Sammy B. posted an article on YID With LID - Feb 10, 2012, 8:38 am
By Barry Rubin Here’s a fascinating exchange telling us not only about the contemporary state of Islam, Islamism, and the political issues involving them but also the debates and conflicts shaping Western civilization today. It also taught me about the common theme between revolutionary Isl...
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Sammy B. posted an article on YID With LID - Feb 10, 2012, 12:12 am
Welcome to CPAC. For the past 24+ hours I have been blogging from the Bloggers Lounge at the Marriott Wardman Hotel, home of CPAC 2012. What has made the 2012 version of CPAC even more special is the fact that my daughter Alexa is with me. As the week goes on, I will share some of the sights, ...
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Sammy B. posted an article on YID With LID - Feb 9, 2012, 1:30 pm
Long-time readers of this site know I have never endorsed a candidate during the primary season. I do criticize and applaud individual actions of individual candidates when it is warranted and recommend readers stay away from certain candidates who are totally unacceptable (like Ron Paul).  But the...
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Sammy B. posted an article on YID With LID - Feb 8, 2012, 6:44 pm
By Barry Rubin For the second time in a few months we have seen a crazy global Israel-About-to-Attack-Iran Story. I don't want to go into all of the details but this tale is an example of how the media has just lost it completely due to a combination of laziness (reporters don't really do ...
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Sammy B. posted an article on YID With LID - Feb 7, 2012, 9:05 pm
By Barry Rubin Want to understand the real Middle East? Then pay attention to the following. Let’s say an important and outspoken Gulf Arab gave a frank and thoughtful assessment of the region’s security problems. What would he say and what would that tell you? And how would that differ f...
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Sammy B. posted an article on YID With LID - Feb 7, 2012, 2:08 pm
The Mainstream Media refuses to give the New York Giants their due from their exciting victory in Super Bowl 46. According to an analysis conducted by Newsbusted Anchor Jodi Miller, many in the mainstream media are saying that the Giants weren't really a super bowl team, and given the chance Preside...
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Sammy B. posted an article on YID With LID - Feb 7, 2012, 1:15 pm
Steve understands that while we're trying to work our way out of this economic crisis, we have to hold the financial industry accountable to prevent the next one. That's why Steve wrote a bill that would have taken back the bonuses paid to top executives at Wall Street firms – like AIG - that rece...
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Sammy B. posted an article on YID With LID - Feb 6, 2012, 11:32 pm
President Obama has declared war on the Catholic Church and the Church is fighting back. Leaders of American Catholics are furious and determined to harness the voting power of the nation’s 70 million Catholic voters. The Issue? A ruling made by Health and Human Services Director Kathleen Sibeliu...
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Sammy B. posted an article on YID With LID - Feb 6, 2012, 12:58 pm
Friend of Obama, professional Bigot and MSNBC talking head the "Reverend" Al Sharpton was on MSNBC's Morning Joe today to defend the President's policy forcing Catholic organizations to pay for Contraception, morning after abortion pills and other procedures banned by the Catholic Church.  His twis...
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Sammy B. posted an article on YID With LID - Feb 6, 2012, 7:44 am
80% of The Way There EMERGENCY TIP JAR REQUEST! PLEASE HELP! Sparky Crashed During The Super Bowl. Iti was the 5th time in the past two weeks that it needed emergency rehab.  Its been skitzing out without even giving me the courtesy of a BSOD (Blue Screen of Death).This laptop is on life su...
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Sammy B. posted an article on YID With LID - Feb 6, 2012, 6:13 am
By Barry Rubin Dear readers, I’d like to share with you a secret. Every day I read articles or some form of writings by people who claim to be experts on the Middle East. I have read them on the land; I have read them on the sea; I have read them in the air. And they will never surrender to re...
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Sammy B. posted an article on YID With LID - Feb 5, 2012, 8:56 pm
In an interview with NBC today, Barack Obama tried to deny the US/Israel split over Iran.    But his own words showed it was nothing but spin, notice that he keep saying I think...that's because he doesn't know: Asked in an NBC interview whether Israel was set to attack Iran, Obama said: "I don'...
