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Excerpt: From the Nazis to the Stalinists, tyrants have
always started out supporting free speech, and why is easy to understand.
Speech is vital for the realization of their goals of command, control and
confiscation. Basic to their agenda are the tools of indoctrination,
propagandizing, proselytization. Once they gain power, as leftists have at many
universities, free speech becomes a liability and must be suppressed. This is
increasingly the case on university campuses.
Excerpt: Given this pro-life propensity, one might ask how I
could endorse someone who is pro-choice. The answer is this: I'm not an
ideologue who determines a person's worthiness with a litmus test. I have known
Wehby as a friend and colleague for many years, and she is extremely
intelligent and knows how to make decisions based on evidence versus ideology.
Also, in a state like Oregon ,
which is left-leaning, she would not be a viable candidate if she maintained a
pro-life stance. If conservatives are going to win in 2014 and 2016 and
preserve the environment of freedom to which we have grown accustomed, it will
be necessary to learn how to prioritize issues.
Excerpt: The list of his failures is nothing short of
staggering, from shovel-ready jobs that weren’t so shovel ready to the failures
of healthcare.gov to the VA debacle. But it also includes the president’s
failure to tame the debt, lower poverty, decrease income inequality, and
increase job creation. He promised to close Guantanamo Bay New York
but they were forced to retreat because of outrage in his own party. Early on
in his administration Mr. Obama put his prestige on the line to secure the
Olympics for Chicago
in 2016 and he failed.
I highly recommend you subscribe to Jim Geraghty's free
"Morning Jolt" E-newsletter. Below is a sample from the 5/22/14 issue.
~Bob
The Myth of Barack
Obama. By Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt
Bipartisanship: Obama doesn't really respect anyone who
disagrees with him; he prefers to adopt an "only adult in the room"
pose, demagogue issues, and attack straw men. He'll talk about the need for a
"new tone" and then stand by as his allies attack
opponents as "not one of us", accuse them of committing felonies without evidence,
and even of causing cancer. Far from the post-partisan healer he was
sold as in 2007-2008, he's a ruthless demagogue who urges his followers to
"get in their face" and "punish our enemies." "Don't think we're not keeping score, brother." Honesty and willingness to acknowledge
inconvenient truths: He thinks nothing of saying something that isn't
true if it helps him at the political moment -- "if you like your plan,
you can keep your plan." When the promise is broken, it's everyone else's fault but his. Engagement with the world: The president is functionally an isolationist and not
that interested in the world beyond our borders. Russia
Thai military seizes
power in coup, imposes curfew
Excerpt: Thailand ’s
military seized power Thursday in a bloodless coup, dissolving the government,
suspending the constitution and dispersing groups of protesters from both sides
of the country’s political divide who had gathered in Bangkok and raised fears of a violent
showdown.
Excerpt: Matt Bevin will not be the Republican nominee in Kentucky . As much as I
wish he would be, all of us have to deal with reality. The reality is that it
will be Mitch McConnell or Allison Grimes comes November. And I sure as hell
don’t want Allison Grimes. So I will proudly support Mitch McConnell. I sent
his campaign $250.00 today to help build the general election war chest. People
tell me I’m a leader in the conservative movement. Sometimes leading means
going where I’d prefer not to.
