News You Need to Know 09Mar10

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News You Need to Know 08Mar10

  • Spencer: The Lessons of Adam Gadahn
    In FrontPage today I write about a couple of things Adam taught us: The first American to be charged with treason since World War II was back in the news Sunday, both for a new videotape he released and for reports of his capture that turned out to be false….
  • Australian Muslim leader calls for implementation of “elements of Sharia”
    Zachariah Matthews argues that “‘Sharia law could function as a parallel system in the same way that some traditional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander law was recognised in the Northern Territory.” But there’s a crucial difference: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander laws are not part of a totalitarian, supremacist system…
  • U.K.: Female Muslim councillor forced “to dress more conservatively” after threats from other Muslims
    “In one call, they warned they would dig up parents’ graves and bury her there instead.” “Brit-Muslim leader forced to dress conservatively after receiving threatening calls,” from Asian News International, March 7 (thanks to Watling): London, Mar. 7 (ANI): A progressive Brit-Muslim woman councillor was forced to dress more conservatively…
  • The Lessons of Adam Gadahn
    How a call to jihad shows the duplicity of American “moderate” Muslim groups.
  • Creating a Drug Crisis
    How popular drug collection programs may serve the cause of environmental extremism.
  • Obamacare: The Bankrupting of America
    Even when the Left is most passionately arguing its ideas it cannot help but sabotage itself.
  • Stopping the Imperial Senate
    How can we prevent Senate Democrats from forcing through ObamaCare against the will of the American people?
  • Who Poses the Greater Threat?
    Thomas Sowell’s new book reminds us who puts liberty at peril.
  • Newsweek Declares the End of War on Terror
    Welcome to the distorted world of Newsweek editor and CNN commentator Fareed Zakaria.
  • Yes, Looting is a Crime
    It’s a good thing we have post-modern, post-moral professors, or else some might get the crazy notion that looting is a bad thing. From a weekend piece in the Times, apropos the looting that followed last week’s earthquake in Chile, we get these two nuanced views on the morality of – let us dispense with [...]

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News You Need to Know 07Mar10

  • From the Writings of David Horowitz: March 7, 2010
    The desire for a world that is fundamentally different from the one we have been given was the precise hubris I had found troubling in the radical cause. As Lew had written, revolutionaries and redeemers “put a romantic overlay over life;…they [played] on the most ancient of all human impulses, the desire to cover over [...]
  • Should We Abandon Capitalism?
    As a system, absolutely not, as for the term itself though, perhaps we should.
    In an article in the Telegraph on Thursday 3.04.10, the Chairman of Marks & Spencer, the leading department store in London, made some interesting remarks about capitalism. He spoke mostly about the perception of capitalism and the free market system, in the [...]
  • Pakistani lawmakers refuse body scan, cut short US visit
    Another in an ongoing effort to obtain an exemption for Muslims from the body scans that Muslims made necessary. “Pakistani lawmakers refuse body scan, cut short US visit,” from DPA, March 7 (thanks to Slothy): Islamabad, March 7 (DPA) A delegation of Pakistani lawmakers refused to subject themselves to a…
  • U.S. searching overseas for “radicalized” Americans
    But they still manifest no awareness of stealth jihad activity in the U.S. “US searching for ‘radicalized’ Americans,” from AP, March 5 (thanks to Block Ness): LOS ANGELES – The top U.S. diplomat in Pakistan says the Obama administration does not know how many Americans might have disappeared overseas to…
  • Buffalo Muslim who beheaded wife fears his children will be “radicalized”
    Apparently he believes that his beheading was moderate and will not traumatize the little tykes. “Hassan lawyers eye psych defense,” by Matt Gryta for the Buffalo News, March 6 (thanks to Mark): Attorneys for Muzzammil S. “Mo” Hassan Friday said the media and public have misconstrued Hassan’s actions in the…
  • Pakistan: U.S. jihad seekers claim torture, ask to be released
    But it doesn’t look as if it is going to fly. And note that they only started claiming to have been tortured after Pakistani authorities rejected their first strategem, which was to claim that they were simply waging jihad, and jihad was not illegal under Pakistani law. “Arrested US jihad…
  • Whatever Would I Do Without Liberal Feminist Men to Save Me?
    Apparently, that whole lame idea that Conservative women suffer from “Stockholm Syndrome” isn’t limited to the bitterly nonsensical Janeane Garofalo. Liberal men are hopping on that bandwagon now as well! Assuming that women are too dumb and hood-winked to comprehend things on their own isn’t offensive and sexist in the slightest now, is it? Not [...]
  • Newsweek Declares The War On Terror Is Over!
    Have you heard? The War on Terror is over! In one of the most asinine statements by a “post-American” progressive, Newsweek editor and CNN commentator Fareed Zakaria declares Islamist extremism is defeated. After telling Americans last year to “learn to live with radical Islam,” Zakaria proclaims, 
    “The enemy is not vast; the swamp is being drained. Al Qaeda has already [...]
  • Thug-In-Chief: “September 11 was a big lie and a pretext for the war on terror and a prelude to invading Afghanistan”
    One thing you have to say about these Islamic supremacists: they are supremely skilled liars, and are especially adept at feigning the moral high ground and accusing their opponents of lying while telling a whopper themselves. “Iran’s Ahmadinejad: Sept. 11 attacks a ‘big lie,’” by Ali Akbar Dareini for Associated…
  • I Now Pronounce You Wusband and Hife
    What does it mean to be a husband? Newlywed Carrie Sloan isn’t exactly sure, but it’s got something to do with leaving dirty socks on the floor, bat-out-of-hell driving habits, and a man-sized butt print on a La-Z-Boy recliner.
    Not that she buys into gender stereotypes or anything.
    And what about being a wife?  Sloan, the [...]

