Netanyahu At AIPAC

Tue, March 06, 2012 Adar 12, 5772

Netanyahu in AIPAC speech: Israel cannot afford to wait much longer on Iran

Israel's prime minister warns of the dangers of a nuclear Iran, which he says will provide a 'nuclear umbrella' to terrorists; in earlier meeting, New York Times reports Obama said talk of war is increasing oil prices.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking at the AIPAC conference in Washington on Monday, called on the international community to acknowledge the fact that Iran is developing nuclear weapons.

"Amazingly, some people refuse to acknowledge that Iran's goal is to develop nuclear weapons. You see, Iran claims that it's enriching uranium to develop medical research. Yeah, right," Netanyahu said.         

"If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then what is it? That's right, it's a duck. But this duck is a nuclear duck and it's time the world started calling a duck a duck," he said. Netanyahu reiterated the fact that Israel reserves its right to protect itself. He added that for Israel all options remain on the table. “I will never gamble with the security of Israel.,” he explained. Netanyahu warned of the dangers of a nuclear Iran. “A nuclear-armed Iran would dramatically increase terrorism by giving terrorists a nuclear umbrella,” he said. "That means that Iran’s terror proxies like Hezbollah, Hamas will be emboldened to attack America, Israel, and others because they will be backed by a power with atomic weapons." Drawing a parallel with arguments against attacking Iran, Netanyahu said the War Department explained that such an operation at Auschwitz could provoke "even more vindictive action by the Germans". "Think about that, even more vindictive action than the Holocaust," Netanyahu said. He dismissed arguments that an attack on Iran would exact too heavy a toll by provoking Iranian retaliation. He held up a copy of a 1944 letter from the U.S. War Department rejecting world Jewish leaders' entreaties to bomb the Auschwitz death camp because it would be "ineffective" and "might provoke even more vindictive action by the Germans." "My friends, 2012 is not 1944," Netanyahu said. "Today, we have a state of our own. And the purpose of the Jewish state is to defend Jewish lives and to secure the Jewish future." Earlier on Monday, Netanyahu met with U.S. President Barack Obama in the White House and said that Israel has not made any decision on attacking Iran to stop its nuclear program. Sources who were briefed on the meeting afterward said Obama and Netanyahu agreed to increase their coordination on Iran. Israel's Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz is to visit Washington in two weeks to discuss the issue with U.S. officials. During their meeting, Obama told Netanyahu that Israel and the United States have an identical goal with regard to preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. "I have no intention of trying to contain the Iranian issue," Obama reportedly told Netanyahu. "I think that there's time for diplomacy and in any case I am not taking any options off the table, including a military option." The New York Times reported that Obama said that discussion of a possible strike on Iran was leading to global oil price increases, and was undermining sanctions on Iran. Prime Minister Netanyahu responded that U.S. officials' remarks against an Iran strike may be showing weakness to the Iran regime, according to the New York Times report. Commentary BiBi laying it out to us here even liberals like Obama can understand

Benjamin Netanyahu talking at AIPAC conference Monday

New Obama Deal Please Spare Us

Opinion

What's that smell? Another Obama deal

The Obama administration's so committed to cronyism that it's violating its ObamaCare law to lend $314 million to New York's Freelancers Union, whose board members gave Democrats $11,000-plus between 2007 and 2011.
The law says recipients of such loans -- aimed at helping begin health-care cooperatives -- can't have issued health insurance before July 2009 and can't be for-profit organizations. Yet the union's members -- who don't get coverage through employers -- have owned the for-profit Freelancers Insurance Co. since 2008, The Washington Free Beacon reports.
The union says all the loan money will go to the co-ops, which it's just sponsoring -- a distinction without a difference. Founder Sara Horowitz, a labor lawyer and organizer, served with then-Illinois state Sen. Barack Obama to advise a think tank funded by leftist billionaire George Soros.
And, bad news, taxpayers: The government expects the default rate on such loans to approach 40 percent.

Overseeing the co-op program, the administration's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services approved the loan despite all that.

Disregarding its own law and financial common sense to lend to the Freelancers Union, this administration leaves no doubt that it puts politics above all else.

