Political Digest June 6, 2010

I post articles because I think they are of interest. Doing so doesn’t mean that I necessarily agree with every—or any—opinion in the posted article. Nor that I disagree with them, of course.

D-Day
June 6, 1944, the US and our allies invaded Europe through France, a country that had not attacked us, to get at Germany, another country that didn’t attack us and only declared war because we went to war with their ally, Japan, after firing on their planes over Pearl Harbor, long after cutting off economic materials to them through an embargo. Germany was in much the same situation as the Palestinians today, fighting the Jews. In the process of our invasion and aggressive war against Germany, hundreds of thousands of innocent French, Belgian, Dutch and German civilians were killed by us, including thousands of children. And we interfered with Germany’s sovereign right to deal with its citizens internally, just as we more recently did with Saddam Hussein and Iraq. Neither Saddam’s treatment of the Kurds and Shi’a, not Adolf’s treatment of Jews, Gays, Gypsies, Communists, Christian agitators and others he determined were undesirable were any of our business. Nor is it our business to spread our culture and political system to countries like Japan, German and Iraq against the wishes of their government. Unfortunately for Germany, they did not have the allies they would have in today’s UN, American media and leftist Americans to rally support for their side against Amerika. If they had, the National Socialist Workers Party and state capitalism might still be efficiently running the Third Reich.

All honor and eternal remembrance to our troops and those of our allies who, at the cost of their lives and unaware of the blessings of multiculturalism, put down those rabid tyrannies. Let us continue to defend the values they died for, regardless of the cost to us, and of the leftist allies of tyranny at home.

Webb: Delay Agent Orange Claims, Stop Bigger Pay Raises
http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,215720,00.html?wh=news
Excerpt: Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.), chief architect of the pricey Post-9/11 GI Bill education benefit for veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan war era, could become a new champion, for taxpayers, against what he perceives as excess spending on military pay and on a new wave of Agent Orange claims. (The dog fight between groups to keep spending flowing in the face of declining revenues and burgeoning deficits escalates. Maybe Webb read my blog: Agent Orange Fact Sheet http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2009/12/agent-orange.html

Great essay: Homo Politicus
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/06/homo_politicus.html
Excerpt: Now politics has become the superstructure of life. "Politics" is not "government." In fact, the politicization of government is a reason for many miseries. In the field of justice, politics meant that O.J. Simpson and Bill Clinton were acquitted in their trials, while Scooter Libby and Ted Stevens were convicted. The politicization of justice means that Black Panthers threatening voters with nightsticks were never arrested, while the Duke Lacrosse Team, with no real evidence at all, were arrested and damned for being young white males. Politics prevents government from controlling our borders. Politics means that all reasonable profiling of young Moslem males for terrorism is forbidden, even if that may save lives. Government is now almost completely run by politics. If government is not politics, then politics is not ideology. Those on what we call the "left" do not believe in anything at all, really. Their God is power, plunder, and punishment of heretics.... The species Homo sapiens in America has been supplanted by the new Frankenstein's monster, Homo politicus. No area of our life, it seems, is free from exhortations to follow the transitory goals of the Party. Quit tobacco and destroy the tobacco companies! Punish those oil companies who fuel our cars and those fast food companies whose burgers we buy!

FTC draft study proposes massive bailout of newspapers
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/06/ftc_draft_study_proposes_massi.html
Guess the Leftstream media is too big to fail. Since the media already is mostly leftist, they won’t need to trim their sails too much to keep the bailouts coming. But any sign of independence will cost them! Excerpt: The FTC draft covers the well-trod ground of declining newspapers, the rise of the internet and the concern that a sustainable business model for newspapers is not on the horizon. Just before leaping into the waters of government-knows-best intervention, the FTC authors ask a series of rhetorical questions: How susceptible is the proposal to creating bias - in terms of news platforms or government interference? How likely is the proposal to create unintended consequences? Uh, well, let me count the ways...

Prayer service Sunday at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Park to seek protection for President Barack Obama
http://www.mlive.com/living/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2010/06/prayer_service_sunday_at_dr_ma.html
Let us join in the prayers. If someone were to kill Obama, even if the murderer were black or Muslim, our cities would erupt in riots, with thousands dead and billions in damages, leaving President Biden to deal with our challenges. And Speaker Pelosi only a heartbeat from the Presidency. Have to figure out how to address a secular humanist God, though. Excerpt: A Community Prayer Service on Sunday will ask for God’s protection of President Barack Obama during his visit Monday to Kalamazoo to speak at the Kalamazoo Central High School commencement, according to service organizers.

