Atlas Shrugs

Pamela Geller on Mosque near Ground Zero at Israel TV10

Atlas Vlogs Rifqa Bary's Mortal Enemies

Atlas Vlogs Linda Douglass, Obama's Newest Minister of Propaganda

Here is a copy of the whole Obamacare legislation. Read it if you have a few months.

Nationwide list of list of Obamacare (deathcare) towncare meetings. Every Atlas reader should go.

Atlas Obamacare vlog Part I: The Thugocracy

Atlas Obamacare vlog Part II:Fauxtography

MSNBC Anchor: ''Socialist' Is Becoming the New N-word'

Linda Douglass Admits White House is Breaking the Law

RedState has a great line up of Townhall information with places/times, etc. 

RasmussenPoll: 45% give Obama good/excellent marks as a leader... down 19 points since January...

Arizona Saves Millions Cutting Perks for Illegal Immigrants

-Rep. Baron Hill (D-IN) -- my hometown Congressman — calls those at townhalls “political terrorists.”

 Rep. David Scott Blows Up at Constituent Question on Health Care

In 2003, Hillary Clinton said this: "I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration." Does she believe the same thing now?

Blue Dog Dems: Fact Sheets by District on Health Care

Attention South Florida readers: The jewicidal Wexler is having a town  hall. GO!

Thursday Aug. 20th at  1pm
South County Civic Center
16700 Jog Rd. Delray Beach, FL.

Atlas Vlogs Libel Fauxtography and Smear Campaign: "KKK/GOP Leaders are behind the Town Hall Protesters"

The lowest of the low

Pelosi's Leftist Lies and the Propagandists Who Spread Them, Libel blogging A Different Kind of Fauxtography

Video of Part I of the Atlas Vlog Obamacare series here.

We are the mob!

Congressional Performance As Congress Begins Recess, Voters Give It Weakest Ratings Since February

Just 14% of likely voters give Congress good or excellent ratings this month, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.

That’s down four points from June, nine points from May, and is the lowest rating measured for the legislators since February.

Fifty-six percent (56%) of voters say Congress is doing a poor job, up nine points since June and the highest level found since October 7, 2008.

KKK/GOP Leaders are behind the Town Hall Protesters

OzyBama Will Meet The Same Fate

Barney Frank. "The Iraq War is why we don't have health Care"

Grandma Got Run Over By Obama-Care (play it again, Uncle Sam!)

UPDATE: Dan Friedman writes:

The Obamedia has changed the subject from the high costs and negatives consequences of ObamaCare to the alleged ill manners, tsk, tsk, of some of its opponents at town hall meetings. According to Keith Olbermann some people are shouting. Can you imagine?

 

Fair enough. For those of us who never raise our voices and insist on keeping our napkins in our laps, here and here are two videos featuring two decorous gentlemen in coat and tie quietly discussing the freakin’ socialist disaster Obama is trying to shove down our freakin’ throats!

Atlas Vlogs the Obamacare Mobs

I had to vlog the the insanity of the mob rule ................

If you are old fashioned and prefer the technicolor version, go here.

Barack Hussein Obama's manufactured movement:

Dear _____ 

 (apparently sent to all the e-mail addresses Obama collected in the campaign)

This is the moment our movement was built for.

For one month, the fight for health insurance reform leaves the backrooms of Washington, D.C., and returns to communities across America. Throughout August, members of Congress are back home, where the hands they shake and the voices they hear will not belong to lobbyists, but to people like you.

Home is where we're strongest. We didn't win last year's election together at a committee hearing in D.C. We won it on the doorsteps and the phone lines, at the softball games and the town meetings, and in every part of this great country where people gather to talk about what matters most. And if you're willing to step up once again, that's exactly where we're going to win this historic campaign for the guaranteed, affordable health insurance that every American deserves.

There are those who profit from the status quo, or see this debate as a political game, and they will stop at nothing to block reform. They are filling the airwaves and the internet with outrageous falsehoods to scare people into opposing change. And some people, not surprisingly, are getting pretty nervous. So we've got to get out there, fight lies with truth, and set the record straight.

That's why Organizing for America is putting together thousands of events this month where you can reach out to neighbors, show your support, and make certain your members of Congress know that you're counting on them to act.

But these canvasses, town halls, and gatherings only make a difference if you turn up to knock on doors, share your views, and show your support. So here's what I need from you:

Can you commit to join at least one event in your community this month?

In politics, there's a rule that says when you ask people to get involved, always tell them it'll be easy. Well, let's be honest here: Passing comprehensive health insurance reform will not be easy. Every President since Harry Truman has talked about it, and the most powerful and experienced lobbyists in Washington stand in the way.

But every day we don't act, Americans watch their premiums rise three times faster than wages, small businesses and families are pushed towards bankruptcy, and 14,000 people lose their coverage entirely. The cost of inaction is simply too much for the people of this nation to bear.

So yes, fixing this crisis will not be easy. Our opponents will attack us every day for daring to try. It will require time, and hard work, and there will be days when we don't know if we have anything more to give. But there comes a moment when we all have to choose between doing what's easy, and doing what's right.

This is one of those times. And moments like this are what this movement was built for. So, are you ready?

Please commit now to taking at least one action in your community this month to build support for health insurance reform:

http://my.barackobama.com/CommitAugust

Let's seize this moment and win this historic victory for our economy, our health and our families.

Thank you,

President Barack Obama

More lies and smears of good, decent folks -- Pelosi is damn liar in this video. She claims that protesters are "carrying swastikas and symbols like that to a town meeting on healthcare."

LIE! Never at one of our rallies and protests. The left employed the swastikas for years  ...... I have the pictures. The right has never engaged in the sort of fascism and deceit that the leftist  enemies of America have engaged in for years.

Nancy Pelosi, the most despised member of Congress, whose popularity ratings are second only to Jeffrey Dahmer, has issued such a blatant lie that it deserves to be smacked down immediately with extreme prejudice. Nancy, dear, this is what we think of you:

Ms. Speaker, you are a liar, a fool and a moron wrapped up in a single package.

Here's the DNC thuggery: (h/t Gateway):

White House & DNC Release Labor Goons On Obamacare Town Hall

WARNING: Please be smart, careful and bring cameras when attending Obamacare town halls (swastikas optional)... But, don't let any thugs keep you away.

The Obama website is asking supporters to attend Obamacare town halls during the August recess to counter the massive wave of opposition to government takeover of the health care industry:

Organizing for America, “a project of the Democratic National Committee,” has even sent out a flyover  to its campaign list that the DNC wants people to hold as they outshout anyone else in the room.
But that's not all...
The DNC has also recruited labor goons to police the town halls.

The Huffington Post reported

The nation's largest federation of labor organizations has promised to directly engage with boisterous conservative protesters at Democratic town halls during the August recess.

In a memo sent out on Thursday, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney outlined the blueprint for how the union conglomerate would step up recess activities on health care reform and other topics pertinent to the labor community. The document makes clear that Obama allies view the town hall forums as ground zero of the health care debate. It also uses the specter of the infamous 2000 recount "Brooks Brothers" protest to rally its members to the administration's side.

"The principal battleground in the campaign will be town hall meetings and other gatherings with members of Congress in their home districts," reads the memo. "We want your help to organize major union participation to counter the right-wing "Tea-Party Patriots" who will try to disrupt those meetings, as they've been trying to do to meetings for the last month. .

(Remember the hooligans - many of them Republican Congressional staff - who harassed Florida vote counters in 2000? We can't let that happen again!)

A showdown between unions and grassroots conservative organizations could make for an August full of fireworks, with even more dysfunctional town hall meetings. The AFL-CIO is planning to target 50 "high priority districts," in addition to organizing telephone town hall gatherings.

Atlas Vlogs Sarah Palin - Oorah!

Atlas Vlogs Sarah!

Here is what I said the day she resigned the Governorship to join the fight.

UPDATE 11:15 am: Palin Talks to THE WEEKLY STANDARD.

UPDATE: July 11 3:59 pm: Master List of Governor Palin's 2009 Accomplishments

UPDATE: Governor Palin on the Michael Dukes Show pt 5 July 10, 2009 (Listen to it)

Atlas Vlogs Free Speech!

Hey, check this out! The lovely Mark Campbell, who filmed the Free Speech Summit in Florida, edited these impromptu interviews with yours truly with Alan Kornman and also LTC Allen West (R), US Congressional candidate 2010, at the Geert Wilders event in South Florida.

UPDATE: The Libertarian Republican liked my candidate for 2012 :)

More V-log Fun with Geller and Spencer: The Jihad Candidate

ATLAS VLOGS WEEK ONE OF KING HUSSEIN'S REIGN

And this was stuck in the queue - last week, eve of Coronation day

lol  but this is not lol

UPDATE: Hey someone threw this up on youtube:
Pamela Geller iinterview Atlas Shrugs pt#1_ The Conscience of Kansas radio program
Pamela Geller interview Atlas Shrugs pt#2- The Conscience of Kansas radio program

VLOG: Impromptu Spencer

Atlas VLOG - PART II of Obama, McCain, Party Run Press

Because you asked for the rest of this (and if you missed Part I go here)

Click link below (under the fold) to save bandwidth!

SAY IT TO OBAMA'S FACE, JOHN To the Point News  

CNN Exposes How ACORN Steals Votes For Democrats

Farrakhan on Obama: 'The Messiah is absolutely speaking'

HOW ACORN GOT ME INTO VOTE SCAM NY Poast

ACORN's nutty regimes for Cities. The main business of ACORN: voter fraud is just a sideline. (hat tip Judith)

GOP ACORN TREE!

UPDATE: American Thinker thinks this video is a game changer WATCH IT AND SEND IT TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW. Especially uniformed fence sitters

Atlas Vlogs Acorn, Odinga Mccain, Media - PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD: HUSSEIN BARAK* *EVERYWHERE EXCEPT AMERICA

I think this poll says it all. The world is going to hell in a handbasket. Is there any country we would want to emulate. Failed states, failed socialist policies, statism,

The Poll Results

Regarding the question of which candidate they would vote for if they could, respondents voted overwhelmingly for Obama in every country polled, with the exception of the United States, where Republican John McCain was preferred over Democrat Obama by a narrow margin.

"It's Obama by a landslide -- except in the country in which he's actually running for president," said John Fredricks, Director of Polling for Reader's Digest. "What is most striking is the margin of his support."

In the Netherlands [the Dutch City of Gouda is being terrorized by Muslim Jihadis] , Obama-mania surpassed 90 percent. In Germany [where Jews beaten at an anti-Islamification rally] , it was at 85 percent--numbers not usually seen in political polling. Similar results held true on all six continents that the magazine polled.

  Results include:
--  Americans ranked the global economy as most important; terrorism,
     second; and the war in Iraq, third.  Only the Russians were more
     concerned with terrorism than Americans.
--  In seven nations (Australia, Brazil, Canada, Finland, Germany, Great
     Britain and Taiwan), the environment came out on top as a major
     concern.
--  Global poverty, which tallied only 4 percent among Americans, was the
     No. 1 concern of respondents in six nations (France, Mexico,
     Netherlands, Poland, South Africa and Spain) -- and second in five
     others.

On the question "When you think of the U.S. government, do you consider yourself pro-American, neutral or anti-American?" respondents in other countries were split:

  --  Nine of the 16 other countries were more "anti-American" than
     "pro-American,"India and Poland were most enthusiastic about the U.S. government.
-- Anti-American sentiment was highest among Indonesia, Netherlands and
    Spain, although U.S. neighbors Mexico and Canada expressed it as well.

