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Book Recommendation: Never Without Heroes by Lawrence
A fine history of the Marine Third Recon Battalion in Vietnam
Pawlenty Drops 2012 Presidential Bid
Huh. I didn't get to vote yet. Pawlenty was more conservative, had a better record and less baggage than Romney. So a few thousand folks get to make this decision for over 300 million. ~Bob. Excerpt: Tim Pawlenty announced an end to his presidential candidacy Sunday after what he called a "disappointing" third place finish in the Ames, Iowa, straw poll. The former Minnesota Ames
Obama wins
So far, every Republican who has announced or even thought of running has been piled on by hoards of Conservatives, libertarians, establishment Republicans, Tea Party folks, right or center pundits and their GOP rivals, all covered in depth by the Obots in the media, that whoever emerges as the GOP nominee will be at least as damaged as Obama. Great job, all. ~Bob.
Bachmann Wins GOP 2012 Test Vote
Excerpt: Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann won a test vote of Iowans on Saturday, a show of popularity and organizational strength for the tea party favorite five months before the state's caucuses kick off the GOP presidential nominating season. The result is the first indication of what Iowans think of the field of Republicans competing for the chance to challenge President Barack Obama next fall. But it's hardly predictive of who will win the winter Iowa
http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/iowa-straw-poll-reverberations
Excerpt: Well, the results are in from the Iowa Republican straw poll. Turnout was 16,892, up from 14,302 in 2007 and 10,598 in 1995, but well below the 23,685 in 1999, when both George W. Bush and Steve Forbes spend lots of money and lots of time on the straw poll. In percentage terms, Michele Bachmann led Ron Paul 29% to 28%, with 14% for Tim Pawlenty, ahead of 10% for Rick Santorum and 9% for Herman Cain. Rick Perry got 4% as a write-in, better than the 3% for Mitt Romney, who was on the ballot and who won four years ago, and 2% for Newt Gingrich. Jon Huntsman and Thaddeus McCotter each got, rounded off, 0%. (Turnout was under 17k? In my first state senate race, I got almost 30k votes, and won by 9. In 1976, I got over 50k votes. Why do we allow such a small sample to have such a large impact on our presidential election? It's nuts. ~Bob.)
Must have read my book, Collapse. ~Bob. Excerpt: Former head of the Government Accountability Office and Comptroller General of the United States Greece had its debt crisis as to where they were from debt to GDP,” Walker Greece US Walker
Rick Perry's College Transcript: A Lot Of Cs And Ds
Perry announces and the same day the Huffington Post has his college transcript. Obama started running for President six years ago--how does his transcript stack up next to Perry's? We'll never know--Mr. Transparency keeps all that as secret as John Kerry's military records. Where is Wikileaks when you need them? ~Bob
Excerpt: In 2004, Barack Obama's GOP opponent for Senate -- Jack Ryan -- "mysteriously" had his sealed divorce records un-sealed. But I'm sure that's just coincidental. You know, I find the media quite honest and diligent. It mocks and vilifies Rick Perry's college transcripts, yet somehow forgot about checking Barack Obama's:
It’s Perry Day in America
This was in yesterday, but I'm told the link was broken. Hope this works. ~Bob.
The Tone-Deafness of Obama on Martha’s Vineyard
Excerpt: When your staunchest defenders criticize your cluelessness, you’d be wise to listen up. Colbert King, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist at The Washington Post, pulled no punches in his clear-eyed critique of the President’s upcoming vacation on chi-chi Martha’s Vineyard, where the likes of Mr. King’s late boss, Katharine Graham, had a house, as did the late Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, as do Carly Simon, Walter Cronkite, James Taylor, Meg Ryan, Woody Harrelson, Caroline Kennedy Scholssberg, Dan Ackroyd, Bill Murray, film producers Peter and Bobby Farrelly, Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen, to name a very few. Oak Bluffs, an inter-racial community since the 1930s, is second home to Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., he of the Cambridge Police “teaching moment” of last year, and is where Paul Robeson and Martin Luther King, Jr. also vacationed. Spike Lee now owns an estate at Oaks Bluffs, above which he proudly flies the flag of the original Brooklyn Dodgers. That said, today, Colbert King let Mr. Obama in on a little secret that’s been making its way around the country for weeks, now: what a tone-deaf, horribly-conceived idea it is for him to fly off with his family to that particular destination.
