News From the Front in the Lung War
The custom-made stent from France
It really was a near-run thing. For the military types on my
list, here's what happened. Things were going well on Wednesday, 5/21. But on
5/22, the NVA launched an assault on my perimeter. We engaged them with all the
indirect fire we could (24/7 IV antibiotics), but by the morning of Memorial
Day, 5/27, they had broken through the wire and resistance was reduced to small
pockets with no reserves. (I was on 100% oxygen, which you can't stay on too
long, and holding only at 90% oxygen saturation, barely in the safe range.)
Faced with imminent defeat, I called a fire mission on my position. (Agreed to
go on a ventilator breathing tube, knowing I might never come off or even wake
up. I survived that, in fact the doctor said of the hundreds of patients he has
intubated with breathing tubes, I tolerated it better than anyone he had seen.
Credit the power of prayer, the efforts of the physical therapy guys to build
me up, and my Parris Island DIs that I had no
panic in the crisis.) By Saturday I was able to lift the fires (pull the
breathing tube as the antibiotics had gotten ahead of the bugs). I gather up
two mess men, the company clerk, the chaplain's assistant and a PFC malingering
in sickbay and launched a counter attack, driving Charlie back outside the wire
and restoring the perimeter. So we have restored the situation as it was on
5/21. This does not mean we have won the battle, never mind the war. They will
be back. but we held for this round and I'm doing all I can to strengthen the
position. As always, your prayers, support and good thoughts are much
appreciated. ~Bob
The Bumbler Swaps Bastards for Bergdahl
And you though
"Cash for Clunker," followed by "Cash for Green Cronies
(Solyndra et al) was bad. ~Bob
Excerpt: People are arguing about what the United States
got out of the deal that swapped five top level terrorist leaders for one
American soldier who was, at best, absent from his post in a war zone. Soldiers
who served in the same unit with him call him a deserter. The key to this deal,
however, is less likely to be what the United States got out of the deal
than it is about what Barack Obama got out of the deal. If nothing else, it
instantly got the veterans' hospitals scandals off the front pages of
newspapers and pushed these scandals aside on television news programs.
It was a clear winner for Barack Obama. And that may be all
that matters to Barack Obama. ... People who are disappointed with Barack Obama
have no right to be. It is they whom others have a right to be disappointed
with. Instead of taking their role as citizens seriously, they chose to vote on
the basis of racial symbolism, glib rhetoric and wishful thinking.
Worth Reading
Excerpt: "The fact of the matter is, when those
soldiers were killed, they would not have been where they were at if Bergdahl
had not have left," said former Sgt. Evan Buetow, Bergdahl's former team
leader. "Bergdahl leaving changed the mission." Those charges were
repeated by a noncommissioned officer who requested anonymity because he
is still in the Army, one who described himself as a two-time voter for
President Obama, lest anyone think his comments were political in any way.
"If Bergdahl hadn't left it's entirely plausible that they wouldn't have
had those follow-on missions or been where they were," said the NCO, who
served in the 501st. Some also argue that the personnel recovery mission
angered the local population, and created patterns in troops' movement that
made insurgent attacks easier. None of that has been enough to quell critics
who accuse the soldiers of smearing Bergdahl and exaggerating the role his
disappearance played in the deaths of the six men. (Tapper tends to be, if you
will, fair and balanced. I'll be surprised if CNN keeps him. ~Bob)
Miss Louisiana ’s Take on Bergdahl Prisoner Swap at Miss USA
Excerpt: Brittany Guidry of Louisiana ,
competing for the title of Miss USA ,
finished 3rd runner-up in the annual beauty pageant. But it wasn’t her looks,
bathing suit, or talent that earned her the biggest applause. (40 second video
of her response. ~Bob)
In Pittsburgh
http://triblive.com/news/adminpage/6228667-74/panetta-bergdahl-obama#axzz34BML5HyA
http://triblive.com/news/adminpage/6228667-74/panetta-bergdahl-obama#axzz34BML5HyA
Excerpt: “I don't fault the administration for wanting to
get him back. I do question whether the conditions are in place to make sure
these terrorists don't go back into battle,” former CIA director and Secretary
of Defense Leon Panetta told a gas industry gathering in Pittsburgh . Panetta, who was in the Cabinet
for four of the five years Bergdahl spent in Taliban custody, said he opposed a
swap for the terrorists held at Guantanamo
Bay , Cuba
Many Americans Will Die Because of the Bergdahl Trade?
