ISRAEL'S SPY NETWORK IN LEBANON HAS BEEN SEVERELY WEAKENED SINCE OBAMA TOOK OFFICE: IS IT MERELY A COINCIDENCE?

WE REPORTED THIS A WHILE BACK - MAY 11TH:

DAILY STAR (LEBANON): New ISF unit behind arrests of alleged Mossad agents

The capture of several alleged Mossad spies in recent months is the result of a new counter-espionage strategy put in place by Lebanese security agencies, intelligence experts told The Daily Star on Sunday.

More than 17 suspected spies have been arrested since January, including four on Friday, prompting the leader of the Internal Security Forces (ISF) Ashraf Rifi to declare their capture "the strongest security strike against the Israeli Mossad."

The new plan, put in place in the aftermath of the summer 2006 war, saw a specialized counter-espionage unit created as part of the ISF, with specially trained officers taking over a role that had previously been fulfilled by the Lebanese Army.

HMMMMM... 17 SINCE JANUARY...

GEE, WHAT A CO-INKY-DINKY: THAT'S WHEN OBAMA TOOK OVER.

NOW THE BBC IS REPORTING IT:

Lebanon's intelligence war with Israel

BBC News, Beirut

Israel's ability to wage another war against the militant Shia movement Hezbollah may have been compromised by an unprecedented wave of arrests of people in Lebanon alleged to have been spying for the Israelis.

Experts say the arrests appear to add up to a major strategic blow to Israel.

Mobile phone footage circulating in Beirut shows one of the suspected agents being slapped and insulted as he was manhandled out of his house and into the boot of a car.

Lebanese newspapers have reported that more than 40 members of more than a dozen spy networks have been detained so far in a campaign that has gathered pace over the past six weeks, and shows no sign of stopping.

Israel has so far made no public comment on what could be one of its worst-ever intelligence setbacks.

Hardly a day goes by without agents from the Lebanese police, army or general security raiding homes or workplaces in different parts of the country, and taking suspects away.

Explaining the sudden spectacular rash of arrests, Lebanese officials have said that unspecified technological breakthroughs made it all possible.

That may be so. But many unanswered questions remain.

One of the basic principles in setting up espionage networks is that their cells should not be linked in any way, so that the discovery of one does not lead to the kind of wider collapse that seems now to be taking place.

Did the Israelis - who have said nothing to discredit the daily revelations in Beirut - break that fundamental rule?

"Certainly it seems to have been a systemic failure by Israel," said security expert Alastair Crooke, who focuses on Islamic movements.

"Maybe it was a chance find, maybe it was from one person that they interrogated leading to the uncovering of many others, but that in itself would be highly unusual."

Most likely, the arrests were the product of months, perhaps several years, of counter-intelligence work.

UNSPECIFIED TECHNOLOGY THE ISRAELIS DON'T KNOW ABOUT!?

NOT CREDIBLE.

BAD ORGANIZATION BY THE MOSSAD!?

NOT CREDIBLE.

YEARS OF COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE WORK!?

NOT CREDIBLE.

THE SIMPLEST ANSWER - OCCAM'S RAZOR: THEY ARE COINCIDENT TO AND A PRODUCT OF BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA'S PRESIDENCY.

OBAMA REACHES OUT TO MUSLIMS: BACKS HOUSE OF SAUD OVER 9/11 FAMILIES!

UNBEFRICKINLIEVABLE: The Obama administration is supporting efforts by the Saudi royal family to defeat a long-running lawsuit seeking to hold it liable for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

The Justice Department, in a brief filed Friday before the Supreme Court, said it did not believe the Saudis could be sued in American court over accusations brought by families of the Sept. 11 victims that the royal family had helped finance Al Qaeda. The department said it saw no need for the court to review lower court rulings that found in the Saudis’ favor in throwing out the lawsuit.

The government’s position comes less than a week before President Obama is scheduled to meet in Saudi Arabia with King Abdullah as part of a trip to the Middle East and Europe intended to reach out to the Muslim world.

MORE HERE AT JAWA AND HERE AT WZ.

*******UPDATE: THIS IS WHAT OBAMA'S BEST BUDDIES IN SAUDI ARABIA ARE REALLY LIKE:

Saudi beheads and crucifies murder convict

Saudi authorities beheaded and crucified a man convicted of brutally slaying an 11-year-old boy and his father, the Interior Ministry announced.

... Crucifying the headless body in a public place is a way to set an example, according to the kingdom's strict interpretation of Islam. Normally those convicted of rape, murder and drug trafficking in Saudi Arabia are just beheaded.

OBAMA'S OBEISANCE TO THE HOUSE OF SAUD AT THE EXPENSE OF THE VICTIMS OF 9/11 IS YET ANOTHER STOP ON OBAMA'S "APPEASE THE ENEMY EXPRESS". ATLAS:

OBAMA TO OFFER HIS "PERSONAL COMMITMENT" TO MUSLIMS
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CAIRO

His personal commitment? Perhaps Obama will come clean. One thing is fosho, Obama exonerated me from every vile leftwing accusation during the run up to the election. He proved everything I said to be true.

Will Obama be the first Muslim leader in history to be kind to the Jews and infidels? Color me skeptical.

Obama speech to offer personal commitment to Muslims AFP (hat tip Susan)

President Barack Obama will offer a "personal commitment" to bridge US differences with Muslims in his long-awaited speech to the Islamic world next week in Egypt, aides said.

But White House advisors said Friday that Obama would not shy away from addressing "tough issues" in the speech on Thursday at the University of Cairo which will be co-hosted by Al-Azhar University, an ancient center of Islam and learning.

"The speech will outline his personal commitment to engagement, based upon mutual interests and mutual respect," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said.

IF OBAMA REALLY WAS A CRYPTO-MUSLIM AND A SOCIALIST - EVEN A BAATHIST - HE WOULD NOT BE DOING ANYTHING DIFFERENTLY.

IOW: IF IT WALKS LIKE A MUSLIM/SOCIALIST AND QUACKS LIKE A MUSLIM/SOCIALIST, THEN IT'S OBAMA.

HYPOCRISY, THY NAME IS OBAMA, (and thy nominee - Sotomayor)

VIA HOT AIR:

ABC NEWS - Political Punch - Political coverage and musings on pop culture from ABC News Senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper and the ABC News White House team.

First President in US History to Have Voted to Filibuster a Supreme Court Nominee Now Hopes for Clean Process

In January 2006, then-Sen. Obama joined 24 colleagues in a futile effort led by Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., to filibuster the Supreme Court nomination of now-Justice Samuel Alito.

On January 29, 2006, Mr. Obama told George Stephanopulos on "This Week" that he would "be supporting the filibuster because I think Judge Alito, in fact, is somebody who is contrary to core American values, not just liberal values, you know. When you look at his decisions in particular during times of war, we need a court that is independent and is going to provide some check on the executive branch, and he has not shown himself willing to do that repeatedly."

... It does not appear that a filibuster will be attempted against Sotomayor.

The ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., was among 28 Republicans who voted against Sotomayor's ascension to the Court of Appeals in 1998.

But he told CNN this week, "I don't sense a filibuster in the works."

"The nominee has serious problems," Sessions said. "But I would think that we would all have a good hearing, take our time, and do it right. And then the senators cast their vote up or down based on whether or not they think this is the kind of judge that should be on the court."

