Update
Feeling sorry for yourself? Get over it. Player With
Brain Tumor Fulfills Basketball Dream
Excerpt: Much depends on Hill's health and energy as she
deals with an inoperable brain tumor that has left her with just months to
live. In between making two layups that started and finished Sunday's 66-55
victory over Hiram
College
General News and Comment
A Wave?
I think you can call it a wave election for Republicans,
even though I'm disappointed in NH. Brown came from behind but not quite far
enough, Alas. I think the GOP will pick up Alaska
and Louisiana , but probably not Virginia , though the GOP
candidate out-performed the polls by 8 points. The GOP prevailed in the
governors' races, which were supposed to be a democrat bright spot, notably in deep
blue Massachusetts , Maryland
and Illinois .
But 2010 was also a wave--and Obama won in 2012. You shouldn't think this means
the GOP will win in 2016. Midterm elections have lower turnouts, and
Republicans are generally more motivated to vote than Democrats. That's why we
called a cold, rainy election day in Massachusetts
"Republican weather," and why the GOP usually has a better chance in
special elections. The turnout in midterms tends to be older, better educated,
more informed about politics and have fewer minority voters. That changes in
presidential years. If you want to win in 2016, start now. ~Bob
The Election
I think someone has beaten me to this, but I think we can
now expect a hurricane of executive orders, as Barry tries to rule by decree
until the new Congress is sworn in, betting that neither the lame duck nor the
next Congress will challenge him. He may also tell himself he can sustain any
veto in the new Congress. But can he? His mojo is clearly gone. If McConnell
and Boehner decide to stand up to him (ROTFLMAO), how many Dem senators would
take his side? In a healthy system I'd expect two years of vigorous hand to
hand legislative combat. But we'll probably have more speeches and golf. --Tom
H.
Election
Analysis - Executive Summary. By Andy Weddington
Excerpt: "Winning
the election is a good-news, bad news kind of thing. Okay, now you're the
mayor. The bad news is, now you're the mayor." Clint Eastwood
It’s a Wave: Republicans Take US Senate, Build Majority in
House, Grab Governorships. By Josh Siegel
Excerpt: In a near-sweep of yesterday’s midterm elections,
Republicans shifted the balance of power in the U.S. Senate, gaining at least
seven seats, widened their majority in the House by at least 11 seats and
defeated Democrats in 24 governor’s races.
An unhappy electorate is toughest on Obama and the
Democrats. By Dan Balz
Excerpt: Campaign 2014 surpassed its advance billing, as an
electorate that was deeply unhappy with all its leaders handed the biggest
rebuke to President Obama and the Democrats by giving Republicans control of
the Senate. For
Democrats, election night turned out far worse than any of them had feared.
Dems off the ‘Mark.’
By Carter Eskew
Excerpt: If you want to know just how strong the Republican
tide was last night, consider that in the wave election years 1980, 1986,
1994 and 2006, 27 total incumbent U.S. senators lost their bids for reelection.
The vast majority of those races were very close; the average losing margin was
less than four points, and that average is weighed down by George McGovern’s
loss in 1980 (39.4 percent of the vote) and Rick Santorum’s in 2006 (41.3
percent). Yesterday, one Democrat, Mark Pryor, didn’t break 40 percent of the
vote and only one, Kay Hagan came within four points of the victor (47.3
percent).
Video--great story: Mia Love Celebrates Big Victory
In Utah
Excerpt: Congressman elect Mia Love celebrated her surprise
victory in Utah
as the first black Republican woman to be elected to the House of
Representatives. But during an interview with CNN this morning, Love was quick
to explain that she was not elected because of her race or gender.
Scott Walker elected
to second term, third election victory in four years
http://host.madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/elections/scott-walker-elected-to-second-term-third-election-victory-in/article_6c081fbe-945c-5e74-b248-a8e692b6e52e.html
http://host.madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/elections/scott-walker-elected-to-second-term-third-election-victory-in/article_6c081fbe-945c-5e74-b248-a8e692b6e52e.html
Scott Walker’s
re-election today will crazy up the crazies. By Dave Blaska
Excerpt: Will Scott Walker be elected governor of Wisconsin for the third
time in four years? The answer is yes. Walker
will win because Professor Charles Franklin’s Marquette
Law school poll says so — and by the same 7-point margin Walker
won the recall election, by the very margin Franklin called then. Walker will win because The
Capital Times poll still shows Burke stubbornly ahead. (I heard Dave Blaska
speak at "Pints and Politics" election night. A conservative blogger
in Madison WI! I thought I was alone. ~Bob)
'Lame Duck' Obama:
'Worst Situation Since Eisenhower. 'Republicans take back the Senate as Obama
admits to voter 'frustration in the government, polarization has gotten worse.'
