Newt Gingrich Dancing Queen!

Hey, feel the beat from the tambourine.

Newt's hoping "anybody could be that guy" for the nomination, and idiot Alex Pareene's jonesin' for it.

Priorities USA Goes After Mitt Romney

At Roll Call, "Democratic Priorities USA Runs Ad Hitting Romney," and The Caucus, "Group Unleashes Early Ad Against Romney" (via Memeorandum).

Plus, in the comments at Althouse, from LincolnF:

Bring it on, pissants.

Mitt Romney is in a whole other category of men than Obama. Let the grubby little hit pieces keep coming, they're all the Left has got. I really hope Romney gets the nod (I know, I know...) so Americans can see the contrast between he and Obama. Mitt is ten times the leader that Barry is, and that won't be easy for the Dems to hide, even from the American Idol-type voters who voted Obama in last time.

Pissants. Yep.

Rational and Effective? Progressive Agenda Project Medicare Ad Shows Paul Ryan Pushing Grandma Off Cliff

Via Weekly Standard:

A friend on twitter observes that The Agenda Project's website says the group's goal is to "build a powerful, intelligent, well-connected political movement capable of identifying and advancing rational, effective ideas in the public debate and in so doing ensure our country’s enduring success."

Progressive Blue Texan's Instaputz Slurs Israel 'Über Alles'

Associated with the Nazis, the first stanza of Germany's official national anthem included "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles" (Germany, Germany above all). And thus Blue Texan slurs Israel as a Nazi state, quite common, of course, on the anti-colonial, neo-communist left (see Norman Finklestein, for example, "THE GRANDCHILDREN OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS FROM WORLD WAR II ARE DOING TO THE PALESTINIANS EXACTLY WHAT WAS DONE TO THEM BY NAZI GERMANY…").

Despicable, but not surprising at all. It's in fact progressives who're today's exterminationists and totalitarians:

Blue Texan alleges that "These people are nuts," and following the link takes us to The Hill, "Obama 'disrespected' Israel, threw it 'under the bus,' says Romney." (Also at Memeorandum.)

'Adult Baby'

In the news, at Washington Times, "Senator questions benefits to ‘adult baby’" (via Althouse), and at Seattle Post-Intelligencer, "‘Adult baby’ investigated for social security fraud."

Glenn Beck: Obama Betrayed Out Last Strong Ally

A brief segment at top, and the full episode below. Beck's a treasure:

ObamaCare's Culture of Corruption

From Michelle, "Waivers for favors: Who applied, who was denied, and why?":

Israel Rejects Obama's Call to Return to 1967 Borders

At The Hill, "After Obama speech, Israel rejects return to 1967 borders." (Via Memeorandum and Weasel Zippers.) And from WaPo, "Israeli leader reacting to Obama speech: West Bank pullout would leave Israel indefensible":

JERUSALEM — Israel’s prime minister on Thursday gave a cool reception to President Barack Obama’s Mideast policy speech, warning a withdrawal from the West Bank wold leave Israel vulnerable to attack and setting up what could be a tense meeting at the White House.

In his speech, Obama endorsed the Palestinian position on the borders of their future state, saying it should be based on Israel’s lines before the 1967 Mideast war. Israel captured the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza Strip in the fighting, and the Palestinians claim those areas for their state.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas planned to convene a meeting with senior officials as soon as possible to decide on the next steps, said Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat.

Abbas is determined “to give President Obama’s effort and that of the international community the chance they deserve,” Erekat said.

The U.S., the international community and even past Israeli governments have endorsed a settlement based on the 1967 lines, but Obama was far more explicit than in the past. His position appeared to put him at odds with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has not accepted the concept.

Reacting to Obama’s speech, Benjamin Netanyahu rejected a full withdrawal from the West Bank, saying the 1967 lines were “indefensible” and would leave major Jewish settlements outside Israel. Netanyahu rejects any pullout from east Jerusalem.

Netanyahu heads to the White House on Friday and said he would seek clarifications.