OBAMA AND THE DEMOCRATS ARE UNPRINCIPLED OR HYPOCRITES.

SESSIONS AND THE GOP ARE PRINCIPLED.

SOTOMAYOR IS A DEMOCRAT - AND EITHER A RACIST (FOR WHAT SHE'S SAID MANY TIMES ABOUT BEING A LATINA AND HOW LATINAS ARE SUPERIOR TO WHITE MEN), OR SHE'S A HYPOCRITE: FOR VOTING WITH WHITE MALE JUDGES AND AGAINST DISCRIMINATION CLAIMS BY PLAINTIFFS BY A RATIO OF 8-TO-1).

THAT'S ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW.

SENATORS: WE DEMAND YOU DISSENT ACCORDINGLY.

FULL ROUND UP HERE.

A SONG FOR THE PEOPLE DISSED BY SOTOMAYOR: A WHITER SHADE OF PALE

FOR ALL THE WHITE MEN OUT THERE WHO'D MAKE INFERIOR JUDGES BECAUSE OF THEIR SKIN COLOR AND GENITALIA:



ANNIE'S VERSION HERE.

WE DEFEATED HARRIET MIERS; WE CAN DEFEAT SOTOMAYOR!

REMEMBER: WE DEFEATED MIERS AND WE ALSO DEFEATED AMNESTY.



WE CAN DEFEAT THE RACIST SOTOMAYOR!

WE HAVE ONLY JUST BEGUN TO FIGHT!

The Obama dollar: like America's national defense under his reign of appeasement: weak and getting weaker

THE DOLLAR IS COLLAPSING UNDER OBAMA: FACTS, FIGURES AND GRAPHS HERE.

SOTOMAYOR IS TOSTADA, (THAT'S LATINA FOR TOAST, GRINGO!)

MORE BACKTRACKING FROM SONIA SOTOMAYOR.


BEING GRATEFUL FOR LITTLE THINGS:

I THANK THE LORD I LIVE IN A COUNTRY WHERE RACISTS DON'T GET ON THE SUPREME COURT.

THE LOOMING RESUMPTION OF THE KOREAN WAR: SEC DEF GATES DRAWS A LINE IN THE SAND

NYTIMES:

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates warned North Korea on Saturday that the United States would not accept it as a nuclear weapons state and would consider any transfer of nuclear material to other countries or terrorist groups a “grave threat” to the United States and its allies.

“We will not stand idly by as North Korea builds the capability to wreak destruction on any target in the region — or on us,” ... North Korea, Mr. Gates said, had a choice: “To continue as a destitute, international pariah, or chart a new course.”

... “President Obama has offered an open hand to tyrannies that unclench their fists,” Mr. Gates said. “He is hopeful, but he is not naïve. Likewise, the United States and our allies are open to dialogue, but we will not bend to pressure or provocation.”

... Military officials traveling with Mr. Gates said the tough talk was aimed at increasing worldwide pressure on North Korea as well as reassuring allies in the region, particularly Japan and South Korea, that the United States was committed to their defense should North Korea make good on talk of war this week. On Wednesday, North Korea threatened military strikes against the South.

TECHNICALLY, A STATE OF WAR EXISTS BETWEEN SOUTH KOREA AND NORTH KOREA - BECAUSE NORTH KOREA HAS DECLARED THE 1953 ARMISTICE NULL AND VOID, AND SAID THEY WOULD ATTACK THE MOMENT THE SOUTH OR THE USA STOPS ANY NORTH KOREAN VESSEL.

• THIS IS CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS REDUX, WITH CHINA PULLING THE STRINGS THIS TIME AND TESTING OBAMA THE WAY RTHE USSR TESTED A YOUNG AND UNPREPARED JFK.

• AND JFK WAS WAY MORE OREPARED THAN OBAMA.

I AM VERY CONCERNED: I FEEL THAT THINGS ARE GOING TO GET A LOT WORSE AND A LOT SOONER THAN ANYONE IMAGINES.

• THE ENTIRE AXIS OF EVIL - INCLUDING RUSSIA AND IRAN - BENEFITS FROM A MAJOR CRISIS HERE, TOO.

• THE FREE WORLD WILL SUFFER - UNLESS WE TAKE THE BULL BY THE HORNS.

• BUSH HAD THE BALLS TO DO WHAT HE HAD TO DO.

• MY GUESS IS OBAMA DOESN'T.

OBAMA, NETANYAHU, ABBAS AND BODY LANGUAGE: THE ASTUTE BLOGGER SCOOPS ALJAZEERA TV BY TWO DAYS

WE POSTED ON THIS HERE, ARGUING THAT OBAMA'S BODY LANGUAGE REVEALED THAT HE FEELS CLOSER TO THE ARABS THAN TO ISRAEL.

ALJAZEERA AGGRES - THEIR STORY HERE:



OBAMA IS GOING TO TRY TO DO TO ISRAEL WHAT HE DID TO CHRYSLER'S BONDHOLDERS AND DID FOR THE UAW: SCREW THE BONDHOLDERS AND HELP HIS UNION PALS.

YES: THE UAW AND THE ARABS ARE OBAMA'S PALS. THE LEFT AND THE JIHAD. BIRDS OF A FEATHER, AS EVER...

FALSE "EVEN-HANDEDNESS", ISRAEL, ARABS, OBAMA AND THE LEFT

• THE LEFT HAS LONG PACKAGED THEIR ANTISEMITISM AS "EVEN-HANDEDNESS" AS IF TREATING A PLURALISTIC DEMOCRATIC ALLY THE SAME AS DICTATORIAL THEOCRATIC THUGOCRACIES WAS MORAL.

• OBAMA IS SMOOTHER THAN MOST LEFTISTS, BUT THE UN-EVEN-HANDEDNESS OF HIS "EVEN-HANDEDNESS" IS STILL OBVIOUS TO ANYONE WITH A SHRED OF MORALITY AND AN OUNCE OF LOGIC.

• SEE OF YOU CAN SPOT THE UN-EVEN-HANDEDNESS; (IF YOU CAN'T YOU JUST MIGHT BE A LEFTIST OR AN ANTISEMITE!):

AP: Deepening his involvement in the quest for a difficult peace, President Barack Obama is pushing a reluctant Israel to halt settlement construction in the West Bank while urging the Palestinians to be more accepting of their Israeli neighbors.

"We can't continue with the drift, with the increased fear and resentment on both sides, the sense of hopelessness around the situation that we've seen for many years now," Obama said Thursday, referring to the idea of Palestinians and Israelis living peacefully as neighbors. "We need to get this thing back on track."

Obama said part of Israel's obligations include "stopping settlements."

... The president also pushed Palestinians to hold up their end, including increased security in the West Bank to give Israelis confidence in their safety.

Obama said he told Abbas the Palestinians must find a way to halt the incitement of anti-Israeli sentiments that are sometimes expressed in schools, mosques and public arenas. "All those things are impediments to peace," Obama said.

NEED HELP?! HERE:

OBAMA TO ISRAEL: STOP ALL NEW BUILDING ON ALL SETTLEMENTS; THAT'S AN ORDER, COMPLETE, FINAL, NO EXCUSES, NO EXCEPTIONS.

OBAMA TO ARABS: COULD YOU PLEASE MAYBE KINDA SORTA TRY TO MAYBE YA KNOW PRETTY-PLEASE FIND A WAY - IF IT'S NOT TO HARD - TO CUT BACK ON THE GENOCIDAL INCITEMENT AGAINST JOOOOOOZE?

