by Bill Levinson

While it might be refreshing to pull the D lever after eight years of “Not Gore” and “Not Kerry,” it is now totally impossible for us to do so. It is in fact triply impossible for a “white interloper ” and “[Jewish] diamond merchant” (to use Al Sharpton’s own terms for us), who lived in Wappingers Falls NY in 1988, to even bother looking at the platforms of anyone who appears in public with an infamous racist whose anti-Semitic hate speech helped incite two incidents of fatal violence.

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

What kind of person stands up to terrorism, especially in an age when many people want to hide under their beds and/or placate the terrorists? During the awful Virginia Tech massacre, one professor sacrificed his life to save his students — a man who had, to put it mildly — real life experience. The Nazis and the communists couldn’t keep Liviu Librescu down, but some pathetic madman snuffed out the good professor’s life:

Liviu Librescu survived the Nazi Holocaust. He died trying to keep a gunman from shooting his students in a killing spree at Virginia Tech — a heroic feat later recounted in e-mails from students to his wife. [Continues below…]

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

Can ya’ spell “sophistry?” Gotta love this precious quote from one of the French presidential candidates:

Socialist Segolene Royal, No. 2 in the polls, declared herself the candidate of “audacity” in an interview Wednesday with Metro newspaper. Then, perhaps wondering whether that might alienate some voters, she added, “I promise a secure audacity” — a comment as puzzling in French as in English.

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

What’s more important to Virginia Tech’s administration, public relations or the safety of students? Why didn’t the school heed warnings about the shooter going as far back as 2005? Why didn’t the administration lock down the campus after the first shooting? From the BBC:

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

Regarding the Virginia Tech massacre, the AP reports that the gunman “alarmed professors and classmates with his twisted, violence-drenched creative writing,” in an article entitled Va. Tech gunman writings raised concerns. Really? So this type of behavior “alarms” people, but millions of Americans indulging in Hollywood’s ultra-violence doesn’t worry them? Quentin Tarantino, anyone? Hello!

Tinsel Town pumps out garbage like Saw, acclaimed by Rue Morgue as a movie which “will make your skin crawl right off your bones!,” where the protagonist “decides to crush the bones in his foot with the toilet’s tank cover, so that he can slip out of the ankle cuff,” and Americans aren’t concerned? Hollywood produces The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - The Beginning, which treats viewers to a very graphic “night of sheer terror at the hands of a family of cannibalistic, inbred psychopaths,” and citizens aren’t worried? Would you want your kids immersed in the video game Grand Theft Auto, where “you play an evil criminal who kills random folks for dishonorable people?” And then there’s Top Model’s beautiful corpses… perfect for your teenage daughter.

Is the AP writing about the shooter or Hollywood’s “artists?” [Continues below…]

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by Asaf Romirowsky*

In his recent address to Congress, King Abdullah II of Jordan dramatically quoted FDR’s famous “four freedoms speech” as a means to describe American foreign policy as freedom from fear, freedom from want, freedom of speech, and freedom of religion. The goal of the speech was to call for greater US involvement in facilitating an Israeli-Palestinian peace process. What is significant about this call is the Palestinian conundrum that Adbullah himself faces in Jordan.

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by Daniel Pipes*

When I suggest that radical Muslims are the problem and that moderate Muslims are the solution, the nearly inevitable retort from most people is: “What moderate Muslims?”

“Where are the anti-Islamists’ demonstrations against terror?” they ask me. “What are they doing to combat Islamists? What have they done to reassess Islamic law?”

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by Bill Levinson

After the Nevada Democratic Party cancelled a Presidential debate on Fox News, the major Democratic candidates (Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Joseph Biden, Chris Dodd, Bill Richardson) have all agreed to speak at the conference of an anti-Christian and anti-Semitic hate organization: the National Jewish Democratic Council. We have previously shown that this is a double oxymoron, as there is nothing either Jewish or Democratic about this organization.

How could the National “Jewish” Democratic Council be anti-Semitic? It is anti-Semitic for exactly the same reason that Black rap artists who continuously describe Black men as “pimps” and Black women as “hos” are racists. When a purportedly Jewish organization spews anti-Semitic propaganda, it is far more destructive than it would be if it came from a white supremacist hate group. The white supremacists can point to NJDC and say, “Look, this is what those Jews say about themselves!” They can point to rap artists like Snoop Dogg and say, “Look, this is what those Blacks say about Black men and Black women,” although “Blacks” is probably not the word the white supremacists use.

