Update
Posting again today, as too many good and current items to
hold.
Two VA lung transplant guys we are friends with are having
it tough. Both went home and were doing well, better than me at the time they
left. (If I didn't live in Madison ,
Bonnie and I would have been in the hotel here since last October 3!) Brian, a
former paratrooper, was in the VA hospital for three weeks, and is back on
oxygen, as I was. Joe had worse news. He developed pancreatic and liver cancer.
He was just told it is stage four, and he has only 2-3 months to live. They
tell me that with infection and rejection, the other big killer of lung
transplant patients is tumors. If there is an small cancer sitting there,
suppressing the immune system lets it run wild. Prayers for both. ~Bob
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General News and Comment
In my last blog post, I wrote: Obama's
Strategy on ISIS : "Hey! Look Over there.
Ebola! And sure enough this pops up a few
hours later. ~Bob
Obama To Send 3,000
Military Forces To Fight Ebola In West Africa
Excerpt: Calling the Ebola outbreak in West Africa a threat
to world security, President Barack Obama on Tuesday broadly expanded the U.S. response
by ordering thousands of troops to the region along with an aggressive effort
to train health care workers and build treatment centers.
Tweet from James Taranto @jamestaranto
Obama is tougher than we give him credit for. Nixon never
deployed troops in the war on cancer.
General: Sending
Military To Fight Ebola 'Misuse' Of Soldiers. Ex-Delta Force commander stresses
'great risk' of infection
http://www.wnd.com/2014/09/boykin-sending-military-to-fight-ebola-misuse-of-soldiers/
http://www.wnd.com/2014/09/boykin-sending-military-to-fight-ebola-misuse-of-soldiers/
Excerpt: Sending American troops to combat Ebola in Liberia is “an absolute misuse of the U.S. military,”
contends retired Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin. “The health mission in Liberia
would be better accomplished by private-sector NGOs (Non-Governmental
Organizations), including the French organization Médecins San Frontières,
Doctors without Borders, among others, or by some other U.S. government agency
such as the Department of Health and Human Services,” he stressed.
Excerpt: It was the time of unraveling. Long afterward, in
the ruins, people asked: How could it happen? (A truly gritty view of things
going on in the world, and he still left out the scariness of expansionist
China, the failures of socialism in Venezuela and elsewhere, the porous US
border with tens of thousands of children crossing it, the expanding flow of
Africans crossing the Mediterranean to get into Europe, the failed states like
Somalia, and a few other things that I just don't even want to go on listing.
We do indeed live in "interesting times", and the lack of real,
focused, effective leadership in this country is the part that concerns me the
most. --Del )
Excerpt: Ahead of the House Select
Committee on Benghazi's first public
hearing tomorrow, former CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson is
out with a significant new
report centered around new claims from a former State
Department official. Raymond Maxwell -- whom you may recall as one of the
lower-level employees disciplined,
then reinstated,
in the wake of the Benghazi firestorm -- says he was ordered to cull damaging
documents from a file of evidence being handed over to the State Department's
'independent' Accountability Review Board (ARB):
DA: No charges in Swatara Township fatal shooting
Excerpt: Dauphin County prosecutors will not file charges in a fatal
shooting Sunday morning in Swatara
Township . District Attorney
Ed Marsico said 23-year-old Craig Everette II had a right to defend others when
he shot and killed 60-year-old Todd Eugene Taylor. ... Authorities said he is a
combat veteran and a Purple Heart recipient who has no criminal record. (Bad
guy dead, two lives saved by gun owner. ~Bob)
Angry Mob Tosses
Ukrainian Politician Into the Trash
This could catch on. ~Bob
Teachers Hope to Erase Union Dues That Deny Free Speech. By
Kevin Mooney
Excerpt: Why would she pay to advance policy positions she
opposes? Because, as a teacher in a big union state that doesn’t revere the
“right to work,” she must. Friedrichs used to belong to the California Teachers
Association, the state affiliate of the powerful National Education
Association. She volunteered for the teachers union in her school and attended
CTA’s state conferences. But she left when their disagreements began to pile
up.