More at the link above, and from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, "Israel Should Reject a Return to 1967 'Auschwitz' Borders."

RELATED: An analysis, from Ron Radosh, "President Obama’s Speech to the State Department Means New Dangers for Israel":

President Obama has just finished his speech at the State Department. Much of it, particularly the sections regarding democratization and the Arab dictators whose regimes have begun to fail, echoes in many ways the very policies of the Bush administration — which the Democrats and Obama supporters disparaged and ridiculed when George W. Bush was in power. Indeed, it seems in some ways to be a rejection of his own Cairo speech, in so much as he said that for many of the Arab states, attacking Israel was the only way that Arab rulers could allow their populations to express themselves.

Yet, the bombshell in the speech is the following:

So while the core issues of the conflict must be negotiated, the basis of those negotiations is clear: a viable Palestine, and a secure Israel. The United States believes that negotiations should result in two states, with permanent Palestinian borders with Israel, Jordan, and Egypt, and permanent Israeli borders with Palestine. The borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps, so that secure and recognized borders are established for both states. The Palestinian people must have the right to govern themselves, and reach their potential, in a sovereign and contiguous state.

What the president has said is essentially that rather than borders and boundaries being established as an end result of negotiations, the two states that will be created should be based on the 1967 lines, a conclusion that gives the Palestinian Authority its own desired boundaries — and takes away from Israel the necessary buffer zone it gained after the 1967 war, and from which it has been able to prevent attacks on its own people.

More later ...

Harold Koh: 'The Lawfulness of the U.S. Operation Against Osama bin Laden'

At Opinio Juris (via Glenn Reynolds and Memeorandum):

Given bin Laden’s unquestioned leadership position within al Qaeda and his clear continuing operational role, there can be no question that he was the leader of an enemy force and a legitimate target in our armed conflict with al Qaeda. In addition, bin Laden continued to pose an imminent threat to the United States that engaged our right to use force, a threat that materials seized during the raid have only further documented. Under these circumstances, there is no question that he presented a lawful target for the use of lethal force.

A Michele Bachmann-Sarah Palin Showdown?

I've thought about this a lot, actually. At this point, I'm backing Bachmann unless Palin throws her hat into the ring. See National Journal, "Palin Still 'Considering' 2012 Bid, While Bachmann Gears Up." Here's Sarah from last night, in top form once again:

Jason Mattera Asks Sen. Bernie Sanders, 'How does an avowed socialist go about selling a book?'

When Noam Chomsky spoke at UCLA, I took a copy of his book, Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians. It wasn't a book signing event, but it was suggested, given the opportunity, that I actually present The Anti Chomsky Reader for a signature instead. That would have been a laugh riot, and apparently Jason Mattera would have agreed. He actually had the chance for some book-signing fun with socialist Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont, who has a new book out, The Speech: A Historic Filibuster on Corporate Greed and the Decline of Our Middle Class. The full report's at Human Events:

Update on Carl Salonen For the Record

First, I'd like to apologize to my many loyal readers and supporters, some of whom I communicate with regularly, and some unknown to me but appreciated. This last couple of weeks of blog wars with the progressives from Lawyers, Guns and Murder, Sadly No!, et al., have been extremely disturbing personally. What started out as more or less my regular anti-communist blogging has developed into something with apparently high stakes for some of the subjects of my writing. The distortions, lies, evasions, and demonizations have probably by now taken the record for the most sustained depravity I've dealt with in my 5+ years of blogging. And that's saying a lot.

In any case, I'm getting back to my regular blogging routine, providing lots of high-quality content and commentary for readers. The semester's winding down, and I'm finding more time for reading and writing. Here though I wanted to be on record with some things that I discovered today. I wrote the Esquire/World Net Daily post earlier today, and while commenting on how Doug Mataconis fell for the prank I linked to the Sadly No! attack on Sasquatch Israel. Clicking the link later tonight I checked the comments, which was difficult, but still, I noticed that "actor212" was leading the discussion, with his exclamation that I'd found Tintin's post on the "tailpipe fuck."

