General News and Comment
Conservatives Who With
Reagan Fought
(With apologies to Robbie Burns and Robert the Bruce)
Robert A. Hall
Worth Reading
Excerpt: Then last week came news the Marine Corps is
pushing the requirement for female Marines to perform the pull-up (physical
fitness testing) to the end of 2015. That's a delay. And today a retired Marine
sent me an article that implied the physical standards for the necessarily
demanding 12-week Infantry Officer Course (which no female volunteer has
conquered - only one making it through the first day combat endurance test)
will be lowered (under a guise - changed policy to fit the
pressure). Why? Because females, generally speaking (of course, there
is always an exception or two), cannot do pull-ups. Nor can females perform to
the physical standards of a male. Life is not fair. And no amount of
physical fitness training is going to conquer the evolutionary design of
females (they are not males and there is many a good reason - for instance,
reproduction and perpetuation of the species). (This is going to get men
killed. But it won't be the sons of the politically-correct liberal politicians
pushing this to please the base. They don't choose to serve. ~Bob)
Excerpt: Whenever Democrats are in real trouble politically,
the Republicans seem to come up with something new that distracts the public’s
attention from the Democrats' problems. Who says Republicans are not
compassionate? With public opinion polls showing President Obama’s sinking
approval rate, in the wake of his administration’s multiple fiascoes and
scandals – the disgraceful treatment of veterans who need medical care, the
Internal Revenue Service coverups, the tens of thousands of children flooding
across our open border – Republicans have created two new distractions that may
yet draw attention away from the Democrats' troubles.
Worth Reading
Excerpt:
The young Marine, with barely a year in the regiment, told me the Marine Corps
is on a fourteen year winning streak (combat) and so much as said survival of
the Marine Corps is secure. And continued to explain the need for effective and
efficient use of personnel and there was no need for two series officers (per
series) to lead and supervise. The argument, though superficially logical,
lacked history, depth, and experience that comes only through maturity and
seasoning.
Federal Employees engaged
in partisan politics during work hours
And yet another "recycled" hard drive! ~Bob
The Outhouse of
American Liberty
Excerpt: 'Norfolk City Councilman Dick Pfeil told the Omaha
World-Herald that he was unhappy with the float, and he wanted to make clear
the city had not approved it.' Because nothing better exemplifies the spirit of
Independence Day than having your float approved by the government. Well, the
good news is that Eric Holder's Department of Justice - that would be the same
Department of Justice that supplies guns to Mexican drug gangs, and monitors
the phone calls and emails of US journalists, and declines to investigate the
IRS' obstruction of justice, and prosecutes states that seek to verify the
immigration status of people within their borders, etc, etc - Eric Holder's
Department of Justice has dispatched a crack team of agents to Nebraska
to investigate said act of lèse-majesté toward King Barack:
Kay Hagan’s Carbon Tax
Would Destroy Up To 67,000 N.C. Jobs
Excerpt: Kay Hagan has supported a carbon tax that would
cause gas prices and utility bills to skyrocket, while destroying up to 67,000
jobs in North Carolina
over the next ten years.
But with Election Day quickly approaching, Hagan is now
backtracking from her fringe, anti-energy positions and denies that she ever
supported the carbon tax. But Hagan’s record is clear: she has been a long-time
proponent of taxing carbon emissions.
At Dinner Tables, a
Restless Obama Finds an Intellectual Escape. By Julie Hirschfeld Davis
Excerpt: In a summer when the president is traveling across
the country meeting with ordinary Americans under highly
choreographed conditions, the Rome
dinner shows another side of Mr. Obama. As one of an increasing number of
late-night dinners in his second term, it offers a glimpse into a president who
prefers intellectuals to politicians, and into the rarefied company Mr. Obama
may keep after he leaves the White House. Sometimes stretching into the small
hours of the morning, the dinners reflect a restless president weary of the
obligations of the White House and less concerned about the appearance of
partying with the rich and celebrated. (I'd rather have a beer with working
class Marine vets. A Republican who had dinners like this would be called a
snob by the media. ~Bob)
Excerpt: The great hope of achieving Martin Luther King’s
dream has been dashed to pieces by a man who is the most racially divisive
president ever. Thus, it is particularly telling that even blacks, Obama’s most
solid support group, are starting to turn on him. ("Turn on him" is a
bit of a stretch, but the shine is definitely off the loafer. ~Bob)
Another swing and a miss for Obama’s foreign policy. By Dana Milbank
Milbank is a liberal! ~Bob. Excerpt: President Obama has
described his foreign-policy doctrine as an attempt to hit singles, doubles and
the occasional home run. But at this stage of the game, it looks as though he
has popped out, grounded into a double play and been hit by a pitch. His
attorney general, Eric Holder, said Sunday that the threat of undetectable
explosives from Syria
is “more frightening than anything” he has experienced in office. And the
Wall Street Journal ran a front-page article Monday reporting that
“the breadth of global instability now unfolding hasn’t been seen since the
late 1970s” and that “U.S.