IF THAT IS EVENHANDED THEN BIN LADEN DESERVES THE PEACE PRIZE!

AND ANOTHER THING: OBAMA OPENS WITH THIS FALSE MORAL EQUIVALENCE:

"We can't continue with the drift, with the increased fear and resentment on both sides,

HE PRONOUNCES HIS ANALYSIS ABOUT "DRIFT" AND "RESENTMENT ON BOTH SIDES" AS IF BOTH SIDES WERE EQUALLY TO BLAME.

THAT'S AMORAL AT BEST.

MORE PROOF OF OBAMA ANTI-ZIONISM HERE. VERY TROUBLING.

SOTOMAYOR: HER "MACACA MOMENT" MEANS SHE'S NOT QUALIFIED TO BE A JUROR

WHAT SOTOMAYOR SAID - AND WHAT'S SHE'S WRITTEN - ARE WORSE THAN GEORGE ALLEN'S MACACA MOMENT.

SOTOMAYOR HAS SAID THAT SHE IS PROUD TO BE A RACIST.

NOT THE SHE IS PROUD TO BE A WOMAN AND A PUERTO RICAN, BUT A RACIST.

AND SHE SAID IT A LOT, NOT ONCE - BUT A LOT, AND IN WRITING.

SHE WOULD NOT QUALIFY TO BE A JUROR; FACTS IN A POST BY MCCARTHY, AND A ROUND UP HERE.

• QUESTION: WOULD YOU WANT THE JUDGE IN YOUR CASE TO BE SOMEONE WHO WOULDN'T QUALITFY TO BE A JUROR ON YOUR CASE?
• ANSWER; HARDLY.
• BOTTOM-LINE: SOTOMAYOR IS A RACIST.
• SENATORS SHOULD VOTE NO.

WE STOPPED HARRIET MIERS; WE CAN STOP SOTOMAYOR.

AND ANOTHER THING: ONCE AGAIN OBAMA'S DECISION-MAKING AND VETTING OF NOMINEES HAS FALLEN WAY WAY SHORT.

UPDATE: I THINK OBAMA IS GONG TO LOSE THIS -AND SOONER THAN YOU THINK! THE LATEST FROM AP:

President Barack Obama on Friday personally sought to deflect criticism of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, who finds herself under intensifying scrutiny for saying in 2001 that a female Hispanic judge would often reach a better decision than a white male judge. "I'm sure she would have restated it," Obama flatly told NBC News, without indicating how he knew that.

The quote in question from Sotomayor has emerged as a rallying call for conservative critics who fear she will offer opinions from the bench based less on the rule of law and more on her life experience, ethnicity and gender. That issue is likely to play a central role in her Senate confirmation process.

"I think that when she's appearing before the Senate committee, in her confirmation process, I think all this nonsense that is being spewed out will be revealed for what it is," Obama said in the broadcast interview, clearly aware of how ethnicity and gender issues are taking hold in the debate.

The president's damage control underscored how the White House is eager to stay on message as the battle to publicly define Sotomayor picks up.

Obama's top spokesman, Robert Gibbs, told reporters about Sotomayor: "I think she'd say that her word choice in 2001 was poor."

... She said in 2001: "I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life." The remark was in the context her saying that "our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging."

Sotomayor's comments came in a lecture, titled "A Latina Judge's Voice," that she gave in 2001 at the law school of the University of California, Berkeley.

After three days of suggesting that reporters and critics should not dwell on one sentence from a speech, the White House had a different message Friday.

... More than one line in the 2001 speech has helped drive the debate over Sotomayor's judgment.

She also said, for example: "Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see."

WORD CHOICE!? SHE FREAKIN WROTE AN ESSAY TITLED "A LATINA JUDGE'S VOICE" - THE WHOLE FRIGGIN POINT OF THE ESSAY AND ADDRESS WAS RACIST.

OBAMA'S NOT GOING TO WIN. RACISTS DON'T BELONG ON THE COURT. SHE DOESN'T DESERVE TO BE ON THE COURT.

WE STOPPED HARRIET MIERS; WE CAN STOP SOTOMAYOR.

AUTHENTICITY: BARACK OBAMA AND SONIA SOTOMAYOR VERSUS CLARENCE THOMAS

AUTHENTICITY IS THE SECOND FAVORITE CONCEPT OF THE LEFT - (FIRST IS VICTIMHOOD).

THE AP REVEALS THAT SOTOMAYOR - LIKE OBAMA HIMSELF - IS INAUTHENTIC (AS A SYMBOL OF RACISM OR POVERTY) AND A FRAUD FOR EVER CLAIMING VICTIM-STATUS DUE TO HER CLASS OR HER RACE.

AP:

The White House portrays Sotomayor as a living image of the American dream, though its telling of the rags-to-riches story emphasizes the rags, a more politically appealing narrative, and plays down the riches.

... "Born in the South Bronx, she was raised in a housing project," Obama said. "And even as she has accomplished so much in her life, she has never forgotten where she began, never lost touch with the community that supported her."

Yet Sotomayor did not live her entire childhood in a housing project in the South Bronx — she spent most of her teenage years in a middle-class neighborhood, attending private school and winning scholarships to Princeton and then Yale.

And Sotomayor's life and lifestyle after law school largely resemble the background of many lawyers who rise to powerful positions in Washington.

She climbed her way up through New York's Democratic power structure boosted by its ultimate brokers over those years — Gov. Mario Cuomo, Mayor Ed Koch, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan and District Attorney Robert Morgenthau. That's the access of a partner in a corporate law firm, not a kid from the South Bronx.

• SOTOMAYOR - LIKE OBAMA - IS NOT A PERSON WHO PERSONALLY OVERCAME ABJECT POVERTY AND HORRIBLE ETHNIC PERSECUTION.

• SOTOMAYOR - LIKE OBAMA - HAD A RELATIVELY PRIVILEGED CHILDHOOD IN PRIVATE SCHOOLS AND IVY LEAGUE COLLEGES.

• THE ONLY AFRICAN-AMERICAN ON THE COURT - THE BRILLIANT CLARENCE THOMAS - HAD A TRULY IMPOVERISHED CHILDHOOD AND WAS BORN INTO AND RAISED IN ABJECT POVERTY AND UNDER HORRIBLE RACIST PERSECUTION - AND HE OVERCAME IT ALL.

• OF THE THREE - OBAMA, SOTOMAYOR AND THOMAS - ONLY THOMA'S PERSONAL STORY IS ONE OF EXTRAORDINARY PERSONAL COURAGE AND EXTRAORDINARY PERSONAL PERSEVERANCE.

REMINDER: OF OBAMA AND THOMAS ONLY ONE IS AUTHENTICALLY AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN.

YEAH, IS SAID IT, AND I'LL SAY IT AGAIN: OF OBAMA AND THOMAS ONLY ONE IS AUTHENTICALLY AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN.

• AN AUTHENTIC AFRICAN-AMERICAN IS SOMEONE DESCENDED FROM SLAVES WHOSE FORBEARS SURVIVED SLAVERY, RECONSTRUCTION, JIM CROW AND THE WELL-INTENTIONED WELFARE-STATE DEBACLE CALLED "THE GREAT SOCIETY". THOMAS IS AN AUTHENTIC AFRICAN-AMERICAN.
  

