Update
Monday, November 10, is the 239th birthday of the US
General News and Comment
I’m Pro Choice—and Not
Just for Women. By Robert A. Hall
Responses from blog readers and a contributor: I'd offer a
single caveat that covers all... I think people should be free to choose to do
whatever they want within the confines of the law but must be held responsible
to pay, in total, for their poor choices. --Andy. Excellent - I don't understand why so many voted for a man
who would VETO ALL our rights if given half a chance. --Stephanie.
Must Read: 20 Delusions That Shape How Liberals Vote.
By Bryce Buchanan
Excerpt: It is instructive to consider the premises that
underlie the liberal view of the world. These are the ideas that determine
their votes in elections; ideas that could shape the future of our country. Taken
together, it is striking how detached from reality the beliefs are. The list
could be much longer, but consider the following 20 beliefs from the imaginary
world where liberals live. (Nicely put together. When you realize there are 20
seriously upsetting things about this Administration, not to mention the one
the writer left out, below, and at least a couple others, and yet there are
still something like 35% minimum citizens who still love Mr. Obama and think
the problems of today are not his fault, ..... well, it goes past surprising
and slides into depressing. But the election this week demonstrated that enough
of "reality therapy" and people do start to respond, at least in most
areas. California, Connecticut, and a couple of others seem to have just
dived even deeper into the make-believe world of naive idealism and Political
Correctness, but maybe some people just need to really have the house all the
way aflame before they decide it's maybe time to get out the door. #21 The way
to really function properly in the world is to let former partnerships slide
(especially Israel), apologize for our history of being imperialists, racists,
exploiting capitalists, and having a lot of us related in history to those who
were Crusaders, and suck up as much as possible to various nations and groups
that really haven't liked us for a very long time, not because of what we've
done so much as for being who we are. And negotiate, negotiate, negotiate, back
away if the other guys really get mad, and don't commit to any solid military
goals in any other part of the world, they'll respect us more if we are
deferential and never, ever really throw our weight around. --Del )
Marine
Corps Leadership Explains Crushing Defeat of Obama. By Andy Weddington
Excerpt:
The debate continues about Tuesday's election
results. Was it about President Obama? Was it about President Obama's policies?
Was it about loss of confidence in Democrats? Was it about confidence in
Republicans to right the left listing, sinking ship? Was it something
else?
Meet Elise Stefanik,
the New York
Excerpt: With her win yesterday, Elise Stefanik becomes the
youngest woman to ever be elected to the House of Representatives. With 55% of
the vote, this 30-year-old just took the 21st district of New York from
blue to red. She is the first Republican to win the district since 1990, Business Insider reports.
If You Really
Think It Matters Which Party Controls the Senate, Answer These Questions.
By Charles Hugh Smith
Excerpt: 1. Will U.S. foreign policy in the Mideast change from being an incoherent pastiche of
endless war and Imperial meddling? ... 2. Will basic civil liberties be
returned to the citizenry?
Important: Clashes, water cannon as 100,000+ march in
Brussels
Excerpt: Violent clashes broke out in Belgium as more than 100,000 protesters marched
in Brussels
against the government’s austerity measures. Police deployed water cannon as
dockworkers, metalworkers and students took to the streets. (We will have the
same and worse if/when we really try to balance the budget and certainly when
the money runs out. Thus the entire west staggers toward fiscal, political and
social collapse. See my book: The Coming
Collapse of the American Republic. http://tiny.cc/g02s4 Also this article: The West and the Tyranny of Public Debt. http://www.newsweek.com/2010/12/27/the-west-and-the-tyranny-of-public-debt.html
~Bob)
Republican woman wins Wendy Davis' Senate seat. The 'war on
women' wasn't supposed to work this way. By Clinton Gillespie
Excerpt: After 11-hours standing on the floor of the Texas Senate,
filibustering legislation that would ban abortion after five months, Wendy
Davis enraptured Democrats and the media across the United States . Although her
filibuster in pink tennis shoes failed, Wendy Davis announced she would run for
governor just a few months after her meteoric rise in the media. ... Not only
did Davis lose
her bid to become governor, the senate seat she vacated when she began her
gubernatorial campaign was gained by a Republican
woman, Konni Burton. Burton
campaigned on conservative ideas and pro-life credentials.