Political Correctness
Makes Race And Genetics Taboo In The West, Which Is Why China
Excerpt: Most scientists will tell you that race has no
biological basis—it is, in academic-speak, a “social construct.” But a new book
by distinguished journalist Nicholas Wade challenges that assumption,
concluding that race is real and human social behaviour is subject to natural
selection just like everything else. (There are certainly characteristics
that appear more heavily in one "race" over another (Or the NFL and
NBA are discriminating against Hispanics, Asians and whites.), even given that
races blend into each other at the edges. The determinant in my view is not
race, but culture. Obama identifies as black and is seen that way by supporters
and opponents. But genetically, he is as white as he is black. ~Bob)
Tiananmen: How Wrong We Were. By Jonathan Mirsky
Excerpt: Some of the two hundred thousand pro-democracy
student protesters face to face with policemen outside the Great Hall of the
People in Tiananmen Square ,
Beijing
Twenty-five years ago to the day I write this, I watched and
listened as thousands of Chinese citizens in Beijing ’s
Tiananmen Square dared to condemn their
leaders. Some shouted “Premier Li Peng resign.” Even braver ones cried “Down
with Deng Xiaoping and the Communist Party.” Before long, on the night
of June 3–4, the People’s Liberation Army crashed into the square, rolling
over the tents pitched there by industrial workers who had joined in the
protests, and mowing down unarmed demonstrators. (People have forgotten this
already, and hardly anyone even at the time was aware of how many people were
killed by the Army when the division from the far province came into Beijing . The locally based
military had shown reluctance to be aggressive, so the guys at the top brought
in troops from far away, who were told on the way in that a conspiracy of
traitors was threatening the whole nation, and to be merciless in putting them
down. And they were. People still think that the generation at the top now must
be different, but they are not. They will hang on to power with total
fanaticism, and if anyone were to dare to even start to whisper what was said
in universities before the movement in Tiananmen, they would disappear
in a day at most, and show up in one of those classic communist trials
where the charges are meaningless, the outcome is known, and the example will
be made. Things have not changed. --Del )
Land grab? Local
officials blast move by Obama to set aside 500,000 acres in NM
Excerpt: Local officials in New Mexico warn a move by the Obama
administration to designate nearly a half-million acres as a national
monument could open up a crime corridor making it easier for illegal immigrants
to cross the border and for drug cartels to operate undetected. President Obama
plans to make the announcement Wednesday afternoon, setting aside
498,815 acres of land as the Organ
Mountains-Desert Peaks National
Monument
College Students Know
Terrifyingly Little of Benghazi
Excerpt: Last week we gave you reason to fear for our future
with a terrifying video of college students professing their undying affection
to Hillary Clinton. Then, when asked about her accomplishments, those same
love-struck students could not name a single one… other than something called “Benghazi .” Yep. Clinton ’s one accomplishment to them… was Benghazi .
Excerpt: The economic case against the minimum wage exists,
and has been made by
me and others often enough. But there’s another, even stronger case
against the rule. That is the humanitarian case. And until that case, too,
receives consideration, the debate will always be a lopsided one. (Shlaes is
the author of the wonderful biography Coolidge.
~Bob)
Like! Clinton In-Law
Loses Pennsylvania
Excerpt: State Rep. Brendan Boyle won the Democratic
nomination to succeed Rep. Allyson Schwartz in Pennsylvania 's
13th Congressional District Tuesday and is overwhelmingly favored to take over
the Democratic-leaning district, after besting Clinton in-law and former Rep. Marjorie
Margolies in the primary. Boyle had 58 percent of the vote when the Associated
Press called the race around 9:30 Eastern time, beating Margolies's 22
percent.
Eight Things No
Commencement Speaker Will Say to the Class of 2014 (but someone should!)
Too funny, but too true also. ~Bob
‘Over My Dead Body’:
Spies Fight Obama Push to Downsize Terror War
Excerpt: Since that internal clash—and
since Obama said in his 2012 State of the Union that “al Qaeda operatives who
remain are scrambling, knowing that they can’t escape the reach of the United States of America ”—the
terror group has thrived throughout the Islamic world. In the last year alone,
al Qaeda has established safe havens in Libya, Syria and Iraq.
Obama Ready to Openly
Work with Hamas Terror Group
http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/05/obama-openly-ready-work-hamas-terror-group/
http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/05/obama-openly-ready-work-hamas-terror-group/
Excerpt: Nail meet coffin. Where to begin? More like a
helluva place to end. Because this is an ending — an ending of the United States
as a force for good. An ending of the United States as a moral
government. It's the end of the United
States as we have known it. (Need to verify.
The extreme language makes me wonder, and is counter productive. ~Bob)
Never Again, Again. By
Daniel Greenfield
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2014/05/never-again-again.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FromNyToIsraelSultanRevealsTheStoriesBehindTheNews+%28from+NY+to+Israel+Sultan+Reveals+The+Stories+Behind+the+News%29
Excerpt: If we are to survive, then we must think generationally. If we are to survive, we must live as part of history. And if we are to have hope, it cannot be in the humanitarian Tikkun Olam redemption of the moment, of some secular singularity of hope and change that will transform the world. That hope is for those struggling against the inevitability of their mortality and clinging to the moment. Our hope is not in mortality. It is in immortality. We are not the end of history. We are part of a living thing that stretches through history. Jewish history is not a subject of study. It is either life or it is death. Either Jews will inhabit their history or they will perish outside it.
