Gen. Carl Mundy, 30th
Commandant of the Marine Corps, dies
Excerpt: According to a biography curated at the United
States Marine Corps History Division, “General Mundy was noted for his emphasis
on ‘people issues’ and core values of honor, courage, and commitment. During
his tenure, ‘From the Sea’ became the Navy-Marine Corps joint strategic
concept, wherein the Navy and Marine Corps reoriented doctrinal focus toward
littoral warfare.” (General Mundy was probably the most articulate of any
Commandant that I can recall. --MasterGuns. Semper Fi, Sir. ~Bob.)
Worth Reading
Excerpt: When has a secretary of state been involved in so
many disastrous, self-initiated negotiations? First, John Kerry convenes —
against all advice and holding no cards — Geneva
negotiations to resolve the Syria
conflict and supposedly remove Bashar al-Assad from
power. The talks collapse in acrimony and confusion. Kerry’s response? A second Geneva
conference that — surprise! — breaks up in acrimony and
confusion.
Excerpt: It’s not however money and weapons that splits Muslims
over Syria .
Money and weapons are only the symbols. What they represent is Islam. And what
Islam represents is the intersection between identity and power.
Worth Reading
Excerpt:
A few days ago President Obama spoke before a friendly crowd at the University of Michigan
Excerpt: In July 2010, Joe McSpedon, a U.S. government official, flew to Barcelona to put the final touches on a secret plan to
build a social media project aimed at undermining Cuba ’s communist government. (I wish
the media was anywhere near as good at uncovering secrets about Benghazi, the
IRA political targeting, Fast &and Furious, the number of Obamacare signups
who have actually paid or who didn't have insurance before the ACA was lied
into existence, or Obama's hidden school records, as they are at splashing
national security secrets for our enemies to read. ~Bob)
Why Is the U.S. Military Averaging More Than a Mission a Day in Africa ? By
Nick Terse
Excerpt: Last year, according AFRICOM commander General
David Rodriguez, the US
military carried out a total of 546 “activities” on the continent—a catch-all
term for everything the military does in Africa .
In other words, it averages about one and a half missions a day. This
represents a 217 percent increase in operations, programs and exercises since
the command was established in 2008.
Obama Told Military
Leaders: Accept Gays In Military Or Step Down Admiral Said
Excerpt: In a meeting with the heads of the five service
branches in 2010, President Obama offered the leaders a choice: Support my
efforts to end the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, or resign, the
Commandant of the Coast Guard said. In a video obtained by BuzzFeed via a
Freedom of Information Act request, Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Robert Papp
revealed that Obama was unwilling to compromise with service leaders over DADT
during a meeting in 2010. (I recall reading somewhere that a retired Marine
Colonel said that General Amos told him essentially the same thing. Not that I
ever doubted that the service chiefs were given that order. --MasterGuns. I
think the issue of putting women into combat units like infantry is a far
bigger issue and will casus much larger problems than gays. They will have to
lower standards to get enough women to satisfy liberals who never served and
would stroke out if one of their kids joined. That means lost fights and dead
Americans, all in the name of PC. Always a hard choice when you are given
orders that conflict with what you think is best for the troops, service and
country. Do you resign out of principle, or do you hang on and do the
distasteful in hopes you can moderate the policy a bit or make things better a
little? ~Bob.)
Obama gives rosary blessed by Pope Francis to Nancy Pelosi.
By Ben Johnson
Excerpt: During their first-ever meeting last week, Pope
Francis gave President Barack Obama a blessed rosary. Yesterday, Obama gave
that rosary to Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi. (Won't catch him clinging to
religion. ~Bob)
Muslim Cleric Urges Homeless Women to Become Sex-Slaves.
By Raymond Ibrahim
Excerpt: Now, the same Islamic cleric who issued this
last “rape fatwa” has issued another fatwa urging destitute
women in war torn Syria
to become the “right hand possessions” of any man willing to support them—basically,
to sell themselves into sex-slavery.
The Obama EPA’s
Heinous Human Experiments. By Matthew
Vadum
Excerpt: President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency
has been subjecting unknowing human guinea pigs to high levels of carcinogens
and potentially lethal pollutants in order to justify tough new air quality
standards.
