Egypt to strip citizenship from men married to Israeli Jewish women

An Egyptian judge has supported a ruling that will allow Egypt to strip Egyptian men married to Israeli Jewish women of their Egyptian citizenship, a landmark ruling that stands in stark contrast to the official peace agreement between Egypt and Israel, which has been in place since the late 1970s.

Judge Mohammed al-Husseini, who allegedly could use a good dose of acne body wash, ruled that this ruling would not apply to Egyptian men married to Israeli Arab women.

“The case for (Egyptian) men married to Israeli Arab women is different to those married to Israeli women of Jewish origin because (Israeli Arabs) have lived under Israeli occupation,” Husseini told the court.

Husseini has ruled that each case would be considered separately, but as a judge on the Egyptian Supreme Administrative Court, his ruling cannot be appealed.

Between Helen Thomas and Judge Husseini, what the heck, did the whole world wake up on the anti-Semitic side of the bed today? Yeesh!

Thomas’ “deep regret?”

Since uttering the most anti-Semitic statements since, well, the last time Iranian president Mahmoud Achmadinijad last took a breath, the phentermine-spouting Helen Thomas has issued a by-rote, boilerplate statement saying she “deeply regrets” her comments about how the Jewish people should “get the hell out of Palestine” and go “home to Germany and Poland.”

One can only assume Thomas has never so much as even cracked a Gideon’s Bible in all her decades in journalism, but be that as it may, there’s something a bit hollow about her call for the religious cleansing of the Holy Land of its first and most native people.

Can Thomas honestly regret such comments, or is it far more believable to say that she regrets getting caught on tape spouting them? Furthermore, can anyone expect her to report in a fair and unbiased manner on the White House at this point, especially on US-Israeli issues, after stating such a clear pro-Palestinian bias?

Thomas should be forced to sit in the next year’s worth of public addresses by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Not report on them. Just listen.

She should also be forced into retirement by Hearst Newspapers. Immediately.

Helen Thomas displays anti-Semitic bias

White House press corps veteran Helen Thomas has long been known for her outspokenness. Many of my generation remember her questioning then-President Bill Clinton why his presidency was “going down the drain.” That would have seemed to seal her fate, but here we are a couple decades later and the 89-year-old is still there, giving journalism and the White House a bruised and dishonorable appearance.

Her latest gaffe – which would cost anyone else their job in a hot second – has nothing to do with suggesting the best fat burning supplement or anything useful like that, but has the old Hearst Newspapers columnist huffing and puffing with a decidedly anti-Semitic flair.

Reportedly, Thomas said the Jewish people should, “get the hell out of Palestine” and “go back home to Germany and Poland.”

The uneducated, idiotic nature of her comments should qualify her for immediate dismissal by Hearst Newspapers, but any reprisal is unlikely. In fact, given the lack of any word of condemnation by the anti-Israel Obama White House, look for Thomas to be nominated and likely win the Nobel Peace Prize for her latest gem of hate speech.

Could Sestak claim lead to Obama impeachment?

In Pennsylvania, Democratic Congressman Joe Sestak may have ousted GOP-turned-Democrat Senator Arlen Specter in the Democratic primary, but he might be responsible for ousting an even bigger fellow Democrat, if he’s telling the truth. Sestak claims the Obama administration approach him prior to the Democratic primary and offered him a White House job if he stepped aside in favor of Specter.

Sound like politics as usual? Perhaps, but it’s also a violation of federal law. And not just a minor law, but one that adds up to a “high crime and misdemeanor” level of impeachable offenses. Specifically:

New Jersey Gov: Freeze worked!

Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie announced that New Jersey residents can relax, if only a bit; his budget freeze has worked and no tax hikes will be necessary to cover the $800 million shortfall between the budget and projected income to the financially-strapped state.

The savings from merely keeping all increases out of the budget, merely keeping funding level, was enough to accomplish this; it’s a common GOP tactic for fixing budget deficits, and it has historically worked nearly every time it has been tried. Sadly, few since Reagan have tried it and the tactic is often undermined by Democrats who find way to balloon the budget anyway.

