This Changes Everything (Fingers Crossed, Anyway)

On Amazon's climatology best-seller list, Steyn is #1 and Klein's anti-capitalism screed is an also-ran.

Better Late Than Never: Some Brits Come to Israel to Apologize for Jewish Pain and Suffering Caused By the "White Paper"

(Hat tip: IG)

Taylor Swift Accused of "Channeling White Colonialism" In Her New Video "Wildest Dreams"

Sorry, thin-skinned PCers. It's obvious to me that Swift is actually channeling here is Ava Garner in Mogambo.

Even More Cringe-Inducing Than William Shatner Doing a Spoken Word Version of the Beatles' "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds"

What's even worse that the Shatner? It's Hillary rival Bernie Sanders's 1987 spoken word version  of "This Land Is Your Land" (via The Corner).

Guess Which Canadian Celeb Is Featured on the Cover of Ultra-Glossy, Ultra-Deluxe Canadian Lifestyle Magazine "NUVO"?

Here's a hint: his name rhymes with "kooky."



Clearly, climate alarmism is almost as lucrative as starting your own foundation or religion.

So Touching. I'm, Like, All Choked Up

Iranian Hard-Liners Unveil Anti-U.S. Plaque at Former Embassy

Who Censored the Six-Day War?

In a lengthy examination of the subject, Martin Kramer reveals it's not who the filmmakers of Censored Voices claim did the censorsing.

The Blumenthal Effect

Okay, I just invented the term, but I would suggest that it's how we know that a President Hillary Clinton (shudder) would be every bit as awful for the State of Israel as the current POTUS is.

Iran Lobby Makes Vast Inroads In Obama's Washington

You know how that "all-powerful" Israel/Zionist lobby is supposed to carry so much weight in D.C.? Turns out that in Obama's Washington, it's the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), the Iran lobby helmed by a smooth operator named Trita Parsi, that's throwing it's weight around and inserting itself into the thick of things. It is Parsi and NIAC that helped smooth the way for the Iran nuke deal--not that the Obami want you to know anything about the lobby and how influential it is at this time:

In part, Parsi and NIAC’s relative anonymity is the work of a White House that would rather pretend that there is no Iran Lobby, in accordance with the standard Beltway wisdom that a “lobby” is any group of people who advocate things that you are opposed to (lobbies that advocate things you are for are known as “supporters”). But the White House surely knows better, in part because so many friends and graduates of the Iran Lobby now staff key Iran-related government posts. The White House’s Iran desk officer, Sahar Nowrouzzadeh, for example, is a former NIAC employee. NIAC’s advisory board includes two former U.S. diplomats, Thomas Pickering, a former ambassador to Israel, and John Limbert, who was held hostage by the revolutionary regime in 1979. Past speakers at NIAC leadership conferences include Joe Biden’s National Security Adviser Colin Kahl, and the White House’s Middle East Director Rob Malley. Other past speakers from the political realm include: Robert Hunter, former U.S. ambassador to NATO; PJ Crowley, State Deptartment spokesperson under Hillary Clinton; Hans Blix, former director general of the IAEA. Other reputable names include figures like Aaron David Miller from the Wilson Center, Robert Pape from the University of Chicago, and Suzanne Maloney from the Brookings Institution.

 A pox on the lot of 'em.

A Quandary

Local Khomeinist Zafar Bangash expresses grave concerns re the Iran nuke deal:

Opinion in Tehran is not uniformly the same about the nuclear deal witht he P5+1 group of countries. There are serious apprehensions about the sincerity of Western rulers, especially the Americans, as to whether they can be trusted to uphold their commitments.

The quandary: I'm not sure whether to file the above under "The Best Defense Is a Good Offense" or "Unintentional Khomeinist Humour."

Or both.

Obama and the Jews and the Twilight Zone

Obama, grievously offended by critics of Jews who support his nuke deal, says these chastisers are like African-Americans who claim he's "not black enough."

Silly, chastising me, I wasn't aware that the Grandiose Ayatollah had vowed to wipe any African nations off the map. ;)

The question that must be asked: why is Obama so desperate to get Jewry onside? It's not as though their support will make or break the deal; every indication is that there aren't enough votes in Congress to override his presidential veto. So why even bother schmeering the Jews in this way?

I think it's because Obama knows that it'll "look bad" if most Jews are seen to be against the deal, and he doesn't want these bad optics to detract from his legacy.

Alternatively, in his heart of hearts he knows the deal is a bad one and needs Jewry's approbation in order to keep up the pretense--to himself and the rest of the world--that he's doing good.

Then again, perhaps he's really tyrannical and diabolical, in an "if-you-don't-do-what-I-want-I'm-going-to-think-you-into-the-cornfield" sort of way. (That's certainly been his M.O. with Bibi.)