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Commentary Magazine : New Benghazi Information, Same Story of Clinton's Incompetence

Tue, 29 Oct 2013 05:45:52 +0000

Politifact non-partisan??? Thank you for the bellylaugh!

Commentary Magazine : Turkey Undercuts Anti-Terror Fight

Wed, 2 Oct 2013 23:54:52 +0000

Slight re-write: While ~~Erdoğan~~ Obama excuses and actually encourages terrorism, he is acerbic toward free speech. He has identified “Western Islamophobia”—in which he includes criticism not only of Islam but also its more extremist manifestations—as well as Christians, Republicans, conservatives, in fact, anyone who disagrees with him, a greater threat than terrorism.

Commentary Magazine : Ron Paul: His Son’s Jeremiah Wright

Fri, 23 Aug 2013 02:53:16 +0000

"If Rand doesn’t back away from his father he will soon find that a media that will be out to get him...." By phrasing in the conditional, Jonathan maintains the fiction that the major media cartel will give any candidate without a (D) an impartial hearing. Reporters will ignore at their peril the warning shots lobbed at Attkisson for her Fast and Furious reportage. Even liberal icon Bob Woodward faced withering fire from leftmedia kommissars for daring to wander slightly off the liberal sheep-path. The media's favorite Republican maverick, McCain, was savaged once he was a candidate and not a useful tool to be wielded against conservatives...though no doubt he believed his own press clippings from the NYT and thought he would be immune to 'Progressive' group-think. Any Republican will be running against not only the (D) on the ballot, but also against the media, aided and abetted by the Hollywood/academia/union complex, and any pretense otherwise is not only not helpful, but as the famous quote has it, gives them the "sanction of the victim." It's well past the time that that sanction be withdrawn, that we not, for example, agree to ideological enemies moderating our political debates, or pretend that 'Progressives' have America's best interests at heart. They do not - and it's high time we are honest about that.

Commentary Magazine : Re: American Jewry’s Pro-BDS Fifth Column

Thu, 22 Aug 2013 05:18:46 +0000

Can any sane person seriously doubt that Isaac Zablocki meant precisely what he originally wrote in plainly supporting the use of boycotts as a tool to pressure Israel? Is Rabbi Joy Levitt a fool, a liar, or does she assume that we are stupid enough to believe that Zablocki really is anti-BDS, against the clear context of his entire article, which was nothing but special pleading to the BDSers to spare the arts, particularly films, from boycott? This episode is especially egregious in view of the fact that the JCC 'partners' with such groups as B’Tselem and The New Israel Fund, and recently extended 'welcoming arms' to such lunatic BDSers as Alice Walker and Roger Waters. Sorry, JCC, your credibility account is severely overdrawn.

Commentary Magazine : The Naïveté of a Bishop on Iran

Sat, 17 Aug 2013 20:14:00 +0000

Did no-one seek to enlighten the good Rt. Reverend about a funny little Shia doctrine called taquiyya? Can he be completely unaware that it is sound Islamic religious doctrine that Muslims be permitted, even encouraged, to lie to kuffar, infidels (yes, that would include even Episcopalian bishops, Reverend Chane) to protect or advance Islamic interests? Or is discussing such inconvenient truths about Islam considered something nice people just don't do in the cloistered precincts of Chautauqua?

Commentary Magazine : Caring for Pigs More Than for Humans

Sat, 17 Aug 2013 17:18:12 +0000

The`real problem is that the Scandahoovians always, always occupy the progressive moral high ground, and so are uniquely qualified to be the moral arbiters of the world. Any different views are outside the scope of the moral universe, rendering the heretics others, outsiders, less than human. Muslims and Jews are the ultimate outsiders; Muslims, though, are entitled to special victim status, mandating a gracious tolerance of the culture of violence and rape that just seems to follow their travels. Jews, then, are the real outsiders, warranting no compassion, no understanding. How dare those Jews claim any equivalence between Breivik and Palestinian murderers - after all, Breivik murdered people, while Palestinians kill not innocent human victims, but enemies of the moral universe. Can anyone doubt that a lonely swine occupies a higher social plane than Jews, and are entitled to rights and sympathy, the concern of all right-thinking people and positive action by the state? Next up: "We cannot be anti-Semites...the Palestinians are Semites, and we love them!"