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Sammy B. posted an article on YID With LID - Feb 5, 2012, 5:27 pm
The AFL-CIO is coming to CPAC (uninvited of course). Occupy CPAC Friday, February 3, 2012 (Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)With workshops like “Return of Big Labor: What Can We Learn from Wisconsin & Ohio,” and “Taking back Wall Street: The Tea Party vs. Occupy Wall Street,” t...
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Sammy B. posted an article on YID With LID - Feb 5, 2012, 2:49 pm
Its been a few days since the Washington Post published an unsubstantiated report that:Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has a lot on his mind these days, from cutting the defense budget to managing the drawdown of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. But his biggest worry is the growing possibility that Israel...
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Sammy B. posted an article on YID With LID - Feb 3, 2012, 6:26 pm
By Barry Rubin President Barack Obama will probably be defeated in November by people voting for the Republican candidate who will then tell their friends that they voted for Obama. For them, that will be a compromise between responding to the reality they see as opposed to being in fashion a...
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Sammy B. posted an article on YID With LID - Feb 3, 2012, 2:01 pm
EMERGENCY TIP JAR REQUEST! PLEASE HELP! In the past week my computer needed emergency rehab 3x. Its been skitzing out without even giving me the courtesy of a BSOD (Blue Screen of Death).HP tech services have been very nice, but have only come up with temporary solutions.This laptop is o...
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Sammy B. posted an article on YID With LID - Feb 3, 2012, 1:16 pm
In breaking news from Newsbusted Anchor Jodi Miller, there is a fight brewing between two hot shot Hollywood directors, Spike Lee and Steven Spielberg.  It seems that Lee is accusing Spielberg of being racist, and its not because he disagrees with Barak Obama. Apparently Lee is upset that Spielberg...
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Sammy B. posted an article on YID With LID - Feb 3, 2012, 7:32 am
Folks I know its been  a while but there is good news!  Thanks to a Global Warming NGO Called the RTCC  we can an add to the Official “Stupid Things Used To Fear Monger About Global Warming” List (the RTCC-Responding to Climate Change  describes itself as a Non-Governmental Organization and...
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Sammy B. posted an article on YID With LID - Feb 2, 2012, 7:29 pm
 Eric Holder Testified before the House Oversight Committee this morning about the "Fast and Furious Cover-up" and at a particularly tense part of the questioning, a frustrated Holder defended himself by saying: I’m Attorney General of the United States, and I should also be held accountable and...
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Sammy B. posted an article on YID With LID - Feb 2, 2012, 1:02 pm
DOROTHY: If you were really great and powerful, you’d keep your promises! OZ’S VOICE: Do you presume to criticize the…. Toto pulls back the curtain to reveal the Wizard at the controls of the throne apparatus OZ’S VOICE: …Great Oz? You ungrateful creatures! Tin Man, Lion, Dor...
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Sammy B. posted an article on YID With LID - Feb 2, 2012, 9:44 am
Not all George Soros-funded groups are alike. Both Center For American Progress (CAP) and the "media watchdog" it helped to create--Media Matters for America (MMFA) have been roundly criticized for their use of anti-Semitic memes. Most recently the focus has been on the use of the term "Israel-first...
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Sammy B. posted an article on YID With LID - Feb 1, 2012, 12:43 pm
By Barry Rubin Jackson Diehl is by far the best journalist writing in the mass media about the Middle East. In a recent column, he tries to find some middle ground between the dominant ideas — that Islamist regimes are no problem at all and that the Muslim Brotherhood is really moderate — ...
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Sammy B. posted an article on YID With LID - Feb 1, 2012, 7:23 am
The prisoner surrounded by cowardly men covering their faces, looked at the camera and said, "My father is Jewish, my mother is Jewish, I am Jewish." just before Khalid Sheikh Mohammed brutally hacked his head off in front of the whole world. Today, ten years after that horrific d...
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Sammy B. posted an article on YID With LID - Jan 29, 2012, 11:37 am
The already nasty Florida Primary race has gotten even nastier.  At a press conference yesterday former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich told reporters that Mitt Romney was not ready to be president.  Sixty-two years ago, said the speaker, "when Romney was just two, he pooped in his diaper."  H...
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Sammy B. posted an article on YID With LID - Jan 29, 2012, 11:03 am
If you have been on my site lately you would have seen the below. My computer has one foot on the banana peel and one foot in the grave. I have been relying on my wife's desktop. This has been cutting back on my writing time. I been doing an emergency tip jar drive since Wednesday so I can re...
