Update
My granddaughter,
Britnye and her boyfriend, Shane, both 14. I suggested we invite them over for
dinner and he could help me clean my guns....
We picked up a nice
framed print of "The Tempest" by John William Waterhouse (1916) Sunday
for $10.50 at a thrift shop. Checked on line. Plain print run around $48, while
framed ones were going for $465. Cheap art. ~Bob
General News and Comment
Worth Reading :
Scott Walker's national education effect: Column. The college dropout
governor may bring reality back to an Ivy League-suffocated government. By
Glenn Harlan Reynolds
Excerpt: A lot of people don't know much about him yet, and
he may not even be running, but if Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is
elected president in 2016, he'll immediately accomplish something that no other
candidate being talked about can: He'll lay to rest the absurd belief that
you're a nobody if you don't have a
college degree. And he might even cut into the surprisingly recent
takeover of our institutions by an educated mandarin class, something that just
might save the country. Though Walker attended Marquette University, he left
before graduating, which has caused some finger-wagging from
the usual journalistic suspects. After all, they seem to believe,
everyone they know has a college degree, so it must be essential to
getting ahead. As the successful governor of an important state, you'd think
that Walker 's
subsequent career would make his college degree irrelevant, but you'd be wrong.
NYT columnist blames
Scott Walker for teacher layoffs … that occurred before he was governor
Excerpt: But the big error in Collins’s piece is her claim
that “those layoffs happened because Walker
cut state aid to education.” As you can see in the excerpt above, Collins is
talking about teacher layoffs that occurred in 2010. Walker did not become governor until
2011.
Jeb Bush hands out cash to win allies ahead of 2016 election.
By Andy Sullivan
Excerpt: Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush said on Friday he
is giving out more than $100,000 to fellow Republicans, in a sign that he is
banking on his fundraising prowess to build allies across the country ahead of
a potential White House bid. The brother of former President George W. Bush and
son of former President George H.W. Bush has emerged as an early frontrunner in
what could be a crowded Republican field in the 2016 presidential election.
Hackers Steal $1
Billion in Massive, Worldwide Breach
Excerpt: Hackers have stolen as
much as $1 billion from banks around the world, according to a prominent
cybersecurity firm. In a report scheduled to be delivered Monday, Russian
security company Kaspersky Lab claims that a hacking ring has infiltrated more
than 100 banks in 30 countries over the past two years. (Right out of the novel
I just read, Lazarus Man by Chet
Nagle. http://amzn.to/1G6S0iQ ~Bob)
Isolated? Russia to Close
on Huge, Multi-$Billion Deal to Build 20+! Nuclear Plants in India
Excerpt: Russia
may set up a total of 20-24 nuclear energy units in India
against previously agreed 14-16 plants as both countries are likely to come out
with a roadmap for cooperation in the crucial energy sector during Russian
President Vladimir Putin's visit to Delhi
for annual summit talks on Thursday. (Oops! The Russia-isolating oligarchs
forgot about India (and Egypt, where Russia is building 4 nuke plants, and
Iran, which just signed a huge arms deal with Russia, and China, which will
finance Russia as needed and has signed a huge gas pipeline deal,-- oh and
Turkey, which has signed a huge gas pipeline deal, -- oh, and Europe and most
of Asia, which are helping de-dollarize world trade, etc, etc). Gulp! NOW
what? Could it be that Washington
is isolating itself? --Don Hank)
Obama Routinely Breaches Bipartisan Deals. By Stephen Moore
Excerpt: Among so many of President Obama’s flaws, near the
top of the list is that he has never understood the art of the deal. Every
successful president has cut deals with the other party to strategically
advance his own agenda. Give a little, get a little. Washington, Lincoln, FDR,
Reagan and Clinton were masters at this aspect of politics. Obama rejected the
convention of reaching across the aisle from the very start. In his first two
years in office this White House never moved an inch in the GOP’s direction and
passed his major bills on stimulus and Obamacare without a single Republican
vote. Those bills were written with zero input from Republicans and when asked
why, he haughtily lectured “we won the election.” Then he pouts the Republicans
were no help.