Excerpt: Multiculturalists argue that different cultural
values are morally equivalent. That's nonsense. Western culture and values are superior.
For those who'd accuse me of Eurocentrism, I'd ask: Is forcible female genital
mutilation, as practiced in nearly 30 sub-Saharan African and Middle Eastern
countries, a morally equivalent cultural value? Slavery is practiced in Mauritania , Mali ,
Niger , Chad and Sudan ; is it morally equivalent? In
most of the Middle East , there are numerous
limits placed on women, such as prohibitions on driving, employment and
education. Under Islamic law, in some countries, female adulterers face death
by stoning, and thieves face the punishment of having their hand severed. In
some countries, homosexuality is a crime punishable by death. Are these
cultural values morally equivalent, superior or inferior to Western values?
Well, Harry Reid, in another attempt to recruit more women
in defense of the Republicans' "war on women" again trotted out the
Paycheck Fairness Act this week. If you have an IQ below 70 stop reading now.
You see, the Paycheck Fairness Act is just a ruse...it has nothing to do with
raising the salaries of women. Instead it is the Debbie "Wasserman Test"
Schultz equivalent of "republicans grabbing women by the hair and jerking
them back to the 1950's. I read the proposed bill. You should too. Go to
Senate.gov and read what it was REALLY about.
Jewish group brands
Biden's Shylock comment 'offensive.' By Olivier Knox
Excerpt: Vice President Joe Biden drew fire from a prominent
Jewish group on Tuesday after he described unscrupulous bankers who prey on
servicemen and servicewomen deployed overseas as “Shylocks” — a term
frequently condemned as an anti-Semitic caricature.
Obamanomics Victimizes President's Biggest Supporters Most.
By Stephen Moore
Excerpt: Politics is often filled with paradoxes, and here
is one that nearly defies explanation. The demographic groups that voted most
heavily for Barack Obama in 2012 have suffered the most from this president’s
economic policies. Maybe the people in these demographic groups – blacks,
Hispanics, single women and young people – are economically uninformed, or
maybe for these groups, when it comes to voting, it’s not the economy, stupid. Whatever
the explanation, the facts speak for themselves: Obama voters have not
benefited from his policies.
New federal school food regulations promoted by First Lady
Michelle Obama are becoming a massive headache for many schools that
participate in the National School Lunch Program. ....Those schools and
numerous others across the country are ditching the federal regulations and the
funding that comes with them to save their cafeteria programs, which have
experienced a nose-dive in sales and skyrocketing waste since the new rules
were implemented in 2012...Notre Dame’s lunch participation had dropped to
about half of its 565 students and 65 faculty members under the federal
guidelines, but jumped drastically to about 75 percent once officials did away
with the tight restrictions on calories, fat, sodium, whole grains, and numerous
other aspects of school meals.
A Plea For
Constitutional Literacy On Constitution Day. Ben Carson: 'Government was never
intended to intrude on every aspect of our lives
Excerpt: Earlier this summer, I managed to perplex, perhaps
even offend, a famous TV interviewer when I declared I want a federal
government that follows the U.S. Constitution. Seemingly aghast, the
interviewer went so far as to suggest my position was a “highly charged thing
to say.” Imagine that. A journalist – who, owing to the Constitution, has the
right to report and speak freely – being uncomfortable with a fellow American’s
allegiance to the Constitution and to the Founding Fathers’ vision of a limited
central government. (But the gov gives phones, Food Stamps/cards, and that
disability $$ for the crack, pot, meth and beer.....Mother's milk to the masses
to stay stoned and ignore the country going down the toilet. To suggest the gov
get out of their lives? Scary to some. --Barb)
Not safe to display American flag in American high school —
denial of rehearing en banc. By Eugene Volokh
Excerpt: This is a classic “heckler’s veto” — thugs
threatening to attack the speaker, and government officials suppressing the
speech to prevent such violence. “Heckler’s vetoes” are generally not allowed
under First Amendment law; the government should generally protect the speaker
and threaten to arrest the thugs, not suppress the speaker’s speech. But under