global power seems increasingly tenuous.”
Progressives turn
from Obama to embrace Warren
Excerpt: Populist Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) got a
rock-star reception during a standing-room-only campaign rally here Monday, as
hundreds of liberal activists cheered her broadsides against corporate
interests and voiced hopes that her presence might shift the political winds in
an increasingly Republican state. (and she's a minority too. Harvard touted her
as a Native American faculty member on the basis of her family legend that she
was 1/32nd Cherokee. Huh. According to my grandmother. granddad was 1/4th Cree,
making me 1/16th. But like Warren ,
i have no evidence. Still, I'm applying for a casino license...~Bob)
Excerpt: The Federal Election Commission recycled the
computer hard drive of April Sands — a former co-worker of Lois Lerner’s —
hindering an investigation into Sands’ partisan political activities, according
to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. (There seems to be a
rash of crashed computers and lost emails among federal employees--the folks
who will be in charge of keeping your electronic health records. ~Bob)
Professors For Pedophilia. By Stephen Brown
Professors For Pedophilia. By Stephen Brown
Excerpt: The results of Plummer’s “research,” however, was
to produce such disturbing statements as: “The isolation, secrecy, guilt and
anguish of many pedophiles are not intrinsic to the phenomenon but are derived
from the extreme social pressure placed on minorities.” And another gem: “Many
adult pedophiles say that boys actively seek out sex partners …’childhood’
itself is not a biological given but an historically produced social object.”
Burger King employee
goes into uncontrollable rage, attacks pro-lifer
Excerpt: A pro-life organization ran into trouble in Columbus , Ohio
A great deal of film right from the fight, some of it had to
be from our cameramen. 43 minutes long. Anybody who was in Hue can tell me what they
think of this. (I see someone I know in here... Hi Dale) S/F --Del
See Why Rolling Stone’s List of ‘Most Dangerous Guns’ Is
Being Called ‘Maybe the Worst Piece of Journalism of All-Time.’ By Jason Howerton
Excerpt: The Internet is relentlessly mocking Rolling
Stone’s new photo slideshow outlining the “5 most dangerous guns in America,” with one reader calling
it “maybe the worst piece of journalism of all-time.” Making the publication’s
list are pistols, revolvers, rifles, shotguns, and even Derringers.
Bad Ass Nurse Shoots
Carjacker, Breaks Up Criminal Ring [VIDEO]
http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/15/armed-milwaukee-nurse-staves-off-car-jacking-breaks-up-criminal-ring-video/#ixzz37g7IpJrc
Excerpt: A Milwaukee nurse who shot an attempted carjacker likely helped break up a criminal ring that police believe has been involved in a string of robberies and carjackings as well as a recent shooting. Two teenagers — a 15-year-old and a 17-year-old — tried to steal Victoria Davison’s car last month while she was in it, according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/15/armed-milwaukee-nurse-staves-off-car-jacking-breaks-up-criminal-ring-video/#ixzz37g7IpJrc
Excerpt: A Milwaukee nurse who shot an attempted carjacker likely helped break up a criminal ring that police believe has been involved in a string of robberies and carjackings as well as a recent shooting. Two teenagers — a 15-year-old and a 17-year-old — tried to steal Victoria Davison’s car last month while she was in it, according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
A Communications Problem, Again? By Jennifer Rubin
Excerpt: For this administration, failure is always the
result of a “communications” problem. Otherwise, failure might be taken as
evidence of misguided ideology and incompetent execution, right? It’s a
weird excuse for the president who fancies himself to be the most eloquent man
on the planet. And it is equally weird when someone whose job it is to
communicate U.S.
policy makes that excuse.
