A healthy way to begin defending our children from leftist indoctrination.

By Jason D. Hill, FPM  Thu Feb 25, 2021

A friend of mine told me an apocryphal story that left me with a cold shudder. He is an old-fashioned left-leaning “liberal” and a strong advocate of public education. All his children attend public schools. In fact, he is vehemently opposed to the idea of promoting private schools on the premise that its implementation will result in a more stratified society because, he believes, poor whites and blacks will be disproportionately disqualified from attending such institutions.
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Iranian breaches of the 2015 nuclear deal raise fears that the country is paving the way to start work on nuclear weapons, raising pressure on President Biden Feb. 23, 2021

WSJ

Iran has in recent months repeatedly violated the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, reducing the time it would need to produce a nuclear weapon. The violations, a response to U.S. sanctions imposed after former President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. from the pact in 2018, have put at risk the survival of an agreement that helped remove sanctions on Iran and open it to business with the West.

The latest development came on Feb. 23 when Iran said it would no longer grant daily access to United Nations inspectors to its nuclear facilities or provide around-the-clock security footage of its activities at these sites.

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By Amira Hass, HAARETZ  

The sloth of the European Union has once again been revealed in all its shame. The EU is good at giving the Palestinians charity and preaching about the rule of law. It fails politically when it comes to stopping Israel’s plans to concentrate the Palestinians into reservations in the West Bank and clear most of the land for Jews.

Where will the EU be when the supporters of Kahanist Itamar Ben-Gvir and the erudite proponent of transfer Bezalel Smotrich get even stronger – as seems likely given the anti-Arab attitudes of Haredi and so-called religious Zionist teens in Israel? What will it do when they carry out their threats to expel Palestinians “disloyal to Israel” beyond the borders of the “Greater Land of Israel”? Will it send its aid organizations to hand out tents and teach the Palestinians about hygiene in desert conditions?
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By Eileen F. Toplansky, AM THINKER

The Red-Green Alliance of radical leftists and Islamic jihadists have the same goal of destroying America.  As such, it has been a continuing conundrum why liberal Jews support such groups’ philosophies.

The question of why Jews vote against their own self-interest was analyzed in Norman Podhoretz’s 2009 book Why Are Jews Liberals? One overriding reason was that most liberal Jews claim their liberalism stems “from the commandments of Judaism or more broadly the ‘spirit’ of the Jewish ‘religious tradition.'” They often mention the term tzedakah.

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By D.W. Wilber, TOWNHALL

If I told you that a Marxist infiltration of every aspect of American life has been taking place, and that it’s been underway for decades, would you believe me? If I was even more specific and said that the Chinese Communist Party was primarily behind it, would you believe that as well? If I told you that our educational institutions, our colleges and universities, high schools, and even elementary schools were targets for Marxist indoctrination, would you believe that?
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THIS IS A GREAT SUMMARY OF WHAT IS HAPPENING IN AMERICA EXCEPT IT IS CLEARLY ANTI-ISRAEL AND ANTISEMITIC.

e.g., HE TAKES A SWIPE AT THE IDEA THAT YOU GET CANCELLED IF YOU ATTACK ZIONISM NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU LOVE JEWS.  THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS THAT IF YOU HATE ZIONISM, YOU ARE ANTISEMETIC. HE ALSO INFERS THAT ISRAEL IS RUNNING CENTCOM AND IS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH CHINA.

HE SAYS OTHER THINGS THAT ARE UNACCEPTABLE LIKE WE SHOULD DEFUND ALL BILLIONAIRES INCLUDING TRUMP AND KUSHNER.

ON THE POSITIVE SIDE HE INFORMS THAT TEXAS IS THE ONLY STATE PERMITTED TO SUBDIVIDE ITSELF INTO FIVE STATES EACH WITH TWO SENATORS.

The country’s northern beaches have proved harder to clean, due to their rockier terrain, which tar more easily clings to than sand.

