by Bill Levinson

What we think of Cindy Sheehan doesn’t matter. What matters is what MoveOn.org’s people think about her, and she has openly accused MoveOn.org of fabricating a poll and misrepresenting its members’ feelings about the Iraq war. Noting how MoveOn.org lied to the press and its own rank and file about not knowing about the anti-Semitic and Catholic-bashing hate speech on its Action Forum, we believe that Sheehan is telling the truth about this matter no matter how much we dislike the rest of her agenda.

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by Bill Levinson

In response to UN Watch’s outstanding and accurate criticism of the United Nations Human Rights Council (”United Nations” and “human rights” is an oxymoron), Luis Alfonso De Alba replied with a public insult. We sent the attached letter to De Alba’s personal attention, as we do not feel a need to say behind an individual’s back what we will not say to his face.

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Soros Buys 1.9 Million Shares of Halliburton

by Bill Levinson

George Soros should remember those scenes from those old black and white horror movies in which the monster discovers that its creator has betrayed it–and MoveOn should remember what happens to those who bite the hand that feeds them. Now the MoveOn.org people who chant “No blood for Halliburton” will chant “No blood for Soros” instead.

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

No, we don’t need Hollywood, social services, or a broken public school system to teach our children values. Kids need something very ancient and very traditional: parents who care and love. Here’s a great sound-byte from Aish.com entitled, “The Four Sons: A Prequel - A short Passover Film:”

By Kenneth T. Tellis

I think that somehow the Iranians have gotten their history mixed up regarding their protest over the film 300. Thermopylae was a battle where the Greeks triumphed over the Persians. It certainly was not a battle between Iranians versus Greeks.

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

In February, I reported on USA TODAY’s headline article, “Arabs try outreach to Israel, U.S. Jews - Saudis, others seek to counter extremists,” and speculated, “What strange bedfellows realpolitik makes for. I’m not going to jump to any conclusions, as Jew-hatred has been inculcated into generations of Sunnis [the Saudi majority], but this info is food for thought.” To this thought, a reader commented, “The enemies of my enemies are my friends, Andrew.” Developments today show what interesting times we live in, as annotated below:

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

I’m impressed that the UN Security Council imposed new sanctions on Iran because of its pursuit of nuclear weapons. The new sanctions have stuck in the craw of Iranian President Ahmadinejad, a man who has promised to “wipe Israel off the map,” has threatened the U.S. with “harm and pain” and is obsessed with ushering in the end of times.

Don’t write off Ahmadinejad’s bellicosity as just the ravings of a madman. They are the ravings of a madman, but one whom I’m certain is willing to see the Middle East go up in flames — just to see his irrational plans for the mahdaviat accomplished. As my dad used to say of the likes of Stalin, Hitler, and Arafat: “crazy like a fox.”

A tough stand against Iran is the only choice for the Western world, but Ahmadinejad and his thugs will not give up their ultimate guarantee of power, nukes, so easily. Friday’s capture of British soldiers by Iranian Revolutionary Guard was a carefully calculated move to stoke tensions, and Ahmadinejad today insisted, “Iran would not stop its nuclear work ‘even for one second’.” We’re headed for a showdown. Better prepare yourselves for an ugly fight, because one is brewing.

If Westerners are serious about preserving their freedoms, then they should consider that Iraq was just small potatoes.

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

Jennifer L. Pozner exposes the decadent garbage that Hollywood peddles as “entertainment” under the rubric of “free speech,” but which is in reality, “deeply dangerous to our culture.” Are TV viewers immune from Hollywood’s message? “A 19-year-old Texas A&M University student was killed by her ex-boyfriend, who then dismembered and burned her body on a patio grill… because … she had begun a new relationship.” You know where I stand on Hollywood (here and here), but you should read Pozner’s excellent essay, “Top Model’s beautiful corpses: the nexus of reality TV misogyny and ad industry ideology:”

Ain’t nothin’ hotter than a dead girl. That’s the take-away message from this week’s episode of America’s Next Top Model, in which Tyra “I care so much about my girls” Banks & co. created the most brazen bit of ad-industry misogyny ever to grace the reality TV genre: an entire episode presenting a gaggle of underfed model wannabes as the mutilated, mangled and murdered epitome of beauty. …

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By Walid Phares*

The capture of British Navy servicemen by Iranian forces is not simply an incident over sea sovereignty in the Persian Gulf. It is a calculated move on behalf of Tehran’s jihadi chess players to provoke a “projected” counter-move by London and its American allies. It is all happening in a regional context, carefully engineered by the Mullah’s strategic planners. Here is how:

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If so, could it be cause for revocation of the group’s 501(c)(3) tax exemption?

by Bill Levinson

Taxi proposal gets sharp response reports,

Last year, the MAC received a fatwa, or religious edict, from the Minnesota chapter of the Muslim American Society. The fatwa said that “Islamic jurisprudence” prohibits taxi drivers from carrying passengers with alcohol “because it involves cooperating in sin according to Islam.”

