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Bill Warner, PhD: SPLC and the Apologists  

There was a time in America when freedom of speech was considered so basic that it was rarely talked about. Today “civil rights” organizations such as the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) are devoted to silencing the voices who insist on speaking their minds. The SPLC does not recognize honest differences of opinions, but instead, all who do not adhere to its leftist politics are called “racist-hater-bigot-Islamophobe”. That’s one word, mind you.

The SPLC has found fellow totalitarians in such groups as the Jewish Federation who have turned from tolerance of political differences to attempts to silence dissident voices to Islamic fundamentalists like the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR).

As a dissident, I say give me your best shot. No amount of name calling can shut me up.

June 16, 2018 | 3:29 pm | Comments »

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Antitrust Matters Matter  

by Linda Goudsmit, PUNDICITY 6.16.18

United States antitrust laws regulate the organization and conduct of business corporations on state and national levels to provide fair competition for the benefit of consumers. Why are they necessary?

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has the answer.

“Free and open markets are the foundation of a vibrant economy. Aggressive competition among sellers in an open marketplace gives consumers – both individuals and businesses – the benefits of lower prices, higher quality products and services, more choices, and greater innovation. The FTC’s competition mission is to enforce the rules of the competitive marketplace – the antitrust laws. These laws promote vigorous competition and protect consumers from anticompetitive mergers in business practices. The FTC’s Bureau of Competition, working in tandem with the Bureau of Economics, enforces the antitrust laws for the benefit of consumers.”

The Sherman Antitrust Act, passed by Congress in 1890 under President Benjamin Harrison, was the first Federal act that outlawed interstate monopolistic business practices. It is considered a landmark decision because previous laws were limited to intrastate businesses.

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June 16, 2018 | 2:31 pm | Comments »

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More on Canada’s policies regarding the Israeli/Arab conflict  

By Dogan Akman

I read with considerable interest the three views expressed in  Canada’s position on the the Arab-Israeli conflict does much harm and no good, and, if I may be so permitted, I would like to make a number of points by way of facts and comments to those expressed in the exchange..

The first point is the focus of “Canada”.

Under the Conservative government headed by Stephen Harper, the Canadian government treated Israel with respect and strongly supported its position in the conflict. While the website of the Department of External Affairs indicated Canada’s support for the two-state solution, Prime Minister Harper, refused to entertain the fake complaints, accusations and the jeremiads of the Palestinian Authority and its supporters until the P.A. stopped behaving the way it does.
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June 16, 2018 | 10:37 am | 3 Comments »

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IG Report: FBI Willing To Take Disturbing Official Action To Hurt Trump  

FBI Hell: Agent caught saying:

“Trump’s supporters are all poor to middle class, uneducated, lazy POS that think he will magically grant them jobs for doing nothing. They probably didn’t watch the debates, aren’t fully educated on his policies, and are stupidly wrapped up in his unmerited enthusiasm.”

By Cillian Zeal, CONSERVATIVE TRIBUNE

I’m not sure what the darkest day in FBI history was, but Thursday had to be up there. That’s when Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz released his 500-odd page report on the Clinton email investigation and the Bureau’s handling of it. And, as it turns out, it’s pretty much the best long-form argument for conservatism since “The Fountainhead,” if only inadvertently.

There was plenty of meat to chomp on, particularly when it came to James Comey, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. However, James Comey was quick to say that the report had been a vindication of his tenure at the FBI.
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June 16, 2018 | 9:49 am | 2 Comments »

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Trump: Obama lost Crimea to Russia, time to move on with Putin  

By Dave Boyer, WASH TIMES– Friday, June 15, 2018

President Trump said Friday that he’s looking to meet sometime this summer with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and that the U.S. should move beyond its objections to Moscow’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 because then-President Barack Obama failed to stop it.

“It’s possible that we’ll meet, yeah,” Mr. Trump told reporters at the White House.

Noting that he has proposed for the Group of Seven nations to readmit Russia, which was kicked out of the coalition over the illegal taking of Crimea from Ukraine, Mr. Trump said, “I think it’s better to have Russia in, than to have Russia out.”
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June 15, 2018 | 4:52 pm | 4 Comments »

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The Right to Discriminate  

T. Belman.  I have great difficulty with this article even though I agree with the premise that “All serious cognition and all honest moral judgments involve discrimination”. In fact all choices involve discrimination. Nevertheless the west generally defines descrimination as “the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex.” The problem lies in what is considered unjust or prejudicial.  Let us assume that in considering whether to allow a person, who is a Muslim to immigrate, is it unjust to reject him because the vast majority of Muslims are antisemitic? Or better still, if he is antisemitic or a believer in Islam and Sharia.  Unfortunately political correctness prevents us from considering such things. This is unfair.