By Ronn Torossian
Excerpt: “We all must be mindful that the United States
has diplomatic, civilian, and military personnel deployed in other countries
with both challenging security environments and active terrorist networks interested
in targeting not just our facilities but our people. One of their greatest
protections – knowing that the United
States does not negotiate with terrorists –
has been compromised.” — John Boehner
If Obama Was A White
Conservative: He’d Be Facing 10yrs To Life in Prison For Taliban Swap
Excerpt: Shepard Smith asked Judge Andrew Napolitano whether
or not the Taliban prisoner exchange was legal under the NDAA H.R. 1960
Statute. The judge explained that the swap was illegal because taxpayer dollars
were spent to remove these prisoners from Guantanamo Bay
'Gentlemen' Won't
Return to Battle
Marie Harf, a deputy State Department spokesperson, isn't
helping the administration's case. In fact, her performance is eerily
reminiscent of a "Saturday Night Live" spoof of the
administration. She told MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell yesterday that the Taliban
Five released for Bowe Bergdahl are "gentlemen" who wouldn't return
to the fight against America .
"Under this administration," she explained, "we've put in very
stringent processes to determine that we can sufficiently mitigate the risk
that the terrorists, the possibility that these gentlemen will go back to the
battlefield." In other remarks at a press conference, Harf dismissed the
idea again: "Let's say the worst case scenario -- these five guys do
return [to the battlefield]. In no way would that substantially change the
Taliban's order of battle on the ground. That's just not, um, even
logical." What's not logical is to think five dangerous jihadists were a
good trade for an alleged Army deserter. (That's the difference between
liberals, who call jihadist murders "gentleman," and conservatives
who call them "thugs." Of course, the left has declared
"thug" a racist code word, but I have gone on using it to describe
Nazi's, skinheads, The Aryan Nation and the KKK. So call me a racist, but these
groups are thugs and their commitment to affirmative action is a tad weak.
~Bob)
White House: 90 in
Administration Knew of Bergdahl Deal, But Not Congress
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/bergdahl-prisoner-white-house/2014/06/09/id/576067#ixzz34Dfjndsv
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/bergdahl-prisoner-white-house/2014/06/09/id/576067#ixzz34Dfjndsv
Excerpt: Between 80 and 90 administration staffers knew
about the trade of five Taliban leaders for U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl even
though Congress was kept in the dark, CNN reports, and members of both parties
are unhappy about it. During a classified briefing to the entire House of
Representatives late Monday afternoon, White House officials said that up
to 90 people had prior knowledge of the trade. House Armed Services
Committee Chairman Buck McKeon called that news "disturbing," partly
because of the high number who knew and partly because the White House has been
saying it didn't inform Congress until after the swap was made because it
feared Bergdahl's life might be in danger if there had been a leak. (Barb: "Oh
what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive." -
Sir Walter Scott (Marmion, 1808)
Intelligence Officers: 4 of the 5 Taliban Leaders Released
From Gitmo Will Wage War Against U.S.
Excerpt: It all added up to a painful dilemma for the White
House: free Taliban leaders who might return to the fight—or risk losing America ’s
last service member held abroad. Obama ultimately chose to make the deal,
despite his intelligence services’ estimate that four of the five Taliban
detainees would ultimately resume their struggle against American allies.
Religion of Peace News
Report Debunks
"Cold-Blood" Claim on Palestinian Deaths
Excerpt: When recent Israeli-Palestinian peace talks broke
down, some Palestinian officials, including chief negotiator Saeb Erekat, cited
a spike in Palestinian deaths at the hands of Israeli security forces as a
factor. Israelis, Erekat said, "killed 66
Palestinians in cold blood" since negotiations started last summer. A new
report, however, investigates the
backgrounds of those killed, finding that a majority were members of radical
terrorist organizations.