We’re not really interested in what the Muslim American Society says about this matter. More importantly, neither do the laws of the United States or Minnesota. The Muslim-American Society has absolutely no authority to tell its members or other Muslims that they are to deny passengers taxicab service, and perhaps it is time for the Muslim-American Society to learn that lesson the hard way.

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

The violent history of the Maya has been sanitized as nonviolent, proving that having a “Ph.D.” after your name doesn’t really prove anything. Case in point: Alicia Estrada, an assistant professor of Central American studies at California State University, Northridge, Thursday night accused Mel Gibson “of misrepresenting the Mayan culture in the movie” Apocalypto. Estrada, in a superior display of historic ignorance, argued “that representations in the movie that the Mayans engaged in sacrificial ceremonies and had bloodthirsty tendencies were both wrong and racist.”

Quite to the contrary, archeological evidence of Maya “sacrificial ceremonies” and “bloodthirsty tendencies” is ubiquitous. It all started with the discovery of murals at Bonampak in 1946:

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by Bill Levinson

Hear Rosie O’Donnell talk about 9/11 (or gun control, or why Christians are no better than Islamofascists). Here is what O’Donnell’s and Charlie Sheen’s friends at the Loose Change web site say REALLY happened on 9/11. Before beginning, we will be the first to admit that this column lacks totally the decorum that one should show in debating an issue with a political opponent, but we do not recognize the producers of Loose Change, or their supporters like Rosie O’Donnell and Charlie Sheen, as “opponents.” We regard them as 9/11 deniers (in the same moral class as Holocaust deniers), and not worthy of the respect that a lady or gentleman of breeding accords a pet or domestic animal.

The central premise of Loose Change is that the United States Government was, at the very least, criminally negligent in allowing the attacks of September 11th, 2001 to occur.

However, when one looks deeper into the evidence, one might come to the startling conclusion that our own government might have been directly responsible for the attacks themselves.

Loose Change merely scratches the surface of information that points to a massive government cover-up regarding 9/11. We highly encourage you to take it upon yourself to research the events of 9/11 for yourself and come to your own conclusions.

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

If Iran’s government had even the slightest bit of common sense, it wouldn’t be kidnapping British soldiers inside of Iraq’s territorial waters — on the eve of a UN vote to impose tougher sanctions on Iran for its nuclear program, no less. Guess what? “The top UK diplomat at the UN has said a new Security Council resolution on Iran has been agreed and is expected to go to a vote on Saturday.”

Undoubtedly, the weak hand in the West will blame Britain for provoking the poor Iranians, whitewashing the fact that Iran’s mullahs have promised to “wipe Israel off the map,” and chant mantras like “all of us should mobilize to kill.” Iranian President Ahmadinejad has threatened the U.S. with “harm and pain” and is obsessed with ushering in the end of times. Iran’s rockets already threaten most of Europe, not to mention all of the Middle East. Minor details…

The experience of Brits captured in 2004 by Iranian “Revolutionary Guard” provides some scary insight into the mindset of the Islamo-fascists. One of the former hostages:

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

This is what brave Iraqis get for trying to bring peace to their troubled nation:

Iraq’s deputy prime minister, a Sunni who crossed the country’s sectarian divide to join the Shiite-led government, was wounded Friday in a suicide bombing at a mosque in the courtyard of his home. Nine people were killed, police said. …

The bomber blew himself up as Salam al-Zubaie, one of two deputies to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, and other worshippers were leaving the mosque near the heavily fortified Green Zone, according to police and a Sunni politician. It came after a statement purportedly by al-Qaida in Iraq singled out the Sunni deputy prime minister as a stooge “to the crusader occupiers.” …

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By Bill Levinson

Spain, having won a great victory over Islamofascist Moors in 1492, sowed the seeds of its own downfall by instituting the Spanish Inquisition to “cleanse” the nation of Moors, and later Jews and so-called heretics. Seventeen years before the loss of the Spanish Armada, though, Spain was still among Europe’s strongest nations. We remind Iberians that their forefathers, as opposed to cringing in terror the moment a few Islamofascist terrorists attacked their country (or removing statues of Saint James the Moorslayer because Hitler in a Headscarf finds them offensive), reacted as described in the following poem. (Note that, at the time, the royal families of Spain and Austria were the same.) Santiago y cierra Espana!

White founts falling in the Courts of the sun,
And the Soldan [Sultan] of Byzantium is smiling as they run;
There is laughter like the fountains in that face of all men feared,
It stirs the forest darkness, the darkness of his beard;
It curls the blood-red crescent, the crescent of his lips;
For the inmost sea of all the earth is shaken with his ships.
They have dared the white republics up the capes of Italy,
They have dashed the Adriatic round the Lion of the Sea,
And the Pope has cast his arms abroad for agony and loss,
And called the kings of Christendom for swords about the Cross.
The cold queen of England is looking in the glass;
The shadow of the Valois is yawning at the Mass;
From evening isles fantastical rings faint the Spanish gun,
And the Lord upon the Golden Horn is laughing in the sun.

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