The Coming Collapse of the American Republic
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Uzbek accused of buying machine gun in Ala.
I can’t believe the FBI is wasting time on guys like this when everyone in the Obama Administration knows it is veterans and Christians who are the danger. Sell this “undocumented” member of the “Religion of Peace” the gun and go check out the VFW, for gosh sakes. ~Bob. Excerpt: A 22-year-old illegal immigrant from Uzbekistan was charged today with threatening the life of President Obama after purchasing a machine gun from an undercover federal agent in Alabama Birmingham
AWOL Soldier Arrested Over Concerns of Second Alleged Plot to Attack Fort Hood
See! See! Sappy Nappy is right. Veterans are dangerous. ~Bob. Excerpt: At least one U.S. military serviceman has been arrested after raising concerns over another alleged plot to attack Fort Hood Fort Campbell , Kentucky , was arrested by the Killeen Police Department near Fort Hood
Boehner's Plan Is Not Perfect, But It Ain't Bad by Thomas Sowell
Excerpt: Many of us never thought that the Republicans would hold tough long enough to get President Obama and the Democrats to agree to a budget deal that does not include raising income tax rates. But they did — and Speaker of the House John Boehner no doubt desires much of the credit for that. Despite the widespread notion that raising tax rates automatically means collecting more revenue for the government, history says otherwise. As far back as the 1920s, Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon pointed out that the government received a very similar amount of revenue from high-income earners at low tax rates as it did at tax rates several times as high. How was that possible? Because high tax rates drive investors into tax shelters, such as tax-exempt bonds. Today, as a result of globalization and electronic transfers of money, "the rich" are even less likely to stand still and be sheared like sheep, when they can easily send their money overseas, to places where tax rates are lower. Money sent overseas creates jobs overseas — and American workers cannot transfer themselves overseas to get those jobs as readily as investors can send their money there. All the overheated political rhetoric about needing to tax "millionaires and billionaires" is not about bringing in more revenue to the government. It is about bringing in more votes for politicians who stir up class warfare with rhetoric.
Obama's 'Balanced' Approach by Thomas Sowell
Excerpt: Barack Obama's political genius is his ability to say things that will sound good to people who have not followed the issues in any detail -- regardless of how obviously fraudulent what he says may be to those who have. Shameless effrontery can be a huge political asset, especially if uninformed voters outnumber those who are informed. President Obama's big pitch in his Monday night televised talk was that what is needed to deal with the national debt crisis is a "balanced" approach -- not just spending cuts but revenue increases as well. What could sound more reasonable -- especially to those who have not been following what Obama has actually been doing and not doing?
Federal Wildlife Biologist Investigated for Scientific Misconduct in Global Warming Debate
If their science is solid, how come the warmists have to lie and suppress other views so often? ~Bob. Excerpt: A federal wildlife biologist whose observation in 2004 of presumably drowned polar bears in the Arctic helped to galvanize the global warming movement has been placed on administrative leave and is being investigated for scientific misconduct, possibly over the veracity of that article. Charles Monnett, an Anchorage-based scientist with the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, or BOEMRE, was told July 18 that he was being put on leave, pending results of an investigation into "integrity issues." But he has not yet been informed by the inspector general's office of specific charges or questions related to the scientific integrity of his work, said Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.
The Man Without A Plan
Excerpt: President Obama’s been taking a lot of flak lately for not having a plan. First it was about Libya
Obama administration cancels DHS nuclear detection program
As I say in Collapse, the threats play to one another, the budget threat making it harder to defend against Islamic terrorism, and so on. ~Bob. Excerpt: The Obama administration canceled a $1.2 billion program to install nuclear material detectors at U.S.
Taxes, Patriotism and Common Sense
When I was a 16-year-old, delivering groceries on a bike for $1 per hour and a quarter tip if I was lucky, I was so patriotic I didn’t want to file a return for the small refund I was due. Now, know how they waste billions, I’m not nearly so proud. ~Bob. Excerpt: Am I the last American who’s proud to pay his taxes? As a self-employed citizen, I pay quarterly estimated taxes to our national government. And each time I sign that check, I’m proud. I may no longer serve in uniform, but that check means that I’m a productive citizen engaged in honest work who is still doing his small part for his country. I’m not wealthy. But my wife and I work relentlessly, so we have a good middle-class life. Could I use some of the money I pay in taxes for other purposes? Sure. But paying my income tax is, to me, a small thing for the many benefits I receive—from highways and public order to the national defense. It’s the one duty this great country asks of me. I’m also proud to be one of the taxpayers who carry the burden for the feckless connivers and hand-out addicts at the bottom of society, as well as for the vile tax cheats at the top of the income ladder. I would like to see less partisan waste. And I want fewer loopholes for scoundrels. But my expectations of both political parties are low. So I’ll continue to do my small part for the greatest nation in history. Somebody has to. I do get angry, though. Not about paying my taxes. But that 49 per cent of my fellow citizens pay no income tax at all, thanks to political pandering. And that, last year, I paid more taxes from my middle-class income than General Electric did—after that corporation enjoyed a wildly profitable year.
