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Racist Communist Propaganda
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Excerpt: Obama himself is well aware of the nature and importance of his image. In his own words, "I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views." An 18th century philosopher put the matter bluntly: "When I speak, I put on a mask. When I act, I am forced to take it off."
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http://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2012/09/27/election_could_mirror_1980_race
http://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2012/09/27/election_could_mirror_1980_race
Excerpt: There was only one presidential debate in 1980 between challenger Ronald Reagan and President Jimmy Carter. Just two days before the Oct. 28 debate, Carter was eight points ahead in the Gallup
NBC Focuses On Obama Ad, Skips Libya
Excerpt: NBC's Today show mentioned the Obama campaign's newest attack ad three times on Monday, but not once did they report on developments in the wake of deadly attacks in Libya. Questions are being raised against the Obama State Department's handling of security prior to the embassy attacks. (If the media was unbiased, Romney would be up ten in the polls. I truly believe that. ~Bob.)
Poll: U.S.-Muslim Relations Were Better Under Bush. By Jessica Stanton
Excerpt: A plurality of likely voters — or 45 percent — believe that U.S.
Report: Racist Pics Sent To Mia Love. By Kevin Robillard
Tolerant liberals. ~Bob. Excerpt: Police are investigating racist photos sent to the office of Utah GOP congressional candidate Mia Love, but aren’t sure if any crimes were committed, according to a report. An envelope including pictures of aborted fetuses, a photo of Love and her husband Jason, and a photo of a hooded Ku Klux member were sent to Love’s mayoral office in Saratoga Springs
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Excerpt: At the current rate of federal spending, the national debt will crash through its legal $16.4 trillion limit by January 2013. When that happens, both sides of the aisle will be hoping to avoid a repeat of the hysterical debt ceiling showdown in the summer of 2011. The Democrats have not managed to pass a budget in years and do not have plans to reduce our mounting debt. Republicans generally wind up trying to weasel out of whatever spending cuts they agreed to before the ink on the deal has dried.
ObamaCare -- An Explosion of Regulatory Burdens
Excerpt: The Obama administration's health care law is already poised to cost billions in regulatory costs. However, few look to the burdens that the government and businesses will have in an effort to comply. Countless hours will be spent going over and finishing paperwork. Every hour spent on complying with the law is productivity and resources being taken away from businesses and hospitals, says Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich.).
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Lady Gaga will leave the planet and Madonna will stay clothed if Romney wins, how much more motivation do you guys need? #RomneyRyan2012
Obama and Congress Are Choosing to Cause a Recession
Excerpt: President Obama recently said, "The most important lesson I've learned is you can't change Washington
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Sustainable energy programs in the U.S.
Up to 700,000 Syrians may flee by year-end: UNHCR
Excerpt: Up to 700,000 Syrian refugees may flee abroad by the end of the year, the U.N. refugee agency said on Thursday, almost four times its previous forecast for the exodus from the deepening crisis. (Will the Arabs treat these refugees better than they treat the Arab refugees they encouraged to flee Israel
Proposal Sets Circumcision Regulations in Germany
Excerpt: Germany’s Justice Ministry took a firm step on Wednesday toward safeguarding the right of parents to circumcise their male children, distributing its proposal to state officials and other experts to be debated before it is drafted into law.
The Calm Before the Storm; China
Excerpt: The PLAN's possession of an aircraft carrier is a great public relations booster for the Chinese military and suggests that Chinese diplomacy will be backed by an even bigger stick in East and Southeast Asia , and possibly beyond. Yet the stick was hard to come by and remains far from a potent tool. In fact, Liaoning
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By Micah Zenko
Excerpt: It is unlikely that Obama's signature foreign-policy successes -- authorizing the raid to kill Osama bin Laden and providing the essential military and intelligence capabilities that led to the downfall of Muammar al-Qaddafi -- singlehandedly made the United States safer.