Excerpt: Obama showed his disappointment on
Tuesday night, speaking on a Hartford radio
show where he admitted "this is probably the worst possible group of
states for Democrats since Dwight Eisenhower."..."There are a lot of
states that are being contested where they just tend to tilt Republican, and
Democrats are competitive, but they tend to tilt that way," said the
president, who will be a "lame duck" until presidential elections in
2016.... "They know things have gotten better from where they were six
years ago, but they don't see the kind of cooperation between Democrats and
Republicans they'd like to see." (Recent polls show majority of US
citizens think US on the road the Hell in a hand-basket (or some such) and O
thinks "things are better than they were six years ago." Well,
that tells US what his goals for the country are, doesn't it? --Barb)
WH Privately Tells
CNN Obama To Fake Bipartisanship: ‘Don’t Expect Us To Work With Them’
http://patdollard.com/2014/11/obama-exec-amnesty-like-just-popping-a-grenade-and-throwing-it-in-the-middle-of-the-senate-floor/
http://patdollard.com/2014/11/obama-exec-amnesty-like-just-popping-a-grenade-and-throwing-it-in-the-middle-of-the-senate-floor/
Excerpt: “In talking to a senior administration official who
said ‘We’re not gonna sign a bunch of their bills, period. We’re gonna veto
stuff. Sure, we’ll have ‘em down to the White House, but don’t expect
us to work with them.'”
Around the world, harsh words for ‘lame duck’ Obama. By Adam Taylor
Excerpt: Before voting was even finished, newspaper was
already pretty sure that President Obama would be the source of Democratic
failure in the midterm elections. "Obama always utters 'Yes, we can,'
which led to the high expectations people had for him. But he has done an
insipid job, offering nearly nothing to his supporters," the paper said in
an op-ed published Tuesday. "U.S. society has grown tired of his
banality."
The 2016 campaign is under way.
(Sorry.)
Ben Carson Officially
Switches Political Parties
Excerpt: It’s not just the United States Senate that
switched political parties on Election Day. Ben Carson, the neurosurgeon and
conservative phenomenon who rocketed to fame when he challenged Barack Obama at
a prayer breakfast last year, also officially changed his political
affiliation, moving from independent to Republican. The step is another
indication Carson may
run for president in 2016. (I admire Dr. Carson, but think he's a bit naive
about politics. ~Bob)
Government Never
Changes
I'm reading American
Slavery, American Freedom, a very interesting history of early Virginia . In the 1600s,
the Virginia Assembly complained that an act of parliament affecting their
trade was the result of avaricious men "whose sickle has been over long in
our harvest." I laughed out loud--nothing changes. Government is still
where "avaricious men" got to put their sickle in your harvest.
Certain politicians
think businesses don't create jobs - but they've never worked anywhere!
How can people like Hilary and Obama talk about who and what
makes jobs, when they have never had a real job in their lives, have always
lived since college among the "elite", and don't even know the guy
who molds the tires or puts jet fuel in the 747 or works high steel? But the
elitist combination of arrogance and ignorance makes them bulletproof from mere
reality. The only good thing is that this arrogance leads them to make the kind
of statements that tell all the rest of us just how out of touch with the real
world they are. --Del.
From the forwarded email: I think some people in politics don't have a clue
about a free market and economy based on these principles, couple with an
ignorance of the Constitution. And Big government does not create jobs, it
creates waste! Please reference the following and pass on to many others: This
is an absurd viewpoint suggested in the following links (and also click on the
links within the links to get real, video context):
Running for
President:
Tweet from Erick Erickson @EWErickson
Let’s try that again: Just because you’re a partisan you
have no right to be an ass to your neighbor of a different party.