Excerpt: If we are to survive, then we must think generationally. If we are to survive, we must live as part of history. And if we are to have hope, it cannot be in the humanitarian Tikkun Olam redemption of the moment, of some secular singularity of hope and change that will transform the world. That hope is for those struggling against the inevitability of their mortality and clinging to the moment. Our hope is not in mortality. It is in immortality. We are not the end of history. We are part of a living thing that stretches through history. Jewish history is not a subject of study. It is either life or it is death. Either Jews will inhabit their history or they will perish outside it.
Checking Your Privilege
Every 3,000 Miles. By Jim Goad
http://takimag.com/article/how_to_check_your_privilege_every_3000_miles/print#ixzz32OMLRV2k
http://takimag.com/article/how_to_check_your_privilege_every_3000_miles/print#ixzz32OMLRV2k
Excerpt:
Pretend the ample successes of white-male civilization had nothing to do with
possible genetic privileges that were actually earned through evolutionary
struggles under harsh circumstances. Pretend that all the rage directed at
white males is strictly spurred by a thirst for justice rather than a
deep-rooted shame that it seemed so easy for white males to subjugate other
cultures in the first place. Pretend that the underprivileged are motivated by
compassion rather than envy. Pretend black people don’t have it far better here
than they do in sub-Saharan Africa.
(I don't think the success of Europeans had to do with genetics. I think it was
two things. One was culture, developed in struggle amid small competing states.
the second was geography. Europe had good
ports, rivers that could be navigated and raw materials that were accessible.
Gave them a huge head start over Africans in developing technology. And
technology conquered the world. ~Bob)
Jay Carney lies about
the Veterans Affairs scandal
Excerpt: Jay Carney’s smarmy mendacity is wearing on the
White House press corps to the degree that one or two of them are threatening
to commit journalism instead of staying in the stenographer’s pool.
Worth Reading
Excerpt: Veteran Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki cannot
get a handle on the recent scandalous treatment of veterans in VA hospitals,
where more than 40 sick men were allowed to die without proper follow-up
treatment. A cover-up allegedly followed. When the Walter Reed
Army Medical
Center
White People Be
Playing the Race Card. By Larry Elder (Black Writer)
Excerpt: I'm old enough to remember when only black people
called black people "Uncle Tom." Democrats, however, long expanded
the category of who can play the race card and on whom. Call them equal
opportunity race-card players. As with black race-card hustlers — say the Revs.
Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton or any given host on MSNB-Hee-Haw — white race-card
players label others "racist" for the crime of disagreement. As with
black race-card hustlers, white race-card hustlers need not name names when
accusing someone of "racism." And, as with black race-card hustlers,
the mainscream media will not bother to ask the white race-card hustler
to identify said racists. Some examples:
NC Restaurant With "No Weapons" Sign Robbed at
Gunpoint. By Christine
Rousselle
Excerpt: North
Carolina restaurant The Pit was robbed at
gunpoint on Sunday. Normally, local crime stories like this wouldn't merit
a Townhall post, but this one is different: The Pit has a "no
weapons" sign displayed
prominently on its door declaring the restaurant a gun-free zone, and
bans patrons from carrying concealed weapons. (Schadenfreude is sweet, but to be safe,
stay out of businesses with "no guns allowed" signs. They are easy
targets for armed criminals who don't care about laws or signs, so you are more
likely to be robbed and/or shot there. ~Bob)
Excerpt: A dawn attack on a checkpoint in eastern Ukraine
has left at least 14 soldiers dead, in the worst loss of life for government
forces to date.
A $1.7 Billion
Program That Doesn't Work
Excerpt: Less than half of students enrolled in the most
expensive job training program within the Labor Department complete their
training and find a job, reports the Washington Post.
Part of President Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society"
was the Job Corps, a job training program intended to teach trade skills to
troubled youth. The program is still in place today, and students can take
cooking classes, study to be a nurse or learn the plumbing trade from
government instructors. But a single year of training and job placement costs
taxpayers a whopping $45,000.
It Costs You a Fortune For Obama To Be Green. By Diana Furchtgott-Roth
Excerpt: Solar energy produces a small fraction of one
percent of America 's
electricity and costs almost twice as much to produce as natural gas, according
to the Energy Information Administration. If the 27 percent of U.S.
electricity generated by natural gas came instead from solar power, consumer
costs for monthly electric bills would increase about 25 percent.