Excerpt: The Movement of the Taliban claimed credit for last
night's assault on Jinnah Airport in Karachi
that shut down all flights, and said the attack was executed to avenge the
death of Hakeemullah Mehsud, the former leader of the group who was killed in a
US
drone strike last year. The assault was executed by 10 heavily armed Taliban
fighters, some of whom are said to be of Uzbek nationality, Pakistani officialstold Dawn. If true, these are likely to be members of
the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, the jihadist group that is allied with the
Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan
and al Qaeda.
Taliban claim deadly
attack on Karachi
Excerpt: The Pakistani Taliban have said they were behind an
assault on the country's largest airport that killed at least 28 people,
including all 10 attackers. The raid on Jinnah international airport in Karachi began late on
Sunday at a terminal used for VIPs and cargo. Security forces battled the
militants for at least six hours, finally gaining control around dawn. The
airport has now reopened and flights have resumed. (won't change my vacation
plans--I wasn't going there anyway. ~Bob)
Excerpt: The Obama administration isn’t only giving the
Taliban back its commanders — it’s giving them weapons. Military records and
sources reveal that on July 25, 2012, Taliban fighters in Kunar province
successfully targeted a US Army CH-47 helicopter with a new generation Stinger
missile. They thought they had a surefire kill.
Nigeria: Death toll from latest jihad attacks now 110;
jihadists rounded up villagers for Islamic sermon, then opened fire.
By Robert Spencer
Excerpt: Now that it has been revealed that Nigerian
generals have been arming this bloodthirsty group, it is clearer why they have
been able to operate with such impunity in Nigeria , and continue to do so. But
neither the mainstream media nor the leaders of the great nations of the West
dare to consider the implications of the fact that this group’s supposed
twisting and hijacking of Islam is shared by people at high levels of the
Nigerian government. ... On Wednesday, gunmen rounded up more villagers outside
Borno’s state capital Maiduguri
saying they were going to deliver a sermon, then opened fire, killing at least
42, said a police source….
British Report Finds
Islamist Intimidation in Birmingham Schools
Excerpt: British Prime Minister David Cameron promises a "robust response" to the "culture of fear and intimidation" that
British investigators found at five state schools in Birmingham, England, where
Islamic extremists allegedly plotted to subvert and run them according to rigid
Islamic norms.
Excerpt: Suspected Boko Haram militants have abducted at
least 20 women close to where 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped in northern Nigeria ,
eyewitnesses say. The women were loaded on to vans at gunpoint and driven away
to an unknown location in Borno state, they add. (given that the Holy Qur'an
endorses sex with slave girls ["That which your right hand possess."]
we can guess their fate. ~Bob)
Kenya cleric Sheikh
Mohammed Idris shot dead in Mombasa
Excerpt: A moderate Muslim cleric has been shot dead in Mombasa , the latest killing
of a preacher in the Kenyan city. Sheikh Mohammed Idris, chairman of the
Council of Imams and Preachers of Kenya, was killed close to a mosque near his
home by a group of gunmen. (Like "moderate" Germans in the 1930s
& 40s, "moderate" Muslims have a reason for staying silent. ~Bob)
Video of Mass Sexual
Assault Taints Egypt
Excerpt: A video showing a mass sexual assault on a nearly
naked woman in the midst of inaugural celebrations for Egypt ’s new
president is testing his pledge to curb an epidemic of such attacks, with
captured scenes of a police officer with a gun in his hand struggling against a
crowd of men to extricate the victim.
Other Political News and Comment
Excerpt: For those in Washington obsessed with reducing
income inequality, the standard prescription involves raising taxes on the
well-to-do, increasing the minimum wage, and generally expanding government
benefits—the policies characterizing liberal, blue-state governance. If only America took a
more “progressive” approach, the thinking goes, leaving behind conservative,
red-state priorities like keeping taxes low and encouraging business, fairness
would sprout across the land. Among the problems with that view, one is
particularly surprising: The income gap between rich and poor tends to be wider
in blue states than in red states. Our state-by-state analysis finds that the
more liberal states whose policies are supposed to promote fairness have a
bigger gap between higher and lower incomes than do states that have more
conservative, pro-growth policies. (The error the authors make is assuming that
the administration cares about income inequality or the poor. They don't. They
care about building support and votes. Being a demagogue such issues in a
fact-free manner admirably serves that purpose. ~Bob)
Causes of Death in
1900 vs. Today: One Chart Puts Firearms & Natural Disasters Threat in Perspective
Excerpt: In light of the federal government’s drive to
enforce stricter environmental regulations for the reason of combating man-made
“climate change,” it should be said that 98% fewer people are dying from extreme weather events
or natural disasters than in the 1920s. Extreme weather events currently
comprise about 0.07% of all fatalities globally. We’re also being told about
the danger posed by law-abiding citizens possessing firearms. But where is that
threat on this chart?
