Iran vows to attack Israel from Judea and Samaria

By Robert Spencer / Jihad Watch

Time for Barack Obama and the UN to issue more condemnations of Israel, and to call upon it to make more concessions to the “Palestinians.”

“Iran vows to attack Israel from West Bank,” Times of Israel, January 24, 2015:

Iran has threatened to attack Israel from the West Bank, in retaliation for an alleged Israeli airstrike in Syria on Sunday that left 12 Iranian and Hezbollah operatives dead. The airstrike has been attributed to Israel and though Jerusalem has not officially confirmed it, anonymous government sources have admitted as much.

Deputy head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Lt.-Gen. Hossein Salami vowed Saturday to “open new fronts [against Israel] and change the balance of power.” In an excerpt of an interview with Salami, the IRGC’s number two said that Iran and Hezbollah would provide a “special reprisal” to the strike, according to the Tasnim News Agency, adding that opening a new front in the West Bank was in the works.

“Opening up a new front across the West Bank, which is a major section of our dear Palestine, will be certainly on the agenda, and this is part of a new reality that will gradually emerge,” Salami said in the inteview [sic] with Iran’s Arabic-language news channel al-Alam.

Iran and Hezbollah have issued a series of threats since the strike earlier this week, warning of a “crushing response,” and “destructive thunderbolts.” The dead included an Iranian general and senior Hezbollah commanders, Muhammad Issa and Jihad Mughniyeh, son of slain terror mastermind Imad Mughniyeh.

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Obama Will Not Attend 70th Anniversary of Auschwitz Liberation, Will Not Join Heads of State

Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs

Remembering the Holocaust, just like supporting cartoonists, is an insult to Islam.

The mullah in the White House did not join heads of state in Paris to stand against terror and stand up for freedom of speech. So why should we expect him to join the heads of state of France and Germany and Belgium and Austria and the Netherlands and Denmark to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Auschwitz, the factory of mass death?

Every day, he shows us who and what he is. Obama's Paris absence, his snubbing of Egypt President al-Sisi's speech, and now this. The message Obama is sending to the devout Muslim world is, "I am with you. Allahu akbar."

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Obama Targets Americans At The Pump

Matt Vespa / Townhall Tipsheet

 

Last week, the Obama administration announced it was proposing new rules for methane regulations. The Environmental Protection Agency will unveil the new regulations this summer.

The Obama administration’s goal is for methane emissions to be cut 40 to 45 percent by 2025. Yet, it was unclear how such an objective could be achieved, given that methane escaping from pipelines wouldn’t be subject to regulation, according to Politico. As Erik Telford of the Franklin Center wrote, this regulatory onslaught will only hurt Americans and small businesses; not to mention that the energy industry has taken steps to reduce emissions:

According to the EPA, methane accounts for about 9 percent of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions from human activities, making it the second most prevalent greenhouse gas emitted in the United States. It’s also the primary component in natural gas, which has helped lower energy prices substantially in the U.S. and around the world. 

In fact, the boom in natural gas production is a key factor driving down prices at the pump and giving Americans a much needed respite after an extended recession. And experts have predicted that prices will drop even lower--anticipating an average of $2 a gallon by spring of 2015. However, those forecasts may not be accurate if the administration has its way.
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The energy industry has reduced methane emissions by at least 16 percent since 1990, despite impressive increases of natural gas production--rising 37 percent during the same period. Furthermore, despite the natural gas industry being the target of the administration’s latest attack, more than 71 percent of methane emission are produced by other sources.
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As energy costs increase for small businesses and prices start rising at the pump, it should be very clear to everyday Americans that Obama’s incursion on the energy industry is really an attack on them.

The Need for Social Security Reform, as Illustrated by Cartoons

Daniel J. Mitchell  / Townhall Finance

 

Political cartoons, if done correctly, are remarkably effective tools for teaching about economics and public policy.

In this post from last year, for instance, I put together some of my favorite examples on topics such as Keynesian economics, labor supply incentives, minimum wage, and the welfare state.

Today, we’re going to try something different. Using a series of cartoons, we’re going to explain the need for Social Security reform.

First, let’s establish that there is a problem. I’ve shared data on America’s long-run fiscal crisis from international bureaucracies such as the IMF, BIS, and OECD. And I’ve explained that demographics are a big part of the problem.

Simply stated, tax-and-transfer entitlement programs don’t work very well with aging populations.
But that point is made with humor in this Michael Ramirez cartoon.

Here’s How A Furious Obama White House Is Reportedly Freaking Out Over Israel’s Defiant Netanyahu

Republicans considering harsher sanctions on Iran.

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Norvell Rose / Western Center for Journalism

 

In its public posturing, the Obama White House may be playing it rather cool and calm in reaction to news that House Speaker John Boehner — without consulting or notifying 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue — invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress. An Obama spokesman says the move is a “departure” from protocol, and neither the president nor vice president will meet with Netanyahu.