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

The Minneapolis Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC) has ruled in favor of an open, heterogeneous society, and against the creation of enclaves in the U.S. which would be ruled by Muslim law (Sharia). From the Minneapolis Star Tribune (hat-tip to Patrick):

All airport taxi drivers must transport riders carrying alcohol or risk suspension of their licenses, the Metropolitan Airports Commission ruled Monday.

Starting May 11, airport taxi drivers who refuse to transport riders carrying alcohol will be suspended for 30 days. And after a second offense, their license would be revoked for two years.

The Metropolitan Airports Commission voted 11-0 Monday to approve the crackdown, which some Muslim drivers say violates their religious beliefs.

Commissioners called the change reasonable, practical and important for rider safety.

“We are sending a message that if you want to drive a taxi at our airport you can’t refuse our customers,” Steve Wareham, operations manager of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. …

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

Victor Davis Hanson is a true liberal in the old sense of the word — open-minded, educated, and well-rounded — though he’s considered “conservative” by many. He’s not afraid to expose Middle Eastern dictators for what they are: petty tyrant thugs (a term leftists are afraid to utter). He’s also not afraid to use the terms “conservation” and “alternate fuels,” which many right-wingers consider apostasy. Here he is, from the Washington Post:

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By Douglas Farah*

The Islamist front is clearly on a widespread charm offensive. The results are impressive. We have the Foreign Affairs piece, op-eds in both the Boston Globe and Wall Street Journal, the friendly forum for 4.5 hours of undisputed discourse from Tariq Ramadan at Georgetown University and the upcoming “What Does it Mean to Be Muslim in America” forum again at Georgetown. The last includes the president of ISNA, which comes out of the groups affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States.

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

The latest incident in the nation’s debate on political correctness just may bring two of the great demagogues of our time, Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton, and pipsqueak sophists like Marcellus Andrews, down a few notches. These sophists have self-righteously railed against Don Imus’ disgusting racial epithets hurled at the Rutgers’ women’s basketball team. But Jackson and Sharpton’s true agenda of race-bating and PC extortion are becoming more well known. Kinks are even appearing in the PC armor of some of our highest-ranking politicos, like Howard Dean, Joe Biden, Robert Byrd, and Kweisi Mfume. The Imus affair is bringing eloquent criticism from independent thinkers, like Jason Whitlock of the Kansas City Star. In fact, Sharpton has attacked Whitlock for his critique. Here is Whitlock’s column posted today, “Imus ‘fight’ is over money, fame:”

When I criticized his and Jesse Jackson’s irresponsible and divisive methods of seeking social justice Friday morning, Al Sharpton dismissed the attack by questioning my credibility to lodge a complaint. [Continues below…]

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by Kamal Said Qadir*

On September 11, 1961, Iraqi Kurds under the leadership of Mulla Mustafa Barzani, founder of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and father of the current Kurdish president Masoud Barzani, rose in rebellion against Iraq’s central government. Kurds often portray the event as spontaneous.[1] It was not.

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by Steven Shamrak

Not long ago, a non-Jewish friend of mine asked me to view the movie “Passion of Christ” and send him my comments, from a Jewish prospective. While I was watching the movie, I was amazed by enormous disrespect toward not only Jewish traditions, but for the writings of the Christian Bible as well. Mel Gibson’s “director’s creativity” had brought to my mind words like falsification, forgery, distortion and contempt.

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Marketplace radio program, Marcellus Andrews stereotyped Caucasian-Americans. He was supposedly commenting on Don Imus’ racial slurs against the Rutgers’ women’s basketball team. If American Public Media (APM) was to broadcast a rational condemnation of racism, that would be understandable; but for APM to disseminate a racist rant by Andrews is unconscionable. Has our public discourse devolved into double-standardized, tit-for-tat race-bating vs. race-bating? You know for a fact that APM would never allow a Caucasian-American tirade threatening African-Americans with (at least economic) violence, and stereotyping all Black people as racists. Nonetheless, APM permitted African-American racism to be spewed during the prime-time news hour. Here is Andrews’ “commentary,” annotated by yours-truly:

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