Worth Reading
This reminded me of a great line from this wonderful video
essay on Hayek's "On the Use of Knowledge in Society" over at
the Marginal Revolution University
Obama’s Stand-up
Routine Is Laughable Indeed: Too bad the joke is on his
youthful audience. By Jonah Goldberg
Excerpt: President Obama was doing his favorite thing this
week: talking to crowds of adoring young people who already agree with him
while acting like he persuaded them about something. They also seemed to give
Obama the impression that he’s a really funny guy.
Why every world map
you're looking at is WRONG: Africa, China
and India
33 Shocking Facts
That Will Change How You Picture History
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Mr. Scam Man song
Report: 13K In Maryland
http://politicaloutcast.com/2014/04/report-13k-maryland-lost-insurance-thanks-obamacare-never-got-back/#Ikow532yRuqePz2O.99
http://politicaloutcast.com/2014/04/report-13k-maryland-lost-insurance-thanks-obamacare-never-got-back/#Ikow532yRuqePz2O.99
Excerpt: The head of the Maryland Health Insurance Exchange
testified Thursday before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee
that only 60,000 people have signed up for Obamacare through the state’s
exchange - 13,000 less than the number of individuals reported to lose their
insurance due to Obamacare. (Probably more than 13k lost it, because many of
the 60k who signed up were, so they claim, the uninsured who the law was aimed
at. ~Bob)
What Happens When
Teachers, Delivery People And Fast Food Workers Don’t Care Anymore… By Michael
Snyder
Excerpt: One of the big problems in America today is that a lot of
people simply do not seem to care about what they are doing anymore. The level
of sloth, laziness and apathy that we are witnessing in this country is
absolutely mind-numbing. Of course this is not true of everyone. There are
still many Americans that are extremely hard working. But overall, it really
appears that people are not taking as much pride in their work as they once
did. Some of the examples that I am about to show you are quite funny.
Obamacare’s unhealthy
peer pressure on millennials: Health care law puts the squeeze on young adults
Excerpt: Kids, ask your mom about it. Wives, talk to your
husbands about it. Lonely single females, talk to your cat about it, or have a
cup of hot cocoa with your pajama-clad hipster friend. But whatever you do,
don’t actually take it upon yourself to learn about Obamacare or do the
math to realize what a bad deal health care reform is.
Marine Kyle Carpenter to receive Medal of Honor
Excerpt: William Kyle Carpenter, 24, a medically retired
corporal, will become the service's third Medal of Honor recipient of the
nation's highest combat valor award from the wars in Afghanistan
and Iraq ,
which date to October 2001.
Jackson Diehl:
Kerry's dangerous Mideast delusions
Excerpt: During a tour of the Middle East in November,
Secretary of State John F. Kerry portrayed the region as on its way to a
stunning series of breakthroughs, thanks to U.S. diplomacy. In Egypt , he said,
"the roadmap" to democracy "is being carried out, to the best of
our perception." In Syria ,
a peace conference would soon replace the Assad regime with a transitional
government, because "the Russians and the Iranians . . . will make certain
that the Syrian regime will live up to its obligation." Last but hardly
least, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was on its way to a final settlement —
by April. "This is not mission impossible," insisted the secretary of
state. "This can happen." Some people heaped praise on Kerry for his
bold ambitions, saying he was injecting vision and energy into the Obama
administration's inert foreign policy. Others, including me, said he was
delusional.
Excerpt: We have what amounts to a national police force.
The FBI is severely constrained by statute as to what kind of crimes for which
they can intervene. The EPA, Education Department, NOAA and most other agencies
have few, if any restrictions and can bend and shape the law to interpret a
mandate just about any way they wish. Congress has had hearings on police
powers for individual agencies but the broad problem of militarizing the
federal government has not been examined.
Pelosi:
Dems Proud Of ObamaCare
Excerpt: If they start campaigning on this, there might not
be a democrat left after Election Day!
Check it out: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told State of the Union’s Candy Crowley Sunday morning that Democrats were openly embracing the success of the Affordable Care Act, and that the candidates who were distancing themselves from the law were the exception.
Check it out: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told State of the Union’s Candy Crowley Sunday morning that Democrats were openly embracing the success of the Affordable Care Act, and that the candidates who were distancing themselves from the law were the exception.
Oppressed by the Ivy League:
What Dartmouth
Excerpt: Academia has been obsessed over identity politics
for two generations, so there's some justice in the newest addition to the
matrix of oppression: an Ivy League education, according to the Dartmouth College
On Tuesday Dartmouth 's
finest seized the main administration building and disrupted college business.
