General News and Comment
Must Read: Obama’s Cold War
Replay: The president seems keen to repeat the seminal
20th-century conflict—except this time, the U.S.
Excerpt: Whereas previous presidents had conceived of the U.S. world role as, at least in part, to uphold
human rights and individual liberty, the Obama administration let it be known
early on, through Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, that we would not raise
human-rights issues with China ,
for example. We would instead focus on
“the global economic crisis, the global climate change crisis, and the security
crisis.” Human rights have not interested this president, though he makes his
share of gaseous declarations about “who we are” and who we are not. When
millions of Iranians poured into the streets demanding liberty, Obama coldly
turned away. He couldn’t spare a word of support for the people of Iran ,
because he was the president of the nation that had aided a coup 60 years ago!
He would instead keep stretching out his hand to the regime that hates us.
Their hatred is justified, after all ... It’s a good thing that Alan Gross and
53 political prisoners have been freed. But the way it was done makes it look
to the world that holding a gun to America ’s head (in the form of
taking hostages, which the Taliban have also learned) works wonders
Worth reading: Hollywood Cowardice:
George Clooney Explains Why Sony Stood Alone In North Korean
Cyberterror Attack. By Mike Fleming Jr.
Excerpt: As it begins to dawn on everyone in Hollywood the
reality that Sony Pictures was the victim of a cyberterrorist
act perpetrated by a hostile foreign nation on American
soil, questions will be asked about how and why it happened, ending with
Sony cancelling the theatrical release of the satirical
comedy The
Interview because of its depiction of North Korean dictator Kim
Jong-un. One of those issues will be this: Why didn’t anybody speak out while
Sony Pictures chiefs Amy Pascal and Michael
Lynton were embarrassed by emails served up by the media,
bolstering the credibility of hackers for when they attached as a cover letter
to Lynton’s emails a threat to blow up theaters if The
Interview was released? George Clooney has the answer. The most powerful
people in Hollywood
were so fearful to place themselves in the cross hairs of hackers that they all
refused to sign a simple petition of support that Clooney and his agent,
CAA’s Bryan
Lourd, circulated to the top people in film, TV, records and other areas.
Not a single person would sign. Here, Clooney discusses the petition and how it
is just part of many frightening ramifications that we are all just coming to
grips with. (This is a very sad day for this nation. An insane tinpot dictator
from a country that cannot feed itself and basically is hell on earth can not
just hack into something in the West, but, far more importantly, can by simple
verbal threats make an entire industry back down from exercising their basic
freedom. And then on top of that, no one in Hollywood , no one in the hotbed of passionate
denouncers of government authority, has the nerve to simply sign a petition of
support for the hacked company? Talk about craven cowardice! I find this unbelievable
even for the pantywaist Hollywood Liberals, they are a disgrace to themselves,
their industry, the nation. George Clooney is a real Liberal, and I disagree
with him on a number of things, but I have full respect for his integrity. He
must be the last one left in the industry worthy of respect. --Del )
LEAKED: Kim Jong-Un Death Scene From ‘The Interview’
http://conservativebyte.com/2014/12/leaked-kim-jong-un-death-scene-interview/
http://conservativebyte.com/2014/12/leaked-kim-jong-un-death-scene-interview/
Watch it--defy the North Korean Commies and the cowardly
movie chains. ~Bob
Excerpt: THE CYBERATTACK on Sony Pictures Entertainment has
taken an even more disturbing turn. First it demonstrated how cyberthieves can
raid a company’s most valuable trade secrets. Now it has escalated into a
blatant terrorism threat by a group linked to North Korea and an assault on the
freedom of speech directed from a capital of totalitarianism. Both the
cyberattack and the coercion are unacceptable and cannot go unanswered.
Romney Comes Up With a Unique Idea For Sony’s ‘The
Interview’ That Could Save Thousands of Lives. By Dave Jorgenson
Release it on line for free & ask for $5 contribution to
fight Ebola. I like it. ~Bob.
The violent, repressive future that the cancellation of
‘The Interview’ promises is already here. By Alyssa Rosenberg
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2014/12/18/the-violent-repressive-future-that-the-cancellation-of-the-interview-promises-is-already-here/
Excerpt: On Wednesday, after a group of hackers who
call themselves the Guardians of Peace threatened terrorist attacks on
screenings of “The Interview,” James Franco and Seth Rogen’s action comedy
about a CIA plot to assassinate North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, Sony
Pictures pulled
the movie from distribution and said
that it has no plans to release it through video on demand. The consensus
is that we’ve lost something important here, although there’s some question
about whether we should be angry at North Korea (if
the country is, in fact, behind the Guardians of Peace) for weaponizing the
hack or at Sony for exhibiting cowardice in the face of threats.
