Mar 5 2015

Train of Thought

By Tabitha Korol

Of the many kinds of trains exhibited in Birmingham’s Wonderful World of Trains and Planes, in Birmingham, England, the only display in dispute was the model train set of Auschwitz, noted the Daily Mail. The photos included in the column certainly verify that the set was painstakingly designed to provide authenticity, was sufficiently informative, and respectfully and tastefully executed. Although I have visited Auschwitz, I have seen an authentic and replicas of boxcars in other museums, not to mention in newsreels, so I was dismayed to learn that only this one was considered objectionable.

One such objection came from a Holocaust survivor and while my heart goes out to him, this was an important teaching moment that would not be obtained in a classroom or home environment, and must not be obliterated from collective memory. It is not the presentation, but the Holocaust itself that is offensive. The mass murder of millions of innocent men, women, and children is inconceivably offensive. The obliteration of human beings by fascists – and now by Islamo-fascists – is severely offensive. And last year, I was privileged to edit a book of Holocaust survivors’ memoirs that were immensely offensive, but surely not to be dismissed or disregarded.

The visitors from Birmingham and environs elected not to stay at home in front of the telly, or go to the park, or attend a sporting event. Rather, they chose to visit a museum, to expand their horizons, to see and learn something new. So, while I respect the wishes and painful memories of the dissenting gentleman and the parents who prefer to keep their children ignorant of this part of human history, this may well have been the last thing ever seen by about one-and-a-half-million children during World War II, and I believe there is much to be gained by viewing the display.

Taking this a step further, if the exhibit were of sailing vessels, I would expect to see crafts of all kinds – those that carried goods and those that carried human cargo, those designed for peacetime and those designed for wartime:

The dhow, the traditional sailing and trading vessel, c. 600 BC – 600 AD, invented by Chinese, Arabs or Indians;
The vessels of the Polynesians, who were the finest navigators of the time;
Ships of the explorers, Vikings, Vasco de Gama, Marco Polo, and Christopher Columbus;
Muslim slave ships that brought Africans to Europe and America;
The Barbary pirate ships, the menace that attacked ports, captured people for slavery, and plundered merchant ships.
The American Navy ships dispatched by President Thomas Jefferson to battle the Barbary pirates;
The Mississippi River boats and barges that transported slaves through the States;
The MS St. Louis, the German ocean liner noted for its 1939 voyage in which her captain, Gustav Schroder, tried to find homes for 915 Jewish refugees who were denied entry to Cuba, the US, and Canada;
The First Class, “unsinkable” Titanic luxury liner.
Samples of warships, trading vessels, aircraft carriers and submarines, and any other ships noteworthy through our human history.

There will always be those who find something offensive somewhere, particularly when it comes to the Holocaust and persons who would deny its very occurrence. Nevertheless, the purpose of a museum exhibit is to teach, to engage the mind. The exhibit has accomplished its mission admirably. I commend the curator and all the museum’s participants for their vision, their talents, and their courage.

Mar 5 2015

Netanyahu’s speech to Congress

By Paul Eidelberg

Clearly, the invitation for Netanyahu’s speech to Congress was unprecedented. It was also indicative of great American patriotism.

The invitation was far more than a political insult to President Obama. It conveyed utter contempt for Obama’s Lilliputian mind and un-American character.

Mr. Netanyahu showed extraordinary merit, for he displayed the qualities that were lacking in Obama. Hi speech conveyed the kind of intelligence, national pride, and moral and political leadership which America today is so much lacking and so much in need confronted by the unprecedented challenge which Islam poses to America’s beneficent leadership in world affairs.

Congress’s invitation to Israel’s Prime Minister and his excellent speech should be regarded in Biblical terms, as it will be regarded by Christians and Jews who take the Old Testament seriously.

Mar 5 2015

HILLARY, QUEEN OF DECEIT

If Hillary falls from grace the issue is how will take her place?

ARLIN REPORT...................walking this path together

What will be interesting is how far the mainstream liberal media, who normally protects the Clintons, will dig and run with this e-mail situation. It doesn’t qualify as a scandal until its good and hot. They gave it, and it must have been a strain, a good two minutes on the morning news.

Scandals usually have repercussions. Hillary has spent most of her adult life spreading unethical deeds only to be protected by other corrupt individuals and always skates by. Now she has hidden, or so she thought, her communication trail. Only purpose in doing so, to hide her deceit and agenda. Excuse me if I am skeptical that she will be held accountable yet.

TREY, she has handed you her man purse with a stick of dynamite, will you light the fuse?