The squatters were allowed to remain until Thursday night, when the
dean of the college negotiated and signed an exit settlement assuring them the
non-dialogue would continue. (And we thought that the days of campus radicalism
and obnoxiousness were in the past? No way, Jose. The demands now are really
serious, just look over the article below. When did the students get granted
the final authority on one happens on campus and how the school is run? [College
health plan has to cover sex-change operations- WHAT???] It's way past time to
tell these kids to take a hike, hit the bricks, follow the road, and don't come
back until you've had major reworking of your head's wiring. Imagine graduating
all thse rabid demanders out into society. I'm sure they would do SO well in
job interviews...... for the New Weathermen! --Del )
Excerpt: Prof. KC Johnson,
best known for his investigative work regarding abysmal university and faculty
handling of the Duke Lacrosse case, has a post at Minding the Campus regarding
a disturbing appointment at Dartmouth , ‘Why Have a Hearing? Just Expel Him’: “Why could we not expel
a student based on an allegation?” That astonishing question was posed at a conference on how colleges respond to sexual
assault issues by Amanda Childress, Sexual Assault Awareness Program
coordinator at Dartmouth .
According to Inside Higher Ed, Childress continued: “It seems to me that
we value fair and equitable processes more than we value the safety of our
students. And higher education is not a right. Safety is a right. Higher
education is a privilege.” Give Childress credit for candor–even the campus spokespersons
for increasing the number of guilty findings in campus tribunals usually
aren’t so bald in their disdain for basic principles of due process. (OK, rape
statistics from US colleges are both shocking and infuriating. Apparently it
has become all too common for the guys to ply a girl with a few drinks, then
get into "petting" and then slide a lot further to the initiation of
good old sex, even if the lady is not happy about it or even protesting
vigorously. This is a scandal, and really makes you wonder what in hell is
wrong with these guys, but the next sad truth is that too often the system
has not brought the victim any real satisfaction of justice being done. Part of
this is in a way no one's fault. When the forced sex happens in a place with no
witnesses, and the girl had been to the party and had been drinking, it ends up
in a "he said/she said" situation, and that's very hard to take into
court. (And it must be said that sometimes the girl really wasn't protesting,
but decided later that she was raped, not seduced, and now it's an unfair
attack on the guy.) Getting to the unvarnished truth in these situations is
near impossible, and in our criminal system, you are innocent until proven
guilty. Do we really want to move away from that ideal? The answer for some
people is Yes. Personally, I would rather see a lot of emphasis on getting the
women to understand the hazards of drinking and hanging out with a bunch
of pickled guys, and a lot of emphasis on getting the men to understand that
engaging a woman in sex under any circumstances other than she being fully
awake, rational, and expressing definite willingness, is a big No-No. And
lastly, if a woman wakes up feeling raped, you go to the police, NOW, and start
things moving. Schools should be involved in these matters only when it's clear
what role they can play. --Del.
One wonders if they would be for expelling a student based on an allegation of
theft or cheating? Suppose the student was a minority? ~Bob)
The real "War on Women," ignored by the left and
their media sycophants. ~Bob. Excerpt: Monday night at Fox, I had the pleasure
of meeting Qanta Ahmed through our mutual friend, Brooke Goldstein (of the Lawfare Project). Dr. Ahmed is
a British- and U.S.-educated medical doctor from Pakistan . She is also a believing
Muslim, and has been deeply involved in Honor Diaries, a film
that exposes honor killings and other systematic abuse and inequality that
women face in Muslim-majority societies. Today, Dr. Ahmed has an
important article on
our homepage about the film and the campaign to suppress it now being waged by
the Muslim Brotherhood’s professional Islamic grievance industry.
Muslim backlash
against film will hurt women, says 'Honor Diaries' team
Excerpt: The film showcases nine Muslim women who speak
about their experiences with honor practices, forced marriage at young ages and
the denial of education. Some of the women are victims or have family members
who were victims and describe the painful and up-close realities they endured.
The film weaves the experiences of honor violence victims together with
commentary from activists and experts.