In response to a question about whether respondents would like to move to the United States, the French expressed strong interest, as did 73% of respondents in India. In Canada, only about 25% expressed an interest in relocating, while in Mexico, the nation that sends the most immigrants to the United States, one-third said they'd want to move there. French novelist Philippe Laibro hypothesized in the article that "the legend remains. America is still that land of the second chance, of multiple opportunities, where anyone can succeed."

About the Global Presidential Poll:

Survey data were collected in 17 nations, 15 by the international polling firm Synovate.

Larwyn's link roundup: Obama and the Clock   [Jay Nordlinger]

Did ACORN Take Obama's 'Get In Their Face' Rallying Cry Literally? NRO

ACORN FRAUD. STEALING AMERICA: ACORN fraud and  other Democratic voting shenanigans across the country

Is ACORN Stealing The Election?  IBD

Why the blackout on Obama's years at Columbia ? World according to Chester Blogspot

Atlas Vlogs the Bloggers at the RNC

A quick light moment with Scrappleface,  Fausta and Rick Moran (he'c covering the RNC ofr PJM)

Check out this video on Thompson speaking of Palin at HumanEvents.com

Excerpts: Remarks by Former Senator Fred Thompson
Former Senator Focuses on Themes of "Country First" and "Service"

SAINT PAUL, Minn. - This evening former Senator Fred Thompson will address the 2008 Republican National Convention. Senator Thompson will expand on the convention's overall theme, "Country First," and the theme for today's program, which is "service," as he illustrates why John McCain is best qualified to be the next President of the United States

Excerpts are below:

On John McCain's qualifications to be president:
"This is the kind of character that civilizations from the beginning of history have sought in their leaders. Strength. Courage. Humility. Wisdom. Duty. Honor. It's pretty clear there are two questions we will never have to ask ourselves, 'Who is this man?' and 'Can we trust this man with the presidency?'"

On John McCain's dedication to doing what is right – not what is popular:
"He has been to Iraq eight times since 2003. He went seeking truth, not publicity. When he travels abroad, he prefers quietly speaking to the troops amidst the heat and hardship of their daily lives. And the same character that marked John McCain's military career has also marked his political career. This man, John McCain, is not intimidated by what the polls say or by what is politically safe or popular."

On John McCain's commitment to taking real action to reform Washington:
"But while others were talking reform, John McCain led the effort to make reform happen – always pressing, always moving for what he believed was right and necessary to restore the people's faith in their government. Confronting when necessary, reaching across the aisle when possible, John personified why we came to Washington in the first place."

On John McCain's ability to restore integrity to our government:
"My role is to help remind you of the man behind the vision. Because tonight our country is calling to all of us to step up, stand up, and put 'Country First' with John McCain. Tonight we are being called upon to do what is right for our country."

Why you read Atlas ..... and a BONUS: ATLAS OBAMA VLOG

You read Atlas because you get the real news, the real story - first.

January 18, 2007 Barack Hussein Obama's "Apostasy" from Islam

March 5, 2007 Pro Palestinian Obama and Edward Said

March 6, 2007: Obama and Reverend Wright

October 4, 2007 Obama dumps American flag pin

January 4, 2008 Obama and violent inciter and Islamist supporter Kenyan Odinga and here (Obama and Odinga humdinger) and some media noticed -Obama Odinga Atlas sighting

January 9,2008 Obama, the Muslim Thing, And Why It Matters by Pamela Geller (Israel National News)

Januray 18, 2008 Obama's Brother is a Radical Muslim and his sister

January 31, 2008 Obama to convene a summit of Islamic nations to address their grievances should he ascend to the Presidency

February 16, 2008 Obama: Arab American

February 28, 1008: Obama and Islam:  The Third Rail in American Politics

February 2008 Mosques Preaching Obama: Muslims Vote Inshalla

Obama's Contributions: Foreign and Domestic

Gaza Contributions from "Palestinian" Rafah refugee camp (story broke at Atlas)

Obama's Birth certificate forgery (story broke at Atlas)

Mosques Preaching Obama: Muslims Vote Inshalla Feb 2008

More, more, more:

• Obama's Birth Certificate Forgery
• Obama's Contributions: Foreign and Domestic
• Obama's Corruption Eruption
• Obama's Website: Hub for hate, terror and antisemitism

Atlas Vlogs the Keffiyeh at the Israel Day Parade

Watch in higher quality here

The parade - gorgeous weather, gorgeous, faces, gorgeous nashuma. Not a keffiyeh in sight (see previous posts on the Dunkin Donuts keffiiyah brouhaha here, here, here and here

And then the annihilationists and Jew haters show up --- cloaked in the keffiyeh

She's ashamed, she covered her face.

This fat bastard kept  calling me "hey Pamela! Cover up!" Yeah, said I was "sagging" (so not) and called me a prostitute> I thought I caught it on tape but I wasn't in movie mode. Just a pig thats all. He was with Yousef al-Khattab, the depraved all hang together.

Look who is pointing at me (Islamist on right )- Fox poster boy Joseph "Yousef al-Khattab" Cohen - yeah he was yelling my name too. Remember our little have-at-it  video at the Islamists day parade here?

UPDATE: Protest warriors caught some ugly video:

Here Tom was in the "Belly of the Beast" (brief clip of entry)

These are very juicy (in a vile and disgusting way)

Islamic Thinkers Society (notice the sign in the back)

They were so extreme, even the marshals tried to get them ejected

Litigious and whacked Rabbi Feinberg with the Neturei Karta (0.19) (yes that Rabbi)

ATLAS VLOGS THE SAID HONOR KILLING, ISLAMOFASCISM AND ...OBAMA DA BOMB!

Quick Vlog to give a snap Atlas recap over the rushing world events. Hold your nose and dive!

And listen to my podcast of my show with the Great Aunt Gail of Amina and Sarah Said - the tragic victims of a bloody honor killing. We failed those girls! In life. We will not fail them in death. Listen here.

We Don’t Need White People Jennifer Rubin

Atlas Vlog: Jewish Genocide, The Muslim Massacre of Jewish Children

""God picks the most beautiful flowers for his garden," said the mother of 16-year-old Avraham David Mozes.

• Yohai Lifshitz, 18, of Jerusalem
• Yehonatan Yitzhak Alder, 16, of Shilo
• Yehonadav Haim Hirshfeld, 19, of Kochav Hashahar
• Neria Cohen, 15, of Jerusalem
• Roy Rot, 18, of Elkana
• Segev Peniel Avihail, 15, of Neveh Daniel
• Avraham David Mozes, 16, of Efrat
• Doron Mahareta, 26, of Ashdod

Yeshivat Mercaz HaRav is the spiritual center of Religious Zionism.

A reader ...............

Dear Pamela,

I am shocked, and so angry.

Merkaz was the Yeshiva where I came to study many years ago, as a foreign student, an eager youngster on a spiritual quest, thirsty for knowledge of my people and heritage.  I came to know the yeshivah's character and commitment, its cholent and charm, as well as its study halls and hallways now drenched in blood.

I had the privilege of my studies there taking place in 1967, during the lead-up to the Six Day war. The campus became a ghost town as virtually all the Israelis, comprising 95% of the student body, went to their army units, leaving only the dozen or so foreign lads (including yours truly) who all volunteered as a team and worked as the  'orderlies' at the nearby old Shaare Zedek hospital, where many of the wounded were later brought as the fighting developed. I'll never forget the experience of those weeks, nor the inspiring ambience of that particular yeshivah environment.

I'm telling you, the lads of Merkaz, even today 40 years later, are among the crème-de-la­-crème of today's Israeli youth and the backbone of its Jewish future.  That they were chosen as the target of this attack is perhaps the surest proof of this.

Today I cry and mourn, and seek to refortify my soul, along with the families and friends of those slaughtered and maimed in yesterday’s massacre.  As the saying goes, this day will live in infamy for decades to come, but the sleeping giant it has aroused must be harnessed and directed appropriately.

At root, it is the leadership – primarily Israeli, but also American and European  -- that is to blame for what has happened.  Olmert and his team -- including the self-serving Shas party who have been, and still are, in a position to force a change in governance – have become a cabinet and government of enablers, not the disablers they should be, when it comes to terror. Together, they have allowed things in Israel to worsen day by day, bullet by bullet, rocket by rocket, when every justification, obligation and opportunity for taking decisive action has repeatedly presented itself but been rejected by them.  Even a cursory analysis will show that Israeli’s pusillanimity has contributed not only to the increase in terror within Israel but to the palpable increase in anti-semitism elsewhere.

The Condappeasing Bush administration, and the Europeans, must also be called to account for providing funds and for putting their “arms” around the fake Palestinian enterprise, when that encouragement and those funds, arms and training have knowingly been used to launch and support aggression against Israel instead of peace.  It is the height of hypocrisy for them now to be tut-tutting their 'regrets,' sending their “condi-olences,” and mouthing their 'condi-emnations'.  The only meaningful "condemnation" is a strong “Jewish nation.”  Women in Green has it right in saying that the response to eight deaths should be eight new settlements.

The massacre itself is painful enough.  But to see Gazans and their brainwashed children actually jumping for joy at this tragedy takes one to a place beyond pain.  Just imagine - they are actually celebrating a calamity, inflicted by their cohort, on the cream of Israeli youth and everything it stands for.

It is high time that those who commit such evil be taught an unequivocal lesson, be made to understand and remember for the next 40 years that it does not and will not pay to pursue this path.  Regrettably, it is unlikely that the present governments – of Israel, the US or Europe – will have the integrity or the clarity of vision and purpose needed to conceive and convey such a lesson.  Instead, they will most likely take quarter-measures, or less.  Witness, even before the blood of the fallen had had time to congeal, Israeli and American “spokespersons” were already intoning the mantra that “this must not be allowed to derail the peace process!”

The very opposite should be the approach.

By failing to respond appropriately, by failing to take heed, by failing to reach and implement the obvious conclusions, they will thus communicate -- yet again -- the message that killing Jews is OK.  The fallout of that failure will affect not only Israel and Jews everywhere, but will just as surely come home to roost on their own doorsteps too.  By then, however, it may be too late to turn their tide.

Photo credit: Avi Ohayon, Government Press Office.

UPDATE: I hear a new hezbo group is taking credit for the mass murder and I am not buying it. It's all the same thing, all the same people, all the same religious dogma. Not buying it some new kid in town. It's the same old sick, depraved pox on humanity.

Gazan Arabs celebrate the murder of children

UPDATE: More on the Israeli Arab murderer: (hat tip Mara)

"More than 50 Israeli Arabs have been arrested over the past three years on suspicion of being involved in terror."

But here's something I didn't know:

"Nearly half of them are Palestinians who have received a permit to stay in Israel and an Israeli identity card on the backdrop of their marriage to an Israeli Arab, and terror groups seek to recruit them due to their access to Israeli targets."

ATLAS IMPROMPTU INTERVIEW: LUNCH WITH IBN WARRAQ

Great stuff. Ibn and Atlas.

If you haven't read Warraq ......start with "Why I am not a Muslim" (buy it here) as a primer.

His latest on the perversion of Western culture by Said's teaching's : Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said's Orientalism

Watch the whole video.... delicious.
 

Atlas Vlogs Presidential Reality

Media Cover-Up Obama’s Socialist-Oriented Global Tax Bill

Accuracy in Media editor Cliff Kincaid disclosed today that a hugely expensive bill called the “Global Poverty Act,” sponsored by Democratic Senator Barack Obama, was quickly passed by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday and could result in the imposition of a global tax on the United States.

Muslim in the White House?