But privately, say inside sources, the administration is fuming over the Israeli leader’s plans to go before U.S. lawmakers in March regarding the possibility of stepping up sanctions against Iran. In fact, one unnamed Obama official has reportedly threatened retaliation, saying Netanyahu will pay “a price” if he dares to appeal directly to the senators and representatives.

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Fox News reports on accounts in the Israeli media saying that the White House is outraged by the Israeli prime minister’s acceptance of Boehner’s speaking invitation, and that Obama intends to inflict payback.

“We thought we’ve seen everything,” a source identified as a senior American official was quoted as saying. “But Bibi [Netanyahu] managed to surprise even us. There are things you simply don’t do.

“He spat in our face publicly and that’s no way to behave. Netanyahu ought to remember that President Obama has a year and a half left to his presidency, and that there will be a price.”

In addition, the Fox News report says that President Obama has even gone so far as to directly warn Netanyahu not to get involved with the back-and-forth between the White House and the Congress over sanctions against an Iranian regime thought to be seeking development of its own nuclear weapons.

The new Republican majorities on Capitol Hill have been considering harsher sanctions to put more pressure on Iran to back off its nuclear ambitions.

Again, via Fox News: “Obama has threatened to veto such a bill, saying it could derail delicate talks over Iran’s nuclear program – and Netanyahu’s visit to Washington could give him an opportunity to further encourage sanctions legislation.”

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Of course it’s possible the testiness of the Obama team with its reported “pay a price” Netanyahu threat could be the partial result of extraordinary criticism of the president’s “crumbling” foreign policy — blunt criticism coming from the editorial board of the left-leaning Washington Post.

The Post’s editorial of January 22nd blasted Obama’s so-called “partnering” strategy with nations where anti-American terrorists have sought safe havens, especially in Middle East countries such as Yemen, which has fallen into chaos.

The Yemen mess reveals the weaknesses of Mr. Obama’s “partners” strategy….

Unfortunately, the president’s cursory and formulaic description of his counterterrorism policies this week, following a year in which jihadist forces and terrorist attacks expanded across the world, suggested that he remains uninterested in correcting his mistakes.

Rubio Rising, Ties Jeb Bush In Presidential Poll  

Posted by: Javier Manjarres  / The Shark Tank 

A new Zogby poll shows that Florida U.S. Senator Marco Rubio is virtually tied with his mentor, former Governor Jeb Bush, in a potential 2016 Republican presidential primary race.

Both Rubio and Bush trail Mitt Romney by a few points, but Rubio’s sudden rise to the top of the poll could signal that he could in fact be strongly contemplating a run in 2016.

According to ABC News, Rubio told staff to move forward with presidential campaign plans, but did not say whether or not he would actually announce a presidential bid.

Rubio’s has been flirting with a possible presidential campaign for over two years. Since he first entered the Senate, Rubio has been spending tons of cash from his Reclaim America PAC on high-priced issues-based consultants, and has now brought on other veteran presidential consultants and fundraisers to help him continue to frame a now “probable” run for president in 2016.

Rubio is the clear conservative alternative to Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney, but is expected to feel considerable push-back from his once tightly knit conservative base for changing his position on immigration reform.

Since Rubio first gave his full-throated support for comprehensive immigration reform when he co-sponsored the Senate “Gang of Eight” immigration bill in 2013, the freshman senator has been slowly walking back his support for his once size-fits- all bill, to a more practical “piece meal” approach to solving the nation’s immigration problem.

Americans are forgiving, but can Rubio do enough to mitigate the damage he has caused to his brand by legitimizing President Obama’s call for amnesty for illegal aliens?

Remember, Obama’s dream of legalizing millions of illegal aliens was almost realized with Rubio’s immigration bill in the Senate. The President praised the bill and pushed for its passage in the Senate, and lobbied Americans to have their respective members of the U.S. House of Representatives to pass it in that chamber of Congress.

Can Rubio regain the trust of Americans?

TENNESSEE: The Op Ed by a Vanderbilt University professor that is causing Muslim students and their leftist allies to lose their minds

Bare Naked  Islam

 

What would it take to make us admit we were wrong about Islam? What horrendous attack would finally convince us that Islam is not like other religions in the United States, that it poses an absolute danger to us and our children unless it is monitored better than it has been under the Obama administration?

Not surprisingly, Dr. Swain is no fan of Barack Obama

Charlie Hebdo attacks prove critics were right about Islam.

By Carol M Swain

Tennessean  Over the past few years, we have had a man in Middle Tennessee who, like the founders of our nation, has risked his life, fortune and reputation to sound an alarm. After many years of his fighting alone in the wilderness, Andrew Miller Jr. and his Tennessee Freedom Coalition continue to be vindicated by current world events.