Eric Holder defends using Justice Department airplane for
27 personal trips. By Nick Sorrentino
Excerpt: There is a culture of privilege which runs deep
through our government. And its nothing new, though it does seem to have been
taken up a notch with this administration. Why shouldn’t Eric Holder fly where
he pleases on the taxpayer dime? Don’t the taxpayers know that he’s a big shot,
the chief cop of the universe. We should be happy we can help him fly where he
wants for personal reasons. (Questioning black politicians' abuses of power is
now racist. ~Bob)
Excerpt: Dreary crime news all this week. In Detroit a caucasian tree
trimmer is driving home when a Black youth steps off the curb and onto the
street, and is hit by the tree trimmer's truck. The White Driver stops to
render aid and to call for help. Some fifty urban Blacks attack the driver and
beat and kick him senseless and leaves him to die in the street. He is now in a
medically induced coma, in critical condition, and his chances to live are
dicey. Two days ago, here in Phoenix, a 67 year old man walks up to the 7-11 in
his neighborhood, buys a six pack of beer, and in a spirt of charity, offers a
can of cold beer to two hispanics just entering the store. The two Mexicans
follow the guy out of the store and, apparently offended at being spoken to by
a gringo, follow the old guy down the street. The Mexican in the passenger seat
jumps out, runs over to the old man begins pounding on the back of the old
man's head until he crashes to the sidewalk and lays inert and unresponsive. He
too is in the hospital in critical condition.
Muslim cleric
arrested with grenade in Eastleigh denied bail
Excerpt: A Muslim cleric and his wife allegedly found with
two grenades during a swoop in Nairobi ’s Eastleigh estate following a terrorist attack in which
six people were killed have been denied bail.
Burnings and
beheadings strike fear in south Thailand
Excerpt: The recent burning and beheading of female victims
in Thailand ’s
southern Muslim provinces marks a renewed campaign of terror by insurgent
groups, according to a Human Rights Watch statement released today. At least
three Thai Buddhist women have been killed and mutilated by insurgents since
February, according to HRW.
Islamist suicide
bombers kill 15 in oil field attack in Nigeria
Excerpt: SUSPECTED Islamist suicide bombers killed 15
civilians in a failed attack on a state oil company facility in northeast Nigeria , when
soldiers at a checkpoint opened fire on their explosive-packed vehicles, the
military said today.
What Happened to
Chicago’s Murder Rate After Illinois Upheld
Concealed Carry and Why it Matters
Excerpt: This week, Chicago
police announced that the city’s first quarter murder rate was the lowest since
1958. Check it out: In July of 2013, Illinois
became the last state in the union to enact a concealed carry law. In January
of this year, the state began accepting applications for permits. This week, Chicago police announced
that the city’s first quarter murder rate was the lowest since 1958.
Nancy Pelosi: We've
Finally Filled The George Bush Jobs Hole
Excerpt: The latest jobs report contained a politically
important fact for Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) -- America finally replaced the jobs
lost from the "Bush economic policies," the House minority leader
said Friday, blaming Republicans for the slow pace of recovery. Pelosi's
declaration came shortly after the Labor Department announced the U.S. economy
added 192,000 jobs in March, in the latest sign of ongoing job growth too tepid
to bring down the unemployment rate. But private payroll employment did pass a
milestone Democrats wanted to commemorate. (Has all that Botox gone to her
brain? --JB)
Democrats try to make the Koch brothers the new face of the
GOP. By Kathleen Parker
Excerpt: For the uninitiated, the brothers are libertarian
billionaires whose vast
industriesin petroleum, asphalt, natural gas liquids, coal and
ethanol employ
60,000 people. More to the point, they are spending gobs of their own money
to sway politics toward free-market principles and away from current government
expansionist trends. For this, they have been targeted by Democrats, who are
not exactly penniless when it comes to advancing their own politicians and
policies.
Leaked Recording:
Russian Ambassadors Discuss Invasion of Miami & California
Excerpt: A few days ago, Ben Swann reported
on an audio recording of Turkish leaders planning a false flag operation in
Syria .
In February, Assistant US Secretary of State Victoria Nuland's phone
conversation, regarding the political crisis in Ukraine , was leaked, for which she issued an unrepentant apology.
Yesterday, reports surfaced of
a conversation between two Russian Ambassadors that discussed a possible future
invasion of the United States
and Eastern Europe . (Too much Vodka. ~Bob)
$6 Billion Goes
Missing at State Department
Excerpt: The State Department has no idea what happened to
$6 billion used to pay its contractors. In a special “management
alert” made public Thursday, the State Department’s Inspector General
Steve Linick warned “significant financial risk and a lack of internal control
at the department has led to billions of unaccounted dollars over the last six
years.
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