Kenya's killing fields

UPDATE: Forever Young Must read by Leon Wieseltier,  The New Republic   hat tip A Grobman

 

The question of whether Barack Obama will make a fine commander-in chief finally depends on your view of the direction of history in the coming years. I cannot escape the foreboding that we are heading into an era of conflict, not an era of conciliation. I do not mean that there will be many wars, though I cannot imagine that the threat to American security from Al Qaeda and its many associates can be met without a massive and sustained military operation in western Pakistan, and I cannot imagine any Pakistani government ordering such an operation. It is not "the politics of fear" to remind Obama's legions of the blissful that, while they are watching Scarlett Johansson sway to the beat, somewhere deep inside a quasi independent territory we might call Islamistan people are making plans to blow them to bits. (Yes, they can.)

One of the striking features of Obama's victory speeches is the absence from these exultations of any lasting allusion to the darker dimensions of our strategic predicament. He makes no applause line out of American defense. And jihadist terrorism is only one of the disorders in an increasingly disordered world. The most repercussive fact of our time is surely the transformation of China. The "metrics" are all staggering. Quantities, quantities, quantities. China already has the power to wreck the American economy. However many tanks and fighters it has, its hoarding of American dollars is itself a kind of arsenal. And the bounty of wealth that it promises American business, the fantasy of greed-fulfillment that it represents, makes it almost impossible to conduct a serious discussion of the implications of this emerging world power for American principles and American interests--certainly not in Washington, where, when it comes to the art of dodging debate, Beijing is better than Bandar. What China wants, China gets. Not even the gold medal in tyranny that Beijing will win in its Olympics will make a difference. Meanwhile the authoritarian Putin has punkishly succeeded in restoring Russia to its inglorious heritage, reminding the world of the old formula that capitalism plus state power equals fascism. In Iran, none of Ahmadinejad's domestic troubles seem to have modified the state's sense of ascendancy, or its will to nuclearize itself, or its appetite for instability in its region. In Iraq, the streets are safer but the sects are not sweeter. In the Korean peninsula, diplomacy has gone ominously cold. In Palestine there are two Palestines, and one of them belongs to Hamas. In Darfur--well, you know, because everybody knows. In Latin America, the failures of liberal economics have sullied the reputation of liberal politics. And so on.

All this even before we attend to the elimination of poverty. And into this unirenic environment strides Obama, pledging to extract us promptly from Iraq and to negotiate with our enemies. What is the role of a conciliator in an unconciliating world? You might think that in such conditions he is even more of an historical necessity-but why would you think that all that stands between the world and peace is one man? George W. Bush was not single-handedly responsible for getting us into our strategic mess and Barack Obama will not be single-handedly responsible for getting us out of it. There are autonomous countries and cultures out there. The turbulence that I have described is not caused by misunderstandings. It is caused by the interests of powers and the beliefs of peoples. Beijing, Moscow, Tehran, Pyongyang, Islamabad, Gaza City, Khartoum, Caracas-does Obama really believe that he has something to propose to these ruthless regimes that they have not already considered? Does he plan to move them, to organize them, to show them change they can believe in? With what trick of empathy, what euphoria, does he hope to join the Shia, the Sunni, and the Kurds in Iraq? Yes, he made a "muscular" speech in Chicago last spring; but I have been pondering his remarks about foreign policy in the ensuing campaign and I do not detect the hardness I seek, the disabused tone that the present world warrants. My problem is not with "day one": nobody is perfectly prepared for the White House, though the memory of Bill Clinton's "learning curve" is still vivid, which in Bosnia and Rwanda cost more than a million lives. My problem is that Obama's declarations in matters of foreign policy and national security have a certain homeopathic quality. He seems averse to the hurtful, expensive, traditional, unedifying stuff.

"False hopes?" Obama told a crowd in New Hampshire. "There's no such thing." How dare he?

Read it all

OBAMA'S MAN IN DAMASCUS

ROMNEY TO ENDORSE MCCAIN

CPAC: MIGHTY MARK STEYN AND ME

If I didn't impress upon you how honored I was to have been invited to introduce Mark Steyn, forgive me.  He is illuminating and unabashedly clear. Of all that I heard and saw, Mark Steyn was  the most brilliant. He so gets it and articulates it with such force and passion.

I kicked off my intro with a little limerick:

There once was a kafir named Steyn
Muslims said wrote an offending line
Twas an imam he quoted
Now he's being swiftboated
But his battle is yours and its mine.

Steyn's speech ought to be reproduced and be mandatory reading for every . American that cares about what's happening to this  country. He excoriates the Republicans for moving to the left and abandoning the very tenets of our political philosophy.

Speaking with him prior to the event he expressed my concerns and distress over Romney's withdrawal. He, too, thought Romney was a great candidate.

Random points he made but watch the video:

He wouldn't use the word "small  government" because it buys into the liberal narrative - that big government is the norm.

He took out the Republicans for refusing to enforce the border.  Here we cop out to the impossibility of securing our own borders. We claim to be unable to keep people from sneaking over our sovereign borders but we will attempt (at least McCain will) to "change the heavens". We will expend untold treausure to address "global warming"  to cool things down a degree but we can't control . He also pointed out that the greatest increase in illegal immigration has come post 9/11.

The default mode of the culture is liberal; the key levers of society are liberal.  The defects of that approach seem increasingly apparent.

I can't write all my thoughts, I really hope Steyn runs his speech in full on his site.

Great American Rich Davis, Skye from Midnight Blue, Sharon Hyland whose husband is a Maine in Afghanistan and gave  up a six figure job to start "A Hero's Welcome"   and STEYN.

UPDATE: Here's a really clean copy (why townhall cut me out I'll never know)

Must See Video: Mark Steyn at CPAC

Atlas Romney for President Music Vlog

What lengths we won't go through for our Presidential candidates! Romney is truly the outsider, the maverick. The well oiled machine is at work to destroy is candidacy  my friends.

I am with COULTER!

The great and inestimable Thomas Sowell, my favorite columnist btw, weighs in here:

MCCAIN'S CROOKED TALK

We have been hearing for years that Senator John McCain gives “straight talk” and his bus has been endlessly referred to as the “Straight Talk Express.” But endless repetition does not make something true.

The fact that McCain makes short, blunt statements does not make him a straight-talker.

There are short, blunt lies — and he told a big one on the eve of the Florida primary, when he claimed that Mitt Romney had advocated a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq.

Even the Washington Post, which supports McCain, said that the senator “has distorted the meaning” of what Governor Romney said, that Romney “has never proposed setting ‘a date for withdrawal.’ ”

During Mitt Romney’s ABC News interview that Senator McCain twisted, Governor Romney was asked by the interviewer whether he agreed with President Bush’s veto of congressional legislation setting a timetable for withdrawal, and whether Romney as President would veto similar legislation.

“Of course,” was Romney’s reply. There was no ambiguity.

Confronted with his lie on Wednesday night’s debate, McCain blustered and filibustered in a manner reminiscent of Captain Queeg in The Caine Mutiny, when he was caught in a lie during a navy inquiry.

When confronted with any of his misdeeds, Senator McCain tends to fall back on his record as a war hero in Vietnam.

Let’s talk sense. Benedict Arnold was a war hero but that did not exempt him from condemnation for his later betrayal.

Being a war hero is not a lifetime get-out-of-jail-free card. And becoming president of the United States is not a matter of rewarding an individual for past services.

The presidency is a heavy responsibility for the future of the nation, including generations yet unborn. Character and integrity are major qualifications.

The passing years and a friendly media have allowed Senator McCain’s shortcomings in the character and integrity department to fade into the background.

McCain was one of “the Keating Five” — senators who used their influence to try to protect a failing savings & loan company, which also became the subject of a corruption investigation.

During the 2000 primaries, the Associated Press reported Senator McCain’s joking about people with Alzheimer’s.

This went beyond bad taste because (1) it was known at the time that Ronald Reagan was suffering from Alzheimer’s and (2) the media to whom McCain was pandering hated Ronald Reagan.

It is especially ironic now to see McCain wrapping himself in the mantle of President Reagan.

With the momentum of his Florida primary win behind him, going into the “Super Tuesday” primaries, John McCain has now been restored to the position of front runner that the media gave him at the outset.

Other Republicans are jumping on his bandwagon. This may have less to do with McCain’s own qualities than with the prospect of getting Cabinet posts or Supreme Court appointments as rewards for their political support.

It may all look like a done deal. But the McCain-Kennedy bill giving amnesty to illegal aliens looked like a done deal two years ago — until the public realized the truth behind the spin and brought that sell-out to a screeching halt.

Super Tuesday may be the voters’ last chance to bring the so-called “straight talk express” to a screeching halt.

It should be called the “sell-out express” because McCain has sold out not only with amnesty for illegal aliens but also sold out the First Amendment with the McCain-Feingold “campaign finance reform” bill that was supposed to take big money out of political campaigns, but blatantly has not.

McCain also sold out on judicial nominations by making his own side deal with the Democrats, undercutting Republican attempts to stop Democrats from filibustering judicial nominees instead of voting them up or down.

This is quite a record for someone running as a straight talker. 

The brilliant and in the know Dr Jack Wheeler has a devastating piece. Scathing.

HOW THE CLINTONS WILL DESTROY MCCAIN Dr Wheeler, To the Point News (SUBSCRIBE ALREADY! Wheeler will beat me senseless when he sees I've run this :)

The number of fellow Senators who think John McCain is psychologically unstable is large.  Some will admit it publicly, like Thad Cochran who says, "The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine."

Others relate times when McCain screamed four-letter obscenities right in their faces in the Senate cloak room, like Dick Shelby, Rick Santorum, or Jim Inhofe.  "The man is unhinged," one Senator told me.  "He is frighteningly unfit to be Commander-in-Chief."

That John McCain is clinically nuts is scary enough.  What worries a small group of GOP Senators and Congressmen even more is a deep and dark skeletal secret in McCain's glorified past to which they are privy, and which the Clintons will use to blackmail him.

[...]

In other words, the CIA has in its possession the notes and reports of John McCain's interrogators at the Hanoi Hilton, in both the original Vietnamese and translated Russian, showing collaboration with his Communist captors.

Allegations of this nature have been made over the years, many by Vietnam veterans.  There is an even an organization, Vietnam Veterans Against McCain.  But they are based on suspicions and circumstantial claims.  There has never been any hard direct evidence.   

What T says the CIA has is such evidence.  Its release would destroy McCain.  The threat of its release could force McCain to take a fall, blow the election and lose on purpose.  And just who do you suppose would know what the CIA has and work with them to release it?

Someone who has been a CIA asset since he was recruited by London station chief Cord Meyer while a student at Oxford in 1968?

(Back in the 90s years after he retired,  if Cord drank a little too much Scotch, he would laugh derisively at those conspiratorialists who accused Bill Clinton of being connected with the KGB.

"They all darkly point to Bill's participation in anti-war peace conferences in Stockholm and Oslo, and his trip to Leningrad, Moscow, and Prague while he was at Oxford. ‘Who could have paid for this?', they ask. ‘It had to be the KGB!' they claim." Cord would shake his head. "What rot - we paid for it. We recruited Bill the first week he was at Oxford. Bill's been an asset of The Three Bad Words ever since."  Cord passed on in 2001.)

The small group of Senators and Congressmen who have been briefed by T have been unable to confirm with the CIA any details of its document swap with the GRU beyond an admission that such a swap "may have happened."  They are very nervous about pursuing the matter any further.

The Clintons are not nervous.  They are utterly ruthless, and have buddies at Langley all too happy to help them.

It has been noted many times here in To The Point that while most folks think the CIA is a right-wing outfit, it is not. The CIA has been dominated by left-wing hyper-liberals for years.