It's Over: DSCC Pulls Ads For Mary Landrieu in Louisiana
Excerpt: After Republicans easily clinched a Senate majority
on Tuesday night, we knew the run in Louisiana wouldn't go well for Democrat Mary
Landrieu against her Republican opponent Bill Cassidy and now, it just got a
lot worse. POLITICO is reporting the DSCC has pulled funding for
television advertising in the state. (That will be a pick up of 8. Since
she owns a mansion in DC, and her address is LA is her parents' basement,
she'll settle right in as a lobbyist. ~Bob)\
Excerpt: Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has just a 26 percent
approval rating among individuals currently serving within the national
security community, according to findings from a new survey commissioned
by Defense One.
It's Over: Ed
Gillespie Concedes Virginia Senate Race To Democratic Incumbent Mark Warner. Matt Vespa
Excerpt: Republican challenger Ed Gillespie has conceded to
incumbent Democratic Senator Mark Warner. Gillespie was trailing Warner by
16,727 votes in a race that was surprisingly close given that Warner was
leading his Republican challenger by double digits in the vast
majority of polls. The fact that Warner squeaked out a win with 0.4 percent
of the vote is another indication of the disastrous night Democrats had last
Tuesday. (I expected this, but a damn shame to come from that far behind and
miss by a nose. I won my first by a much smaller %, 42 years ago Friday,
November 7. ~Bob)
Politics in
the Age of Big Data: Poll-assisted pandering has not made us
any better off. By Jonah
Goldberg
Excerpt: In a sense, this is the last piece of the puzzle to
click into place for the president’s Nixonian transformation. Spy on reporters?
Check. Bomb a country (or two) without authorization from Congress? Check.
Issue dubious claims of executive privilege to conceal embarrassments or
prevent scandals? Check. Withdraw from — and lose — an unpopular war he didn’t
start? Check. Corrupt IRS? Check. Imperial presidency? Check.
Important: Ukraine
crisis: Tanks 'cross border' from Russia
Excerpt: A column of 32 tanks and 30 trucks has crossed into
eastern Ukraine from Russia , the
Ukrainian government says. The trucks were carrying ammunition and fighters,
said a military spokesman, but the BBC cannot confirm his report. (So it turns
out Putin thinks he has more flexibility after the election, too: -- Jim
Geraghty, Morning Jolt)
Excerpt: On Tuesday, Wendy Davis lost badly in Texas . All that is known
at this time is A) It wasn’t Davis’ fault, and B) She’ll never go hungry again
thanks to all the free meals she’ll be getting at Planned Parenthood “Lifetime
Achievement Awards” dinners around the country to honor her for advocating
fewer lifetimes to have achievements.
Senate Democrats plan
a legislative rush before power shifts to the GOP
Excerpt: Before ceding full control of Congress to the GOP
in January, Senate Democrats are planning to rush a host of critical measures
to President Obama’s desk, including bills to revive dozens of expired tax
breaks and avoid a government shutdown for another year. Senate Majority Leader
Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) is also aiming to chip away at a backlog of presidential
nominations to the federal bench and the State Department over the next month,
although Democratic aides say they will be unable to process all of the
hundreds of pending appointments before turning the chamber over to
Republicans.
How bad was Tuesday for Democrats? Just look at their
campaign chairmen. By Aaron Blake
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/11/06/how-bad-was-tuesday-for-democrats-just-look-at-their-campaign-chairmen/
Excerpt: Tuesday's election was really bad for Democrats.
How bad was it, you ask? Well, I'm glad you asked. Consider this:
The three men charged with winning elections for Democrats at the House,
Senate and gubernatorial level weren't even able to win them at home.
Comedian Goes
Undercover To Find Out If ‘Cat-Calling’ Is Really Offensive To Women
Excerpt: What happens when I go to the local mall and “cat-call”
or compliment real women? Well, unlike neo-feminists, their reactions were very
different.