• OBAMA IS CORRECTLY CALLED A KENYAN-AMERICAN: NEITHER OF HIS PARENTS WERE DESCENDED FROM SLAVES AND NONE OF HIS FAMILY PARTICIPATED IN ANY OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT - AT ANY TIME; THEREFORE, OBAMA IS NOT AN AUTHENTIC AFRICAN-AMERICAN.
  

• MORE IMPORTANTLY: OBAMA HIMSELF LIVED A LIFE OF PRIVILEGE COMPARED TO THE LIVES OF MOST BLACKS - AND ESPECIALLY COMPARED TO THOMAS'S LIFE.

YET THE LEFT AND LIBERAL VILIFY THOMAS - AND CALL HIM INAUTHENTIC - AND LOVE OBAMA. AND NOW LOVE SOTOMAYOR.

IT'S A LOAD OF CRAP.

HOLLOW, SHALLOW, HYPOCRITICAL CRAP.

DON'T BE DUPED.

WE NEED A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR TO FIND OUT WHY OBAMA APPOINTEES AT DOJ DROPPED THE BLACK PANTHER CASE

WASH TIMES:

Justice Department political appointees overruled career lawyers and ended a civil complaint accusing three members of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense of wielding a nightstick and intimidating voters at a Philadelphia polling place last Election Day, according to documents and interviews.

The incident - which gained national attention when it was captured on videotape and distributed on YouTube - had prompted the government to sue the men, saying they violated the 1965 Voting Rights Act by scaring would-be voters with the weapon, racial slurs and military-style uniforms.

Career lawyers pursued the case for months, including obtaining an affidavit from a prominent 1960s civil rights activist who witnessed the confrontation and described it as "the most blatant form of voter intimidation" that he had seen, even during the voting rights crisis in Mississippi a half-century ago.

Justice Department political appointees overruled career lawyers and ended a civil complaint accusing three members of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense of wielding a nightstick and intimidating voters at a Philadelphia polling place last Election Day, according to documents and interviews.

The incident - which gained national attention when it was captured on videotape and distributed on YouTube - had prompted the government to sue the men, saying they violated the 1965 Voting Rights Act by scaring would-be voters with the weapon, racial slurs and military-style uniforms.

Career lawyers pursued the case for months, including obtaining an affidavit from a prominent 1960s civil rights activist who witnessed the confrontation and described it as "the most blatant form of voter intimidation" that he had seen, even during the voting rights crisis in Mississippi a half-century ago.

The lawyers also had ascertained that one of the three men had gained access to the polling place by securing a credential as a Democratic poll watcher, according to interviews and documents reviewed by The Washington Times.

The career Justice lawyers were on the verge of securing sanctions against the men earlier this month when their superiors ordered them to reverse course, according to interviews and documents. The court had already entered a default judgment against the men on April 20.

OBAMA'S APPOINTEES ARE OBVIOUSLY COVERING UP TIES BETWEEN THE PANTHERS AND THE PARTY - AND PERHAPS ACORN.

I DEMAND THE APPOINTMENT OF A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR TO INVESTIGATE IF OBAMA'S CAMPAIGN VIOLATED ELECTIONS LAW AND THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT.

MORE FROM MALKIN HERE.

WHAT IF THE JOOZE DIDN'T "OCCUPY" "ARAB LAND"?

Let's do a mind experiment...

What if the joooooooze didn't "occupy" "Arab land" - would the Buddhas of Bamiyan never have been blown up?

What if the joooooooze didn't "occupy" "Arab land" - would the 4000 Buddhist Thais murdered by Muslims in southern Thailand still be alive?

What if the joooooooze didn't "occupy" "Arab land" - would the thousands of Filipinos murdered by Muslims in the Moro Islands still be alive?

What if the joooooooze didn't "occupy" "Arab land" - would the Shah of Iran still be in power?

What if the joooooooze didn't "occupy" "Arab land" - would Pakistan be a peaceful Muslim nation from the FATA to Swat to Karachi?

What if the joooooooze didn't "occupy" "Arab land" - would the Uighurs be living peacefully in China?

What if the joooooooze didn't "occupy" "Arab land" - would the nearly 2 million Sudanese slaughtered by Muslims still be alive?

What if the joooooooze didn't "occupy" "Arab land" - would Bombay never have been attacked, would Gujarat be a peaceful place where Hindus and Muslims co-existed in harmony?

What if the joooooooze didn't "occupy" "Arab land" - would Christians in the Middle East and Saudi Arabia and Copts in Egypt be allowed to worship and proselytize openly?

What if the joooooooze didn't "occupy" "Arab land" - would Chechnya be a peaceful place where Russians and Chechen's lived in harmony?

THE ANSWER TO ALL THESE QUESTIONS IS THE SAME: NO.

Yet many seemingly bright and informed people in esteemed positions constantly argue that the Arab-Israeli conflict fuels global jihad. Most of these people are liberals and leftists and Democrats, by the way.

IT'S A LOAD OF ANTISEMITIC CRAP.

Home Bible Studies Deemed Illegal in San Diego

Are home Bible studies illegal in San Diego? That’s the question many are asking after Pastor David Jones and his wife Mary, who live in San Diego, were told by the county of San Diego they needed to either stop their Bible study or get a costly permit. Read more here.

OBAMA'S CAP & TRADE = AMERICANS TAXED'N SPLAYED, AS IN BEND OVER!

AMERICAN SOLUTIONS:

Today, when talking about cap and trade, Speaker Pelosi said: "Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory ... of how we are taking responsibility."

We must fight back against those who want to dictate to us how we use our energy - in our homes, in our cars, you name it.

We've launched our "Stop the Energy Tax" petition to get this message out. To start off, watch this new video we produced and then sign the petition by clicking here.

SIGN THE PETITION.

MORE PROOF THAT LIBERALS LOVE HUMANITY BUT HATE PEOPLE

VERUM SERUM: Billionaires Agree on Plan to Rid Earth of a Billion People

No, I’m not kidding:

SOME of America’s leading billionaires have met secretly to consider how their wealth could be used to slow the growth of the world’s population and speed up improvements in health and education.

The philanthropists who attended a summit convened on the initiative of Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder, discussed joining forces to overcome political and religious obstacles to change.

Described as the Good Club by one insider it included David Rockefeller Jr, the patriarch of America’s wealthiest dynasty, Warren Buffett and George Soros, the financiers, Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York, and the media moguls Ted Turner and Oprah Winfrey.

MORE FROM THE LONDON TIMES ARTICLE:

At a conference in Long Beach, California, last February, he had made similar points. “Official projections say the world’s population will peak at 9.3 billion [up from 6.6 billion today] but with charitable initiatives, such as better reproductive healthcare, we think we can cap that at 8.3 billion,” Gates said then.

GATES: "... we think we can cap that ... " HOW!?!?! BY WHAT RIGHT!?

• THIS IS THE SORT OF UTOPIANIST THINKING WHICH LED STALIN AND MAO AND POL POT AND OTHER SOCIALISTS TO MURDER 150 MILLION PEOPLE IN THE LAST CENTURY,

• AND WHICH ALLOWED MANY MANY MILLIONS MORE TO DIE INDIRECTLY - VIA BANS ON DDT IN AFRICA, AND LIMITS ON INDUSTRIALIZATION AND TRADE IN INDIA AND CHINA, AND SO ON...