The Political Class Will Try To Con You Again Over The EU. By Nigel Farage
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/346651/The-political-class-will-try-to-con-you-again-over-the-EU
Excerpt: THE British establishment is quite prepared to doctor the record when it suits them – last week's Hillsborough revelations showed that. It can be decades before the truth is dragged from our political class. There is no subject on which this is truer than Britain US America Spain
Excerpt: Discontent in Spain and Greece Greece Greece US
BREAKING NEWS: Obama Administration Knew Libya
Excerpt: Sources confirm to Fox News that the Obama administration knew from Day One that the deadly attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi , Libya
Taxpayers spent $1.4 billion on Obama family last year, perks questioned in new book. By Alex Pappas
Excerpt: Taxpayers spent $1.4 billion dollars on everything from staffing, housing, flying and entertaining President Obama and his family last year, according to the author of a new book on taxpayer-funded presidential perks. In comparison, British taxpayers spent just $57.8 million on the royal family. (Where is OWS opposing the one percent when you need them? Or are lavish lifestyles only wrong if you earned the money yourself? ~Bob.)
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Excerpt: Though he pushes for tax hikes on the wealthy and demands tax transparency for Romney, Sharpton himself has taken a respite from paying his own taxes. … The liberal Tax Policy Center
The Biased Liberal Media
Excerpt: In Parts 1, 2 and 3 of my Entitlement Series I identified "Victimhood Blacks", "Invading Mexicans" and "Medicaid Queens" as segments of American society who are destroying our country. In my earlier two blogs entitled "The Second Civil War" and "Obama Re-election Means A 2nd Civil War" I provide a breakdown and a general timetable of how the second Civil War evolves. By economic necessity, traditional America will have to war with all three of these segments as we move to take back the America
Commandos for Jesus. By Michael Yon
Excerpt: Free Burma Rangers is famous for providing aid to ethnic groups in Burma
Worth Reading : Quantitative Easing Did Not Work For The Weimar Republic
Excerpt: Did printing vast quantities of money work for the Weimar Republic Zimbabwe and Argentina Japan
Excerpt: Samuel L. Jackson wants you to vote for President Obama—and in a new ad, he gets that message across as only he can. "Wake the F*** Up" is a Dr. Seuss-style rhyme, written by Adam Mansbach, who also authored "Go the F*** to Sleep" (which Jackson Del
Excerpt: On September 25, 2012 Former President Bill Clinton, in an interview taped Monday yet aired today on CBS, countered outcry over the anti-Muhammad film by stressing that one can’t live in a “shame-based society.” “We weren’t disrespecting Islam by not squelching a film trailer that nobody in authority knew anything about, that 99 percent think was crude and disrespectful and awful; but that we have learned the hard way over more than 200 years that in order to preserve freedom and liberty, including the freedom of religion, you have to allow people to say and do things that you find abhorrent, and you can’t react every time you’re insulted,” Clinton said. (For all the erudition ascribe to his O-ness, Obama hasn't got one percent of Clinton
Aussies In Iraq
I've always loved this song. – Larry W. Nice video compilation of pictures of the Diggers. ~Bob
Ahmadinejad and Morsi Lay Out the Islamic Agenda. By Robert Spencer
Excerpt: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Mohammed Morsi, arguably the foremost exponents today of Sharia rule, both spoke at the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, and their speeches together amounted to an Islamic supremacist wish list for the world.
Obama, ‘The Prophet of Islam’ and Slander. By Andrew G. Bostom
Excerpt: Mr. Obama and his State Department have never condemned, let alone actively sought to preclude—in real time and with specificity—the ongoing Muslim jihadist ravages against Christians and other non-Muslims across the length and breadth of Islamdom, often perpetrated by so-called US “Muslim allies,” and/or purveyors of “moderate Islam.” Even on the domestic front, one still awaits any Obama administration commentary on the “Piss Christ” revival, an exhibit originally funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts—particularly in light of their endless condemnation of the previously marginal, amateurish video, “Innocence of Muslims.”
Wistrich on ‘the Left, the Jews and Israel
Excerpt: Robert Wistrich, Hebrew University professor of European and Jewish History and director of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of anti-Semitism, has just published his 29th book titled From Ambivalence to Betrayal: The Left, the Jews and Israel
Doom, Gloom, and Polls. By Erick Erickson
Excerpt: I’ve been in politics long enough to know that the louder one side gets complaining about the polls, the more likely it is that this is the side that, in reality, actually is losing. Go back to 2004 and you will find Democrats trying to destroy the credibility of any pollster who dared show George Bush winning. Heck, go back to 2010 and look at the attacks then on Scott Rasmussen, who accurately predicted the outcome. Here’s a simple truth: the polls and polling trends are by and large accurate, but — and pay attention to the but — the polls are overestimating Democratic turnout.