The Clinton’s have that “we are exempt from all the rules that others must follow attitude”. They’ve practiced it for a long time, and it has become a trait of…

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Mar 3 2015

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What if Obama had been President on December 7, 1941

Mar 2 2015

Criminal Administration: Now Obama Claiming He’ll Raise Taxes By Executive Order

This is not our biggest worry — Our biggest worry is making sure he doesn’t stay in office after the next 2 years., this is not a far fetched worry believe me!

Mar 2 2015

Diplomacy: Bibi vs. Obama

By Paul Eidelberg

One very profound and personal reason for Obama’s hostility toward Benjamin Netanyahu is the latter’s all too obvious intellectual superiority. As every envoy knows, a wise and experienced diplomat will never display intellectual superiority vis-à-vis another country’s representative. Like a good teacher, he must not overawe a student intellectually if he wants to obtain the student’s candor and insights.

The wise diplomat will therefore suppress his ego to facilitate amenable and frank dialogue with his vis-à-vis. The trouble is that Obama is so much an ignoramus that it’s almost impossible for Bibi to talk intelligently and candidly in Obama’s presence without offending that narcissist. Therefore, whenever possible, Bibi must use an intermediary who knows how to play mediocre. This may be one reason why Henry Kissinger was not a very successful negotiator in Egypt and in Syria.

Mar 2 2015

Needed: A Passionate, Articulate, and Patriotic President: Part II

By Prof. Paul Eidelberg

The paramount issue in 2016 is not ideas. Any person whose mind has not been corrupted by the university-bred doctrine of moral relativism, a doctrine that permeates the mentality of many of the highly educated officials of the State Department, would say NO to the entry into America of the late Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a Muslim despot would who not only used Iranian children to walk over land mines, in Iran’s war against Iraq, but who also chanted “Death to America.”

Therefore, the paramount issue is not a nuclear Islam. This is only the external paramount issue confronting America, now confused by “political correctness.
More significant, we need a PASSIONATE presidential candidate capable of arousing the patriotic emotions of the American People.

The people have been jaded by excessive emphasis on jobs. Of course jobs are important; but that by itself will not arouse America’s fighting and patriotic passions.

The voters need to see and have a well-modulated PASSIONATE Presidential candidate who is also a caring man, caring not only for the jobless, but also for the revival of American pride and international leadership, which that have been undermined by the lifeless and apologetic presidency of Barack Obama.

Our Presidential candidate must show, with controlled emotion, a fighting spirit. He must focus on two related enemies: (1) the evil of ISLAM exemplified by the ISIS beheadings of innocent people; and (2) Obama’s fatuous denial of the Islamic threat; his saying America is not at war with Islam, while suggesting that ISLAM is not at war with America – as if 9/11 never happened.

(3) We need a presidential candidate who will expose Obama’s ineptitude and moral cloddishness. Suffice to mention his golf-escapades while, the country was being invaded in the south by illegal immigrants.

(4) Our Presidential candidate must show that Obama is increasing the crime rate among blacks; and that to win votes for Democrats, he is making Hispanic criminals U.S. citizens and supported them with the earnings of hard-working Americans. This has be exposed with passion to arouse righteous indignation.

The 2016 election campaign must not be a milk-and-toast affair. The hard-working ethics and self-reliance of the American people must be emphasized. So should the brilliant and much emulatedd Constitutional structure and political principles of our Founding Fathers.

All this and our very existence as a Republic are at stake in the 2016 election. Obama’s Islamic sympathies and his having been tainted by the multicultural moral relativism propagated by academia can have only one end: the demise of America.

We need a President that can articulate and defend America’s glorious heritage

Mar 2 2015

Remaking America into Obama’s World

By Paul Eidelberg

1) Obama said at the outset of his first term that he would come to Islam’s (read Iran’s) defense.

2) As I warned in 2004, Obama’s campaign slogan of CHANGE meant REGIME CHANGE. That implied America’s retreat as a world power, which in turn implied the ascendancy of ISLAM. This is why I urged a US attack on Iran before the 2008 election, as did John Bolton.

3) As Ralph Peters warned, the US hasn’t the faintest sense of the hatred stored in the Muslim heart, and this hatred animates Obama.

4) Thanks to “higher” education in America, the word “EVIL” has been removed from the language of public discourse. Hence Americans elected Satan to the White House (Christians would say the “anti-Christ”).

5) The “Rules of Engagement” no longer apply in politics. if you are able and want to preserve your family, you need to know that conventional politics is OVER.

6) Fools elected a Third World Scoundrel tutored by Jeremiah Wright as their President. Fergusen will be the model of politics in Ombamaland. Is any 2016 presidential candidate equal to a modern version of Rome? Rubio has the passion, but the votes will matter even more