Tinker‘s “forecast substantial disruption” test, such a heckler’s veto is
indeed allowed. ((This is a bad, bad, bad idea. --Del
Air Force removes ‘so
help me God’ requirement from enlistment oath
excerpt: Members of the U.S. Air Force will no longer be
required to say “so help me God” during their enlistment oath. A legal review
of rules that required the phrase occurred after the American Humanist
Association threatened to sue on behalf of an atheist airman. The unnamed
airman at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada was
denied re-enlistment Aug. 25 after crossing the phrase out of the oath. (And America
turned from God....Barb)
Bombshell Emails:
White House Coordinated With Department of Labor to Hide Illegal Obama
Fundraiser Hilda Solis’ Schedule
Excerpt: The Department of Labor coordinated with the White
House on whether or not to release hidden portions of former Labor Secretary
Hilda Solis’ schedule as Solis battled an FBI investigation into her illegal
fundraising for President Obama. New emails provided to The Daily Caller from
the nonprofit legal research firm Cause of Action show the White House thanking
the Department of Labor for “flagging” a public information request for
“withheld” portions of Solis’ schedule. (SEE THE EMAIL CHAIN). The White House then asked for
the name of the conservative group making the request — information that Labor
officials were eager to give up. (Regime takes hatched to Hatch Act as well as
Constitution....Barb)
Race Card News
Obamacare/Government Healthcare News
Insurance Company
with Lowest Rates, Most Customers Pulls Out of MNsure. By Jennie Olson
Excerpt: It’s a major blow to the MNsure health insurance
exchange – the insurance company with the lowest rates and the most customers
signed up through MNsure will not be back in 2015.
CBO: Cost of
Obamacare Subsidy Will Increase 8-Fold in 10 Years
Excerpt: The cost of the Obamacare subsidy that the U.S.
Treasury will pay on behalf of people who earn under 400 percent of the federal
poverty level and who buy a government-approved health-care plan on a
government-run health-insurance exchange will increase by approximately 8-fold
in its first ten years of operation, according to the latest budget estimate from the Congressional
Budget Office. Medicaid spending will double in the first ten years of full
implementation of Obamacare, according to the CBO estimates. (Check this over
carefully, and note the final paragraph. ObamaCare will cost as much as
national defense in a few more years. What will this mean to the overall
national budget? It will of course mean running FURTHER INTO THE RED. How long
can the nation actually keep doing that on the grand scale that Mr. Obama has
made normal somehow? The truth is that this is not going to work out well at
all, and we can only hope that in 2016 someone gets elected who will start to
disassemble ObamaCare for something a lot more workable, with less bureaucratic
overhead, and less "wealth redistribution". --Del. Have I mentioned I
think the country is going to collapse? The Coming Collapse of the American Republic :
And what you can do to prevent it. By Robert A. Hall: http://tiny.cc/g02s4 I did? Sorry to bother you; back to American Idol. ~Bob)
Paying the
Health-Care Piper: Obamacare’s mandates are coming due for
millions of Americans. By Michael Tanner
Excerpt: Last week roughly 250,000 Virginians began
receiving notices that their health insurance was being canceled because
it failed to meet all the mandates and other regulatory requirements
of Obamacare. They are likely to be just the first in a new wave of
Americans who are being thrown off their current insurance plan — even if they
like it, to recall President Obama’s now inoperative promise.
Shumlin’s single-payer health care agenda ‘down for
maintenance.’ By Bruce Parker
Excerpt: Gov. Peter Shumlin said Tuesday that Vermont
Health Connect, the Internet backbone of his Green Mountain Care single-payer
scheme, is indefinitely down for maintenance.
"You're Greener than Gore" News
Excerpt: Eric Worrall writes: The imminent climate summit in
New York is
rapidly turning into an utter embarrassment for President Obama and UN
Secretary General Bank Ki-Moon, in addition to becoming a bit of a punishment
round for national deputy leaders. Aussie PM Tony Abbott today defended his
decision not to hop on an earlier flight to America ,
so he could attend the UN climate conference in New York , because he has more important
matters to attend to, such as running the country.