• THESE ARE THE GULFSTREAM DO-GOODERS, THE LIMOUSINE LIBERALS, THE ELEGANTLY LEFTIST ELITISTS WHO WANT US TO DRIVE MINIS AS THEY DRIVE MAYBACHS.

• THESE ARE THE KIND OF FOLKS WHO FOUNDED PLANNED PARENTHOOD IN ORDER TO INCREASE ABORTIONS AMONG THE WORKING CLASS, AND WHO FAVOR EUTHANASIA AND EUGENICS.

THEY WANT MORE PEOPLE TO DIE SO THEIR SOCIALISTIC VISION OF UTOPIA CAN LIVE.

THEY SHOULD STFU AND GFT.

THERE IS ROOM FOR EVERYONE AT THE BANQUET OF LIFE.

ALL POOR PEOPLE OF THE WORLD NEED TO END THEIR POVERTY IS MORE LIBERTY AND MORE INDUSTRIALIZATION/GLOBALIZATION.

TO DO THAT, ALL WE NEED TO DO IS GET RID OF THE LEFT!

AS PREDICTED: OBAMA TURNS THE SCREWS ON ISRAEL - NOT HAMAS, NOT HIZBALLAH, NOT SYRIA, NOT IRAN...

ALL GOOD JEWS - AS IN ZIONISTS - WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA SHOULD REPENT:

President Barack Obama on Thursday challenged Israel to stop settlement construction in the West Bank on the same day the Israelis rejected that demand.

... In strong language, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton had said Wednesday that Obama wants a halt to all settlement construction, including "natural growth." Israel uses that term for new housing and other construction that it says will accommodate the growth of families living in existing settlements.

Israeli spokesman Mark Regev responded Thursday by saying some construction would go on.

... Israelis will be anxiously watching Obama's June 4 speech in Cairo, where he will deliver a message to the Muslim world to try to repair relations that frayed badly under the Bush administration. Obama will also visit Saudi Arabia before he goes to Egypt.

"I want to use the occasion to deliver a broader message about how the United States can change for the better its relationship with the Muslim world," Obama said of his Egypt speech. "That will require, I think, a recognition on both the part of the United States as well as many majority Muslim countries about each other, a better sense of understanding, and I think possibilities to achieve common ground."

OBAMA: SACRIFICING ISRAEL FOR A BETTER RELATIONSHIP WITH MUSLIMS.

SOME MIGHT SAY: AS IT WAS WRITTEN.

FOUR MORE MORE NHS NIGHTMARES

YORKSHIRE POST: Mother blames NHS for fire death

A GRIEVING mother has told an inquest that an NHS beds crisis was to blame for the death of her aspiring pop star daughter who was killed by a fire in her Yorkshire bedsit.

An inquest heard that bakery worker Sheree Goose, 32, was rescued alive by firefighters from the smoke-filled room just four minutes after her boyfriend Paul Wood.

Although critically injured Mr Wood was transferred to a hospital burns unit, no NHS bed was found for Miss Goose.

A pathologist's report revealed she died from 40 per cent burns and showed she had taken a large dose of heroin.

Doctors at Barnsley District Hospital could not find a bed at a burns unit anywhere in Yorkshire for Miss Goose, but her partner, 33, was transferred to Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester.

HD EXAMINER:

HEALTH chiefs have pledged to tackle patients’ concerns about GP surgeries in Kirklees.

A recent consultation showed that struggling to get GP appointments and waiting times are the key issue for patients in Kirklees.

Top of patients wish list are improvements in access to GP appointments, waiting times and anger at being asked to call back at another time.

The same issues also related to access to hospital services.

THIS IS GLOUCESTERSHIRE:

HEALTH chiefs in Gloucestershire paid for more than 800 patients to be treated at private hospitals last year in a bid to slash waiting lists.

Figures released in response to an Echo Freedom of Information request reveal patients have been sent as far away as Oxford as part of a Government drive to reduce delays in the health service.

In total, 804 patients suffering from broken bones, degenerative diseases and tumours were referred to private hospitals between April 2008 and March this year.

THE HERALD/LETTER: Waiting in pain

I note the maximum waiting time to see a consultant from referral by a GP is 18 weeks ("Hospital waiting times at record low", The Herald, May 27). I was referred by my GP in December last year and am not due to see a consultant until June 18. I also note that, in the case of a test being needed before treatment, the maximum waiting time from test to treatment is 15 weeks. I doubt that NHS Forth Valley will meet that objective in my case.

BOTTOM-LINE: THE NHS SUCKS. BRITS KNOW IT.

BUT OBAMA APPARENTLY DOESN'T KNOW IT OR DOESN'T CARE.

PERHAPS OBAMA CARES MORE ABOUT HELPING THE SEIU - A BIG HOPSITAL UNION THAN HELPING CITIZENS WITH HEALTHCARE.

THREATENING MILLIONS, MALARIA IS BECOMING DRUG RESISTANT; SADLY, THE SIMPLE & CHEAP SOLUTION IS NOT PC: IT'S DDT

BBC: Fears for new malaria drug resistance

... In a small community in Western Cambodia, scientists are puzzling over why malaria parasites seem to be developing a resistant to drugs - and fearing the consequences....

In the past, artesunates have always cleared malaria parasites from the blood in two or three days. But after four days of monitored treatment, Chhem Bunchhin was still testing positive for parasites.

Dr Delia Bethell, an investigator working on the clinical trials, said he wasn't alone. Out of about 90 patients included in the study so far, roughly a third to half were still positive for malaria parasites after three days, some even after four or five days. ...

"It appears that the parasite probably is developing some kind of tolerance or is somehow less sensitive to the effects of the drug. But nobody knows why that might be." ...

The concern is that this could be the start of emerging resistance to the artemesinin family of drugs.

If full-blown resistance did develop, it would be extremely dire.

"This is by far the most effective drug we have," explained Dr Bethell.
"And there are no new drugs coming through the system in the next few years."

Scientists are particularly concerned because the last two generations of anti-malarial drugs were undermined by resistance.

... Professor Nick Day, director of the Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, is also running clinical trials in the region.

He and his team have also found that artesunate-type drugs are starting to become less effective.

This resistance must be contained urgently, because its spread would be a global health disaster, he said.

Resistance to previous malaria drugs caused major loss of life in Africa, he said.

"If the same thing happens again, the spread of a resistant parasite from Asia to Africa, then that will have devastating consequences for malaria control."

In a clearing in the jungle, about one and a half hours drive from Pailin along rough dirt roads, I watched health workers distribute mosquito nets to about 200 villagers.

It's one of a series of measures being rushed through to stop the spread of resistant parasites.

If they're not contained, history may repeat itself - and the fear is that many millions of people worldwide will lose their protection against this deadly disease.

More here at the liberal Guardian.

The solution is simple: use more DDT.

There's only one thing preventing it: LIBERALS.

PHOTO ESSAY: BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA AND MAHMOUD ABBAS HAVE A COZY GET TOGETHER - contrasted with Bibi'n Barry

The body language between the muslim and former muslim is differenet than between Obama and Bibi...

MIDDLE EASTS'S CHRISTIAN POPULATION NEARS EXTINCTION

Christian Plight In The Middle East

Pope Benedict XVI’s recently concluded visit to Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian territories, highlighted the demographic and political decline of Christian communities in the region. Nearly a century ago Christians accounted for 20 percent of the region’s population — today they number less than 5 percent.

