op ed review 11/15
THIS WEEK’S
NEWS
Muslims
rampage in Paris. ISIS has claimed
responsibility for the worst violence witnessed in France since World War II, a
volley of nearly simultaneous terror attacks that the French President called
"an act of war." 120+ dead,
gunmen shout “Allah akbar” and “this is for Syria”. Earlier in the day, President Obama declared
ISIS “contained”.
Here it comes
to us: First load of 10,000 Syrian
“Refugees” Has Arrived in New Orleans
It’s all
about immigration now. A whopping 49
percent of Republicans and independents who lean to the GOP say Trump is the
presidential candidate who can best handle the issue of immigration — well
ahead of Marco Rubio with 10 percent GOP support, Ted Cruz with 7 percent and
Jeb Bush at 5 percent.
Wednesday on
MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Donald Trump said he will remove the estimated 12
million illegal immigrants living in the United States with a “deportation
force.”
Trump’s rant: “For an hour and 35 minutes, Republican
front-runner Donald Trump vented about everything that´s wrong with this
country and this election. He said he would "bomb the s---" out of
areas controlled by the Islamic State that are rich with oil and claimed to
know more about the terrorist group than U.S. military generals. He ranted
about how everyone else is wrong on illegal immigration and how even the
"geniuses at Harvard" have now backed his way of thinking.”
Establishment
worried Carson or Trump might win
The fourth
pair of Republican presidential debates is over and the biggest winner by far
was Fox Business Network and its trio of anchors -- Neil Cavuto, Maria
Bartiromo and Gerard Baker of the Wall Street Journal. They were businesslike,
professional, probing, persistent, even, God forbid, polite to the eight
candidates who would be America´s next president.
Donald Trump
and Marco Rubio won Tuesday’s night primetime Republican debate, according to
an overnight poll of Internet users who watched the contest, but Mr. Trump came
out as the favorite among Republicans and left the best impression about his
ability to serve as president.
The Fox
Business debate briefly threatened to heat up when Neil Cavuto asked Ben Carson
whether the media attacks on his past record were hurting his campaign. But
Carson responded coolly by saying he has no problem being vetted, he has a
problem “with being lied about”—and pivoted to calling Hillary Clinton a liar
on Benghazi. Things flared again when Donald Trump talked about building a wall
to stop lawbreaking Mexican immigrants and John Kasich called Trump’s plan to
initially deport 11 million illegal immigrants “silly.” Trump hit back, and Jeb
Bush agreed with Kasich.
“The
president’s Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent
Residents (DAPA) is the most extraordinary display of presidential lawlessness
in recent memory. On Monday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals rightly blocked
that lawlessness from proceeding further.”
“Will Five
Justices Give One Man Control of US Immigration Law?”
No change in
35 years: Just 34% of Hispanic immigrants are proficient in English
As a
byproduct of an internal dispute at the far left think tank, the Center for
American Progress (CAP), it has been revealed that Palestinian advisers were
brought into the Ferguson, Missouri demonstrations to advise the rioters.
Signs emerge
FBI investigation of Hillary emails has moved to a new, more serious stage.
Why aren’t
Hillary Clinton’s exaggerations of her life story bigger news? Hillary Clinton tells a story of how she
tried to join the Marines in 1975 but was rejected because she was too old. The
problem? The story may not be totally true.
Secret plans
for a Russian long-range nuclear torpedo came to light after a state television
cameraman filmed over a senior officer’s shoulder with a diagram on show. The
scheme involves the use of massive doses of radiation to render large areas of
enemy coastlines uninhabitable and appeared on TV during a meeting with
Vladimir Putin on Tuesday
In
a victory for school choice, an appeals court has thrown out a Department of
Justice bid to take over a popular voucher program in Louisiana and thereby
deny poor African-American kids a better education.