Mitt Romney’s Fully Documented Liberal Left-Wing Social and Fiscal Record
I don’t think he’s so much liberal, as lacking in any core values, goes with the wind. ~Bob. Excerpt: I find it absurd that so many celebrity “conservatives” such as Hannity, Ingraham, Coulter, Hewitt, Perkins, Bopp, Land, Minnery, Dobson, Sekulow, and “conservative” publications/organizations (Human Events, National Review, Fox News, Salem/Townhall, CPAC, Heritage) continue to promote Romney as a Reagan Conservative when Romney’s actual record shows that he is an across the board liberal.
Up Close And Personal
Excerpt: The marines train their recruits to understand that they might have to "fix bayonets" in combat, and that they must know how to fight with a bayonet, and anything else they can get their hands on, or just with their bare hands. Thus, in type of bayonet training, it's the thought that counts. (Having just read Noble Warrior, an autobiography of MajGen James Livingston, USMC (ret) who received the MOH for an action in Vietnam Iraq
Egypt’s Simmering Rage
Excerpt: With two months remaining until early parliamentary elections, a new Newsweek/Daily Beast poll shows clearly and unambiguously that the political climate in Egypt is moving in a new direction that is inimical to American and allied interests—notwithstanding the billions of dollars in aid that the United States
Gunwalker: Justice Dept. Inspector General Opens Investigation
Excerpt: Operation Fast and Furious — and other alleged “gunwalker” programs — only ended when whistleblowers came forward from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) after a firefight in Rio Rico, Arizona, left Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry dead. NPR – yes, NPR – is now reporting that the Department of Justice inspector general is launching an investigation into whether or not the DOJ illegally retaliated against one of the agents that revealed the gunwalking plot: The Justice Department’s inspector general has opened an investigation into possible retaliation against a whistleblowing agent at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, according to two people briefed on the inquiry. Watchdogs are examining whether anyone at the Justice Department improperly released internal correspondence to try to smear ATF agent John Dodson, who told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee last month that he repeatedly warned supervisors about what he called a reckless law enforcement operation known as “Fast and Furious.” The inspector general is attempting to determine if Obama’s Justice Department leaked one of Dodson’s internal memos to reporters in order to discredit him.
House Panel: al-Shabaab Poses "Direct Threat" to U.S.
Excerpt: More than 40 Somalis living in America and 20 in Canada have traveled to Somalia United States should consider them, and al-Shabaab, as "a direct threat to the U.S.
SF soldiers honored by French government
http://waronterrornews.typepad.com/home/2011/07/sf-soldiers-honored-by-french-government.htmlExcerpt: They are used to their deeds pass as unnoticed as their battlefield movements, but six Special Forces soldiers took the limelight here last night to receive a French military award roughly equivalent to the Silver Star. Special Forces soldiers from the 10th Special Forces Group and the 20th Special Forces Group received the French Croix de la Valeur Militaire, roughly analagous to the Silver Star, during a private ceremony at the French ambassador's residence in Washington , D.C.
Rick Perry is not a frontrunner (yet)
Excerpt: A new Gallup poll of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents finds that if he got into the 2012 presidential race, Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas) would immediately challenge former Massachusetts
A Tale of Two Shale States
Having a job and feeding your family is apparently not part of a good environment. People starve and die, but birds and polar bears are hypothetically saved. Green is the new red. ~Bob. Excerpt: Politicians wringing their hands over how to create more jobs might study the shale boom along the New York and Pennsylvania Keystone State New York New York New York
Record Number of U.S.
Excerpt: “We’re seeing a sharp increase in the amount of munitions coming across the border, some manufactured as recently as 2010,” Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Buchanan, the top U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad, said in an interview. “These are highly lethal weapons, and their sheer volume is a major concern.” Buchanan said much of the current weaponry is passing into the country through its formal border crossings with Iran
Wonder why people with money, those evil rich folks who fly around in corporate jets and don’t pay their fair share, according to Obama, would be losing confidence in investing in businesses to create jobs? Beats me. ~Bob. Excerpt: Consumer confidence inches up less than a point from the two-year low reached yesterday, while investor confidence falls to its lowest level in two-years.