Senior Jihadi Writer Suggests Killing Westerners, Putting Their Decapitated Heads On Display To Silence Attempts To Mock Prophet Muhammad
Didn’t get the “Islam is a Religion of Peace” memo. ~Bob. Excerpt: On September 18, 2012, Muhib Ru'yat Al-Rahman, a senior writer on leading jihadi forum Shumoukh Al-Islam, suggested that Muslims living in Denmark , Germany , the Netherlands , and the U.S.
The Film ‘Innocence of Muslims’ — Made By Terrorists? By Walid Shoeba
Excerpt: When it comes to the film Innocence of Muslims, our government and the media use a narrative mired in contradictions and false statements provided by the filmmaker, who himself is an untrustworthy source….The results of this entire fiasco will not be the apprehension of terrorists, but the continual chipping away at the First Amendment. … The film was made in the U.S.
Voter’s Remorse, Comedic Tragedy: There is comedy in every tragedy and tragedy in every comedy. How many Americans are willing to look into the mirror and ask whether they should be on medication for being so gullible four years ago.
Excerpt: The real tragedies of life consume us in an inarticulate manner; at least, we feel that way, after feeling so stupid for walking into an obvious trap so blindly, to be hurt so crudely, by mindless acts so devoid of meaning, by people so utterly lacking in style, grace, and substance. Their vulgarity and credulity consumes us as if they are a brute force of overpowering barbarity; but in the final analysis, it is we who gave them this pretense of competent leadership by which they trapped us so securely. …There is one way to rid ourselves of this dismal disaster, vote him out of office.
Manchurian candidate, you say?
Excerpt: A-Mansour is a black nationalist, Muslim, and a lawyer to Saudi princes who has publicly professed his hatred of the U.S. Manhattan borough president) told a reporter that Sutton was introduced to Obama by al-Mansour, who “was raising money for him [Obama]” and asked Sutton to write a letter in support of Obama’s application to Harvard Law School
John Bolton on Obama's UN Speech: 'An Exposition of Moral Relativism'
Excerpt: John Bolton provides the only truly honest assessment of Obama's absurd speech at the UN. Via Tammy Bruce, here's a video of one of the more shocking statements from Obama to the UN: "The Future Does Not Belong To Those Who Slander The Prophet Of Islam." He says this, knowing full well that anyone who is not a Muslim is technically 'slandering' the Muslim's so-called prophet since the majority of faiths other than Islam don't recognize Muhammad as a "prophet."
Political Correctness and the Rise of Sharia Law. By William Bigelow
Excerpt: The most terrifying danger Americans face from a second Barack Obama term isn't the economy, which is scary enough. The most harrowing prospect is the Obama Administration’s passivity in the face of attempts to introduce aspects of sharia law into our legal system. Now there is strong and open evidence of the Obama administration collaborating with Islamist activists to ensure the path toward sharia law is accelerated.
Deer repeatedly defaces Obama yard sign
Excerpt: An Austin , Texas
States and Organizations Fight to Preserve Liberty
Excerpt: Several private organizations joined in the legal complaint, to challenge also the constitutionality of the Act’s Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the high-handed manner in which President Obama appointed the Bureau’s Director. The legal challenge by the states and private organizations seeks to enforce constitutional limits on the ever more intrusive federal government.
I hope I'm wrong, but...
On August 11, I wondered why Romney decided to throw away Florida America ," and that transformation will mean that America
Fact Check: Is Romney's tax rate really lower than yours? By Judson Berger
Excerpt: IRS data, though, shows that Romney's effective income tax rate -- that's what he pays as a percentage of his income once deductions and other benefits are factored in -- is actually far higher than what most Americans pay. (Don't tell the media. They might have to report it, which would upset them. ~Bob.)
Wasted Food, Hungry Kids: Michelle Obama’s Bill in Action. Reports of predictable nanny state chaos. By Patrick Richardson
Excerpt: In 2010, Michelle Obama went to a lame-duck session of Congress with a request: pass a nutrition bill giving the United States Department of Agriculture broad new powers to regulate school lunches. That bill was passed in late December of that year, and the new regulations have started to go into effect, with the predictable results of wasted food and angry, hungry children. …P.J. Moran, a food service director for a small district in rural Kansas, said wastage has gone up “at least 20 percent” over last year, as students, particularly at the grade school level, cannot refuse anything on their trays — but, of course, cannot be forced to eat it. (Per Fox report, calories limited at 850. Used to be minimum of 825. --Barb.)
