Shalu shalom Yerushalayim: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. (Psalm 122: 6)
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Isaiah 38: 17-18—“Lo, for my own welfare I had great bitterness; it is You who has kept my soul from the pit of nothingness, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back. For Sheol cannot thank You, death cannot praise You; those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.”
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News Items of Interest:
Israel
- Gay Pride Parade held in Jerusalem
- Anti-gay protesters: Sick perverts – get out of Jerusalem
- Fake donkey parade counters gay march
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- Rabbi clashes with Israeli embassy in Washington over Western Wall arrest
- ‘Arab intelligence agencies too busy protecting regimes to be effective’
- IDF completes identification of Romania crash victims’ bodies
- Book condoning murder has another rabbi in hot water
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- Palestinians Set to Reject Direct Talks with Israel
- Abbas Faces Dilemma on Israel Talks, Says Aide
- Arabs back direct peace talks when Abbas sees fit
- U.S. ‘encouraged’ by Arab support for direct Israeli-Palestinian talks
- Abbas resisting direct talks with Israel, despite Obama pressure
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- ‘Kadima chair to PA: No direct talks’
- Is Peres trying to convince Palestinians to refuse direct talks?
- US steps up calls for direct talks
- Israel: Palestinians Have Set “Impossible” Conditions for Direct Peace Talks
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- Will the Palestinians Declare Statehood?
- The Classic Islamic View of Jews
- The Flotilla Farce
- Ayalon slams Lebanese aid flotilla
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- Report: Egypt Denies Visas to Gaza-Bound Iranian MPs
- As the Israeli Blockade Eases, Gaza Goes Shopping
- Hamas Thrives in Gaza’s “Besieged” Economy
- Saudi king in Syria amid regional tensions
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- Egyptian Journalist: “A Sense of Absolute Prosperity Prevails in Gaza”
- Hip-hop, breakdancing and parkour: Gaza’s underground youth culture
- Hamas bans women’s underwear from shop windows
- Arab convicted of rape appeals
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- Jordan Trade Unions Slam Netanyahu’s Visit
- Jordan’s Anti-Israel Voices Grow Louder
- Israel Air Force Rescue Unit Describes Search for Comrades in Romania
- New Office Begins Investigating Lost Property of Middle East Jews
- Algeria Won’t Honor Jewish Property Restitution Requests
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Israel’s Security Needs
- Video: Israel’s Critical Security Needs for a Viable Peace
- Video: Full Netanyahu UN Speech 9/24/2009
- Video: Dr. Dore Gold: US should support Israel’s right to defensible borders
- Video: President Obama Meets with President Abbas
- Video: Davos Annual Meeting 2010—Conversation with Jordan’s King Abdullah
- Video: Davos Annual Meeting 2010—Rethinking the balance of power in the Middle East
- The Mount of Olives in Jerusalem: Why Continued Israeli Control Is Vital
The Mount of Olives in the Background with the Dome of the Al Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in the Foreground
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Videos
- Video: Ann Coulter: Libertarian?
- Video: Wikileaks Documents Used Against Soldiers?
- Video: Ariz. Gov. Jan Brewer: “Feds Don’t Have to Do Their Job Now”
- Video: Judge Blocks Part of Arizona Immigration Law
- Video: Party in the DOJ?
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- Video: Stossel: Open Borders or Secure ‘Em?
- Video: One Student’s Degree is Contingent on Her Changing Her Religious Beliefs
- Video: Democrats Against War in Afghanistan
- Video: SEIU Vice President: Latinos Are “Under Attack” in America
- Video: Democrats Clash Over Arizona Lawsuit
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- Video: Economics 101 with Rep. Paul Ryan
- Video: Out of America’s Shadows
- Video: Hopeful Signs on Day 100 of BP Oil Spill
- Video: Foreclosures on pace for record
- Video: Inside Arizona’s Legal Battle
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- Video: Toyota starts recall in Japan, US could be next
- Video: Luxury Mall Opens in Gaza
- Video: Rangel Likely To Settle, Avoid Public Ethics Trial
- Video: Rangel vs. Reporters
- Video: Kyl ‘Disappointed’ With SB 1070 Ruling
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- Video: Senator: 6600 graves at Arlington could be wrong
- Video: Andrew Breitbart on Sherrod Controversy
- Video: In Iraq, Mullen to review plans for US troop withdrawal
- Video: Grizzly Bears Captured After Fatal Mauling
- Video: Repercussions of WikiLeaks Document Dump
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- Video: Foreclosures Up in 1H But So Is Housing Affordability
- Video: As Consumers Keep Purse Strings Tight retailers must innovate or die
- Video: The New Normal: Americans Cutting Back—even if they don’t have to
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Perspective
- How Not to Conduct Diplomacy: A Case Study: UK PM in Turkey
- With Friends Like These, Who Needs Keith Olbermann?
- Shirley Sherrod, Quit While You’re Ahead
- Only in Washington Is This Transparency
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- Why Are We Beginning to Hate Congress?
- Among the Gibbering Journalists
- The United Cities of America
- Wikileaks busts myth about the irrelevance of mainstream media
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- Immigration decision will erode Obama support
- National Health Service: It’s Coming to America
- Targeting the Mullahs
- A Christian at Carnegie Hall
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- Three Leaks: On Warming, The Press, And Afghanistan
- The New York Times, Billionaire Buffett and the Weeping Abortionist
- Liberals? Progressives? Just Call Them Control Freaks
- Out of Touch Out of Mind
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Fraud may have contributed to the global warming hoax. Don’t be afraid of the truth.