Linked at the comment is my entry on Sadly No!'s attack on Don Surber as fornicating with an exhaust pipe (click through for the disgusting Photoshop). Mindboggling mendacity, I know, but I'm just warming up here. Recall that "actor212" is Carl Salonen, a smug and chunky one at that. Responding to him, Malaclypse enters the thread and indicates that "It would be very, very wrong to photoshop Donalde showing his love of Sasquatch."

*****

That's sick.

Anyway, my (other) longstanding nemesis (James Casper) has been getting off on all of this, so I decided to drop a non-profane comment in the thread pictured, but he deleted it --- four times. Racist Repsac3 is one of the most hardcore free speech blog administrators online, but he wouldn't let this one through, despite the specific omission of actor212's identity. Maybe he didn't want that link to actor212's comment at Sadly No!, although that's an ad hoc adjustment. Racist Repsac3 = Casper keeps moving the goalposts:

Anyway, my investigation is continuing, and as we can see, things are picking up. Meanwhile, referring back to Amy Alkon's blog, folks might review her essay, "The Attack On My Book":

Grown adults, like a 52-year-old unsuccessful actor in New York City named Carl Salonen, are part of an attack at Amazon by the Tiny Little Thugs (aka SadlyNo.com) in hopes of hurting the sales of my book. Their blog item is here.

Salonen, most vilely, posted a "review," now removed, calling me "Arnold Alkon," harkening back to their old attacks at their site calling me a tranny and asking whether I have a penis, etc.

Amy's got the links back to the sick fucks at Sadly No! It turns out that actor212 reposted one of his "reviews" of her book to the Sadly thread:

I'll update this post with some additional links and screencaps, bringing in Scott Eric Kaufman's libelous allegations of pedophilia at the most recent Sadly attack on American Power. And I've got more information and screencaps forthcoming as well. This is the daily routine with these people, and Carl Salonen is the Sadly No! ringleader in the comment threads, and perhaps more.

Until then ...

RELATED: Here's the longer post from yesterday afternoon, on Israel's Nakba incursion, in response to a post from Charli Carpenter at Lawyers, Guns and Murder. I'll have more on Charli Carpenter later as well. As I've argued previously, she's destroying her reputation by associating herself with these pathetic losers.

Danish Film Director Lars Von Trier's Nazi Comments at Cannes

This is just plain weird, and that's Kirsten Dunst next to Von Trier at top:

Noodling Catfish

Heard about it for the first time the other day, at Wall Street Journal, "Long Arm of the Law Penalizes Texans Who Nab Catfish by Hand." And now here comes the video clip from Maggie's Farm, "Serious Fishin'":

Not sure if I'll be givin' that one a go ...?

'The History of Jerusalem Did Not Start in 1967'

Via Israel Matzav, "Video: Jerusalem: The media myth of two cities":

The history of Jerusalem did not start in 1967. Thousands of years of Jewish history took place in what is now called "Arab East Jerusalem."

Speaking of Esquire ... Marisa Miller Topless Photoshoot!

I covered this today, but the Kos Kids are getting a load out of it, "BWAHAHA! Corsi/Farah/WND PUNKED by Esquire!" (I like the BWAHAHA! part ...) And here's the key passage, an official statement from Esquire, apparently:

UPDATE, 12:25 p.m., for those who didn't figure it out yet, and the many on Twitter for whom it took a while: We committed satire this morning to point out the problems with selling and marketing a book that has had its core premise and reason to exist gutted by the news cycle, several weeks in advance of publication. Are its author and publisher chastened? Well, no. They double down, and accuse the President of the United States of perpetrating a fraud on the world by having released a forged birth certificate. Not because this claim is in any way based on reality, but to hold their terribly gullible audience captive to their lies, and to sell books. This is despicable, and deserves only ridicule. That's why we committed satire in the matter of the Corsi book. Hell, even the president has a sense of humor about it all. Some more serious reporting from us on this whole "birther" phenomenon here, here, and here.

