The Question is Not Whether the Obama Regime Will Survive, But Will America as Founded Survive the Obama Regime? By Rush Limbaugh.

The Question is Not Whether the Obama Regime Will Survive, But Will America as Founded Survive the Obama Regime? By Rush Limbaugh. RushLimbaugh.com, June 10, 2013.

Rush:

Let me try to explain something, ladies and gentlemen. You look at all that we’ve learned about our intelligence gathering, not only our ability in this country, but how it’s actually happening. And Snerdley asked me if I thought this guy, Snowden, should go to jail and I mentioned I’m conflicted.  And here’s why. See, it boils down or comes down again, in my mind, to who’s doing it. Because a person’s ideology matters.

Do I want somebody in charge of this kind of surveillance who doesn’t like this country as it’s founded? Do I want somebody collecting this kind of data on everybody who is in the middle of trying to transform this country into something the founders never intended it to be? On the other side of this is you would hope that our country and our intelligence agencies are able to determine planned attacks against this country and citizens against this country and uncover those in enough time to thwart them. In that sense, you want this kind of ability. And, by the way, the ability exists. This genie’s not gonna go back in the bottle.

So in my mind, it does matter who’s in charge of it. It does matter. The political identity of the people who administer something like this matters incredibly. You look at the focus on how the leak happened and the motives of the leaker, if you focus on that, I think you missed the main question. The main question is, why is such a gigantic surveillance operation even necessary?  What is really going on here? Who is the enemy? The Tea Party, we know, is an enemy of this administration.

We know that conservative Republicans – and I could give you names – are enemies of this administration. We know that this administration has people in it who consider conservative Republicans to pose a greater threat to them than Islamic jihadists. So in deciding how you think or how you feel or what you think about this, I don’t know how you take that out. The government’s not just this thing sitting there that people run. There are certain kinds of people running it.

If the GOP Is This Stupid, It Deserves to Die. By Ann Coulter.

If the GOP is this stupid, it deserves to die. By Ann Coulter. The Daily Caller, June 12, 2013.

Ann Coulter attacks the immigration reform plan. Video. Hannity. Fox News, June 12, 2013. YouTube.

Coulter Goes Ballistic On Hannity Over Immigration: You’re “Like A Liberal Making A Silly Argument!” By Josh Feldman. Mediaite, June 12, 2013.

Chris Matthews: Ted Cruz “Fits In Tradition” With Nazi Sympathizer Father Coughlin. By Noah Rothman.

Chris Matthews: Ted Cruz “Fits In Tradition” With Nazi Sympathizer Father Coughlin. By Noah Rothman. Mediaite, June 12, 2013. YouTube.

Sleazy Matthews: Ted Cruz, Bill O’Reilly Are the Same as Nazi Sympathizer Father Coughlin, Huey Long. By Scott Whitlock. NewsBusters, June 12, 2013.

Obama Middle East Policy: Wrong Team, Wrong Ideas. By Barry Rubin.

Obama Middle East Policy: Wrong Team, Wrong Ideas. By Barry Rubin. PJ Media, June 7, 2013. Also at Gloria Center.

Hot Mic Catches Egyptian Politician Discussing “War” with “Enemies” Israel and America.

Hot Mic Catches Egyptian Politician Discussing “War” with “Enemies” Israel and America. By Sharona Schwartz. The Blaze, June 12, 2013. Reposted by Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugs.

With Cameras Rolling, Egyptian Politicians Threaten Ethiopia Over Dam. By Liam Stack. New York Times,  June 6, 2013.

Egyptian Blooper: Politicians, Unaware They Are Live on Air, Threaten Ethiopia over Dam Construction. Video. MEMRI TV, Clip No. 3857, June 3, 2013. YouTube. Transcript.




Magdi Ahmad Hussein, chairman of the Islamic Labor Party: I’m very fond of battles. With the enemies, of course – with America and Israel, but this battle must be waged with maximum judiciousness and calm. Even though this is a secret meeting, we must all take an oath not to leak anything to the media, unless it is done officially by sister Pakinam. We need an official plan for popular national security, even if we . . . Okay . . . Fine . . . The principles behind what I’m saying are not really secret... Our war is with America and Israel, not with Ethiopia. Therefore, engaging in a war . . . This is my opinion . . .

Participant: This meeting is being aired live on TV.

Magdi Ahmad Hussein: I am not presenting a secret plan or anything. All the countries do what I am saying and what has been said by others. All countries with regional conflicts do that.

I say to the Egyptian people: Nobody can turn off your water supply – unless they want to turn the Egyptians into the world’s most extremist people. Imagine what this people would do if its water were turned off – what all 80 million of us would do to Israel and America if our water were turned off.

A Brief History of Humankind MOOC. By Yuval Noah Harari.