But I have another axe to grind. Walker writes,

“In fact, as anyone with an open mind and a modest knowledge of modern history knows, the Holocaust was the direct consequence of the de-Christianization of Germany.  This was generally accepted by Jews in the West as well, and the “racialism” upon which Nazi hatred of Jews grew was rejected by Christians throughout virtually all history.  Germany, in which Christianity was almost dead by 1914, provided naturally the most fertile soil for the evil precepts of racialism, which is why Nazism took root only in Germany.. ”

History says otherwise. I make the case in my article, The Holocaust was Caused by the Church, not Just Hitler. You decide.

By Bruce Walker, AMERICAN THINKER

The left has created a macabre myth that runs counter to the whole experience of mankind.  The left has persuaded the gullible masses of America, including, sadly, most conservatives, that “discrimination” by individuals and businesses is wrong and that it violates the Constitution.

Precisely the opposite is true.  All serious cognition and all honest moral judgments involve discrimination.  When individuals and businesses are not free to discriminate, then the power to determine what is true and false and good and bad becomes the sole property of the state – or that even more odious creature, that lobotomized Frankenstein monster, “society.”

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June 15, 2018 | 4:03 pm | 3 Comments »

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COLUMN ONE: The Donald Trump negotiations academy  

Trump’s playbook involves doing essentially the opposite of what American and Israeli negotiators have been doing for the past 30 years.

By Caroline B Glick, JPOST

e didn’t learn this week whether North Korea will give up its nuclear weapons. Only time will tell.

But we did learn that US President Donald Trump knows how to negotiate.

All of the negotiations experts insist the opposite is true. “How could they agree to a presidential summit without first guaranteeing its end product?” they sigh, knowingly.

“Trump’s showmanship is dangerous and counterproductive,” they sneer.

“At the end of the day, for this to work, Trump will have to copy Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran,” they insist.
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June 15, 2018 | 3:09 pm | 3 Comments »

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Heads turn away when it comes to the Islamization of Europe  

In lockstep with a refusal to acknowledge that Islamic religious fanaticism is Islamic, anti-Semitism is once more openly stalking Britain and Europe.

By Melanie Phillips, JNS

Once again, Hezbollah flags flew in London last weekend at the Iran-supporting “Al Quds” march in Britain’s capital city.

Hezbollah, the proxy army of the Iranian regime, is responsible for numerous murderous attacks around the world against Jews, Americans and other Western interests.

No matter. The march—an annual London fixture, no less—featured calls for Israel to be wiped from the map, and was led by a man who previously made the deranged claim that “Zionists” were behind an appalling London apartment block fire last year in which more than 70 people died.

In Germany last week, a Jewish teen, 14-year-old Susanna Maria Feldman, was raped and murdered. A failed Iraqi asylum-seeker with a long police record was subsequently arrested by Kurdish authorities in northern Iraq at the request of the German police.
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June 15, 2018 | 3:03 pm | 2 Comments »

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When Putin drops hints, the West should listen  

T. Belman. On Feb 16/16, Alexander Maistrovoy and I authored Contemplating a US-Russia Alliance. In it, we suggested the same thing and more. Langfan also sees Russia as a potential ally.

Putin is hinting at a Syrian Euphrates partition – and beyond. This is a positive plan that the USA should join.

By Mark Langfan, INN

On February 17, 2018, in my article, “Putin: Grand Deal Now, or Syrian Bust,” I outlined a simple formula for a Grand Bargain between the United States and Russia.

The terms were simple,

1) partition of Syria based on the Euphrates River, Russian/Assad to the West, American/Kurdish/Sunni to the East, and

2) Russia’s formal acquisition of Crimea/Eastern Ukraine with a extraterritorial link to Transnistria with Russia’s formal agreement that this is the “dessert and not an appetizer.”

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June 15, 2018 | 7:56 am | 2 Comments »

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INTO THE FRAY: The IDF & Gaza: Soldiers or sociologists?  

By Martin Sherman, IISS

Has the IDF brass forgotten that they are soldiers, charged with providing military solutions to physical threats to the nation’s security; not sociologists, tasked with diagnosing the societal ailments of its enemies?

…the IDF General Staff has been insisting there is only one thing Israel can do about Gaza. According to our generals, Israel needs to shower Hamas with stuff. Food, medicine, water, electricity, medical supplies, concrete, cold hard cash, whatever Hamas needs, Israel should just hand it over in the name of humanitarian assistance. Every single time reporters ask the generals what Israel can do to end Hamas’s jihadist campaign, they give the same answer. Let’s shower them with stuff. – Caroline B. Glick, Who Leads Israel? June 1, 2018.
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June 15, 2018 | 6:32 am | 4 Comments »

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A submarine scandal goes under  

By Itamar Fleishman, ISRAEL HAYOM

The Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation reported this week that the submarine affair, Case 3,000, has all but collapsed.