A Really Bad Day for Freedom. By Steven Bucci
Excerpt: Freedom took a beating yesterday. America rolled
over in the face of two of its longest standing adversaries, and we didn’t even
get anything in return. North Korean despot Kim Jong Un and Cuba ’s Raul Castro are probably exchanging
celebratory emails as we speak after the one-two punch they landed on Obama’s America .
Obama says Sony made
'mistake' in nixing movie release, vows US
Excerpt: President Obama said Friday he thinks Sony
"made a mistake" in choosing not to release "The Interview"
in the wake of the devastating hacking attack which he blamed on North Korea,
while vowing that the U.S. "will respond." ... "We will
respond," Obama vowed, while offering no details on what that response
might entail. (I'm guessing a #PleaseDon'tHackUs hashtag on
Twitter, maybe a strongly worded note, followed by an apology, a bow and an
effort to blame Bush or the Koch Brothers. That would be BO's idea of a
"proportional response." What should a proportional response to Pearl Harbor have been for FDR? ~Bob)
Obama Does Not Have
the Authority to Lift Embargo on Cuba
Excerpt: But exchanging three hardened Cuban spies for him
establishes a wrong moral and legal equivalency. Worse, extending recognition
to Cuba ’s dictatorial regime
harms U.S. national
interests and fails to advance freedom in Cuba . or grant amnesty. Or attack Libya . But who
will stop him as long as the democrats in the senate won't vote to convict--and
they won't. They have nullified the checks & balances in the constitution
for partisan reasons. ~Bob)
Obama gives the
Castro regime in Cuba
Excerpt: On Wednesday, the Castros suddenly obtained a
comprehensive bailout — from the Obama administration. President Obama granted the regime everything
on its wish list that was within his power to grant; a full lifting of the
trade embargo requires congressional action. Full diplomatic relations will be
established, Cuba ’s place on
the list of terrorism sponsors reviewed and restrictions lifted on U.S. investment and most travel to Cuba . That
liberalization will provide Havana with a fresh
source of desperately needed hard currency and eliminate U.S. leverage
for political reforms.
Excerpt: The three Cuban spies traded to the Castro regime
in exchange for American contractor Alan Gross and a U.S.
spy went far beyond the usual political or economic espionage carried out
by foreign agents. In fact, the Communist agents were engaged in detailed
reconnaissance against U.S.
military bases in south Florida ,
and fed information to the Cuban government that resulted in the murder of four
American citizens. (Obama calls killing Americans "Time off for good
behavior." ~Bob)
Note to Jeb Bush: Watch
This 10-Year-Old Explain Common Core to Her School Board: ‘It Stinks.’ By Kelsey Harkness
Excerpt: “Because it stinks,” the fourth-grader told school
board members Monday night in Montclair ,
N.J.
How Naïve is Elizabeth Warren?
Excerpt: Unfortunately, Warren ’s
populist outrage and calls to break up Citigroup and other mega-banks are ultimately
misguided, naive, and contradictory. Like too many progressives, she’s against
cronyism except when she’s for it—and she’s
supremely confident that if only she and her rag-tag band of reformers were
calling the shots, government regulators would never, ever bend to the will of
special interests. ... One thing that leftist historians such as Gabriel
Kolko and public-choice libertarians such as Nobel laureate James Buchanan
agreed on is that regulatory bodies are routinely and perhaps inevitably
“captured” by the very people and businesses they’re supposed to oversee.
(Notice this is from liberal Daily Beast. --Ron P.)
Top 10 Lies in
Obama’s Cuba
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2014/12/18/top-10-lies-in-obamas-cuba-speech/
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2014/12/18/top-10-lies-in-obamas-cuba-speech/
Excerpt: President Barack Obama unveiled a new U.S. policy toward Cuba on Wednesday as part of a deal
that brought American Alan Gross home in exchange for three convicted Cuban
spies. As he has done so often in the past, Obama tried to channel the
perspective of America ’s
enemies and critics, as if his job were to act as a neutral mediator instead of
defending U.S.
interests and values. In the course of his address, Obama told
American ten major lies, both of omission and commission.
Excerpt: I want to believe the free trade rhetoric. I want
to believe that any type of relaxation of the embargo would benefit the Cuban
people. I really do. But I don’t, and here’s why.