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News You Need to Know 06Mar10

  • From the Writings of David Horowitz: March 6, 2010
    Conservatives look to the past as a guide to the future. The past tells them who human beings are, and how they behave, and what is possible. In their approach to the future, conservatives are pragmatic and ground their hopes in experience. When the Founders were drawing up plans for the Republic they looked at [...]
  • Confronting Jimmy Carter’s Slander of Israel’s “Apartheid”
    Richard Cohen’s excellent article in the Washington Post on Wednesday March 2nd, offers several compelling reasons why Israel doesn’t deserve to be compared to South Africa under Apartheid, but I believe that it will be hard for many on the left who think of the State of Israel in that manner to ever understand this, [...]
  • White House: Hey, let’s try the 9/11 jihadis in military tribunals
    Great idea! Why didn’t anybody think of it before? “White House reconsiders holding terror trials in civilian court,” by Julian E. Barnes and Christi Parsons for the Los Angeles Times, March 5 (thanks to Mackie): The White House is considering an end to its effort to prosecute the suspected Sept….
  • In Defense of Sexual Freedom
    Dirrrty girl Christina Aguilera has given up half-naked floor humping and even the fictional Carrie Bradshaw recently traded in her Sex and the City escapades for marital bliss. Apparently, there’s something terribly wrong with these developments.  There’s a “new backlash against casual sex,” says Jessica Grose in her latest piece for Slate, a “new wave [...]
  • John Birch Society publication sticks up for Iran
    …and in doing so, invokes as an authority none other than Zbigniew Brzezinski, who has called for the United States to take military action against Israel if Israel moves against Iran. Here is the article from the JBS publication The New American (thanks to Maxwell). And this group was…
  • US judge won’t toss torture suit naming Rumsfeld
    Part of the ongoing attempt to criminalize and stigmatize any resistance to the jihad, even one as partial and wrongheaded as Rumsfeld’s was. “US judge won’t toss torture suit naming Rumsfeld,” by Mike Robinson for The Associated Press, March 5 (thanks to herr Oyal): (AP) — CHICAGO – A federal…
  • Open your wallets: Obama calls “entrepreneurship summit” with Muslims
    Which means that the U.S. gives Muslim countries more money, which they fritter away on dawah or jihad or perks for the high command, and everything continues as before. “Obama calls ‘entrepreneurship summit’ with Muslims,” from AFP, March 5 (thanks to Mackie): The White House on Friday announced a “summit…
  • “Tell those clerics, Pakistanis and jihadis that you do not fear bomb blasts and acts of terrorism”
    The girl is right: do not fear. Fight back against the jihad. Fear hands the jihadis a weapon. (Thanks to Desidude for the video.)…
  • Fight the Mental Burqa Part 1: For Every Force…
    David Horowitz crowns a wonderful chapter in his autobiography, Radical Son, with this important key to the essence of the Revolution:
    “You have to realize that the issue didn’t matter. The issues were never the issues. It was the Revolution that was everything. Anything that undermined the system contributed to the Revolution and was therefore good.”