Football, the Newest Partisan Divide. By David Leonhardt
Excerpt: To the list of issues that divide the country along
partisan lines, you can add an unusual item: football. Yes, virtually every
slice of America
still watches football in enormous numbers. But blue America — particularly the highly
educated Democratic-leaning areas of major metropolitan areas — is increasingly
deciding that it doesn’t want its sons playing football. The number of boys
playing high school football has fallen 15 percent over the last six years in
both Minnesota and Wisconsin , according to the National
Federation of State High School Associations. (John Kass, the Chicago Tribune's
token conservative pundit, thinks football will die out, due to the growing
evidence of long term neurological damage to many players. I love football, but
this gives me pause as well. Of course, if conservatives turn against football,
liberals will say it's a plot to keep young, black males from becoming
financial successful through the sport. ~Bob)
Obama lied? E-mail points to White House involvement
in USDA’s firing of Shirley Sherrod. By Mary Clare Jalonick
Excerpt: A 2010 e-mail from Agriculture Secretary Tom
Vilsack says his department was “waiting for the go-ahead” from the White House
before accepting the resignation of Shirley Sherrod, according to newly
released documents, despite Obama administration assertions that her ouster was
Vilsack’s decision alone. (Show me your shocked face. ~Bob)
Sizing
America Up. In today’s foreign-relations climate, even a Jimmy
Carter would seem like a godsend. By Victor Davis
Hanson
Excerpt: A weak, lame-duck Barack Obama, who has now
eroded a once exuberant Democratic party, will be even weaker in the next two
years. If Democratic senators who had been his stalwart supporters — voting
with him over 97 percent of the time — campaigned on not wanting any connection
with Obama, one can imagine what our enemies abroad think of him. If Obama
adopted policies of neo-appeasement when he enjoyed a 65 percent approval
rating in 2009, one can imagine his approach when his positives dip below 40
percent.
Excerpt: The menacing letter sent out to a million New York
Democrats to bully them into voting was written by a top campaign strategist
who was appointed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo himself, sources told The Post. The
revelation comes as a “circular firing squad” of finger-pointing has erupted
over who is responsible for the letter, which was sent out last week by the New
York State Democratic Committee and caused “panic” in the Cuomo camp, sources
said.
Socialist Economics: Venezuela
Excerpt: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says he will
increase the minimum wage by 15% starting in December. The raise, the third
this year, comes amid an annual inflation rate of 63.4%.
Right-to-Work Laws
Make Unions More Accountable
Excerpt: Much opposition to paying union dues resides in the
concern that unions will use the dues for political activity. While it is
possible for a worker, even in a non-right-to-work state, to "opt
out" of his dues being used for political purposes, Sherk says that it is
a difficult thing to do in practice. Moreover, he explains that mandatory dues
make unions less responsive to workers' concerns; because employees are
required to pay dues regardless of union activity, unions have little incentive
to listen to the concerns of their members. According to Sherk, in
non-right-to-work states, unions charge their members higher dues and give
their union officers higher salaries than in right-to-work states. When states
implement right-to-work legislation and make union dues voluntary, unions
become more responsive to their members.
Academic Science
Isn’t Sexist. By Wendy M.
Williams and Stephen J. Ceci, NYT
Excerpt: There’s no argument that, until recently,
universities deserved their reputations as bastions of male privilege and
outright sexism. But times have changed. Many of the common, negative
depictions of the plight of academic women are based on experiences of older
women and data from before the 2000s, and often before the 1990s. That’s not to
say that mistreatment doesn’t still occur — but when it does, it is largely
anecdotal, or else over generalized from small studies. ... Wendy M. Williams and Stephen J. Ceci are
professors of human development at Cornell.
Countries Boost
Incomes, Reduce Poverty with Capitalism
Excerpt: From 1990 to 2011, the percent of the world's
population living in extreme poverty fell from 36 percent down to 15 percent.
Why? Douglas Irwin, economics professor at Dartmouth College
Too Late to Help: Jeanne Shaheen Conspired With White
House Insider On IRS Targeting Scandal
Excerpt: Democratic New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen was
principally involved in a plot with Lois Lerner and President Barack Obama’s
political appointee at the IRS to lead a program of harassment against
conservative nonprofit groups during the 2012 election, according to letters
exclusively obtained by The Daily Caller.
Tweet from Katie Pavlich @KatiePavlich
Wendy Davis lost tonight, and the other sweet victory is
that her Texas Senate seat was taken by a female tea partier.
Tweet from Erick Erickson @EWErickson
Congratulations to those bigots in South
Carolina for electing an Indian governor and a black United States
senator.
Tweet from David Frum @davidfrum
In about 75 minutes, Ds will decide that filibuster,
formerly bad, is now good.
