National Review Editor Praises Gingrich, Slams Editorial

National Review contributing editor and columnist Andrew C. McCarthy recognizes Newt Gingrich as the GOP Conservative candidate in an American awakening to lead in restoring fiscal, social, and national security issues. – Oscar Y. Harward

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National Review contributing editor and columnist Andrew C. McCarthy says Newt Gingrich is a strong conservative with a significant track record — and countered his own publication's editorial criticizing the former House speaker.

In McCarthy's online column posted Saturday, he wrote: "I respectfully dissent from National Review's Wednesday evening editorial."

He writes further that he has been advised that the editorial’s timing “was driven by its inclusion in the last edition of the magazine to be published this year."

McCarthy continued: "Regarding former Speaker Gingrich, I have no objection to the cataloguing of any candidate’s failings, and Newt has certainly made his share of mistakes. But there ought to be balance — balance between a candidate’s failings and his strengths, balance between the treatment of that candidate and of his rivals. The editorial fails on both scores."

In his own column, entitled "Gingrich's Virtues," McCarthy seeks to offer that balance.

"Gingrich’s virtues are shortchanged," McCarthy argues, "His great accomplishment in balancing the federal budget is not even mentioned, an odd omission in an election that is primarily about astronomical spending."

He added that National Review had not offered similar critiques of other GOP candidates with liberal records.

"Nevertheless, if the Editors were enterprising enough, they could just as easily write a similar editorial, with the same tone of alarm, about, say, Governor Romney or Governor Huntsman," McCarthy said.

McCarthy recounted some of Gingrich's spectacular conservative successes:

• "Gingrich is the candidate who can say he actually wrestled the federal budget into balance . . . "
• “In an election about the imperative to repeal Obamacare, Gingrich is the candidate who helped defeat Hillarycare — by comparison, Governor Romney ushered in a health-care system that became a model for Obamacare (and he stubbornly continues to insist that it was a great achievement — the main reason he can’t crack the 25 percent ceiling in most polls)."
• "Gingrich is the candidate who reformed welfare — which, the Editors acknowledge, is 'the most successful social policy of recent decades.'”

At the same that the National Review dismissed Gingrich, an incredulous McCarthy said, the publication was heaping praise on Gov. Jon Hunstman.

McCarthy says Huntsman doesn't pass the conservative sniff test: He was appointed ambassador to China by President Barack Obama; he was a big spender as Utah governor; and he has been a "global-warming alarmist who was lax on illegal immigration and favored a government mandate that citizens purchase health insurance."

McCarthy questioned the editorial’s negative treatment of Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann at the same time it embraced former Obama administration official Huntsman.

The editorial said Perry would spend much of his time untying his own tongue and added that Bachmann has exhibited a "casual repetition of false anti-vaccine rumors."

In pointing out that, like many other voters, he has not decided which of the Republican presidential candidates to support, McCarthy rails, "What I want at this very early stage is information about the candidates so I can consider them, not a presumptuous and premature pronouncement that good conservatives do not even rate consideration."

McCarthy writes that he is not against anyone’s listing Gingrich's faults, but he emphasizes that he believes the former House speaker's accomplishments in Washington are being "shortchanged."

The former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York points to Gingrich's balancing the federal budget not being mentioned in the Review editorial, adding that "his downsides are exaggerated."

McCarthy concludes his dissenting opinion saying, "If the editors were enterprising enough, they could just as easily write, with the same tone of alarm, about say, Governor Romney or Governor Huntsman."

"Their heresies too are notorious and their explanations no more satisfying," McCarthy states.

He adds that he is not suggesting that such editorials about Romney and Huntsman be done; rather he is just pointing out that they could be done.

"For the editors to single out Gingrich, for this kind of raking, particularly when his accomplishments in government dwarf anything his rivals have managed to achieve — fails the test of judgment conservatives expect from National Review," McCarthy concludes.


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Islam in a Nutshell

Thursday, December 8, 2011

http://shutking.blogspot.com/2011/12/islam-in-nutshell.html

This, not the Chinese or the Russians represent the greatest threat to the world and might be the fulfillment of the book of Revelation in the Holy Bible.

Adapted from Dr. Peter Hammond's book: Slavery, Terrorism and Islam:
The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat

Islam is not a religion, nor is it a cult. In its fullest form, it is a complete, total, 100% system of life.

Islam has religious, legal, political, economic, social, and military components. The religious component is a beard for all of the other components.

Islamization begins when there are sufficient Muslims in a country to agitate for their religious privileges.

When politically correct, tolerant, and culturally diverse societies agree to Muslim demands for their religious privileges, some of the other components tend to creep in as well.