Excerpt: U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) today issued the
following statement regarding reports that President Obama is set to
dramatically change U.S. policy toward Cuba following the release of Alan
Gross, an American who was held hostage by the Castro regime in Cuba for five
years: ... “The President’s decision to reward the Castro regime and begin the
path toward the normalization of relations with Cuba is inexplicable. Cuba ’s record
is clear. Just as when President Eisenhower severed diplomatic relations with Cuba , the
Castro family still controls the country, the economy and all levers of power.
This administration’s attempts to loosen restrictions on travel in recent years
have only served to benefit the regime. While business interests seeking to
line their pockets, aided by the editorial page of The New York Times, have
begun a significant campaign to paper over the facts about the regime in Havana , the reality is
clear. Cuba , like Syria , Iran ,
and Sudan ,
remains a state sponsor of terrorism. It continues to actively work with
regimes like North Korea
to illegally traffic weapons in our hemisphere in violation of several United
Nations Security Council Resolutions. It colludes with America ’s
enemies, near and far, to threaten us and everything we hold dear. But most
importantly, the regime’s brutal treatment of the Cuban people has continued
unabated. Dissidents are harassed, imprisoned and even killed. Access to
information is restricted and controlled by the regime. That is why even more
than just putting U.S.
national security at risk, President Obama is letting down the Cuban people,
who still yearn to be free.
People Immediately
Noticed ‘Revolting’ Image Caught in Background of Photo Featuring American
Freed From Cuba
Excerpt: It’s not the view from his attorney’s office that’s
catching people’s attention — it’s the photo of notorious and murderous Cuban
revolutionary Che Guevara.
Epic Marco Rubio
Smack Down of Reporter’s Question On Cuba
http://shark-tank.com/2014/12/19/epic-marco-rubio-smacks-down-of-reporters-question-on-cuba-video/
http://shark-tank.com/2014/12/19/epic-marco-rubio-smacks-down-of-reporters-question-on-cuba-video/
Excerpt: Sen. Marco Rubio: We have a poll every two
years in this state, its called elections. As far as I can tell, everyone of
our members of Congress that’s been elected in those districts agrees with my
position, and I with their position on this issue. Where is the pro-embargo, or
anti-embargo congressperson from the very district you said was polled? I think
that’s the ultimate poll.
Why Liberals Really, Really Hate Us. By David P. Goldman
Excerpt: They really, really hate
us. George Orwell wrote a morning “Two Minutes Hate”
session into the daily life of his dystopia in 1984. One blogger notes that 2,000 of Rachel Maddow’s facebook
fans wished that Ted Cruz would fall into an open elevator shaft. What
would he have made of the hyperventilating hatred that liberals display against
conservatives? Over at National Review, Katherine Timpf reports on a hate manifesto published by
the chair of University
of Michigan Del )
Worth
Excerpt: Contrary to Republican claims, they
say, Obama has issued significantly fewer executive orders than his
predecessors from both parties over the last century. The goal is to paint
critics as hypocritical, foolish, and blinded by irrational opposition. Many
journalists seem to have swallowed Team Obama's story whole. But not USA Today
reporter Gregory
Korte, or Fox News' Ed Henry, who challenged White House Press
Secretary Josh Earnest on the president's math, exposing the cynical
and contradictory "rules" by which the administration has
been playing in order to sustain their misleading claim:
U Michigan
Department Chair: We Should ‘Hate Republicans:’ A professor
explains that studies show the GOP is bad. By Katherine Timpf
Excerpt: A University of Michigan department chairwoman
has published an article titled, “It’s Okay To Hate Republicans,” which will
probably make all of her conservative students feel really comfortable and
totally certain that they’re being graded fairly. ("Stop the
Hate," as a liberal family members says when I send him anything that disagrees
with his views, thus attacking me as a "hater." ~Bob)
Worth Subscribing To. Freedom. By Jonah Goldberg, The Goldberg File
Excerpt: Dear Reader (including you feckless, sniveling
crapweasels hiding under your desks at Sony), Freedom makes a lot of things
harder. It is more difficult to raise children of good character in a society
that tolerates and often celebrates bad character. It is often harder to build
big and important things in a society where everybody gets a vote. That’s why
so many people of a “pragmatic” bent have always looked longingly at evil
countries where the people are less of an impediment to “getting things done.”