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THIS WEEKS
COLUMN
Mark Steyn 11/14
“The
Barbarians are Inside and There Are No Gates”
As I write,
Paris is under curfew for the first time since the German occupation, and the
death toll from the multiple attacks stands at 158, the vast majority of them
slaughtered during a concert at the Bataclan theatre….I'm so bloody sick of
these savages shooting and bombing and killing and blowing up everything I like
- whether it's the small Quebec town where my little girl's favorite fondue
restaurant is or my favorite hotel in Amman or the brave freespeecher who
hosted me in Copenhagen ...or a music hall where I liked to go to hear a little
jazz and pop and get away from the cares of the world for a couple of hours.
But look at the photographs from Paris: there's nowhere to get away from it;
the barbarians who yell "Allahu Akbar!" are there waiting for you
...when you go to a soccer match, you go to a concert, you go for a drink on a
Friday night. They're there on the train... at the magazine office... in the
Kosher supermarket... at the museum in Brussels... outside the barracks in
Woolwich...
Twenty-four
hours ago, I said on the radio apropos the latest campus "safe space"
nonsense: This is what we're going to be
talking about when the mullahs nuke us.
Almost. When
the Allahu Akbar boys opened fire, Paris was talking about the climate-change
conference due to start later this month, when the world's leaders will fly in
to "solve" a "problem" that doesn't exist rather than to
address the one that does. But don't worry: we already have a hashtag
(#PrayForParis) and doubtless there'll be another candlelight vigil of weepy
tilty-headed wankers. Because as long as we all advertise how sad and sorrowful
we are, who needs to do anything?
With his
usual killer comedy timing, the "leader of the free world" told
George Stephanopoulos on "Good Morning, America" this very morning
that he'd "contained" ISIS and that they're not "gaining
strength". A few hours later, a cell whose members claim to have been
recruited by ISIS slaughtered over 150 people in the heart of Paris and
succeeded in getting two suicide bombers and a third bomb to within a few yards
of the French president.
Visiting the
Bataclan, M Hollande declared that "nous allons mener le combat, il sera
impitoyable": We are going to wage a war that will be pitiless.
Does he mean
it? Or is he just killing time until Obama and Cameron and Merkel and Justin
Trudeau and Malcolm Turnbull fly in and they can all get back to talking about
sea levels in the Maldives in the 22nd century? By which time France and
Germany and Belgium and Austria and the Netherlands will have been long washed
away.
Among his
other coy evasions, President Obama described tonight's events as "an
attack not just on Paris, it's an attack not just on the people of France, but
this is an attack on all of humanity and the universal values we share".
But that's
not true, is it? He's right that it's an attack not just on Paris or France.
What it is is an attack on the west, on the civilization that built the modern
world - an attack on one portion of "humanity" by those who claim to
speak for another portion of "humanity". And these are not
"universal values" but values that spring from a relatively narrow
segment of humanity. They were kinda sorta "universal" when the great
powers were willing to enforce them around the world and the colonial subjects
of ramshackle backwaters such as Aden, Sudan and the North-West Frontier
Province were at least obliged to pay lip service to them. But the European
empires retreated from the world, and those "universal values" are
utterly alien to large parts of the map today.
And then
Europe decided to invite millions of Muslims to settle in their countries. Most
of those people don't want to participate actively in bringing about the death
of diners and concertgoers and soccer fans, but at a certain level most of them
either wish or are indifferent to the death of the societies in which they live
- modern, pluralist, western societies and those "universal values"
of which Barack Obama bleats. So, if you are either an active ISIS recruit or
just a guy who's been fired up by social media, you have a very large comfort
zone in which to swim, and which the authorities find almost impossible to
penetrate.
And all
Chancellor Merkel and the EU want to do is make that large comfort zone even
larger by letting millions more "Syrian" "refugees" walk
into the Continent and settle wherever they want. As I wrote after the
Copenhagen attacks in February:
I would like
to ask Mr Cameron and Miss Thorning-Schmidt what's their happy ending here?
What's their roadmap for fewer "acts of violence" in the years ahead?
