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Obama's Church: Israel Planned Ethnic Bomb To Kill Blacks & Arabs More Dirt on a Dirty Church-- Obama's Church published anti-Semitic articles claiming Jews were working on "ethnic bombs." Sweetness and Light and American Thinker discovered this "Open Letter to Oprah" today from Obama's church newsletter the Trinity United Church of Christ. The letter describes how Israel was working on an ethnic bomb that would kill Arabs and Blacks: Carl from Jerusalem reported this ethnic bomb: Israel was the closest ally to the White Supremacists of South Africa. In fact, South Africa allowed Israel to test its nuclear weapons in...

Jail politicians who ignore climate science: Suzuki Didn't mean it literally says scientist's spokesperson Craig Offman, National Post February 07, 2008 Prominent scientist David Suzuki says that people should look for a way to hold politicians who ignore climate change science legally responsible.Prominent scientist David Suzuki says that people should look for a way to hold politicians who ignore climate change science legally responsible. David Suzuki has called for political leaders to be thrown in jail for ignoring the science behind climate change. At a Montreal conference last Thursday, the prominent scientist, broadcaster and Order of Canada recipient exhorted a...

The Senate GOP Leadership Embraces the Minority By Erick The Senate GOP has been having its retreat. This is the first retreat since Lamar Alexander (R-TN) was named Chairman of the Conference. In this position, Alexander is charged with developing the GOP agenda and controlling the message. Today, the Republican Senators are at a retreat and they are getting their first taste of Lamar Alexander's leadership. His message: embrace being in the minority. According to Senate staff familiar with the conversations, Senators have been hearing from multiple pollsters including Dave Winston. Winston has consistently been presenting polling to the GOP...

Energy Disaster Looming [Iain Murray] There are strong suggestions circulating that the Administration is being firmly lobbied to announce a cap-and-trade scheme for electricity utilities in the State of the Union address as a 'legacy' item and in a futile attempt to bind the hands of an incoming President. This would be a disaster. At a time when the Fed and the rest of the Administration is doing its best to avoid recession, what Mike Huckabee might call the "Wall Street Lobby" within the White House is doing its best to counteract all that effort. Given that the Bureau of...

Burger King recalls 'sacrilegious' desserts JOHN INNES THE fast-food chain, Burger King, is withdrawing its ice-cream cones after the lid of the dessert offended a Muslim. The man claimed the design resembled the Arabic inscription for Allah, and branded it sacrilegious, threatening a "jihad". The chain is being forced to spend thousands of pounds redesigning the lid with backing from The Muslim Council of Britain. It apologised and said: "The design simply represents a spinning ice-cream cone." The offending lid was spotted in a branch in Park Royal last week by business development manager Rashad Akhtar, 27, of High Wycombe....

From a Different Irritated but Fighting Hard GOP Senate Aide [Kathryn Jean Lopez] The Grand Bargainers are playing "hide the ball." We are not seeing language - they are trying to move this thing through without allowing full review and debate. 373 pages thrown together yesterday - AND AILA, a liberal advocacy group, gets to see it before fellow Republicans? What a slap in the face... Now - the Grand Bargainers are trying to roll through "tabling votes" to make some attempt to show strength in support of / or in opposition to various amendments to keep their deal "cobbled...

Senate Sausage [Kathryn Jean Lopez] Brian Darling, director of Senate relations at the Heritage Foundation, e-mails: Someone once said not to watch how sausage or legislation are made. Today especially I prefer to be at the sausage factory. As if the Senate floor situation could get any worse, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's staff is now rewriting the Clay Pigeon amendment behind closed doors. It is the intent of the Majority Leader to bring this new unread Amendment up without the Republicans seeing the language. Yesterday Senator Reid did not have his massive 373 page amendment ready when he started...

Demanding a Refund [Mark Krikorian] Michelle Malkin has a great idea — people who've donated (however small the amount) to the GOP campaign committees or to any of the Ted Kennedy Republicans should call and demand a refund. I understand it's party policy to provide refunds to those who ask, though I don't know if that's true. Anyone who has details on this, let me know — also if you've demanded a refund, what happened? Mickey Kaus is skeptical, saying that organizing primary or general election challenges, or recalls, is what will really get a Senator's attention. That's true, but...

CNN: Even the Weather is Biased Against Israel Search the CNN Weather page for “Jerusalem,” and here are the results: Clicking “Jerusalem, null” brings you to the page for Israel, of course. Could be an innocent mistake, you say? But that’s not all—not by a long shot. Their “Weather Location Selector” lists Gaza and the West Bank as countries separate from Israel—and their list of Israeli cities includes several Arab villages which have not existed since 1948. And in a related outrage, another reader emailed about Samsung’s list of support centers in the Middle East—which includes the imaginary country of...

Following up on this morning’s post, I’ve started a new thread for the second round of Senate floor debate on shamnesty. It’s 2:31pm Eastern and the Senate is waiting for a member to come to the floor to speak. Rich Miniter has a memo outlining the clay pigeon strategy. Like I said, we’ll see if it flies today. Meantime, where do we go from here? Bryan Preston says fight. Ok, then. Are you in the mood to make calls and hold ship-jumping, pro-amnesty Senators to account? Good. Here’s a list of targets that’s circulating on the Hill: Brownback (split with...