Worth Reading :
6 Reasons Why 'Starship Troopers' Is the New 'The Art of War.' By Joe
Pappalardo
http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a13103/starship-troopers-is-the-new-the-art-of-war/
Excerpt: Robert A. Heinlein's
Starship Troopers, published in 1959, is aging remarkably well. The tome
chronicles the early military career of Johnnie Rico, who fights alien
arachnids while clad in a heavily armed exoskeleton. The troopers drop from
orbit one by one to wreak havoc on whatever target the Sky Marshal deems worthy
of the attention. It's a cool adventure novel with a soldier's eye view that
doubles a treatise on modern warrior culture, the limits of military
technology, and the awful glories of fighting infantry. There's a reason
military academies like West Point recommend
cadets read the book. Like Sun Tzu's masterpiece, Heinlein's abounds with
quotable axioms. You may not hear overly intense car salesman quoting from
Starship Troopers anytime soon, but here are six reasons why the book is a
practical guide to 21st century warfare. (Nice article. I read all of
Heinlein's books as a kid and young man, and they weren't just entertainment,
they were very educational. The article gives great examples of this. --Del. I
also read every Heinlein book starting about 8th grade. Starship Troopers is one of my favorites, though I have always
thought Time Enough for Love was his
best. I recommend Riding the Red Horse
[Kindle only] to Heinlein/Pournelle fans. ~Bob)
Obama Betrayal: Effort to Snatch $10 Billion From Veterans.
By Betsy McCaughey
Excerpt: President Obama and the Veterans Administration
bureaucracy are already sabotaging the VA reform law passed in August. The ink
is barely dry on the 8.6 million "Choice Cards" that supposedly allow
vets to see a doctor outside the delay-plagued system. Obama’s budget tries to
snatch the $10 billion allocated for the Choice program and allow it to be
spent however VA top administrators want. It’s a sickening betrayal. Even
worse, VA secretary Robert McDonald is telling federal lawmakers that this
underhanded move will better serve "VA system priorities." That’s the
problem. He’s more interested in protecting "the system" than vets.
It’s all about bureaucratic turf and union jobs. (Don't you just love how fast
the politicians can turn around to wipe out the special benefit they were
pressured to come up with for vets, after the debacle of vets dying while
waiting for appointments? They have no shame at all. --Del )
Fox 5 San Diego mistakenly
displays image of President Obama instead of rape suspect
Excerpt: KSWB-TV, also known as Fox 5 San Diego, displayed
a picture of Obama speaking at a microphone rather than art of a
suspect in a rape case in a report during its newscast on Friday night. The
image, which included a caption that read “no charges,” appeared on a screen
behind anchor Kathleen Bade for about five seconds. Bade's report discussed how
the office of San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis’ has declined
to prosecute a person of interest in a rape case, the Raw Story blog reported.
The sexual assault case involved students at San Diego State
University . (Someone will
be fired for not knowing the difference between Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.
--TH)
Very Important: Demographic Trends Forecast Next
Phases for China , India , and the United States
Excerpt: The U.S. fertility rate is just at
the level that presages natural replacement in the long run, before immigration
is factored in (see Figure 3). Israel is the only country
among the world’s affluent nations whose fertility rate is more than high
enough to reproduce its population. All other rich countries will experience
inevitable declines in their native cohorts if current fertility rates continue.
Moreover, because these rich states have had below-replacement fertility rates
for well over a generation, the size of their child-bearing cohort has been
correspondingly reduced, which means that even a return to relatively high
fertility rates is unlikely to restore native population levels anytime soon.
(Europe and America
will still be here in 50 years, but they will no longer resemble at all western
civilization as we have known it, and as hundreds of millions of folks have
benefited from in freedom from want, freedom from oppression and longevity.
~Bob)
Worth Reading :
: The Age of
Uncertainty: A 22-year-old can go from raising children to
being a child by crossing the street onto a college campus. By Kevin D.