Tweet from David Henry @imau2fan
The lesson to Dems tonight ... you may like your seat, but
you can't keep your seat.
Tweet from Kyle Wingfield
AJC @kwingfieldajc
What kind of night has it been for the GOP? In Georgia , one
John F. Kennedy was elected to the state Senate ... as a Republican.
Army's last
Vietnam-era draftee retires at age 62
Excerpt: The U.S.
military says a central New York
native has retired as the Army's last Vietnam-era draftee. The 2nd Infantry
Division's public affairs office at Camp Red Cloud in South Korea
says Chief Warrant Officer 5 Ralph Rigby's retirement ceremony was held Oct.
28, his 62nd birthday.
Whoever Wins Today,
Obama’s Most Dangerous Years Are Just Ahead
Excerpt: Now the country is faced with the reality of a
president who cannot even keep himself and his staff under control to help his
own political allies. Such a performance bodes ill for the next two years. What
is most likely to come is two years of a president who no longer believes he is
answerable to anyone, not his own party, not the next Democratic nominee for
president, and certainly not the people of the country at large.
The U.S.
Excerpt: Americans should remain vigilant. The chance that
an Internet tax could go into effect at home is not slim. American activism to
protect Internet access should match and exceed the scale of Hungary ’s.
Vote Fraud News
No ID needed
I went to the voting place today and when they ask me my name
I told them I would have to look and see what my name for the day is as
you suggested. They didn't think it was as funny as I did. --Butch
Excerpt: One of the biggest voter frauds may be the idea
promoted by Attorney General Eric Holder and others that there is no voter
fraud, that laws requiring voters to have a photo identification are just
attempts to suppress black voting. Reporter John Fund has written three books
on voter fraud and a recent survey by Old Dominion
University
TX: The Picture You’re Seeing Allegedly From Within a
Texas
Excerpt: An elections administrator in Bexar County , Texas
NC: Voting machine again displays wrong choice
Excerpt: Percy Bostick, 69, of Greensboro said he tried casting a vote for
Democrat Kay Hagan at the Old Guilford County Courthouse, only to have the
machine register Republican Thom Tillis as his choice. (Unlike the two cases in
IL and the one in MD where GOP votes were flipped to Democrat, liberals will
believe this was fraud. The GOP votes to Dem were "calibration errors."
~Bob)
In North Carolina
Excerpt: Over the years James O’Keefe and Project Veritas
have proven, time and again, that the things Democrats pretend don’t exist –
really do. Whether at ACORN, Planned Parenthood or even in our supposedly
non-partisan polling stations. Liberals like to pretend that voter fraud is not
an issue of any seriousness – that the concerns are simply trumped up attempts
by conservatives to hide our “closet” racism. The facts don’t bear that out.
The facts lead us to believe that Democrats actually approve of voter fraud
because voter fraud inordinately benefits Democrats. (But see above. ~Bob)
1.8 Million Voters
Are Dead (And Other Facts You Didn’t Know About Voter Fraud). By Jessica Kline / Joe Rusenko
Excerpt: The infographic below highlights different types of
voter fraud and startling, real instances where fraud has imperiled the
integrity of elections. Fortunately, steps like voter ID laws can be taken to
ensure the integrity of elections. You can read the full informational booklet,
“Does Your Vote Count?” here and
a companion site that documents over 200 instances of voter fraud here.
Does your vote count?
Documents 200 cases of vote fraud. ~Bob
GOP Name Missing,
Voting Machines Malfunction: Anomalies hit midterm races across America
Excerpt: Dozens of precincts across Virginia on
Tuesday reported voting machine troubles, while in Colorado the
state’s election system had to be rebooted, and in Texas the Republican candidate’s name
was found to be missing from the ballots in one county. The incidents, and
others that have arisen Tuesday, raised questions about the integrity of the
American election system, which has taken a bludgeoning in recent years because
of incidents of fraud. In Virginia Beach, officials with the campaign of Rep.
Scott Rigell, R-Va., reported voting machine problems already had encompassed
43 precincts, according to WVEC-TV in Norfolk .
VA: Watch This Virginia
Excerpt: An anonymous Virginia
voter has posted
a YouTube video of a voting machine selecting the wrong candidate. In
the video, the voter attempts to select Rep. Scott Rigell, R-Va., but the box
next to his opponent, Democrat Suzanne Patrick, is selected instead.
