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Tuesday, February 18, 2014 The Green Gulag Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog 8,000 people die in the UK every year due to what is being called "Fuel Poverty". Fuel Poverty is a trendy term for those who can't afford to heat their home because all the solar panels and windmills, the coal bans and the wars on fracking have made it too expensive for people not to freeze to death.. The left, which never misses a chance to blame profiteering for the failure of its policies, is staging "Die-Ins" outside energy companies to protect the real...

- FrontPage Magazine - http://www.frontpagemag.com - “I Don’t Think We Should be Tolerating Conservative Views”Posted By Daniel Greenfield On February 17, 2014 @ 10:09 am In The Point | No Comments Finally the left realizes that diversity is overrated… when it includes the right.9/11 Truther Cornel West and conservative Robert P. George visited Swarthmore. And you can guess which of these two men left-wing student activists had a problem with. Robert George ‘77 and Cornel West’s collection on Monday, hosted by the Institute for the Liberal Arts, culminated a campus-wide discussion on the meaning of discourse at Swarthmore. The Princeton...

Sunday, February 16, 2014 Our State of Police Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog America does not have a police state. Yet. East Germany had a police state. Syria has a police state. In police states, the government is afraid of the people. Our government is not all that afraid of us. Despite the liberal paranoia about militias and assault rifles, the training drills and TV shows where survivalists overrun the country, the people in charge don't wake up every morning worrying about a revolution. If they did, then two people in your neighborhood would be informing...

Saturday, February 15, 2014 The Inequality of Access Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog A day after Bill de Blasio's Tale of Two Cities address in which the wealthy Park Slope resident once again made inequality his focus, the radical pol intervened to spring one of his biggest supporters from prison. The New York Post, a tabloid that unlike the Daily News is much less enamored with the lefty dreamboat of the moment, responded with a cover page reading, "A Jail of Two Cities." Aside from being the commonplace corruption that one ought to expect from a...

Friday, February 14, 2014 Friday Afternoon Roundup - Snowed Under Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog from The People's Cube The David Horowitz Freedom Center has assembled an ebook with some of my best articles from last year that have appeared at Front Page Magazine that they are making available to contributors. As readers of FrontPageMag.com, you have become very familiar with the work of the incredibly prolific and brilliant writer, Daniel Greenfield. His lead articles and his daily blog, The Point, have propelled FrontPage traffic three fold in the last year. Daniel exposed the terrorist fundraising...

If the left’s foreign policy these days had a slogan, it would be, “Boycott Israel, not Iran.” The double standard, dishonest as it is ugly, is also the motto of Obama’s foreign policy, which benevolently blesses Iran’s nuclear program with one outstretched hand in the name of peace and chokes concessions out of Israel to the terrorists with the other also in the name of peace. Both peace plans are going disastrously according to plan. Iran has made it clear that it will dismantle nothing and that it will go on developing ballistic missiles and nuclear technology. Its military commanders...

Thursday, February 13, 2014 The Green Socialists of Mars Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog We live in a strange world in which the weather is a subject of furious political debate. People have been arguing about the weather ever since the first rainstorm caught the first man without the umbrella that he did not yet know how to make, but they didn't hold political debates over it. For the last fifty years, the anti-weather side has been insisting that the world is headed toward a Frostean apocalypse of ice or fire. The calm biblical assertion that...

Wednesday, February 12, 2014 Nobody Trusts the Government Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog The usual formulation that you will see masticated these days by the flimsy jaws of men and women who have broken free of the editorial column to become freelance ponderers and thinkers is that the Republicans are the neo-confederate secessionists who distrust the government while the liberals, and their captive class of government employees, union members and official minority groups trust in it. That formulation, like so much else in the spilled ink of the dying newspaper, is wrong. Both sides distrust the...

Tuesday, February 11, 2014 After Afghanistan Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog Some wars are lost in a matter of moments, others stretch on indefinitely. The defeat in Afghanistan crept up silently on the national consciousness and even though we are negotiating with the Taliban, the "D" word is hardly used by anyone. According to Obama, in one of his interminable speeches which all run together and sound the same, there really isn't a war, just a mission, and the old mission is now becoming a new sort of mission, and the missions, all of them, whether...

Monday, February 10, 2014 The Secular Religion of the Left Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog For most of human history, men and women have derived their moral dimension of life from the family and religion. Both of those are now dead or dying in the West under the influence of its new moral and ethical system. That system is one that we know in its various forms as the left. The left can be summed up as moral materialism. It is a secular religion that claims to add a moral dimension to materialism. Its obsessions are...