The CIA is a left-wing, liberal outfit, and its main job for some time now is not attacking America's enemies but conservatives in general and George W. Bush in particular.  The story is best told by friend, Ken Timmerman in his new book Shadow Warriors.

When the time is right, the Clintons will see to the leaking of the GRU archives on McCain to the media.  Bet on it, just as you can bet they'll follow it up with media disclosures of the lady lobbyists in Washington having adulterous affairs with McCain.  (There are at least three of them; I know the name of one but I'm not going to put it in writing.)

Maybe McCain will try to fight back by confirming Hillary's well-known bisexuality and her lesbian affair with her beautiful assistant, Huma Abedin.  Google "Hillary" and "Huma Abedin" and you'll get almost 6,000 hits.  Turns out Huma is a Moslem who grew up in Saudi Arabia and is strongly suspected of working for Saudi intelligence.

Or maybe he'll capitulate to Clinton blackmail.  You never can tell what a psychologically unstable guy will do.

And that last point is why - be prepared for this, folks - I would not in any circumstances vote for John McCain, not if either Hillary or Obama were the alternative.  Evil is safer than crazy.  Leftie amateur inexperience is safer than crazy.  So I agree with Ann Coulter who says:

"I'd rather deal with President Hillary than with President McCain. With Hillary, we'll get the same ruinous liberal policies with none of the responsibility."

How in the world can the Republican Party get saddled with a nutcase whack-job who knows nothing about economics, is so anti-capitalist he uses "profit" as a term of derision, has never run a business or had any job outside of government, will raise taxes, is so stupid that he believes "stopping global warming" is worth destroying the American economy, won't drill ANWR, won't appoint strict constructionist justices, won't protect marriage, will give amnesty to 20 million illegal aliens, is beloved by the New York Times, and lives in a delusionary world of vanity and rage?

Rush is right.  A McCain presidency will be the destruction of the Republican Party.  It needs to be rebuilt, not wiped out with the field clear for the fascists of the left to consolidate power and eliminate freedom.

Go to To The Point, there is so much more.

"The (Non)Conservatives Against McCain"

and my man Hal points out,

I don't know if anyone else has noticed this but The Arnold has endorsed John McCain for president at a time when California is suing the US government because California wants stricter environmental laws on the books than what the Federal government has.  McCain is very "green" friendly (as long as it gets him elected, and ain't it peculiar that being "green" puts a lot of green in these putz's pockets???).  They managed to take their lips off each other's respective asses long enough to make a few statements to the press.  No doubt McCain will reward Schwarzenegger with a post on his cabinet if he wins, possibly head of the EPA??  Nice reward for someone who fucked up California's economy and created a $14 BILLION deficit.  Way to go Arnold!  If McCain wins, Arnold  might get a chance to screw the nation's economy like he has California's.  Maybe he should hire a script writer and have him save California's economy while giving the states entitlements away to illegal aliens (oh wait, the writers are on strike, scratch that).  3 links w/stories below, feel free to pick and choose.

Will Media Expose Global Warming Con Job?

CONTRIBUTE

UPDATE: Romney Picks Up Maine booya! (hat tip Larwyn!)

UPDATE 2/5: Refuting  the McCain prisoner of war allegations  here (hat tip Joe)

Both sides should be heard:

Recently, I have seen several allegations that condemn Senator John McCain for his behavior as a prisoner of war. I believe that these allegations are false. I am in a better position than the Senator’s accusers to know the truth since I was a prisoner with him, having been captured a little over a month before him. I have contacted hundreds of my comrades on our e-mail list and not one of them can confirm anything that has been alleged against McCain.

UPDATED; Henry Holzer wants answers. Me too. Holzers important piece raises more questions then Warner over t Front Page answered;

Soon after being shot down on October 26, 1967 in the middle of Hanoi, McCain asked for medical attention and promptly received it at a North Vietnamese military hospital. Was it because he quickly told his captors who his father was, as his detractors claim? Was it because he was so badly injured, as his supporters contend? Or for some other reason(s)?

 

Even though no returning POW reported that he had been interrogated by non-Vietnamese communist intelligence or security agents who identified themselves as such, there is considerable circumstantial evidence, and at least three pieces of direct evidence, that some had been. Indeed, McCain himself has admitted that he was interviewed by at least one “French” reporter, that he had a discussion with “ a famous North Vietnamese writer” about Ernest Hemingway, that unspecified “others came to find out about life in the United States” that one of them “was Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, the hero [!] of Dienbienphu,” and that indeed, “[m]any [unspecified] visitors came to talk to me”

 

During those interviews, literary discussions, cultural conversations, and military dialogues, did McCain disclose information that he should not have, as his detractors claim? Or did he not, as his supporters contend? (For the record, neither McCain nor any other POW should be criticized for whatever information, however sensitive, they may have given up under torture.)

 

As a United States Senator, McCain joined with colleague John Kerry to choke off an official inquiry into the fate of American MIAs. Was it because McCain had something personal to hide and/or like Kerry was trying to facilitate restoration of normal relations with the communists, as his detractors claim? Or because he honestly believed the Vietnamese had not withheld any American servicemen, as his supporters contend? Or for some other reason(s)?

 

McCain was instrumental in having Congress seal the debriefings of all returned prisoners of war. Was it because of legitimate privacy concerns? Or did his and others’ debriefings inculpate him because of his conduct in captivity.

 

One can speculate about how many people know the answer to such questions.

 

But one thing is certain.

 

John McCain knows the answers.

 

Atlas VLOGs the Left's Fascination with Desexed Women

According to the New York Times puff piece on clitterror:

According to Lukman Hakim, the foundation's chairman of social services, there are three "benefits" to circumcising girls.

• "One, it will stabilize her libido," he said through an interpreter.
• "Two, it will make a woman look more beautiful in the eyes of her husband.
• And three, it will balance her psychology."

Phyllis Chesler nails it here

the article is essentially a National Geographic-style photo essay subtitled: “Inside a female circumcision ceremony for young Muslim girls.” The photos are by Stephanie Sinclair, the brief text is by Sara Corbett.

What is a human rights atrocity with life-long and life-threatening consequences is here being presented as a “tradition,” often a harmless one, sometimes not, but always a well-intentioned one.

According to the article, there is “little blood involved”—well, how bad can that be? And, “antiseptic is used”— well, this is not dangerous at all, is it? Finally, afterwards, the child is given a “celebratory gift”—what, am I the kind of westerner who, Grinch-style, would deny the child her gift in order to make my twisted, “racist” argument? As the article states , the child clutching (or drinking) her gift “has now joined a quiet majority in Indonesia.”

These photographs were taken in 2006 on a day where 200 girls were genitally mutilated . In honor of the “prophet Mohammed’s birthday,” the Assalaam Foundation subsidized both the mutilation—and the “gift.” According to the Foundation’s chairman of social services, the cutting/mutilation will “stabilize her libido;” “make a woman look more beautiful in the eyes of her husband’; and “will balance her psychology.”...

I will let Dr. Bostom, who is a physician and the author of the forthcoming book, “The Legacy of Islamic AntiSemitism” (a daunting, compelling, and indispensable book), have the last words. He has written a passionate article titled “Clitoral Relativism-Female Genital Mutilation in ‘Tolerant” Islamic Indonesia. ” Quoting from the British Medical Journal on the subject, he reminds us that:

“Female genital mutilation, also misleadingly known as female circumcision, is usually performed on girls ranging in age from 1 week to puberty. Immediate physical complications include severe pain, shock, infection, bleeding, acute urinary infection, tetanus, and death. Long-term problems include chronic pain, difficulties with micturition [urination] and menstruation, pelvic infection leading to infertility, and prolonged and obstructed labor during childbirth. ”

He notes that FGM is illegal in the United States. He views the above article as “misleading.”

Speaking of misleading articles, the author of "A Cutting Tradition", Sara Corbett, also wrote a cover story for the New York Times called "The Women’s War", about female Iraq veterans.

Amorita Randall, one of the women who appeared in The Women's War never served in Iraq and made up much of what she told Sara Corbett in her interview.

hat tip Michael

FGC Around the World

ATLAS CHRISTMAS KISS TO THE TROOPS!

A big wet Christmas kiss to the troops.

G-d bless everyone of you. Cheesecake, beefcake, yellowcake (!) ...now there's blogcake. Mmmmmmmm good!

hat tip Strategy page

Call to Arms Against Slander of the Troops Bruce, Demoracy Project

Toy drop: A pallet containing toys, holiday decorations and other donated items floats toward an island of the Western Pacific and Micronesia area, bringing holiday cheer Dec. 14 during Operation Christmas Drop. While Santa Claus must find a rooftop to land his reindeer on, America's Airmen and their four-propeller C-130 Hercules deliver the holiday items from the air and move on to their next target. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Brian Kimball) All photos cStrategy Page  )

NORAD tracks Santa

Click here to view the videos             of Santa we've captured on our Santa Cam so far!        

       

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UPDATE: Send in the tough guys!

UPDATE: Don't miss CHRISTMAS IN IRAQ video hat tip David Allen

Atlas Weekend Mac Vlog

Test vlog for mac. Enormously easy - the whole process. On the mac/windows fence. Meanwhile, while you're watching, VOTE for your girl.

UPDATE: Athos likes it. Same page baby.

UPDATE: Thanks Paul!

UPDATE: We've got mail!

Pamela,
I've been a reader of yours now for a little over a year, and I love the fact that I can get information from you that I won't find anywhere else.  That's the beauty of blogs...literally 'of the people, for the people.'    
I work as a contractor for the Air Force in Montgomery, AL.  You would think, of all places in this country, that the Heart of Dixie would be the most likely to resist calling a Christmas party a "Holiday" party, but that thinking would be wrong.  For years now I've been getting the same email from the base command announcing their Holiday Party.  I replied once that I refused to go to it unless they called it a Christmas Party.  This year the base rep came by desk-to-desk selling tickets.  I again raised my complaint.  The rep agreed with me that it is ridiculous, but unfortunately it is a matter of Air Force policy.

[emphasis mine - Atlas]

    Let me get this right.  This is one branch of the United States military, whose purpose is to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that very Constitution that claims all men are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that same Constitution that grants the power to mint money and print "In God We Trust" on it.  This Air Force, by matter of policy, is not allowed to refer to a party given at Christmas time as a Christmas party.

Uh, that's going away too big fella.

    Whatever happened to celebrating diversity?  Why is my religion wrong, but every other crackpot's religion okay?  Why is it wrong to celebrate the birth of Son of Man, the savior of mankind, but it's okay blow up children with IEDs?

I don't understand.

P.S., Have a great Christmas!

UPDATE: A Jewish Merry Christmas

Atlas Vlogs "Heroes of Green"

The Barney's window Unfreakinbelievable

Dubai Poised To Acquire Large Stakes in N.Y. Banks
Barney's, now the banks.

Atlas Vlogs Sadist Senator Craig

AUDIO OF SEN. CRAIG'S POLICE INTERVIEW

UPDATE: On the lighter side, this is funny. Cheezy but funny. Larry Craig Parody by Doug Clark Listen here. Complete text here. hat tip Rocket man

Heh.

We don't care that you're gay, we care that you're stupid.

Atlas Vlogs Miss South Carolina

Second in my culture vulture vlog series

Demoncrats say no to school vouchers for the poor (needs a dumb, uneducated elecorate)

SAT Scores Take Another Dip

U.S. Drops Out Of International Math & Science Study 

Voucher Showdown

UPDATE: Brian sent more on the dismal SAT results:

Rather than admit that the education in this country is getting progressively worse, the response to this news will no doubt be to:

(1) "Recenter" the scores once again [that is, add 50 points to make the scores look better][the last time this was done school districts around the country issued press releases to tout their results of scores 40-45 points higher than the prior year, which were of course lower because of the added points];

(2) Blame the results on some claimed inequity;

(3) Make sure to note that the test-takers feel better about the results despite the dropping scores; and/or

(4) Claim that more money is needed to prepare students for the test.

