancient synagogue,

 in what residents say is a response to the 'price tag' attacks
 of Jewish extremists in the region.

“ 'Price tag” is a term used to describe acts of vandalism and violence associated with extremist elements of the Jewish settler movement in retaliation for Palestinian attacks and to protest what they perceive as the Israeli government’s “pro-Palestinian” policies. Mosques, churches, dovish Israeli groups and even Israeli military bases have been targeted in such assaults."

High-ranking Iranian cleric visits Shiraz synagogue, confirms Biblical version of Jewish homeland

Hold on just a minute; before that article leaves you with a warm, fuzziness, read this one, understand it, then go on to the main column. Read that one with new-found wisdom.

Understanding Taqiyya ― Islamic Principle of Lying for the Sake of Allah

The word "Taqiyya" literally means: "Concealing, precaution, guarding.” It is employed in disguising one's beliefs, intentions, convictions, ideas, feelings, opinions or strategies. In practical terms it is manifested as dissimulation, lying, deceiving, vexing and confounding with the intention of deflecting attention, foiling or pre-emptive blocking. It is currently employed in fending off and neutralising any criticism of Islam or Muslims.  More...

Now, on to the main article:
DEBKAfile

 

... " But most remarkably, he admitted that historical research and archeological excavations in the last 150 years had corroborated the Biblical account of the deeds of the Persian emperor Cyrus the Great (550-530 BCE).
(The Bible recounts that Cyrus issued a fabled decree for the emancipation of slaves, including the Jewish people, from Babylonian captivity, and allowed them to return to their homeland in Judah and rebuild their Temple in Jerusalem.)

 

"That reference alone will undoubtedly be enough to bring Iran’s radical elements down on Yunessi’s head for his temerity in gainsaying precepts laid down by the founder of its Islamic Revolution.  Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini declared the Jewish Bible a forgery because of its many contradictions of the Koran text and denounced all Persian rulers prior to his revolution as symbols of despotism and repression.

 

"Yanessi did, however, take the precaution of pointing out that it would be a mistake to equate Judaism and Zionism because, he said, some Jews are anti-Zionist." ...More...

Condi Rice declines Rutgers commencement address; The Stupid hounding of Ms. Rice.

Hot Air   "You’d probably imagine that it would come as quite the feather in your cap for any university to land a commencement speaker who was both a former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor.


Rice in concert.

Such was the enviable position that Rutgers found itself in after booking Condoleezza Rice as their guest of honor this year. Or at least it was until a number of their students – and professors! – protested the decision. After not much time at all, Rice put an end to the debate by cancelling the gig.
...
"Adding to the implausible nature of the story was the reason given by the editorial board at Rutgers newspaper.

The largest student newspaper, The Daily Targum, also urged the school to reconsider in a strong editorial that said that none of their commencement speakers should have “questionable politics.”

...
"One other question comes from this story. How is it that Condi Rice only gets $35K for a speaking appearance? Have you seen what Bill Clinton pulls in? Surely this is the War on Women."  Emphasis added.

Libs prefer him to Condi Rice 

 

Politico: The Stupid Hounding of Condi Rice   "If Condoleezza Rice were as self-pitying and politically crass as Attorney General Eric Holder, she would be wondering aloud what it is about her race and gender that accounts for the hostility of her enemies."   Read more:

NOT Benghazi!...Yes it was!...No It is not Benghazi, dude!

Plain Dealer

Two from NRO:

Jonah Goldberg  The White House’s political and ideological instincts overpowered everything else.

"On Wednesday, Jay Carney explained — as if he was talking to a room full of children — that the Benghazi e-mail the White House refused to release until the White House was forced to release its Benghazi e-mails wasn’t in fact about Benghazi, even though the e-mail talks about Benghazi. This is Monty Pythonesque of “Dead Parrot” proportions. That’s not a Benghazi e-mail, it’s just an e-mail about Benghazi, in a folder marked “Benghazi” e-mails, idiot.

"As I said on Fox yesterday, Jay Carney is a very strange creature for Washington. He’s an extremely confident liar — we’ve got a lot of those! — but he’s not very convincing. Usually, confidence = convincing. As George Costanza (and in his own way Bill Clinton) liked to say, it’s not a lie if you believe it when you tell it. But with Carney, he lies in a way that makes it seem not so much like he believes it but that you’re an idiot for not believing it." ...

Andrew C. McCarthy; The AWOL Commander-in-Chief   ... "Outnumbered and fighting off wave after jihadist wave, Americans were left to die in Benghazi while administration officials huddled, not to devise a rescue strategy, but to spin the election-year politics. The most powerful and capable armed forces in the history of the world idled, looking not to their commander-in-chief but to a State Department that busied itself writing press releases about phantom Islamophobia. The president of the United States, the only constitutional official responsible for responding, was nowhere to be found.

"We are left with four dead Americans and an emerging paper trail of dereliction stretching from Benghazi to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue."

Investors.com

Now for some American Geography

Which States Are in the Midwest?   "To get this broad-based view, we asked SurveyMonkey Audience to ask self-identified Midwesterners which states make the cut. We ran a national survey that targeted the Midwest from March 12 to March 17, with 2,778 respondents. Of those, 1,357 respondents  identified “a lot” or “some” as a Midwesterner. We then asked this group to identify the states they consider part of the Midwest."

 

Which States Are in the South?

 

Save for West Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri, these stated made up the Confederacy in the Civil War.

The ‘Blame Bush’ Era May Be at an End

FiveThirtyEight.

 

... "Moreover, the percentage who believe that Obama inherited the nation’s current economic conditions has dipped below 50 percent for the first time. According to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, it’s just 46 percent of Americans. Although that’s only one poll, it’s far beyond the prior low of 56 percent recorded by the NBC survey. And nearly 50 percent is not that low considering that Obama has been in the Oval Office for more than five years. The percentage who believe Obama is responsible is also at an all-time high: 39 percent in the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll."

17 Rules For Taking A Good Photo.

"Don’t stink up your own selfie."

Buzzfeed 
1. Posing with a friend is always more fun.

 

3. Don’t let your drunken friend photobomb you! Who do they think they are??

Play It Where It Lies, And Lies, And Lies

Hope n' Change

"Thanks to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit from the group Judicial Watch, the "most transparent administration in history" has grudgingly coughed up a copy of an email from White House aide Ben Rhodes in which he pushed Susan Rice to go on the Sunday news shows days after the terrorist attack in Benghazi...and blame everything on a ridiculous Internet video rather than any "failure of policy" on the part of Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton.

"But according to White House spokesweasel Jay Carney, "the e-mail and the talking points were not about Benghazi. They were about the general situation in the Muslim world." ...  More..