End of the Weekend Link Dump
Powerline has published a letter by Mitch Webber which pretty much brutalizes Noam Chomsky and his verifiable lies about Israel. The letter was originally written in the hope that the Harvard Crimson would write a slightly more balanced editorial about the Dershowitz-Chomsky debate on Israel that recently took place, probably a less than easy task.
Dhimmi Watch has an absolutely surreal report about an anti-Terrorism conference that was denied space at the Georgetown Marriot hotel because the hotel staff was afraid of violence from the large Muslim population on Georgetown's campus. We're attempting not to be overly dramatic about this, but there is now literally a situation in some parts of America where people can't speak out against violent Islamism because of the threat of violent Islamism.
Opinion Journal has an excellent article on Volcker, his commission's work on the Oil-for-Food scandal, and what it proves about the UN:
Reviewing this record, most people would probably describe the U.N. as pervasively corrupt. Mr. Volcker prefers to talk about "an environment of failure to take responsibility." "Why," he asks, "didn't the 661 Committee [the Security Council task force that monitored Iraqi sanctions] react more forcefully? Why didn't Kofi react? Why didn't Louise Frechette act? Why, during the quote-unquote [internal U.N.] investigation into this question about Cotecna's bid, why was there not a more forceful response by the lawyers, by the investigators? Why did Mr. Connors, an American put in there years ago to provide administrative discipline, why didn't he put his foot down?"
Mr. Volcker puts these questions rhetorically. Yet the very form in which they are asked reflects Mr. Volcker's proposed solutions to the problem. A U.N. that is corrupt is an organization the U.S. ought to shun, or at least penalize. A U.N. that suffers from a "culture of inaction," as Mr. Volcker called it in a congressional briefing, is merely one that requires reforms, some of which are suggested in one of Mr. Volcker's reports. "There's a lot to be done to strengthen their personnel practices, their conflict-of-interest rules, their financial rules and so forth," he says.
Meryl Yourish catches the AP modifying their own stories to make them more anti-Israel. Ramit Plushnick-Masti repeatedly took stories and, through emphasis and omission, cast them in ways that hieghtened the perception that Israelis are aggressors and Palestinians are victims. She also helpfully copies and pastes the AP's code of ethics, which bans "bias or distortion through emphasis, omission or technological manipulation."
Dhimmi Watch has an absolutely surreal report about an anti-Terrorism conference that was denied space at the Georgetown Marriot hotel because the hotel staff was afraid of violence from the large Muslim population on Georgetown's campus. We're attempting not to be overly dramatic about this, but there is now literally a situation in some parts of America where people can't speak out against violent Islamism because of the threat of violent Islamism.
Opinion Journal has an excellent article on Volcker, his commission's work on the Oil-for-Food scandal, and what it proves about the UN:
Reviewing this record, most people would probably describe the U.N. as pervasively corrupt. Mr. Volcker prefers to talk about "an environment of failure to take responsibility." "Why," he asks, "didn't the 661 Committee [the Security Council task force that monitored Iraqi sanctions] react more forcefully? Why didn't Kofi react? Why didn't Louise Frechette act? Why, during the quote-unquote [internal U.N.] investigation into this question about Cotecna's bid, why was there not a more forceful response by the lawyers, by the investigators? Why did Mr. Connors, an American put in there years ago to provide administrative discipline, why didn't he put his foot down?"
Mr. Volcker puts these questions rhetorically. Yet the very form in which they are asked reflects Mr. Volcker's proposed solutions to the problem. A U.N. that is corrupt is an organization the U.S. ought to shun, or at least penalize. A U.N. that suffers from a "culture of inaction," as Mr. Volcker called it in a congressional briefing, is merely one that requires reforms, some of which are suggested in one of Mr. Volcker's reports. "There's a lot to be done to strengthen their personnel practices, their conflict-of-interest rules, their financial rules and so forth," he says.
Meryl Yourish catches the AP modifying their own stories to make them more anti-Israel. Ramit Plushnick-Masti repeatedly took stories and, through emphasis and omission, cast them in ways that hieghtened the perception that Israelis are aggressors and Palestinians are victims. She also helpfully copies and pastes the AP's code of ethics, which bans "bias or distortion through emphasis, omission or technological manipulation."