ATLAS VICK VLOG!

Clitorectomies - check!
Honor killings - check!
Forced conversions - check!
Child marriage - check!
Christian killing - check!
Jew killing - check!
Apostate killing - check!
Poor terrorists at Gitmo should be freed - check!
Dog abuse - kill the bastard!

Atlas Anti-Vlog

Not in the mood but you insisted. Vlog vlog vlog. Not!

Atlas Vlogs Islam, Bush Doctrine, New Media, Kapo Olmert

Israel gives $600 million in funds to Abbas; Hamas calls it bribery

Olmert considering transfer of military equipment to Fatah

Palestinian intelligence fingers Iran in Gaza seizure
Iran played a "big role" in Hamas's seizure of Gaza from Palestinian security forces earlier this month, Palestinian intelligence chief Tawfiq al-Tirawi charged on Sunday. 

NY PUBLIC SCHOOL MADRASSA

Valedictorian banned for mentioning G-d in Speech Jersey Journal

Bayonne High School valedictorian Jeremy Jerschina had wanted to give a heartfelt speech at his graduation ceremony on Wednesday....

[...]18-year-old Jerschina said that to speak from the heart as he addressed his graduating class, he had to speak to God as well.

But Principal Richard Baccarella and the Bayonne Board of Education would not let him speak if he included a prayer - so he didn't speak at all.

Islamist-Left Alliance A Growing Force 

THE WEST IS LOSING THIS WAR BECAUSE IT THINKS ITSELF THE ENEMY Barry Rubin

Why is the West losing the battle against radical Islamist and other forces in the Middle East?
Simple--because it has people like Alvaro de Soto running things. De Soto, if you hadn't noticed, was a veteran UN official whose last job was as the organization's top Middle East envoy. Full article here.

UPDATE: Hewitt on THE FAIRNESS DOCTRINE
 

Atlas Vlogs Afternoon Soccer

Be there, tonight when Presidential candidate Duncan Hunter joins me on Atlas on the Air on BTR 9PM Eastern Listen LIVE here.

UPDATE: SHE SHOOTS, SHE SCORES
Jackie scores her second goal

UPDATE: In a squeaker the hometeam goes down. 3-2. Jackie's two goals do little to console her.

Atlas Drive by Vlog

MotionBox is offline ......uploaded to dhimmitube *SPIT*

Soldier's Family Needs Immediate Help

Atlas Vlogs defeatists, traitors, the leftist/Islamic alliance Democrats

Stream of consciousness to an unconscious America.

"Look, these guys have lied to us so much, I've even lost confidence in the military," said Murtha.

Here is the entire paragraph:

Murtha said he and House Appropriations Chairman Obey are discussing options for passing a new bill. Murtha is recommending a two-month stopgap bill but acknowledged that plan has problems. "If we're not careful, you bump against the [August] recess," he said. But he prefers that approach to hold the White House more accountable for its handling of the war. "Look, these guys have lied to us so much, I've even lost confidence in the military," said Murtha, a retired Marine colonel with ties to the Pentagon. He said there is no agreement among House Democrats, however.

Congressman Murtha has made some troubling comments in the past few months, (here, here, and here) but this seems to be at another level. 

Hat Tip: RedState

Townhall.com is organizing a petition telling Senator Reid, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Jack Murtha and the entire rogue’s gallery that we will not stand for their defeatism. While they may lack courage our troops do not and they deserve the resources needed to win this war.

Howard Dean:The "New Democrat Speak," Part II

UPDATE; THIS VIDEO WAS BANNED BY YOUTUBE. I UPLOADED TO MOTIONBOX! I AM DONE WITH DHIMMITUBE

Atlas First NonPolitical Vlog /Not

All politics are personal, you can't get away from it.

Great show with Beryl, The World at War. Dear Josef sent us the podcast. Josef rocks. Download 2007-04-12WorldatWarPodcast.mp3

Atlas Vlogs on that damn vaccine

More on why that damn vaccine is irking me. If you missed my video rant yesterday on the proposed mandatory vaccine (the cervical cancer vaccine)f or young girls who will obviously (insert sarc tag) take multitude lovers go here for that video and watch it first. This vlog's a quickie (uh ... no pun intended.)

Atlas Late Nite NYC Vlog

Musing of yours truly ...thanks to Irwin the cinematographer;

ATLAS Vlogs COULTER and PODCAST

LISTEN TO THE COULTER SHOW PODCAST. NOW! Click on the left arrow on this embed player.

  Shakes head, walks away.

Second Half! Atlas Shrugs: G-d Bless Bert Brady
Click on the above link to see the piece ABC News did on Bert Brady's "Greet the Troops" efforts (and kudos to ABC for broadcasting it.) Watch the video. Mr. Brady is a great American and I am deeply honored to have him on my show.

Mr Brady received this missive from one of the soldiers via the USO;

Ladies and Gentlemen, Yesterday a friend of mine sent me a video clip from CBS news coverage of your welcome home program.  As I watched it I couldn’t help but sob as all of the memories flooded back of my trip through Dallas about a year and a half ago on the way home for R & R from Afghanistan.  At the time, I was so shocked, surprised and overwhelmed as I had never heard of this and it came totally unexpectedly.  There is simply no way that I can describe your impact on my adjustment.

I have many memories from my year over there.  Some fond, some horrible, a few maybe even repressed a little.  But, the day I walked off that plane and into your arms will always be one of my most treasured.

I would like to say thank you, but there are no words that suffice.  I just hope that you receive a blessing like the one you give.

These folks all belong to a charity, DEFENDERS OF FREEDOM, I would appreciate it if you would make a gebnerous  donation because they do so much for our troops.  Many people want to send packages to the troops but do not know how.

To listen to the show live click on this embedded media player:

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The listen live button (above) will take you to the page with all my shows (click on the green disc on the show you want to listen to) Check out my interviews with Mark Steyn, Robert Spencer, Caroline Glick, Dore Gold.

 

UPDATE: David hits it here . He knows it serves to embolden our enemies.

UPDATE: Here's the fatwa running on the leftwing site, The LiberalOC.com

An Open Letter from Conservative Bloggers to GPAC Organizers on Ann Coulter

Posted on March 6th, 2007 by Dan Chmielewski

One newspaper has pulled her column and she’s lost some ads from her website, but here’s an open letter from right wing bloggers about Ann Coulter’s comments about John Edwards last weekend.

I’d really like to see Matt Cunningham add his name to this list.

We engage our friends on the right in a debate of ideas.  While neither side can sway completely to another point of view, there has to be a place of compromise in the middle where points of view are respected an agreeable compromise can be achieved and we can all move forward.  This letter from conservative bloggers is a step in the right direction.

An Open Letter to CPAC Sponsors and Organizers Regarding Ann Coulter

Conservatism treats humans as they are, as moral creatures possessing rational minds and capable of discerning right from wrong. There comes a time when we must speak out in the defense of the conservative movement, and make a stand for political civility. This is one of those times.

Ann Coulter used to serve the movement well. She was telegenic, intelligent, and witty. She was also fearless: saying provocative things to inspire deeper thought and cutting through the haze of competing information has its uses. But Coulter’s fearlessness has become an addiction to shock value. She draws attention to herself, rather than placing the spotlight on conservative ideas.

At the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2006, Coulter referred to Iranians as “ragheads.” She is one of the most prominent women in the conservative movement; for her to employ such reckless language reinforces the stereotype that conservatives are racists.

At CPAC 2007 Coulter decided to turn up the volume by referring to John Edwards, a former U.S. Senator and current Presidential candidate, as a “faggot.” Such offensive language–and the cavalier attitude that lies behind it–is intolerable to us. It may be tolerated on liberal websites but not at the nation’s premier conservative gathering.

The legendary conservative thinker Richard Weaver wrote a book entitled Ideas Have Consequences. Rush Limbaugh has said again and again that “words mean things.” Both phrases apply to Coulter’s awful remarks.

Coulter’s vicious word choice tells the world she care little about the feelings of a large group that often feels marginalized and despised. Her word choice forces conservatives to waste time defending themselves against charges of homophobia rather than advancing conservative ideas.

Within a day of Coulter’s remark John Edwards sent out a fundraising email that used Coulter’s words to raise money for his faltering campaign. She is helping those she claims to oppose. How does that advance any of the causes we hold dear?

Denouncing Coulter is not enough. After her “raghead” remark in 2006 she took some heat. Yet she did not grow and learn. We should have been more forceful. This year she used a gay slur. What is next? If Senator Barack Obama is the de facto Democratic Presidential nominee next year will Coulter feel free to use a racial slur? How does that help conservatism?

One of the points of CPAC is the opportunity it gives college students to meet other young conservatives and learn from our leaders. Unlike on their campuses—where they often feel alone—at CPAC they know they are part of a vibrant political movement. What example is set when one highlight of the conference is finding out what shocking phrase will emerge from Ann Coulter’s mouth? How can we teach young conservatives to fight for their principles with civility and respect when Ann Coulter is allowed to address the conference? Coulter’s invective is a sign of weak thinking and unprincipled politicking.

CPAC sponsors, the Age of Ann has passed. We, the undersigned, request that CPAC speaking invitations no longer be extended to Ann Coulter. Her words and attitude simply do too much damage.

Credentialed CPAC 2007 Bloggers

Sean Hackbarth, The American Mind

James Joyner, Outside the Beltway

BoiFromTroy, Boi From Troy

Joy McCann, Little Miss Attila

Kevin McCullough, Musclehead Revolution

Fausta Werz, Fausta’s Blog

Patrick Hynes, Ankle Biting Pundits

Ed Morrissey, Captain’s Quarters

Jane Stewart, See Jane Mom

Alexander Brunk, Save the GOP

Ace, Ace of Spades HQ

Other Right-of-Center Bloggers

Owen Robinson, Boots and Sabres

N.Z. Bear, The Truth Laid Bear

Michael Demmons, Gay Orbit

Mark Coffey, Decision ‘08

Russell Newquist, The Philosopher’s Stone

Marshall Manson, On Tap

Rob Port, Say Anything

Matthew Johnston, Going to the Mat

Timmer, The Daily Brief

Rick Moran, Right Wing Nuthouse

Dustin Gawrylow, Free Republicans

Dan, North Dallas Thirty

Brennan Monaco, The American Pundit

Nate Nelson, Reality Mugged Me

Christopher Fotos, PostWatch

Joe Carter, Evangelical Outpost

Amy Ridenour, National Center Blog

Soren Dayton, EyeOn08

Greg, Rhymes with Right Jimmie, The Sundries Shack

John Tabin, JohnTabin.com

Peter DiGaudio, Texas Hold ‘Em Blogger

Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit

ATLAS NEWS FILM SHORT: FRESH HELL

A quick recap on the Democrats ............. cribbed a little from Doug here

Iran, Venezuela to launch direct flights Gulf Times ht Daryl

Iran's national airline will begin direct flights to Venezuela next month in another sign of the two nations' increasingly close ties. Iran Air will operate a weekly, commercial flight linking Tehran and Caracas in March, the Venezuelan government said in a statement. Flights leaving Tehran will stop in Syria's capital of Damascus on their way to Caracas, it said.

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Make sure you read AMERICA ALONE before my interview with him. It is the most prescient, sagacious work on the state of the global jihad I read this year. Seriously.

