Saturday, May 28, 2011
Friday, May 27, 2011
Stephen Moore: A 62% Top Tax Rate?
More Israeli Jews Now Think Obama Is Pro-Israel... A Whole 12%
British Doctors Now Prescribing Drinking Water To Combat Dehydration Epidemic
Doctors are prescribing drinking water for neglected elderly patients to stop them dying of thirst in hospital. The measure – to remind nurses of the most basic necessity – is revealed in a damning report on pensioner care in NHS wards. Some trusts are neglecting the elderly on such a fundamental level their wards could face closure orders.
The snapshot study, triggered by a Mail campaign, found staff routinely ignored patients’ calls for help and forgot to check that they had had enough to eat and drink. Dehydration contributes to the death of more than 800 hospital patients every year.
The watchdog said three of 12 NHS trusts visited in the past three months were failing to meet the most basic standards required by law. They were: Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust and Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust in North London. The findings follow a joint campaign by the Mail and the Patients Association last year which exposed shocking examples of substandard care.
Facebook Page Calls To March On Israel's Borders On June 7th
The following was reported in the official PA daily:
Shi'ite Imam Found Guilty Of Plotting To Bomb JFK Airport In New York
A former leader of the Shiite Muslim community in Trinidad and Tobago was found guilty on Thursday of taking part in a conspiracy to bomb New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.Imam Kareem Ibrahim, 65, was charged in June 2007 for his involvement in what prosecutors say was a failed plot to destroy buildings, fuel tanks and pipelines at the airport that handles more than 1,000 flights daily.
Following a four-week trial in Brooklyn federal court, a jury convicted Ibrahim on all five counts, including conspiracy to attack a public transportation system, conspiracy to destroy a building by fire or explosive, conspiracy to attack aircraft and aircraft materials, conspiracy to destroy international airport facilities and conspiracy to attack a mass transportation facility.
He faces a maximum sentence of life in prison. Sentencing is tentatively scheduled for October 21.
Ahmadinejad: Iranian People Demand "Complete Elimination Of Israel"
From PressTV:
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has warned against plots hatched by the United States to save Israel, urging world nations to remain vigilant."The US seeks to save the Zionist regime (Israel) with deceit. Everybody should know that the survival of the Zionist regime and its existence even in one span of the Palestinian soil is like preserving a cancerous tumor in the body of regional nations, and [is] a permanent threat against them,” said President Ahmadinejad in the Iranian city of Qom on Thursday.
He added that the Iranian people and world nations are awakened and demand justice, freedom and the complete elimination of Israel, IRNA reported.
The Iranian chief executive pointed to new plots of the US against the Palestinian people and its support for Israel and said, “Nations should choose officials who explicitly express their opposition to the presence of the US and Zionists in the region.”
President Ahmadinejad warned regional countries against an escalation of the situation in the region, stressing, “They should be cautious not to jump out of the frying-pan into the fire.”
He said the US foreign policy after Iran's Islamic Revolution of 1979 has been aimed at stopping the progress of the Iranian nation and stressed that US President Barack Obama will “fail and become history with humiliation.”
“The enemy has worn the mask of deceit and is chanting the slogan of peaceful coexistence… but in fact intends to impose American ideas on nations,” Ahmadinejad added....
Large Majority Support Balanced Budget Amendment To Constitution
According to a recent Sachs/Mason-Dixon poll obtained exclusively by The Daily Caller, a large majority of the public backs an amendment to the Constitution requiring a balanced budget, a reform some lawmakers say is on the table in the debt ceiling debate.
65 percent of the public supports the amendment with 27 percent opposed; 8 percent are undecided.
81 percent of Republicans and 68 percent of independents support the amendment. Even a plurality of Democrats, the party that typically resists spending cuts, back the amendment by a 45 percent to 44 percent margin.