Voters Expect Debt Ceiling To Be Raised, Doubt Long-Term Spending Will Be Cut
Excerpt: With less than five days left until the federal government could begin defaulting on its debts, voters continue to express unhappiness with both sides of the debt ceiling debate. While most voters continue to believe the debt ceiling will be raised before the government defaults, most don’t think the president and Congressional Republicans will agree on significant long-term spending cuts before the 2012 elections.
The Obama EPA's Brave New Future
Excerpt: Say goodbye to cars and trucks as you know them. Say hello to a brave new future ushered in by the Environmental Protection Agency. It's one where the federal government reshapes a major U.S.
Where does money come from?
Good, entertaining explanation of money and markets. ~Bob.
Jacking up your electric bill
And when working stiffs can’t get jobs, feed their families, drive or heat their homes, these liberal statists will blame “the rich.” ~Bob. Excerpt: America America
As The Kabuki Accelerates
My goodness, we are on the downhill side of the last week before the faux debt ceiling deadline. What's next? In my current fantasy, John Boehner is a genius. He will pass his bill in the House by the skin of his teeth and with no time (or votes) to spare. And that's a good thing! Unless Reid and the Senate Dem can quickly rally, the Boehner bill will be the only game in town and there will be only seconds left on the clock. Can the Senate Dems find the time and the will to pass some other bill, with Boehner publicly fretting that he barely had the votes for his own creation and can't promise Reid any Republican help in the House? Or does Reid send the Boehner bill to the Senate floor and let scared Democrats ally with Republicans to pass it? I bet the latter. At which point Obama has a bill on his desk which he has threatened to veto. But there is even less time on the clock (unless Obama wants to contradict his own rhetoric and admit that Geithner has found an extra week), granny's Social Security checks hang in the balance (unless Obama wants to contradict his own rhetoric and announce his sudden discovery of the trust fund), and Boehner has barely corralled the Republican kamicrazies to get this far. Geez, what's a poor President to do? OK, this may all unravel. But Boehner might be a mastermind.
Jodi And Timothy Burr Sued By Homeowners Association To Remove Sign Supporting Son In Marines
Excerpt: The Gardens of Southgate property owners group in Bossier City , La. Louisiana
How Obama's losing the youth vote
Excerpt: Pew Research's figures for 2011 are not good news for President Obama and the Democrats. The Democratic identification edge has been reduced to 47 percent to 43 percent. That's a 4 point drop for Democrats and a 4 point rise for Republicans since 2008. The Pew analysts note, as if they were analyzing a growth stock, that the Republicans' numbers haven't improved since 2010. But the 2010 numbers yielded a 52 percent to 45 percent GOP lead in the popular vote for the House. If Republicans can maintain that standing in party identification, they should be in fine shape in November 2012, even with higher presidential-year turnout. It's interesting to see which groups have moved most in party identification. (They voted for a cool version of Harry Potter and got the magic of a second-rate Jimmy Carter. ~Bob.)