Commentary Magazine : Obama Derangement Syndrome

Mon, 12 Aug 2013 23:19:55 +0000

It is Peter who suffers from ODS - Ostrich Derangement Syndrome, burying his head deep in the sand to pretend that reasonable questions did not and do not exist, and have not been seriously propounded, let alone definitively answered. That man of mystery occupying the White House has chosen to shuffle his way through the minefield of the circumstances of his birth, upbringing, nationality, education...well, just about any and everything of significance in his personal history. Was it just recently that we learned that many of the people and events in his 'autobiographies' were false, cobbled composites if not made of whole cloth? For the OstriPeters, questioning the Fearless Leader is completely infra dig; after all, acknowledging that virtually nothing is known of said FL's life might get Peter barred from Beltway cocktail parties, or worse, subjected to knowing looks and head-shaking. Verbum sap. to Peter: Mental and moral cowards have no business pretending to lecture their betters.

Commentary Magazine : Thanks to Syria, Timing of Looming Iran Crisis Is Fortuitous

Fri, 2 Aug 2013 21:56:07 +0000

Perhaps Ms. Gordon's editor might want to inform her that "fortuitous" means by chance, accidental, or random; her use of fortuitous, when it appears that she means fortunate or propitious, makes a more complete hash of her article than it already is. Or does she mean for us to take her seriously when she proposes that a radical Islamist regime in Damascus, which would surely result were America to throw its support to soi-disant rebels, is a GOOD thing? And, precisely, to which of America's Arab allies (if any such are still to be found in the Age of Obama) would such a move be "immensely popular?"

Commentary Magazine : ADL Agrees: BDS Equals Anti-Semitism

Fri, 8 Feb 2013 22:07:19 +0000

Wrongful discrimination against peaceful attendees, enforced by college hirelings under the eyes of a high-ranking official, is clearly actionable. Sue the bastids. From all reports, the pro-Israeli students were not disrupting, not shouting down speakers, not assaulting BDSers - i.e., they were eschewing the normal Brown Shirt tactics of the left. Brooklyn College should not be allowed the usual smoke and mirrors of an "internal investigation;" BC and the (ir)responsible individuals need to be haled into court, along with the SJP, and made to pay heavily.

Commentary Magazine : Farewell, But Not Goodbye

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 03:35:29 +0000

My favorite writer leaving? Say it isn't so! Reporting for the Beacon is great, but we'll miss your incisive opinions. G-d bless in your new gig.

Jewish Daily Forward : NRA Goes on Offensive as Americans Mourn Shooting – Forward.com

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 04:53:39 +0000

Every Jew should be armed - armed with knowledge of the arts of self-defense, armed with the will to use whatever means are necessary for survival, and armed with the tools, including firearms, that equalize the odds between the savage and the civilized. For those ostriches who believe "it can't happen here," virtually every Jew in Germany believed the same. In a world in which anti-Semitism is growing more prevalent, and more virulent, by leaps and bounds, we cannot keep our eyes closed and hope for others to come to our rescue.

Commentary Magazine : Armenian Group “Troubled” by Hagel’s Genocide Stance

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 19:49:01 +0000

They never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity, do they?

Commentary Magazine : Terrorism Against Feelings

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 22:52:01 +0000

LOL - you still cannot take responsibility for making a false assertion that, to quote you, "This has happened in this country in the past, during the Revolutionary War when people were locked inside churches and burnt to death." At no time during the Revolutionary War did this occur. Never. Not once, let alone multiple times as your use of the plural 'churches' suggests. Words have meaning, and truth matters. If you indeed have come into possession of a doctorate in education as implied by your moniker, and teach students, please convey to them my deepest sympathies - little is worse than having a teacher incapable of admitting he erred. Perhaps it's time you put on your Big Boy Panties and admitted a mistake? Or do you wish to continue snarking about unrelated occurrences? It is a fact that people have been locked inside buildings and burned to death many times in history - which has not the slightest connection to the false claim that people were likewise killed during the Revolutionary War. Sheesh!