I don't read Esquire (it sucks, obviously), but Marisa Miller's lovely, and painful though it may be, here's the exception: "Marisa Miller Would Like to Welcome You to Summer."

Israel-Bashing Progressives Paint Iran/Syrian-Backed Border Incursion as 'Martin Luther King-Style Non-Violence'

I write about Israel a lot, but once again I'm blown away by the left's complete disconnect from objective reality. Charli Carpenter, at Lawyers, Guns and Murder, posts an entry, citing The Economist, making the case that the Nakba Day uprising was a "Martin Luther King-style" example of non-violent resistance. The videos tell another story, naturally.

But there's a number of reports as well that indicate a much more complicated picture than political scientist Charli Carpenter lets on, much less the dolts at The Economist. There's major concern, for example, that outside powers, Iran and Syria, played a major role in fomenting violence among what for many may have indeed been a planned day of peaceful protest. See, Allison Kaplan Sommer, "‘Nakba Day’ Incidents Worry Israelis and Embarrass the IDF":"

For days, the military — and, to be fair, also the Israeli and the international press — had been focusing on expected violent protests and provocation in Jerusalem and the West Bank, when it should have been looking northwards, where the worst “Bloody Sunday” clashes took place in the Druze village of Majdal Shams and on the Lebanese border.

It was the infiltration of the Syrian border by hundreds of unarmed civilians, who successfully trampled the border fence and crossed into Israeli territory near Majdal Shams, that was the real shock of the day. Protests in that area were a matter of routine on Nakba Day and were expected: for nearly 1000 Syrians to gather at the border and for hundreds to rush across the fence into Israeli-controlled territory was not a scenario that was forseen or prepared for.

Israeli politicians and pundits quickly theorized that the infiltration was a Bashar Assad production. Israel was clearly being used in a public relations exercise, they said, deliberately orchestrated by the Assad regime in an effort to take the spotlight off of their brutal suppression of protest movements in Syria and draw attention instead to the border with Israel. The infiltrators reportedly were Palestinians from refugee camps in Syria. Presumably, for the operation to succeed, it had to have been tolerated, if not actively assisted, by the strong Syrian government. The IDF intelligence failure appeared even more embarrassing when it was reported that the operation was planned carefully over the past several months — and that participants were recruited and logistics organized on Facebook. (As of this writing, Israeli journalists poring over Facebook have not yet found evidence to back up the claim.)

If Syria was indeed an active player, it was successful: international headlines emphasized the events on the Israeli border and downplayed a continuing crackdown in a Syrian city on the Lebanese border on the very same day that claimed more Syrian lives than the IDF incident.

Also mentioned are the border incursions from Lebanon, at Maroun al-Ras, from Gaza, and from the West Bank and Jerusalem.

Omri Ceren, at Commentary, has more on this, "Naturally, the UN Condemns Israel for Nakba Day Violence":

To distract the world from how he’s been massacring his own people, Bashar al-Assad opened up the Israeli-Syrian border to rioters on Sunday, hundreds of whom infiltrated Israel. In Lebanon, Hezbollah—a recognized terrorist organization and a proxy for the Iranian government—organized protesters, ensuring that enough Palestinian flags were distributed. Israeli soldiers watched as Syrian, Lebanese, and United Nations soldiers stepped aside to let hostile mobs rush their border, and only when rioters were at the fences—or had climbed over them—did they react.

Naturally, then, the UN is condemning Israel.

“I am shocked by the number of the deaths and the use of disproportionate, deadly force by the Israeli Defense Forces against apparently unarmed demonstrators, which I condemn,” said Michael Williams, UN’s Special Coordinator for Lebanon.

Amnesty International is also calling for an investigation into Israel’s actions, although for some unknown reason they are not calling for a similar investigation of the Lebanese Armed Forces, which also opened fire on protesters. No surprise here. A little chagrin on the part of the UN, though—perhaps even some reticence to condemn Israel—might have been expected, given how UN forces’ severe dereliction of duty enabled the rioters to rush the Israeli border. Apparently not.