Commentary

What else is new with this corrupt Administration

Perfect Depection Of Obama In Cartoon

Editorial cartoon: Rising gas prices

• Article by: Steve Sack , Star Tribune

 

Commentary

 

Obama's administration being over ran

 

NYT Uses No Common Sense

Opinion Editorial

  Please correct me if I am wrong but back on the morning of September 11,2001 when our nation was attacked who were the culprits and who was behind these evil vicious events.It was carried out by Islamic Jihadists from a Muslim terrorist group called al-Qaeda hell bent on the destruction of America (and yes you out there on the far left wanting to apologize for America at every turn wake up and get a life) thus hi-jacking a religion id Islam the supposed religion of peace.
 This mornings lead OPED in the New York Times cannot seem to grasp this truth but continue to defend Muslims who hate America.I do want to be honest it is not every Muslim that hates America.
But the title of the Oped "Surveillance, Security and Civil Liberties" lacks alot of Common sense in what the NYPD are trying to do to prevent another attack.
 It begins "Taking office not long after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly wisely decided to beef up the Police Department’s counterterrorism program significantly, to help federal law enforcement agencies avert another disaster.Unfortunately, they did not provide for sufficiently strong supervision of this formidable and far-flung intelligence operation — to check the well-known tendency of all such agencies, operating in secrecy and under murky rules, to abuse their powers. It appears that many thousands of law-abiding Muslim-Americans have paid a real price for that omission. A series of articles by The Associated Press has exposed constitutionally suspect surveillance of Muslims in New York, New Jersey, Long Island and beyond. Unearthed police records noticeably lack any apparent link to suspected criminal activity, or any obvious payoff for public safety."
 Far flung give me a break well I say to those as the NYT puts it "law abiding Muslim Americans" quit bitching about being singled out and accept the fact that it was people from your background that caused this to us all not just you people.It figures that the AP and the NYT are the so called exposers of this BS.
 The story goes on "In particular, the A.P. reports revealed widespread police spying and the creation of police records containing information on Muslim people, mosques and campus groups, as well as luncheonettes, dollar stores and other legitimate businesses owned and frequented by Muslims, with no apparent reason to think anything wrong was going on.In mid-February, The A.P. disclosed that police officers systematically monitored the Web sites and blogs of Muslim student groups at N.Y.U., Columbia, Yale, Rutgers and a dozen other colleges. Documents show that an undercover agent accompanied 18 Muslim students from City College on a whitewater rafting trip in 2008. Dossier entries noted vital national security information — like the number of times they prayed.

Last week, The A.P. reported that plainclothes officers from the department’s euphemistically named Demographic Unit fanned out across Newark in 2007, snapping pictures of mosques and Muslim-owned businesses, listening to conversations, and gathering information about the makeup of mosque worshipers for an eerie 60-page internal police report stamped “NYPD Secret.” Similar reports were prepared on other Muslim neighborhoods."

 I'd like to bring some common sense to this post Were Christians or Jews or Hindus responsible for the attacks on 9/11/01?

 If you feel that I am being unfair to Muslims sorry I don't hate them enough to attack them as they did by hi-jacking a faith that is supposedly all about Peace for this I dont and I will never ever apologize.

              

Sandra "the Fluke" Fluke

Sandra Fluke Opening Statement (C-SPAN)

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Sandra "the Fluke" Fluke before Congress on her birth control BS

Post Gazette Just Plain Wrong

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OPINION / EDITORIALS

 

Campus diversity: This is not the time to weaken affirmative action

 

Thursday, March 01, 2012

 

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

 

Affirmative action in higher education is on the docket of the U.S. Supreme Court for the first time since 2003. Three decades of settled law could be endangered by the court's conservative majority.

Nine years ago, the high court upheld on a 5-4 vote a University of Michigan policy that included race -- along with whether an applicant was an athlete, a musician, the child of an alumnus and other considerations -- in admissions decisions.

At the time, it appeared the victory might be short-lived because of potential retirements from the court. Since then, four justices have retired, including Sandra Day O'Connor, the author of the 2003 decision in Grutter v. Bollinger, the University of Michigan case. She was replaced by Justice Samuel Alito, who opposes racial preferences.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case of Abigail Fisher, who sued the University of Texas for discrimination. Ms. Fisher claims she was denied admission even though she had a better academic record than some minority students who were admitted. The court could hear arguments just days before the Nov. 6 presidential election.