President of the lie
Excerpt: "I hate to disrespect the president, but he's lying." That was TV commentator Dick Morris last night on Fox's "Hannity," talking about Barack Obama's primetime speech in which the president once again warned Americans their government was on the verge of catastrophic default. "This is total fear tactics, and it's a lie – a big lie!" added Morris. (I recently wrote a column explaining the "big lie" of Aug. 2 default in a way any 8-year-old can understand.) But what I want to focus on here is Morris's qualifier, "I hate to disrespect the president, but …" I sympathize with Morris's personal and professional awkwardness in calling the president of the United States
The growth of China Beijing plans to use against U.S. aircraft carriers in any future conflict over Taiwan, according to an intelligence report made public on Thursday. Portions of a Center study on the lethal effects of electromagnetic pulse (EMP) and high-powered microwave (HPM) weapons revealed that the arms are part of China’s so-called “assassin’s mace” arsenal - weapons that allow a technologically inferior China to defeat U.S. military forces. EMP weapons mimic the gamma-ray pulse caused by a nuclear blast that knocks out all electronics, including computers and automobiles, over wide areas. The phenomenon was discovered in 1962 after an aboveground nuclear test in the Pacific disabled electronics in Hawaii
Excerpt: In the early morning hours of May 24, an armed burglar wearing a ski mask broke into the offices of Nicira Networks, a Silicon Valley startup housed in one of the countless nondescript buildings along Highway 101. He walked past desks littered with laptops and headed straight toward the cubicle of one of the company’s top engineers. The assailant appeared to know exactly what he wanted, which was a bulky computer that stored Nicira’s source code. He grabbed the one machine and fled. The whole operation lasted five minutes, according to video captured on an employee’s webcam. Palo Alto Police Sergeant Dave Flohr describes the burglary as a run-of-the-mill Silicon Valley computer grab. “There are lots of knuckleheads out there that take what they can and leave,” he says. But two people close to the company say that they, as well as national intelligence investigators now looking into the case, suspect something more sinister: a professional heist performed by someone with ties to China or Russia
Excerpt: Reports that China is close to achieving the same spy satellite capabilities as the United States and making advances in its drone and missile technologies are feeding into US theories that Beijing is pursuing a multi-faceted strategy to reshape the dynamics of military power in Asia . However, the Pentagon seems too enamored with the doctrine of "access denial", the belief that China is intent on blocking US China 's spy orbiter program in the past 18 months enable it to spy on the same moving target - such as a US China
America's power grid too vulnerable to cyberattack, US
Excerpt: America
A Small Business Dies
Excerpt: A small business shutting down has become too frequent a sight in America Washington Washington
Pennsylvania Avenue that their decisions affect real human beings. Statistics are important, but behind every number is a real person. This is worth recalling during the debt-ceiling debate. This latest chapter of Obama-era high drama comes amid high unemployment, anemic growth, exploding deficits and collapsing public confidence. Americans deeply want a change. They've given the president time for his experiment in spending the country's way to prosperity, and they have concluded that his course has failed. In the debt-ceiling debate, Mr. Obama had his best and last moment to restrain federal spending and thereby change the trajectory of his profligate presidency. But he let it pass.
Pennsylvania Avenue that their decisions affect real human beings. Statistics are important, but behind every number is a real person. This is worth recalling during the debt-ceiling debate. This latest chapter of Obama-era high drama comes amid high unemployment, anemic growth, exploding deficits and collapsing public confidence. Americans deeply want a change. They've given the president time for his experiment in spending the country's way to prosperity, and they have concluded that his course has failed. In the debt-ceiling debate, Mr. Obama had his best and last moment to restrain federal spending and thereby change the trajectory of his profligate presidency. But he let it pass.
Torture still rampant in post-revolution Egypt
Excerpt: Egyptian human rights activists say they've documented hundreds of cases of civilians tortured by police and army forces since the revolution that toppled Hosni Mubarak, but that none have yet gone to trial. Under former President Mubarak, the security services were notorious for abuses, but since he left office in February dozens of cases have been filed to the general prosecutor's office accusing police and military authorities of torture and other crimes against anti-government protesters. For activists, that's a sign that the interim military government hasn't reined in the security forces, which were all-powerful during the Mubarak era. The only difference in post-revolution Egypt
Sugar Keynes
Excerpt: "By a continuous process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method, they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some....The process engages all of the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner that not one man in a million can diagnose." - John Maynard Keynes Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920
Debunking 6 Myths About Anders Breivik
Excerpt: Anders Behring Breivik was a Fundamentalist Christian. Breivik described himself as not a religious person and mentions praying only once. His plans leading up to the attacks involved multiple visits to prostitutes. In one section of his manifesto he clarifies what he means by Christian. Q: Do I have to believe in God or Jesus in order to become a Justiciar Knight? No, you don’t need to have a personal relationship with God or Jesus to fight for our Christian cultural heritage. It is enough that you are a Christian-agnostic or a Christian-atheist (an atheist who wants to preserve at least the basics of the European Christian cultural legacy. Breivik did call himself a Christian, but meant that in a cultural sense, rather than a theological one. He emphasized that he was not seeking a theocracy, but a secular society. His idea of a Christian Europe had nothing to do with religion. (He also said he was a Darwinist and science must rule over religion. Funny for a “fundamentalist,” as the media describe him. ~Bob.)
New York Times Reader Kills Dozens in Norway
Gotta love the headline. Factual, too. ~Bob. Excerpt: The New York Times wasted no time in jumping to conclusions about Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian who staged two deadly attacks in Oslo Fort Hood
Excerpt: President Obama does not care much about deficits -- other than worrying that big debt might matter in his re-election campaign. In his first three budgets, Obama borrowed nearly $5 trillion. Currently, the government is borrowing about 45 percent of everything that it spends. Obama's projected 10-year plan would add nearly $10 trillion to existing U.S. U.S.
