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Excerpt: The Muslim Youth Center (MYC), an al Qaeda affiliate in East Africa and Shabaab ally, released a statement today on its blog as well as on Twitter that addresses the imminent assault on Kismayo by Kenyan and Somali forces. The combined Somali and Kenyan forces have been slowing advancing on the southern port city, and have taken Jana Cabdalla, a town just 25 miles from Kismayo. A Kenyan military officer claimed that more than 50 Shabaab fighters were killed during clashes in Jana Cabdalla. (“Muslim Youth Center
Middle East Madness: We need to understand the real source of Islamist rage. By Victor Davis Hanson
Excerpt: Embarrassed White House press secretary Jay Carney and U.S. America
Letter from doomed soldier helped change congressman's mind
Excerpt: Sarah Sitton knew her husband Matt, an Army staff sergeant, was upset he and his men were forced to trudge through fields laden with improvised explosive devices. She knew he was so concerned he wrote a letter essentially predicting his own death to U.S. Rep. C.W. Bill Young, who attended the same Largo church as the Sittons.
Numbers Don't Lie: The Real Obamanomics
Excerpt: Twenty years ago, when Democrats tried to oust an incumbent Republican president from office, they questioned his economic stewardship. Vice presidential candidate Al Gore famously bellowed: “Everything that ought to be down is up, and everything that should be up is down!” The argument seems more relevant today than it was in late 1992.
Iftar Dinner Lies - Obama Butchers The Truth - Bolsters Muslim Brotherhood
The ACLU’s Battle
Excerpt: Now, in 2012, with the help of the ACLU, Cranston , Rhode Island Cranston , R.I. Del
Rethinking the Classroom: Obama’s overhaul of public education
Excerpt: In 31 / 2 years in office, President Obama has set in motion a broad overhaul of public education from kindergarten through high school, largely bypassing Congress and inducing states to adopt landmark changes that none of his predecessors attempted. (Congress? We don’t need no stinking Congress. Checks and Balances don’t apply to monarchs. ~Bob.)
Miscues Before Libya Assault: Limited Security in Benghazi
Excerpt: The deadly assault on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya U.S. officials issued alerts and ordered security precautions in neighboring Egypt
Tax penalty to hit nearly 6M uninsured people
Excerpt: Nearly 6 million Americans — significantly more than first estimated— will face a tax penalty under President Barack Obama's health overhaul for not getting insurance, congressional analysts said Wednesday. Most would be in the middle class.
The new estimate amounts to an inconvenient fact for the administration, a reminder of what critics see as broken promises. (They’ll scream, but it will be after the election—too late to do anything. The timing is NOT an accident. ~Bob.)
Excerpt: Myth: Mitt Romney is a rich guy who doesn't relate to the working man and is somehow taking money from you. The 1% are evil and if they were punished somehow your life would be better. Fact: Mitt Romney and the 1 percenters have never stuck their hand in your pocket and taken money out of your wallet. Any connection you have had with a 1 percenter has been a mutual decision in the open market. They did not force you to sign a mortgage agreement or compel you to buy an overvalued home you couldn't afford.
Romney Deserves A Break, Obama Doesn’t! By Burt Prelutsky
http://www.burtprelutsky.com/2012/09/romney-deserves-break-obama-doesnt.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+burtprelutsky%2FSQlQ+%28BurtPrelutsky.com%29
Excerpt: It’s not often I get to feel sorry for a multi-millionaire, but my heart goes out to Mitt Romney. Thanks to Team Obama working in cahoots with a corrupt media, he gets slammed no matter what he does. If he generalizes about his plans as president, he gets hit for being vague. But when he comes out with a five-point program, he gets no credit.
http://www.burtprelutsky.com/2012/09/romney-deserves-break-obama-doesnt.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+burtprelutsky%2FSQlQ+%28BurtPrelutsky.com%29
Excerpt: It’s not often I get to feel sorry for a multi-millionaire, but my heart goes out to Mitt Romney. Thanks to Team Obama working in cahoots with a corrupt media, he gets slammed no matter what he does. If he generalizes about his plans as president, he gets hit for being vague. But when he comes out with a five-point program, he gets no credit.
The Time Will Come When 51% Pay No Taxes. by Ann Coulter
Excerpt: Only our totally unbiased watchdog media could turn the burning of U.S.