Fighting climate change, if that’s your thing, is much tougher when everyone
has private property rights. Fighting a war is more difficult when dissenters
get to have their say. Maintaining a guild and the wages that go with it is
harder when you have free competition. ... The North Korean economic model
isn’t attractive even to the vast majority of hardcore Marxists. Breadlines are
one thing, but eating bark and grass is too grim even for a Bryn Mawr sociology
professor. ... But, hey, let’s say it all works out. Let’s say that the policy
of constructive engagement -- so vilified by the Left when applied to South Africa -- succeeds beyond our wildest
dreams in Cuba .
Harvard professor on
Religion and Democracy
The Leader vs the
Lackey: UAB's Ray Watts could learn a lot from BSC's Charles Krulak. By Kyle
Whitmire
Excerpt: If you hang out late at the Birmingham-Southern College Del )
Excerpt: With metronomic precision each year the national
press corps begins running columns by “religion scholars” who wish you to know
that Jesus Christ is a fictional character. Mind you, no newspaper of note in
the world is brave enough to run a similar story about the Prophet Mohammed. The
latest comes from a “lecturer in religious studies” from Australia named
Raphael Lataster. The Washington Post felt compelled to run this so the godless
heathens in Washington , D.C.
Vote Fraud News
Two Pa.
Excerpt: A grand jury convened by Philadelphia District
Attorney Seth Williams has indicted two Democratic state legislators for
accepting bribes in exchange for voting against a voter ID bill, among other
legislative actions. The grand jury findings also represent a withering
rejection of the unjustifiable behavior of Pennsylvania Attorney General
Kathleen Kane, who shut down the three-year investigation that caught state
Democratic legislators on video and audio tapes taking bribes. Williams stepped
in and successfully prosecuted the case.
Jail Time for Election Fraudster … and a Local Community
Embraces the Fraud. By Jason Snead
Excerpt: Opponents of reforms intended to improve the
security and integrity of the election process are constantly peddling the
narrative that election fraud is a nonexistent problem. But they should turn
their attention to Benton Harbor ,
Mich.
Gun News
Appeals Court Strikes Down Federal Gun Law As
Unconstitutional. By John Hayward
http://humanevents.com/2014/12/19/appeals-court-strikes-down-federal-gun-law-as-unconstitutional/?utm_source=hedaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
http://humanevents.com/2014/12/19/appeals-court-strikes-down-federal-gun-law-as-unconstitutional/?utm_source=hedaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
Excerpt: It might not get the news coverage it deserves with
everything else going on at the moment, but the unanimous ruling by a
three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati against a federal gun law is a
very big deal. The court held that the federal ban on gun ownership by people
who have been committed to a mental institution is an unconstitutional
violation of the Second Amendment. Rulings of that caliber (if you’ll pardon
the pun) don’t come down all that often. The previous instance was the Supreme
Court’s Heller ruling against Washington
D.C.
Australian Lawmaker: Our Gun Control Laws Created a ‘Nation
of Victims.’ By Fred Lucas
Excerpt: The hostage situation at a Sydney
cafe proves that Australia
has become a “nation of victims” because of its stiff restrictions on gun
ownership, an Australian lawmaker said. Sen. David Leyonhjelm of Australia ’s
Liberal Democratic Party said the siege by the lone jihadi-inspired gunman this
week would have been less likely if Australians were free to arm themselves
911 call released in
deadly Charlotte
http://www.foxcarolina.com/story/27644684/one-shot-killed-during-alleged-break-in-in-southeast-charlotte#ixzz3MBIUtorS
http://www.foxcarolina.com/story/27644684/one-shot-killed-during-alleged-break-in-in-southeast-charlotte#ixzz3MBIUtorS
Excerpt: Police say Isai Robert Delcid, 18, was shot and
killed by the resident's grandson. His brother, 22-year-old Carlos Delcid, was
arrested later Tuesday night. “They heard some noises, saw an individual at the
back of the residence trying to come into their house,” said Lt. Eric Brady of
Charlotte Mecklenburg Police. ... During the call, a young man can be heard in
the background. "I said who is it and he wouldn't stop," the teen
says. "“He broke my grandma's window so I shot three times.” ... Police
say the brothers were reportedly trying to break into the home when a
14-year-old, who was visiting his grandmother, shot Isai Delcid. Delcid was
pronounced dead at the scene.
APD: Man shoots,
kills would-be burglar
Excerpt: Police said a homeowner shot and killed a suspected
burglar Tuesday morning in the 600 block of Torretta Drive . Albuquerque police said the man tried to
break into two homes.
Race Card News
Not by me--I'd be afraid he'd wreck my car
as he did the country. I use the VA valet service--all valets there are white
folks. Alert Eric Holder.
