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Until Dubai Ports World, a company owned by UAE ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, attempted to buy six major ports in the United States, few Americans were paying serious attention to the rising threat of the UAE. Where regimes like Iran or Pakistan offer up more direct threats to the West in the form of nuclear arsenals and terrorism sponsorship, the UAE represents a soft threat that may be ultimately be just as dangerous because it is understated. While the UAE provided 2 of the 9/11 terrorists, had close ties with the Taliban and served a stop on the smuggling network that moved nuclear technology from North Korea to Iran, the UAE has avoided the bellicose confrontational rhetoric, instead operating under the radar. Where states like Iran or Saddam's Iraq routinely blew their oil money on weapons and a military that could never actually pose a threat to the West in anything except non-conventional weapons, the UAE has relied on the United States to provide regio

If Liberals had an indoor sport it would be indoctrinating the next generation, and from songs of praise to the Beloved Leader, to colorful stickers and books, it's never too early to brainwash small children into believing that a con man from Chicago can save the planet. Now Sultan Knish exclusively presents some of the newest line of children's books about Obama direct from Liberal Learning Disorder Press. Help prepare your children for the era of diminished expectations beginning from the top down. Forget Algebra and History, they won't need it where they're going. Some horrible things, such as why kittens die, tornadoes and how a compulsive liar with no experience was selected to the highest office in the land, are tough to explain to kids. HOLY CRAP: Explaining Obama to Your Kids by Dr. Russel Wristwaith , author of TORNADOES HURT and WHY KITTENS DIE , takes a stab at it in this fun and highly readable book. Enjoy it and the other selections from LLDP in

"I have a vision, we got a town full of thousands of small stores and businesses, people who are working real hard. I think they should be working real hard-- for us. Because we are for the people, and if you ain't for the people, you can't buy the people. We will become the people's silent partner. Every time some citizen buys a pound of hamburger, we get a nickel. Every time some guy gets a haircut, we get a dime." Big Boy Caprice, Dick Tracy It's called a Piece of the Action, or in the more loftier economic vocabulary, Rent Seeking Behavior. And it defines how our economy works today. Once upon a time, you went into business and opened a factory making chairs. You concentrated on making a quality product at a reasonable price, and so you either succeeded or failed. Then came the layers of government regulation. The first layer controlled what kind of chairs you could make, out of what kind of materials and how much you had to pay your employees and forced y

Recently I read an article by former General Moshe Yaalon of Israel's conservative Likud party. But it points to the fundamental fallacy of moderate conservative parties throughout the First World. So the article begins... Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German priest executed by the Nazis, once wrote, “If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the opposite direction.” Fifteen years ago, the signing of the Oslo accords with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) raised hopes that Israel had boarded the “peace train.” Over the years, however, it became clear that the train was not headed for the promised destination. Nevertheless, Israel’s leadership has been pointlessly running along the corridor ever since. What happens when you run along a corridor inside a train? The train keeps going exactly where it's going, while you put on a good show of opposing it by running as fast as you can, and arrive at the same place anyway. You can't run against

The term Pro-Israel gets thrown around a lot these days. Obama and Biden both claim to be Pro-Israel, despite Obama's closeness to everyone from Rashid Khalidi , a leading PLO figure, to Ali Abuminah , publisher of the Electronic Intifada. J-Street, a liberal front group created by their own admission in order to lobby against Pro-Israel policies, claims to be Pro-Israel. Don King has just visited Israel and claimed to be Pro-Israel. So what does being Pro-Israel mean anyway? It does not mean supporting any particular Israeli government or merely paying lip service to the idea of Israel when elections come around. If Pro-Israel is to mean anything at all, it has to mean supporting the survival of Israel. And by definition the opposite of this, promoting the destruction of Israel and supporting its terrorist foes automatically disqualifies any individual and group from being considered Pro-Israel. After all if you aren't for someone's survival, in what sense can you be c

Obama in his arrogance began posturing as President Elect, before he was legally entitled to it. And now in a bit of poetic justice, he has his first Presidential scandal before begin entitled to the title. The media is mostly working hard to cover for Obama, but his excessively broad denial has left him open to charges of deceit. And now the evidence is beginning to pile up. It is now increasingly clear that Obama met with Blagojevich to discuss the Senate seat. Governor Ed Rendell, the Penn Dem governor and an Obama backer, who can always be counted on to say or do the inconvenient thing, is criticizing Obama over it . “Did Rahm Emanuel who took Rod Blagojevich’s seat in Congress have contact with Rod Blagojevich? Of course he did,” Rendell said. “They may have thought he was the craziest S.O.B. in the world. But you still have to have contact with him.” And of course it's impossible to deny this. Certainly Rahm Emanuel talked to Blagojevich . Indeed the FBI's own wir

