Historically, the issue is not clear. In numerous cases, the Turkish government attempted to protect the deported Armenians. Whatever the case, by now everyone believes the story, and the American government’s persistent refusal to recognize the affair as genocide is only meant to placate Turkey. To that end, the US forced Armenia to sign a humiliating accord with Turkey which glossed over the genocide.

The American appeasement of Turkey is worse than pointless. Many years ago, the silence signaled American support for Turkey’s secular regime, but today it shows American complacence toward Turkey’s Islamist policies. If the US keeps quiet on genocide, then certainly it will tolerate anything else Turkey does today.

Those people have already confessed and seek martyrdom, so why waste public money?

The Palestinian was overreacting to being posted to Afghanistan. Indeed, sending a devout Muslim into a Muslim country alongside infidel forces is odd.

Reform Jewish leaders criticize CUFI for taking an overly Zionist position.

Omhari’s handgun and bulletproof vest, widely reported as a threat to Obama, lay in his car’s trunk.

After expressing fake sorrow over the victims, Obama flew to Paris for a party with his family.

America’s highest officials, such as the Chief Justice, usually take private trips abroad under assumed names, and pay for their foreign vacations. Obama’s family travel on government aircraft. Olmert faces criminal charges for billing his personal trips to the state.

Speaking in Cairo, Obama likened the Palestinian plight to the Holocaust.

Though the awarded amounts run into hundreds of millions of dollars, actual collections are minuscule.

The court losses push the PA to proclaim independence, which allows it sovereign immunity. The US courts have disregarded sovereign immunity in a number of cases against terrorist-sponsor states such as Iran, but the burden of proof in such cases is much higher.

As if the cost of the HFC restrictions were not staggering enough, Obama’s proposal includes across-the-board reductions in greenhouse gases.

Poor nations will flout the restrictions, and there is no way to verify combined factory emissions somewhere in rural China. The United States will shoulder the burden of the reductions, which will further worsen its economy.

American courts have twice rejected her anti-deportation appeals, but the tough auntie still remains in the US. She even attended Obama’s inauguration gala.

She has appealed her deportation order for the third time. Unable to find any reason to prevent the politically incorrect deportation, the judge postponed the hearing until 2010.

The Jewish organizations found themselves in the unlikely company of Muslims who protest Oliphant’s Arab caricatures.

Coinciding with the Oliphant scandal, the Muslim-dominated UN Human Rights Council (what a joke) passed a resolution calling on all nations to enact laws which would protect religion from criticism. Pakistan, which circulated the resolution, clearly has a particular religion in mind: the Taliban-style Wahhabite Islam.

In reality, MBSs are worthless because the underlying mortgages cannot be repaid. So it’s just a $750 billion subsidy that will end up in the major investors’ coffers. US markets have no shortage of cash: rather, lenders have been unwilling to provide credit since the economy took a nose dive.

Worse, the state will pay twice: once for the MBSs and then again through Fannie and Freddie, to cover the losses from the underlying defaulting mortgages.

When Americans were less politically correct, their banks and corporations kept defaulting at the expense of foreign investors, thus the locals profited.

When Israeli army was not yet demoralized by judicial witch-hunts and political correctness, Jewish soldiers shot plenty of Egyptian, Syrian, and Palestinian POWs; it’s both just and convenient.

Against the background of hundreds of thousands dead in the Iraq war, a single insurgent POW should be of little concern. Did he stop being an insurgent after arrest? But the American court convicted Behenna of murder.

Mike Milken, the convicted Jewish swindler who caused AIG’s meltdown, actively seeks to enter Israeli financial markets.

It would be unusual for Kenyan police to care about such a minor offense as marijuana possession. Probably, Kenya is attempting to draw Obama’s attention and receive aid.

Partial nationalization is worse than full nationalization, as it offers the owners of failed banks the best of two worlds: government financing and retention of effective control. Often the same people who led the bank to failure – or similar people who led another bank – continue as its top managers, with eight-figure salaries paid by taxpayers. If a bank cannot refinance its bad debt from private source, it fails – and when it fails it fails; no question of retaining private ownership. Instead, taxpayers have only received 6% on Bank of America in return for a full-blown bailout.

Allowing the banks to fail would have a tremendous positive effect on the markets: after seventy years of government-sanctioned negligence, investors and depositors will have to observe due diligence and avoid speculative banks in the future. The refusal to nationalize banks will sanitize the economy: today, speculative and honestly conservative banks compete for customer deposits and investments on equal terms, and conservative banks have to embrace speculative policies in order to attract deposits with promises of high payoffs. Failures of speculative banks, with concomitant losses to depositors would reestablish bank diversification, allowing risk-averse customers to have the option of risk-averse banks.

Obama’s plan runs alongside the discredited Roosevelt’s policies of massive government spending. Last time they were tried, America entered a decades-long recession. But he has across-the-board support: leftists want more spending and regulation while the corporate world is hungry for cheap government funding.

Obama touts his plan as saving “up to 4.1 million” jobs. The .1 was added to create a sense of scientific approach. Of course, no one can ever say whether the “4.1 million” jobs were saved by the Obama plan or simply stayed the downturn. And there is a much simpler way to “save or create” that number of jobs for Americans: expel the eight to twenty million illegal immigrants who take those and many other jobs.

Half a billion came from large donors in $1,000+ amounts. Common donors, variously defined as having contributed less than $25 to less than $250, account for less than a quarter of Obama’s funding. Obama purchased much more airtime than did McCain, and basically bought his way into the White House.

The US Supreme Court is expected to toss out on Monday the Donofrio suit which very reasonably alleges that Obama cannot be the president since he is not a natural born US citizen. Obama had dual citizenship at birth following his father’s British nationality, and he was not born in the mainland US. The court prefers to stay away from this kind of politically charged issues.

On a side note, British troops behaved in their usual manner: there are abundant reports of torture, killing of POWs, mass executions, and rape. Fifty years after the event, the British presume to lecture us on the treatment of our Palestinian enemies.

Americans possess hundreds of millions of handguns and rifles. If gun ownership is restricted, criminals won’t surrender their weapons. They can also re-supply from Mexico. Students have no trouble buying drugs now, and would buy illegal firearms with similar ease.

Leftists and idealists cooperate to bring down the institute of gun ownership. Leftists instinctively dislike popular resistance to their rule while idealists imagine people will cease killing if guns are not sold legally. For bvious security reasons, Israel could not significantly restrict gun ownership, but leftist courts consistently sentence the Jews, even soldiers who shoot Arabs in self-defense, and thus effectively rendered guns useless. That is, useless for Jews.