Excerpt: The debate over fracking is a pretty low-quality
one, driven by emotion, invented evidence, gross
distortion of the facts, and general intellectual dishonesty. This is a
shame for many reasons: Inflicting unnecessary stupidity on the world is a sin,
for one thing. For another, it is important that we actually understand the
fairly thorny environmental problems presented not only by fracking but by
other methods of drilling for natural gas. A paper published
Monday by the Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences presents very strong evidence that the contamination of drinking
water in wells in Texas and Pennsylvania was not the result of fracking.
But the wells were nonetheless contaminated.
Excerpt: "We now face an administration that is
composed of science deniers when it comes to energy and the environment,"
Jindal said at a lunch with reporters at The Heritage Foundation. "You are
looking at an administration that is holding our economy hostage to their
radical views. It really is an article of religious faith amongst this
administration the way they approach these questions of policy." Pressed
after his presentation to identify what specific science the White House
was denying, Jindal rattled off a lengthy list: ... "When it was scarce
and expensive they loved natural gas. When it was $13 they loved natural gas.
As soon as it was affordable, all of a sudden they decided they didn't like it
so much. I think that if they are honest, they want energy to be scarce and
expensive because it allows the federal government to be more involved in our
lives and it allows them to decide what kind of cars you drive, what kind
of homes you live in, how we live our lives."
Religion of Peace News
Congress poised to
approve Obama’s Iraq-Syria military strategy amid skepticism
Excerpt: The House on Wednesday approved President Obama’s
plan to train and equip moderate Syrian rebels to counter the growing threat of
the Islamic State terrorist organization even though lawmakers in both parties
remain deeply skeptical about its chances for success.
That was then...
December 20, 2007 Obama: "The President does not
have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack
in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to
the nation. As Commander-in-Chief, the President does have a duty to protect
and defend the United States .
In instances of self-defense, the President would be within his constitutional
authority to act before advising Congress or seeking its consent."
Worth Reading : If You
Liked Vietnam ,
You’ll Love the War With the Islamic State. By Gary Anderson
Excerpt: President Obama is repeating three key strategic
mistakes that President Johnson made in Vietnam . First, he has embarked on
an open ended commitment; there was no measurable end state. In a similar
manner, President Obama throws around the words degrade, defeat, and destroy as
if they are interchangeable. Degradation and defeat are things that have to be
accomplished before an enemy is destroyed. In some cases, the aim of a conflict
is only to defeat the enemy as it was in ejecting Saddam Hussein from Kuwait in
DESERT STORM. Degrade is something you do to his command and control along the
way to defeating him.
Excerpt: President Barack Obama is fond of publicly declaring
that there will be “no boots on the ground” when commenting on the Syria , Iraq , and Islamic State crises. Key
national security lieutenants in his administration have loyally followed suit.
Vice President Joe Biden has
opined that the Islamic State, “can be routed by local forces without U.S. boots on
the ground.” And Secretary of State John Kerry remarked
at the NATO summit in Wales
in regard to Iraq
that “I think that’s a red line for everybody here: no boots on the ground.”
One would have thought that given the administration’s strategic blunder in not
enforcing its “red line” over the Syrian regime’s use of chemical weapons,
officials would be gun-shy about publicly using the term.
Excerpt: Testifying on Capitol Hill Tuesday in front of the
Senate Armed Services Committee, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General
Martin Dempsey said that although "we're not there yet," the United States may eventually need to deploy U.S. ground troops to fight ISIS
if a coalition and airstrikes fail to get the job done against the terror
army. (Not "If" but "When." Nothing will happen with
"boots" until after the election. Saddle up, boys, moving out. ~Bob)
Stubborn opposition
to Obama's Syria
plan
Excerpt: After years of tepid relations with Congress, Obama
is asking lawmakers to quickly authorize a mission to arm and train Syrian
rebels to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant .
Obama has been feverishly lobbying Capitol Hill to run up the vote count, but
the White House is running into stubborn opposition from an unusual cross
section of lawmakers in both parties. The opponents of Obama’s Syria plan do
not appear to have the support needed to derail the legislation, but the amount
of opposition from Republicans and Democrats has startled both the White House
and congressional leaders. (At the risk of being boringly repetitious, I'll say
it again. THERE ARE NO GOOD GUYS IN SYRIA . Weapons given them will
eventually be used to kill Americans, Israelis and other infidels. I wish I
knew the date I first said this. It was when giving the "moderate"
opposition weapons was first proposed, a couple of years ago. ~Bob)
Sen. Lindsey Graham — and less responsible politicians.