A Brief History of Humankind MOOC. By Yuval Noah Harari. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Coursera. Starts August 11, 2013. Introductory Video on YouTube. Lectures on YouTube.

Just How Many History MOOCs are Being Offered Now, Anyway? By David Austin Walsh. History News Network, June 11, 2013.

Inter-frontal Cooperation in the Fourteenth Century and Edward III’s 1346 Campaign. By Yuval Noah Harari. War in History, Vol. 6, No. 4 (October 1999).

Martial Illusions: War and Disillusionment in Twentieth-Century and Renaissance Military Memoirs. By Yuval Noah Harari. The Journal of Military History, Vol. 69, No. 1 (January 2005).

Military Memoirs: A Historical Overview of the Genre from the Middle Ages to the Late Modern Era. By Yuval Noah Harari. War in History, Vol. 14, No. 3 (July 2007).

The Concept of “Decisive Battles” in World History. By Yuval Noah Harari. Journal of World History, Vol. 18, No. 3 (September 2007).

Combat Flow: Military, Political, and Ethical Dimensions of Subjective Well-Being in War. By Yuval Noah Harari. Review of General Psychology, Vol. 12, No. 3 (September 2008).

Obama’s Ministry of Propaganda. By Pamela Geller.

Obama’s Ministry of Propaganda. By Pamela Geller. WND, June 9, 2013. Also at Freedom Outpost. Atlas Shrugs.

Teacher in Egypt Sentenced for “Defaming” Islam. By Pamela Geller. Atlas Shrugs, June 11, 2013.

Another Rabbi Enabler of Islamic Oppression. By Pamela Geller. WND, June 11, 2013. Also at Atlas Shrugs. Freedom Outpost.

Muslims Bury 16-Year Old Girl Alive in Honor Killing. By Pamela Geller. Atlas Shrugs, June 11, 2013.

Why Do Academics Downplay Repression? By Michael Rubin.

Why Do Academics Downplay Repression? By Michael Rubin. Commentary, June 9, 2013.

The Roots of the Turkish Uprising. By Michael Rubin. Wall Street Journal, June 3, 2013.

Alicia Keys, Israel and Civil Rights. By Richard Friedman.

Alicia Keys, Israel and Civil Rights. By Richard Friedman. Wall Street Journal, June 9, 2013.

Alice Walker pens open letter to Alicia Keys about Israel. Rolling Out, May 29, 2013. Also here.

Despite Protests, Alicia Keys Says She Will Perform in Tel Aviv. By Dave Itzkoff. New York Times, May 31, 2013.

Alicia Keys: Girl on Fire. Video. aliciakeysVEVO, October 19, 2012. YouTube.




Alice Walker’s Purple Prose: Why the Novelist’s Attack on Alicia Keys Is All Wrong. By Liel Leibovitz. Tablet, June 3, 2013.

Pro-Israel New Yorkers Protest 92nd St Y’s anti-Israel Speaker. By Lori Lowenthal Marcus. The Jewish Press, June 1, 2013. (interviews Lainee.)

Alice Walker: The Color of Anti-Semitism. By Jonathan S. Tobin. Commentary, June 19, 2012.

The Color of Anti-Semitism, Part Two. By Jonathan S. Tobin. Commentary, May 29, 2013.

The Conspiratorial World of Alice Walker. By Jonathan Kay. Commentary, June 5, 2013.

Alicia Keys performing “Girl on Fire” at the MTV Music Awards at the Staples Center in Los Angeles,

 September 6, 2012. Just Jared.

Israel In Denial About 46 Years of Occupation. By Michael Lerner and Uri Avnery.

Occupation? What Occupation? By Michael Lerner and Uri Avnery. Tikkun, June 9, 2013.

A Big Change In How Americans View George W. Bush. By Ariel Edwards-Levy.

George W. Bush Gets First Positive Rating Since 2005: Poll. By Ariel Edwards-Levy. The Huffington Post, June 11, 2013.

Former President George W. Bush’s Image Ratings Improve. By Jeffrey M. Jones. Gallup, June 11, 2013.

Bush Legacy in Convalescence. By Walter Russell Mead. Via Meadia, June 12, 2013.

Ariel Edwards-Levy Twitter.

Retirement Will Kill You. By Peter Orszag.

Retirement Will Kill You. By Peter Orszag. Bloomberg, June 11, 2013.

America Is Getting Tired of Israel. By Eitan Haber.

Israel losing America. By Eitan Haber. Ynet News, June 9, 2013.

What Will Israel Do As America Retreats from the World? By Isi Leibler. Real Clear World, June 12, 2013. Also at the Jerusalem Post. Candidly Speaking from Jerusalem.

The Solitary Leaker. By David Brooks.

The Solitary Leaker. By David Brooks. New York Times, June 10, 2013.

In Praise of Brooks’s Conservative Vision. By Peter Wehner. Commentary, June 12, 2013.