By Debbie Schlussel

It goes without saying that I support Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s speech to the U.S. Congress, tomorrow, though I think the circumstances surrounding the speech and the invitation are smoke and mirrors (and I’ll post more about that later, today). But I want to point out the elected JINOs–Jews In Name Only–in Congress, all of them liberal Democrats, who are boycotting the speech. They ought to be ashamed, but shame ain’t a concept in their idea books. (By the way, some of them are Va-JINOs, my name for female Jews In Name Only, though some of them I’m not sure they’re actually female. Only their gynecologists know for sure. Talking about you, Jan Schakowsky.)

Every single one of these frauds would have been instantly beheaded by the Maccabees back in the day, as they are the modern-day definition of Hellenists. And I doubt these self-haters would ever boycott any Muslim head of state who spoke to Congress. It’s been true for some time: the most pro-Israel Members of Congress–the most sensitive to anti-Semitism–are NOT Jewish and they are NOT Democrats. They are Christian Republicans (with some notable exceptions like Jihad Darrell Issa, who is an anti-Israel, Hezbollah-friendly Republican).

When Rep. John Yarmuth decided not to attend Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ’s speech to Congress this coming Tuesday, he didn’t plan on making a big deal of it. The Kentucky Democrat, who is Jewish, was concerned about the proximity of the speech to coming Israeli elections and the idea of Mr. Netanyahu using Congress as a backdrop to criticize the White House. So Mr. Yarmuth planned to quietly stay away. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Sorry for the belated movie reviews, but better late than never (although sometimes better never than late). You didn’t miss much, as I wasn’t impressed much by the new offerings, but for an art house documentary. Remember, you can always hear my movie reviews on the day they debut, first thing every Friday morning on “The Mike Church Show” on SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125 after 7:05 am Eastern and on “The Pat Campbell Show” on KFAQ 1170 AM Tulsa at 7:35 am Eastern. I do my movie reviews on both, as well as some discussion of current political issues and pop culture topics on both shows. So here’s what’s new at theaters, this weekend:

* “Focus“: I’ve seen plenty of con artist movies, all of them better than this one. This is a whole lotta nothin’. Just lame. It starts out as what might be a fun caper movie about two con artists in a crime ring, but it degrades into an unbelievable, nonsensical mess, with a silly ending. Oh, and Will Smith and the more attractive Jaime Pressly-lookalike, Margot Robbie, don’t have much in the chemistry department. Also, the movie really glamorized stealing and cons, and didn’t show the dark side. They really wanted you to root for these crooks, but I didn’t. The movie was just too slow and boring, even if I had been so disposed. And I could have done without some of the graphic sexual “humor” (which wasn’t funny) about oral sex and lesbian oral sex. The language was more explicit than I’d expected for a “comedy” or “rom-com”–or whatever this was supposed to be–about con artists. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

*** UPDATE: Leonard Nimoy wanted to force Israel to give up Jerusalem and was active with the far-leftist, self-hating, anti-Israel organization, Americans for Peace Now. ***

Yes, I was and remain a fan of “Star Trek.” But longtime readers of this site already know why I am not a fan of Leonard Nimoy, who died this morning at age 83. And it has little to do with his role as Spock, nor am I racist against Vulcans.

As I’ve noted on this site, as a kid I used to think it was cool that my mother taught Nimoy’s son and got to meet Spock’s alter ego, when she was a student teacher in the New York Public Schools, in Greenwich Village. Around that time, “Star Trek” was on the air, and Nimoy was famous. But, since then, I’ve grown disgusted with Leonard Nimoy, his politics, and his often willing mockery of Judaism in a way that would cause riots and beheadings if he did it to Islam (toward which he preached tolerance).