Williamson
Excerpt: ‘If students want to learn biology and art history
in an environment where they needn’t worry about being offended or raped, why
shouldn’t they?” It takes a certain sort of academic mind to write that
sentence — as though being offended and being raped were in
the same continuum of experiences — and Eric
Posner of the University of Chicago Law School has just such a mind. Professor
Posner, taking a very broad view of universities’ obligation to act in loco
parentis on behalf of college students who are, in his view, still children,
argues in Slate that campus speech codes and micromanagerial rules of
student conduct are desirable inasmuch as college-age people cannot be trusted
to behave like adults: (I was 21 when I came home from Vietnam, 22 when I
started college, 26 when first elected to the state senate and 34 when I earned
my master's degree going nights. and, BTW, it's only prohibited to offend
certain people on campus. offending Christians, Jews, conservatives, hunters,
rural people or mountain folk is perfectly acceptable. ~Bob)
Obama's day: Return
from California
Excerpt: President Obama is spending most of Monday's
Presidents Day in sunny California
before returning to the White House. Obama, who spent a golfing weekend in the Palm Springs area, isn't scheduled to leave California until around
1:25 p.m., West Coast time. (If the Islamic State has any members who are
caddies, our president will find them. -- Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt)
Excerpt: Three news items which you may have missed last
week, what with everything going on in Ukraine
and Syria .
First, Greece ostentatiously
disavowed an EU communiqué that criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin’s
support for the Donetsk
rebels. Second, Cyprus
offered military and naval facilities to Russia . Third, Egypt applied
to join the Eurasian Economic Union. These three snippets are worth pondering,
not least because they help explain what’s going on in Ukraine and Syria
— or help explain, at any rate, why bands of militiamen from Donetsk
to Damascus feel they can breezily take on the United States .
Let’s consider them in turn.
Excerpt: I thought we were done with Brian Williams; he’s
been suspended and “real news” has ended…for those in
liberal fantasyland. Yet, there’s one more incident that’s even more absurd
than the “RPG-hitting-my-Chinook”
story, which never actually happened. The embattled anchor claims that in 2003,
he flew into Baghdad with Seal Team Six–the guys who killed Osama bin Laden
(via CNN):
... CNN analyst Peter Bergen said on "Anderson Cooper 360" that he
was told by sources in the Seal community that it would be impossible for
Williams to have ever traveled with Seal Team 6. "We do not embed
journalists with any elements of that unit ... bottom line -- no," one
Special Operations Command official said.
Gun News
ATF Aims to Ban
Popular AR-15 Ammo
Excerpt: The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
Explosives issued a white
paper to determine whether certain ammunition is “primarily intended
for sporting purposes.” At issue is 5.56mm M855 ammo, which is considered
“armor piercing,” and therefore the ATF says it’s of questionable merit for the
average citizen. The ATF will accept comments until March 16, but, if the
bureau carries through as it intends, the net effect would be a ban on one of
the most common and affordable types of military surplus AR-15 ammo.
("Step by step, row by row, going to make your Second Amendment
go..." ~Bob)
Homeowner who used a
gun to stop a burglar breaks his silence
Excerpt: Rodriguez had reason to feel threatened. We tracked
eight previous home burglaries near his west mistletoe avenue home. He says he
grabbed his 9mm Smith and Wesson to stop the intruder in his
tracks. "I practice at the range doing five shot bursts and lucky for
him I only shot twice." He then used his cell phone to dial 911. When
officers arrived 35-year old Rudy Perez was taken to the hospital and
eventually charged with burglary.
Bloomberg to Aspen Institute: Don’t Distribute The Footage
Where I Said Let’s Take Guns Away From Minorities. By Matt Vespa
Excerpt: Three-term New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is
asking the Aspen Institute not to distribute footage from his appearance last
week, which included remarks about minorities and gun control. Both Aspen and Grassroots TV,
who recorded the event, are going to honor the former Mayor of New York’s
wishes... (Since he's a liberal, there will be no blowback from Obama, Sharpton
or Jackson. ~Bob)
Race Card News
As Predicted: Big League Kids, Little League Adults
Excerpt: Enter those with no integrity at all: “Is this
about boundaries or race?” wondered professional agitator Jessie Jackson. “This
decision’s untimely and inappropriate at this time,” Jackson added. “It should not take six months
after a team has played a championship game to determine eligibility to play
the game in the first place.” (okay, it doesn't make me a genius to have
predicted Jackson 's
remarks. the race baiters ALWAYS cry racism where they can find a black victim
and a white perpetrator. Since the vast majority of black victims are
victimized by other blacks, where there is no money to be made protesting, they
have to look extra hard to find racism. probably looking for a little league
payoff, as he does with corporations. Just as he blackmailed bud into making
his [now convicted felon] son rich with a beer distributorship. ~Bob)
Reflections during
Black History Month: How Government Policy Affects Quality, Affordable Housing
Excerpt: In honor of black history month, the NCPA has
compiled a list of well-intentioned government policies that have actually hurt
black Americans. Consider what government has done to limit the supply and
available of affordable, quality housing:
Obamacare/Government Healthcare News
http://godfatherpolitics.com/20416/sp-says-obamacare-state-co-ops-underwater/
Excerpt: Others are touting that Obamacare must cover
pre-existing conditions, but they fail to mention the high premium costs that
come with that coverage. Due to my diabetes and high blood pressure along with
my wife’s irregular heartbeat, a cheap bronze plan which would only pay 60% of
our medical costs after we paid our $4,000 deductible would cost us $816 a
month. That’s a house payment and far more than we can afford, hence we will
pay the mandated fines for being uninsured.