Allen West- Ron Paul Not the Guy to be President
You can click "like" or "dislike," depending if you are a Paul or a West fan. I clicked "like." ~Bob.
£70m of British aid 'paid to the Taliban': Cash wasted on bribes and protection money, say campaigners
Excerpt: Millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money could be ending up in the pockets of Taliban insurgents and corrupt Afghan officials, a damning report has revealed. The International Crisis Group warned that up to 10 per cent of overseas aid was being paid in bribes and protection money to the Taliban and officials in Kabul Afghanistan
Prisoners use bedsheets to escape Lebanese jail
Excerpt: Five prisoners escaped from Lebanon Mauritania , Kuwait , Syria and Lebanon , escaped from Roumieh prison complex east of Beirut
Qaeda Trying to Harness Toxin for Bombs, U.S.
Excerpt: American counterterrorism officials are increasingly concerned that the most dangerous regional arm of Al Qaeda is trying to produce the lethal poison ricin, to be packed around small explosives for attacks against the United States Shabwa Province , in one of Yemen
Hamas reaches deal with U.S. to keep aid flowing to Gaza
Excerpt: We may be broke, but not too broke to use your tax dollars to fund terrorist groups. But, as Obama say, we must all chip in and pay our fair share for killing Jews. ~Bob. Excerpt: Hamas' power play failed for now, and they have backed off enough to keep the aid coming. To lose $100 million in aid would surely entail some political fallout for the jihadist faux-state, as lavish U.S. spending on Gaza US official told Reuters that the US
Excerpt: Strictly speaking, Michael Smith was wrong. Muhammad did not marry a nine-year-old and consummate the marriage when she was eleven. He actually married a six-year-old and consummated the marriage when she was nine: "The Prophet wrote the (marriage contract) with 'Aisha while she was six years old and consummated his marriage with her while she was nine years old and she remained with him for nine years (i.e. till his death)." -- Bukhari 7.62.88. But that is not why he is being investigated. He is being investigated because he told a truth -- Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, had sex with a child -- and Muslims consider truth-telling to be "inciting hatred against Muslims." Witless dhimmi Australian authorities are going along. It is ever thus. Last night the dishonest Imam Moustafa Zayed, in our second debate, kept claiming that I was inciting hatred against Muslims -- and there again, his only evidence was that I tell truths about Islam that he would prefer not be told.
American Man Kidnapped in Eastern Pakistan
Excerpt: Gunmen kidnapped an American development expert after tricking his guards and breaking into his house in Pakistan on Saturday, a brazen raid that alarmed aid workers, diplomats and other foreigners who already tread carefully in this country rife with Islamic militancy and anti-U.S. sentiment. The U.S. Embassy identified the victim as Warren Weinstein. Weinstein is the Pakistan country director for J.E. Austin Associates, a development contractor that has received millions of dollars from the aid arm of the U.S.
Turkish MP was beaten for ordering pork sausage in Germany
Excerpt: Turkish member of Berlin
Top Hamas engineer tells all
http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-4107803,00.html
http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-4107803,00.html
Muslims use Mosques as military installations to attack you--but Allah help you if you shoot at a mosque! ~Bob. Excerpt: Nabbed engineer Abu Sisi provides Israel with invaluable information about Hamas' operations, newly released documents reveal; terror group's military academy operated in Gaza
Rape, mutilation: Pakistan
See, it's a cultural thing, and we must respect all cultures as equally valid. Tough for the women, but there it is. ~Bob. Excerpt: Peaceful Islam respects women, or so they tell us. ~Bob. Excerpt: On April 14, two men entered Asma Firdous' home, cut off six of her fingers, slashed her arms and lips and then sliced off her nose. Before leaving the house, the men locked their 28-year-old victim inside. ... Pakistan is the world's third-most dangerous country for women, after Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, based on a survey conducted by the Thomson Reuters Foundation (http://link.reuters.com/jet92s) In its 2010 report, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan says almost 800 women were victims of "honor killings" -- murders aimed at preserving the honor of male relatives -- and 2,900 women reported raped -- almost eight a day. The bulk, or almost 2,600, were raped in Punjab alone, Pakistan
Excerpt: Bowing to Chinese pressure, the U.S. will deny Taiwan Taipei will not be able to purchase new F-16s and is “so disappointed” in the U.S.