And more on the Lebanese Armed Forces. It turns out that Israel has decided NOT to release video that captured Lebanese troops killing protesters. See, "IDF withholds video of Lebanese firing on protesters." Also, on the terrorist truck rampage that killed one on Nakba Day: "Police increasingly sure TA truck rampage deliberate."

I'll have more later. Meanwhile, check the comments at Lawyers, Guns and Murder. It's like a bloodthirsty mob that's mainlined a toxic zombie cocktail of Noam Chomsky and the Hamas Charter's genocidal jihad. Seriously. It's Western Jew hatred condensed in netroots fever-swamp form, available on an ostensibly responsible academic political science blog. A frenzied, deranged malice, directed solely at Israel, which unleashed would bring about a bloodbath of world historical significance.

Say your prayers.

NewsBusted — Osama's Dead

A classic:

RELATED: At LAT, "In genuine flip-flop, Obama White House ends faked news photo practice," and "Why did Obama's Osama bin Laden poll boost get buried at sea so quickly too?"

Let me guess ... losers in the White House? Yeah. Sounds about right.

World Net Daily Rebuts Esquire's 'Fabricated Attack' on Jerome Corsi's New Book, Where's the Birth Certificate? — UPDATED!!

It's a prank.

The Esquire story is here: "BREAKING: Jerome Corsi's Birther Book Pulled from Shelves!" (via Memeorandum). Pretty sensational, right? Well, WND is not pleased, suggesting it's a White House-backed disinformation campaign to destroy the book's credibility and that of the author and publisher. See, "National mag publishes fabricated report attacking Corsi book: Esquire claims best-seller being disavowed by publisher, 'pulled from shelves'":

A major national publication that endorsed Barack Obama for president in 2008 today published a completely fabricated news story claiming Jerome Corsi's new best-selling "Where's the Birth Certificate," published by WND Books, has been disavowed by the publisher and taken out of stores nationwide, with refunds offered to purchasers.

Esquire, established in 1932, alleged on its website today under a "BREAKING" headline that Corsi's book was "pulled from shelves!"

Media are calling WND from around the world about the false report.

WND founder and CEO Joseph Farah confirmed he never spoke to Esquire.

"Never uttered these words or anything remotely resembling them to anyone," he said. "It is a complete fabrication."

Farah said, "The book is selling briskly. I am 100 percent behind it. This has all the earmarkings of a White House dirty trick – but, of course, only the Nixon administration was capable of dirty tricks like that, according to our watchdog media."

More at the link above.

Daily Caller reports on the prank. Mark Warren, the author, says he has no regrets for posting it, and he's got strong words for Jerome Corsi: "He is an execrable piece of shit ..." Typical progressive "civility."

Anyway, turns out Doug Mataconis didn't catch the parody, although that stuff happens.

Anyway the book's selling pretty good, so check it out: Where's the Birth Certificate?: The Case that Barack Obama is not Eligible to be President. Apparently there's significant demand, which is understandable given the president's rank duplicity. See Gallup, "Obama's Birth Certificate Convinces Some, but Not All, Skeptics."

UPDATE: This is getting pretty ugly . See James Taranto, "How Not to Write Satire" (via Glenn Reynolds). And especially, Chris Moody, "Joseph Farah says he may sue Esquire for ‘parody’ story on Jerome Corsi book."

Newt Gingrich Founders as Sarah Palin Pulls Away

Man, this is a really strange pre-primary period. I couldn't be happier at Newt Gingrich's self-destruction, and it's the first rule of holes by this time. I doubt ten appearances on Fox News will make much difference. Gingrich has lost both activists and the establishment. Contrast that to Sarah Palin, who's at the top of Gallup's new poll on Republican Party presidential preferences.

But see Politico, "Newt Gingrich campaign fights for its life."