We Don't Believe You, Mr. President
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2528047/posts
Excerpt: Dear President Obama, Every citizen with a modicum of insight into public affairs would say that America is now at a crossroads of decision about what kind of future we want for our nation-and, by extension, for the rest of the world. Whether we like it or not, you are the one who is designated by a vote of the electorate to lead us in that decision-making process. You have asked for the job, and you have proposed yourself as being competent for it. History will judge your Administration on its own merits when your term is complete, but we, the citizens of this country, must judge it for what we see happening before our very eyes. Quite frankly, the picture isn't pretty, and you haven't earned our respect as a leader. The reason for this, Mr. President, is that we can't believe what you say, and frankly, what you do is utterly unbelievable at times…. Like the Gulf oil spill, your Administration is out of control, and every day is another step closer to disaster. As the oil continues to pollute, kill and damage the external beauty and economy of a whole region, you and your team are doing the same with the trust of the people who built this great country. We deserve better, Mr. President, and it's time you start doing your job. Sincerely, Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer, President, Human Life International

Marine Obit
http://www.prescottaz.com/main.asp?SectionID=167&SubSectionID=468&ArticleID=81779
Excerpt: Jacob had been in Iraq for only a few weeks, serving in the Anbar Province, when the humvee Jacob was driving was hit by an IED. Jacob's right leg was seriously injured, and he was immediately flown to Landstuhl, Germany, for emergency surgery. Jacob was then transferred to Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, for an additional 18 surgeries in an attempt to save his leg. Following the last successful surgery, Jacob spent the next two years in intense rehab in an effort to be reinstated to active duty, which he achieved in the fall of 2009. In January 2010, Jacob married his wife Leslie Garcia, of Kerrville, Texas, and the newlyweds moved into military housing at Camp Pendleton, Calif. Cpl. Leicht, USMC, deployed to the Helmuth River Valley area of Afghanistan late April 2010 with the 1st Marine Div, 1st LAR Battalion. After being in the country for less than a month, Jacob was killed in action on May 27, 2010 - the one-thousandth casualty in the Afghan Theatre. (People like Bill Ayers and Rev. Wright aren’t fit to shine this Marine’s boots.)

Gandhi & the Gaza goons About those 'peace activists'
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/gandhi_the_gaza_goons_4N93fFbZk3nh5THENNG4iL
Excerpt: On May 29, two days before Israel's botched raid of six "humanitarian" ships bound for Gaza, Robert Naiman, the policy director of something called "Just Foreign Policy," wrote an item on the Huffington Post headlined "Gaza Freedom Flotilla Shows Awesome Power of Nonviolent Resistance." He waxed lyrical about how the moral authority of nonviolence had compelled Turkish-controlled Cyprus to help the flotilla while Greek-controlled Cyprus had allegedly caved to Israeli pressure in refusing to help the heirs of Gandhi (it couldn't have been because the Turks were up to no good). "All this," Naiman gushed, "and the main confrontation between the Israeli occupation authorities and the Gaza Freedom Flotilla has not yet begun." Roughly 48 hours later, the "main confrontation" unfolded. In fairness, most "peace activists" on the ships were nonviolent, offering passive resistance. But on the last boat Israelis boarded, the supposed disciples of peace attacked the Israeli commandos. These new Gandhians beat the Israelis with metal bars and even threw one Israeli overboard. Funny, I'm no expert, but that's not how Gandhi behaved in the movie. Maybe there was a sequel with Chuck Norris as the Mahatma? Gandhi's back -- and this time, it's personal!

The Ghandi nobody knows
http://history.eserver.org/ghandi-nobody-knows.txt
Maybe he would have been on those ships—not always non-violent.