Obamacare News
It Won't Always Be
'ObamaCare.' From The Patriot Post
During another fundraiser appearance, Barack Obama repeated
his claim that, because ObamaCare's so great, Republicans will eventually ditch
the term. "First of all, in five years it will no longer be called
ObamaCare," he asserted, "because when something is working, they're
definitely not going to -- there will be a whole renaming process." So how
well is ObamaCare working? Nevada
became the latest state this week to dump its exchange -- another $75 million
down the drain. Nevada
instead is partnering with the other bug-ridden exchange, Healthcare.gov.
Reason's Peter Suderman notes that, "As of the middle of this month, the
state's exchange had only signed up about 30 percent of its target of 118,000
people for insurance coverage." But hey, this thing isworking! Meanwhile,
the feds have ramped up the investigation into Cover Oregon and Oregon Health
Authority, issuing subpoenas to the two departments responsible for wasting
hundreds of millions of dollars on that state's failed exchange.
Excerpt: But the political infection that is Obamacare is
thriving in the body politic. A new Politico poll shows that 48 percent of Americans
support a full repeal of the law, 35 percent want to at least modify the law –
and only 16 percent think it should be left as it is.
3 Things Obamacare Is Doing to Workplace Health Coverage.
By Alyene Senger
Excerpt: The vast majority of Americans have health coverage
through their employers. Thus, during the health reform debate and after Obamacare’s
passage, President Obama repeatedly asserted that those with employer coverage
wouldn’t be affected at all. Indeed, he said:
[F]or the 85 and 90 percent of Americans who already have
health insurance, this thing’s already happened. And their only impact is that
their insurance is stronger, better and more secure than it was before. Full
stop. That’s it. They don’t have to worry about anything else. But much like the
president’s other promises, this one is badly broken
Yes, Some People Will Have to Pay Back Their Obamacare
Subsidies. By Amy Payne
Excerpt: Obamacare offers subsidies to help pay for health
insurance – if you are buying insurance through the federal exchange and your
income qualifies. But now the word is out that at least 1 million people are
probably getting the wrong subsidy amounts. (Oh, goody. Listening to the
screams will be better than watching two Jihadists fighting over the affections
of a goat. ~Bob)
It's just another
Obamacare lie
Waste of Taxpayer
Dollars in Exchanges
Excerpt: There was massive mismanagement of federal dollars
in the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, according to Christopher
Conover, adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, Yevgeniy Feyman,
Manhattan Institute policy analyst, and Katherine Restrepo, policy analyst at
the John Locke Foundation. ... Nationally, federal taxpayers spent $4,633 per
enrollee that signed up on the exchanges through April 19. That figure varies
state to state, as Hawaii spent $ 24,947 in
federal tax dollars per enrollee, while Tennessee
spent $3,038. On average, federal taxpayers paid 94 cents in subsidies for
every dollar in exchange plan premiums. This does not mean that taxpayers
covered 94 percent of premium costs, because taxpayers funded not just premium
subsidies, but also the administrative costs of running the exchanges. In Arizona , taxpayers paid 63 cents for every dollar of
exchange premiums, while Hawaii
paid $6.38 for every dollar of exchange premiums.
Religion of Peace News
80 US troops in Chad
Excerpt: The United States
has deployed 80 military personnel to Chad
to help locate the nearly 300 girls kidnapped in Nigeria last month, President Obama
said Wednesday. (Not the first time the US military has chased slavers. Chad is only 495,755 square miles, meaning each US trooper will
only be responsible for search 826 square miles. ~Bob)
Excerpt: Pakistani warplanes and helicopters pounded
militant hideouts near the Afghan border on Wednesday, killing 60 fighters,
while a shootout between security forces and militants left four soldiers dead,
the army said. The airstrikes mainly targeted Mir Ali, a town in the lawless
tribal region of North Waziristan , the army
said in a statement. Hours later, "an encounter between security forces
and terrorists took place" in Mir Ali, leaving 11 insurgents and four
soldiers dead, the military said in a separate statement.