Federal Judge Rules Corporate Donation Bans Unconstitutional
A judge has ruled that the campaign finance law banning corporations from making contributions to federal candidates is unconstitutional. …
Cacheris says that under last year’s Citizens United Supreme Court case, corporations enjoy the same right as people to contribute to campaigns.
61% Of Americans Support All Or Most Abortions Being Illegal
Sixty-one percent of American adults—including some who describe themselves as “pro-choice”—told Gallup in a survey conducted May 5-8 that abortion should be illegal in all or most circumstances.The Gallup survey, published today, asked 1,018 American adults whether they considered themselves “pro-choice” or “pro-life” on abortion. It also asked: “Do you think abortions should be legal under any circumstances, legal only under certain circumstances, or illegal in all circumstances?”
For those who answered that abortion should be “legal only under certain circumstances,” Gallup asked the follow-up question: “Do you think abortion should be legal in most circumstances or only in a few circumstances?”
Forty-nine percent told Gallup they were pro-choice and 45 percent said they were pro-life, marking the first time since May 2008 that the percentage of Americans describing themselves to Gallup as pro-choice exceeded the percentage describing themselves as pro-life.
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Cato Institute's Constitutional Scholar Ilya Shapiro On Students' First Amendment Freedom Of Religion Rights In "Candy Cane Case"
CBN explains that the "8-year-old Candy Cane Case that questions whether elementary students have First Amendment rights reached the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday. Seventeen judges heard arguments in the Morgan v. Plano Independent School District, a lawsuit that stems from several freedom of religion cases. The saga began in 2003, when then 8-year-old Jonathan Morgan was banned from handing out candy canes to his classmates because a poem about Jesus was attached to the package."
Federal Agents Raid California Suicide Kit Seller
Elementary School Children At Every Age Level Forced To Listen To Lessons On "Gender Diversity" From "Gender Spectrum Trainer" In Oakland, California
"Gender Spectrum trainer" Joel Baum told the students that "it turns out that there are not just two options" when it comes to gender. He told the children, "People can feel like girls. They can feel like boys. They can feel like both, and they can feel like neither."
I guess the school in Oakland would prefer if every child were raised "genderless" like this kid in Toronto: http://www.parentcentral.ca/parent/babiespregnancy/babies/article/995112--parents-keep-child-s-gender-secret. Lucky kid.
I have a couple of basic questions. First, what the heck is a "gender spectrum trainer" and why is one of those in an elementary school classroom? What the heck is "gender diversity" and why do kids need to listen to that? And secondly, why do those that push for this kind of ridiculousness to be part of elementary school education pretend that transgender brainwashing has anything to do with school "bullying," as if there really is no difference between a basic primer on the golden rule and telling little boys they can feel little girls, and little girls like they can feel like little boys? A little honesty about the agenda here, please.
Amazing Photo Of Strauss-Kahn Meeting Barack And Michelle Obama (from IMF Flickr)
92-Year-Old Palestinian Woman: Palestinians Should Massacre Jews Like We Massacred Them In Hebron In 1929
For more on the Hebron massacre which occured before the modern State of Israel even existed, visit http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/hebron29.html. But of course this is all about "occupation," right? If you are a person who thinks that, you are a person who knows nothing about history or has intentionally chosen to revise it.
Palestinian Authority Honors Families Of Arch-Terrorists Serving Life Sentences For The Murders Of Hundreds
Supreme Court Upholds State Requirements On Employment Verification Of Legal Status
http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifThe U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld an Arizona law that imposes sanctions against businesses that hire illegal immigrants.
The court, on a 5-3 vote, said federal immigration law does not bar Arizona from suspending or revoking the licenses of businesses that employ unauthorized aliens.
“Because we conclude that the state’s licensing provisions fall squarely within the federal statute’s savings clause and that the Arizona regulation does not otherwise conflict with federal law, we hold that the Arizona law is not preempted,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in a 27-page opinion.
Matthew Franck at Bench Memos:
Chief Justice Roberts wrote for the majority, and based the ruling on the plain meaning of the federal immigration statute, which expressly preserves the power of states to legislate on the subject of employing illegal immigrants through their licensing power, as Arizona had done here.