America and the Meaning of Courage
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704875604575280771383483024.html?mod=djemITP_h
Excerpt: What we recall here, and offer tribute to here, is courage. Courage is the highest public virtue because, as philosophers from Aristotle to Winston Churchill have taught us, courage is the one virtue that guarantees all the others; without it, all the others are useless. Service in the Armed Forces today is voluntary, but there is nothing optional in the commitment that those we remember here today, and you veterans and active members of the armed forces who are here today, have made, whether as draftees or as members of a voluntary force. A willingness to do what they have done and what you have done is at the core of what it means to be a citizen of the United States. In fact, the oath of citizenship administered to all new citizens, young and old, men and women, contains a passage in which each new citizen must commit to take up arms, if necessary, to defend the nation, or to do work of national importance in wartime when called on to do so by those in authority, in order to defend the country.

Obama Knew the Spill Was Hopeless
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-06-04/obama-briefed-in-april-by-carol-browner-on-how-bad-bp-spill-was-/?cid=hp:mainpromo3
Be a lot safer to drill in ANWR, environmentalists. Or do we shut off the heat and gas for poor people? Excerpt: Critics have bashed President Obama for being slow to seize the political initiative in combating the BP oil spill in the Gulf Coast, now widely believed to be the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history. The White House has battled back, releasing a timeline of events showing that Obama was briefed—and deploying the Coast Guard—within 24 hours of the Deepwater Horizon blowout. What has not been previously disclosed: The president was not only briefed on the real-time events of the spill, but also on just how bad it would be—and how hard it would be to plug the hole. Carol Browner, director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy, told Obama at one of the earliest briefings in late April that the blowout would likely lead to an unprecedented environmental disaster, senior White House aides told The Daily Beast. Browner warned that capping a well at such depths had never been done before, and that they ought to expect an oil spill that would continue until a relief well was drilled in August, the aide said.

Nigeria: Marriage of Muslim senator to 13-year-old girl sets up showdown between civil and Sharia law
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/06/nigeria-marriage-of-muslim-senator-to-13-year-old-girl-sets-up-showdown-between-civil-and-sharia-law.html
Jeeze, he was only following the perfect example of the Prophet, which is why child marriage is legal in most of the Muslim world. Remember, all cultures are equally valid, including those that endorse child rape under law. Excerpt: This case bears watching closely. Overruling civil legislation to accommodate Sharia will set a disastrous precedent for the future of human rights, and for the rights of women and non-Muslims in Nigeria.

State parole board votes to release 1973 cop killer
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/state_parole_board_votes_to_release_B2xUiwwuuzqcpCBwf6CnJJ
I’m sure he’s a reformed Jihadist. Hopefully, he will live next door to a member of the board who voted to release him. Excerpt: A state parole board has voted to release a cop-killing kidnapper involved in a 47-hour hostage standoff in Brooklyn in 1973, officials said today. Shuaib Raheem was initially granted parole three years ago in a decision that was later rescinded after it sparked a raft of outrage from the cop’s widow and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. Raheem, 60, was informed today that he will be paroled. He is slated to be released on July 8 from the Eastern Correctional Facility in Napanoch, a prison located in upstate Ulster County. The parole board in Albany voted 2-1 to release Raheem. The Brooklyn suspects on their way to arraignment; (l-r) Dawud Abdullah ar-Rahman, Shuaib Abdullah Raheem and Salih-Ali Abdullah. The board had previously denied his request six times. "Tragically, in the case of this murdering animal, the worst possible decision was made." said PBA President Pat Lynch. Raheem was 23 when he and three other young men barged into John & Al's Sporting Goods on Broadway in Williamsburg to steal rifles and ammo from the shelves for what he called a war on injustices against Muslims. After Officer Stephen Gilroy was shot in the head, his body stayed inside along with the wounded cops for two days before the men gave themselves up.

Texas Terror Sting: Feds Say Suspect Was in Contact With Anwar al-Awlaki
http://abcnews.go.com/US/Broadcast/texas-terror-sting-feds-barry-walter-bujol-contact/story?id=10821525
Didn’t get the memo. Excerpt: A Texas man has been indicted on two counts for allegedly attempting to support al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and communicating with one of its top leaders Anwar Al Awlaki, a Yemeni-American cleric who U.S. officials have placed at the center of several recent terrorist plots involving U.S. targets and Americans, including last year's deadly Ft. Hood shooting, which left 13 dead. The man, Barry Walter Bujol, 29, allegedly was in contact with Awlaki going back to 2008, when he gained the attention of the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force in Houston.

