Circumcision criminalized; First mixed-race president; Crusaders in warmner climes; Pentagon rescinds recent edict; Withhold all aid to Egypt?; Opposition notebooks found online; CNN hammers Obama's hypocrisy on transparency; EPA roadless rule hampers Forest Service, causes bigger fires; Obama won't apologize for lying about Mitt; Unmanned underwater craft to Persian Gulf; EBT cards used for tatoos, manicures, etc.

Calling it the "worst attack on Jewish life since the Holocaust," the Conference of European Rabbis on Thursday strongly condemned a recent German court decision that criminalizes the circumcision of boys.

"A ban on circumcision poses an existential question for the Jewish community in Germany," the president of the organization, Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, said on Thursday. "If the ruling is allowed to stand, then I don't see a future for Jews in Germany." http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/european-jewish-leaders-lambast-german-circumcision-ruling-a-844128.html
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Last Friday, while on Michel Martin's NPR show, "Tell Me More," Hollywood titan Morgan Freeman informed his host that, contrary to the prevailing wisdom, Barack Hussein Obama is not America's first black president.
He is the country's "first mixed-race president."  The first black president, Freeman continued, has not as yet "arisen."
So, one wonders, whence stems the popular misconception that Obama is black?  Freeman has an answer ready at hand: the president's opponents.
Obama's rivals want to fuel the flames of racial bigotry by emphasizing his African ancestry while ignoring his white background.  Yet they conveniently "forget that Barack had a mama" who "was white, very white American, Kansas, middle of America."

[The truth here, if Morgan would only wake up, is that it is Obama himself who describes himself as black, seeking black friends, failing to mention his whiteness in any way.]
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/07/morgan_freeman_on_obama.html#ixzz20VHYJCsh

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While CBS touts a "groundbreaking" government report linking extreme weather and climate change, German researchers find 2,000 years of cooling and warmer temps in medieval times and the Roman era.
This summer's heat wave has given the global warmongers new hope in conning the hot and the restless into believing the whole thing is due to that SUV parked in your driveway and that coal-fired plant down the street.
Not so fast, say German researchers who documented a two millennia cooling trend. Both the Roman legions and Crusaders marched in warmer climes. http://news.investors.com/article/618004/201207121907/climate-warmer-in-roman-medieval-times.htm
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The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee on Thursday threatened to hold up Pentagon funding for military activities until the department reverses a policy of requiring sharply reduced reports to Congress. The Pentagon announced it is scrapping the policy a short time later.
“We have rescinded the guidance,” said Pentagon spokesman George Little.
The policy, which mandated all reports to Congress be around 10 pages in length, was put in place last year by the office of the undersecretary of defense for policy, Little said. He noted that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, a former House member, is committed to being responsive to Congress. http://freebeacon.com/mckeon-1-pentagon-0/
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Thirty-five Republican members of Congress are calling on House leadership to “withhold all U.S. aid to the Egyptian government” until its new Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated president agrees to abide by “Egypt’s treaties, promote peace with Israel, and continue to recognize Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state.” http://freebeacon.com/walsh-withdraw-egypt-aid/
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It could be one of the biggest political intelligence coups of the 2012 battle to control Congress. Media Trackers, a conservative investigative watchdog group, discovered nearly three-dozen Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee opposition research notebooks – extensive secretive manuals outlining anything that could be used against a political opponent. Several news outlets have reported that some of the files have been quietly published on the DCCC’s website to facilitate their use by independent expenditure groups. On Thursday, however, Media Trackers published a dozen opposition research books that Democrats have so far managed to keep secret.
Although the sudden availability of the files may trump any timetable Democrats may have put together for distributing the information, their value to Republicans depends largely on the individual campaign’s own strategic response. The information – if damaging in anyway – could be pre-empted or attacks based on the material could be headed off at a time when they are not quite so damaging as the final weeks of a campaign. As is often the case, the general dynamics of a race will impact the value of the early release almost as much as the substance of the intelligence itself.
The full list of still-secret opposition books discovered and released by Media Trackers is as follows: http://www.redstate.com/briansikma/2012/07/12/compromised-intel-secret-democratic-political-research-files-for-twelve-2012-match-ups-found-via-google/

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It’s nice to see a network such as CNN absolutely destroy Obama’s repeated claims that his administration is the “most transparent”in history. Now if only MSNBC would do something similar…  http://www.exposeobama.com/2012/07/12/video-cnn-hammers-obama-for-hypocrisy-on-transparency/
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Environmental regulations restricting the construction of forest access roads have limited the ability of the Forest Service to clear combustible brush and trees, adding dangerous fuel to the wildfires that have ravaged Colorado this summer. The so-called “roadless rule,” which was first implemented in 2001 by President Clinton shortly before he left office, restricts and in many cases prohibits local and federal officials from building and maintaining roads that allow firefighters to clear out growth that could instantly become tinder for a new fire.
The Roadless Area Conservation Rule, regularly referred to as the 2001 roadless rule, was adopted in January of 2001 and classified 31 percent of national forest lands in Colorado as Inventoried Roadless Areas (IRA’s). Four of the national forests that fell under the IRA classification did so based on inventories from 1979, four more were classified as IRA’s based on inventories from 1996, 1997, 1998, and 2002. [I've also read that while we are decrying 8 million acres being on fire this year, 38 million acres was typical in the past.] http://www.redstate.com/aarongardner/2012/07/11/clinton-era-environmental-rules-increased-wildfire-risks-in-colorado/
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Mitt Romney wants President Obama to apologize for his campaign's suggestion that the Republican candidate could have broken the law by making inaccurate statements to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Says president 'reckless and absurd'... 'Deceptive and dishonest'... 'Beneath Dignity Of His Office'... [Obama's "Kill Romney" campaign]: 'It's disgusting. It's demeaning'...   http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/romney-demands-obamas-apology-responsible-post-1999-bain/story?id=16775137#.UAFSy8WWiCk
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The Navy is rushing dozens of unmanned underwater craft to the Persian Gulf to help detect and destroy mines in a major military buildup aimed at preventing Iran from closing the strategic Strait of Hormuz in the event of a crisis, U.S. officials said.
The tiny SeaFox submersibles each carry an underwater television camera, homing sonar and an explosive charge. The Navy bought them in May after an urgent request by Marine Gen. James Mattis, the top U.S. commander in the Middle East. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/07/submersibles-persian-gulf-to-oppose-iran.html
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “If you are a tax payer in Massachusetts,you get to fund EBT cards for those who want to buy tattoos,manicures,body piercings or porn.” The legislature had the good sense to stop the madness,but it seems that Governor Deval Patrick had other ideas.

“According to the Boston Herald,which first reported the veto,the governor berated the legislature’s stab at banning the purchase of specific items like manicures,tattoos,guns,porn,body piercings,jewelry,and bail by saying the move was ‘political grandstanding’ at a time when such reforms are already on track elsewhere.” http://www.exposeobama.com/2012/07/13/food-stamps-for-tattoos-porn-manicures-and-bail-money/

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