Commentary Magazine : Hillary Apologizes for Benghazi, But Where's Obama?

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 22:02:09 +0000

How about neither Rice nor Kerry, as President Romney is extremely unlikely to select either hack?

Commentary Magazine : Romney’s Blue State Trap

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 21:52:48 +0000

What was Reagan's electoral strategy in '80, when he was running against that decade's Obama? Does anyone here remember if RR expended resources in even nominally-solid-dem states, or only in states which appeared easier for him to win? IIRC, right up to the election he was polling far behind Carter; how did he manage such a sweeping and transformational victory across the whole country? Were I on the Romney team, strategizing on defeating Carter II, I'd be trying to follow RR's path as closely as reasonably possible.

Commentary Magazine : Terrorism Against Feelings

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 23:19:56 +0000

As I thought - relying on a scene from a fictional movie as historical evidence. Is "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" sound history, too? You do know what fiction is, don't you? Fiction, as in, from the screenwriter's imagination, as in, not true. You have no time to pull specific citations on any ARW burning church massacres because they do not exist. As to the rest of your screed, none of it - from Tories to lynching to 19th century priests - addresses the one factual point I raised, so your scattergun spew of irrelevant and unrelated facts proves that you have nothing. All you can do is call the person - that would be me - who is correct, "ignorant." A simple statement that you were wrong would have sufficed; your descent to ad hominem is the icing on the cake of your intellectual flatulence.

Commentary Magazine : Terrorism Against Feelings

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:31:19 +0000

What is the basis for your astoundingly ludicrous statement that people were "locked inside churches and burnt to death" during the American Revolutionary War? This assertion is patently false...unless, is it possible that you have a factual source, one that perhaps has eluded every historian for centuries, for your claim? Pray tell, pace Yeats, just precisely where is the "middle" between mediaeval Islamic savagery and, say, the Geneva Conventions on state warfare? Between Sharia and religious freedom? Between the tyranny of the Caliphate and a democratic republic? The 'middle' is a comforting myth...but should never be confused with reality.

Commentary Magazine : Aid to Egypt Makes Sense

Mon, 1 Oct 2012 23:09:01 +0000

Same tired old argument, buying off people in an attempt to avoid problems that they themselves cause. I predict that would be as "successful" as Johnson's creaiton of the soi disant Great Society. Was a trillion dollars well-spent to avoid short-term fears of riots in the '60s, at the cost of creating an undeclass utterly dependent on goverment (read: taxpayer) largesse and, per Moynihan, destroying the black families of America? I think Max has severe difficulty learning from history...Danegeld only buys problems further down the road.

Commentary Magazine : Pro-Israel Dems Turn Against Netanyahu

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 01:16:04 +0000

LOL! A more porcine schnozzola doesn't exist!

Jewish Daily Forward : Calif. Lawmakers Slam Anti-Semitism on Campus – Forward.com

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 23:29:42 +0000

VanEman, I respectfully disagree; free speech is not an absolute right. In the case of Ambassador Oren, the MSA was targeting the free speech rights of others, denying Jewish figures and Jewish students their rights. Quashing others' rights is not, and never has been, a right in itself. Moreover, the MSA and their fellow travelers on campus frequently devolve into threatening and destructive acts, which the law must address. Assault, a criminal act, is defined as any intentional act by a person that creates an apprehension in another of an imminent harmful or offensive contact. Jewish students are assaulted by Islamist thugs and other anti-Semites every day on California campuses. This must be stopped! The legislature would not have thought themselves compelled to act if college administrators were performing their duty to make college campuses safe environments for ALL students. Unfortunately, on many campuses it's always open season on Jews.