Ohio couple accused of helping Hezbollah
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/06/03/Ohio-couple-accused-of-helping-Hezbollah/UPI-35191275620678/
Couple of what? Presbyterians, maybe? Or Muslims who didn’t get the memo? Excerpt: An Ohio couple were arrested Thursday on charges they conspired to help the Middle East terrorist organization Hezbollah, authorities said. The U.S. Justice Department said Hor I. and Amera A. Akl, both 37, of Toledo, who hold dual U.S.-Lebanese citizenship, are accused of conspiring to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, conspiracy to launder money and arson relating to an insurance fraud scheme.

Hillary Clinton And The UN Arms Trade Treaty Rumor
http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Federal/Read.aspx?id=5855
Excerpt: We continue to receive numerous inquiries regarding UN international treaties, and their impact on our Second Amendment rights. The latest rumor making its way around the Internet claims that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton actually signed a UN small arms treaty. Contrary to this widely circulated e-mail, Hillary Clinton has not signed any small arms treaty. She could not have done so, in fact, because no such treaty has yet been negotiated.

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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. – Lord Acton

British War on Christianity
http://downloads.cbn.com/cbnnewsplayer/cbnplayer.swf?aid=9425
I have no problem with gays, have supported efforts to eliminate discrimination. But I have a real problem with killing Freedom of Speech so as not to offend any group, Gays, Muslims or Republicans.

Helen Thomas tells Jews to get the hell out of Palestine, go back to Germany
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQcQdWBqt14&feature=player_embedded
Our unbiased media. From BO’s friend in the WH press corps.

"I will Follow Him (Obama)" Video Parody
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMZKNYaIdvs&feature=player_embedded
Too funny.

Obama Signs Bill Intended to Promote Free Press
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/17/obama-signs-bill-aimed-to-promote-free-press/
Irony: The ceremony on Monday raised some eyebrows as well because the White House restricted media access as the president signed a free press bill. The event was open only to a pool of reporters and photographers who report back to their colleagues. It also came at a time when Mr. Obama’s administration is seeking to force a New York Times reporter, James Risen, to testify about his sources for a book in which he reported on a secret effort to undermine Iran’s nuclear program.

Disgracing America
http://townhall.com/columnists/MonaCharen/2010/06/04/disgracing_america?page=full&comments=true
Excerpt: President Barack Obama, who got his start in politics in the living room of domestic terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, and spent his first year in office apologizing for American history, has now decisively tipped U.S. foreign policy toward America's enemies. Events of the past week have left no doubt. There is a pattern. President "Let No Crisis Be Wasted" Obama twists events to justify his radical agenda. A financial crisis becomes the excuse for a massive health care entitlement. An oil spill is exploited to push an unpopular energy tax. And a jihadist publicity stunt -- the Gaza flotilla -- becomes the occasion to throw Israel to the wolves. One mentions Ayers and Dohrn not to dwell on the past but because -- hello! -- the pair has been involved with the Free Gaza movement, one of the organizers of the so-called "Freedom Flotilla." Venezuela's Hugo Chavez has announced that he, too, would like to participate in the next running of the blockade -- and why not? Obama has blessed the project with success. By 1) declaring through Secretary of State Clinton that the blockade of Gaza is "unsustainable and unacceptable"; 2) joining the United Nations Security Council in "condemn(ing) those acts which resulted in the loss of at least 10 civilians and many wounded"; and 3) having a White House official tell the Washington Post that there is now a "general sense in the administration that it's time to change our Gaza policy," the Obama administration has handed the terrorists a victory.

