Monthly Archives: November 2010

Isaiah 54: 8-10—“In an outburst of anger I hid My face from you for a moment, but with everlasting lovingkindness I will have compassion on you,” says Yahweh your Redeemer. “For this is like the days of Noah to Me, when I swore that the waters of Noah would not flood the earth again; so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you nor will I rebuke you. For the mountains may be removed and the hills may shake, but My lovingkindness will not be removed from you, and My covenant of peace will not be shaken,” says Yahweh who has compassion on you.

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“On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen; all day and all night they will never keep silent.  You who remind Yahweh, take no rest for yourselves; and give Him no rest until He establishes and makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.” (Isaiah 62: 6-7)

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“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)

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Isaiah 54: 8-10—“In an outburst of anger I hid My face from you for a moment, but with everlasting lovingkindness I will have compassion on you,” says Yahweh your Redeemer.  “For this is like the days of Noah to Me, when I swore that the waters of Noah would not flood the earth again; so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you nor will I rebuke you.  For the mountains may be removed and the hills may shake, but My lovingkindness will not be removed from you, and My covenant of peace will not be shaken,” says Yahweh who has compassion on you.

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“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.” (Hosea 4: 6)

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INSS Insight

“An historic encounter; a turning point in the history of the organization” was how some of the NATO leaders assessed the summit in Lisbon (November 19-20, 2010). The focus of the summit was approval of the new strategic concept that will underlie the organization’s activities in the coming years. Other issues on the agenda were a plan of action for Afghanistan and relations with Russia. Like the other documents arrived at by consensus, the approved document embodies the broadest common denominator. Differences of opinion between the twenty-eight member states on all issues were not included in the document, yet these will continue to preoccupy the organization.

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“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.” (Thomas Jefferson)

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Who is Antonio Gramsci and what is his connection to the American Left? An Italian Communist philosopher, Gramsci’s theories have stealthily been incorporated into our culture for at least 50 years. You may have never heard of him, but you would certainly recognize his ideas taking place in America, and in the White House of both President Clinton and President Obama. Gramsci believed that the way to incorporate Marxism in capitalist societies was best achieved from the bottom up by stealthily changing the beliefs of the culture itself, called “cultural hegemony.”

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I know, I know — you already know the basics about Stuxnet. No matter. So do I, yet this is the most gripping news feature I’ve read this week, to the point where I started mentally storyboarding the inevitable Hollywood spy movie that’s going to be made about it before I was halfway through. Starring Michael Cera and Jesse Eisenberg as leaders of an elite team of pasty beta-male hackers, overseeing the cyberwarfare equivalent of the Manhattan Project. Title: “The Nerds Who Saved the World.”

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The term “peace process” is one I have come to despise. (I hate it even more than “exit strategy”.) This idea that American can find, or impose, some sort of peace agreement between the Israelis and Palestinians is a fantasy.

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It’s not quite the Buckleyan dream of being governed by the first 400 names in the phone book, but it’s as close as we’ll ever get.

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History tells us that organizations, movements, even entire nations can go mad in much the same way an individual does, with the same expression of irrationality, frenzy, and violence. Recent evidence suggests that the American left is going through precisely such a breakdown.

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Every time FBI undercover operatives seduce a dim-witted wannabe terrorist with promises of jihadi glory, there’s a tendency among the civil liberties crowd and the hate-all-government contingent to see the aspiring bomber as a victim. So the Feds took no chances with the court of public opinion when they put their case together against Mohamed Osman Mohamud, the 19-year-old Somali-American who planned to blow up a car bomb in the middle of a crowded Christmas tree-lighting celebration in Portland, Ore., on Friday night.

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North Korea’s surprise attack last week on the South Korean outpost Yeonpyeong is sharply worrying not just because it marks the first time civilians have been targeted and killed since the end of the war more than a half century ago. Taken in context with its recent deadly brinksmanship—the sinking of the Cheonan, increasing border scuffles, the revelation of a secret nuclear-production plant—and it’s clear this is no longer mere theatrics on the part of the Hermit Kingdom.

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A month ago, Newsweek reported the denials of “senior Afghan Taliban chiefs” that there were secret peace negotiations going on. One Taliban leader claimed the reports were “disniformation aimed at weakening Taliban resolve,” according to Newsweek. “‘This is just very obvious propaganda,'” the leader said.

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For months, NEWSWEEK has reported emphatic denials by senior Afghan Taliban officials that they were engaged in secret peace talks with the government in Kabul. Those denials received further weight last week when The New York Times exposed a purported top-level Taliban negotiator as an impostor who made off with large sums of U.S. cash.