Rare Film Footage of Ben Bernanke as a child
Some Things Never Change: More Teamsters Arrested & Charged Under RICO
Excerpt: Earlier this week, arrests were made and RICO charges filed against four Boston-area Teamsters for “committing multiple acts of extortion and racketeering among other crimes.” While news of a 30-count indictment always generates a fair amount of buzz, the fact is, regardless how much money the Teamsters spend on Democrat politicians, corruption is still alive and well within Hoffa’s union. (Well, to be fair, they probably didn’t realize this kind of thing was illegal under Obama. ~Bob.)
Dupes Of A False Flag Operation. By James E. Horn, Author of Experiencing Islam
Excerpt: I am a retired American Diplomat. I served my country abroad for twenty-five years, a ten of those in Islamic countries. … Has the US
Steyn: Obama from a ‘pampered and cosseted elite of no achievement’
http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/21/steyn-obama-from-a-pampered-and-cosseted-elite-of-no-achievement/#ixzz2773Gqedx
http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/21/steyn-obama-from-a-pampered-and-cosseted-elite-of-no-achievement/#ixzz2773Gqedx
Excerpt: Should President Barack Obama lose his bid for reelection in November, would that be the end of his political career? And if it were — what would his political obituary look like?
Excerpt: The ruling parties of Catalonia have sought guidance from Brussels on the legality of secession from Spain California Detroit and Chicago
Excerpt: The Department of Justice's inspector general released a long-awaited report on the Operation Fast and Furious gunwalking scandal this week. It marked the culmination of a 19-month investigation into the operation, which allowed as many as 2,000 firearms to "walk" into Mexico
Quote from Morning Jolt with Jim Geraghty
One of my favorite assessments of the Obama era involves paraphrasing the former Arizona Cardinals head coach Dennis Green, who had one of the all-time most memorable meltdowns when his team almost beat a much-favored Chicago Bears team in 2006: "The Bears are who they thought they were! They are who we thought they were! And we let them off the hook!" With a few exceptions, Barack Obama has been as president who we -- his critics and skeptics -- thought he would be. (I'll let you decide who, exactly, let him off the hook.)
According to Massachusetts Voters Senator Brown Won the First U.S.
Excerpt: Fifty percent (50%) of voters who watched tonight's U.S. Senate debate between Senator Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren said the Senator won, with 40% saying that Warren won the debate (6% thought it was a tie and 4% were undecided) according to a Kimball Political Consulting survey of "likely voters" in Massachusetts.
Tweet from @AHMalcolm
Leno: MSNBC reports the economy has bottomed out. There's an Obama slogan: "It Can't Get Any Worse Than This."
Important: Diplomatic missions close amid fear of more protests
Excerpt: The protests come a day after about 100 small children in Karachi
Video showed children repeating an adult voice that said "Death to America " and "Any friend of America Jakarta , U.S. Consulate General in Surabaya , U.S. Consular Agency in Bali and two other facilities will be closed Friday because of the "potential for significant demonstrations that might be held in front of these facilities." officials said in a news statement. (Run away! Run away! The Religion of Peace is coming! ~Bob.)
Didn’t get the memo. ~Bob. Excerpt: The dead included the former editor of Somali National TV, Liban Ali Nur, two other journalists and two policemen.
World's Obama fever cools
Excerpt: The two sets of images show a gap between aspirations and reality: A president who is popular overseas has not managed to radically transform America
WorthReading : US had fed the al-Qa'ida scorpion and now it had bitten the United States Belfast
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/columnists/robert-fisk/us-had-fed-the-alqaida-scorpion-and-now-it-had-bitten-the-united-states-16211878.html
Worth
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/columnists/robert-fisk/us-had-fed-the-alqaida-scorpion-and-now-it-had-bitten-the-united-states-16211878.html
Excerpt: A Damascus Syria Syria
Worth Reading : Absent Military Preemption against Iran Asia Times
http://send.hadavars.com/lt.php?c=12553&m=11054&nl=2096&s=68142afc4d83ce7ac3ca1eb770d3f00b&lid=97151&l=-http--atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/NI18Aa01.html
Excerpt: If a contrarian thought might be permitted, consider the possibility that all-out regional war is the optimal outcome for American interests. An Israeli strike onIran that achieved even limited success - a two-year delay in Iran 's nuclear weapons development - would arrest America America
Excerpt: If a contrarian thought might be permitted, consider the possibility that all-out regional war is the optimal outcome for American interests. An Israeli strike on
House panel set to clear Rep. Waters of ethics charges
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/250937-ethics-set-to-clear-rep-maxine-waters-of-ethics-charges
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/250937-ethics-set-to-clear-rep-maxine-waters-of-ethics-charges
Excerpt: The House Ethics Committee has completed a report clearing Rep. Maxine Waters of all ethics charges after nearly three years of investigating the California Democrat. At a rare public hearing for Waters on Friday, members of the secretive Ethics panel said they were prepared to issue a report finding the lawmaker innocent of allegations that she tried to secure federal money during the financial crisis for a bank in which her husband owned stock. (Afraid of being called racists, I suspect. ~Bob.)