White House blows off Issa subpoena to testify on possible political violations. By Pete Kasperowicz
Excerpt: The Obama administration on Wednesday refused to
send a senior White House official to testify before the House, even though
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa
(R-Calif.) had issued a subpoena requiring him to appear.
The White House warned Issa late Tuesday that David Simas,
director of the White House Office of Political Strategy and Outreach, would
not be appearing. (It's not that the administration is in contempt of
Congress--it's that they have contempt for Congress. ~Bob)
Excerpt: Today’s Americans tolerate what would have been
unthinkable years ago. According to theNational
Center for Education Statistics and the BJS, 209,800 primary- and
secondary-school teachers reported being physically attacked by a student
during the 2011-12 academic year. Hundreds of thousands more are threatened
with injury. On average, 1,175 teachers are physically attacked each day of the
school year. These facts demonstrate an unwillingness to defend ourselves
against these young barbarians, who often will grow into big barbarians.
Leaked Border Crisis
Intel Shreds Narrative From Media And Obama Admin
Excerpt: An elite, law-enforcement sensitive El Paso
Intelligence Center (EPIC) intel report from July 7, 2014 was leaked to
Breitbart Texas and reveals that homicide rates in Central America suggest
violence is likely not the primary cause of the surge of thousands of
unaccompanied minors and incomplete family units illegally entering the United
States.
The EPIC report indicates that the belief among the illegal
immigrants that they would receive permisos and be allowed to stay
was the driving factor in their choices to come to the United States and that
the crisis will continue until ‘misperceptions’ about U.S. immigration benefits
were no longer prevalent .
Con Thien
You sent a video of Hue .
How about this from 1967. SF, Jack 9Sgt. Jack was my boss at Khe Sanh. ~Bob)
Millennials'
Political Views Don't Make Any Sense
Excerpt: Millennial politics is simple, really. Young
people support big government, unless it costs any more money. They're for
smaller government, unless budget cuts scratch a program they've heard of.
They'd like Washington
to fix everything, just so long as it doesn't run
anything. That's all from a new Reason Foundation poll surveying 2,000
young adults between the ages
of 18 and 29. Millennials' political views are, at best, in a stage
of constant metamorphosis and, at worst, "totally incoherent," as Dylan Matthews puts
it.
How Stupid Happens: No,
PolitiFact did not show that half of Fox News statements are false. By Kevin D. Williamson
Excerpt: The most obvious problem — though certainly not the
only problem, not even close — is selection bias: PolitiFact is a
readership-driven online publication, and thus it exercises a great deal of
discretion about which statements it chooses to evaluate and why. The most
obvious factor is that it evaluates only statements that are disputed.
Specifically, it evaluates only statements that are disputed and that its
editors believe will be of some interest or benefit to its readers.
Obamacare News
Must Read: The First Single-Payer
Domino: If the health-care experiment fails in Vermont
Excerpt: When the statutory
January 2013 report date arrived, the governor refused to produce the mandated
report. It’s now the summer of 2014, and Shumlin, having forsworn deadlines,
now says the citizens will get the news in 2015, after another election. The
news, incidentally, will be frightening. Two independent analyses of the likely
cost of Green Mountain Care, above and beyond federal subventions, found that
it will likely require a $2 billion tax hike. This, in a state whose
general-fund budget is $1.44 billion. (My Great, Great Grandfather, Vermont
State Representative George Mortimer Hall, MD, must be spinning in his grave in
Swanton , Vermont
In North Carolina
Excerpt: The Tar Heel State signed up more than 357,000
people — one-third of those eligible for the new health insurance exchange. Yet
President Barack Obama’s health law remains a major liability for Sen. Kay
Hagan, who faces one of the toughest reelection races for any Senate Democrat
this year, a true toss-up fight against North Carolina House Speaker Thom
Tillis. He misses no chance to tie her to Obama and the Affordable Care Act,
forcing her to calibrate both how to defend a law she voted for and how to
distance herself from it.
Healthcare's Free Market Alternative. By William F. Jasper
Excerpt: “I called local surgeons and facilities to ask for
hernia surgery costs, and never received a firm price, or complete information
about what was actually done,” said Bob Singleton of Dallas , Texas
Then he checked out the Surgery Center of Oklahoma in Oklahoma City and was
pleasantly surprised. The Surgery Center of Oklahoma (SCO) website “gave a fixed
price of $3,190 for my surgery,” Singleton recounts. “I called and received all
the information I needed. I was able to check the credentials of the surgeon,
which were good, and arrange the surgery to happen in less than 2 weeks.”