Here's how it works:

As long as the Muslim population remains around or under 2% in any given country, they will be for the most part be regarded as a peace-loving minority, and not as a threat to other citizens. This is the case in:

United States -- Muslim 0.6%
Australia -- Muslim 1.5%
Canada -- Muslim 1.9%
China -- Muslim 1.8%
Italy -- Muslim 1.5%
Norway -- Muslim 1.8%

At 2% to 5%, they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups, often with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs. This is happening in:

Denmark -- Muslim 2%
Germany -- Muslim 3.7%
United Kingdom -- Muslim 2.7%
Spain -- Muslim 4%
Thailand -- Muslim 4.6%

From 5% on, they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population. For example, they will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature halal on their shelves -- along with threats for failure to comply. This is occurring in:

France -- Muslim 8%
Philippines -- 5%
Sweden -- Muslim 5%
Switzerland -- Muslim 4.3%
The Netherlands -- Muslim 5.5%
Trinidad & Tobago -- Muslim 5.8%

At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves (within their ghettos) under Sharia, the Islamic Law.
The ultimate goal of Islamists is to establish Sharia law over the entire world.

When Muslims approach 10% of the population, they tend to increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions.. In Paris , we are already seeing car-burnings. Any non-Muslim action offends Islam and results in uprisings and threats, such as in Amsterdam , with opposition to Mohammed cartoons and films about Islam. Such tensions are seen daily, particularly in Muslim sections in:

Guyana -- Muslim 10%
India -- Muslim 13.4%
Israel -- Muslim 16%
Kenya -- Muslim 10%
Russia -- Muslim 15%

After reaching 20%, nations can expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings, and the burnings of Christian churches and Jewish synagogues, such as in:

Ethiopia -- Muslim 32.8%

At 40%, nations experience widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks, and ongoing militia warfare, such as in:

Bosnia -- Muslim 40%
Chad -- Muslim 53..1%
Lebanon -- Muslim 59.7%

From 60%, nations experience unfettered persecution of non-believers of all other religions (including non-conforming Muslims), sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon, and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels, such as in:

Albania -- Muslim 70%
Malaysia -- Muslim 60.4%
Qatar -- Muslim 77.5%
Sudan -- Muslim 70%

After 80%, expect daily intimidation and violent jihad, some State-run ethnic cleansing, and even some genocide, as these nations drive out the infidels, and move toward 100% Muslim, such as has been experienced and in some ways is on-going in:

Bangladesh -- Muslim 83%
Egypt -- Muslim 90%
Gaza -- Muslim 98.7%
Indonesia -- Muslim 86.1%
Iran -- Muslim 98%
Iraq -- Muslim 97%
Jordan -- Muslim 92%
Morocco -- Muslim 98.7%
Pakistan -- Muslim 97%
Palestine -- Muslim 99%
Syria -- Muslim 90%
Tajikistan -- Muslim 90%
Turkey -- Muslim 99.8%
United Arab Emirates -- Muslim 96%

100% will usher in the peace of 'Dar-es-Salaam' -- the Islamic House of Peace. Here there's supposed to be peace, because everybody is a Muslim, the Madrasses are the only schools, and the Koran is the only word, such as in:

Afghanistan -- Muslim 100%
Saudi Arabia -- Muslim 100%
Somalia -- Muslim 100%
Yemen -- Muslim 100%

Unfortunately, peace is never achieved, as in these 100% states the most radical Muslims intimidate and spew hatred, and satisfy their blood lust by killing less radical Muslims, for a variety of reasons.

'Before I was nine, I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; the tribe against the world, and all of us against the infidel. -- Leon Uris, 'The Haj'

It is important to understand that in some countries, with well under 100% Muslim populations, such as France, the minority Muslim populations live in ghettos, within which they are 100% Muslim, and within which they live by Sharia Law. The national police do not even enter these ghettos. There are no national courts, nor schools, nor non-Muslim religious facilities. In such situations, Muslims do not integrate into the community at large. The children attend madrasses.
They learn only the Koran. To even associate with an infidel is a crime punishable with death. Therefore, in some areas of certain nations, Muslim Imams and extremists exercise more power than the national average would indicate.

Today's 1.5 billion Muslims make up 22% of the world's population. But their birth rates dwarf the birth rates of Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, and all other believers. Muslims will exceed 50% of the world's population by the end of this century.

Well, boys and girls, today we are letting the fox guard the henhouse.
The wolves will be herding the sheep!

Obama appoints two devout Muslims to Homeland Security posts. Doesn't this make you feel safer already?

Obama and Janet Napolitano appoint Arif Alikhan, a devout Muslim, as Assistant Secretary for Policy Development.

DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano swore in Kareem Shora, a devout Muslim who was born in Damascus , Syria , as ADC National Executive Director as a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC).

NOTE: Has anyone ever heard a new government official being identified as a devout Catholic, a devout Jew or a devout Protestant...? Just wondering.

Devout Muslims being appointed to critical Homeland Security positions?
Doesn't this make you feel safer already??

That should make the US ' homeland much safer, huh!!
Was it not "Devout Muslim men" that flew planes into U.S. buildings 10 years ago?

Was it not a Devout Muslim who killed 13 at Fort Hood ?

Also: This is very interesting and we all need to read it from start to finish. Maybe this is why our American Muslims are so quiet and not speaking out about any atrocities. Can a good Muslim be a good American? This question was forwarded to a friend who worked in Saudi Arabia for 20 years. The following is his reply:

Theologically - no . . . Because his allegiance is to Allah, The moon God of Arabia

Religiously - no. Because no other religion is accepted by His Allah except Islam (Quran, 2:256)(Koran)

Scripturally - no. Because his allegiance is to the five Pillars of Islam and the Quran.