Atlas VLOGS the New Congress

Stinky and stinkier

Jules on Boxer here

ATLAS TAKES ON THE LIBERALS: Listen to the MP3 audio here of my appearance  last night on the Canadian Radio show, Remains of the Day and I have at it against enlightened leftists. You'll enjoy it. On the panel -Host Jim Duff,  Ray Heard former Editor of The Montreal Star and "opinion leader", Beryl Wajsman, and Atlas.

Front page at Pajamas  Media- eeeha!

UPDATE: Because we are at war, stupid. WaPo has become the mecca of moonbattery.

White House Calls Boxer's Attack on Rice's Personal Life 'Outrageous'

Beryl Wajsman's column at the Conservative Voice is excellent here

"I AM THE MOST POWERFUL WOMAN IN AMERICA"

WTF? Who talks like that? What kind of people are these? Imagine a Republican throwing that one out there.  She has hosted and given more parties, lunches and teas than the allies on V day. Oh and she is naming a street after herself. I'm serious. Wake the witch up -- she's a public servant for keyryst's sake.

  After calling herself "the most powerful woman in America," Mrs. Pelosi flexed her right muscle like a weight lifter to much applause at an event yesterday titled a "women's tea."
    "All right, let's hear it for the power," she screamed as the jubilant applause continued.
    When Mrs. Pelosi tried leaving the podium, Rep. Rosa DeLauro, Connecticut Democrat, asked her to stay.
    "There is so much love and warmth that's in this room today and that's because of the new speaker," Mrs. DeLauro said. "And that tells you about what the future is all about in the House of Representatives." More here.

UPDATE: All the tripe that's fit to run, the libmedia can't get enough of that funky stuff. Here a re some excerpts of Pelosi's full remarks here in WaPo;

But I am so happy that my brother Tommy D'Alesandro, who was also a mayor of Baltimore, is here leading the D'Alesandro family from Baltimore today.

(APPLAUSE)

He's sitting right up there with Tony Bennett.

(LAUGHTER)

Bwhahahahahahahaha

[...]

(APPLAUSE)

For our daughters and our granddaughters, today we have broken the marble ceiling.

Jane Harman!

(APPLAUSE)

The election of 2006 was a call to change, not merely to change the control of Congress, but for a new direction for our country. Nowhere were the American people more clear about the need for a new direction than in the war in Iraq.

(APPLAUSE)

A new direction? What direction would be better than winning the war the Islamists began? American wants to win San Fran Nan make no mistake about that.

The American people rejected an open-ended obligation to a war without end.

Wrong. Until we won. America must beat back the jihad.

Shortly, President Bush will address the nation on the subject of Iraq. It is the responsibility of the president to articulate a new plan for Iraq that makes it clear to the Iraqis that they must defend their own streets and their own security, a plan that promotes stability in the region and a plan that allows us to responsibly redeploy our troops.

Withdraw and weaken America's standing in the world . The paper tiger indeed. Cutting and running from the war on the jihad. Preesdient Bush does not answer to you.

(APPLAUSE)

Let us be the Congress that never forgets our commitment to our veterans and our first responders, always honoring them as the heroes that they are.

Pork oink oink.

(APPLAUSE)

The American people also spoke clearly for a new direction here at home. They desire a new vision, a new America built on the values that have made our country great.

Not a leftarded one, I assure you.

Now it is our responsibility to carry forth that vision of a new America into the 21st century.

A new America that seizes the future and forges 21st century solutions through discovery, creativity and innovation, sustaining our economic leadership and ensuring our national security.

Try not to kill those very things SFN.

A new America with a vibrant and strengthened middle class for whom college is affordable, health care is accessible, and retirement reliable.

European socialism!

(APPLAUSE)

PELOSI: A new America that declares our energy independence, promotes domestic sources of renewable energy, and combats climate change...

Oh does that mean we can drill for our own oil offshore and ANWAR? Hoorah!

(APPLAUSE)

... a new America that is strong, secure, and a respected leader among the community of nations...

(APPLAUSE)

... and the American people told us they expected us to work together for fiscal responsibility, with the highest ethical standard and with civility and bipartisanship.

Yeah together, got a bridge I might buy?

(APPLAUSE)

After years of historic deficits, this 110th Congress will commit itself to a higher standard: Pay as you go; no new deficit spending.

Translation: NO MORE TAX CUTS

(APPLAUSE)

Our new America will provide unlimited opportunity for future generations, not burden them with mountains of debt.

Really? Welfare, medicare, medicaid, social security for illegals, entitlement, entitlement entitlements. Teach children SELF RELIANCE  San Fran Nan!

(APPLAUSE)

In order to achieve our new America for the 21st century, we must return this House to the American people. So our first order of business is passing the toughest congressional ethics reform in history.

It was in our hands sweetie.

(APPLAUSE)

PELOSI: This new Congress doesn't have two years or 200 days. Let us join together in the first 100 hours to make this the Congress, the most honest and open Congress in history.

One hundred hours.

(APPLAUSE)

This openness requires respect for every voice in the Congress. As Thomas Jefferson said, every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.

Trust me, between Pelosi and Ellison, Jefferson is spinning out in his grave.

My colleagues elected me to be speaker of the House. The entire House. Respectful of division of our founders, the expectations of our people and the great challenges that we face, we have an obligation to reach beyond partisanship to work for all America.

Where is Jane Harman?

[...]

(APPLAUSE)

PELOSI: May God bless our work, and may God bless America.

(APPLAUSE)

Before we move forward -- because there are so many children here and so many of them asked me if they could touch the gavel, I wanted to invite as many of them who wanted to come forward to come join me up here. I know my own grandchildren will.

Exploiting the children.

Let's hear it for the children. We're here for the children.

The children.

(APPLAUSE)

Children -- again.

The children.  Saddam loved to play the children card too.

(APPLAUSE)

For all -- for these children, our children and for all of America's children, the House will come to order.

All the children my ass. With all those back breaking entitlement programs. You want to save the children? Cut taxes, enforce immigration laws, cut entitlement programs, teach self reliance, kill multicultural curriculum, support school vouchers, encourage chrter schools, free markets, and fight the damn jihad. That will save the children.

Oh yeah, check out your collegue lefty Levin:
Sen. Levin Supports Temporary Surge of U.S. Troops in Iraq
(I guess the left wants to take credit for winning the war. Let them. As long as we do the right thing, who cares?)

UPDATE: I am PAJAMA GIRL! The Vlog is front page at Pajama Media. Me and the dead Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of Iran (a PJM Exclusive)....talk about juxta positioning.

UPDATE 1/5/07 9:40am: 'They had waited a long time for this night to party, nibble on goat cheese ravioli with pumpkin and truffle, wipe their lips with paper napkins embossed in gold with 'Speaker Pelosi January 4, 2007,' listen to former members of the Grateful Dead sing 'Truckin''...

Ha!

UPDATE: Nancy Fest gone wild;

The cannoli at the reception after the morning Mass were from the bakery on the street in Baltimore's Little Italy where she grew up. The white lilies on the altar were her favorite flower. The chapel belonged to Trinity University, the Roman Catholic women's college she graduated from in 1962.

"We've waited over 200 years for this time," Pelosi said at an afternoon tea turned power rally. "America's working women, women working at home, whatever they choose to do, they have a friend in the Capitol of the United States."

Oh puhleeze. Shut up with the woman thing. Who cares. It's so retro and belittling to women. Speaking as woman, I want the best person for the job. I mean who thinks like that anymore?

Five hundred women wore Rosie the Riveter buttons with Pelosi's face superimposed, with pearl earrings, above the slogan: "A woman's place is in the House ... as Speaker." More here

Atlas Christmas Greeting

A Christmas quickie ............  a quick token of my appreciation

Want more dancing? Deep  affection for our soldiers, great  video here (great video, hysterical)

Major Christmas Woot: Senior Taliban leader killed in U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan, military says

Merry Christmas 1776 hat tip Hous Been

UPDATE: Excellent oped piece here:

LEAVING THE DANCE WITH THE WOMAN YOU BROUGHT   Bill Barnstead hat tip Michael

I was raised back in the days when a man always left the dance with the woman he brought. Things are different today. On Nov. 2, 2000 Texas governor and president-elect George W. Bush was invited to the dance by Mr. and Mrs. America (although the people didn't know for 36 days that he was the dance partner they picked). The dance, as far as the president is concerned, was over on Nov. 7, 2006. And, tastelessly, the president—who left his date at the door—departed from the dance with another woman: California congresswoman Nancy Pelosi

Atlas VLOGS ISG, Iraq, Iran, Islam, Israel

CAROLINE GLICK WILL BE ON MY RADIO SHOW, TUESDAY NIGHT , YOU CAN LISTEN LIVE HERE  don't miss history being made

From my reader Flying Submarine;

My daughter was killed in Safwan, Iraq. I understand what it means to sacrifice for this country, as I am a former submarine sailor (circa 1984) and I am also an "orthodox" Jew.

I currently live in California, a very blue state to say the least. The senators from Califoria are very liberal and it does not appear that anyone more conservative than them will soon be grasping the mantle. Why are we asking people like Boxer to listen to reason and vote against the adoption of the ISG report? Frankly, I want her to sign on to it. There needs to be no doubt as to which side these people have committed. Anyone who agrees to the resolution adopting the ISG report is clearly: a) a Jew hater and b) a protege of Chamberlain. I want Kerry and Boxer and all the rest to sign on to it.

I want them out in the open without a shred of political cover.

That's just my humble opinion. Personally, anyone who can't see the existential threat that America faces, doesn't deserve to stay in this country (learn to speak Arabic, before you people leave).

Read this soldier's opinion of the Baker boys and the ISG  hat tip jon

HANIYEH: WE [Hamas] WILL NEVER ISRAEL
HANIYEH SET FOR TALKS WITH AHMADINEJAD

Rumsfeld Faces Lawsuit From ACLU and Former Detainees STACLU

CNN Reporter Slimes Bush: ‘Kool-Aid’ Drinking President Won’t Admit ‘Failure’ via LGF

As Nancy Pelosi recently put it, "You can define victory any way you want." And war, she said, was only "a situation to be resolved." More here

mdd writes, "Scary Shit, innit?" Uh huh

UPDATE: BOLTON! and more BOLTON!

Talking up this VLOG on the front page on Pajama

UPDATE: Melanie Phillips on the ISG:

BUSH ALONE
The Iraq Study Group report did more than merely live down to its advance billing. Its authors are now revealed to be as intellectually deficient as they are morally malodorous. Calling these people ‘realists’ is clearly someone’s idea of a joke; on the contrary, their reasoning amounts to the most unrealistic, utopian and utterly fatuous wishful thinking possible. More here

 

ATLAS Post Election VLOG

It's a Friday night, make that Saturday, open thread .......... let's relax and chat it up

In case you missed my radio show Tuesday night, listen to the podcast ............ I verbally fisk the appearance of CAIR's chief liar AWAD on the appearance on O'Reilly the other night

UPDATE: Pajamas Media has the EXCLUSIVE police report of the 6 flying imams here

Speaking Truth to IslamThe Forum for Truth

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                                      AMERICA"S TRUTH FORUM
                            "ISLAM IS A POLITICAL MOVEMENT"

Lots of interesting little details: for example, more than a couple of speakers were contacted by government agencies and by media (in one case CNN) to strongly recommend they not speak at this symposium. It's not enough  that the jihad-loving media actively deceives the American people about the gravity of Islamic fundamentalism by ignoring it and distorting and twisting reality; here you find that they are trying to shut truth-tellers up.