Given the plain meaning and intent of federal and constitutional law, it is a shame that this was not a unanimous ruling. To read the full opinion visit http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/09-115.ZO.html#*
Senate Moves To Extend PATRIOT Act
For some reason, I remember previous PATRIOT Act extensions and the law itself being far more controversial when Bush was in office. Now you essentially have opposition from one lone Republican Senator and the law is being extended for four years without any major reporting or even controversy. I support the extension of this common sense law needed to maintain our security and give law enforcement the necessary legal tools to thwart terrorist plots, but it is worthy of noting how little opposition or controversy is now engendered by the law once Obama is the occupant of the White House.
Judiciary Gone Wild: New Jersey Supreme Court Forces Legislature To Spend More Money, Wisconsin Judge Strikes Down Union Bill
In a 33-page decision issued Thursday, Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi said she would freeze the legislation because GOP lawmakers on a committee broke the state’s open meetings law in passing it March 9. …
“This decision explains why it is necessary to void the legislative actions flowing from those violations,” wrote Sumi, who was appointed to the bench by former GOP Gov. Tommy Thompson.
The New Jersey Supreme Court also recently engaged in an illegitimate "power-grab":
The people of New Jersey ought to be outraged that their state’s highest court has unilaterally appointed itself the supreme authority on matters of spending policy, not simply because that would be a bad system in theory, but because it violates New Jersey’s own constitution, which gives plenary appropriations authority to the legislature. And they ought to be even more outraged if legislative leaders acquiesce to this power grab in order to give themselves political cover to raise taxes. In his statement reacting to the case, Governor Christie stated that “New Jersey has some of the highest taxes in America. New Jerseyans are already incredibly overtaxed. Therefore, as I have repeatedly stated, I do not believe raising taxes is the answer.” As I see it, Democratic legislators have two options here: (1) allow the judicial branch to get away with dictating tax increases; or (2) make the difficult choices on the spending side that would prevent such a tax increase. Whatever they decide, I’m sure it will make the next election cycle fairly interesting.
DC Liberals Sign Petition For Government To Shut Down Drudge Report, Conservative Websites
Governor Rick Perry Signs Sonogram Before Abortion Bill Into Texas Law
Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/05/25/2233842/perry-signs-sonogram-before-abortion.html#ixzz1NRNeurWT
According to the New York Times, "at least three other states have similar laws, and Oklahoma passed a bill last year requiring a doctor to provide a detailed oral description of the embryo, but a court has temporarily stayed that measure pending a lawsuit."
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Speeches Given For Center For Security Policy's National Security Group: Doug Feith, Caroline Glick, And Congressman Allen West
Caroline Glick: Whither the "Arab Spring"?
Rep. Allen West: Defense in a Time of Economic Danger
New York City Outdoor Smoking Ban Begins
Saudi Facebook Campaign Calls For Men To Beat Women Drivers
A campaign on Facebook is calling for Saudi men to beat women who plan to drive cars in a protest next month, AFP reports.http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif
"The Iqal Campaign: June 17 for preventing women from driving" advocates a cord be used to beat women who plan to drive. Women are not allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia.
Some 6,000 people have "liked" the campaign on Facebook.
It was created in response to female activist Manal al-Sharif, who created a page calling for Saudi women to defy the driving ban on June 17.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/05/25/saudi-facebook-campaign-calls-men-beat-women-drivers/#ixzz1NQtqWwMb
Young Bibi Netanyahu At 28 Years Old Defending Israel In 1978
More "Arab Spring" Change In Egypt Against Israel: Border With Hamas-Ruled Gaza To Open Permanently
Hamas until now used the tunnels to import weapons, including rockets that can and have reached main population centers in Israel's center. I guess now they won't have to.