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF  FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Several tons of tar which floated onto Israel’s shores from an unknown source have already caused massive damage to local wildlife, and threaten to contaminate the local groundwater.  (photo credit: AVSHALOM SASSONI/MAARIV)

Israel’s Nature and Parks authority announced on Wednesday that along with around 2,000 volunteers they have so far cleaned over 70 tons of toxic tar from Israel’s beaches since a massive oil spill contaminated over 195 kilometers of the country’s shores last week.

While 70 tons may seem like a large amount, the Environmental Protection Ministry (EPM) estimates that around 1.2 kilotons (1,200 tons) of tar has so far washed ashore since the spill, with additional stains of oil expected to hit Israel’s northern shores in the coming days.

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After a decade of war, the biggest threat now to President Bashar al-Assad is an economic crisis. But at a recent meeting, he had no concrete solutions to his country’s extreme distress.

NYT     Feb. 23, 2021
Buying food in Damascus with a photo of Syria’s president in the background. With the rising cost of food, 60 percent of Syrians are at risk of going hungry.Youssef Badawi/EPA, via Shutterstock

Why Americans should be afraid. Very afraid.

By David Horowitz, FPM     Feb 24, 2021

In less than a month in office, the Biden administration has clearly defined itself and its party as a fascist vanguard, driven by a racist agenda, and unconstrained by constitutional principle. It chooses to rule by presidential diktat, even though it controls both Houses of Congress.  It is an aggressive pursuer of political division behind a deceptive smokescreen of “healing” and “unity,” It is busily exploiting a fake “armed insurrection” to justify witch-hunts of the military, the capital police, members of Congress and the opposition media, at the moment Fox and Newsmax, whom they want to suppress. Its legislative radicals have called for the expulsion of half the Republican conference, without rebuke from their leaders. Because these actions are indefensible in a democracy, the Democrat Party is brazenly advancing these destructive, anti-democratic measures using Orwellian doublespeak.

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By Debra Heine, AM GREATNESS   February 23, 2021

Former President Donald Trump on Monday issued a statement following the Supreme Court’s decision to allow the Manhattan District Attorney to subpoena his tax records, calling it a “continuation of the greatest witch hunt in the history of our Country.”

In its ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court directed Trump’s accounting firm, Mazars USA, to comply with Democrat Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance’s wide-ranging subpoena requiring the release of Trump’s tax records and financial documents to a grand jury.

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By Dr. James M. Dorsey, BESA   February 24, 2021

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Saudi Arabia’s combustible mix of religion, nationalism, and tradition as well as contradictions in the kingdom’s projection of itself as a driver of moderate Islam and a major voice in combating discrimination and racism has sparked a heated debate on social media. How the mix plays out will ultimately spotlight the outcome of Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman’s efforts to inject a significant dose of nationalism in a Saudi identity that historically has been shaped heavily by religion.

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by Noah Rothman, COMMENTARY

The latest controversy in the world of American wokeness reads like a parody of the phenomenon.

This week, the online publication Slate indefinitely suspended without pay one of its most well-known podcasters, Mike Pesca, after it became known that he had a private conversation with a fellow employee about the controversial firing of New York Times staff reporter, Donald McNeil. McNeil was let go after the outside world became aware of a conversation he had with students in 2019 when he was asked for his thoughts on whether it was appropriate to impose professional consequences on someone who uses a noxious racial slur. During that conversation, McNeil used that slur (which he was encouraged to do) to illustrate his point. And for that, he was fired. “My points,” Pesca told his colleagues in an internal chatroom discussion, “are his internal conduct was in a grey area, you guys don’t think it was.” This offense resulted in Pesca being consigned to professional limbo.

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Sidney Powell. After SC rejection, “There are still important live cases. Irrefutable proof is coming soon. Keep educating everyone about the facts. Today’s Supreme Court orders were disappointing but we are NOT done, and we will not let this fraud stand. #WeThePeople are supposed to run this country.