Geographically - no. Because his allegiance is to Mecca , to which he turns in prayer five times a day.

Socially - no. Because his allegiance to Islam forbids him to make friends with Christians or Jews..

Politically - no. Because he must submit to the mullahs (spiritual leaders), who teach annihilation of Israel and destruction of America , the great Satan.

Domestically - no. Because he is instructed to marry four Women and beat and scourge his wife when she disobeys him (Quran 4:34)

Intellectually - no. Because he cannot accept the American Constitution since it is based on Biblical principles and he believes the Bible to be corrupt.

Philosophically - no. Because Islam, Muhammad, and the Quran do not allow freedom of religion and expression... Democracy and Islam cannot co-exist. Every Muslim government is either dictatorial or autocratic.

Spiritually - no. Because when we declare 'one nation under God,' the Christian's God is loving and kind, while Allah is NEVER referred to as Heavenly father, nor is he ever called love in The Quran's 99 excellent names.

Therefore, after much study and deliberation. ... Perhaps we should be very suspicious of ALL MUSLIMS in this country. - - - They obviously cannot be both 'good' Muslims and good Americans. Call it what you wish, it's still the truth. You had better believe it. The more who understand this, the better it will be for our country and our future.
The religious war is bigger than we know or understand.

Can a Muslim be a good soldier???

Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, opened fire at Ft. Hood and Killed 13. He is a good Muslim!!!
Footnote: The Muslims have said they will destroy us from within.

Soldier's Silent Night.wmv

Merry Christmas to our Heroes around the world!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWExFTFAQzA&feature=share&mid=55571

Rick Perry is a daily “gaffe” who is not ready for “big-time”

By Oscar Y. Harward 

Presidential candidates debating are required in all campaigns. Winning “debates” require a “sharp” mind with “intense” concentration. 

“Illegal immigration”; food, housing, healthcare, a public education, etc. at taxpayers’ expense is a major issue http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2705560/posts. 

In a CNN debate, Rick Perry was asked a question after others answered a previous question. Perry responded to the previous question. CNN moderator asked Perry to respond to the current question. Perry responded, “You get to ask the questions, and I get to answer the way I want to”. Perry may lack the ability to immediately respond to responsible questioning. 

In an Obama/Perry debate when Perry is expected to immediately respond to a question, it may be a “guess” as to whose words and/or whose phrases belonged to; President Obama or Rick Perry. Obama will eat Perry alive in a debate. 

After switching his registration in 1990 from Democrat Party to the Republican Party, Rick Perry supported “HillaryCare” In 1993 http://the-classic-liberal.com/rick-perry-praised-hillary-clintons-health-care-scheme/. 

On December 9, 2011, Texas Gov. Rick Perry said there are eight Supreme Court justices, not nine, and, then, couldn't remember SCOTUS Sonia Sotomayor's name with the Des Moines Register newspaper http://news.yahoo.com/perry-flubs-name-number-supreme-court-justices-212451050.html?mid=54. 

in Café Diem in Ames, Iowa, Rick Perry said: "No greater example of it than this administration sending millions of dollars into the solar industry, and we lost that money. I want to say it was over $500 million that went to the country Solyndra." http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/politics/blogs/rick-perry-human-gaffe-machine-calls-solar-manufacturer-solyndra-a-coun

Rick Perry refers to President Wilson’s Sixteenth Amendment and  income taxes of a “decade” ago rather than a “century” ago. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ9X0bq0T_M

In another debate, Perry couldn’t remember 3 departments for his listed closings http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM_Ady87qO4.  

Rick Perry plans to make Congress a part-time job.  President Obama and Rick Perry may be the only ones who believe they can overrun our Constitution to downgrade Congress.  http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/story/2011-11-17/New-Hampshire-Rick-Perry-part-time-Congress/51276094/1  

Perry’s gaffe in NH on voting age at 21 years of age rather than the legal age of 18 years old. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV7fwOUMows&context=C2ab92UDOEgsToPDskJUL_kqS122bV9pMUPRhGGK.  

Perry’s irrational senseless speech alleged under the influence of alcohol http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=YSJv-2qfDNc&feature=endscreen.  

Gov. Rick Perry and Texas may currently have 600,000 “Illegal immigrants” “registered to vote”. http://citizensreport.info/2011/10/13/as-many-as-600000-illegal-aliens-may-be-registered-to-vote-in-texas/?mid=51. 

And the “gaffes” continue! America needs a “new” President who has the ability to speak distinctly to Americans, as well as world leaders, without endless, damaging errors. 

“Illegal immigration” is against the law http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/8/12/II/VIII/1325. More than 600,000 soldiers have died on the battlefield in protecting our American flag, and Constitution and freedoms within. Why have Rick Perry and many other elected and/or appointed public officials chose to ignore our Constitutional law and US Code?  

Rick Perry is a daily “gaffe” who is not ready for “big-time”.