Israel is the only place in the Middle East where Christian social and political growth is taking place.

Elsewhere in the region, a dwindling Christian population is getting close to extinction as a result of Muslim intimidation and violence and, lack of economic opportunities leading to ever increasing emigration.

RTWT.

• THE POPE IS DOING DIDDLY-SQUAT IN THE MIDDLE EAST TO PROTECT CHRISTIANITY.

• THE POPE IS DOING DIDDLY-SQUAT IN THE EUROPE TO PROTECT CHRISTIANITY.

• THE WEST - THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN WEST - NEEDS RELIGIOUS LEADERS WHO WILL UNABASHEDLY STAND UP FOR WESTERN RELIGION.

• OUR TRADITIONAL POLITICIANS WON'T.

FORMER MUSLIM: “If you truly follow Islam, you must be violent”

BUFFALO REFLEX - VIA ROP:

Shayesteh became a Christian, and when his wife and three daughters were able to join him in Turkey, they noticed the big difference in his life.

American politicians often speak diplomatically about Muslims, but Shayesteh minces no words in speaking out about how Christians and Jews need to understand Islamic law.

“Women are considered inferior,” he said. “You can beat your wife and lock her in a room until she dies. In fact, you must be violent towards your wife.”

President Obama recently said that Muslims have made many great contributions to America.

“That was embarrassing,” Shayesteh said. “I have just one answer for that — name one.”

One point of debate over the past few years has been whether radical Islamists are an exception or whether the Koran and the Islamic religion are inherently violent. Shayesteh believes the latter to be true.

“If you truly follow Islam, you must be violent,” he said. “Of course, there are millions of Muslims who aren’t following Islam.” He added that among the 60 Muslim nations, there are none that allow freedom of speech or religion.

RTWT.

• SPREADING APPEASING LIES ABOUT ISLAM DOESNT MAKE US SAFER.
• SO WHY DO OBAMA AND THE LEFT DO IT?
• THEY WANT US BROUGHT DOWN A NOTCH.

DEALERGATE SMOKING GUN: STATISTICAL PROOF THAT WHOEVER SELECTED DEALERSHIPS TO BE CLOSED LOOKED AT WHO OWNED THEM AND NOT JUST THE NUMBERS

I think this item - from JONAH at The Corner (who is skeptical of the political angle) - actually proves that SOMEBODY paid very VERY close attention to the identity of which Chrysler dealers would not be renewed; (weirdly, Jonah posted this from a reader as if it buttressed the skeptic's interpretation of events):

Of the 789 Chrysler dealers who were notified that their contracts will not be renewed, 38 are minority owned…

At the end of April, there were 154 minority dealers in Chrysler’s 3,181 total U.S. dealer body network….

You’ll see that 4.8% of the auto dealerships closed were minority owned.

Total percentage of all Chrysler dealerships that are minority owned? 4.8%

THAT'S RIGHT: THE % OF MINORITY OWNED DEALERS CLOSED IS EXACTLY THE % MINORITY OWNED.

THIS CANNOT POSSIBLY BE AN ACCIDENT, OR RANDOM.

REPEAT: THIS CANNOT POSSIBLY BE AN ACCIDENT, OR RANDOM.

REPEAT: THIS CANNOT POSSIBLY BE AN ACCIDENT, OR RANDOM.

THIS PROVES THAT
WHOEVER DECIDED WHICH DEALERSHIP
WOULD GET CLOSED LOOKED AT
WHO OWNED WHICH DEALERSHIP.

REPEAT: THIS PROVES THAT WHOEVER DECIDED WHICH DEALERSHIP WOULD GET CLOSED LOOKED AT WHO OWNED WHICH DEALERSHIP.

REPEAT: THIS PROVES THAT WHOEVER DECIDED WHICH DEALERSHIP WOULD GET CLOSED LOOKED AT WHO OWNED WHICH DEALERSHIP.

IT WAS NOT BASED ON NUMBERS ALONE.

WHOEVER DECIDED NOT TO CLOSE A DISPROPORTIONATE AMOUNT OF MINORITY OWNED DEALERSHIPS, MAY HAVE VERY WELL DECIDED TO CLOSE A DISPROPORTIONATE AMOUNT OF "GOP" DEALERSHIPS OR DEALERSHIPS IN GOP COUNTIES OR IN GOP CD'S.

THE PLAINTIFFS MUST DEMAND THAT THE BANKRUPTCY JUDGE GET THIS INVESTIGATED.

THE PRESIDENTIAL TASK FORCE AND THE WHITE HOUSE SHOULD BE SUBPOENAED.

ROUND UP HERE.

BMW Covers Cap and Trade, Imaginary Laurels, Secret Weapons, Self-Defense and Nuclear Options

As a bonus today, I offer coverage of five topics I'm certain are near and dear to your hearts. The links to five posts published today at Bob McCarty Writes:

• If Passed, Cap-and-Trade Bill Will Cost You Dearly -- The Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill will hit consumers of petroleum fuels especially hard by dramatically increasing the costs of goods and services, according to two groups closely following the legislation.

• You Can’t Rest on Imaginary Laurels! -- President Barack Obama was only half-right when he shared those words with an audience at a Democratic National Committee fundraising event in California. Why? Because the laurels exist only in Obama’s mind!

• Should Japan Replace ‘Secret Weapon’ with Nukes? -- Should Japan replace the “secret weapon” that has protected the East Asian nation for more than 60 years with nuclear weapons? That’s the question many people are asking in the wake of North Korea detonating a nuclear weapon and firing missiles earlier this week.

• Self-Defense Claim on Trial in Oklahoma City -- Jerome Ersland, a 57-year-old Oklahoma City pharmacist, is in court today, facing first-degree murder charges for his role in the May 19 shooting death of 16-year-old Antwun Parker.

• One Nuclear Option Best for Iran, North Korea -- A David Donar cartoon captures perfectly the best nuclear weapons options available to Iran and North Korea as both seek to become nuclear powers.

Enjoy!

IS THE USA TEETERING?

TEETERING - not Tweetering. The United States is being lead to the precipice by President Obama and risks a painful slide down a slippery slope to mediocrity and impotence. The US Debt Clock gives a live picture of the present situation seen from a strictly numerical viewpoint. What is does not show is that the current administration is implementing policies which are disadvantageous to the very forces that will lead the US out of the current crisis. Many contributors on this site have produced compelling examples of this behaviour. Yesterday - the financial markets began to exhibit the first signs of just how the United States may go over: the recent fall in treasury prices does not bode well for the ability for the US Treasury to finance Obama's stimulus /rescue program as it floods markets with longer termed paper. Watch out if the Federal Reserve Bank becomes an increasingly dominant buyer of US Treasuries as private capital and foreign banks begin to choke on the plat du jour. Any weakness will be compounded by negative psychology in the market and an increasingly weak dollar. With a President who seems to emulate Carter abroad and Chavez at home I am afraid the next decade may be one of a weak dollar (-30%-50%-90%) and an Eagle with broken wings.

OBAMA AND THE MUGABE-IZATION OF AMERICA

• LIKE FELLOW SOCIALISTS MUGABE AND CHAVEZ, OBAMA IS EFFECTIVELY SEIZING PROPERTY OF HIS POLITICAL OPPONENTS.

• THESE SEIZURES - ALONG WITH HIS ENORMOUS SPENDING - WILL HAVE DISASTROUS RESULTS, ECONOMINCALLY - AS IT ALWAYS DOES.