Radical Speech at NY Muslim Parade Prompts On-Stage Walk-Off: State Senator Tony Avella (D-11th District) had heard enough about "Zionist Nazis" and "the unborn martyrs in our wombs." By Ryan Mauro
Excerpt: The video shows an imam with a thick accent from Brooklyn stating on stage, “The freedom of speak and freedom of rights our problem starts. So, I would like to demand United Nations to make an international law that would criminalize blasphemy.” He reiterates the need for legislation “for the protection of the honor of our beloved prophet.” ….State Senator Tony Avella, a marshal of the parade, walked off-stage in clear disgust over the comments.
Obama To UN—It’s Not My fault Stevens Is Dead
Excerpt: Obama added that the U.S. U.S. had co-sponsored a resolution with Egypt at the UN Human Rights Council in 2009 that would allow Islamist governments to ban such videos and claim they had the full support of the United States U.S. on equal footing with those who had attacked America
Media Roundup: MSM Trumpets Skewed Polls To Tilt Ohio
Excerpt: Remember, in order to buy today's media polling, you have to believe Romney has shored up his base and is winning Independents, but still losing because Obama's going to match or best the extraordinary party advantage he enjoyed during the perfect storm of 2008. Poll apologists just say they believe the polls. What they're really saying, though, and can't defend, is that during a bad economy and all the Middle East unrest, Obama's going to win a record turnout advantage.
The Jack Ryan Files: Obama ‘Shamefully Soft on Crime and Drugs.’ By Vince Coglianese
Excerpt: The opposition research file of Republican Jack Ryan includes 253 pages dedicated solely to media clippings about Barack Obama….The first section — and by far the densest — is called “Shamefully Soft on Crime and Drugs,” and provides a window into Obama’s character liabilities, brought into focus by his willingness to vote either against or “present” on an array of anti-crime legislation. It includes accounts of his failing to support laws meant to protect battered women, ensure the privacy of rape victims and prevent the murder of witnesses….Obama argued that lawmakers were too often pushing through tough-on-crime legislation, complicating the criminal code. (It was the illegal release of Ryan's divorce proceedings to the Tribune, knocking him out of the senate race, which put Obama in the senate. On such things turn the fate of nations. ~Bob.)
Lieberman pushes Obama to issue cybersecurity executive order. By Josh Peterson
Excerpt: Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman’s cybersecurity bill failed to gain majority support in the Senate in August, but now he is pushing for President Obama to issue an executive order to compensate. Lieberman was the lead co-sponsor of the failed Cybersecurity Act of 2012, a controversial bill that sought to give the federal government regulatory control over the cybersecurity standards of water, power and utility companies.
Live... In Concert: Motivation, emotion, and the questions that keep musicians up at night. By Robert H. Woody, Ph.D.
Excerpt: In my own research, I've had numerous experiences in which musicians I'm working with are unaware of aspects of their own performance. (Interesting article from my friend Bob Woody, a person to whom the label polymath" applies if to anyone, on why musicians cannot judge well their own music. I suspect this applies to public speakers as well, if the boredom factor of the audience is understood. I, on the other hand, have known from an early age that, that if a song I was singing happened to hit a correct note, it was pure coincidence. ~Bob.)
Ahmadinejad meets with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. By Caroline May
Excerpt: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met with the Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan and other religious leaders Tuesday, according to an English translation of the Iranian president’s Web page posted Wednesday. In a picture of the Tuesday evening meeting, Farrakhan — known for making brutally anti-Semitic assertions, and calling President Obama a “murderer” for the death of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi — is seen smiling as he sits at a table with the Iranian president. According to Ahmadinejad’s Web page, the night before his address to the UN General Assembly, Ahmadinejad, Farrakhan and seven other leaders of “Abrahamic religions” listened to the Iranian president’s desires for a new world order. (Ah, the "Kill the Jews, Hang the Gays" old boys club. Rahm Emanuel welcomed Farrakhan to Chicago
Egypt leader demands US aid, censorship, plus end to Israel
Excerpt: Morsi also used his U.S. speech to push his revolutionary mix of Islamic and progressive demands to demand that countries unite to strip Israel of its nuclear weapons, to demand the downfall of Syria’s government, the transfer of wealth from oil-rich Arab states to poor Arabs countries and the transfer of Western aid and technology to Egypt’s government and poverty-stricken population. ... In July, White House officials said they planned a joint meeting of Morsi and Obama. In recent weeks, officials canceled it as the U.S.