Obamacare Penalty to
Hit One Million Low-Income Americans: 200,000 earning less than 100 percent of
the poverty level to pay fine
Excerpt: Roughly one million low-income Americans will pay a
fine under Obamacare, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
The CBO estimated that four million people would pay the
individual mandate penalty for not having health insurance by 2016 as a result
of the president’s health care law, according to a report released
last week,
A Vermont
firearms dealer says the Obama administration is responsible for him having to
lay off 41 of its workers in a “last minute” move that has even angered some of
the state’s liberal politicians. Century International Arms had a $30 million
contract in place to import World War II era M1 Garand Rifles from the South
Korean government. The U.S. State Department had given preliminary approval to
the deal, and the State, Justice and Defense departments had cleared the
transaction. But an executive action announced last year by President
Obama ultimately blocked the plan, according to the gun seller, despite pleas
from Sen. Patrick Leahy and Gov. Peter Shumlin, both Democrats. (If you like
your job, you can keep your job. Period. Unless, of course, it's a job Obama
needs to eliminate to kiss up to his base. ~Bob)
Excerpt: "It is a permit to enter the United States ." That is what
Edilberto Lanza Mejia, a 26-year-old from Honduras ,
told The
Houston Chronicle about the documents given to him by U.S. immigration official before they released
him at a bus station in McAllen ,
Texas
Obama's Mariel: Five Ways
Excerpt: A wave of single mothers and children is crashing
across our border from Central America in numbers not seen since Cuba 's 1980
Mariel boatlift. Incredibly, it's now President Obama playing the role of
Castro. Last week, President Obama called the surge in illegal immigration
across the Texas border "an urgent
humanitarian situation" and vowed to put together a task force to ensure
that the "needs" of the illegals are fulfilled by the U.S. taxpayer.
He's not mistaken about the scope of the problem — which has seen 148,000
apprehensions, or 1,100 arrests a day, from Oct. 1 through May 17,
with 120,000 apprehensions forecast for 2014, according to a report from
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service. (I listened this morning to a
discussion on NPR about the young kids coming up into the US now, with a lot of
them from Guatemala, where the violence is overwhelming, 8 yr old boys get
killed for not joining the local gang, poverty is really grinding, and none of
us would want to stay there for a second. And the boys from those countries
cling onto the major freight trains that go north, which are called in Spanish
the Train of Death because it's easy to get killed or at least have a limb
amputated just for trying to ride on one of the cars. So the 14 year old they
interviewed came across like a hero, braving a perilous journey to get to the US so he can
work and send money to his starving mother and siblings. How can one NOT have
instant sympathy for this kid? But the world is filled with literally hundreds
of millions, if not over a billion, of kids living in horrendous circumstances.
The camps for refugees from wars in the Congo
or Nigeria are really
terrible places too, the few Christians still surviving in places like Pakistan and
other now aggressive Muslim societies are desperate, and the list can go on
until any adult with a heart will be weeping. And we can't take in everyone,
our society only has so much capacity for absorbing people, especially poor
ones with no special skills and little to no English. So if we can't take in
those kids from the Congo or
Sudan , how is it OK to take
in the kids from South America just because
they can manage to get here? I don't mean to sound hard-hearted, but I believe
that by not very clearly discouraging illegals, by not really tightening the
border, by not shipping people back as fast as we possibly can (and give every
one of them $100 to get them home with something, if it'll make everyone feel
better about it), we are giving people false hope and encouraging them to come
here. We need those societies south of our border to evolve and start taking
better care of their own people. (And if we can help with a few million bucks
every year for their schools or food programs or clinics, great. That's less
costly to us than having to deal with people here, and in any case is the right
thing to do.) --Del )
Because He Is Black, Americans Suffer and Die. By Lloyd
Marcus
Excerpt: Clearly, no amount of unprecedented unlawful
power-grabs, narcissistic behavior, blatant
lies, and ignoring of the Constitution will sway the mainstream media and
the Democrats from their loyalty to Obama. Why? The answer is that Obama is
black, which makes him their ultimate weapon of mass destruction – able to nuke
traditional America .