Vietnamese Security Forces Attack Christian Worshippers
Life as usual in the People's Paradise , brought to you by John Kerry, Jane Fonda and friends. ~Bob. Excerpt: On July 7, 2011, at approximately 8pm Vietnam security forces and police surrounded the village of Buon Kret Krot (H’Ra commune, Mang Yang district, Plei Ku city, in Gia Lai province, Vietnam
Obama's Ramadan Dinner Guest List Hides Attendance of Stealth Jihadists Tied to Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood
Excerpt: The White House’s published guest list for this year’s Ramadan Iftar dinner was much shorter than previous years’ roster. It excluded the names of several controversial advocates who have attended the event in the past, including some who The Daily Caller can confirm did attend on Wednesday night. “It was a squeaky clean list,” said Durriya Badani, director of the U.S.-Islamic World Forum, an annual event organized by the Brookings Institution’s Saban Center Washington
Don’t Believe the Hype. Meet the Real Rick Perry: Republican Liberty Caucus of Texas Sends Warning to Republicans Nationwide About Perry’s Tax and Spend Record
Excerpt: Texas Governor Rick Perry may be the flavor of the day for a lot of Republicans, but Texas Republicans who are familiar with his record are a lot less enthusiastic about his presidential run. “Perry has a unique talent for finding new ways to raise taxes and loves to use taxpayer money to subsidize his business cronies,” says Secretary Dave Nalle of the Republican Liberty Caucus of Texas. “His supposed belief in limited government and states rights conveniently disappears whenever it conflicts with the demands of the special interests and corporate cronies who he serves.” Governor Perry’s record of big government, big spending, big taxing and attacks on the fundamental rights of Texas citizens is a familiar to Texans, but seems to be much less well known to Republicans outside of the state, which may explain his high initial showing in the polls. The Republican Liberty Caucus of Texas is compiling a complete dossier on Perry to share with fellow Republicans outside their state so that they can be informed about what they are being sold in a Perry presidential candidacy.
The Muslim Brotherhood’s Discontents
Excerpt: Is Egypt
Missing: Where are the children now?: Rebel takeover prompts questions about kidnappings, slavery, torture
No way for me to verify. Maybe the administration, which has recognized the rebels as the government, has information. ~Bob. Excerpt: There are persistent reports that children from government-run homes for orphans and abused children are missing and feared kidnapped, possibly tortured and sold, by rebels who recently took the town of Misrata in the western part of Libya near its capital of Tripoli Tripoli
Obama's cheap 'shot'
Excerpt: Thirty American troops came home to Dover Air Force Base last week. They died when their helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan Pakistan Dover America
What Happened to Obama? Absolutely Nothing. He is still the same anti-American leftist he was before becoming our president.
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424053111903918104576502093021646166-lMyQjAxMTAxMDEwNDExNDQyWj.html?mod=wsj_share_email_bot
Excerpt: It's open season on President Obama. Which is to say that the usual suspects on the right (among whom I include myself) are increasingly being joined in attacking him by erstwhile worshipers on the left. Even before the S&P downgrade, there were reports of Democrats lamenting that Hillary Clinton had lost to him in 2008. Some were comparing him not, as most of them originally had, to Lincoln and Roosevelt but to the hapless Jimmy Carter. There was even talk of finding a candidate to stage a primary run against him. But since the downgrade, more and more liberal pundits have been deserting what they clearly fear is a sinking ship. Here, for example, from the Washington Post, is Richard Cohen: "He is the very personification of cognitive dissonance—the gap between what we (especially liberals) expected of the first serious African American presidential candidate and the man he in fact is." More amazingly yet Mr. Cohen goes on to say of Mr. Obama, who not long ago was almost universally hailed as the greatest orator since Pericles, that he lacks even "the rhetorical qualities of the old-time black politicians." And to compound the amazement, Mr. Cohen tells us that he cannot even "recall a soaring passage from a speech." Overseas it is the same refrain. Everywhere in the world, we read in Germany
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