View from the far left: “So wrong about so much”:
Paul Krugman blasts newly empowered GOP
Krugman started his career as an economist, but in recent
years has become just a mouth piece for Progressive talking points. Whatever
Obama says or believes, Krugman is sure to endorse in the Democrat Party House
Organ, the New York Times. ~Bob
Time to rethink
Hillary Clinton 2016. By George F. Will
Excerpt: Now that two of the last three Democratic
presidencies have been emphatically judged to have been failures, the world’s
oldest political party — the primary architect of this nation’s administrative
state — has some thinking to do. The accumulating evidence that the Democratic
Party is an exhausted volcano includes its fixation with stale ideas, such as
the supreme importance of a 23rd
increase in the minimum wage. Can this party be so blinkered
by the modest success of the third recent presidency, Bill Clinton’s, that it
will sleepwalk into the next election behind Hillary Clinton? In 2016, she will
have won just two elections in her 69 years,
the last one 10 years previously.
Excerpt: Maine and Nebraska do not allocate
their electoral votes in the presidential election by “winner take all.” These
states allocate two electoral votes to the popular vote winner, and
then one each to the popular vote winner in each Congressional district (2 in Maine , 3 in Nebraska )
in their state. Starting in January, Republicans will hold state legislative
majorities and the governor’s mansions in Michigan ,
Ohio , Wisconsin ,
Florida , Iowa ,
and Nevada .
If some or all of those states passed laws allocating their electoral votes by
districts, all of these purple-to-blue states would allocate their electoral
votes in a way that would make it extremely likely for Republicans to win at
least half of them. And without half the electoral votes in those states, it
would nearly impossible for the Democratic nominee to win. (I've long thought
that this should be done nationwide by constitutional amendment. I know--fat
chance. But it would mean no party could write off a state. Dems would campaign
in Texas , GOP in Calif. ~Bob)
Interesting: Election beating yet to turn Senate
Democrats against Harry Reid
Excerpt: “I’d like to congratulate Sen. McConnell,
who will be the new Senate majority
leader,” Mr.
Reid said. “The message from voters is clear: They want us to work
together
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I look forward to working with Sen. McConnell to
get things done for the middle class.” (So Senator Reid, why do you think that
voters didn't want you and the GOP to work together before yesterday? The
American people would like nothing more than Congress putting their petty
differences aside and working toward solving problems that help Americans.
Unfortunately, I don't hold much hope for that happening. --MasterGuns.
Democrats always discover Bipartisanship when they are in the minority. Reid
blocked votes on hundreds of House-passed bills, many of which were bipartisan,
to protect Obama and Democrats. ~Bob)
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I look forward to working with Sen. McConnell to
get things done for the middle class.” (So Senator Reid, why do you think that
voters didn't want you and the GOP to work together before yesterday? The
American people would like nothing more than Congress putting their petty
differences aside and working toward solving problems that help Americans.
Unfortunately, I don't hold much hope for that happening. --MasterGuns.
Democrats always discover Bipartisanship when they are in the minority. Reid
blocked votes on hundreds of House-passed bills, many of which were bipartisan,
to protect Obama and Democrats. ~Bob)
MO: Rep. Linda Black switches to Republican Party
Excerpt: District 117 State Representative Linda Black of
Desloge dropped a bombshell at the state capitol Wednesday when she announced
at a news conference that she is switching to the Republican Party after an
election in which the GOP built upon its already large majorities.
Gun News
Quote
"Men with guns are not as easily exploited as men
without them." --Edmund S. Morgan, American
Freedom, American Slavery: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia
Utah Dad Wakes to the
Horrifying Sight of a Man Carrying His 5-Year-Old Daughter Out of the House —
He Had Mere Seconds to Act
Excerpt: The girl’s father went to the door and saw the man
carrying his daughter in the front lawn. He ran outside and confronted the man,
asking him what he was doing and demanding that he give back his little girl. The
suspect handed her over to her father without confrontation, Carriger said.
(Bet dad buys a gun. what if the scum had been armed? ~Bob)
Armed Thugs Invade Family’s Home, Force Them to Strip Naked
— Suddenly, There Was a Sound Everyone Was Elated to Hear… Except the Bad Guys.