Obama's mission is to cram his radical socialist/progressive dream for America down
our throats. (Would you say the writer was a racist? Even if you knew he was a
black writer? ~Bob)
Worth Reading
http://dailycaller.com/2014/06/03/sorry-college-grads-youll-probably-never-get-your-social-security-money/
http://dailycaller.com/2014/06/03/sorry-college-grads-youll-probably-never-get-your-social-security-money/
Excerpt: According to Pew, 51 percent of Millennials believe
they will receive no Social Security money by the time they retire. 39 percent
believe the system will provide benefits at reduced levels. Indeed, a mere 6
percent believe they will receive benefits enjoyed by current retirees at the
same levels. ... Within fifteen years, the number of Americans reaching
retirement age will increase 70 percent while the number of working-age
Americans will increase by just 6 percent. When Social Security started in
1935, 17 workers paid for the benefits of one retiree. As a result of its
unsustainable growth, it’s estimated that by 2035, the ratio will be two
workers per retiree.
Teaching the Vietnam
War: Why it is important for graduate military studies. By Martin Scott Catino,
Ph.D., Adjunct Professor of Graduate Military Studies at American Military
University
Excerpt: The late Osama bin Laden, Ayman al Zawahiri, and
the Taliban are among the enemies who have drawn very clear lessons from that
conflict, and we should teach America ’s
next generation of military leaders to do likewise. Although the lessons
learned from Vietnam
are many, several key areas of study emerge as particularly valuable for
teaching graduate military studies: the psychological terrain, the strategic
context, and information operations.
World War One footage
found in Long Eaton shed
Excerpt: The film contains images of the men and women who
filled artillery shells with high explosives at Chilwell, Nottinghamshire.
NATO: Friendly fire
kills 5 U.S. service members
in Afghanistan
http://www.armytimes.com/article/20140610/NEWS/306100050/NATO-Friendly-fire-kills-5-U-S-service-members-Afghanistan
http://www.armytimes.com/article/20140610/NEWS/306100050/NATO-Friendly-fire-kills-5-U-S-service-members-Afghanistan
Excerpt: A senior police official in southern Zabul said the
coalition soldiers may have been killed when they called for close-air support.
Excerpt: The Internal Revenue Service may have been caught
violating federal tax law: In October 2010, the agency sent a database on
501(c)(4) social-welfare groups containing confidential taxpayer information to
the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to documents obtained by a House
panel. (Well, I'm sure Attorney General Holder will crack down hard on this
lawbreaking! Ha! I crack me up. ~Bob)
Cuban ballet dancers
defect to US on Puerto Rico tour
Excerpt: Six dancers with Cuba 's
National Ballet have arrived in Miami after
defecting while on tour in Puerto Rico at the
weekend. (Obama should have traded Michael Moore for them, since Moore loves Cuba . ~Bob)
Why Hillary's 'Dead
Broke' Comment Matters. By Jim Geraghty, Morning
Jolt
Morning Jolt is a
free e-newsletter that is well forth your time to subscribe to. ~Bob. Hillary's
"Dead Broke" comment is the 2016 presidential cycle's early version
of her "Tuzla Dash," — when she claimed that during
a visit to Bosnia
as First Lady, "I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed
to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran
with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base." Of
course, there is no record indicating any danger to her. Hillary Clinton
misremembers events so they fit into her own personal heroic narrative, not as
they actually were. Lots of people do this, particularly politicians, but this
is a dangerous habit for a leader to have. If they cannot assess and interpret
past events clearly, how much faith can we have in their ability to assess and
interpret what's in front of them now? Or in the future? In case you missed it . . . Hillary Clinton said she
and husband, Bill, were "dead broke" when they left the White House
in 2001 with a meager income of $416,039 and $11 million in debt, as she
defended her $200,000 speaking fee to ABC's Diane Sawyer. Clinton
insists the speaking fees were necessary for the family of three to make ends
