|
|
| |
Topic: The Callousness of Hamas |
The Callousness of Hamas
Washington Post Writers Group, by Richard Cohen
|
|
Original Article
|
|
Posted By:garnet, 11/20/2012 11:02:38 AM
|
| Of all the points of disagreement between Israel and Hamas, maybe the most profound is this one: Israel cares more about sparing innocent lives -- including those of Palestinians -- than does Hamas. Not only have Hamas and other militant groups this year sent more than 700 rockets crashing haphazardly into southern Israel, but Hamas instigated yet another war where the chief loser will certainly be its own people. If hell has a beach, it´s located in Gaza. The Gaza Strip is a congested, fetid place. It is densely populated (Snip) For Hamas, civilian casualties are an asset.
|
 
Reply 1 - Posted by:
zoidberg, 11/20/2012 11:09:11 AM (No. 9025521)
Cohen the blind squirrel finds a nut.
|
Reply 2 - Posted by:
The Architect, 11/20/2012 11:14:26 AM (No. 9025532)
I´m surprised the Washington Post´s ediorial board permitted this to be published.
|
| |
|
Reply 3 - Posted by:
bmw50, 11/20/2012 11:48:22 AM (No. 9025618)
Life is sacred, but for those to don´t believe it is, they should be treated the same way they treat others.
|
Reply 4 - Posted by:
harper, 11/20/2012 12:54:00 PM (No. 9025800)
"They came on in the same old way and we stopped them in the same old way."
-Wellington
The crazies, as always, start the attacks and emplace their batteries in or near mosques and schools. They dramatize/invent damage to property and people from any Israeli self defense and the western media eagerly believe and promote their lies.
|
Below, you will find ...
Most Recent Articles posted by "garnet"
and
Most Active Articles (last 48 hours)
|
Most Recent Articles posted by "garnet"
|
|
Justifiable Cause
|
|
Slate, by John Dickerson
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: garnet- 5/16/2013 7:25:16 AM
Post Reply
|
|
It must get confusing in the IT department at the Associated Press: Are you talking about the hackers who hacked our Twitter account or the Justice Department hackers who hacked our phones? Monday, the Associated Press reported that the Justice Department had secretly obtained two months of records of phone conversations by its reporters. Meanwhile, the Washington Post revealed that the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups was more widespread than first reported. (Snip)The Obama administration is doing a far better job making the case for conservatism than Mitt Romney, Mitch McConnell, or John Boehner ever did.
|
IRS official Lerner speedily
approved exemption for Obama
brother’s‘charity’
|
|
Daily Caller, by Charles C. Johnson
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: garnet- 5/14/2013 7:50:27 PM
Post Reply
|
|
Lois Lerner, the senior IRS official at the center of the decision to target tea party groups for burdensome tax scrutiny, signed paperwork granting tax-exempt status to the Barack H. Obama Foundation, a shady charity headed by the president’s half-brother that operated illegally for years. According to the organization’s filings, Lerner approved the foundation’s tax status within a month of filing, an unprecedented timeline that stands in stark contrast to conservative organizations that have been waiting for more than three years, in some cases, for approval.
|
| |
|
|
The Grand Old Poseurs
|
|
American Spectator, by David Catron
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: garnet- 5/13/2013 6:47:01 AM
Post Reply
|
|
Last week, Speaker of the House John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell ostentatiously announced their intention to fight implementation of the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB). They sent a letter to the President decrying the way IPAB will “impact America’s seniors … in the absence of the democratic process.” Sadly, the exercise was a charade. McConnell and Boehner know perfectly well that Obama has no intention of setting up this controversial board until after 2015.
|
The Republican Party´s Road
Back to Victory
|
|
Real Clear Politics, by Peter Wehner
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: garnet- 5/10/2013 9:38:30 AM
Post Reply
|
|
President Obama’s second term is off to a rocky start, but that should not obscure for Republicans the fact that their party is facing many well-documented problems. They include everything from campaign mechanics and overly long presidential primaries to changing demographics and mediocre candidates. But there’s something more fundamental at play. The GOP doesn’t have a compelling, or even a particularly identifiable, governing vision. That may be sufficient for a congressional party committed to blocking President Obama’s agenda, but it’s not sufficient for a national party that wants to once again win presidential elections.
|
|
The Inconvenient Truth About Benghazi
|
|
Wall Street Journal, by Peggy Noonan
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: garnet- 5/10/2013 9:29:42 AM
Post Reply
|
|
The Benghazi story until now has been a jumble of factoids that didn´t quite cohere, didn´t produce a story that people could absorb and hold in their minds. This week that changed. Three State Department officials testifying under oath to a House committee changed it, by adding information that gave form to a growing picture. Gregory Hicks, Mark Thompson and Eric Nordstrom were authoritative and credible. You knew you were hearing the truth as they saw and experienced it. Not one of them seemed political. You had no sense of how they voted. They were professionals.