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Mohammad Beltagy made his big push at the Thousand and One Nights café. Dozens of residents from Cairo’s Shubra al Khaimah slum sat in plastic chairs and listened intently as Beltagy, decked out in a crisp pinstriped suit and purple tie, wooed them with promises of stamping out corruption and improving delivery of government services to the area. Trays of hot tea were passed around and the sweet smoke from nargila water pipes wafted over the crowd. A dozen or so young men handed out a highlight-reel DVD of Beltagy’s best tirades in Parliament, where he’s hoping to return after elections this Sunday.

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The Obama administration has rolled out all the arguments in its attempt to persuade Republican senators to vote for ratification of its pending nuclear arms control treaty with Russia: It’s a good treaty; it’s a modest treaty; it would enable the United States to resume inspecting Russian arsenals; it’s a necessary step toward more important arms pacts in the future.

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America’s favorite boy genius, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, has announced a new form of messaging. E-mail, the last Internet link to traditional, epistolary, interpersonal communication, is, he said, outmoded. Young people, by which he meant younger than his own 26 years, desired something more nimble for their iPads, mobile phones and other devices. What he proposed was a “social inbox” where users could readily access messages from friends and then sort them — sort of a cross between instant messaging and Twitter.

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The day before his party’s shellacking in this month’s elections, President Obama sat down with his economic team to examine the single most important issue for voters across the country: jobs.

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Apolitical succession is beginning in the Middle East in which a generation of generally pro-American leaders is giving way to a group whose attitudes and loyalties are less certain. This transition comes at a time when U.S. power in the region is perceived to be weakening.

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Political outliers – not quite Republican, not quite Democrat – are forming new alliances in a communal search for “Home.” Exhausted by extremism and aching for real change, more and more Americans are moving away from demagoguery and toward pragmatism.

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What if Barack Obama is telling the truth about his own beliefs when he says that neither party by itself can realistically hope to solve the challenges facing the United States?

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Americans spend a lot of time and energy pursuing “the good life,” and thanks to the “Mad Men” of the advertising world, we have a pretty good idea of what the good life looks like: A state-of-the-art home with all the amenities, a garage full of luxury automobiles, a closet full of designer clothes, all the latest technological gadgets, a well-diversified investment portfolio, an upwardly mobile career with cushy benefits … the list goes on and on. In a nutshell, we are told that the good life consists of feeling good, looking good, and having lots of stuff.

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During this Christmas season of cheer and good tidings, a universal message is going forth. They are all united from Barack Obama to Martha Stewart to Wall Street Banks, the Federal Reserve and even your local mall agrees: please borrow to spend more this Christmas.

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While President Obama was icing his sore lip this weekend, Americans narrowly avoided tragic fatalities from an eighth terror strike–on American soil–during his tenure.

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The people behind the controversial “Park 51” Islamic mosque project in Lower Manhattan have apparently applied several times for federal grant money with the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation. LMDC is officially a New York state agency, but the money that this agency doles-out for the purposes of “reconstructing New York city” in 9-11’s aftermath is nonetheless federal tax money.

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Washington’s political class often seems impervious to changing facts. Case in point is the nation’s current and probable future access to essential energy resources, especially fossil fuels like oil, natural gas and coal. This trio of carbon-based fuels accounts for the vast majority of the nation’s electrical and other forms of power, and will continue to do so through at least 2030, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. The United States is the world’s largest consumer of energy, but is also the world’s most productive economy, so demand here for energy resources is going to continue to grow for the foreseeable future.

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“I am vindicated,” says Republican Senator James M. Inhofe of Oklahoma, who was ridiculed by environmentalists in 2003 when he declared that man-made global warming was the “greatest hoax ever perpetuated on the American people.”

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The upcoming climate change (and wealth redistribution) summit in Cancun – coupled with Bjorn Lomborg’s ongoing publicity campaign for his new film – makes one thing painfully obvious. The fight against the delusion of dangerous man-made global warming remains an uphill struggle.

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A top East European climatologist, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with UN global warming colleagues, jumps a sinking ship as ocean data signals a cooler climate.  Dr. Lucka Kajfež Bogataj left cold clear water between herself and her former UN shipmates by declaring that rising levels of airborne carbon dioxide probably don’t cause global temperatures to rise. The news scuppers hope for a change in fortune for the beleagured UN climate agency.

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If you set the bar low enough, it’s easy to claim victory.

A few days ago, the White House Council of Economic Advisers said that the stimulus package exceeded their jobs goal.  (See White House says stimulus package exceeds jobs goal for details.)  That proves one thing.  If you set the bar low enough, you can easily surpass your expectations and claim victory.