By Jennifer Rubin
Excerpt: “This is not a strategy designed by the military.
It is a strategy imposed on the military, designed to protect the president’s
political promises,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) tells Right Turn regarding
the administration’s plan for to “degrade” and “destroy” the Islamic State. And
sure enough, today the president declared at MacDill Air Force Base, “As your
commander in chief, I will not commit you and the rest of our armed forces to
fighting another ground war in Iraq .”
Plainly the president is trapped by his own rhetoric and pride, unwilling to
allow that his anti-Bush iterations over the years have been unrealistic or
even dangerous.
Excerpt: Islamic State militants have threatened to target
the White House and kill US troops in a new slickly made video response to
Barack Obama’s campaign to “degrade and destroy” the organisation. The video,
in the style of a blockbuster movie trailer for what is “coming soon”, purports
to show a masked man apparently about to shoot kneeling prisoners in the head.
Towards the end of the clip there is shaky footage of the White House filmed
from a moving vehicle, suggesting the building is being scoped out for attack.
Think Iraq and Syria are Bad? Wait for Libya and the
Sinai to Blow Up. By Jim Geraghty, Morning
Jolt
Last night in the Fox News green room, Senator Lindsey
Graham pointed out that Libya remains a mess — approaching the status of a
failed state — and that if the U.S. really makes life miserable for
ISIS in Iraq (and Syria?), ISIS could withdraw their leaders to Libya and
reestablish themselves there. Oh, and here’s one major complication for one of
the region’s traditional Arab powers, Egypt, if they wanted to take a bigger
role against the Islamic State: Islamist militants in the Sinai Peninsula
are getting more aggressive: "Six policemen were
killed Tuesday when a bomb blast tore through their armored vehicle
in the Sinai Peninsula, security officials said. It was the second such deadly
attack this month. Egyptian security forces have recently stepped up their
offensive against armed Islamist groups in the Sinai, raiding hideouts and
targeting militant leaders. The insurgents have fought back with powerful
roadside bombs." Senator Joe Manchin, the West Virginia Democrat, makes
the not-easy-to-dispute argument that way too often, U.S. arms and training provided to
non-state groups ends up getting used against Americans. The U.S. spent billions and years
training the Iraqi army . . . and then they fell apart in their first real
fight against the Islamic State. (Even some Democrats have figured it out. I
remind you that an email subscription to Morning
Jolt is free. ~Bob)
Worth Reading : War
against ISIS Headed for Failure. By Tarek
Fatah
Excerpt: When U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sat down in
Jeddah , Saudi Arabia , on the 13th
anniversary of 9/11, surrounded by the leaders of 10 Arab states, to build a
coalition against Islamic State (ISIS), the scene dripped with irony. For
decades, Saudi Arabia and Qatar , along with Arab billionaires in Gulf Arab
states, have financed the breeding grounds of Islamic extremism in the tens of
thousands of madrassas spread around the world, from Philippines to Philadelphia .
Syrian Brotherhood
Stands Nearer to ISIS Than to U.S.
By Ravi Kumar
Excerpt: While the United States tries to build a
coalition of Arab allies to join the fight against the terrorist group ISIS,
now known as the Islamic State, one group which stands to benefit directly is
coming out against Western intervention and expressing unity with other radical
jihadists. A Syrian Muslim Brotherhood spokesman says attacks on the Islamic State
by the United States
and its allies are not the answer.