    The [...]

  • Reps write to Obama: “We therefore ask that the Administration undertake all such actions it deems necessary to protect the Iraqi Christian community”
    If I were Anna Eshoo, Mark Steven Kirk, Gary Peters, and Frank Wolf, I wouldn’t be holding my breath. “US Lawmakers Send Letter to Obama on Assyrians of Iraq,” from AINA, March 6: March 2, 2010 The Honorable Barack H. Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington, DC…

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News You Need to Know 05Mar10

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News You Need to Know 04Mar10

  • UC Irvine Students Protest Against Reality
    It’s protest season in the University of California system! Yes, folks, it’s that time of year when spring’s first green shoots begin to sprout, the birds fly back north, and moonbats imagine persecution and celebrate terrorism en masse on California campuses.
    On Tuesday, students gathered at a “speak-out” rally in front of the administration building [...]
  • From the Writings of David Horowitz: March 4, 2010
    Conservatives are generally so oblivious to (or complacent in the face of) the actual threat posed by the political Left in this country that they are willing to cede to Leftists the term “liberal.” This greatly confuses the political discussion, including the one we are about to have. So-called liberals, now include everyone who calls [...]
  • Do Republicans Still Think the War Doesn’t Start until Midnight?
    I hate to see friends fight, especially when one of them is swinging a blunt object, so Bill Bennett’s recent seal-clubbing of Glenn Beck, and bench-clearing brawl that ensued, was unfortunate. At issue were some of  Beck’s remarks made at the CPAC conference, notably the characterization of the Republican Party as an unrepentant drunk — [...]
  • A Spy Scandal About Nothing
    Whoever killed the Hamas operative in Dubai did the world a favor.
  • Revisiting Party of Defeat on Kindle for $4.99
    David Horowitz and Ben Johnson’s 2008 demonstrated the Left’s sabotage of the War on Terror.
  • America On Guard Rally
    Come stand up against Sharia Law coming to the U.S.A.
  • New Questions About Dubai Assassination
    For those familiar with the stellar reputation of Israel’s clandestine services, the recent hit on a Hamas operative and arms dealer in Dubai seems oddly atypical. It was, to the outside observer, an embarrassingly sloppy effort: The agents who allegedly carried out the assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh (pictured above) in his luxury hotel room made [...]
  • Glass Dismissed
    Does it really make sense to recycle glass?
  • The UN’s Hypocrisy on Women’s Rights
    How can the agency fight sexual harassment if it doesn’t punish it in its own ranks?
  • Charles Rangel: A Profile in Corruption
    Plagued by multiple serious scandals, Rep. Charles Rangel has stepped down from his post as chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee. The move, which Rangel said was “temporary,” came after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told the congressman that he did not have enough votes to survive an expected Republican challenge to his chairmanship.
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News You Need to Know 03Mar10

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News You Need to Know 02Mar10

  • From the Writings of David Horowitz: March 2, 2010
    “It is important for conservatives to make distinctions between those on the Left who were (and are) traitors or self-conceived enemies of the United States, and those who were (and are) the fellow-travelers of enemies of the United States, and those who are neither traitors, nor enemies, nor friends and protectors of enemies, but are [...]
  • Nancy Pelosi Tries to Rebrand the Tea Party Movement
    Alinsky had nothing on Nancy Pelosi. It appears his “Rules for Radicals” were one rule short, but Nancy has taken the initiative to move past the usual rules in this time of crisis.
    On Sunday’s appearance on the ABC News program “This Week”, Nancy shared her new views-du-jour on the Tea Party movement with Elizabeth Vargas:
    PELOSI: [...]
  • Neither rock nor roll: Sharia police cancel music festival in northern Nigeria
    “Kanfest,” kanned due to inclement Sharia. “Sharia police ban French concert in Nigeria,” from Agence France-Presse, March 1: KANO, Nigeria — Sharia police ordered the closure of an annual music festival funded and organised by the French embassy in northern Nigeria at the weekend, local officials and diplomats said on…
  • Indoctrination in American Colleges
    The University of Massachusetts at Amherst shows how bad things have become.
  • The Heretics: Dr. Julian Simon
    The grandfather of modern environmental skepticism discredited the preeminent doomsayers of his day.
  • Murder in Cuba
    A black civil rights activist is killed by the Castro regime, but where is the international community’s outrage?
  • John, Chuck, Kathleen, and … Mr. President
    There was something particularly annoying — even harmful to society — during the health care summit held last week.
  • Guess Who’s Coming to the Cathedral?
    How American Churches contribute to the surrender to Sharia.
  • The True Nature of Islam
    Nonie Darwish and Hassan Shibly go toe-to-toe on what spawns Islamic terror.
  • New York Politics – Campbell Brown’s Hubby, Spitzer’s Madame?
    Unabashedly biased, left-wing CNN host Campbell Brown is married to a fervent Republican – a former foreign policy advisor for George W. Bush, no less. They’re not exactly Carville & Matalin, but who is?
    Mr. Brown, better known as Dan Senor, is no casual Republican either, and is hoping to take his conservative values to Washington, where [...]

