Your tax dollars at work: Hamas agrees to accept US money

On Friday, I reported that Hamas had stopped the work of US NGO's that were providing it with money, because they refused to submit to a Hamas audit of their operations. Now, Hamas has decided to be satisfied with its lot in life. They have agreed to let the US salve its guilt over the terror group's plight by generously agreeing to accept American aid money without auditing the books. The

OMG: An indication of the state of the US economy after the S&P credit downgrade

This is what it's come to in the US.

Let's go to the videotape (Hat Tip: Shy Guy).



Heh.

Will a Democrat challenge Obama?

Usually an incumbent US President is virtually automatic as a nominee for reelection. In fact, the last incumbent President who faced a challenge was - you guessed it - Jimmy Carter.

Will Barack Hussein Obama face a challenge? Seven out of ten Democrats still want to see him nominated - but that's a decline of 11% since June. Despite the decline, history is on Obama's side. "In 1994, only 57%

Obama's iftar: Islamists secretly invited, moderates out

The Obama White House published an incomplete list of the invitees to the President's iftar dinner last Wednesday night, omitting representatives of Islamist groups who were invited. The White House also did not invite any representatives of moderate Muslim groups (Hat Tip: Atlas Shrugs). “It was a squeaky clean list,” said Durriya Badani, director of the U.S.-Islamic World Forum, an annual

Israel to Turkey: Double or nothing?

A report indicates that Israel has offered to pay $100,000 per dead terrorist in 'compensation' to Turkey - rather than the $50,000 demanded - in exchange for Turkey accepting a Israel's 'regrets' for the incident (Hat Tip: Joshua I). ‘‘Ankara demands apologies and compensation of $50 thousand to each of victims’ families. Israel, however, has another solution – Tel-Aviv will express its

No media bias in the US

There's no media bias in the US. None at all.

More than just stupidity?

This is the first live post of the weekend. If you followed me on Twitter, you would know already that the reason for this is that I took the wrong computer to the hospital on Saturday night.

You will recall that this past week I covered the story of the White House 'cleansing' its web site from references to Jerusalem, Israel.

I treated that story as yet another instance of the rank amateurism

Obama competing with Carter

Here's Barack Hussein Obama competing with Jimmy Carter on yet another front. Confidence among U.S. consumers plunged in August to the lowest level since May 1980, adding to concern that weak employment gains and volatility in the stock market will prompt households to retrench.

The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan preliminary index of consumer sentiment slumped to 54.9 from 63.7 the prior

Caroline Glick blasts the neocons but Obama is worse

Shavua tov, a good week to everyone.

This post is being written on Friday afternoon. Posting may be sporadic again tonight as I am spending the night as the companion to my friend's son and son-in-law (two different friends have a son and a daughter who married each other), who is in isolation in Hadassah Hospital after having a bone marrow transplant this past week.

Please pray for Moshe

Jimmy Carter redeemed?

From the American Spectator: For over thirty years a wounded Jimmy Carter has roamed the world speaking ill of whomever the sitting president might be and occasionally making it difficult for that president to make policy. Obama has already surpassed him, speaking ill of America as a whole while being president. In Strasbourg, France, on April 3, 2009, he said, "Instead of celebrating our dynamic

WaPo demands that Obama lead or something

The Washington Post (no, you won't see this from the New York Times) is demanding that the Obama administration step up and lead the charge to get Bashar al-Assad to stop murdering his own people and quit. It is therefore worrying that the international response, though improving, remains inconsistent. Turkey is the leading example: Its prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has condemned Mr.

No apology to Turkey

The Israeli government has decided to look out for Israel, and as a result has left Barack Hussein Obama holding the bag. Obama deserves it.

The Obama administration convinced Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman to agree not to bring down the government in the event that Israel apologized to Turkey for the Mavi Marmara incident. But Netanyahu decided not to apologize anyway (the Israeli media is

Obama scrapes bottom, digs

This has nothing to do with Israel, but it is so despicable it simply has to be shared. Just when you thought he could not possibly sink any lower, America's photo-op surprises. The remains of the 30 Americans killed in the recent crash in AFPak returned to the US today, and that return was the occasion for a cynical photo-op that ignored the wishes of both the Pentagon and the fallen warrior's

Finally: Israel to build 4,300 housing units in Jerusalem

On Wednesday night, Prime Minister Netanyahu had what his office described as a 'friendly' phone conversation with American President Barack Hussein Obama. When Obama awakens on Thursday morning, he is likely to be in a much fouler mood 9and he might have even been awakened during the night in Washington to hear about this: Interior Minister Eli Yishai gave final approval on Thursday to the

Ethnic cleansing, an Obamanation

In an earlier post, I reported that the White House had cleansed its web site from pictures referencing "Jerusalem, Israel."

That post only showed one altered picture. Here is a video with several more.

Let's go to the videotape (the person who sent this did not give me a name so I cannot give them a hat tip).

Barack Obama and Tisha b'Av

In my post explaining Tisha b'Av (the 9th day of the Jewish month of Av) on Monday, I listed several tragedies that befell the Jewish people on that day. I missed one. Yid With Lid fills it in. In 2004, Barack Obama Gave the Keynote speech at the Democratic Convention on Tisha B'av and was crowned the heir apparent of the Democratic Party. He has proven to be the most anti-Israel

US welcomes Saudi withdrawal of ambassador to Syria, but....

At Monday's State Department briefing, spokesman Mark Toner said that the US welcomes Saudi Arabia's withdrawal of its ambassador to Syria, but.... the U.S. has no plans to do so. "This is a choice by any sovereign nation whether to recall its ambassador. It clearly sends a message to the government," said Toner. "For our part, we've talked about this last week and continue to believe that

How to stop Assad

Writing in the New York Daily News, Benny Weinthal has a plan for how to stop Bashar al-Assad. Sadly, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay's recent comment that the "world is watching" sums up the failure of the international community to stop Assad's lethal assaults against Syrian protesters.

Just watching is not enough. A mix of potent sanctions, robust diplomatic action and a

Oy vey: 'I can hardly remember a better period of US support for Israel'

Defense Minister Ehud Barak told Fox News' Greta van Sustern this week that he can hardly remember a better period of US support for Israel than the Obama administration (Note to Lefty blog Think Progress: Time to get a new picture. The one you used is from the 2008 campaign when Livni was Foreign Minister and Barak was Defense Minister). And now yet another pillar of the farce that has been

Obama downgraded to "junk"

Following on the heels of Standard & Poors, the rating agency that made history by taking American treasuries down a peg to AA+, I am announcing another dubious financial first: President Obama has been downgraded to CCC, or what is commonly known on the Street as “junk.” Whether this will further roil the markets, or sink Obama’s chances in the next election remains to be seen. But looking