Maslow and Islamists
I'm disappointed that I haven't seen an article or opinion piece that addresses Islamism on the following way: Maslow categorized human existence in a hierarchy of 5 needs. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs for a description. Simply put, Islamists threaten our very base need (level 2, safety, and freedom from harm) because they feel their higher order need (level 4, self esteem) is threatened. –George.
We’re No. 1! By Travis Akin
Hardly a surprise. ~Bob. Excerpt: To finish the season No. 1 is a remarkable achievement. But being No. 1 is not always a good thing. Illinois ’s most populous County, Cook County Cook County
Quotes from The Patriot Post
"The Obama economic agenda failed not because it was stopped, but because it was passed." --Paul Ryan
"The most important lesson I've learned is you can't change Washington Washington
Worth Reading : Collapse of the Cairo
Excerpt: In the week following 9/11/12 something big happened: the collapse of the Cairo Doctrine, the centerpiece of President Obama's foreign policy. It was to reset the very course of post-9/11 America
White House Nominates Wife Of Entertainment Mogul - And Obama Donor - For Choice Post
The Chicago
The 12-Step Guide for the Recovering Obama Voter. By P. David Hornik
Excerpt: “My name is Craig K., and I’m an Obamaholic.” That’s the confession with which Craig Karpel opens The 12-Step Guide for the Recovering Obama Voter. It’s meant, of course, to be an aid not just to addicted individuals but also to a society that’s taken a wrong turn and gone off the rails.
A Short Visual History of the Creepy Obama Cult
Collection of the “cult of Personality” items of this guy. It is creepy. Imagine media reaction if a Republican did half of this. See the next item. ~Bob.
Worth Reading
Excerpt: Who knows Mr. Obama's sentiments about the desecration of our colors. A word from him would end the nonsense. But his silence disconcerting, a sign of consent and another light-flashing, bell-ringing alarm ... Think about this, what would happen if that conservative cohort of male Americans between ages 17 - 26, or a significant portion thereof, decided, based on the social experiments going on in our military and the troubling behavior of the president, to not volunteer for military service?
The Major Toll of Secondhand Smoke. By Alexandra Sifferlin
Excerpt: Mining data collected between 2003 and 2006 by large government surveys, the researchers calculated that secondhand smoke kills 42,000 Americans each year, including nearly 900 infants. Secondhand smoke is linked to some of the same fatal illnesses caused by smoking, including heart and lung disease, and in babies, low birth weight, SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) and respiratory distress syndrome.
‘Popcorn Lung’: Colorado
Excerpt: A suburban Denver
Why Misinformation Sticks and Corrections Can Backfire: A new review of the research explains why "mud" sticks — especially when it's flung in the midst of a heated political contest. By Maia Szalavitz
Excerpt: At the height of campaign season in any presidential election year, voters will be inundated with all kinds of information of dubious accuracy, from misleading claims about candidates’ personal lives to exaggerations about their policy differences. Unfortunately, it’s precisely this type of misinformation — the kind that hews to people’s preexisting political, religious or social ideology — that sticks.
Excerpt: With little notice in the main stream media, Iran has been cementing it’s relationships with regimes in Venezuela & Bolivia Iran is the main funder of terrorism throughout the world, For them to gain a foothold in Latin America , does not bode well for peace in our hemisphere.