The Hill: Obama Looks
to Outsource Counterterrorism Efforts. By John Rossomando
Excerpt: An increase in funding for the Pentagon's "Section 1206" counterterrorism programs, aimed
at training and equipping foreign militaries to fight terrorism, suggests a
shift in the Obama administration's strategy, The Hill reports. This shift could mean a decreased
reliance on drone strikes against al-Qaida targets and U.S. Special Forces
raids like the one that killed Osama bin Laden. The drone program has garnered
significant criticism from foreign governments as well as from people on the
left and the right at home. (Fat, soft Republics always turn to mercenaries
when their own citizens are no longer willing to bear the hardships o defending
them. It is usually in the final stages of collapse. Nicolo Machiavelli, the
father of modern political science, said, "Mercenaries and auxiliaries are
useless and dangerous; and if one holds his state based on these arms, he will
stand neither firm nor safe; for they are disunited, ambitious and without
discipline, unfaithful, valiant before friends, cowardly before enemies; they
have neither the fear of God nor fidelity to men, and destruction is deferred
only so long as the attack is; for in peace one is robbed by them, and in war
by the enemy. The fact is, they have no other attraction or reason for keeping
the field than a trifle of stipend, which is not sufficient to make them
willing to die for you."
Last two Somalis get
time in attack on Ashland
Excerpt: A federal prosecutor said a Somali man convicted of
piracy stood ready to launch a rocket-propelled grenade at a Navy ship four
years ago. The man, Mohamed Abdi Jama, was sentenced Thursday to 41-1/2 years
in federal prison for his role in the April 2010 pirating attempt on the dock
landing ship Ashland .
Another Somali, Abdicasiis Cabaase, was sentenced to 42-1/2 years in prison for
his role in the attack. (Wouldn't it be cheaper to shoot them? I'll bring my
own rifle and ammo. ~Bob)
Mashudur Choudhury
becomes first British person convicted for terror offences in Syria
Excerpt: Mr Williams said Choudhury held a “junior position”
as a racial harassment caseworker
six years ago after a criminal records check and was seconded as a part-time development worker in the Muslim
community. (Isn't that like being a community organizer? ~Bob)
American man's wife is
sentenced to death in Sudan
Excerpt: As I've discussed here
and on air, Meriam Ibrahim is the wife of a US citizen, Daniel Wani. Mr Wani
lives in Manchester , New Hampshire Granite State US
citizen for almost a decade. I don't think it's in the interests of Americans
for thug states to learn they can execute the spouses of US citizens with
impunity. That will not improve the security of Americans and westerners as
they move around the world. As I said the other day, the spouse of a US citizen is
entitled to US citizenship herself: It's essentially non-discretionary. So Mrs
Wani is in effect an American-in-waiting.
Obama
Administration distances itself from Libyan general who vowed to rid Libya of
jihadists. By Robert Spencer
Excerpt: Whatever else may be true about Barack Obama, one
thing is certain: he always acts in ways that aid and abet the advance of
Sharia and Islamic supremacism. He killed bin Laden and Awlaki, and keeps up
the drone strikes, you say? Whatever involvement he may have had in those
things, he has always acted in support of Islamic supremacists who wanted to
impose Sharia by peaceful means. And here his administration is distancing
itself from General Haftar for fighting against Islamic jihadists.
Jihad group calls for
attack of Indian targets worldwide
Excerpt: A jihad group has released a 10-minute video that
calls on key fundamental Islamic leaders to attacks Indian targets worldwide in
retaliation for the alleged atrocities committed against Muslims in India .
Foreign ISIS Fighter
in Iraq : We Will Conquer Jerusalem , Rome , and Spain
Video clip with subtitles in English.
Insurgents behead 16
Afghan police in past 24 hours: officials
Excerpt: Insurgents have killed 16 policemen in Afghanistan in
the space of one day and beheaded eight of them, officials said Wednesday, as
security forces prepare to guard a second-round election. Villagers in the
southern province
of Zabul
Excerpt: The Islamist group Boko Haram has been accused of
killing at least 27 people in attacks on two villages in north-east Nigeria , close
to where hundreds of schoolgirls were seized.
Xinjiang jails 39 for
'inciting holy war, spreading terrorism'
Excerpt: Courts in Xinjiang have jailed dozens of people in
a special operation to curb the spread of audios and videos inciting terrorism,
the Xinjiang Higher People's Court said yesterday.
Terrorist attack on
market in China
Excerpt: Two cars plowed through crowds of shoppers in a
busy street market in the capital of China ’s restive western Xinjiang
region Thursday, setting off multiple explosives, killing 31 people and
wounding more than 90, the government said, in what it called a vile act of
terrorism.
Child Describes How Boko Haram Murdered Her Father Who
Wouldn't Deny Jesus Christ. By Greg Hengler
Excerpt: The Scripture her father recited to Boko Haram
before they murdered him comes from the mouth of Jesus Christ in Matthew
10:32-33:
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