MORE PROOF CHRYSLER DEALERSHIP CLOSINGS WERE POLITICAL

DOUG HAS THE ANALYSIS.

IT'S AN OPEN AND SHUT CASE.

DOUG DESERVES A PULITZER.

OBAMA DESERVES TO BE IMPEACHED.

AT THE VERY LEAST: I DEMAND OBAMA APPOINT A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR.

HE WILL - UNLESS HE THINKS HE HAS NOTHING TO HIDE.

Mohamed ElBaradei Insists That Iranians "Are Not Fanatics"

From this article in Newsweek, with regard to the bargaining style of the Iranians, in ElBaradei's own words:

...They know what they want. They are excellent on the strategic goals, excellent on waiting for the right price. I don't want to make them sound like superhumans; you do see a lot of infighting among them. And part of it is about who is going to get credit for finally breaking out of this 30 years of fighting and confrontation with the United States. Everybody is positioning himself to be the national hero who would finally put Iran back onto the world map as part of the mainstream. They are not like the stereotyped fanatics bent on destroying everybody around them. They are not.

And this fellow - a Moslem and member of the ummah, of course - has been doing the following, according to Newsweek's own introduction to the article:

As head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei has spent the past 11 years trying to keep Iran from getting nuclear weapons. The Nobel Peace Prize winner recently spoke to NEWSWEEK'S Christopher Dickey about his intense, often frustrating dialogue with the Iranians—and with the Americans.

ElBaradei hasn't done a good job of keeping Iran from going nuclear. Iran has been proceeding in that direction for much of the time that ElBaradei has been employed by the IAEA.

Please see this May 16, 2009 posting by Reliapundit for one example of how ElBaradei rebukes Israel. He doesn't use that same tone about or with Iran.

Just how did ElBaradei merit receiving the Nobel Peace Prize?

WHAT IF AUTHORS WHO HAVE WRITTEN ABOUT OBAMA HAD TO TELL THE TRUTH?

BY ILLEGALLY SEIZING PRIVATE PROPERTY, OBAMA HAS VIOLATED THE CONSTITUTION AND COMMITTED AN IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE

THE US CONSTITUTION:

Amendment IV

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

• BY CLOSING CHRYSLER DEALERSHIPS BECAUSE THEY ARE (A) OWNED BY PEOPLE WHO HAVE DONATED TO THE GOP, OR ARE (B) LOCATED IN "RED COUNTIES", OR ARE (C) LOCATED IN GOP CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS OBAMA VIOLATED THE FOURTH AMENDMENT - AND DID SO FOR POLITICAL REASONS.

• THE BANKRUPTCY COURT SHOULD DEMAND COMPLETE TRANSPARENCY AND SUBPOENA ALL DOCUMENTS REGARDING DEALERSHIP "CLOSURES" - INCLUDING DOCUMENTS GENERATED BY THE PRESIDENTIAL TASK FORCE, RATNER, THE WHITE HOUSE AND OBAMA.

• AND - BECAUSE HOLDER CAN'T BE TRUSTED TO INVERTOGATE THIS - IT'S TIME FOR A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR.
  

WHAT OBAMA HAS DONE IS WHAT MUGABE DID TO WHITE FARMERS IN ZIMBABWE, WHAT CASTRO DID IN CUBA, AND WHAT CHAVEZ IS DOING IN VENEZUELA.

IT IS SOCIALISM, AND MUST BE STOPPED.

Police Forces Perform Illegal Search And Seizure Via AT&T

Not via court, but via corporate order.

From BabbaZee:

The suspect was utilizing his cell phone to communicate this information. Detective Joe Zblewski initiated a GPS track of the suspects cell phone by initiating an AT&T Exigent Circumstances Form (which is faxed to AT&T), which is a formal request to AT&T to track the location of the cell phone being used by our suspect. This process uses triangulation of cell towers signals, and can determine the location of cell calls being made from a specific cell phone. We received communication from AT&T, through this process, that the calls being made from our suspect were originating from within 2700 block of E. Carpenter Ave.

OK... so, within minutes law enforcement has obtained an unusual and exigent circumstances waiver to locate you, however this power was not granted to them by a judge or a court ~
but by a CORPORATION... via fax!

An AT&T Exigent Circumstances Form.

Think about that sh*t for a bit.

Speech to Muslim World Hinges on Venue, Content

President Barack Obama will travel to Egypt next week. While there, he is expected to deliver a major address to the Muslim world, thus fulfilling a promise made during his presidential campaign. As he fulfills that promise, some say his choice of a venue and the content of his message could prove controversial. You decide.

The story is here.

ABANDON THE FAILED 2-STATE NOTION

Moshe Ya'alon continues with some wise observations about why the 2-state propaganda must be left behind:

(IsraelNN.com) Minister of Strategic Affairs Moshe (Boogie) Yaalon believes that the time has come for Israel to “free itself from the failed paradigm” of the “two-state solution.” Yaalon spoke Tuesday at a meeting of MKs dedicated to finding an alternative to the creation of a Palestinian Authority-led Arab state.

While the creation of a PA-led state in Judea, Samaria and Gaza is perceived as a necessity both in Israel and worldwide, such a state would not solve the Israel-PA conflict, said Yaalon. In fact, he said, it is doubtful that the possibility of creating such a state exists, due to Arab and Muslim reluctance to take any step that would imply recognition of Israel or compromise on Arab claims to the entire Land of Israel.

On some related notes, aside from that, the government is going to have to a]take convincing steps to prove that it will allow for new homes to be built, and b]will not keep on dismantling "outposts". So far, I assume that Ehud Barak, who wants to do the latter, has been convinced by those concerned in the coalition not to, as he has backed off of destroying several homes in Ofra. But there's still much more that needs to be done about the problem, and let us note that even Netanyahu cannot be ignored here.

RELIAPUNDIT ADDS:

I BELIEVE IN THE TWO STATE SOLUTION: ISRAEL AND JORDAN.

• BRITISH "PALESTINE" CONSISTED OF WHAT IS NOW ISRAEL AND WHAT IS NOW JORDAN.
• ISRAEL WAS SUPPOSED TO INCLUDE MOST OF WHAT IS NOW JORDAN.
• I SAY, WE LET THE ARABS KEEP JORDAN, WE ANNEX THE SO-CALLED "OCCUPIED TERRITORY"/'WEST BANK", OFFER ARABS IN THE "WEST BANK" AN ISRAELI PASSPORT OR A JORDANIAN ONE; AND GIVE ARABS WHO TAKE AN ISRAELI PASSPORT A LOT OF LOCAL POLITICAL POWER.
• AND WE TREAT GAZA EXACTLY THEY DESERVE TO BE TREATED: AS A HOSTILE STATE WE ARE AT WAR WITH.

COMMUNISTS SHOOT STUDENTS - DON'T THEY?

On June 2, 1967, 26 year old Benno Ohnesorg was shot in the back of the head by a police officer - Heinz Kurras - during a student protest against the Shah of Iran.

The photograph of Ohnesborg lying lifeless on the pavement became an iconic image among the left in West Germany - and has been credited with inspiring and galvanising the violent leftwing terror groups such as RAF (Rote Armee Fraktion) and the Bewegung 2 Juni - M2J.

The ideology and deeds of these groups were anti-capitalist, anti-zionist, and anti-semitic.