How U.S.
Excerpt: Facts: A movie has been made solely to criticize it. The left treats it as if it's an invader that must be repelled. Most Americans, however, are satisfied with this object of so much hate — America Cuba as a paradigm for the U.S. California Del
This year's flu vaccine guards against new strains
Excerpt: Time to get your flu vaccine. And remember: Last year's shot won't protect you this year. Federal health authorities said Thursday that this year's vaccine contains protection against two different strains that have begun circling the globe. And just because flu was mild last winter, doesn't mean it won't bounce back with its usual ferocity this winter.
Excerpt: The U.S.
Oh Boy: Horrible New Economic Numbers Released, Double-Dip Recession Coming? By Guy Benson
Excerpt: As you digest these figures, keep in mind that we were already experiencing the worst economic 'recovery' since the Great Depression -- featuring "feeble growth, exhausted consumers, a jobs hole and shrinking paychecks." And now there's this: (We tried my [economic] plan, and guess what? It worked! –Barack Obama.)
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"Every time we object to a thing being done by government the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all" ~Frederic Bastiat
Obama claim that Bush is 90% responsible for current deficit gets 100% of Pinocchios at WaPo. By Ed Morrissey
Excerpt: I hit this 60 Minutes quote two days ago in yesterday’s OOTD, but it’s worth revisiting in the form of Glenn Kessler’s fact check at the Washington Post. Kessler misses one of the biggest problems with Barack Obama’s response to Steve Kroft’s question, which was about national debt, and Obama responded by talking about deficits — two different issues, although related. I’ll put the question and the longer answer provided by Kessler together, emphases mine:
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Notice that fans of income redistribution NEVER offer their own income for redistribution...
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Excerpt: Politics is by nature a brutalizing business. It is a business of ambition and lies. Stay around it too long, and your heart becomes coarsened. It thickens and gets numb.
Bibi Netanyahu photo
Can we trade leaders? ~Bob.
Quantum of Easing
New Crossroads Ad. Share. ~Bob
Obama Voter Says Vote for Obama because he gives a free Phone
Buying votes with your grandkids money, borrowed from China
43% Expect Better Economy if Romney Wins; 34% Say Same of Obama
Excerpt: Most voters still don't think the economy will get better no matter which candidate wins the White House and which party wins control of Congress in November. But they’re now a little more confident in economic gains if Mitt Romney and the Republicans come out ahead.
Austerity Backlash Threatens European Stability. By Rick Moran
Excerpt: Just when Democrats are slapping each other on the back congratulating themselves on the coming Obama victory, a sharp reminder is given them that world events could easily trip up the president’s efforts at re-election and throw the race to Romney.
Voter fraud in Florida
Excerpt: We spoke with Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Susan Bucher, who says an organization dropped off about 304 voter registration applications to one of her satellite offices. As Bucher's staff was inputting the information, they noticed that some of the forms had very similar signatures, and there were some discrepancies in the information, and some were lacking information. (Show me your shocked face. ~Bob.)
Senate Republicans join suit against NLRB recess appointments
Excerpt: “The president’s decision to circumvent the American people by installing his appointees at a powerful federal agency while the Senate was continuing to hold sessions, and without obtaining the advice and consent of the Senate, is an unprecedented power grab,” McConnell said in a statement. “We will demonstrate to the court how the president’s unconstitutional actions fundamentally endanger the Congress’s role in providing a check on the excesses of the executive branch.” (Several states have joined in an effort to fight the unconstitutional appointment of Cordray to the disastrous CFPB at the same time that theses appointments were made to the NLRB. States need to also join the Senate Republican in this effort. --MM)
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Millions of little girls don't know who their daddy is, but there's something wrong w/ Paul Ryan teaching his daughter how to shoot a deer? (Democrats teach their kids how to do drive-bys. ~Bob.)
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“The Republican Party is the ship, all else is the sea.” —Frederick Douglas
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