- “Hockeystick fraud?”, Letter to the Editor, Richmond Times-Dispatch, July 28, 2010, by S. Fred Singer
The Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Kenneth Cuccinelli, is currently engaged in extracting from the University of Virginia (where Prof Michael Mann was a faculty member from 1999 to 2005) the e-mail records and other material relating to Mann. The University is fighting this demand in court but is unlikely to prevail since they had already agreed some months ago to deliver the e-mail records of Prof Patrick Michaels to Greenpeace. I note that at that time, no cries about ‘academic freedom’ were raised by the usual suspects, thus exposing the hypocrisy of the Faculty Senate, the AAUP, and the Union of Concerned Scientists. I was sorry to see the Times-Dispatch go along with this (Barton Hinkle, July 23).
There is a serious matter which bears discussion: Did Mann commit fraud? I would give him the benefit of the doubt and suggest that his initial publication in 1998 contained many errors, including major statistical ones, which he might not have been aware of. But certainly, after these errors had been pointed out to him in no uncertain terms, how could he maintain his original posture and claim that the hockey stick truly represented the global temperature record of the last 1000 years? All this in spite of many publications, both before and after 1998, that clearly told a different story.
It is quite likely that Cuccinelli will discover a smoking gun. Perhaps some of the e-mails that British researcher Prof Phil Jones admitted to having deleted will tell us just when Mann became aware that the hockey stick was bogus and a fraud.
S. Fred Singer is Professor Emeritus of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia
- SnyderTalk Commentary from July 11, 2010:
It’s time for the University of Virginia to release the information demanded by Virginia’s attorney general. To do otherwise flies in the face of one of the University’s founding principles: “For here we are not afraid to follow the truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.” (Thomas Jefferson)
UVA’s current president, John Casteen, has been unwilling to comply with the attorney general’s request, but he steps down on August 1, 2010. UVA’s new president, Teresa Sullivan, will have the opportunity to do what Mr. Casteen should have done.
Good science demands the release of complete and accurate information so that other scientists can confirm or refute findings. Deliberately withholding data and methods is bad science, but in this case, it may be fraud as well. Since public money funded much of Professor Mann’s research, that’s what Virginia’s attorney general wants to find out.
From UVA’s perspective, the possibility that one of its faculty members engaged in fraud is a compelling reason to cooperate with the attorney general. Honor is a hallmark of UVA. The Honor Code is straightforward and simple. Lying, cheating, and stealing aren’t permitted. Not working with the attorney general will make UVA complicit if fraud did occur.
Mrs. Sullivan should also consider opening an internal investigation. Conditions that permit fraud and its cover-up can’t be allowed to exist, especially at schools like UVA. Fraud does to universities what termites do to houses. It destroys by undermining structural integrity. If Professor Mann committed fraud, other faculty and administrators should have known about it. If they did, they were complicit. If they didn’t, that’s another problem that deserves attention. Have other schools and colleges at UVA experienced fraud and abuse? After all, if you see one termite, you can bet there are many more.
Mrs. Sullivan needs to know the whole truth. There is no better time to conduct an investigation of this sort than following a changing of the guard.
Full Disclosure: Neil Snyder is the Ralph A. Beeton Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia.
- Background Material:
- Oh, Mann: Cuccinelli targets UVA papers in Climategate salvo
- The Politicization of Science
- U.Va. says Cuccinelli subpoena a sweeping demand that will imperil academia
- Attorney General Cuccinelli Under Investigation for Climate Probe—By Greenpeace
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World
- Resurgence of Taliban in Northern Afghanistan puts a strain on NATO troops
- Turkey’s Ruling Party Trailing in Poll
- Turkish Opposition Leader Critical of Government Policy on Iran, Hamas and the Flotilla
- Australia Adopts New Sanctions Against Iran
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- Poll: Nearly 6 in 10 Pakistanis view US as enemy
- Second U.S. sailor’s remains found in Afghanistan
- Heavy rains delay salvage of crashed Pakistan plane
- Al-Qaida plants flag, burns bodies in Iraq attack
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- Raging Russian fires destroy homes, people flee
- Medvedev orders corruption investigation into Putin’s Sochi Olympics
- Outspoken British PM embroiled in diplomatic rows
- Eternal City grapples with endless vandalism
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- Spanish Court Seeks Arrest of U.S. Soldiers in Hotel Attack
- Moroccan king marks anniversary with clemency
- Canada think tank sees loophole in emissions plans
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- Australia’s Aboriginals won land, now defend right to use it
- Taliban stymie NATO push to bolster government
- Alarming corruption rates in Egypt
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US
- Largest restitution claims ever filed in U.S. courts by a single family against another nation
- Obama’s support falls among blacks and hispanics
- Democrats face embarrassment from Rangel corruption charges
- Why Rangel can use campaign funds in his legal defense
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- Panel hits Rangel with 13 alleged ethics charges
- As many as 6,600 Arlington graves mixed up
- AZ appeals order blocking parts of immigration law
- Weakened Arizona immigrant rules still draw protests
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- Mo. ballot measures tests federal health care law
- Ousted USDA employee Sherrod plans to sue blogger
- Gov’t warned company about oil pipeline monitoring
- BP lawsuits over oil spill take center stage
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- Special Report: A Mississippi Yankee in BP’s battered court
- Grizzly caught after MT mauling that killed MI man
- DC sniper claims conspirators in Shatner interview
- Unemployment claims fall, but still elevated
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- Republican concerns could stall START treaty
- U.S. says WikiLeaks may have blood on its hands
- ‘US soldier suspected in Wikileaks case’
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- Debate intensifies in Fed over economy
- US suing Oracle alleging software contracts fraud
- UAW head: GM to file paperwork in August for IPO
- New York Fed: Toxic assets from AIG gaining value
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