Photo right: Bruce Tefft, Robert Spencer, Harvey Kushner

More than anything, what was impressed upon me was that Islam was not so much a religion as it is a political ideology -- and a violent, oppressive one. More dangerous than any previous threat in world history.

And while it was not a political conference, the ramifications of Tuesday night's election results worried the panelists.

Many of the speakers came at great personal risk to their safety. All live under constant threat of death. "I know they want to kill me."

SHOT OF THE DAY..........love that woman! Much thanks to John of the Lodge for snapping it. He caught the moment.

Wafa and me ...will begin download of her remarks as well as the others.

Posing questions to Robert Spencer and Jim Gilchrist.

Wafa VLOG, modern day heroine.

I cannot load the audio right now -- I don't have the Digital wave software (laptopless) -- so check back on Monday for Walid Shoebat (photo below), Wafa Sultan, and Robert Spencer's complete remarks. I will continue to update this post ... but not tonight.

The objective of this forum was to inform the American people of the violent, relentless enemy intent on world domination. Distressing that only a couple of hundred people showed ........ a couple heard of the symposium from Atlas and thanked me profusely. But the jihad-enabling media blackout is the jihad's best weapon. It's frightening. We've got to build this alternative news source. Got to.

UPDATE: Radicals Refuse to Negotiate November 12, 2006:

The violence in the south is increasing, with Islamic terrorists ambushing police patrols, and increasing their attacks on Buddhist clergy. The Islamic radical groups have shown no interest in negotiating with the government.

It's worldwide, coming to your hometown...........Killing Little Children for the Cause Strategy Page

November 12, 2006: A good example, of how self-destructive Islamic radicalism is, can be seen in the continuing campaign to stop polio vaccinations. Several years ago, Islamic conservatives in Nigeria began urging parents to refuse polio vaccinations for their children. Eventually, this thwarted the worldwide effort to wipe out polio, because dozens of new cases appeared in Nigeria. All this comes from paranoid rumors that the medicine was a Western attempt to sterilize Moslem children. The Nigerian government put pressure on conservative Islamic leaders to stop preaching against the vaccination program, with mixed results. Islamic radicals are preaching against other types of vaccinations as well, causing something of an "Islamic Plague" among the growing number of unvaccinated children.

One of the most speakers, Dr. Babu Suseelan, discussed Islam's continued threat to world peace from a Hindu perspective. He recounted the history of mass slaughter of Hindus and Sikhs, and implored the West to join together -- Christians, Jews, Hindus, Sikhs, all people, to battle the enormous Islamic threat. How does he know? Go here.

The following item was posted inside a major Mosque in London : 

"If a kafir (non-Muslim) is going into a Muslim country and he is walking by, he is like a cow. Anyone can take him. That is the Islamic rule. If Muslims cannot take them, you know, and sell them in the market, then kill them. It is ok".

Wafa Sultan: "Honor killing is a way of life in the Middle East."

Oh, and btw, excellent Steve Emerson video: click here to view or go to this link.

A.P.: AL-QAIDA VOW TO REACH J'LEM, BLOW UP WHITE HOUSE

More Al Qaeda pearls of wisdom here at FOX News; hat tip Pam

Leader of al-Qaida in Iraq Mocks Bush

BAGHDAD, Iraq —  A new recording Friday attributed to the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq mocked President Bush as a coward whose conduct of the war was rejected at the polls, challenging him to keep U.S. troops in the country to face more bloodshed. "We haven't had enough of your blood yet,"taunted terror chieftain Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, identified as the speaker on the tape.

In a television interview, Hassan Nasrallah threatened to have his supporters take to the streets if Siniora’s government remained in power.

And yeah, this is going to be tough to take.

UPDATE: Robert Spencer has a wonderful post here on this conference.
The audio for his remarks will be up later, if I can find my way back to NY.  Don't ask ........

Spencer's JihadWatch is the most comprehensive, informative website on Islam. His latest work, The Truth about Muhammad, is the definitive book on the subject -- a must read now. And yet for all of his profound thinking and meticulous research, I gotta tell you, I found him to be the  most engaging, charming sharp, concise, funny man. He's a pistol, razor-sharp, but the message this scholar delivers is grave. The depth and breadth of Spencer's knowledge on Islam and the Quran is without peer. Check out Andrew Bostom, Charles Johnson and Bruce Thornton's review here.

UPDATE November 13: Here are ROBERT SPENCER'S unedited remarks.
Download Spencer1111.wav

WAFA SULTAN Audio here: Download wafa_sultan1111.wav

WALID SHOEBAT Audio here: Download walid_shoebat1111.wav

Footnote: I have not given white space to the Islamic apologist Hamid Mir. (He is the only journalist to have met with Osama bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahri since the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.) He fought intermittently with Spencer and Sultan and was disingenuous about the facts concerning Islam. Each time his inaccuracies were starkly pointed out, he would cop out to, "I am not an Islamic scholar."

At one point, Sultan called him out on "Islamic tolerance." She asked Mir, "if Islam is tolerant of other religions then why can a Muslim man marry a Christian or a Jew, but a Muslim woman can not? She will be killed. Honor Killing."

He lost all credibility with me well before he said that Hezb'Allah was disarmed after the Israel/Islamic conflict this past summer. He was on a mission, and when Janet over at Frontpage mag sent me this gem, it all made sense:

I just had a conversation with a Muslim reformist and author/publisher from Pakistan who is threatened by fatwas by the likes of Al Qaeda.  He confirmed that non-Muslim journalists have been able to interview Osama when Osama wanted to convey a particular message to the West.  However, he stated that no Muslim reporter can reach OBL unless he agrees with his jihadist mission to establish the worldwide Caliphate.  According to my well-respected source, AQ has intelligence (often dating back to a person's youth) on all Muslims in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, Malaysia and Indonesia who are active in any field.  It is therefore impossible to survive, let alone live, in Osama's territory if you are an  active Muslim and don't agree with the jihad.  In other words, it is impossible to hide from AQ in that region. 

Furthermore, according to this Pakistani publisher who lives on the West Coast, Hamid Mir was on an AQ-sanctioned mission to the West. He maintains that AQ provides tickets, photographers, bodyguards, etc. for its operatives to come to America and talk to the public.  The PTF was used for their purposes and ultimately gave him a legitimate forum to further the deception of the West.  Hamid will now be able to return home and report on his mission.  His photographer will provide proof of a successful mission that included the Hamid's participation in a forum composed of many of the prominent anti-jihadists in America today.

There was a good deal of back and forth between Spencer and Mir, and I would have VLOGGED it, but video was not allowed. I scored the little I have clandestinely. Spencer wiped the floor with him, because Spencer's arguments are based in fact, not Islamic propaganda. Mir is a plant.

Photo: Hamid Mir on the right of Harvey Kushner.

UPDATE: More on the problem of tools like Hamid Mir. Janet adds:

What was so upsetting about the crowd's response to Hamid Mir on Saturday is that the desire to accept Muslims and some sort of peaceful message from them, however disingenuous, seemed to supersede the will to confront a frightening reality head-on.  A careful vetting of Hamid and a through examination of his motives and allegiances requires the acceptance of an intolerable reality.  It necessitates the unquestioned realization of the brutality that must be perpetrated by our peace-loving Christian nation if we are to survive. 

This was an intervention by the Kumbaya school of thought in the face of an unreconcilable enemy.  "If Muslims see how virtuous and wonderful we are, they'll change their minds about wanting to kill us."  The wishful, reality-defying cheers of the crowd reinforced this perception.   The fact that dissenters were admonished to "be polite" and even viewed with disdain by the majority for expressing the unpopular truth was further evidence of this suicidal mindset.

Certainly a great many of us saw through the bullshit. The problem is that once America begins to wake up (it's inevitable), this will be the modus operandi of the Islamists and the left and the dhimmicrats will embrace the "engaging of dialogue." Translation: a campaign of deceit and deception, while all the while  Islamists plot and plan to destroy us.

UPDATE: Robert Spencer lays out the contretemps with Hamid here -- point by point. Read it all.........

Hamid Mir and Q

The America's Truth Forum symposium in Las Vegas ended with a bang on Saturday afternoon, when a Q-and-A featuring most of the participants (some, alas, including Walid Shoebat and Babu Suseelan, had earlier flights to catch) devolved into an exchange between Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir and me about Islam and the Qur'an.

This was because Hamid Mir asserted in his address that the Qur'an did not sanction lying, and that it held a non-Muslim's life to be equal in worth to that of a Muslim's, and that Islamic tolerance was exemplified by the fact that Jewish and Christian women could marry Muslim men without having to convert to Islam.

I responded during the Q and A to point out that Qur'an 3:28 and 16:106 not only sanction deception of unbelievers, but are taken to do so by mainstream Qur'anic commentators such as Ibn Kathir and others, and that mainstream Islamic law does not hold a non-Muslim's life as equal in value to that of a Muslim, and that the fact that a Jewish or Christian man may not marry a Muslim woman without converting to Islam was a manifestation of the Islamic supremacism that was fueling today's jihad activity.

Mir replied by saying he really didn't know much about Islam, and asked, "Why are you pushing me to adopt a more radical form of Islam?" This is, of course, a charge that Dean Esmay and others have made: that by speaking of the way jihadists use the Qur'an and Islamic theology, I am only encouraging them. But whether coming from Mir or Esmay or anyone else, this charge is false, and hides an unwillingness by self-proclaimed moderate Muslims to do what they must do: confront and combat the jihad ideology. Mir, after all, made several assertions about the Qur'an and Islam. If he wasn't prepared to back them up, he shouldn't have made them -- although perhaps he wasn't expecting to be challenged on factual grounds.

And this is the problem. Islamic spokesmen in the West make statements like Mir's to non-Muslims every day, and those non-Muslims are eager to hear them and be reassured about Islam. But I continue to maintain that such reassurance is worthless if these moderates are not able or willing to do battle with the jihadists on theological grounds. If the moderate version of Islam is not convincing to Muslims, it is worthless. And if I can see the holes in it from an Islamic standpoint, so can Muslims. Thus I stand by my statements at the symposium on Saturday afternoon: the jihadists are making recruits among Muslims daily by appealing to the Qur'an and Sunnah. Peaceful Muslims should not ignore or deny this, but should acknowledge the aspects of Islam that are giving rise to violence, and repudiate and fight against them. Otherwise this recruitment will continue unabated.

There's more; go there now.

UPDATE: More Wafa video here. Dr. Wafa Sultan Contends that Islam Preaches Violence.

THE ELECTION VLOGS

November 6th

November 1st

October 25th

October 17th

October 15th

October 10th

13 Reasons to Vote Republican on November 7th

AIM Report: George Soros Tries to Buy Congress 

UPDATE 11/06/06: What ever happened to Patriotic reporters? Wall Street Journal

Broadsword's election rant here

Election Vlog V: Lurch lurches

*NYT Admits They Lied About Kerry's Speech (see update below)*

                THE DEFINING MOMENT ELECTION '06

This says it all .........hat tip Norm

Hey America, where do you stand?

This man might have been president - thats how you know there is a Gd.

Calling Rush doughy? What up wit dat? Nothing from the PC media on that one eh?

All previous Atlas Election Vlogs here

The Weekly Standard's "Dear John Letter" here 

Pajamas Media has a Lurch round up here. Go!

Arabs Rooting for Democrat Victory IRIS Blog

It seems that Arab governments are rooting for a Democrat win to weaken Bush's power to deal with a nuclear Iran, Syrian armament of Hezbollah, etc.:

UPDATE: Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word Dept: sKerry couldn't bring himself to verbally apologize (the elitest doesn't believe he has anything to be sorry for), so instead he ran this poor excuse for an apology on his little visited website.