Corruption, Collusion, Convolution; Kandahar
http://www.ruthfullyyours.com/2010/06/04/i-have-seen-the-enemy-and-it-is-islam-mustread-by-john-bernard/
Excerpt: For the past several months now, a chorus of voices, including mine have been trying to draw attention to the one great failure in the prosecution of the war(s) in Afghanistan and in Iraq. That failure has been and continues to be an inaccurate assessment of the enemy. In the beginning, it was an annoyance but as time as marched on and as ISAF has continued to pursue one misadventure after another, it has become more than apparent that the annoyance is in fact a sickness. Specifically a Mental and Spiritual malady. An unwillingness to accept the fact that 1400 years of terror, subjugation, forced conversions, murder, plunder, deception, demonic worship, cultural depravity, the de-humanizing of women, random beheadings for the sake of propaganda and propagation and complete lack of tolerance for any other religion defines the enemy, is the manifestation of this Mental and Spiritual sickness. Under Barrack Obama's 'leadership' which has mandated force projection by Counter Insurgency, we have seen failure after failure to control the battle space, not due to any failure by our Marines and Soldiers, but exclusively through a failed CIC vision, a failed CIC understanding of the enemy, a failed willingness to call Islam what it is and the consequential strategy our military is forced to perform within. We have been consistently saying for months that COIN cannot possibly succeed in this ideologically monolithic society. Trying to drive a wedge, in essence, between the 'Insurgency' and the 'innocent population' has been and will continue to be as successful as convincing a wife and children in Boston, that the overbearing Police that have broken down their door to arrest the husband/father for parking tickets is in their best interest. Again; there is no substantial difference between the government in Kabul, the civilian population and the Taliban in Afghanistan. Not only is their religious ideology monolithic (shared and all encompassing), but they all share familial ties, tribal ties and a shared hatred of all things not Islamic. In Hershel Smith's new piece, he quotes the AP and their story on the shoveling-against-the-tide strategy about to be launched in Kandahar and the view of the people there versus our pie-in-the-sky understanding of them. From the story: Haji Raaz Mohammad, a 48-year-old farmer from Kandahar, said he has never understood why the U.S. is trying to drive out the militants. "I don't know why they are doing it," he said. "The Taliban are not outsiders. They are our own people."

Obama loses the Left: suddenly, it's cool to bash Barack
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/7805775/Obama-loses-the-Left-suddenly-its-cool-to-bash-Barack.html
UK Paper. Excerpt: McCartney serenaded the First Lady with a rendition of Michelle and, receiving a prize from the Library of Congress, took a cheap shot at President George W Bush that was as unfunny as it was unoriginal. “After the last eight years, it’s great to have a president who knows what a library is.” Bush. Doesn’t read books. Stupid. Geddit? The problem for the President is that even if the former Beatle does speak for billions, the overwhelming majority of those are overseas. Polls show that around 10 per cent of those who voted for Obama in 2008 now disapprove of his performance and the heavy turnout of young people and black voters among the 69 million who back him will not be repeated again. McCartney's banalities were an example of a transatlantic dissonance that is all too apparent these days. Whereas Europe is stuck in November 2008 and still hopelessly in love with Obama, Americans have got over the historic symbolism of it all and are now moving on as they live with the reality. That reality has now begun to dawn on some of Obama's natural constituency - Hollywood and the Left. The "no drama Obama" demeanour that served him so well on the campaign trail is now becoming a liability.

Borders, Polls & Statistics Schmatistics
http://www.newmediajournal.us/staff/dicintio/2010/06042010.htm
Excerpt: For a host of reasons that are fundamental to why humans have organized themselves within secure borders for millennia, a nation of "open borders" is not long for this world. Yet, from the Reagan "amnesty solution" of '87 to Obama's attack on Arizona's new law directed at illegal aliens, every president and Congress has lied to the American people about their intention to secure our borders while using every trick in the political trade to insure that America's de facto Open Border policy continues. Fortunately, however, a landslide majority of the public, properly tired, sick, and angered at being slimed as Know-Nothing racists, have come to recognize the profound danger inherent in a madness caused by a particularly rotten love of power or money. Those same Americans are also wise enough to know they can act only in the present. Therefore, they insist fiercely that the current president completely "owns" the issue. All of this explains the disconnect that exists between an extremist president who is committed to lying the lies of the past and the common sense American people.

Postmodernism: A Unified Theory of All the Trouble in the World
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/05/postmodernism_a_unified_theory.html
Excerpt: Like the "fatal error" message that pops up unexpectedly on a computer, the phrase itself is menacing: "post-normal science." I ran across the phrase as I was reading Climate Change and the Death of Science. The author's explanation did nothing to allay my anxiety. Once there was modern science, which was hard work; now we have postmodern science, where the quest for real, absolute truth is outdated, and "science" is a wax nose that can be twisted in any direction to underpin the latest lying narrative in the pursuit of power. Except they didn't call it ‘postmodern' science because then we might smell a rat. They called it PNS (post-normal science) and hoped we wouldn't notice.