Mitt Romney to release 2011 tax return today
Excerpt: Mitt Romney paid $1,935,708 in taxes on $13,696,951 in income in 2011 for an effective tax rate of 14.1 percent, according to a return that will be released Friday afternoon at 3 p.m. Romney also plans to post a letter from his tax preparer, PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP, giving a summary of tax rates from the Romneys’ tax returns for the 20-year period of 1990-2009. … According to Malt, the returns will also show that the Romneys donated $4,020,772 to charity in 2011.
Tweets on Romney’s Taxes:
Tweet from Katie Pavlich @KatiePavlich
Hi @BarackObama, @mittromney has paid more than $50 million in taxes throughout his life, what's *your* fair share?
Tweet from Brit Hume @Kimsfirst
So Romney gave away 30% of his income and overpaid his taxes. The left sees this as further evidence he's terrible.
Tweet from Sue K H @Sky_Bluez
How funny, Romney showed Warren Buffet how you can pay more taxes if you want to #RomneyRule
Tweet from i kele @Pudingtane
Romney gave to charities $4million dollars but only deducted half of it. I'd say the man is way more generous than 90% of us.
Tweet from Matt Dawson @SaintRPh
Before the 2008 election Biden gave avg of $369 a year to charity.
Tweet from Kenton Jacobsen @kentonjacobsen
So, liberal media, now that Romney released his taxes and they all check out, can we move on to the Obama staffers who owe taxes?
Elizabeth Fauxcahontas Warren refused to check the box to pay a red cent more than demanded on her $300K+ salary
Excerpt: As we reported earlier today, California
Anti-Japanese Hatred in China
Excerpt: German cars sell like hotcakes in China
A Muhammad cartoon a day. By Daniel Pipes
Excerpt: Which prompts this question: What would happen if publishers and managers of major media outlets reached a consensus -- “Enough of this intimidation, we will publish the most famous Danish Muhammad cartoon every day, until the Islamists tire out and no longer riot”? What would happen if Korans were recurrently burned?
19 Reported Dead as Pakistanis Protest Muhammad Video
Excerpt: Violent crowds furious over an anti-Islamic video made in the United States convulsed Pakistan
Chairman Price Votes to Stop President Obama’s “War on Coal”
Excerpt: In 2008, President Obama promised that ‘if somebody wants to build a coal plant, they can – it’s just that it will bankrupt them.’ Clearly, that’s one promise he actually wants to keep.
ABC News: Fake RNC, DNC Websites Highlight Internet Campaign Donation Fraud
Excerpt: A 50-year-old fuel truck delivery man has allegedly run fake Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee donation websites that have raked in thousands of dollars over several years. (Spreading the wealth around. ~Bob.)
Stop Barack
Black Republican PAC ad.
Romney Leads, Obama Follows: Obama Acts Against China
Excerpt: In keeping with his administration's philosophy of "leading from behind," President Barack Obama filed a new complaint against China with the World Trade Organization (WTO) this week--after Republican nominee Mitt Romney began highlighting Obama's failure to out-compete China
Paul Ryan to AARP: Obama Has 'Put His Own Job Security Over Your Retirement Security'
Excerpt: The President likes to talk about how he is a champion for small business on the basis of a few temporary tax measures. But the truth is, if re-elected, President Obama has actually promised to raise the tax rates that many successful small businesses pay to over 40 percent – permanently.
An Anti-Romney Voter Who Will Now Vote for Romney
Excerpt: I’ve written on the futility of third parties at this point in history, the illogic of the lesser of two evils mantra, and how conservatives give up too soon. As a result I’ve received some vicious attacks. That’s OK. I’m used to it. Others have appreciated my comments. Agree or disagree, my goal is to get people to think.
Excerpt: Two dozen “patriotic millionaires” traveled to the Capitol on Wednesday to demand that Congress raise taxes on wealthy Americans. (they could do what Romney did—pay extra. ~Bob.)
The Love Song of AARP and Obama: Newly released emails reveal the 'nonpartisan' group's stealthy White House alliance on health care. By John Strassel
Excerpt: Thanks to just-released emails from the House Energy and Commerce Committee, we now know that AARP worked through 2009-10 as an extension of a Democratic White House, toiling daily to pass a health bill that slashes $716 billion from Medicare, strips seniors of choice, and sets the stage for rationing. We know that despite AARP's awareness that its seniors overwhelmingly opposed the bill, the "nonpartisan membership organization" chose to serve the president's agenda.
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