Undocumented Democrat News
Must Read: Illiberal
Immigration ‘Reform.’ People who call for “comprehensive
immigration reform” seldom mean it. By Victor Davis
Hanson
Excerpt: Each day a worried politician or pundit, with
creased brow and pained expression, lectures us about the need for
“comprehensive immigration reform” to avoid the sort of chaos we are witnessing
on the border. Then a funny thing happens. The speaker never defines the term.
If on rare occasions advocates are asked, they fumble around, annoyed that
anyone would press them to explain what they mean. In truth, no one in the
open-borders coalition wants anything approaching comprehensive immigration
reform.
Memo to Central America . By Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt
Look, citizens of Honduras ,
Guatemala and El Salvador . We
thought our president would send this message to you, but apparently he’s too
busy with his fundraisers,issuing statements on LeBron James signing with the Cavaliers, golfing with sportswriter Michael Wilbon Saturday and
looking forward to his Martha’s Vineyard vacation. So somebody has to say
this: You have to take care of your own kids. You may have heard us
complaining that our federal government is becoming a nanny state, but we
didn’t mean that our government is actually running a nanny service. We
understand gang violence, drug cartels, and other criminals are making your
countries terrible places to live. We’re really sorry to hear that. We’ve also
given your government quite a bit of money to make life better down there. Honduras , we gave you $83 million in foreign aid in 2013. El Salvador: $46.8 million. Guatemala : $106 million. If the money wasn’t spent well, take it up
with your government. Some of you might say that’s not enough, but we’re not
obligated to give you anything. There are a hell of a lot of Americans who
think that money could be better spent back here. You have to fight to make
your country a better place to live so that your fellow countrymen will want to
stay there. We can’t fight your battles for you. In fact, this is a
particularly bad time to ask. You may have heard, twice in the past 13 years we
went into far-off countries with unstable governments and warlords and drugs,
determined to give the oppressed locals a better future. We spent way too much
in blood and treasure, the populace turned out to be a bunch of ingrates, and
the local leadership ran the place into the ground.
Illegal immigrants in
D.C. fail written driver’s test at 80% rate. DMV website shows backlog until
March
Luckily, they won't need one to vote. ~Bob
13 Quotes You Need To Read About Illegal Immigration. By John Hawkins
Excerpt: Robert Rector, who works on such problems at the
Heritage Foundation stated, "Granting amnesty or legal status to illegals
will generate costs in Medicare and Social Security alone of $2.5 trillion
above any taxes paid in”
Religion of Pace News
Israeli official
expects ‘very high possibility’ of invasion of Gaza
Excerpt: On a day rattled by a fury of air attacks, Israel and Hamas found themselves Wednesday
searching for a way forward, with a senior Israeli military official declaring
that a ground invasion of Gaza
was a “very high possibility.” (If Hamas wanted a "way forward" they
would have accepted the Egyptian ceasefire proposal, as Israel did. They want war, secure
in the knowledge that if they lose, the west will restrain Israel from destroying them. Of
course, if they win, they will slaughter as many Israelis as possible. While
our media pictures these murders as the victims. ~Bob)
“We have come to you with slaughter.” ISIS has declared
it intentions to conquer Jordan ,
Lebanon , Gaza ,
Sinai as well as Jerusalem , Rome ,
and Spain .
(They don't have aGitmo problem. They just shoot POWs in the head. ~Bob)
Cease-Fire Fails. From
The Patriot Post
Excerpt: Speaking on condition of anonymity, a senior
Israeli official said Netanyahu and Benny Gantz, the IDF chief of general
staff, “have instructed the army to operate with full force against the
terrorist infrastructure in Gaza .”
It was not immediately clear what was meant by the instruction to use “full
force” against Gaza .
The official said the action was precipitated by the refusal of Hamas and
another militant group, Islamic Jihad, to accept an Egyptian cease-fire
proposal and by the persistent rocket fire.
Excerpt: Israel
withdrew from southern Lebanon
in May 2000. Prime Minister Ehud Barack’s government thought that the
withdrawal would show that Israel
was serious about making peace, and would bring to an end the relentless
attacks against Israel
at the United Nations and in the international media. Israel withdrew from Gaza in September 2005. Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon’s government thought that the withdrawal would show that Israel was serious about making peace, and would
bring to an end the relentless attacks against Israel at the United Nations and in
the international media. Israel
withdrew from the Sinai Peninsula by 1982 as
part of the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty resulting from the Camp David Accords.