Self-Inflicted Defeat
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/06/selfinflicted_defeat.html
Excerpt: During World War II, experts in Nazism and Japanese imperialism were viewed as vital assets to inform and assist government officials and military brass. But they were carefully scrutinized to weed out disloyal elements. Acts of perfidy were dealt with swiftly and harshly. Placing a Nazi in a high-level Pentagon position with access to top-secret war data and giving him the ability to control military strategists and censor vital information would have been punishable by death for treason. What has happened in the interval? Today we send our military personnel into battle while on the home front, the enemy fights experts who could advise the government and military brass. In one such instance, Hesham Islam -- who has ties to a Muslim Brotherhood affiliate (ISNA Islamic Society of North America) -- served as top advisor to the U.S. deputy defense secretary and was the third person in the Pentagon chain of command. In 2008, Hesham Islam clashed with Army Major Stephen Coughlin, one of the foremost experts on the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic jihad doctrine. When Major Coughlin presented well-documented evidence that classic Islamic doctrine -- and not a radical fringe -- does in fact support global jihad with the aim of establishing a worldwide caliphate under shari'ah law, Hesham Islam admonished him to tone down his "anti-Muslim rhetoric."

Rahm Emanuel: Another Tax Avoiding Obama Appointee
http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2010/06/05/rahm-emanuel-another-tax-avoiding-obama-appointee/
Excerpt: I am beginning to think that our tax collecting agencies across the country send out a form letter to everyone that is in arrears with their taxes to immediately apply for a job in Barack “Most Ethical Administration in Decades” Obama’s administration. Here we have another Obama lieutenant that didn’t pay his taxes until someone began to inquire after them. This time it’s Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s Chief of Staff, who decided that he was far, far important to be expected to pay his property taxes here in Chicago. Emanuel suddenly remembered to pay his taxes — three months late — right after WBBM Newsradio 780AM began to investigate the story. Emanuel owed $7,400 for his late property taxes on his Ravenswood home and paid $445.56 in penalties once WBBM began to look into the story.

Don't be fooled by Obama's 'incompetence'
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/06/dont_be_fooled_by_obamas_incom.html
Excerpt: It is a tremendous mistake to think that the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico will help convince Americans of Barack Obama's incompetence. Obama's true agenda is so insidious that even his inability to handle a crisis serves his greater strategy. And that strategy has a name: it is the Cloward-Piven Strategy. Named for the two Leftist sociology professors who formulated it, its purpose is to bring about the demise of capitalism by overloading the system, largely by making more people desperate and dependent on the government. Thus, Cloward-Piven's goals are served by more and more aliens flooding across the border and filling jails, emergency rooms and welfare rolls. It is also served by the mortgage crisis; in fact, Professors Cloward and Piven were the creators of ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), which helped pressure banks to implement the lending policies that precipitated that crisis. But Cloward-Piven seeks a financial crisis far wider-ranging and more encompassing than a mere mortgage meltdown. So if the oil spill in the Gulf manages to destroy the fishing and tourist industries in that region, shut down oil drilling, raise the price of oil and of food all over the country, and bring more and more Americans to a financial breaking point and thus dependent on food stamps and other government programs, Obama and Co. will smile and nod at one another as the Cloward-Piven strategy hums merrily along. (Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. --Nick Diamos)

5,113
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/06/5113.html
Excerpt: Five thousand, one hundred thirteen. That's the number of nuclear warheads in the U.S. arsenal. President Barack Obama has told the world. I'm reminded of the cynical French foreign minister Talleyrand at the time of the Congress of Vienna. Talleyrand was informed that the Russian minister would not meet him that day. The Russian had collapsed and died in his carriage. "I wonder why he did that," Talleyrand asked suspiciously. Why did Obama do that? Why did he gratuitously divulge one of America's Top Secrets?

Physician-Owned Hospitals File Lawsuit to Overturn Restrictions
http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/content/PHY-251946/PhysicianOwned-Hospitals-File-Lawsuit-to-Overturn-Restrictions
The Hospital Association spent millions lobbying, but Obama has screwed their competition, thus increasing healthcare costs. It was a good investment. Excerpt: An association of physician-owned hospitals filed a lawsuit against the federal government yesterday in a long-shot attempt to overturn restrictions included in the recent healthcare reform bill that limit the growth and new construction of the controversial facilities. The suit was filed jointly by Physician Hospitals of America and Texas Spine & Joint Hospital, a 20-bed private hospital in Tyler, TX, and alleges that the new law violates due process and equal protection rights granted under the U.S. Constitution. At issue is Section 6001 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act, which limits the development of new physician-owned hospitals or the expansion of existing ones. Although standing hospitals were grandfathered in, the law prevents them from expanding unless they meet a series of new requirements. There are more than 300 physician-owned hospitals across the country, and 39 were under development but cannot continue because of the new law, according to PHA.