Muslim
Brotherhood cleric declares his support for the Islamic State. Robert
Spencer, JihadWatch.org
Excerpt: Wagdy Ghoneim, just expelled from Qatar along with other Muslim
Brotherhood leaders, used to live in the United States . He served as imam at
the Islamic Institute of Orange County, California
in the early 2000’s, and raised funds for Hamas-linked Muslim charity
KindHearts. How many people are still in the United States today who learned
about Islam from Wagdy Ghoneim? And why doesn’t this Muslim cleric, who has
dedicated his life to understanding and teaching the Qur’an and Sunnah, see
what Barack Obama and David Cameron and Tony Abbott and so many other
non-Muslims see so clearly, that the Islamic State has nothing to do with
Islam? (Wait, hasn't Obama supported
the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt
and elsewhere during the Arab Spring? ~Bob)
Unbelievable: Chelsea Manning breaks silence to
criticise Obama's Isis strategy: Intelligence analyst arrested for passing
cache of documents to WikiLeaks writes personal view on how best to defeat Isis
Excerpt: Chelsea Manning, the US
army soldier who worked as an intelligence analyst in Iraq before being arrested for passing state
secrets to WikiLeaks, says
the only way to defeat Isis is to allow the group to set up its own
contained “failed ‘state’” where over time its fire would “die out on its own”.
Writing
in the Guardian, Manning says her experience as an all-source analyst near Baghdad in 2009-10 leads
her to doubt the strategy being followed by the Obama administration. (Weakling
traitor criticizes weakling president. That's the pot calling, er, never mind.
[Don't want to give the left an excuse to play the race card]. If there's one
person I'd take Obama's advice over, it is Manning. If they decide to shoot
him/her, I volunteer, and will bring my own rifle and ammo. ~Bob)
Excerpt: The man who could assure the American public with a
straight face over thirty times that they could keep their doctor under his
health plan, when he knew that to be completely false, is one hellluva fibber.
But execrable as that serial prevarication may have been, it doesn’t hold a
proverbial candle to his most recent whopper — that the Islamic State is not
Islamic — not to mention its corollary, or perhaps subsidiary lie, that real
religions do not indulge in murder.
Jihadist says
he joined Islamic State because “they’re fighting for Islam.” By Robert
Spencer, JihadWatch.org
Excerpt: Surely Obama, Kerry, Cameron, Abbott, and the rest
are on their way over to Syria
to find this chap and explain to him how he is misunderstanding Islam.
Rep. Eddie Bernice
Johnson Says Beheadings Do Not Justify Strikes
Excerpt: U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Dallas) argued
the beheading of two American journalists by ISIS does not justify U.S. airstrikes into Syria Thursday. During an
interview on Capitol Hill, Johnson said the slayings of James Foley and Steven
Sotloff should not lead to bombing ISIS forces in Syria . (you'd think this kind of
thing would hurt her, but as with Maxine Waters and others, her constituents
seem to like it. ~Bob)
Obama’s
Reluctant Rush to War: Why should any American trust Washington to get its ISIS
strategy right in a hurry? By Jonah
Goldberg
Excerpt:
President Obama is rushing into a war he doesn’t want to fight. He can barely
bring himself to call it a war. Obama didn’t merely ignore the threat of the
Islamic State for the better part of a year, he ridiculed the notion the terror
group was anything but a “jayvee team.” Now suddenly, he wants to go to war. Sort
of. The administration has struggled with the W-word. (Tweet from Tim
Groseclose @Tim_Groseclose Liberals call everything a war
("on poverty," "on women"). Not so w/ air strikes
coordinated with allies.)
Excerpt: “Hearing reports that Islamic State used chlorine
gas in an assault on Iraq
security forces this afternoon in Dhuluyia… There are now 12 people afflicted
with chlorine gas poisoning in Dhuluyia ,
Iraq , following
Islamic State attack on Iraqi security forces,” Matt Bradley wrote on his
Twitter page, noting that he cannot verify the information as he is not in
Dhuluyia.
House Republican
leaders pitch Syria aid with checks on Obama
Excerpt: But the bill would not prohibit people with links
to terrorist groups from actually participating in the program, the aide said.