No,
Not Bah! Humbug! Just Ugh! By Andy Weddington
Excerpt:
Tis the season of 'peace on earth, good will towards men' and protests
against the police continue (in regard to the deaths of [Blacks] Michael
Brown - Ferguson, MO and Eric Garner - New York City, NY at the hands of
[White] police officers performing their duties).
Michelle Obama
Cheats at Race Cards. From The Patriot Post
Michelle Obama twisted her tale about a trip to Target to
add her two cents to the White House's long-running race-bait narrative. In
an interview with People magazine, Michelle said,
"[T]he only person who came up to me in the store was a woman who asked me
to help her take something off a shelf, because she didn't see me as the first
lady; she saw me as someone who could help her." Michelle first told the
story on The David Letterman Show in 2012, except in that
version she said the person asked for her help reaching something "because
she was short." The customer didn't ask for help because she confused her
with a store clerk, but because Michelle was tall -- and Michelle even said
"I felt so good" helping her. But now she has a race narrative to
spin -- because she hasn't done anything for anybody as first lady.
Excerpt: In 2012, according to the CDC, 140 blacks were
killed by police. That same year 386 whites were killed by police. Over the
13-year period from 1999 to 2011, the CDC reports that 2,151 whites were killed
by cops – and 1,130 blacks were killed by cops. ... That this “epidemic” is
imaginary can be demonstrated by the recent stories that never became national
news.
In Mobile ,
Alabama Alabama teen was later found to have been
under the influence of marijuana at the time of the shooting. The teen had also
recently taken a hallucinogen, and was so stoned he thought he was on fire –
and literally took his clothes off. Nude – and obviously unarmed – he was still
later shot by the cop. Despite public pressure, a Mobile
grand jury decided not to indict the black police officer, believing he acted
in self-defense. Not national news.
Black police chief ripped by black leaders for asking for
support for cop shot by black man. By Howard Portnoy
http://libertyunyielding.com/2014/12/18/black-police-chief-ripped-black-leaders-asking-support-cop-shot-black-man/
http://libertyunyielding.com/2014/12/18/black-police-chief-ripped-black-leaders-asking-support-cop-shot-black-man/
Excerpt: In the hierarchy of lives that matter, you have
blacks on top, most other people in the middle, and at the bottom, just
below the potato peelings and rat excrement, you have cops — especially
cops of pallor. That would explain the abject lack of sympathy for Baltimore police
officer Andrew Groman, who was shot in the line of duty.
Racial Gerrymandering Backfires. By David L. Goetsch
http://patriotupdate.com/articles/racial-gerrymandering-backfires/
http://patriotupdate.com/articles/racial-gerrymandering-backfires/
Excerpt: You just can’t make this stuff up. Sometimes truth
really is stranger than fiction, especially when the federal government decides
to get involved at the local level where it does not belong. A case in point is
racial gerrymandering in Alabama .
In an attempt to comply with the Voting Rights Act, the Alabama Legislature
created several majority-minority districts—districts in which the
population of blacks is so high that black candidates are guaranteed to win
state and local elections. Sounds good if you are black and a Democrat, right?
Apparently not. The Alabama Democratic Conference and the Alabama Legislative
Black Caucus have filed suit against the state of Alabama because some of the racially
gerrymandered districts drawn to protect blacks apparently contain too many
blacks.
Obamacare/Government Healthcare News
Governor abandons
single-payer health care plan. Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin says he won't seek
single payer health care in 2015
Excerpt: Going forward with a project four years in the
making would require tax increases too big for the state to absorb, Shumlin
said. The measure had been the centerpiece of the Democratic governor's agenda
and was watched and rooted for by single-payer health care supporters around the
country. (Progressives fantasy comes face to face with economic reality.
Reality wins--again. ~Bob)
Excerpt: Shumlin has been advocating a “single payer”
medical care system in Vermont
for some time. (For those who aren’t fluent in Progressive NewSpeak, that
essentially means “government-run Socialized medicine paid for by your taxes”.)
It was planned to go into effect in 2017. However, Shumlin
has now thrown in the towel on single payer. It’s not going to happen. Hey,
you don’t suppose the fact that paying for it would have required
an 11.5% payroll tax – plus an additional income tax
of up to 9.5% – had anything to do with that, do you? Plus the fact
that a report prepared for the governor on Vermont ’s proposed single payer system
indicated that implementing single payer medical care would not save
money?