By Jason Howerton
Excerpt: In a vicious Oklahoma
City home invasion on Thursday morning, three armed
men reportedly forced before making them strip naked and stand against a
wall at gunpoint. The thugs also pistol-whipped three of the family members and
hit them in the head with a liquor bottle, police said. (Bet this dad buys a
gun too. They were lucky. ~Bob)
Ebola and Enterovirus News
New Haven
launches fundraiser to help sister city in Sierra Leone fight Ebola
Excerpt: Mayor Toni Harp launched a
community-wide charitable initiative Thursday aimed
at aiding one of New Haven’s sister cities during one of its darkest hours. Freetown , Sierra Leone ,
became New Haven Freetown
NYC Ebola 'Active
Monitoring': From 117 Cases to 357 in 1 Week
Excerpt: In a stunning press release, the New York City
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), and the NYC Health and Hospital
Corporation (HHC) announced that the number of individuals in New York City who
are being “actively monitored” for the Ebola infection has
jumped to 357 people from 117 people the prior week. That represents
almost a 300% increase. This also does not represent people who have
entered New York City from West Africa and lied on their entry forms, regarding
the risk that they carry the virus. (Making America like Africa ;
payback? But does Ebola care what color your skin is? --Barb)
Race Card News
Quote
Right is of no sex. Truth is of no color. God is the Father
of us all, and we are all brethren. -- Frederick Douglass.
NAACP Releases Statement On 2014 Elections, But No Mention
Of Mia Love Or Tim Scott's Historic Wins. Matt Vespa
See, Sen. Scott and Congresswoman-Elect Love are too uppity
to vote as told. Got to thinking for themselves and became Republicans. ~Bob)
Democrats Discover Race Baiting. By John C. Goodman
Excerpt: Actually the Democrats have been race baiting for
decades. And it’s not going away. Using fear and race-polarizing agitation to
drive minority voters to the polls is going to be the increasingly overt face
of the Democratic Party. They can’t win any other way. What’s new is that the
mainstream media has suddenly discovered all of this. Through the years, these
same news outlets have wasted no time at all in spotting anything that even
hints of Republican race baiting. Take the presidential campaign of 1988.
‘Peaceful’ #Ferguson
Excerpt: The Ferguson
protest movement held a meeting tonight at St. Mark Family Church on Glen Owen Drive .
The protesters took time out from their meeting to beat a college student. Then
they chased him down the street screaming.(He was as student who had been
protesting WITH them, but he's white. I think they just made him a KKK recruit.
~Bob)
Michael Brown’s
mother may face felony armed robbery charges: report
Excerpt: The mother of Michael Brown could be charged with
felony armed robbery for allegedly attacking people in a Ferguson , Mo.
Common Core Co-Author Admits He Wrote Curriculum to End
“White Privilege.” By Dean Garrison
http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/11/common-core-co-author-admits-wrote-curriculum-end-white-privilege/
Excerpt: According to Dr. Pook, he helped write it to
balance the
scales because he, and many others, are benefiting from some mythical
'white
privilege' that was not earned. No, it's not about uniform and effective
educational standards that benefit our children.
Worth Reading
Excerpt: “The idea that you would play such a card and try
fear mongering among minorities just because you disagree with Republicans,
that they’re somehow all racist … I find it appalling, I find it insulting,”
said Rice during a Fox News interview. “As a Republican black woman from the
South, I would say really? Is that really the argument you’re going to make in
2014?”
The former secretary of State grew up in segregated Alabama , when riots and police abuse of blacks were
common in her hometown of Birmingham .
One of the four girls killed in the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church was a playmate
of hers. (Well, Rice holds a Ph.D. in political science, like Dr.
Thomas Sowell and Dr. Walter Williams, so at 26 she was already "Acting
White" by getting an education. Or at least according to inner city Black
culture, beloved of all right-thinking progressives. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condoleezza_Rice.
~Bob)
The NAACP Gave an ‘F’
to the First Southern Black Senator Elected Since Reconstruction. His Response
is Lights Out.
Excerpt: “Well, let’s just ask ourselves if we look back
over history when the Congress was controlled by the Democrats for 40
consecutive years. If we look at the result of that control what has happened
in black America ?