Its correspondent Roi Yanovsky said that the Israel Police was poised to announce that “the prime minister and the members of the Diplomatic-Security Cabinet were not involved in the submarine affair, and the decision involving the procurement of naval vessels were made on purely professional grounds.”

This, all the while the competing network was busy rehashing the police’s statement saying that there was a major development in the case underscored by the questioning of the prime minister. Those with a healthy dose of skepticism knew all along that the affair, one of Israel Police Commissioner Insp. Gen. Roni Alsheikh’s most troubling productions in the theater of absurd, would end in a whimper.
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June 14, 2018 | 4:55 pm | 2 Comments »

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Netanyahu: Iran has brought 80,000 Shiite fighters into Syria  

Israel has targeted Iranian-backed Shiite militias from Afghanistan and Pakistan, brought in to Syria to attack Israel and “convert” Syria’s Sunni majority, PM Benjamin Netanyahu says, warning of “endless upheaval and terrorism in many, many countries.”

Reuters and Israel Hayom Staff

Israel has attacked Iranian-backed Shiite Muslim militias in Syria, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday, casting such actions as potentially helping to stem a Syrian Sunni Muslim refugee exodus to Europe.

Israeli officials have previously disclosed scores of airstrikes in Syria to prevent suspected arms transfers to Lebanon’s Shiite Hezbollah fighters or to Iranian military deployments, who have been helping the Syrian  regime beat back the seven-year-long rebellion.

But Israel has rarely provided official details on the operations, or described non-Lebanese militiamen as having been targeted.
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June 14, 2018 | 4:25 pm | Comments »

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Martin Sherman’s plan for “compensated emigration” works in theory but not in practice  

By Adam Dalgliesh

My thesis in all my comments to Martin Sherman’s articles on compensated emigration has been that Dr. Sherman’s proposal is morally justified, and would certainly ease Israel’s security problems if it could be implemented—but that it cannot be implemented and will not be implemented for the foreseeable future. My attempts to elicit a response to my critique from Dr. Sherman have gone nowhere. On the other hand, Dr. Sherman’s columns have certainly stimulated my thinking about the important issues he has raised, and have challenged me to try to come up with my own proposed “solution” to Israel’s security and demographic problems.

Before getting into my own proposals, I will explain why I think Dr. Sherman’s won’t work, at least not in the foreseeable future. He writes that

All we need now is leadership with sufficient political will, intellectual daring, and ideological commitment to undertake what must be undertaken.

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June 14, 2018 | 2:12 pm | 19 Comments »

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Hungarian government outlines “stop Soros” legislation criminalizing NGO’s which aid and abet illegal immigrants  

Breitbart, 2 Jun 2018

George Soros is considered one of the main drivers of mass migration by Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán, with the billionaire financier accused of lobbying the European Union to open its borders and funding ‘civil society’ organisations which help illegal migrants to infiltrate the bloc.

“The new ‘Stop Soros’ legislative package puts forth a more rigorous response by declaring illegal immigration a grave threat to Hungary’s national security,” announced government spokesman Zoltán Kovács.

“Anyone involved in aiding or abetting illegal migration would be committing a criminal offence.”

Professor Claims Soros ‘Missionaries’ Bragged About Toppling Governments in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East
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June 14, 2018 | 12:53 pm | 8 Comments »

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Obama’s Failures Created Trump’s New Middle East  

By Jonathan S Tobin, JNS

In The New Yorker, an investigation of efforts by Israel and the Gulf state to outmaneuver Obama ignores why they succeeded.

The search for explanations and scapegoats for the rejection of President Obama’s worldview in the 2016 election continues. In The New Yorker’s latest contribution to this genre — “Donald Trump’s New World Order: How the President, Israel, and the Gulf States plan to fight Iran and leave the Palestinians and the Obama years behind” — the author, Adam Entous, doesn’t label as collusion the efforts by Israel and the Gulf states to undermine Obama-administration policies and influence the Trump campaign. But the underlying theme of the massive report is that those efforts are disreputable, if not as shady as forms of intervention practiced by the Russians.
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June 14, 2018 | 11:53 am | Comments »

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Jordan protesters: ‘Gulf money won’t help’  

Jordanian citizens say latest aid pledge by Gulf states will not achieve social justice or solve unemployment.

by , Al Jazeera, 11 Jun 2018

Protesters in Jordan insist on a long-term fiscal plan and more transparency [Anadolu]

Protesters in Jordan insist on a long-term fiscal plan and more transparency [Anadolu]

Eyad Bani-Melham views $2.5bn as small change.

“Jordan’s budget deficit is huge,” says Bani-Melham, a lawyer in Jordan’s capital, Amman. “This new money is not going to make a difference.”

For Bani-Melhem, a pledge by Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to provide Jordan with $2.5bn in aid is not going to solve the kingdom’s unemployment problem, nor will it achieve social justice.

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June 14, 2018 | 10:48 am | 3 Comments »

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