It looks as though the Obama administration will never learn.  We’re not fools even though they must think we are.  Watch the unemployment rate.  That tells the tale.  And keep an eye on the push for extended unemployment benefits.  If the economy was moving in the right direction, you would see corroborative evidence.

I’ve said this before, but I’ll say it again anyway.  Untold billions of dollars in stimulus money went to people and groups that supported candidate Obama in 2008, including autoworkers’ unions.  That didn’t contribute to anything except the wallets of Obama supporters.

It’s disgraceful that the mainstream media lets them get away so many wild assertions.  Don’t be deceived.  The White House has handled the economy very poorly.  That was evident during the president’s recent trip to Asia.  Our trading partners know it, and so do we.

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Take on The TimesTM

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SO America’s latest crisis — until it wasn’t — was airport screeners touching our junk. As this long year lurches toward its end, we all agree that something has gone wrong in America, and we’re desperately casting about for a coherent explanation for our discontent, if not a scapegoat. Alas, the national consensus that the T.S.A. and full-body scans might be the source of all evil fizzled in less than a week. Most everyone got to Grandma’s house for Thanksgiving without genital distress.

Take: There’s a lot of truth here, but the solution to the problem isn’t obvious.

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On Nov. 19, Rasmussen Reports published results from a national telephone poll that showed that 47 percent of America’s likely voters said the nation’s “best days are in the past,” 37 percent said they are in the future. Sixteen percent were undecided. Just before President Obama was inaugurated, 48 percent said our best days were still ahead and 35 percent said they had come and gone. This is a disturbing trend.

Take: The polling data to which Freidman refers is interesting.  It proves that opinions in the US change very rapidly.  Ronald Reagan inherited a colossal mess from Jimmy Carter; he moved us in the right direction; and people’s opinions changed.  We need a leader, not a pretender.  What we have right now is anything but leadership, or if it’s leadership, it’s leadership in the wrong direction.  I’m reminded of a song by The Platters: The Great Pretender.

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Americans tend to associate “modern slavery” with illiterate girls in India or Cambodia. Yet there I was the other day, interviewing a college graduate who says she spent three years terrorized by pimps in a brothel in Midtown Manhattan.

Take: Very interesting.

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It is hard to believe, as the holidays approach yet again amid economic hard times, but Congress looks as if it may let federal unemployment benefits lapse for the fourth time this year.

Take: It’s not as simple as the NYT’s editors suggest.  There is a sizeable group in our country that will avoid work as long as government payouts are available – even small payouts.  It’s the same problem we have with minimum wage laws.  They were created for people who are new to the workforce, not heads of households who are raising families.  The minimum wage shouldn’t be so high that people are satisfied and stop trying to improve themselves.  No one raising a family should look at the minimum wage law as their best hope for advancement.

Several years ago, I read a research report that concluded it takes very little “free money” to destroy individual incentive.  When people learn to count on “support”, they tend to rely on it rather than taking initiative and doing things for themselves.  I’ve seen this play out in my extended family.  I’ll bet you’ve seen evidence of it in your family too.  Katie and I raised our daughters to be independent people.  We rewarded effort and initiative even when it wasn’t exactly what we had hoped for.  It worked.  It’s time for our government to send a message to the American populace.  We’ll help in emergency situations, but you have to take care of yourself.  That’s the American Way, and it works.  The editors at the NYT may not like it, but they don’t like a lot of things that make perfect sense.

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Republican senators who are now resisting ratifying the New Start arms treaty should certainly have been paying more attention to the Lisbon meeting. They have been so busy claiming, inaccurately, that the treaty would constrain future missile defense systems that they apparently failed to notice real progress toward the only effective system that current technology permits.

Take: This is just what the GOP needs – advice from the NYT.  John McCain desperately wanted The Times admiration; he got it; and you know what happened.  The START treaty deserves careful analysis before Senate ratification.  What’s wrong with that?

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AS the curtain rises tomorrow in Cancún, Mexico, on the next round of international talks on climate change, expectations are low that the delegates will agree on a new treaty to reduce emissions that contribute to global warming. They were unable to do so last year in Copenhagen, and since then the negotiating positions of the biggest countries have grown even further apart.

Take: There’s a mountain of hard scientific evidence that refutes the climate alarmists’ “global warming” thesis.  There’s also a lot of evidence that the climate alarmists made up data to support their thesis and that they did their best to prevent data from seeing the light of day if it challenged their assumptions.  Don’t the people at the NYT read anything besides their own publication?  Sometimes I wonder.

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