|
|
Just ‘youthful nihilism’
|
|
Boston Herald, by Editorial
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: garnet- 5/6/2013 2:47:07 PM
Post Reply
|
|
"The whole narrative confirms that while the radical motivations of the Tsarnaev brothers — and perhaps, it remains to be seen, some of their training — came from international jihadist movements, the bombing was also the product of family dysfunction, youthful nihilism, and a pattern of low-level crimes escalating into a very major one.” — Boston Globe editorial May 3. Dear Officer Krupke — of “West Side Story” fame — please call your office. Clearly these boys just have a social disease, so take ’em to a social worker. It takes a lot for our competitors on Morrissey Boulevard
|
|
Such a Dynamic Duo
|
|
American Spectator, by R. Emmett Tyrell
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: garnet- 5/4/2013 9:51:01 AM
Post Reply
|
|
WASHINGTON — It has happened again! Our gaffe-prone president has filed another blunder on his presidential record. At the dedication of George W. Bush’s presidential library he invoked history with his usual mastery of detail. He placed President John F. Kennedy in Air Force One, “On the flight back from Russia, after negotiating with Nikita Khrushchev at the height of the Cold War.” Actually the flight was returning from Vienna, not “Russia,” and not much “negotiating” had been done.
|
| |
|
Most Active Articles (last 48 hours)
|
Officials on Benghazi:
"We made mistakes,
but without malice"
|
|
CBS News, by Sharyl Attkisson
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Drive- 5/17/2013 3:02:24 PM
Post Reply
|
|
Obama administration officials who were in key positions on Sept. 11, 2012, acknowledge that a range of mistakes were made the night of the attacks on the U.S. missions in Benghazi, and in messaging to Congress and the public in the aftermath. The officials spoke to CBS News in a series of interviews and communications under the condition of anonymity so that they could be more frank in their assessments. They do not all agree on the list of mistakes and it's important to note that they universally claim that any errors or missteps did not cost lives and reflect "incompetence rather than malice or cover up.
|
Raindrops wash away
reeling O’s fake veneer
|
|
New York Post, by Michael Goodwin
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: StormCnter- 5/17/2013 5:28:00 AM
Post Reply
|
|
Watching President Obama trying to dodge raindrops and responsibility yesterday reminded me of the moment when Dorothy pulls back the curtain and discovers that the Wizard of Oz is “just a man.” Stripped of his spell of mystery and power, the wizard is worse than mortal. He’s a fake. So it was with Obama in the Rose Garden. His performance was tired and trite, ordinary to the point of dull. His veneer of passion was so transparent that you could see him trying to summon his old-time magic by pushing the buttons
|
Obama a new Nixon?
Oh, get serious.
|
|
Washington Post, by Editorial
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/16/2013 10:54:51 PM
Post Reply
|
|
STANDING BEFORE reporters Thursday, President Obama declined an invitation to compare the recent scandals weighing down his administration with those that forced President Nixon to resign in 1974. So allow us to do the work for him: There is no comparison. Nixon, in a series of crimes that collectively came to be known as Watergate, directed from the White House and Justice Department a concerted campaign against those he perceived as political enemies, in the process subverting the FBI, the IRS, other government agencies and the electoral process to his nefarious purposes. Mr. Obama has done nothing of the kind.
|
Weiner’s Wife Didn’t Disclose Consulting
Work She Did While Serving in State Dept.
|
|
New York Times, by Raymond Hernandez
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: StormCnter- 5/17/2013 5:43:54 AM
Post Reply
|
|
The State Department, under Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, created an arrangement for her longtime aide and confidante Huma Abedin to work for private clients as a consultant while serving as a top adviser in the department. Ms. Abedin did not disclose the arrangement — or how much income she earned — on her financial report. It requires officials to make public any significant sources of income. An adviser to Mrs. Clinton, Philippe Reines, said that Ms. Abedin was not obligated to do so. The disclosure of the agreement that Ms. Abedin made with the State Department comes as her husband,
|
Watergate 2.0 -- why the
IRS scandal is far worse
|
|
Fox News, by Matt Kibbe
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: StormCnter- 5/18/2013 5:59:17 AM
Post Reply
|
|
In the wake of one of the worst abuses of government power in recent history, many are rushing to frame the Internal Revenue Service scandal as simply an attack on conservative activists. That view risks creating a partisan political football and misses a fundamentally scarier abuse that exceeds the scandals of Watergate or any other prior government abuse. The IRS has admitted that since May 2010 it targeted grassroots-conservative organizations that had applied for tax-exempt status, unfairly subjecting them to rigorous scrutiny due to their political leanings. Such groups were told they were required to comply with IRS requests,
|
| |
|
When it rains, it pours: Ten
press conference take aways
|
|
Washington Post, by Jennifer Rubin
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/17/2013 4:52:42 AM
Post Reply
|
|
President Obama’s press conference in the rain was not a success, if by success, his supporters would mean an event which convinces anyone who doesn’t work for him that he’s getting ahead of the scandal deluge. The sight of a Marine holding an umbrella over his head only added to the weirdness of the event. So what did we learn? 1. He has full confidence in Attorney General Eric Holder, the man who purportedly recused himself (whenever) without putting it in writing (whatever). When asked about the untrammeled snooping on Associated Press reporters and editors,
|
Rep. Issa subpoenas Benghazi
auditor Thomas Pickering
|
|
The Hill [Washington DC], by Julian Pecquet
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: JoniTx- 5/17/2013 3:53:45 PM
Post Reply
|
|
The lawmaker leading the charge to investigate the Benghazi terror attack on Friday subpoenaed the co-author of a report that slammed the State Department but didn´t interview Hillary Clinton. House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) formally demanded that retired ambassador Thomas Pickering submit to being deposed by the committee next Thursday. The subpoena comes in the wake of a series of acrimonious public exchanges this week between the two men. Issa didn´t issue a subpoena to former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Michael Mullen, who co-authored the Benghazi report with Pickering.
|
| | |
|
|