Still, Christie has pulled it off in New Jersey despite Democratic opposition. That’s not just the saving from “green energy-saving methods” like furnace filters, but real, honest-to-bankbook savings.

Well done, Gov. Christie! You can be sure “draconian” and other typical liberal sobriquets are sure to appear next to his name from now on!

Simmons backs off in Connecticut; McMahon will face Blumenthal

Rob Simmons, a former GOP Congressman, finally announced he has accepted his party’s endorsement of former WWE executive Linda McMahon as the party’s nominee to take over retiring Democratic Senator Chris Dodd, who was heading toward a humiliating defeat before deciding to withdraw from a re-election bid.

Simmons crying uncle and ceasing his bid for a primary challenge to McMahon clears the way for Linda McMahon to focus her campaign energy on Richard Blumenthal, the popular Democratic attorney general of the state. Blumenthal is not to be confused with former Clinton staffer Sidney Blumenthal.

McMahon’s name recognition, despite being linked to WWE scandals like the links between pro wrestling and human growth hormone supplements, will be needed in November if the GOP hopes to win the seat.

Obama to help Arizona border… with 1,200 troops?

President Obama has decided to help Arizona, nationally reviled for passing a law against… gasp… ILLEGAL immigration, patrol the borders of that state that align with Mexico. Trouble is, the low number of troops he’s planning to send.

Word is, Obama will send a mere 1,200 troops to patrol 1,969 miles of Arizona-Mexico border. If you divide that into reasonable, eight-hour shifts, that means one solider for every five miles of borderlands. Not exactly tight security. Sounds like a plan even the makers of the best weight loss products would admit is “a little thin.”

The other element of the President’s “plan” for Arizona’s Mexican border is to request $500 million in additional funding for border security. It currently is unclear whether those funds will go to pay for the 1,200 troops being sent to Arizona, or to bolster the ranks of official border patrol agents already on duty there.

According to an Associated Press report, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, a Republican who replaced Janet Napolitano, had not been notified of the Obama administration’s decision, but the real kicker is that the 1,200 troops being sent reportedly won’t perform “significant law enforcement duties.”

So, apparently, these soldiers will be under orders to, what, exactly? Play Pong on their iPod Touch while the flood of illegals into Arizona continues without even lifting a finger?

Yup, now that sounds like an Obama Administration policy.

Out-of-control Washington wants to quadruple oil tax

Hmm. At a time when the industry is losing product, bleeding money and facing massive clean-up costs, all of which is keeping oil prices artificially high in the wake of the BP oil spill in the gulf, Congress is now set to… raise taxes. Liberals just aren’t very creative, are they?

The move afoot in Washington, despite governmental insistence that BP pay the costs for the oil spill, is to use this disaster as an excuse to quadruple the current federal tax on oil. This would mean over $1 billion in additional taxes per year, passed along to the US taxpayer.

Are you kidding?

No, they’re not.

So, I guess it’s a time out on dreaming up ways to place a new tax on weight loss drinks; oil is the target of liberal dominance run amok once again.

Stesak may fire Specter before GOP opponent can

In Pennsylvania, Democratic candidate Joe Stesak is mounting an impressive anti-Arlen Specter campaign in the impending Democratic primary this coming Tuesday. Specter, a long-time liberal Republican, switched to the Democrats a couple years ago to help solidify Democrat control of the Senate. The move received a lot of appreciation from Senate Leader Harry Reid, who looks likely to be fired by Nevada voters in November. Reid couldn’t have been more grateful, in fact, if he’d been a fireman at a fire sale.

But that doesn’t mean Pennsylvania Democrats want the former GOP bogeyman hanging around either their cheese and drinking their wine; Stesak, a reliable ultra-lib, appears to have Democrat voters ready to send Specter packing before November. He charges that Specter’s party change was more about saving his seat than real conviction, and it’s a charge that sticks.

It’s a mixed bag choice for the Dems, however; Specter isn’t any more trustworthy for the Dems than he was for the GOP, but he has strong name value on a ballot. Stesak is likely to be far more dependable, but doesn’t have Specter’s name value.