Sunday, February 09, 2014 Election Day Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog < It was the Holiday. The only holiday that still allowed the millions of men and women in the Great Circle of the Community from the farthest Alaskan towns across to the great sweep of the Upper Americas and the Atlantic Ocean to cities with familiar names like London and Paris and less familiar names like Armonia and Simetria through the empty industrial wastelands of Russia, to take a day off from work. The bands were out in the street playing cheerful songs. Vendors giving...

Friday, February 07, 2014 Friday Afternoon Roundup - Illinois is the Future of America Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog ILLINOIS IS THE FUTURE OF AMERICA Mayor Randy “Rambo” McCallum Sr. came into office telling cops, “I run this mother___” and ordered them to rob competing drug dealers and split the money with him. When drug dealers were busted, the seized drugs and money were brought to his house where he pocketed the money and resold the drugs. His police chief went down for stealing Xbox video games from the trunk of a stolen car telling another...

The American left has never had it this good with two terms of an uncompromising leftist in the White House dedicated to its agenda, making and unmaking laws at a whim, siccing the IRS and federal prosecutors on his political enemies and transforming the country at a breathtaking pace. Obama is what generations of the left have worked toward. This is the flicker of hope they kept alive throughout the Nixon years, Carter’s collapse and the long stretch of Reaganomics. This is what Bill Clinton robbed them of by gauging his actions against the polls instead of blasting full steam...

Thursday, February 06, 2014 Hate is the Force that Gives the Left Meaning Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog The American left has never had it this good. It has never had two terms of an unabashed and uncompromising leftist in the White House dedicated to its agenda functioning as a dictator without the military uniform, making and unmaking laws at a whim, siccing the IRS and Federal prosecutors on political enemies and transforming the country at a breathtaking pace. Obama is what generations of the left have dreamed of and worked toward. This is the flicker...

No one knows the real name of the Port Hills Groper, the Muslim refugee who stalked and attacked over a dozen women jogging in Port Hills, even though he was arrested, tried and sentenced. Instead the New Zealand court gave him “permanent name suppression” to protect his status in his Muslim community.Judge Jane Farish (a liberal leftist pig of a judge), who had told a Maori rapist who had lured an Australian tourist into a dark street and beat her while trying to tear off her clothing “If I had my way I would release you today,” let the groper...

Tuesday, February 04, 2014 Groundhog Day for Islam Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog Groundhog Day is the long eternal tragedy of Islam, which always sees its shadow and always ends up with six weeks, six months or six hundred years of more winter. That hopeful time when the bitter cold of winter begins its slow transition into the warmth and renewal of spring never comes for Islam. In a reversal of the cycle of season, the Arab Spring led to the Islamic Winter, but that is the endless pattern of Islamic attempts at reform and rejuvenation,...

Monday, February 03, 2014 You Can't Save the World Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog For only ten dollars a day, a week or a month you can feed starving children in Africa. For only the price of a cup of coffee a year, you can make sure that no one in Kansas City ever goes hungry again. For just a third of your paycheck, you can subsidize a vast bureaucracy that will conduct studies on the best way to save the world and then come up with proposals that will only cost you half your paycheck....

Sunday, February 02, 2014 Fixing the News Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog The media spends almost as much time covering various debates about how to "fix the news" as it does itself and the treatment of Ezra Klein's announcement that he is leaving the Washington Post to create a political blog for Vox Media (co-founded by the creator of Daily Kos) is a perfect example of the confluence of the two with media covering something that no one outside the media cares about as if it were an important story. In his announcement, Ezra Klein welcomed...

For only ten dollars a day or a month you can feed all the starving children in Africa. For only the price of a cup of coffee a year, you can make sure that no one in Kansas City ever goes hungry again. For just a third of your paycheck, you can subsidize a vast bureaucracy that will conduct studies on the best way to save the world and then come up with proposals that will only cost you half your paycheck. This misplaced philanthropic confidence is the idiot stepchild of a free enterprise society where anything can be accomplished...

Friday, January 31, 2014 Friday Afternoon Roundup - One Leader, Three Branches of Government Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog PETE SEEGER FULFILLS LIFELONG DREAM OF MEETING STALIN - Unfortunately Stalin hates the banjo HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO Strip away the year and it’s hard for the listener to tell whether he’s listening to a cut from the 2008, 2011 or 2014 SOTU album. Clip all the static about competing with China by building bridges so that babies with Asthma can attend free pre-K with Google and you catch snippets of the new stuff. The Justin Bieber...