Gun News
Election Eve Dump:
Justice Department Releases 64,280 Pages Of ‘Fast And Furious’ Docs
Excerpt: “The sheer volume of last night’s document
production — which consists entirely of documents that the Justice Department
itself acknowledges are not covered by executive privilege — shows that the
president and the attorney general attempted to extend the scope of the
executive privilege well beyond its historical boundaries to avoid disclosing
documents that embarrass or otherwise implicate senior Obama administration
officials,” reads the oversight committee press release. According to the press
release, around two-thirds of the released documents are “well outside the
scope of Executive Privilege.”
Thai military
distributes rifles to fight insurgents in south
Excerpt: Thailand 's
army distributed 2,700 assault rifles to volunteers over the past two months to
fight insurgents in the south, officials say. The policy comes amid a spike in
violence in the conflict which afflicts the Muslim-majority provinces.
Race Card News
Right on cue: Libs
spew ‘Uncle Tom’ hatred after S.C. GOP Sen. Tim Scott’s historic win
Pro-GOP Chicago
Excerpt: A black Chicago
pastor is speaking out about death threats he has received after publicly
supporting the Republican candidate for governor. The harassment didn't end
there. This weekend, nearly $8,000 was stolen from New Beginnings
Church
Michelle To Black
Voters: Just Vote Democrat, Then Celebrate With Fried Chicken [VIDEO]
Excerpt: First lady Michelle Obama has a message to black
voters: Don’t worry about what candidates have done or said– just vote for the
Democrats. (Think if a Republican told blacks it's okay to eat fried chicken,
there would be a reaction in the media? ~Bob)
Another Day, Another
Democrat Calling Obama Opposition Racist
Excerpt: It must get tiring for liberals in the media to be
forced into the same conversations time and again with their
Democrat guests. The questions may be different, but the answers always seem to
be the same… RACISM. (It's all they have left, after endless policy failures.
~Bob)
Obamacare/Government Healthcare News
http://healthblog.ncpa.org/health-policy-after-the-mid-terms-ncpas-early-take/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=HA#more-39390
Excerpt: Republican candidates won a decisive victory at the
voting booth on Tuesday, in all races: House, Senate, governorships and state
legislatures. The future of Obamacare has never looked worse. The next battle
is more daunting: the Republican Party needs to avoid shooting itself in the
foot, govern in a way that achieves results rather than perpetuates partisan
bickering and continue to develop patient-centered health reform for the
post-Obamacare future. Although Obamacare itself will not be repealed until
January 2017, Republican success yesterday gives depth, resilience and energy
to the post-Obamacare health reform movement.
Here is a list of some priorities for the new Congress:
Majority of ObamaCare
Users Will Drop Their Coverage. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: That’s
bad news for ObamaCare and it’s worse news because that majority is
increasingly drawn from the middle class which is one more step toward turning
ObamaCare into Medicaid. Fifty-one percent of respondents in a survey of last
year’s Obamacare exchange customers don’t plan to purchase an exchange plan
this year, according to a Bankrate Health Insurance Pulse survey out Monday.
All ages see higher
premiums under Obamacare. By Philip Klein
Excerpt: Monthly premiums for health insurance soared in
2014, the first year of Obamacare’s full implementation, according to a new study. The report by
HealthPocket.com — a site that allows consumers to compare health plans —
compared rates from 2013 and 2014. “The analysis of pre- and post-Obamacare
health insurance in the individually purchased health insurance market
demonstrates a clear increase of average premiums across age groups and both
sexes,” researchers found.
Ben Carson: Obamacare
Will ‘Collapse Under Its Own Weight’
Video.
Obama Sued
For Changing Obamacare: Case charges president illegally flipped
federal law 'upside down'
Excerpt: Major Garrett wrote in National Journal: “The
Affordable Care Act means what it says and says what it means. Until it
doesn’t.” And the New York Times compiled a list of more than a dozen significant changes President Obama
made to the law in just over a year, such as extending deadlines and
allowing insurers to reinstate canceled plans. All of that could be the subject
of a federal court hearing in Washington on
Wednesday, where a lawsuit challenges as unlawful the executive orders Obama
used to unilaterally alter Obamacare, without any approval or endorsement from
Congress, which wrote the law.
"You're Greener than Gore" News
Click on pic to enlarge.