Or are they riding on a wing and a prayer that they can manage the situation
and hold it down to what cynical British civil servants used to call during the
Irish "Troubles" "an acceptable level of violence"? In
Pakistan and Nigeria, the citizenry are expected to live with the reality that
every so often Boko Haram will kick open the door of the schoolhouse and kidnap
your daughters for sex-slavery or the Taliban will gun down your kids and
behead their teacher in front of the class. And it's all entirely
"random", as President Obama would say, so you just have to put up
with it once in a while, and it's tough if it's your kid, but that's just the
way it is. If we're being honest here, isn't that all Mr Cameron and Miss
Thorning-Schmidt are offering their citizens? Spasms of violence as a routine
feature of life, but don't worry, we'll do our best to contain it - and you can
help mitigate it by not going to "controversial" art events, or
synagogues, or gay bars, or......or soccer matches, or concerts, or
restaurants...
To repeat what
I said a few days ago, I'm Islamed out. I'm tired of Islam 24/7, at Colorado
colleges, Marseilles synagogues, Sydney coffee shops, day after day after day.
The west cannot win this thing with a schizophrenic strategy of targeting
things and people but not targeting the ideology, of intervening ineffectually
overseas and not intervening at all when it comes to the remorseless
Islamization and self-segregation of large segments of their own countries.
So I say
again: What's the happy ending here? Because if M Hollande isn't prepared to
end mass Muslim immigration to France and Europe, then his "pitiless
war" isn't serious. And, if they're still willing to tolerate Merkel's mad
plan to reverse Germany's demographic death spiral through fast-track Islamization,
then Europeans aren't serious. In the end, the decadence of Merkel, Hollande,
Cameron and the rest of the fin de civilisation western leadership will cost
you your world and everything you love.
So screw the
candlelight vigil.
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GLOBALONEY
Bad
timing for Al Gore: Former U.S. Vice
President Al Gore is hosting a 24-hour live webcast from the foot of the Eiffel
Tower to drum up attention for this month´s international climate summit in
Paris.
Global
warming advocates are calling for the prosecution of groups who disagree with
them, and New York State has taken it a step further by investigating Exxon
Mobil for refusing to play ball with the popular scientific theory. But
68% of Likely U.S. Voters oppose the government investigating and prosecuting
scientists and others including major corporations who question global warming.
“Among voters who Strongly
Approve of the job President Obama is doing, 29% favor prosecuting those who
disagree with global warming.”
New studies
flip climate-change notions upside down
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ISLAM
“Last week, I
reported about the first American city in history to elect a Muslim majority
City Council. Well, it didn’t take long for the Islamic supremacist aggression
and hostility to surface — did it? It never does. Always conflict and strife. A
cell phone video, taken moments after Muslims received the word that they took
over the city council, has surfaced of one of the organizers of the Muslim city
council effort saying, “Today we show the Polish and everybody else…” The town
has a large but shrinking Polish community. How ugly. How fast.”
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ARTICLES
“The names of
the people responsible for the massacres in France are as follows: 1) François
Hollande, president of France 2) Angela Merkel, prime minister of Germany 3)
David Cameron, prime minister of the U.K. 4) Stefan Lofven, prime minister of
Sweden ...as well as most of the other prime ministers and European heads of
state. Oh, and we must include the pope, too, who insistently called on Europe
to take in more Muslim refugees.”
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NOTEWORTHY
WEBSITES
‘With Open
Gates: The forced collective suicide of European nations’, a slick,
hard-hitting film about the European migrant crisis is going viral in Europe,
already watched at least half a million times. Although the 19-minute film may
feel like a dispatch from the future, it is cut entirely from recent news
reports, police camera footage, and interviews. Kicking off with scenes of a
modern car ferry disgorging thousands of illegals into Greece, the film then
cuts to dozens of aerial shots of columns of migrants marching north into
Europe.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/11/11/watch-anti-migrant-video-going-viral-across-europe/
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