Is Myanmar Trying to Build a Nuclear Bomb?
http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/is-myanmar-trying-to-build-a-nuclear-bomb/19502766
By golly, they’ll get a talking to! Excerpt: It's easy to draw parallels between Myanmar (formerly Burma) and North Korea. Both Asian states are international pariahs, governed by brutal regimes that live in outrageous opulence while their subjects languish in extreme poverty.... Former Myanmar army major Sai Thein Win says the ruling junta is attempting to develop a nuclear bomb with the help of North Korea. Sai says he was trained in missile technology in Russia and worked at two military factories in the heart of the country. His claims also are backed by photos of bunkers and equipment and top secret documents, which are detailed in a new report by the Democratic Voice of Burma, a news agency run by Myanmar expatriates. "They really want to build a bomb," Sai, who is now in exile, told the DVB. "That is their main objective."

German businesses could steer the country out of the eurozone
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/04/AR2010060404815.html?wpisrc=nl_headline
European socialism spinning out of control. Don’t laugh—we’re next. Excerpt: Must Mattheus Schneider's ice cream shop bear responsibility for the future of Greece? With the euro fighting a crisis that continues to push its value lower, that question about the willingness of German taxpayers and businesses to stand behind economically weaker nations with which they share the euro as a currency could determine whether the continent's decade-old monetary union survives its recent shock or begins to tatter. Germany's political leadership has pledged the country's credit to back a bailout of Greece as well as a separate nearly trillion-dollar fund to help other countries, but the larger issue of shared responsibility within the eurozone remains to be joined -- and will be central to the future of an area considered one of the pillars of the global economy. Sharing a currency with Greece is one thing. But sharing a future is another, and Germany's expanding commitment to the eurozone has many here wondering how their own financial plans -- Schneider hopes to turn his Dulce store into a franchised chain -- could be damaged if Europe's problems become too draining and drag down the local economy. "Even if they ruin [the euro], Germany runs a stable country," said the young German entrepreneur, who said Germany has benefited from the euro so far but should be ready to pull out and reinstate the Deutschmark. "We'll always be able to get loans."

Democrats launch effort to get 2008 first-time voters back to polls for midterms
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/04/AR2010060402353.html?wpisrc=nl_pmpolitics&?wpisrc=nl_pmpolitics
Excerpt: The Democratic National Committee is kicking off its 2010 midterm elections strategy this weekend with thousands of volunteers fanning out across the nation to knock on doors of people who voted for the first time in the 2008 presidential election and urge them to return to the polls. Democrats are trying to jump-start the grass-roots network that Barack Obama built as a presidential candidate -- now called Organizing for America and housed at the DNC -- by staging more than 1,300 canvassing and phone banking events in communities nationwide on Saturday. Party officials said more than 16,000 volunteers have signed up to participate.

Politician stoops to lying about opponent's proven combat record
http://www.blackfive.net/main/2010/06/of-all-the-dirty-campaign-trick-available-to-politicians-a-candidate-for-south-carolinas-lieutenant-governor-has-used-one-o.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Blackfive+%28BLACKFIVE%29
SC Primary is Tuesday. Excerpt: "I don't know whether Bill had combat experience or not," Richter said. "There's a lot of talk about that, but I defer to his account of that." You will have to watch the video for yourself. But personally, I was disgusted. Although Connor stated he was an "Airborne Ranger infantry officer and senior advisor," Richter suggested he held a "desk job." The truth is out there, but apparently it doesn't benefit Richter's campaign. For critical thinkers, a copy of Connor's Officer Evaluation Record is available here. On the other hand, Richter managed to avoid military service during the Vietnam War.

Egypt to Strip Husbands of Israelis of Citizenship
http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=21198
Has Obama protested this? If not, would he also be okay with doing this to Americans married to Mexican citizens? Excerpt: A Cairo court on Saturday upheld a ruling to strip Egyptian men married to Israeli women of their citizenship in a case that has highlighted national sentiment towards Israel.