I sincerely regret that my words were misinterpreted to wrongly imply anything negative about those in uniform

"Misinterpreted"? That's not an apology. Coweird.

JIHAD AND TERROR LEADERS TO US: VOTE DEMOCRAT!

UPDATE November 3: In a soldier's own words here (hat tip Dave)

UPDATE: Third reprehensible New York crimes, slimes, Times story of the day. First story here, second story here, now this.

This from LGF here;

NYT Admits They Lied About Kerry's Speech

The New York Times has issued a correction for their article about John Kerry’s slam against the military, in which they did not even print his actual words: Corrections: For the Record - New York Times. (Hat tip: Ethel.)

A Political Memo article yesterday about the fallout for Senator John Kerry over what he called a “botched joke” referred incompletely to the differences between prepared remarks and what he actually said about the Iraq war to students at Pasadena City College in California on Monday. Mr. Kerry not only dropped the word “us,” but he also rephrased his opening sentence extensively and omitted a reference to President Bush. Mr. Kerry’s aides said that the prepared text read: “Do you know where you end up if you don’t study, if you aren’t smart, if you’re intellectually lazy? You end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq. Just ask President Bush.” What he said: “You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.”

This is the Times’ time-honored modus operandi—publish a shockingly biased story leaving out important information, then a day or two later, a belated correction to give them cover.

UPDATE: Hitchens on Kerry's latst flub in the Wall Street Journal here.

 

ELECTION VLOGSKerry/Kennedy: POS

Here is Lurch, belittling our troops, again. This man might have been president - thats how you know there is a Gd.

Splash Kennedy: for all the lefties that said it would be the Right who would be the ones to mangle the Christ child's name to echo the terror mastermind's.

Another round for everyone!

UPDATE: sKerry responds here;

Senator John Kerry issued the following statement in response to White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, assorted right wing nut-jobs, and right wing talk show hosts desperately distorting Kerry's comments about President Bush to divert attention from their disastrous record:

"If anyone thinks a veteran would criticize the more than 140,000 heroes serving in Iraq and not the president who got us stuck there, they're crazy. This is the classic G.O.P. playbook. I'm sick and tired of these despicable Republican attacks that always seem to come from those who never can be found to serve in war, but love to attack those who did.

I'm not going to be lectured by a stuffed suit White House mouthpiece standing behind a podium, or doughy Rush Limbaugh, who no doubt today will take a break from belittling Michael J. Fox's Parkinson's disease to start lying about me just as they have lied about Iraq. It disgusts me that these Republican hacks, who have never worn the uniform of our country lie and distort so blatantly and carelessly about those who have.

Atlas ELECTION VLOG IV

***ELECTION VLOG TOP THREAD***

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DISCLOSURE: I, Pamela Geller (aka Atlas), have never worked for the Republican party. I have never received any funds from the Republican party. I work for America. I defend my homeland, my home, my family. I fight the great fight.

Election  VLOG I  here and VLOG II here (with Ben Afflicted) and Election Vlog III here

Malkin Liveblogged the most excellent Bush press conference earlier today on Iraq here

Atlas Shrugs: Soros Stealing America

Atlas Shrugs: SOROS AND THE NAZIS UNDERMINING THE JEWISH PEOPLE

Atlas Shrugs: MoveOn.Org aka Soros' Wallet Targeting Honorable ...

Atlas Shrugs: Could Soros Be More Evil?

MoveOn.Org: Judenrats for Justice here, here and here.

Democratic Leader Splash Kennedy planning a coup with our enemies here (hat tip Pam)

Press Conference By The President

"I know many Americans are not satisfied with the situation in Iraq.  I'm not satisfied either.  And that is why we're taking new steps to help secure Baghdad and constantly adjusting our tactics across the country to meet the changing threat.  But we cannot allow our dissatisfaction to turn into disillusionment about our purpose in this war. … We must not fall prey to the sophisticated propaganda by the enemy, who is trying to undermine our confidence and make us believe that our presence in Iraq is the cause of all its problems. … If I did not think our mission in Iraq was vital to America's security, I'd bring our troops home tomorrow. … I'm confident this generation will answer that call and defeat an ideology that is bent on destroying America and all that we stand for." – President George W. Bush, 10/25/06

"Our Commanders On The Ground Are Constantly Adjusting Our Tactics"

"Our Goals Are Unchanging – We Are Flexible In Our Methods To Achieving Those Goals." "

Americans have no intention of taking sides in a sectarian struggle or standing in the crossfire between rival factions. Our mission is to help the elected government in Iraq defeat common enemies, to bring peace and stability to Iraq, and make our Nation more secure." 

"On The Military Side, Our Commanders On The Ground Are Constantly Adjusting Our Tactics To Stay Ahead Of Our Enemies":

"We are refining our training strategy for the Iraqi security forces, so we can help more of those forces take the lead in the fight and provide them better equipment and firepower to be successful. "We've increased the number of Coalition advisers in the Iraqi Ministries of Defense and Interior, so they can better plan and execute security operations against the enemy. "We have changed our force structure so we can better respond to the conditions on the ground. … "Most recently, we have moved additional Coalition and Iraqi forces into Baghdad, so they can help secure the city and reduce sectarian violence."

"A Military Solution Alone Will Not Stop Violence" 

"Yesterday, Our Ambassador To Iraq, Zal Khalilzad, Laid Out A Three-Step Approach."  

1. "First, We're Working With Political And Religious Leaders Across Iraq, Urging Them To Take Steps To Restrain Their Followers And Stop Sectarian Violence."

2."Second, We're Helping Iraqi Leaders To Complete Work On A National Compact To Resolve The Most Difficult Issues Dividing Their Country."

"The new Iraqi government has condemned violence from all quarters and agreed to a schedule for resolving issues such as disarming illegal militias and death squads, sharing oil revenues, amending the Iraqi constitution, and reforming the de-Baathification process."

3.  "Third, We're Reaching Out To Arab States Such As Saudi Arabia, The UAE, And Jordan, And Asking Them To Support The Iraqi Government's Efforts To Persuade Sunni Insurgents To Lay Down Their Arms And Accept National Reconciliation."

"The International Community Is Also Supporting The International Compact That Outlines The Support That Will Be Provided To Iraq As It Moves Forward With Its Own Program Of Reform." 

"Absolutely, We're Winning"

"If You Listened To General Casey Yesterday, 90 Percent Of The Action Takes Place In Five Of The 18 Provinces.  And Around Baghdad, It's Limited To A 30-Mile Area."  "And the reason I bring that up is that while it seems to our American citizens that nothing normal is taking place – and I can understand why, it's a brutal environment there, particularly that which is on our TV screens – that there is farmers farming, there are small businesses growing, there's a currency that's relatively stable, there's an entrepreneurial class, there's commerce."

"Al Qaeda Is On The Run."  "

As a matter of fact, the mastermind, or the people who they think is the mastermind of the September the 11th attacks is in our custody.  We've now got a procedure for this person to go on trial, to be held for his account.  Most of al Qaeda that planned the attacks on September the 11th have been brought to justice."

"It's Tough For A Reason; Because People Understand The Stakes Of Success In Iraq."  "And my point to the American people is, is that we're constantly adjusting our tactics to achieve victory."

"The Only Way We Lose In Iraq Is If We Leave Before The Job Is Done" 

A "Fixed Timetable Of Withdrawal … Means Defeat."

"So what [Gen. Casey] was describing to you was the way forward, to make sure that the Iraqis are fully prepared to defend themselves.  It's a conditions-based estimate."

"There Is A Significant Difference Between Benchmarks For A Government To Achieve And A Timetable For Withdrawal."

"You're talking about – when you're talking about the benchmarks, he's talking about the fact that we're working with the Iraqi government to have certain benchmarks to meet as a way to determine whether or not they're making the hard decisions necessary to achieve peace. ... And we're working with the Iraqi government to come up with benchmarks."

"Prime Minister Maliki Is The Right Man To Achieve The Goal In Iraq" 

"We're With [Prime Minister Maliki], So Long As He Continues To Make Tough Decisions."

"I'm impressed, for example, by the way that he has got religious leaders, both Sunni and Shia, to start working together. I appreciate the fact that he has made a very clear statement on militias. And by the way, death squad members are being brought to justice in this plan – during these operations in Baghdad.  And I speak to him quite frequently."

"We'll Push Him, But We're Not Going To Push Him To The Point Where He Can't Achieve The Objective."

"And we'll continue to work with him.  He represents a government formed by the people of Iraq.  It's a – and he's got a tough job. … Reconciliation is difficult in a society that had been divided and tortured by a tyrant. And Prime Minister Maliki has got the difficult job of reconciling these grievances and different political parties on top of that, plus dealing with violence."

"I Believe I'll Be Working With A Republican-Controlled Congress And A Republican-Controlled Senate"

"The American People Are Going To … Decide This Race Based Upon Who Best To Protect The American People And Who Best To Keep The Taxes Low." 

  "And We Must Do Everything We Can To Protect The American People, Including Questioning Detainees Or Listening To Their Phone Calls From Outside The Country To Inside The Country." "In other words, as you know, there was some recent votes on that issue. And the Democrats voted against giving our professionals the tools necessary to protect the American people."

"If You Raise Taxes, It Will Hurt The Economy."

"If you let the tax cuts expire, it will be a tax increase on the American people.  Take the child tax credit; if it is not made permanent, in other words, if it expires, and you got a family of four sitting around the breakfast table, the taxpayers can be sure that their taxes will go up by $2,000 – $500 for that child, $500 for the one right there, $500 for this one, and $500 for that one.  That is a tax increase.  And taking $2,000 out of the pockets of the working people will make it harder to sustain economic growth."

"I Understand, Here In Washington, People Have Already Determined The Outcome Of The Election Like It's Over, Even Before The People Actually Start … Voting.  But That's Not What I See When I'm On The Campaign Trail."  "Yes, we've got some people dancing in the end zone here in Washington, D.C., measuring their drapes.  They're going over to the Capitol and saying, 'My new office looks beautiful. I think I'm going to have this size drape there, or this color.'"

"I See A Lot Of Enthusiasm Amongst The Grassroots Activists."  "

Our people are going out there to man the phones and to put up the yard signs. You know, they're showing up when it comes time for these absentee votes."

And bloggers Mr President, don't forget the bloggers.

Atlas Election Vlog III

SHOCKER! (/not) 

House Intel Chief Fires Democrat Staffer Over Intel Leaks!

DEMOCRAT, PARTY OF THE JIHAD, LEAKED CLASSIFIED INTEL TO THE NEW YORK running of out TIMES, IN THE WAR ON ISLAMISM! Who you voting for? 

ELECTION VLOGS WILL BE TOP THREAD OF THE DAY

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Election  VLOG I  here and VLOG II here (with Ben Afflicted)

Warchick's most excellent article: North Korea and Islam: Co-Conspirators WND

Gee, Do You Think the MSM Have a Favorite in the VA Senate Race?

US headed towards "moral scurvy," Zell Miller warns (hat tip Daryl)

At an event for Maryland Democratic Senatorial candidate Ben Cardin, Representative Steny Hoyer (D-MD) accused Michael Steele of being a slave: “slavishly supporting the Republican Party.” More over at MSNBC

This latest insult comes just a  few weeks after a Cardin staffer joked on her blog about people throwing oreos at Michael Steele during an event. What racists! (Do I sound like a Democrap yet?)

UPDATE: VIDEO: Radical Left in bed with Terrorists

UPDATE: Election VLOG II - Exhibit A- "Terrorists, What Terrorists?"

Can The West Survive Our MSM?

UPDATE: Suppression of the Vote