I’ve mentioned this before: Nimoy put out, “Shekina,” a nude picture book of naked women ensconcing themselves in and/or posing with sacred Jewish religious items that we use in our ceremonies in our faith. Yes, Nimoy was Jewish, but not observant and completely disrespectful of those who were. Who else would make a dumb nudie picture book like that? Not someone who was a proud Jew. And yet Nimoy traveled the country trying to appear at Jewish book fairs and pimp his sicko view of my religion and his (in name only) to Jewish communities all over America. When he came to Detroit, his book was considered so offensive that even the morons who run the Jewish Book Fair here, canceled his appearance. Yet, a left-wing, self-hating Jew, Hanan Lis–who married into money–paid to host Nimoy’s pimping of his perverted, depraved book at a reformed Jewish temple. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

On Wednesday, I told you about the three indicted New York Muslim ISIS suspects–Abror Habibov, Abdurasul Juraboev, and Akhror Saidakhmetov. All three were immigrants. Now, we’re learning more about them, and the new info–which you probably haven’t seen elsewhere is disturbing, such as:

* One of the men was wealthy (attention: Barack Obama and Jen Psaki) and owns or ran a network of cell phone kiosks across America’s East Coast. That network could easily have been used to set off a series of simultaneous attacks in malls across the East Coast, where these kiosks are usually located.

Obama and Psaki keep telling us that Muslims who join ISIS do so because they lack opportunity, jobs, and money. Um, not true in most cases, including this one.

Mr. Saidakhmetov, who authorities say worked for Mr. Habibov at a network of mobile-phone kiosks he ran across the East Coast and got to know him that way, posted messages on pro-ISIS websites in the months before he bought tickets to Syria, according to the complaint. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

So, now we know the identity of ISIS’ savage butcher, “Jihadi John.” He’s Mohammed Emwazi, a Kuwaiti immigrant to the United Kingdom. And he’s everything that Barack Obama and his State Department spokes-hack, Jen Psaki, say ISIS isn’t about. He contradicts all of their pronouncements and dumb “solutions.” And he could have come to America, instead of England.

Emwazi is a devout Muslim from a devout Muslim family. He’s not an “Islamist,” whatever that is, nor are his family members. They are just Muslims. Yes, they are extremists, but so are most Muslims. Islam is extreme by definition. and in practice. And most Muslims support terrorism, even if they don’t believe in themselves wearing the bomb vests.

Emwazi was not an unemployed, uneducated “youth” without opportunities and access to jobs. Got that, Obama? Capiche, Jen Psaki? Both of these nitwits (Obama and Psaki), last week, repeated the tired, old BS that Muslims resort to terrorism because they are poor, lack jobs, and don’t have hope or opportunity. PUH-LEEZE. It has nothing to do with anything. Many jihadists are wealthy and educated. And so is Jihadi John. In fact, the Emwazi family is wealthy. And Mohammed Emwazi is educated, with a university degree in computer programming. He had plenty of opportunity, more than most. He could have even gotten a job here in the U.S., and we would have been none the wiser, until he beheaded victims here. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

At least three Muslim “refugees” to the U.S. from the Middle East, whom I’ve identified on this site, have helped Al-Qaeda. Now, I’m going to tell you a few others, who joined the ranks of ISIS, or tried to. That includes a “refugee” in Michigan, and the three Uzbek and Kazakh Muslim refugees from New York who tried to join ISIS and were indicted just today. While Republican Congressman Mike McCaul was all over FOX News and ABC News, last week, primping for the cameras, this all happened on his watch, as I’ve detailed on this site over the years. Now, it is too late to unring the bell. Yes, Barack Obama is a big part of the problem, with his insistence upon amnesty, but many of these immigrants came here under Bush, and they are still coming now under Obama . . . with the willingness and lack of any action by Republicans, including Mike McCaul.

I’ve decried this problem for years on this site and in other media appearances. As I’ve noted, Homeland Security spends less than six minutes “vetting” each person seeking a green card or U.S. citizenship. And even if they spent more time, there is no way to verify who these people are. If some Iraqi or Syrian refugee named “Mohammed,” tells you he is “Milad” (a Christian name that means, “the birth [of Jesus]”), how are you gonna know differently? Are we gonna ask ISIS for the residency rolls in Mosul? No way to vet any of these people. And even if he says his name is Mohammed, we let him in anyway, or the ACLU is at our heels. We deport more “Milads” than “Mohammeds” for being illegal aliens, anyway.