"You're Greener than Gore" News
Excerpt: Despite the fact that fracking is lowering energy
costs and raising American GDP -- with an ICF International study
estimating American consumers saved from $63
billion to $248 billion in 2013 alone due to fracking -- New York
Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) plans to prohibit racking the state of New York. Erica
Orden and Lynn Cook of the Wall Street Journal report that New York has had a fracking moratorium since
2009, but the ban would officially keep 12 million acres of resource-rich
Marcellus Shale from being developed. As a result, New
York will lose out on the economic benefits that its neighbors
have reaped from shale drilling: Pennsylvania ,
which also lies atop the Marcellus Shale, has received over $2.1 billion in
state and local taxes from energy companies due to the shale boom. From the
first quarter of 2010 to the beginning of 2014, Pennsylvania saw its energy employment rise
from 13,059 jobs to 28,229 jobs. Average salaries in Pennsylvania for energy-related jobs is $93,000
annually, much higher than the state's average $40,000 salary. (Thos tax
dollars would help the poor and those jobs the working class, folks the
heartless democrats claim to care about. ~Bob)
Customers Face High
Energy Prices Thanks to European Climate Agenda
Excerpt: Despite 18 years of no global warming, European
nations have continued to push a climate change agenda, to the detriment of
consumers, writes Sterling Burnett of the Heartland Institute. ... Climate
change policy has been extraordinarily expensive for Europe :
From 2004 to 2013, EU states spent $882 billion on renewable
energy projects. By 2030, Germany
-- whose citizens face some of the highest
energy costs in all of Europe --
could alone spend $1 trillion transitioning to renewable energy. Electricity
prices in Europe are twice that of the United States . Relative to Europe,
the U.S.
manufacturing -- operating with lower energy prices -- saved $130 billion in
2012.
Religion of Peace News
My questions on
torture: When is violence justified? By Robert A. Hall
A shorter version of the column was published in the
Wisconsin State Journal in Madison
in August of 2007. It drew some comment in Madison at the time... ~Bob. Torture *does*
work, but it must be done right. See the "Legion del Cid" series by
Tom Kratman. Seeing the people plummeting from the towers on 9/11 forever
removed from me any care of what it takes to get information out of those
things. --Comment Posted on my Blog. {I've read and highly recommend the
series, which starts with A Desert Called
Peace. ~Bob)
Excerpt: There are lots of hypocrisies surrounding the
recently released executive summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee report
on the CIA’s detention and interrogation program. But they pale in comparison
to the current Democratic silence about President Barack Obama’s policy of
targeted drone assassinations. Since 2004, drones have killed an estimated
2,400 to 3,888 individuals in Pakistan
alone, according to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in London . An estimated 345 to 553 individuals
in Yemen
have been killed in drone strikes over the same period. The BIJ reports that
the Obama administration has “markedly stepped up the use of drones. Since
Obama’s inauguration in 2009, the CIA has launched 330 strikes on Pakistan – his
predecessor, President George Bush, conducted 51 strikes in four years.” (I
support the drone strikes, but it's hard for me to believe that being
waterboarded is worse than being turned into pink mush by a drone--along with
any non-combatants who happen to be next to you. ~Bob)
When the big news
isn't news. By Paul Greenberg
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/greenberg121814.php3
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/greenberg121814.php3
Excerpt: The bipartisan Constitution
Project's fair and thorough examination of the same subject, released last
year, ran 602 pages and went over the same ground and more. That investigation
was co-chaired by the judicious Asa Hutchinson, who was a congressman then
and is now the governor-elect of Arkansas .
Agree or disagree with the Constitution Project's conclusions, its
authors interviewed witnesses on all sides of the issue, unlike those who wrote
the Senate committee's report. By this week, the big story in the
news was the latest hostage-taking, this time in Australia . Now
that's torture -- and real news. Faux news, like this one-sided report out of
a Senate committee, doesn't stay news long.
Interesting: New FBI Hate Crime Stats: Another Blow
to Islamist Fictions. By David J. Rusin
Excerpt: The FBI's newly
released hate crime
statistics for 2013 offer a fresh example of how reality
refuses to conform to the dubious narrative of
widespread Muslim victimization at the hands of American bigots. As in previous years,
most hate crimes were not religiously motivated, most religiously motivated
hate crimes were anti-Jewish, and Muslims suffered fewer total incidents than
many groups and fewer per capita than gays or Jews. Anti-Islamic crimes did not
involve greater violence than others and have not become more frequent. A
glance at the details: (I've
always said that if 17 Christian fundamentalists had hijacked 4 Egyptian airliners,
murdered their Muslim crews and flown 2 of them into the highest office
buildings in Cairo, killing thousands of Muslims, the reaction, not only in
Egypt but in all Muslim countries, would be rioting, rape and murder of Christians
by the tens of thousands, looting of their homes and businesses, burning of all
churches (in those Moslem countries allowing churches). What we did in
response to 9/11 was next to nothing. They did more in response to a few
cartoons. --PM From a liberal Jewish friend and former legislator. ~Bob)
Excerpt: The State Department today
announced that it has added an Egyptian jihadist group and a senior al
Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) ideologue to the US government's
list of specially designated global terrorists. The Egyptian group, Ajnad Misr
("Soldiers of Egypt"), is a "violent extremist group that
splintered from Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis (ABM)," which is also a
"designated foreign terrorist organization (FTO) and Specially Designated
Global entity."