Among Liberals and Conservatives there is a certain amount of bafflement at Obama's cabinet appointments, which are being characterized as center-right. On the left there are clashing calls of "Give him a chance" and "What the hell is going on here", and some on the right are displaying idiotic glee at Gates remaining on the job and are even prepared to embrace Hillary Clinton, little understanding what any of it means. They don't get it because they are looking at Obama's appointments from an American political perspective. But Obama is not an American, and his political strategies are not what Americans are used to. American Presidents appoint cabinet members they agree with to successfully carry out their policies, but Obama will appoint cabinet members he disagrees with as a hedge against failure. Obama has said repeatedly that he expects long term economic problems, and that he will need two terms to fulfill his promises. Biden has spoken about a ma

Newspapers are widely covering a report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies calling for Obama to appoint a "Cyberspace Czar" to oversee cyberspace security. And in the words of the New York Times article, " License plates may be coming to cyberspace ." The Center for Strategic and International Studies, whose chairman is Obama advisor Sam Nunn and whose President and CEO is John J Hamre, who was a possible candidate for Secretary of Defense under Obama. One of the members of the board of trustees is our old friend and Obama advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski. The report's recommendations are unsurprisingly expected to be fast tracked through the Obama administration. To quote the New York Times story, The report , which offers guidance to the Obama administration, is a strong indictment of government and private industry efforts to secure cyberspace to date. “The laissez-faire approach to cyber-security has failed,” Mr. Kellermann said. So naturally

Want to fight terrorism? The place to start is by keeping America out of it. The sad truth is that even before the Hussein Pro-Terrorist administration officially seizes the White House, the Bush Administration has long since switched to a policy of treating terrorist attacks abroad as a crisis situation that can only be solved by calming down the attacked and urging them to seek counseling and cooperation with the attackers. So too following the Mumbai attacks the Bush Administration helped browbeat the Indian government out of punishing Pakistan, instead arranging to have the Pakistani government go another round of leading everyone around the nose, playing the usual role of Muslim governments by aiding the terrorists with one hand and threatening them with the other. It's a routine that Saudi Arabia has elevated to a fine art. The Clinton and Bush Administrations have nodded approvingly while the Palestinian Authority has gone through this same Keystone Cops routine, whene

Despite not actually being President, Obama is playing Imaginary President minus the styrofoam columns and delivering addresses promising to save us all. By spending lots more money of course. And more big government. Because you know how well "creating jobs" with big government and huge projects has worked for Communist countries. I'm sure it'll work great here. Here's the pre-op The president-elect's address never once used the word "spend," relying instead on "invest" or "investments," Investment is supposed to be the new buzz word to confuse people into thinking that we're not actually spending money. First we "invested" trillions into banks and assorted unknown companies. Now we'll invest lots more money. Now investing can be the new wasting money. e.g. "Hey Fred, I just invested 100 bucks in some gadget off TV that will let me cut my own hair". But here's the President of Kenya.

The voices right now are loudest for Palin and Jindal, but neither is all that great of a choice. Governor Sarah Palin has a great personal history and is a good campaigner. She also has a solid track record as Governor. Unfortunately she proved all too vulnerable to the vicious smear campaign waged against her by Obama's proxies in the press. For her to make a comeback, she would need to assemble a solid team, and demonstrate that she can overcome the negative pop culture image attached to her, and maintain a strong public image despite everything the media can throw at her. It was something that Ronald Reagan could do, but it took him a while to have that deftness, and unless Palin proves that she can bypass and dominate the media, another Palin race would be a dead end. Last time around Palin was transformed into a "blond joke", one that let men comfortably bring out their contempt for women under the guise of being progressive, while women laughed along to show that t

It would be nice say that Barak's assault on Beit HaShalom, the House of Peace, legally purchased by its Jewish owner, was unprecedented. Unfortunately it is a repetition of the brutal tactics that left wing governments in Israel have used time and time again in their attempt to crush Zionism in Israel, while posturing as strongmen by beating up a few families trying to live in their homes, to compensate for their refusal to confront Arab terrorism.                                                            The pictures you will see may look like IDF soldiers, but they are not. The same Border Police and Yasam thugs, without nametags, were brought in to do the dirty work. Just as at Amona. As of this time, there are over 50 wounded, some like Nadia Matar were beaten with batons while on the ground. This was how Haaretz described the assault on the families of Beit HaShalom