meet, managing two mortgages and the steep bills for daughter Chelsea 's private school education. "We
struggled to, you know, piece together the resources for mortgages, for houses,
for Chelsea 's
education. You know, it was not easy," Clinton told ABC's Diane Sawyer, in an interview to air Monday. Remember
when I chuckled about a New Yorker writer referring to her as
"Lunch-pail Hillary," suggesting she will run a populist
campaign that is "critical of the Wall Street types"? Apparently she
really intends to do this. A woman with a net worth of $200 million, who gives
speeches to Goldman Sachs for $200,000 each, is perhaps the single least
plausible populist of all time. She may attempt to pose as this reform-minded
outsider who will shake up "The System," when she is perhaps the
personification of "The System." You can count on one hand the number
of people who have had more influence over public policy than her since January
1993. But she's going to try it, because she is apparently incapable of
perceiving herself as she is. Because massive wealth is seen as suspicious or
inherently corrupting in today's political culture, particularly in Democratic
circles, she has to pretend she's middle class, that her personal-finance
worries are just like those of Americans making mid five-figures or less.
The "he's unbelievably rich and out of touch"
attack clearly did damage to Romney in 2012. Hillary Clinton has to hope lots
of people don't react the way Jimmie Bise Jr. did: "I know of dozens of
ridiculously-talented, hard-working people who'll never set foot in a mansion.
But Hillary Clinton buys two and weeps." {New book listed in Morning Jolt: My colleague John Fund has
a new book out, Obama's Enforcer: Eric Holder's Justice Department. Senator
Ted Cruz says,"Obama's Enforcer catalogues the abuses of power at the
Department of Justice under Attorney General Holder: Rather than honoring its
long history of bipartisan fidelity to the law, the DOJ has become an
unapologetically partisan institution that aides and abets this
administration's lawlessness and contempt for the Constitution."]
In Benghazi chapter, Clinton says Marines were in Tripoli.
By Jake Tapper, CNN
Excerpt: Discussing the most controversial part of her
tenure at the State Department in her new book, "Hard Choices"
– the attacks on the U.S. compounds in Benghazi, Libya, on the night of
September 11, 2012 – former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton seems to gloss
over the fact that Marines were not sent amid a worsening security situation in
Libya, and were only sent after the attack.
Major Factual Error
About Benghazi
http://dailycaller.com/2014/06/09/major-factual-error-about-benghazi-in-hillarys-new-book/#ixzz34DcRbQLi
http://dailycaller.com/2014/06/09/major-factual-error-about-benghazi-in-hillarys-new-book/#ixzz34DcRbQLi
Hillary Clinton’s new book Hard Choices got basic
information about security measures in Libya before
the Benghazi attack
totally wrong, CNN reports.
In a chapter defending military readiness at the American
diplomatic outpost in Benghazi , Clinton wrote that while there were no Marines
stationed there, there were Marines at the American embassy in Tripoli , “where nearly
all of our diplomats worked and which had the capability to process classified
material.” This is untrue, according to Congressional testimony delivered by
General Carter Ham, who was Commander of US Africa Command during the attack.
His testimony was delivered in June 2013–a year before the book was published.
(As Bob would say, "Show me your shocked face." Another Allinsky
devotee. Same as what we got now. --Barb)
Worth Reading : Was Benghazi a Scandal? Scandals — or
fundamental transformations? By Victor Davis Hanson
Excerpt: If the CIA wanted to smuggle guns to Syria or interrogate al-Qaeda suspects in Benghazi , that was its
business, not necessarily the administration’s. To the degree Obama was
involved in overseeing events in Libya ,
his involvement was most likely limited to a vague warning that, in the latter
part of the nip-and-tuck 2012 campaign, there must not be anything resembling a
shoot-’em-up Mogadishu , which a beefed-up
security presence in Benghazi
might have made more likely by evening the odds. Better to keep a low profile
amid increasing security threats and hope for the best. And, if the worst
happens — well, things do happen.