Heinz Kurras was aquitted for the death of Ohnesorg.

Recently, Stasi expert Helmut Müller-Enbergs has uncovered proof in the Stasi archives that Kurras was a member of the Communist Party (SED) and a Stasi Agent.

Müller-Enbergs has not found any evidence that the murder of Ohnesborg was executed after orders from Stasi and points to the fact that Kurras was known to be violent and trigger happy.

It is ironic that an act of police brutality - which cemented the impression among the left that the police in West Germany were facists - was in fact committed by a left winger!

But do not be suprised - this in fact proves the deep rooted similarities between facism and socialism.

PROOF FROM MARYLAND THAT TAXING THE RICH FAILS

WSJ: Here's a two-minute drill in soak-the-rich economics:

Maryland couldn't balance its budget last year, so the state tried to close the shortfall by fleecing the wealthy. Politicians in Annapolis created a millionaire tax bracket, raising the top marginal income-tax rate to 6.25%. And because cities such as Baltimore and Bethesda also impose income taxes, the state-local tax rate can go as high as 9.45%. Governor Martin O'Malley, a dedicated class warrior, declared that these richest 0.3% of filers were "willing and able to pay their fair share." The Baltimore Sun predicted the rich would "grin and bear it."

One year later, nobody's grinning. One-third of the millionaires have disappeared from Maryland tax rolls. In 2008 roughly 3,000 million-dollar income tax returns were filed by the end of April. This year there were 2,000, which the state comptroller's office concedes is a "substantial decline." On those missing returns, the government collects 6.25% of nothing. Instead of the state coffers gaining the extra $106 million the politicians predicted, millionaires paid $100 million less in taxes than they did last year -- even at higher rates.

What's true for Maryland is true for... everywhere.

So when the libs tell yopu they'll pay for their social re-engineering with tnew taxes...

DISSENT ACCORDINGLY.

AS THE NORKS CAUSE HAVOC, WHERE IN THE WORLD IS BARRY HUSSEIN OBAMA!?

ITEM #1: N Korea 'restarts nuclear plant'

US spy satellites have detected signs that North Korea has restarted its nuclear plant.

A South Korean newspaper said the satellites detected steam coming from a reprocessing facility at North Korea's main Yongbyon nuclear plant.

The paper cited an unnamed South Korean government source.

The report comes two days after the communist North carried out an underground nuclear test.

AS NORTH KOREA UNBALANCES THE ALREADY TEETERING REGION, WHAT DES OBAMA DO?!

HE ANNOUNCES HIS SCOTUS PICK: A "LATINA"; (TRANSLATION: THAT'S A HISPANIC LIBERAL WITH A VAGINA.)

AND WHERE DOES HE HEAD!?

SAUDI ARABIA. (WILL HE BOW DOWN TO THE KING AGAIN?)

I'M GLAD HE HAS HIS PRIORITIES STRAIGHT.

SHEESH.

Al Qaeda member arrested in Brazil

TVNZ:

Brazilian police said they had arrested a foreigner for inciting racial hatred on the internet, but declined to comment on a newspaper report that the man was a high-ranking al Qaeda member.

Folha de Sao Paulo, Brazil's largest daily newspaper, said the man was suspected of being a communications operative in the radical Islamic group and his arrest was being treated with secrecy by the federal police.

US authorities had been notified of the arrest, the report said.

.... Brazil is home to one of the largest Arab populations outside the Middle East, with most residing in Sao Paulo and Foz do Iguacu, a bustling commercial hub on the border with Argentina and Paraguay.

The US government has claimed that Arabs in the area around Foz do Iguacu raise money for militant groups in the Middle East.

SOCIALISTS CHAVEZ AND MORALES IN VENEZUELA AND BOLIVIA ARE OPENLY ALLIED TO GLOBAL JUHAD.

MAYBE THE SAME THING IS BREWING IN SOCIALIST BRAZIL?

STAY TUNED.

MORE PROOF NATIONALIZED HEALTHCARE SUCKS BIGTIME: SCOTLAND REPORTS WAITING TIMES AT HISTORIC LOWS - NOW ONLY 12 WEEKS!

CORRICK GAZETTE: Historic low for waiting times

Hospital waiting times have fallen to a record low, the Scottish Government has said.

Virtually all those on a waiting list for inpatient or day-case treatment have been waiting for fewer than 12 weeks, it said.

But despite the hospital waiting time advances, a target for A&E maximum waiting times is being missed.

THE SCOTSMAN:

Scots NHS waiting times less than 12 weeks

PATIENTS needing a hospital appointment in Scotland are now waiting less than 12 weeks, figures showed yesterday.

THREE MONTHS TO SEE A DOCTOR - AND THEY'RE HAPPY.

THIS IS WHAT OBAMA WANTS TO DO TO OUR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM

DON'T BE DUPED.

DISSENT ACCIRDINGLY.

SOTOMAYOR: "THINKING AND RULING WITH YOUR BLOOD AND GENITALS IS GOOD"

A Few Thoughts on Judge Sotomayor’s Berkeley Speech [Roger Clegg]

Ed Whelan has already mentioned and linked to Stuart Taylor’s fine critique of Judge Sotomayor’s speech, titled “A Latina Judge’s Voice,” published in the Spring 2002 issue of Berkeley’s La Raza Law Journal. Here are some additional thoughts.

I note at the outset that the speech is published as part of a symposium titled “Raising the Bar: Latino and Latina Presence in the Judiciary and the Struggle for Representation”—as if judges were supposed to be representatives rather than, well, judges.

Unsurprisingly, there is a lot of bean-counting in the article (number of women judges per circuit, number of minority judges per court, etc.). And why not?: The speech acknowledges throughout that being Latina will make you a different judge than if you are not Latina (although it doesn’t really explain what those differences will be).

It even cheerfully suggests in a couple of places that maybe “differences in logic and reasoning” are hardwired.

In all events, a judge cannot be “objective,” morality is “relative,” and “there can never be a universal definition of wise.”

All this is pretty worrisome if we are to have a rule of law.

JUDGE VAGINAMAYOR.

DISSENT ACCORDINGLY.

LIBTARD OF THE DAY AWARD: DANA GOLDSTEIN

MEMORANDUM:

Dana Goldstein / American Prospect:

OH NO: WHO WILL REPRESENT WHITE MALES ON THE COURT? —

Sen. James Inhofe: … Yes.

Because the worldviews of John Roberts, Sam Alito, John Paul Stevens, Anthony Kennedy, Stephen Breyer, and Antonin Scalia are not impacted at all by their white male identities.

White men are raceless and genderless, haven't you heard?

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ER, UM... THE SCOTUS IS NOT A REPRESENTATIVE BODY - NOR WAS IT MEANT TO BE; THE CONGRESS IS.

• THE SCOTUS IS A COURT; ITS MEMBERS JUDGES WHO ARE SUPPOSED TO RULE BASED ON THE LAW, NOT POPULARITY OR SUBJECTIVITY.

• GOLDTEIN IS THE RACIST HERE - AND PRO-AFFRIMATIVE ACTION LIBERALISM IS THE CURRENT HOME OF RACISM.

• THE SOTOMAYOR PICK PROVES THAT THE LEFT ISN'T AGAINST RACISM, JUST RACISM AGAINST THE PRESSURE GROUPS WHICH COMPRISE THEIR POLITICALCOALITION.