We saw greater poverty. If we take the statistics from 1970s to the 21st
century, what we see very clearly is that poverty’s gone from 11 percent to 15
percent. These are classic examples that the policies of the left have not
worked. I will tell you that if I have an F on the NAACP’s scorecard, it’s
because I believe that progress has to be made, and the government is not the
answer for progress.”
AG Nominee: Lorretta Lynch from Wikipedia
Excerpt: During her term as U.S. Attorney, Lynch oversaw
prosecution of the New York City New
York City
NYC Ebola 'Active
Monitoring': From 117 Cases to 357 in 1 Week
Excerpt: In a stunning press release, the New York City
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), and the NYC Health and
Hospital Corporation (HHC) announced that the number of individuals in New York
City who are being “actively monitored” for
the Ebola infection has jumped to 357 people from 117 people the
prior week. That represents almost a 300% increase. This also does
not represent people who have entered New York City from West Africa and lied on their entry forms, regarding
the risk that they carry the virus. (Making America like Africa ;
payback? But does Ebola care what color your skin is? --Barb)
Obamacare/Government Healthcare News
SCOTUS To Hear New
Obamacare Challenge. By Matt
Vespa
Excerpt: Today, the Court decided it would hear the new
Obamacare challenge against health care subsidies that was originally argued in
the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals last summer in Halbig v. Burwell.
Obamacare in peril.
By Greg Sargent
Excerpt: The GOP electoral rout this Tuesday does not pose a
serious threat to Obamacare. The real remaining threat to the law comes from
the courts. Today we learned this threat is very much alive, when the Supreme Court
announced to the administrative rule making the law’s subsidies available
to people in all 50 states. (Couldn't happen to a nicer big government
boondoggle. What will Roberts do? ~Bob)
Undocumented Democrat News
"You're Greener than Gore" News
DOD knows climate
change factors into fight. By Anthony Zinni, Ronald Keys and Frank Bowman
Excerpt: More than a year before the United States formally
entered World War II, Gen. Douglas MacArthur warned that “The history of
failure in war can almost be summed up in two words: Too late. Too late in
comprehending the deadly purpose of a potential enemy. Too late in realizing
the mortal danger. Too late in preparedness. Too late in uniting all possible
forces for resistance.” (OK, here we have an article by assorted generals that
parrots 110% the Administration policy and propaganda on "Climate
Change". Note in the second paragraph the reference to "another
global heat record", which utterly ignores the 18 years satellite records
of global temperature that show no significant change. As soon as you see this
kind of total junk science nonsense, you know the people doing the writing have
either chugged down a gallon of the alarmist Kool-Aid or they have figured out
the thing to do to stay in good with the present power structure is started
yelling about the beauty of the Emperor's new clothes. Note where some report
says that the displacement of people from Syria recently was due in part to
Climate Change. Right, mostly it was all that rain, the kind that contains fast
moving chunks of metal. It is certainly a tribute to the adaptability of
writers to find ways to bring Climate Change into all kinds of events in the
world. But having a high IQ and a lot of intellectual energy will allow people
to do all kinds on neat things; some of them can prove to you that the sun
rises in the West, and by the time they get through with the presentation, you
will wonder how in hell you've been so wrong all these years. But BS is BS, no
matter how well rationalized it is by smart people. What is really tragic in my
mind is to see this major publication of our military pushing what is simply PC
propaganda. --Del )
Religion of Peace News
Obama approves
sending up to 1,500 more US troops to Iraq
But they will be wearing ballet slippers, not boots. ~Bob
Response to Ignoring Anti-Semitism in the Name of
Palestinian Solidarity at UC Davis. By Richard L. Cravatts, PhD.
Ever since the invention of socialism, per Greenfield (below), the
Left has been open about its contempt for Jews. Unlike Christianity whose
anti-Semitism arose from its need to show its supersessionism, but which did
not reject the responsibility and obligation of individuals, the Left sees Jews
and Jewish sources as the archetypical rejectors of groups rights and collectivism.