Senate Democrats To Rebuke Obama Over Israel "1967 Lines" Border Comment
Senate Democrats are expected to support a resolution intended as a rebuff to President Obama’s call for basing Middle East peace talks on the 1967 Israeli-Palestinian borders.
It would be a rare rebuke of the president by the upper chamber and a sign that Democrats are worried about the impact of last week’s speech on the U.S.-Israel relationship and pro-Israel constituents.
Democrats in both chambers are scrambling to fix the damage caused when Obama called for the 1967 borders and land swaps as a basis for peace.
Some Democrats have tried to downplay the rift, but Israel’s strongest supporters in Congress say there’s no denying that Obama made a tactical mistake in handling the relationship.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Joe Biden Refuses To Applaud Bibi Netanyahu Declaring That Jerusalem Must Never Be Divided
Obama Still Thinks It's 2008 As He Signs Book At Westminster Abbey
Monday, May 23, 2011
U.S. Supreme Court Orders Release Of Over 30,000 Prisoners In California
The Supreme Court on Monday endorsed a court order requiring California to cut its prison population by tens of thousands of inmates to improve health care for those who remain behind bars.
The court said in a 5-4 decision that the reduction is “required by the Constitution” to correct longstanding violations of inmates’ rights. The order mandates a prison population of no more than 110,000 inmates, still far above the system’s designed capacity.
There are more than 142,000 inmates in the state’s 33 adult prisons, meaning roughly 32,000 inmates will need to be transferred to other jurisdictions or released.
Justice Antonin Scalia vigorously dissented writing (with Justice Clarence Thomas joining in his opinion):
Today the Court affirms what is perhaps the most radical injunction issued by a court in our Nation’s history: an order requiring California to release the staggering number of 46,000 convicted criminals.
There comes before us, now and then, a case whose proper outcome is so clearly indicated by tradition and common sense, that its decision ought to shape the law, rather than vice versa. One would think that, before allowing the decree of a federal district court to release 46,000 convicted felons, this Court would bend every effort to read the law in such a way as to avoid that outrageous result. Today, quite to the contrary, the Court disregards stringently drawn provisions of the governing statute, and traditional constitutional limitations upon the power of a federal judge, in order to uphold the absurd.
The proceedings that led to this result were a judicial travesty. I dissent because the institutional reform the District Court has undertaken violates the terms of the governing statute, ignores bedrock limitations on the power of Article III judges, and takes federal courts wildly beyond their institutional capacity.
To read Scalia's full dissenting opinion visit http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/09-1233.ZD.html.
Justice Alito also dissented (with Chief Justice John Roberts joining this opinion):
The Constitution does not give federal judges the authority to run state penal systems. Decisions regarding state prisons have profound public safety and financial implications, and the States are generally free to make these decisions as they choose... In this case, a three-judge court exceeded its authority under the Constitution.. The court ordered a radical reduction in the California prison population without finding that the current population level violates the Constitution... The prisoner release ordered in this case is unprecedented...[and] improvident... In largely sustaining the decision below, the majority is gambling with the safety of the people of California. Before putting public safety at risk, every reasonable precaution should be taken. The decision below should be reversed, and the case should be remanded for this to be done. I fear that today’s decision, like prior prisoner release orders, will lead to a grim roster of victims. I hope that I am wrong. In a few years, we will see.
To read Alito's full dissent visit http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/09-1233.ZD1.html.
Former Democrat Congresswoman McKinney Trashes US Political System, Bashes Support For Israel In Congress, Praises Iran On Iranian TV
Deputy Speaker Of The Israeli Knesset Danny Danon: Making the Land of Israel Whole
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor And House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer Speaking At AIPAC 2011 Conference
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer:
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Former Israeli Ambassador To The UN Dore Gold: Israel's 1967 Borders Aren't Defensible
Obama's "Clarifications" Of His "1967 Lines" Line During AIPAC Speech
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Palestinian Activist: Jews Are "Human Pieces Of Filth"
Reuters: Prominent Jewish Americans "Rethinking" Support For Obama, Former NYC Mayor Ed Koch "Condemns" Obama
"He has in effect sought to reduce Israel's negotiation power and I condemn him for that," former New York Mayor Ed Koch told Reuters. "I believed that then-Senator Obama would be as good as John McCain based on his statements at the time and based on his support of Israel. It turns out I was wrong," he said. Reuters says that "Koch donated $2,300 to Obama's campaign in 2008, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission."