Democrats' "War on the Poor:" Loss of Coal
Will Boost Power Costs by 25 Percent
Excerpt: Companies have announced that 27 gigawatts (27,000
megawatts) of coal power will be permanently shut down by 2020, but according
to a report from Standard & Poor's, between 40 and 75 gigawatts of coal
power might be shut down by the end of the decade. One megawatt, according to
Naureen S. Malik and Harry Weber of Bloomberg, can supply power for 800 homes.
Malik and Weber report that 18 percent of the units closed by the end of 2015
will be replaced with renewable energy and natural gas. What do the closures
mean for electricity costs? According to a new report from the Brattle Group,
the loss of coal will increase the price of power by 25 percent for energy
grids that currently supply power for one-third of the nation. The group says
that the Midwest and Northeast will be most
affected, as the areas get especially cold in the wintertime.
Religion of Peace News
Obama Just Handed
Over a Bunch of Anti-Tank Missiles to ISIS . By
Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: Who could
have predicted this would happen? Oh everyone. I’m not even going
to bother with an “I
Told You So”. Everyone outside the D.C. bubble was predicting this. Two of the main rebel groups receiving
weapons from the United States
to fight both the regime and jihadist groups in Syria
U.S. officials
consider striking another militant group in Syria, Jabhat al-Nusra
Excerpt: U.S.
officials are weighing whether to broaden the air campaign in Syria to strike a militant group that is a rival
to the Islamic State and that is poised to take over a strategically vital
corridor from Turkey .
Obama Knew Where US #ISIS
Hostages Were Being Held But Refused to Act (Video). By Jim Hoft
Excerpt: The White House knew for several weeks where the US hostages
were being held. But Obama failed to act.
Report: Obama Raises
'Centrifuge Ceiling' in Iran
Excerpt: The Obama administration may be covertly
allowing Iran 's
nuclear program to enrich more uranium than in initial agreements, a
state-approved Iranian website said Wednesday - amid reports that he
is looking to bypass congressional approval for a full-fledged nuclear deal.
According to the report, the White House has allowed Iran to
enrich uranium by operating 6,000 centrifuges - 2,000 more than
initially reports last month. And that is after Obama has slowly raised
the centrifuge threshold, it said - from 500 to 1,500 and finally to
4,000 - in a series of negotiations.
I have never in my
life felt vulnerable as a Jew in America
Excerpt: I have never in my increasingly long life felt
vulnerable as a Jew in America .
I never even dreamed it would happen. But it has now — with the Obama
administration.
Something is seriously wrong. At
almost every opportunity, Obama and his minions have criticized Israel out of
all proportion to the actions of the Jewish state, particularly during the
recent Gaza War when there was a constant barrage of warnings from our State
Department about harming civilians. (This is a criticism State would never turn
on itself. Who knows how many innocents have died in the U.S. air attacks on ISIS
— no one even says a word about it.) ()What would one expect from a man who
professes Christianity and states he was charmed to hear the call of the
muezzin? Would he be charmed to hear Kol Nidre? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4vMFNwwmLE&feature=player_embedded,
a Gregorian chant, Handel's Messiah or Feliz Navidad? Obama will one day be
revealed (if he doesn't do it himself)as a kind of Manchurian Candidate.
Cordially, Larry Greenberg. Exactly what I have thought for awhile now. It
caused me to resign from a prestigious Jewish community group because
"there are none so blind as those who will not see..." --DG)
University
Instructor: U.S. University
of Arizona expert says U.S.
Excerpt: A University of Arizona instructor is facing
criticism for claiming that the U.S. military is “a greater threat” than the
Islamic State (IS) and for portraying American soldiers as anti-Muslim rapists
who commit crimes on par with—or even worse than—IS itself.
Rights group: Child captives faced ‘torture and abuse’ by
Islamic State, By Hugh Naylor
Excerpt: Kurdish children from the besieged Syrian town of Kobane were beaten with
electrical cables and forced to watch beheading videos while held in captivity
by Islamic State militants, an international rights group said Tuesday. The
report by Human Rights Watch is the latest to document claims of atrocities and
abuses by the Islamic State, including accounts of public executions of dozens
of opposition fighters in Iraq
in the past week.
The sister of Hamas
spokesperson Moussa Abu Marzouk is being treated for cancer in an Israeli
hospital, Israel
Excerpt: The report did not mention at which hospital
60-year-old Halamia Shcata was being treated but did note that her condition is
critical. She is reportedly suffering from late-stage cancer. Hamas leaders
continually call for the destruction of the Jewish State on the political level
but also send their sick family members to Israel for medical care. Marzouk’s
sister, Shcata, is the latest to receive medical treatment in Israel . Two
weeks ago, it was reported that Gazan Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh had turned to
the Tel Aviv Soraski
Medical Center
Christian Couple
Brutally Beaten by Muslim Mob, Then Burnt Alive in Oven
The "real Islam" John Kerry wants us to get out.