This time, Justice Anthony Kennedy could be the deciding vote. He dissented from the 2003 ruling in the University of Michigan case. Justice Elena Kagan recused herself because she took part in the Fisher case as the Obama administration's solicitor general before the president named her to the high court.

The University of Texas automatically accepts the top 10 percent of seniors from all high schools in the state, then includes race among other factors in a competition to fill the remaining openings. The 2011 freshman class at the state's flagship university was 26.3 percent black or Hispanic -- good progress, but well below the percentage of the state population that is African-American or Latino.

Ms. Fisher claims she was turned down because she is white. But she also may have lost out to a student with a special talent, a more compelling personal essay or a special circumstance such as coming from an economically disadvantaged family. Universities routinely use these and other criteria to assemble freshman classes.

Several states do not permit race-based admissions to state colleges and universities. In California, which outlawed the practice in 1998, minority enrollment declined throughout its public university system, in some schools to as low as 3 percent. In Florida, which enacted its ban in 1999, the gap has grown between the percentage of minority students who graduate from high school and the share of minority college freshmen.

In 2003, Justice O'Connor wrote that the day was coming when racial preferences would no longer be needed. But the day she envisioned has not yet dawned. And it likely will not arrive as long as inequalities in education, economic opportunity and health care continue disproportionately to affect minority Americans.

Weakening affirmative action will only make it more difficult for these Americans to overcome such obstacles.

 

Commentary

 

It is time to get rid of Affirmative Action altogether it should have been shown the door along time ago

Williams Saying The Truth

Opinion

Equality & inequality

By Walter Williams

 

Rick Santorum's speech at the Detroit Economic Club stirred a bit of controversy when he said: "I'm not about equality of result when it comes to income inequality. There is income inequality in America. There always has been, and hopefully -- and I do say that -- there always will be."

That kind of statement, though having merit, should not be made to people who have little or no understanding. Let's look at inequality.

Kay S. Hymowitz's article "Why the Gender Gap Won't Go Away. Ever," in City Journal (Summer 2011), shows that female doctors earn only 64 percent of the income that male doctors earn. What should be done about that?

It turns out that only 16 percent of surgeons are women but 50 percent of pediatricians are women. Even though surgeons have more years of education and training than do pediatricians, should Congress equalize their salaries or make pediatricians become surgeons?

Wage inequality is everywhere. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Asians earn more than whites. Female cafeteria attendants earn more than their male counterparts. Females younger than 30 who have never been married earn salaries 8 percent higher than males of the same description.

Among women who graduated from college during 1992-93, by 2003 more than one-fifth were no longer in the workforce and another 17 percent were working part time. That's to be compared with only 2 percent of men in either category. Hymowitz cites several studies showing significant career choice and lifestyle differences between men and women that result in income inequality.

There are other inequalities. With all of the excitement about New York Knick Jeremy Lin's rising stardom, nobody questions league domination by blacks, who are 13 percent of our population but 80 percent of NBA players and the highest-paid ones. It's not much better in the NFL, with blacks being 65 percent of its players.

There's inequality in most jobs. According to 2010 BLS data, the following jobs contain 1 percent female workers or less: boilermaking, brickmasonry, stonemasonry, septic tank servicing, sewer pipe cleaning and working with reinforcing iron and rebar. But females are 97 percent of preschool and kindergarten teachers, 80 percent of social workers, 82 percent of librarians and 92 percent of dietitians and nutritionists and registered nurses.

Anyone with one ounce of brains can see the problem and solution. Congress has permitted -- and even fostered -- a misallocation of people by race, sex and ethnicity. Courts have consistently concluded that "gross" disparities are probative of a pattern and practice of discrimination. So what to do?

One remedy that Congress might consider is to require females, who are overrepresented in fields such as preschool and kindergarten teaching, to become boilermakers and brickmasons and mandate that male boilermakers and brickmasons become preschool and kindergarten teachers until both percentages are equal to their percentages in the population.

You say, "Williams, that would be totalitarianism!" But if Americans accept that Congress can make us buy health insurance whether we want to or not, how much more totalitarian would it be for Congress to allocate jobs in the name of social equality and the good of our nation?

Nobel laureate Milton Friedman said: "A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both."

Equality before the general rules of law is the only kind of equality conducive to liberty that can be secured without destroying liberty.

Walter Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University

 

Commentary

 

Walter Williams knows Equality v. Inequality