Cloture Buy-Offs [Rich Lowry] One method supporters of the bill are apparently using to good effect is to promise senators votes on their amendments to get them to vote for cloture. This is working even when it is amendments that have no chance of passing. For instance, Sen. Bond's office tells me that he is going to vote for cloture on the motion to proceed. He will then offer an amendment that has made the approved list to strip out the path of citizenship in the bill (meaning no green cards). This will inevitably fail. In which case, Bond will...

Latest on the Cloture Vote for the Immigration Deal [Jim Geraghty] Just spoke to a spokesman for a Republican opposed to the deal, and helping lead the opposition. Here's what we know right now: 1. Tomorrow is the first test, on the vote to bring it back to the floor. Deal supporters need 60. Opponents think they have about 33-35 right now, so they only need about five to seven more. Kirkorian's earlier Corner post was praised for its accuracy. Some Republicans on the fence are going to try to have it both ways - vote to bring it back...

The Inside Story On What's Happening With The Senate Immigration Bill Yesterday, a GOP aide, who is one of my sources in the Senate, gave me the rundown on what's happening with the Senate immigration bill (this is the same person who I talked to last week about the bill). First off, it does look like the Senate immigration bill is coming back. The conventional wisdom seems to be that it's going to be brought up right before the July 4th break, so that the Senate Republican leadership can try to use that as leverage to get votes (in other...

Four Senators Who Deserve Our Thanks Cornyn, DeMint, Dole and Enzi By Bluey Last night's defeat of the immigration bill came after three weeks of intense grassroots activism against the legislation. But this bill may not have gone up in flames had it not been for the craftiness of four Republican senators who voted with Democrat Sen. Byron Dorgan to sunset the temporary-worker program after five years. The "poison pill" amendment was considered a deal-breaker by supporters of the bill. Having failed by just one vote on May 24, it came up again Wednesday; only this time, four Republicans who...

<p>Beware legislative behemoths. Beware “comprehensive immigration reform.” Any bill that is 380 pages long is bound to have nooks and crannies reflecting private deals, quiet paybacks, and ad hoc arrangements that you often don’t learn about until it’s too late.</p>

The comprehensive open-borders goodie bag By Michelle Malkin · May 23, 2007 11:05 AM Chock full of enforcement tricks and illegal alien treats John Boehner called the Bush-Kennedy immigration bill a "piece of s**t" last night. Yeah, after sifting through it the past couple of days, I need a shower. Debate resumed in the Senate this morning. Yesterday, an amendment sponsored by Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) that would have deleted the bill's guestworker provisions was voted down. Update: Sen. DeMint calls out the Dems' move to limit amendments from critics of the bill. While they debate, here are 7 things...

Special Report Selling Out the Constitution By Doug Bandow Published 5/8/2007 12:08:14 AM The Republican Party, having squandered its electoral authority by succumbing to the dissolute wiles of Washington, appears to have learned nothing from its defeat last November. Faced with a clear challenge to the unambiguous language of the Constitution, many GOP leaders have abandoned their principles. Particularly shocking is the defection of Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah). As a former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Hatch should view himself as a guardian of the Constitution. Instead, he set a low price for violating the document, a price...

BLOGS DOWN: HACK ATTACK By Michelle Malkin · April 28, 2006 11:51 AM 1230pm EDT Looks like the problem may be resolved, though several blogs still down...Glenn Reynolds confirms the attack originated in Saudi Arabia, as I suspected...Mary Katherine Ham of downed blog hughhewitt.com is guest-blogging over at Wizbang...*** Many Hosting Matters-hosted blogs are down--including Instapundit, Power Line, Hugh Hewitt, and tons of others large and small. Hosting Matters' own website is also down. Blogger Chuck Simmins e-mails: Denial of service attack on Hosting Matters. Most, if not all, their hosted sites are down. Attack is originating internationally. Haven't been...

The Public Policy Three Strikes and You're ... in Like Flint By Hal G.P. Colebatch Published 4/10/2006 12:06:30 AM American and British criminologists have long been puzzled and angered by the fact that Britain seems to have learnt nothing from the experience of New York in successfully reducing crime. The big drop in virtually all types of crime in New York has generally been attributed to the zero-tolerance policy associated with Mayor Guiliani. Now Britain, far from adopting zero-tolerance, looks like it's adopting a policy of not prosecuting many serious crimes at all. This is the subject of an official...

HIDDEN BOMBS By KRIS W. KOBACH April 7, 2006 -- IMMIGRATION-BILL SURPRISES HOW do you slip legislative poison past a U.S. senator? Bury it on page 302 of a bill. The Senate's Democratic and Republican leaders yesterday announced a compromise on an immigration bill - with some details still to be worked out. But details that may continue from the bill passed out of the Judiciary Committee should definitely be deal-breakers. Like that surprise hidden on page 302 - which would replace the country's entire bench of experienced immigration judges with pro-immigration advocates. With a few exceptions, today's immigration judges...