John Holmes made me do it: Muslim Scholar Blames Porn
for Jihad. By John Rossomando
Excerpt: Muslim scholar Hamza Yusuf, president of Zaytuna College in Berkeley,
Calif., blamed pornography for the proliferation of jihadist violence during a
Georgetown University panel discussion Monday about the status of Muslim
minorities in non-Muslim countries. ... After George noted that intelligence
agents routinely find sexually explicit materials on laptops belonging to
captured jihadists, Yusuf offered a theory in which young men "become
deeply defiled" by the pornography habits and blame the West for providing
the corrupting influences. They turn to jihad for religious purification and
redemption. (Not their fault they have no self control--it's a Muslim thing.
~Bob)
Can Liberal Zionists Count On Hillary Clinton? By Jason
Horowitz
Excerpt: Daniel Zemel first visited Israel fresh
off his bar mitzvah, in 1966. A bookish Jewish kid from Chicago, Zemel had a
love for Israel inherited from his grandfather, Rabbi Solomon Goldman, a friend
of Albert Einstein’s who was president from 1938 to 1940 of the then left-leaning
Zionist Organization of America. With the other members of his Jewish education
group, the 13-year-old Zemel spent two weeks in Jerusalem ,
Tel Aviv and Haifa .
He lunched in cafeterias with the kibbutzniks he idolized, ate frozen treats on
the beach and climbed a lookout tower, peering into Jerusalem ’s
still forbidden Old
City Temple Mount , the West Bank and Gaza ,
in the Six-Day War with Egypt ,
Syria and Jordan . Over
the decades, as Israel
matured and began to wrestle with the occupation, Zemel did, too. He visited Israel again and again, as a college student, a
rabbinical student and an assistant rabbi in Minnesota . (A liberal's (from the NY Times)
buildup of Hillary Clinton's bona fides reveal that she has and will say just
about anything to achieve power. Cordially, Larry Greenberg)
Muslims Must Save
Islam from Islamists. By Tarek Fatah
Excerpt: It seems there is no respite for the ordinary
Muslim. Barely a day goes by when news of fresh atrocities by our
coreligionists isn't in the headlines. Most of the world's billion-plus Muslims
wouldn't dream of killing in the name of Islam, but enough do to form a
critical mass that has put us on a collision course with the rest of humanity. The
Sydney siege by
an ISIS-inspired jihadist had barely ended when the horrific news of a Taliban
massacre killing 140 children at a Pakistani school shocked the world.
Hamas's International
Triangle of Bases: Gaza , Turkey and Qatar
Excerpt: In recent years, the Palestinian terrorist
organization Hamas has developed into a truly international entity. Today, it
enjoys three territorial bases of operation: Gaza ,
the seat of the Hamas regime, Turkey ,
and Qatar .
According to Israeli intelligence estimates, each base serves a different
purpose. The three branches have worked, alternatively, in harmony and in
discord, together and independently, in line with the various terrorist
activities they pursue.
Hamas Deputy Leader
Says Iran
Excerpt: A top Hamas leader says the terrorist group patched up relations with Iran
after a breach over Syria 's
civil war. "I believe that bilateral relations between us and the Islamic
Republic of Iran are back on track," Hamas deputy political leader Mousa abu Marzook told Reuters. ("We're good now.
Back to killing Jews and Christians." ~Bob)
Excerpt: The bodies of more than 230 people believed to have
been killed by Islamic State (IS) have been found in a mass grave in eastern Syria ,
activists say. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said they were thought
to be members of a tribe that fought the jihadist group in Deir al-Zour
province in the summer.