....The aide said this language is intended to provide congressional oversight
without hindering the mission. “We’re not asking for something that makes this
mission impossible,” the aide said. (Oh, but Congress voting to fund $$ for
folks in black turbans to slit your throats, you Bible-toting, gun-loving,
yokels. Fund and train terrorists? Hey, Harry Reid says, "DO IT!" --Barb)
Islamic State
creates jihad video game to inspire and train jihadis; characters scream
“Allahu Akbar” and behead opponents. by Raymond Ibrahim
Excerpt: The characters in the game highlight aspects
central to the Islamic State, such as jihad and “the willingness to sacrifice,”
presumably a reference to “martyrdom” tactics. During moments of victory, the
characters shout out Islamic slogans such as “Allahu Akbar!” and behead and
slaughter their victims—true to the Islamic State’s modus operandi.
Hello, Kurdistan . By Daniel Pipes
Excerpt: Before welcoming the emerging state of Kurdistan in
northern Iraq ,
I confess to having opposed its independence in the past. In 1991, after the
Kuwait War had ended and as Saddam Hussein attacked Iraq's six million Kurds, I
made three arguments against American intervention on their behalf,
arguments still commonly heard today: (1) Kurdish independence would spell the
end of Iraq as a state, (2) it would embolden Kurdish agitation for
independence in Syria, Turkey, and Iran, leading to destabilization and border
conflicts, and (3) it would invite the persecution of non-Kurds, causing
"large and bloody exchanges of population." All three expectations
proved flat-out wrong.
Excerpt: Jihadists on Twitter who are thought to be
connected to al Qaeda's senior leadership have reported that the group's
paramilitary commander in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region as well as a
propagandist were killed in airstrikes earlier this year. The two slain al
Qaeda operatives were identified as Sufyan al Maghribi, a Moroccan who served
as al Qaeda's military chief in Afghanistan
and Pakistan ,
and Umar al Talib, a propagandist who narrated videos for As Sahab.
Excerpt: The state of North
Carolina has taken a step that many other states have
taken to ensure that the US Constitution and the constitution of the state are
the laws that are applied in courts, not the laws of any foreign cultures. ...
The NC bill’s authors hope to have avoided that problem by making the language
of the bill so that it applies to any foreign laws, not specifically mentioning
Sharia.
What’s Behind Germany ’s New
Anti-Semitism. By Jochen Bittner
Excerpt: Europe is living
through a new wave of anti-Semitism. The president of Germany’s Central Council
of Jews calls it the worst the Continent has seen since World War II. ... The new
anti-Semitism does not originate solely with the typical white-supremacist
neo-Nazi; instead, the ugly truth that many in Europe
don’t want to confront is that much of the anti-Jewish animus originates with
European people of Muslim background.
Muslim Jihadist
Murders American Here in US and Obama Ignores It
http://godfatherpolitics.com/17089/muslim-jihadist-murders-american-us-obama-ignores/
http://godfatherpolitics.com/17089/muslim-jihadist-murders-american-us-obama-ignores/
Excerpt: Tevlin was martyred here in the United States
in the name of jihad, but for obvious reasons the liberal mainstream media have
ignored it. Washington DC is not outraged as they should be. ...
One June 25, 2014, at age 19, Tevlin was driving his jeep in West Orange , New Jersey .
He stopped at a red light when Ali Muhammad Brown pulled up next him and shot
him eight times. Brown didn’t know Tevlin but chose him at random. Several days
later, seventy-five bagpipes played at the funeral of the young man who used to
play for others.
The Spread of Rocky
Mountain Jihad. By Michelle Malkin
Excerpt: Something's fouling Colorado 's crisp air -- and I'm not talking
about the pot smoke.
In my adopted home state, the toxic fumes of Islamic jihad
have penetrated the most unlikely hamlets and hinterlands. Obama administration
officials are vehemently denying plots by ISIS
operatives to cross our borders. But the lesson here is clear: Thanks to laptop
recruitment, reckless visa policies and homegrown treachery, the U.S.-based
jihad export-import business is and has been thriving.( And it spreads from one
weak mind to another in this country, with the infection aided by on-line
fanatics. The idea of western women converting to Islam, where they become
property with almost no rights, seems insane, but some of these women go for
it. Which strikes me as prima facie evidence of a very weak mind! But the point
is that this virus does get spread through various means including everyone's
laptop or tablet. We do need the FBI and Homeland Security watching out for
this very, very carefully. --Del )
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