When the violence did erupt, a freelance video producer
became the perfect villain.
Ben Shapiro: Obama
Administration 'A Criminal Enterprise
Excerpt: On Monday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel,
Breitbart editor at-large of Ben Shapiro laid out the premise of his new book,
“The People Vs. Barack Obama: The Criminal Case Against the
Obama Administration.” “So there are multiple charges – I mean,
everything from Benghazi ,
which there are violations of the Espionage Act and the Arms Export Control Act
to the IRS, in which there are violation of IRS law, to witness tampering on
multiple counts. .... This is why the RICO Act was created – is to wrap all of
this kind of stuff in a bundle and then allow for prosecution. (This Chicago way, eh?
Like Holder would do something? --Barb)
Aussies To Form
Alliance to Thwart Obama’s Climate Goals
Excerpt: Australia ’s
Prime Minister Tony Abbott is seeking out “like-minded” countries to form an
alliance to thwart climate policies being pushed by President Obama and other
world leaders. Abbott announced his intention to stymie efforts to push climate
policies on unwilling countries as he met with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen
Harper on Monday. Abbott said he seeks to build a conservative alliance
with Canada , Britain , India and New Zealand .
Excerpt: As if it weren’t bad enough that even convicts
qualify for Obama amnesty, check out what’s going on in Arizona ;
the federal government is dumping an unknown number of illegal immigrants
caught in Texas at bus stations
in Phoenix and Tucson . The feds didn’t even have the
courtesy to give state officials a heads up that hundreds, possibly thousands,
of illegal aliens would be dropped off for processing by Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (ICE) and subsequently released into the general
population. A chunk of the migrants got apprehended in Texas over Memorial Day weekend
after crossing into the state through the Rio Grande Valley
Excerpt: EPA draft regulations released this week mandate
power plants cut carbon emissions by 30 percent by 2030. According to the EPA’s
own measurements, the new regulations are set to do much more economic harm
than environmental good. The EPA estimates the cost of the regulations at $8.8
billion a year in 2030. The product? An EPA estimated warming prevention of .03
degrees Celsius by 2100. In other words, consumers will pay $616 billion more
in energy costs for what the government claims will prevent warming of .03
degrees Celsius in 86 years– hardly a worthwhile expenditure even if we are to
take the EPA at their word. (Ahh, he has more flexibility to screw U.
excerpt: The barrage of illegal immigrant minors entering
the U.S. through Mexico in recent weeks has created an
out-of-control disaster with jam-packed holding centers, rampant diseases and
sexually active teenagers at a Nogales facility,
according to information obtained by Judicial Watch from a Homeland Security
source. The Obama administration blames the sudden influx on persistent
violence in Central America, but a veteran Border Patrol agent who heads the
agency’s Tucson sector
union, says rumors of amnesty are responsible for the unforeseen
bombardment.
Excerpt: Judicial Watch alleges that in 2009 then-White
House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and then-deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina,
on behalf of the Obama administration, both used their position and influence
as highly placed federal employees to affect the outcome of federal elections –
in direct violation of the Hatch Act.
Excerpt: That makes this week’s news that bin Laden’s former
bodyguard, Mahmud Abd Al Aziz Al Mujahid, will soon be free, all the more
outrageous. It was not that long ago—in 2010—that an Obama task force listed
Mujahid as too dangerous to release from Gitmo. That put him on a special
“forever prisoner” list of 48 indefinite detainees. His Pentagon
file says he’s a high risk likely to pose a threat to the U.S. , its
interests and allies and that he is of high intelligence value. The defense
document also says Mujahid is a member of Al Qaeda who served as a body guard
for bin Laden for one year and that he has familial ties to Al Qaeda members,
including other bin Laden bodyguards and Gitmo detainees. He traveled to Afghanistan in
late 1999 or early 2000 for jihad and received militant training at the Al
Qaeda al-Faruq training camp, the file says. (Date January 2014. Per this
article, ..."the president created a special parole panel, a six-member
Periodic Review Board, to essentially clear out the facility..." Rule by
decree...Barb)
Obama releasing
'reformed' Guantanamo
Excerpt: President Barack Obama is moving ahead with his
push to close the Guantanamo Bay
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