Republican Congressman McCaul has been in the U.S. Congress since 2005, a full decade. He has been on the House Homeland Security Committee for most of those ten years and has chaired the committee for two years. Yet, he did nothing in any of those years when it came to waves and waves and waves of Islamic immigration. Suddenly, last week, he finally noticed and held hearings on the problem, at least a decade too late. But, hey, the grandstanding for the cameras got him a lot of media attention, while he will still do the same nothing to “fix” the problem that’s too late to fix and took place on his watch. Last week, yet another Muslim “refugee” to the U.S. from the Middle East tried to join ISIS. But while Congress (and McCaul) “worry” about this “potential” problem, I’ve cited several Muslim refugees who’ve already joined the cause and got to live on U.S. soil. Now, there’s another who tried to join ISIS.

Last week, the FBI arrested Al-Hamzah Mohammad Jawad of Lansing, Michigan, at Detroit Metro Airport, where he was about to board a flight to Jordan to join ISIS in Iraq. Jawad, an Iraqi “refugee” came here in 2013, and now has a green card. Of course, we don’t even know if that is his name because it was never verified. Again, there’s no way to do so. We take these people at their word, and their word is often not to be trusted. Jawad, at first, lied to FBI agents, telling them he was going to visit relatives, and then admitted he was going to join ISIS’ jihad. I have no problem with him going, and they should have let him leave and probably die in Iraq. As I always say, let Muslims kill each other, and let allah sort it out.

The problem is if he would come back. He’s got the green card golden ticket and would lawyer up with ACLU advocates in his corner. And there are plenty of Jawads who aren’t headed to Iraq or Syria via Jordan. They’re happy to do the work of the jihad right here. In other capacities. This problem isn’t new. It’s old. It’s at least as old as the war in Iraq, and actually older.

I’ve written about many of these people on this site, and Mike McCaul, who never ever did anything about this problem for the decade he was in Congress, had to know about them: Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Does a not-so-modest Muslim girl get to pretend she’s modest in order to score a payday and more dhimmi-deference from a major clothing retail chain?

What if a job applicant comes to your business in a keffiyeh or a hat with a HAMAS emblem? A Hezbollah emblem? An ISIS emblem? Are you required to hire them–you know, to avoid a costly “religious discrimination” lawsuit filed against you by unindicted HAMAS co-conspirator CAIR with the full cooperation and support of the Obama EEOC? You might be. And, sadly, the Christian Becket Fund and seven Orthodox Jewish groups have filed briefs with the courts in support of Samantha Elauf, a Muslim chick who isn’t really as concerned with the modesty she claims she must have in observance of Islam. Now, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear the case.

Obama’s EEOC is suing Abercrombie & Fitch on behalf of Elauf, even though the store chain allows Muslim chicks in hijabs to work there and has hired many of them. I have no love for A&F. The store chain, which is now out of fashion favor and behind the fast-fashion times and trends, for years pimped sex, porn, and sleaze in order to sell its wares. I wrote about and protested this for years. But, while it long ago, slinked away from its lowlife marketing, the store continues to have a “Look Policy” on the kinds of people the store will hire. This is a legitimate business purpose, as many stores, just like health clubs, hire people who look like what they want their customers to aspire to. Nobody wants to buy a gym membership from a morbidly obese woman, for example. The “Look Policy” was also used as a reason not to hire Ms. Elauf because the store does not allow employees to wear hats (though it has hired many women in hijabs as noted below, just not her). Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

From the Oscar going to openly anti-Semitic movie, “Ida,” to John Legend accusing America of now trying to take away the Black vote, to the “Birdman” director using his Oscar win as a platform to pimp us on illegal alien amnesty, last night’s was one of the most politically correct, leftist Academy Awards in years. And, yes, while “American Sniper” is an anti-war movie (and its director, Clint Eastwood, says so; so does Rosie O’Donnell), it got snubbed by Oscar because it’s now perceived as a right-wing pro-American film. And Oscar can’t have that. Amid the boring, predictable Oscar winners were the boring, predictable Oscar PC lectures.

If you haven’t yet made the move to follow me on Twitter, you missed my commentary, last night, about the “Oscars,” which were more overtly far-left than you might realize. Oh, and as I pointed out, they snubbed Joan Rivers from the “In Memoriam” segment, probably because she was openly pro-Israel, a proud Jew, and a proud critic of the Obamas. And we can’t have that. Also, John Travolta and that obvious rug?! Can we talk? I was wondering who the official vacuum cleaner sponsor of Vinnie Barbarino’s rug was.