Does Sexual Fare Cause Sexual Violence?
Excerpt: "Pornography is the theory -- rape is the practice," wrote feminist author Robin Morgan. In 1986, a federal commission concurred. Some kinds of pornography, it concluded, are bound to lead to "increased sexual violence." Indianapolis United States
Sen Shelby says Soros hypocrite for reforms dodge
Excerpt: Prominent Republican Senator Richard Shelby accused billionaire investor George Soros of hypocrisy on Wednesday for evading new hedge fund regulations he once publicly backed. Soros recently said he would return money to outsider investors and only manage his own family's funds to escape the Securities and Exchange Commission's new hedge fund adviser registration rules. "It appears that Soros talked up financial reform only to sell it short," Shelby
Dear Yankee ---Eight things you ought to know before you start writing stories about Rick Perry
Excerpt: Here we go again. As you know, Rick Perry, the governor of Texas Austin Texas Texas has become an incubator for presidents, as Virginia and Ohio were in America Washington , from LBJ to
George W. Bush, have not always served as the best advertisements for Texas
Witnesses to ATF gunrunner operation to name names: 'By the end of this, they'll prove that orders came from the very top'
Excerpt: The Project Gunrunner, or "Operation Fast and Furious," investigation is moving to the next level with hearings set this week in which the border agents who worked in the field while weapons were being dispatched to Mexican drug lords will testify. "This hearing will focus mainly on how Mexican officials and ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) officials stationed in Mexico
Poll: Arab views of Iran
Excerpt: Arab attitudes towards Iran Iran Morocco , Egypt , Lebanon , Jordan , Saudi Arabia and the UAE – only Lebanon Iran Iran in the role that Iran
Do your share to keep the Pretender-In-Chief "deeply offended" by passing this around.
from the e-mail forward: Steve Bridges is the guy who imitated George Bush on the Jay Leno Show. He has now started imitating Obama and REALLY does it well. The Administration has tried to put a stop to Bridges' act because Obama has made it known that he is deeply offended. So do your share to keep the Pretender-In-Chief "deeply offended" by passing this around... There might also be some educational content.
What Power to Tax and Spend?
Excerpt: Notably, most House conservatives, including the Tea Party freshmen, are standing with Boehner, choosing a pragmatic approach until 2012, when they hope to strengthen their numbers in the House and Senate, and retake the presidency. The current budget debate was the first serious consideration of a BBA since it was advocated by President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s and later passed by the House as part of the Republican Contract with America
14-Year-OlD U.S.
Excerpt: A hitman for a major Mexican drug cartel was sentenced to three years in prison yesterday for offenses including murder, kidnapping, and drug trafficking. But this assassin is only 14 years old, and the brutality of his crimes — including beheadings – have shocked the world amidst the continuing carnage near the US-Mexico border. Edgar Jimenez, nicknamed “El Ponchis,” (many have said it means “cloak,“ but really it is ”One who likes techno music“) is a U.S. Citizen, born in San Diego Mexico
DPS Builds Up Assets Along Border
Excerpt: Standing before a large Texas Texas San Antonio
Big Green blocks an oil pipeline, sacrificing thousands of jobs
Excerpt: TransCanada's second pipeline, the $7 billion Keystone XL, designed to carry crude oil from tar sands near Hardisty , Alberta to the Gulf Coast Alberta , Canada , across the U.S. border, and then south all the way to the Gulf Coast United States
Ice age threat should freeze EPA global warming regs
Excerpt: Rather than spiraling into a global warming meltdown, we may be heading into the next ice age. The U.S. National Solar Observatory, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory and astrophysicists across the planet report that the nearly all-time low sunspot activity may result in a sustained cooling period on Earth. The news has sent global warming theory advocates scrambling to discount and explain away the impact on global temperatures. However, the "news" is not really that new. Many reputable scientists have been warning for decades that we are nearing the end of the 11,500-year average period between ice ages. And the last similar crash in sunspot activity coincided with the so-called "Little Ice Age" in the 1600s that lasted nearly a century. Despite increasing evidence that "global warming" climate change is not the unified scientific theory it has been promoted to be, vested interests continue to push for stringent limits on carbon dioxide emissions. (A few degrees decrease would be a LOT worse than the same increase. Why? Food. ~Bob.)
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