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Sammy B. posted an article on YID With LID - Jan 27, 2012, 6:48 pm
Where's Al Gore now that we need him.  After all there is more bad news for the global warming hoaxers, the Arctic is not getting warmer as they promised, its getting colder. So cold that the ice in the Bering Sea has started to build up much earlier than normal. Making it harder to harvest their "...
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Sammy B. posted an article on YID With LID - Jan 27, 2012, 1:09 pm
There is plenty of proof that Ron Paul knew what was in his bigoted newsletters, his defense of their content in 1996, interviews where he explained their content, hand-written letters asking for money etc. But none of this satisfied his loyal cult-like followers so here are some more facts for the ...
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Sammy B. posted an article on YID With LID - Jan 27, 2012, 12:35 pm
Now here is a scary prediction, according to Newsbusted Anchor Jodi Miller, experts are now predicting that gasoline prices will reach record levels in 2012, perhaps over $5.00/per gallon. That is going to royally screw up family vacations for this coming summer...well except for the family that liv...
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Sammy B. posted an article on YID With LID - Jan 27, 2012, 8:19 am
By Barry Rubin The radio superhero, The Shadow, had the power to “cloud men’s minds.” But nothing clouds men’s minds like anything that has to do with Jews or Israel. This year’s variation on that theme is the idea that Israel is about to attack Iran. Such a claim repeatedly appears ...
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Sammy B. posted an article on YID With LID - Jan 26, 2012, 10:10 pm
Here's a great idea that may help both the unemployment problem, the deficit and, as the President would make sure at least one group pays it's fair share of taxes. And I am sure it would be a bi-partisan policy. The idea is simple force the 279,381 delinquent tax payers who work for the federal g...
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Sammy B. posted an article on YID With LID - Jan 26, 2012, 1:51 pm
My friend John Hawkins the superstar blogger had a chance to sit down with the Great One, about his new book “Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America" (I purchased the book on Saturday and so far its great!). Here are some excerpts from the interview. It really is bizarre that we live in a socie...
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Sammy B. posted an article on YID With LID - Jan 26, 2012, 8:33 am
By Barry Rubin In his State of the Union message, President Barack Obama began by wrapping himself in the flag, patriotism, and love of the armed forces while trying to highlight his foreign policy achievements. Among his points: “The United States safer and more respected around the ...
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Sammy B. posted an article on YID With LID - Jan 25, 2012, 11:19 pm
Warren Buffet and his secretary going on a press tour to help  Barack Obama sell the country on the "Buffet rule" video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Buffett’s secretary since 1993, Debbie Bosanek, sat next to her boss just hours after being invited by the president to the S...
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Sammy B. posted an article on YID With LID - Jan 19, 2012, 8:57 am
by Barry Rubin “I want the people to know that they still have 2 out of 3 branches of the government working for them, and that ain’t bad.” – Jack Nicholson as “President Dale” in Mars Attacks. The far left has at least temporarily won the battle of ideas in the Unit...
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Sammy B. posted an article on YID With LID - Jan 18, 2012, 10:44 pm
Unless you were stuck in a cave yesterday, you probably heard about the big Drudge scoop regarding Newt Gingrich's second wife giving an explosive interview to ABC News. Marianne Gingrich has said she could end her ex-husband's career with a single interview. Earlier this week, she sat before ABCNEW...
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Sammy B. posted an article on YID With LID - Jan 18, 2012, 1:47 pm
If Newt Gingrich ends up with the GOP nomination he owes Juan Williams a major thank you gift.  In a national Rasmussen poll taken on Tuesday (the day after the Myrtle Beach debate), the former Speaker of the House jumped to within 3% points of Mitt Romney (well within the margin of error). ...
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Sammy B. posted an article on YID With LID - Jan 18, 2012, 8:52 am
By Barry Rubin The political history of the modern Middle East can easily be divided into three eras. In 1952, a military coup in Egypt signaled the start of the period in which radical Arab nationalism dominated. The 1979 Iranian revolution began the challenge of revolutionary Islamism. And t...