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin’s government thought that the withdrawal
would show that Israel was
serious about making peace, and would bring to an end the relentless attacks
against Israel
at the United Nations and in the international media. "Patrick Henry:
"gentleman may cry, 'Peace, Peace,' but there is no peace. ... Is peace so
sweet or life so dear as to be purchased at the price of chains and
slavery?" I memorized this speech in high school, but think this quote is
close. ~Bob)
Legendary Marine Maj.
Zembiec, the ‘Lion of Fallujah,’ died in the service of the CIA
Excerpt: On the pages of the CIA’s Book of Honor are 111 hand-drawn
stars organized by the years those officers died. For 2007, there is a single,
anonymous star. It belongs to Marine Maj. Douglas Alexander Zembiec. Long thought to be
an active-duty Marine when he was killed in Baghdad , Zembiec was actually serving with
the CIA’s paramilitary arm. (Semper Fidelis, Sir. ~Bob)
German police
megaphone used in anti-Israel rant
Excerpt: German police allowed an anti-Israel protester to
climb inside a police car and shout slogans including "child murderer Israel "
and "Allahu akbar!" — Arabic for "God is Great!" — through
a police megaphone, a spokeswoman for Frankfurt 's
police said Sunday. Why no, "Juden, Raus!" as they seek a Judenfrei
Middle East.? ~Bob)
Palestinians in Hebron cheer as Gaza
Excerpt: West Bank
Palestinians cheered on Saturday as Hamas militants fired the largest salvo of
rockets yet on the Tel Aviv area since the start of the recent escalations.
Excerpt: A sessions court on Monday handed down the death
sentence and imposed a fine of Rs100,000 on a blasphemy accused after charges
were proved against him. Additional sessions court Judge Naveed Iqbal issued
the ruling in the case. The accused, Zulfikar, was 'caught red-handed' while
writing blasphemous remarks on the walls of Afghan
Park in Lahore 's Islampura area in 2008.
Excerpt: A venerated rabbi in Casablanca , Morocco
The suspect, who was in his 20s, and who local officials
said was known to the police, attacked Rabbi Moshe Ohayon near a synagogue
after evening services, breaking several of his ribs in the process.
6 Farmers Killed in
Attack in Xinjiang
Excerpt: In the latest outbreak of violence in the western
Chinese region of Xinjiang, assailants have stabbed to death six ethnic Han
farmers in a late-night spate of home invasions that appear to be part of a
slow-burn effort to sow terror among migrants to the region, Radio Free
Asia reported on
Monday. Like most recent incidents of ethnic bloodletting, news of the attack
was quickly removed from the Internet in China .
Excerpt: “You have been running around saying, ‘Bring back
our girls,’” says Abubakar Shekau, the leader of the Congregation of the People
of the Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad, aka Boko Haram. “Bring back our Army!
Jonathan! Bring back our Army!”
Pro-Palestinian and
Pro-Hamas Have Become Oxymorons
Excerpt: Over the years, we at the Investigative Project on
Terrorism and many others havecalled on American Islamists to condemn Hamas as a terrorist organization. They have
steadfastly refused. Fine. But if Palestinian advocates really want a
better life for the people of Gaza , today's events make it clear they must condemn Hamas
for making the plight of the people there demonstrably worse.
Islamic State, allies
blunt Iraqi offensive to retake Tikrit
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2014/07/islamic_state_allies.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LongWarJournalSiteWide+%28The+Long+War+Journal+%28Site-Wide%29%29
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Excerpt: The Islamic State and its Baathist allies have
forced Iraqi forces that were attempting to retake Tikrit to withdraw from the
city just one day after launching a much touted offensive. Iraqi forces, which
include regular Army units, paramilitary SWAT teams, and hastily raised Shia
militias from the south, launched their offensive to regain control of the
capital of Salahaddin province with
much fanfare yesterday morning.
Excerpt: “Here’s the difference between us,” Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu explained on “Fox News Sunday.” “We’re using
missile defense to protect our civilians, and they’re using their civilians to
protect their missiles.” It’s a classic talking point. It’s also objectively
true, and that truth is very frustrating for Israel ’s critics.
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