The clothes were classy. The sentiment uttered from the stage wasn’t. I didn’t need to hear every political viewpoint of every idiot who ever made a movie and got a politically correct gold statue. But, unfortunately, those idiots thought so.

Muslim cop-hating racist rapper Common (a fave Obama White House guest) and John Legend got to sing their stupid song and then got awarded for it, even though it was probably the worst song nominated. Glen Campbell, who is dying of Alzheimer’s Diseases and whose song (from the documentary, “Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me”–read my review) was far better, got screwed in the name of affirmative action. But PC always wins. Almost always, anyway. Then, I was forced to hear Legend tell us how bad America–which has made him a multi-millionaire and wealthy beyond his wildest dreams–is. He lectured us about all the Black men in prison (most of them for committing crimes against other Blacks, about whom Legend apparently doesn’t care). Then, he told us that America wants to take voting rights away from Blacks. Um, they do? Funny, ‘cuz I don’t see the Obama Justice Department moving in that direction. On the contrary, they protect the Black Panthers in their intimidation efforts of all voters. But you won’t hear that from John Legend. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Thirty-five years ago, today, on February 22, 1980, the USA Olympic Hockey Team beat the Soviets in the Semi-finals of the Olympic Hockey competition at the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, and they went on to win the Gold Medal match against Finland. It was a true Cinderella story, as all of these guys on Team USA were amateurs (and none went on to major stardom in the NHL). They were a rag-tag, working-class bunch who slept on former prison cots and had little glamor and no luxury, unlike American Olympians today, who are coddled pros. And, yet, these working-class stiffs, with all of the odds against them, beat the Soviets, who were professionals supported full time from the cradle by the Communist government.

It was one of those events that marked the return of pride to America during the malaise days of the Jimmy Carter years, one of the first high points on the path to the election of Ronald Reagan and America’s turnaround economically, morally, in the foreign arena, and in many other ways. I remember the boys at my Jewish parochial school dressing up as Team USA for Purim, the Jewish holiday on which kids dress up in costumes. I remember my pride in the non-stop chants, “U-S-A! U-S-A!” And I could hear them in my mind, last week, while I was at a screening of “Red Army,” a documentary about the Soviet Hockey system back in those days. The scenes of the 1980 victory seemed like they were yesterday.

Sadly, they were not yesterday. They were 35 years ago today. As I said in 2010, when I marked the 30th anniversary of this tremendous American sports victory, there is no Al-Qaeda Olympic Hockey Team to beat. And, now, there is no ISIS team to whip. No Hezbollah Team, no Iranian Team. And so on. And, while just a few years later we permanently defeated the Soviet Union–to the point that it no longer exists (though some would beg to differ and cite Vladimir Putin), we won’t defeat the Islamic enemy, the way things are going. Right now, it is defeating us. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Two out of three new movies debuting in theaters today are decent. So things are definitely getting better.

* “McFarland, USA“: I had mixed feelings about this. I mostly liked it and do recommend it. But, while it is an incredibly uplifting and positive movie (and if I had kids, I would take them to see it), it also contains several scenes using the stock narrative that most White people are prejudiced and bigoted (in this case, against Hispanics of Mexican descent). This Disney movie has an overall positive message: that no matter who you are or where you come from, through hard work and doing what’s right, you can succeed in America. And, for that reason alone, it’s worthy. I thought that this was going to be a propaganda film for illegal alien amnesty. But, thankfully, it wasn’t. In fact, immigration and the immigration status of those in the movie are never mentioned (even though in real life, they were probably issues).

Based on a true story, Kevin Costner plays coach Jim White, a high school teacher who coaches his high school cross country team to winning the first ever California state championship in the sport in 1987, the year the movie takes place. White moves his family to McFarland, California, a town dominated by immigrants from Mexico, who work the fields picking produce. He notices that, after school, the kids–running to the fields to help their families pick the produce–run at incredibly fast speeds, faster than the top runners in the State of California. And he convinces the local high school to start a cross country team. Despite naysayers, doubters, and bigots on competing teams, his runners work hard, stay the course, and win the state championship. And, on top of that, despite the fact that none of their parents were educated beyond the ninth grade, all of those on the team got college scholarships to run cross country and all of them graduated. Read the rest of this entry »