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Sammy B. posted an article on YID With LID - Jan 18, 2012, 8:23 am
This story is proof that Chris Matthews' famous tingle has damaged his brain and turned him into a paranoid conspiracy theorist. As a guest on Andrea Mitchell Reports  yesterday, Chris Matthews accused Newt Gingrich of sending out a racist code to the "white, male" audience at the Myrtle Be...
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Sammy B. posted an article on YID With LID - Jan 17, 2012, 6:45 pm
By Barry Rubin It is truly astonishing how, it often seems, Western media coverage must blame Israel for everything that “goes wrong” in the Middle East, including murderous hostility to Israel. Sentences often seem carefully formulated to push this claim and exclude any possibility ...
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Sammy B. posted an article on YID With LID - Jan 17, 2012, 1:26 pm
Next to trashing American Citizens who are part of the Tea Party movement, making one-sided demands on Israel and refusing to compromise with Republicans, President Obama's favorite activity is giving away tax-payer money to foreign countries so they can do what he blocks the US from doing.  For ex...
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Sammy B. posted an article on YID With LID - Jan 17, 2012, 7:58 am
In a rambling speech as unclear as the rest of his campaign, former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman began his Monday morning press conference attacking the rest of the field. He admonished his colleagues for running nasty campaigns (true but people in glass houses…). When he was done playing campaign p...
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Sammy B. posted an article on YID With LID - Jan 16, 2012, 8:16 pm
 The mainstream media has been filled with reports of African American figures trying to associate the "Occupy Movement" with the Reverend Martin Luther King's Civil Rights movement. On Sunday morning, Rev. Harold Mayberry of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church informed his congregation t...
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Sammy B. posted an article on YID With LID - Jan 16, 2012, 5:21 pm
By Barry Rubin The region-wide upheaval known as “the Arab Spring” would make it seem that terrorism, especially Islamist terrorism, is pretty much as dead as are its thousands of victims. After all, if the protest demonstration and balloting have proven able to resolve grievances then ...
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Sammy B. posted an article on YID With LID - Nov 3, 2011, 7:23 am
The Israeli and international media have been reporting a rumor  that Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak were trying to drum up enough votes in the Cabinet for an endorsement to attack Iran's Nuclear program. I chose not to cover it because, to be honest, it...
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Sammy B. posted an article on YID With LID - Nov 2, 2011, 1:02 pm
“I want to give you just one bit of fatherly advice: Never give a sucker an even break!” –W.C. Fields By Barry Rubin Suddenly, a new term is foisted on us without serious debate or proof and we are supposed to rejoice at the triumphs of those now called “moderate Islamists.” The pro...
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Sammy B. posted an article on YID With LID - Nov 1, 2011, 8:26 pm
People who live near the occupy protests have been complaining of the pungent odor coming from the OWS camps. But neighbors of Occupy Maine may have found a solution to their shocked olfactory nerves. In an exclusive report from Newsbusted Anchor Jodi Miller, a stink bomb actually improved the aroma...
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Sammy B. posted an article on YID With LID - Nov 1, 2011, 6:44 pm
By Barry Rubin What does theocracy look like? This is what theocracy looks like! * Many people find it hard to comprehend what the Obama Administration thinks it’s doing in the Middle East. But it’s really very simple if you know the history of the arguments, read carefully administr...
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Sammy B. posted an article on YID With LID - Nov 1, 2011, 8:58 am
Folks, I hate to admit it but I was wrong about DNC Chair, Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz. I have always said that the Schultz, who was Comedian Ron White's inspiration for his catch phrase, "you can't fix stupid,"was so dumb that she could not string two sentences together.  ...
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Sammy B. posted an article on YID With LID - Oct 31, 2011, 10:59 pm
  It was three years ago, America elected a president who was going to repair our relationship with the world, particularly the Muslim world, after eight years of that "cowboy" George "W" Bush. However three years into his Presidency, our "relationship repairer-in-chief" has presided over a...
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Sammy B. posted an article on YID With LID - Oct 31, 2011, 8:41 am
By Barry Rubin Earlier this week, The Washington Post’s Lally Weymouth interviewed King Abdallah of Jordan. Here’s how King Abdallah responded to Weymouth’s question, “Do you and other leaders in this area believe you cannot rely on the U.S.?" He replied: "I think everybody is wa...
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