Let's remember National Socialism made it ideologically and legally
correct to demonize, strip the rights and property of, strip the liberty
of and lives of Jews. Stalin was on the road to a similar goal when
he mercifully died. It was the USSR
that called Israel
a racist country. Being the "chosen people" requires each
individual acting virtuously and confers no special benefits. The phenomenon of
Leftist Jews stems from self loathing (Jewish
self-loathing) and a desire to join the universal without having to
give up bagels and lox. Jewish leftists are the most reprehensible in the
academic community. When the future trains to Auschwitz
are loaded, they will be packed in with the rest of us. The Palestinians have
made a cult of victimization (that is belied by the fact that in almost every
possible way, they have benefited from Israeli 'occupation' more than they did
under the Turks, Brits, Jordanians or Palestinian Authority--much less Hamas)
that the Dems feed off, just as they do off supposed systemic anti-black racism
in the U.S. Cordially. Larry Greenberg
Too Late:
Excerpt: The United States
is considering imposing sanctions on Libya 's
combative factions to prevent a proxy conflict fueled by regional powers from
erupting into full-blown civil war and to force militant leaders to negotiate, U.S. officials
said. Three years after Muammar Gaddafi's downfall, outside intervention has
exacerbated the fighting, with Qatar
and, to some degree, Turkey supporting
Islamist-linked forces and Egypt
and the United Arab Emirates
backing more secular rivals. (This is a civil war Mr. Lead-From-Behind created
with his unauthorized war in Libya ,
and sanctions won't stop it. We have sown the wind, and we will reap...~Bob)
More Than 600
Reported Chemical Exposure in Iraq
Excerpt: More than 600 American service members since 2003
have reported to military medical staff members that they believe they were
exposed to chemical warfare agents in Iraq, but the Pentagon failed
to recognize the scope of the reported cases or offer adequate tracking and
treatment to those who may have been injured, defense officials say.
The Pentagon’s disclosure abruptly changed the scale and
potential costs of the United States ’
encounters with abandoned chemical weapons during the occupation of Iraq, episodes the military
had for more than a decade kept from view. (Ask any Liberal-there were NO WMDS
IN IRAQ. ~Bob)
White House Won't
Comment on Obama Letter to Khamenei
Excerpt: The White House would not comment on
Thursday on reports that President Barack Obama had written
a letter to Iran ’s
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei about the campaign against the Islamic
State, and would only reiterate that Washington ’s
policy toward Iran has
not changed. The Wall Street Journal reported that Obama sent
a letter to the Iranian leader last month describing their shared
interested regarding Islamic State (ISIS). According
to Reuters, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said he could not
comment on private correspondence between Obama and a world leader.
John Kerry's "The Real Islam:" Muslims in Atlanta
Excerpt: The hideous bloody
scene you’re seeing isn’t taking place in Pakistan or Afghanistan . It’s happening in Atlanta . And, as Creeping
Sharia points out, this is being carried out by “Muslims from an
ACLU / DOJ state-sanctioned mosque” (The mosque removed the video. ~Bob)
Ex-SEAL Robert
O’Neill reveals himself as shooter who killed Osama bin Laden
Excerpt: The Navy SEAL who fired the shot that killed
Osama bin Laden is a highly decorated veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
who agonized for months over whether to publicly reveal his role in one of the
most storied commando operations in U.S. history. Robert O’Neill, 38, a
Montana native, was near the head of the
column of U.S. commandos who
burst into bin Laden’s Pakistan
hideout on May 2, 2011. ... O’Neill was preparing to make his story public next
week with interviews on Fox News and in The Washington Post, but his identity
was disclosed
preemptively by the Web site SOFREP, operated by former SEAL members, in a
protest over O’Neill’s decision to reveal his role in the mission.
A
Two-and-a-Half-Country Union . By Burak Bekdil
http://www.meforum.org/4879/turkey-qatar-hamas-union
Excerpt: This is from my column nearly two years ago: "The bitter truth is that Turkey is too
oriental for the European Union, too non-Arab for the Arab League, too
non-African for the African Union, too irrelevant for ASEAN and the Union of
South American Nations and too western for the Shanghai Cooperation
Organization ('The Shanghai Seven?' Feb. 8, 2013)." Before Prime
Minister (then Foreign Minister) Ahmet Davutoğlu failed to foresee that spring
could also blossom on the Arab Street, he was busy masterminding what looked
like a "Middle East Steel and Coal Union" – with, of course, Turkey
as its leader. It was the moment to feel imperial again!