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News You Need to Know 01Mar10

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News You Need to Know 28Feb10

  • From the Interviews of David Horowitz: February 28, 2010
    – In Depth, CSPAN
    Part 1 here.
    Part 2 here.
    Part 3 here.
    Part 4 here.
    Part 5 here.
    Part 6 here.
    Part 7 here.
    Part 8 here.
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    Part 12 here.
    Part 13 here.
    If you have a favorite Horowitz quote you want to highlight for others then click here to submit. Please include:

    “Horowitz Quote of the Day” in subject [...]

  • The Sleep-Deprived Housewives of Victimhood County
    The patriarchy is keeping Naomi Wolf up at night.
    Young girls in Yemen are forced into marriages with adult men, lesbians in South Africa face “corrective rape,” and women throughout the Muslim world suffer indignity, violence, and death under Sharia law.  But that’s not the sort of horrific oppression interrupting Wolf’s beauty rest.
    The “next big issue” [...]
  • U.K.: Labour minister says “Islamic radicals” have infiltrated the party
    For telling the truth, he will be denounced as an Islamophobe in 3… 2… “Islamic radicals ‘infiltrate’ the Labour Party,” by Andrew Gilligan for the Telegraph, February 27: The Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE) — which believes in jihad and sharia law, and wants to turn Britain and Europe into…
  • Iranian Supremo meets with Hamas top dog, calls for unity among jihad groups
    And no one seems to have stood up and asked, “You mean Interior Spiritual Struggle groups?” Sunnis-And-Shia-Will-Never-Work-Together Update: “Iran’s Khamenei urges jihad unity: Leading Palestinian terror figures visit Tehran, meet with Islamic Republic’s supreme leader,” by Dudi Cohen for Ynet News, February 27 (thanks to all who sent this in):…
  • Feminist Hawk Rising!
    I would like to introduce everyone to a dear friend of mine. This is Feminist Hawk. She’s a new associate editor here at NewsReal Blog. She’s in charge of editing our new Feminist Hawks’ Nest sub-blog.
    Feminist Hawk was created by my friend, the extraordinary artist Bosch Fawstin, creator of Pigman and author of such works [...]
  • Pakistan: Life sentence for “outraging religious feelings of Muslims”
    Time and again, we find that just doesn’t take a whole lot. Asia News reports that the defendant is a Christian, which adds an important dimension to the story: namely, the use of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws to terrorize and repress religious minorities. “Life term for blasphemy accused,” by Ishaq Tanoli…
  • Kill Willy?
    On Friday, February 26, The San Diego Times announced:
    “SeaWorld San Diego will resume its killer whale-based Believe show Saturday, just three days after a fatal incident at a sister park in Orlando Florida.”
    The “fatal incident,” was the brutal killing of 40-year-old Dawn Brancheau by the largest killer whale in captivity, Tilikum, who already drowned one [...]
  • Top Idiots Of The Week Awards
    Nancy Morgan’s weekly Idiot Awards

    Rep. Xavier Becerra (D–CA) earns our Top Idiot of the Week award. He is caught laughing out loud when a staff member from Ari David For Congress suggests that they start [...]

  • Now we have our anti-jihad theme song
    Wilders stands up against a symbol of Islamic supremacism and subjugation of women. Read the comments at the Dutch News site, comparing him to Hitler — and then remember that it is the coreligionists of the headscarf wearers who are breathing threats and murder against others, boasting about how…
  • Iran’s opposition leader says mullahs are misunderstanders of Islam
    To be precise, at least according to this AP report, he said that “a dictatorial cult is ruling Iran in the name of Islam.” So presumably he thinks that Islam actually teaches something other than what the mullahs represent and teach. It would be interesting if he were to spell…

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