"I have spoken to a lot of people in the last couple of days -- former supporters -- who are very upset and feel alienated," billionaire real estate developer and publisher Mortimer Zuckerman said. "He'll get less political support, fewer activists for his campaign, and I am sure that will extend to financial support as well." Reuters reports that "Zuckerman backed Obama during his 2008 presidential run and the newspaper he owns, the New York Daily News, endorsed the president."
Anti-Defamation League Newspaper Ad Against Hamas
The ADL explains the purpose of the ad by writing the following:
In response to the newly forged alliance between Fatah and Hamas for a unified Palestinian government, the Anti-Defamation League is calling on President Mahmoud Abbas and the international community to add a "fourth condition" for the terrorist group to gain international recognition and legitimacy: Reject anti-Semitism.
The members of the Quartet – the United States, the United Nations, Russia and the European Union – continue to insist on Hamas meeting three important "conditions" prior to international recognition and engagement: recognizing the State of Israel, renouncing the use of terrorism and violence, and recognizing the validity of previously negotiated Israeli-Palestinian agreements.
ADL is calling on the Quartet and Palestinian leaders to demand that Hamas comply with one additional crucial condition as a prerequisite to forming a unity government: To renounce the anti-Semitism inherent in Hamas' founding ideology, and to expunge from its charter all elements of anti-Jewish conspiracy theories and rhetoric.
Hamas’ ideology is based on age-old, classic anti-Semitic myths. The founding covenant of Hamas is committed not only to the destruction of Israel and the establishment of an Islamic state in its place, but is replete with raw, unadulterated Jew-hatred.
Adopted in August 1988, the Hamas Charter openly embraces the notorious anti-Semitic forgery, "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion," holding it up as evidence that Jews are innately greedy, manipulative and conniving. The charter adopts classical anti-Semitic canards: Jews as plotting to control the world, Jews acquiring wealth by stealing, and Jews controlling the levers of power in media, government and finance. Such stereotypical anti-Semitic canards have been used through the centuries to defame and demonize Jews, leading to violence, pogroms and, ultimately, the Holocaust.
Aside from its embrace of virulently anti-Semitic myths, the Hamas Charter is filled with conspiracy theories about Jews through history. The Charter blames "world Zionism" for the French and Communist Revolutions, World War I, and the establishment of the United Nations, which it claims was created by Jews "in order to rule the world by their intermediary."
Moreover, anti-Semitism permeates the statements of Hamas officials. Recent anti-Jewish statements by Hamas officials include :
- "Whoever is killed by a Jew receives the reward of two martyrs, because the very thing that the Jews did to the prophets was done to him. The Jews are the most despicable and contemptible nation to crawl upon the face of the Earth, because they have displayed hostility to Allah. Allah will kill the Jews in the hell of the world to come, just like they killed the believers in the hell of this world." – Sermon by 'Atallah Abu Al-Subh, former Hamas minister of culture, April 8, 2011 (Translation by MEMRI).
- "The lie of the Zionist Holocaust crumbles with countless holocausts committed by the Zionists in Beit Hanoun, al-Fakhoura school and other places in Palestine." -- Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar, speaking at a memorial service for Palestinians killed during the 2008 Israeli war in Gaza, January 6, 2011.
- [The economic crisis is the result of] "…bad administrative and financial management and a bad banking system put into place and controlled by the Jewish lobby." [The Jewish lobby] "controls the U.S. elections and defines the foreign policy of any new administration in a manner that allows it to retain control of the American government and economy." -- Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhum, October 7, 2008.