Analysis: CENTCOM
draws misleading line between Al Nusrah Front and Khorasan Group By Thomas
Joscelyn & Bill Roggio
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2014/11/centcom.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LongWarJournalSiteWide+%28The+Long+War+Journal+%28Site-Wide%29%29#ixzz3IQSB416S
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2014/11/centcom.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LongWarJournalSiteWide+%28The+Long+War+Journal+%28Site-Wide%29%29#ixzz3IQSB416S
Excerpt: US Central Command [CENTCOM] attempted to
distinguish between the Al Nusrah Front, al Qaeda's official branch in Syria , and the so-called Khorasan Group in yesterday's
press release that detailed airstrikes in Syria . CENTCOM, which directs the
US and coalition air campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria,
denied that the five airstrikes targeted "the Nusrah Front as a
whole" due to its infighting with the Syrian Revolutionaries' Front, but
instead claimed the attacks were directed at the Khorasan Group.
Excerpt: The news media broke (or were given) the story that
President Obama penned
a letter to Iran ’s
Supreme Leader:
John Kerry's "The Real Islam:" Islamic
State crisis: The 13-year-old on 'righteous path.' By Mark Lowen
Excerpt: In a cramped living room in southern Turkey , a
13-year-old boy is training to join Islamic State. ... He had Sharia lessons
and learned how to use weapons, proudly showing us pictures in which he takes
aim with machine guns. ... "I like Islamic State because they pursue
Sharia and kill infidels, non-Sunnis and those who converted from Islam,"
he says. "The people killed by Islamic State are American agents. We must
behead them as Allah said in the Koran."
Libyan cadet in
Bassingbourn claims 'poor treatment'
Excerpt: Two of the cadets have admitted sexual assaults
against women in Cambridge ,
with another charged but yet to enter a plea, and a further two have appeared
in court charged with rape. ... Asked why the cadets were being flown home two
weeks before the end of their course, he said: "I feel, like all the rest
of us, there is no problem. "It was the British from the beginning. They
should have sought a solution and finished the training well. "They didn't
tell us about British law and what's the difference between right and wrong
here."
Islam--The Real War on Women: Saudi women with
attractive eyes may be forced to cover even them up, if resolution is passed
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2063143/Saudi-women-attractive-eyes-forced-cover-resolution-passed.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2063143/Saudi-women-attractive-eyes-forced-cover-resolution-passed.html
Excerpt: Women with attractive eyes may be forced to cover
them up under Saudi Arabia 's latest
repressive measure, it was reported yesterday. The
ultra-conservative Islamic state has said it has the right to
stop women revealing 'tempting' eyes in public.
Pakistani Woman
Stoned to Death by Family
Excerpt: A 25-year-old Pakistani woman was stoned to death
today by her father and family for registering to marry a man of whom they did
not approve. Three months pregnant, Farzana Parveen was on her way to the
courthouse to contest an abduction charge her family filed against her
husband, Mohammad Iqbal. A group of nearly 20 family members, her father
and brothers included, accosted the couple in front of the courthouse and tried
to pull them apart. When Farzana resisted, they fatally beat her with batons
and bricks from a nearby construction site. (This first story is pretty
amazing/depressing. But then just do the headline on the follow-up to really
finish blowing your mind. Then the
story gets even weirder, as it turns out the prospective husband and guy who
got her pregnant, admits to strangling his first wife! This is one really
messed-up culture, and so behind in any kind of consideration for women that
there are no words for it. --Del )
*****
Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam Veteran who served five
terms in the Massachusetts State Senate. He is the author of The Coming Collapse of the American Republic.
http://tiny.cc/g02s4 For a free PDF of Collapse, e-mail him at
tartanmarine(at)gmail.com. Hall’s eleven books are listed here: http://tinyurl.com/o4nu65u. His blog of
political news and conservative comment is www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com.
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