ISIS beheads 150
females, including pregnant women, for refusing to marry terrorists
Excerpt: Iraq 's
Ministry of Human Rights, in a statement released, said that the women in the
western Iraqi province
of Al-Anbar
Excerpt: The lone wolf is the new nightmare, dramatized and
amplified this week by the hostage-taking attack in Sydney . But there are two kinds of lone
wolves — the crazy and the evil — and the distinction is important. The real
terrorists are rational. Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter, had been functioning as an
Army doctor for years. Psychotics cannot carry that off. Hasan even had a business card listing his occupation as
SoA (Soldier of Allah). He then went out and, shouting “Allahu Akbar,” shot
dead 13 people, 12 of them fellow soldiers. To this day, Hasan speaks coherently and proudly of
the massacre. That’s terrorism.
Nigeria Teeters on the Brink: 8 Terrifying Trends: Boko
Haram's violence is now on par with ISIS . Is
anyone in D.C. paying attention? By Patrick Poole
Excerpt: For much of its five-year long insurgency in Nigeria costing thousands of lives, Boko Haram
enjoyed no sanction by the U.S.
government. That changed just over a year ago when they were finally designated a terrorist organization by the State
Department. That notwithstanding, Boko Haram continues to expand its terror
campaign across the north of the country, now controlling an area the size of Maryland . (It has been a
sad commentary on the world that 200+ young girls were abducted by the brutal
killers of Boko Haram so long ago now, and there was never really anything
significant contributed by the outside to the government of Nigeria in trying
to find and free the girls. Yes, that government is a classic case of the
incompetence and corruption of too many African countries, but we might have
hoped for a lot more serious efforts to help than have been seen so far. Now
it's just sliding further downhill every month, and could very conceivably wind
up destabilizing the entire country, and after that, who knows what else? Here
is a chance for the US
to show real leadership, but so far there's been no trace of that. Maybe in
2015 we can hope for better? --Del. Did nothing about the abducted girls? Del , Michele Obama tweeted a picture of herself looking sad
and holding a #BringBackOurGirls sign. For the Obama Administration, that's
right up there with Democrat Harry Truman ending WWII with the A-Bomb. ~Bob)
Show me your shocked face: Hamas Diverting
Reconstruction Material to Rebuilding Terror Tunnels
Excerpt: Hamas is rebuilding its network of underground
infiltration tunnels damaged in the war with Israel this past summer, the
Jerusalem Post reported, citing an Israel Radio account. Cement and
building materials allowed into Gaza to help
rebuild after the summer war with Israel is being used instead for
tunnel rebuilding, the report said. The United Nations brokered an agreement
between Israel and the
Palestinian Authority (PA) to establish a monitoring mechanism to ensure
construction material is not exploited by Hamas for rebuilding the tunnels that
Israel
destroyed during the war. The oversight program that would enable the
rebuilding of approximately 60,000 Gaza
homes was launched in mid-October and appears to be suffering from significant
failures.
News from NATO Ally: Turkey-based Hamas Leader Well
Known to US Law Enforcement
Excerpt: The Turkish operation may be the most active in plotting
terror attacks. And the man who runs that base, Saleh Al-Arouri, has risen to
prominence as a result. Al-Arouri has been linked to a series of terrorist
plots and attacks primarily aimed at West Bank
targets, an area where the terrorist group hopes to regain strength and popular
support. As a new Investigative Project on Terrorism report on Al-Arouri shows,
while his infamy may be relatively new, his efforts to help Hamas foment terror
date back years and are well known among American prosecutors and
investigators.
Mount Sinjar: Islamic
State siege broken, say Kurds
Excerpt: Kurdish forces in northern Iraq are
claiming their biggest victory yet against Islamic State (IS) militants. They
say they have broken the IS siege of Mount
Sinjar
It's okay, it's in the Qur'an: Squalid homes of freed
slaves
http://www.oldham-chronicle.co.uk/news-features/8/news-headlines/89473/squalid-homes-of-freed-slaves
Excerpt: Police have released images of the squalor that
they say 10 alleged slave-workers had to endure in Rochdale
after two men were charged and three others arrested in connection with
enslavement and trafficking offences. ... As a result of the warrants Mohammed
Iqbal (51), of Belmont Way ,
Rochdale, and Najum Mohammed Iqbal (40), of Harrison Close, Rochdale ,
were both charged yesterday with knowingly requiring another person to perform
forced or compulsory labour. (The Qur’an has Allah telling Muhammad that he has
given him girls as sex slaves: “Prophet, We have made lawful to you the wives
to whom you have granted dowries and the slave girls whom God has given you as
booty.” (Qur’an 33:50)
Muhammad bought slaves: --Robert Spencer, JihadWatch.org.
See:
*****
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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