One advantage to giving the nod to Stesak is the anti-incumbent fever sweeping the electorate this year; if the Dems fire Specter by nominating Stesak on Tuesday, they avoid Pennsylvania voters doing the job in November, which would turn the seat back to GOP hands. However, the question remains whether Stesak has any better change to defeat his GOP opponent in November, given Stesak’s weak name value.

Time will tell.

Obama, Dems will get it wrong again on oil

President Obama and other Democrats in tidy bow ties have jumped on the oil mess in the Gulf, headed by BP, as an opportunity to pull back on Obama’s promise to expand off-shore drilling. And once again, they form policy for all the wrong reasons.

Do oil companies like BP need to do better on safety precautions and contingency plans? You bet. But should we expect that nothing ever goes wrong? A bit unrealistic, that.

I for one simply refuse to believe that there’s any sort of nefarious plot on behalf of BP to pollute the Gulf. Does any reasonable person believe BP wants to be losing all those oil riches into the ocean? Of course not. It’s lost money… and a lot of it.

But is this incident any reason to call expanded off-shore drilling “dead on arrival,” as many Dems have? Absolutely not, because none of the important factors have changed.

The important factors are that other countries that are a lot further away from the Gulf than us are still drilling there; that we are far too dependent on other countries to supply our oil needs; that the less oil we produce domestically, the stronger the likelihood becomes that OPEC and other players can control our economy by controlling our oil prices.

Right now, Obama and the Dems are acting like the kid who falls over and skins a knee trying to ride a bike and vows never to ride a bike again. Is this thing in the Gulf terrible for the environment and a big, huge mess no one wants to see repeated? Absolutely.

But it’s not a reason to back off from off-shore drilling and thereby increasing our dependence on foreign markets to meet our oil needs.

Netanyahu turns to Torah in Jerusalem debate

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, in a recent address to the Israeli Parliament, took the top fat burners to the political debate over who has the most spiritual connection to Jerusalem. He indicated that the Tenakh (Old Testament) refers to Jerusalem over 850 times. He then pointed out that Jerusalem is mentioned only 142 times in the Brit Hadasha (New Testament) and – maybe – once in the Koran.

Jerusalem is home to the Islamic Al-Aqsa mosque, Islam’s third-holiest site.

In explaining his turn to the Scriptures for connection to the city of Jerusalem, Netanyahu explained he was attempting to underscore the significant connection between the land and people of Israel and the city of Jerusalem. Israel captured East Jerusalem in 1967′s Six Day War; they had previously held West Jerusalem since 1948, when the United Nations re-formed the state of Israel as a homeland to the Jewish people in the wake of the Holocaust of World War II.

Another race, another Scott

Another Republican named Scott could send a Democrat back to his diet pill reviews. I’m speaking of the Wisconsin governor’s race, where GOP hopeful Scott Walker is the Republican front-runner. Walker, assuming he wins nomination, will be facing whoever emerges from the Democratic pack to replace retiring Wisconsin Democratic governor Jim Doyle.

Walker will likely be facing current Milwaukee mayor Tom Barrett, the Dem front-runner. And in tough economic times, and with Obama’s popularity dropping like a rock with the economy, Walker might just be what the GOP needs to avoid back-to-back Democratic administrations in the Badger State.

Walker gained notoriety as an economic conservative, giving back over $370,000 in salary over his eight-year career as a Milwaukee County executive. His reason? He didn’t feel he should make more than the state’s governor. That’s giving back over $46,250 a year… more than many Wisconsin residents earn in a single year.

With those kinds of economic principles, and the fact that he applies them even to his own life, Walker could easily follow in the footsteps of Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown in pulling off a surprise victory in November. And if he does, and if Walker proves conservative on other key GOP issues, his name could quickly be featured among the likes of Bobby Jindal, Rick Perry, Tim Pawlenty, Mitt Romney, Jim DeMint, John Thune and David Patreaus as someone to look at as a potential White House contender in 2012 and beyond.