By Dick Morris on February 23, 2021

The Supreme Court has been neutered by Democratic threats to pack it.

The various schemes to add justices, rotate those now on the bench, or retire elderly members have had their desired effect: The Court is so intimidated that they have refused to weigh in on the central legal issue of our times: The honesty of the 2020 election.
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By Isa Cox, WJ February 23, 2021

Justice Clarence Thomas has issued a scathing dissent to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to decline to hear the merits of lawsuits challenging the 2020 election in Pennsylvania and by so doing, detailed what he described as the “inexplicable” avoidance of cases with critical implications for future elections.

Yet again, Justice Thomas had the backs of millions of American conservatives as Chief Justice John Roberts inexplicably failed to act on a critical constitutional issue.

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The Iran Lobby, the Pakistan Lobby, and the Muslim Brotherhood are funding Biden.

By Daniel Greenfield, Front Page Mag, 11/2/2020,

Joe Biden had spent the entire election hiding the names of his bundlers, the big money fundraisers who fueled his campaign, until releasing them right before Election Day.

What did he have to hide?

The list of bundlers who managed to raise at least $100,000 for Biden includes some of the usual Democrat politicians and big party donors, along with some other names.

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By Kipp Jones, WJ     February 20, 2021

Alarming polls conducted in recent years and months show a terrifying trend: Generation Z — which includes young people who are now voting in our elections — support socialism, rioting, looting and restrictions on free speech.

Polls dating back to 2019 show that much of America’s youth is in favor of policing speech that isn’t popular, is supportive of burning down or ransacking private businesses amid gripes with government and also resents the idea they can succeed as capitalists.

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By Andrea Widberg, AM THINKER

[..] Tucker Carlson is also one of those worrying about the Biden administration using the excuse of the Wuhan virus to turn America into a totalitarian state with the Bill of Rights a forgotten, dead letter. Therefore, he invited Naomi to be his guest to discuss the issue.

Tucker was stunned – as were those of us who know Naomi – to hear her give a fluent, impassioned disquisition on American liberties and the threats they’re facing as states and Biden use them to grab permanent power.

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By Noah Rothman, COMMENTARY

A Politico report published Monday revealed that Joe Biden’s administration wants to rid itself of the troublesome Middle East. In terms of global priorities, one Biden adviser confessed that the region “is not in the top three.” The new administration would prefer to focus on instability in the Western Hemisphere, containing threats and pursuing diplomatic initiatives in Europe, and, of course, finally pivoting to Asia. “They are just being extremely purposeful to not get dragged into the Middle East,” another adviser said. But the Middle East has a habit of dragging the United States back in, and a heedless effort to withdraw from the region is one of the easiest ways to stumble back into open-ended commitments.

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T. Belman. The way I see it, is that for being Jewish or democratic in nature and in the same country, we have to marry imperfect Judaism with imperfect democracy.  Compromises are made as in any marriage.  Similarly, if we try to define whether Israel embraces socialism or capitalism, we quickly understand that we are a little bit of both. What must be done in all marriages is to find where to draw the line.

A duality of visions as to what we are all about has echoed since before the State’s founding. Time to think about where you stand. Op-ed.

By Avraham Shusteris, INN     Feb 22 , 2021

A Jewish state and a democracy: we say that we are both, but what do we actually mean? What is a Jewish state, and what is a democracy? If we chose to be flexible in our definition of Jewish, then why are we so parochial in our definition of democracy? If our definition of Jewish is diluted, then why should our definition of democratic be absolute?

If no one has the right to tell us what is a Jew, then why should anyone have the right to tell us what it means to be democratic? If there are absolute standards for democracy, there should equally be absolute standards for what is Jewish. If we can call ourselves a Jewish state without any commitment to or implementation of Jewish law, then why can’t we call ourselves a democracy, without a commitment to ensuring that our democratic principles are always strictly implemented?

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