~Bob
Children of the
Caliphate. The Islamic State is raising an army of child soldiers, and the West
could be fighting them for generations to come. By Kate Brannen
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/10/24/children_of_the_caliphate_iraq_syria_child_soldiers
Excerpt: They stand in the front row at public beheadings
and crucifixions held in Raqqa, the Islamic State's stronghold in Syria . They're
used for blood transfusions when Islamic State fighters are injured. They are
paid to inform on people who are disloyal or speak out against the Islamic
State. They are trained to become suicide bombers. They are children as young
as 6 years old, and they are being transformed into the Islamic State's
soldiers of the future. (Understanding the extremity of the views of these
total fanatics is important. This is why they are very dangerous, to all other
Muslims as well as to everyone else in the world, but Westerners first. Indoctrinating
child soldiers is one of the most awful and long lasting atrocities there is. That
is how Pol Pot raised a corps of teenage boys to commit horrific murders with
never a qualm. And one more time... this is NOT about all Muslims or about
Islam as a religion, it's about how a segment of those in the religion can read
it as a demand to be brutal killers and merciless bosses of a religious state. But
when they are this organized, this smart, this well supported, they have to be
taken very seriously, and in the end, they must be smashed as the Nazis were,
for the sake of everyone. But where is the leadership needed to accomplish
this? --Del )
“Take Your Best
Shot”, Was The Marine Guarding The Canada
I can attest to the fact that Maj Ralph E. G. "The
Fox" Sink. Is real. He enlisted in the Corps mid 60s . When I was Company
1stSgt C. Co 2nd Recon Bn, 2nd MARDIV . He was the CO of "A" Company.
Later he was the assault company Co 8th Mar. reg. for the NATO cruise
we took to Norway .
He served in 2d and 3d Recon Bns that I know of. Before my wife Cola and I
married she rented his house in J-ville . Maj Sink taught at the U.S. Naval
Academy. He holds Dual US and Canadian citizenship, his Mother was US his
Father Canadian. He now lives on his cattle ranch just outside of Ottawa . He has a
residence just inside the U.S. Which
he uses to vote "Very Conservative" --Marine vet.
Another Palestinian
Terrorist Crashes Car Into Israeli Crowd, Killing One
Excerpt: at two separate spots near the light rail,
including one crowded station, killing a Border Police officer and injuring 14
other people, according to The Jerusalem Post. Israeli authorities were aware
that the terrorist, Ibrahim al-Acri, was a Hamas operative, and the terrorist
organization claimed responsibility for the attack, referring to al Acri as a
"martyr" who conducted "a heroic operation." (Or, as Obama
calls them, another "traffic incident." ~Bob)
We drove Saddam’s
Yellowcake to Baghdad Airport
Excerpt: As someone who led the company that transported 550
metric tons of yellowcake uranium-enough to make fourteen Hiroshima-size
bombs-from Saddam's nuclear complex in the Iraq War's notorious "Triangle
of Death" for air shipment out of the country, I know Baathist Iraq 's WMD
potential existed. In early 2008, we secretly moved over several nights 140
truckloads carrying 5500 barrels of extremely heavy radioactive material
provided to Iraq
as part of the French-supplied Osiraq reactor destroyed by Israeli fighter
bombers in 1981. The virulently anti-Semitic Saddam had announced "here
begins the Arab bomb" and the Israelis took him at his word.
Former ‘forever
prisoner’ leaves Guantánamo for Kuwait
Excerpt: A Kuwait
aircraft lifted off from this remote Navy base with a long-held captive before
dawn Wednesday, sealing the first repatriation of a former so-called “forever
prisoner” whose dangerousness was downgraded by a U.S. government parole board.
*****
Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam Veteran who served five
terms in the Massachusetts State Senate. He is the author of The Coming Collapse of the American Republic.
http://tiny.cc/g02s4 For a free PDF of Collapse, e-mail him at
tartanmarine(at)gmail.com. Hall’s eleven books are listed here: http://tinyurl.com/o4nu65u. His blog of
political news and conservative comment is www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com.
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