Worth reading: Sorry Dartmouth,
Geographic Variation in Medical Procedure Rates is Not Unique to the U.S.
By Linda Gorman
Excerpt: The Dartmouth Institute maintains that large
variation in the use of various medical procedures demonstrates the
inefficiency inherent in the way that the U.S. health care system is
organized. The mere fact that variation exists also means that the U.S. system is
inequitable. If procedure rates vary, some people have too little access to
medicine while others have too much. ... If one believes these claims, then the
solution to U.S.
health care spending is to remove decision making power from individual
patients and physicians. Instead, government should have the power to forcibly
equalize treatment and resource use everywhere in the country. Fortunately, a
large amount of evidence suggests that the Dartmouth Institute interpretation
leaves much to be desired and that it is possible that government control is
more likely to be the problem than the solution.
Undocumented Democrat News
Boehner: House ‘Has
Done Its Job,’ Homeland Security Funding Up to Senate Democrats
Excerpt: During an appearance on “Fox News
Sunday,” Boehner, R-Ohio, said he is “certainly” prepared to allow the
agency to shut down because Senate Democrats “would be to blame.” The
Homeland Security funding bill passed by the House on Jan. 14 also includes
language undoing the president’s executive actions on immigration. Senate
Democrats say they want a “clean” funding bill that doesn’t defund Obama’s
orders. (Hard for Congress to stand firm when the media is shilling for the
President with the low-information voters. ~Bob)
"You're Greener than Gore" News
Schadenfreude: It’s Too Cold To Protest Global
Warming At Yale
Excerpt: Yale anti-fossil fuel campaigners have indefinitely
postponed a protest that was set for this weekend due to “unfavorable weather
conditions and other logistical issues.” Fossil Free Yale, a group pushing the
university to divest itself from fossil fuels, told
the Yale Daily News that frigid, snowy weather set for this weekend
will mean their global warming protest will have to be postponed.
Interesting: Kitzhaber and the
Greedy Greens: Energy isn’t the only thing that’s green when
you’re pushing the clean-energy agenda. By John Fund
Excerpt: If oil companies and pharmaceutical concerns
shouldn’t exercise undue influence in government, the same is true for green
energy — which can’t yet survive in the marketplace without giant subsidies or
special tax favors. While Hayes was living in the governor’s mansion with the
self-bestowed title of “Oregon ’s
First Lady,” she collected a
series of consulting contracts and “fellowship” money from people with an
interest in shaping state energy and environmental policy. She then ordered
state employees to help run her private business and take actions in accord
with the wishes of the green-energy groups that were paying her.
EPA’s mercury rules:
Dumb and dumber. By Pat Michaels
Excerpt: This year, the Supreme Court is going to review the
Environmental Protection Agency’s outrageous rules for mercury emissions from
power plants, and hopefully SCOTUS will see through the Agency’s patently
absurd reasoning. The EPA’s mercury rule is yet another example of the Obama
administration’s extreme bending of the law in service of its perseveration on
global warming. In this case, the point of regulating mercury emissions—which
are miniscule—is to further the administration’s goal of shutting down every
coal-fired power plant in the country, even though they currently supply about
40 percent of our electricity.
Delaying Keystone
Means More Carbon Emissions
Excerpt: The Keystone XL pipeline bill is heading to the
president's desk for his signature -- or his veto. Doug Hochberg and Sang Kim
of the American Action Forum have broken down the numbers on the Keystone
delay. The result? Higher carbon dioxide emissions and fewer jobs. ... Much
opposition to the pipeline has centered on environmental objections, despite
that the president's own State Department has indicated the pipeline would
have no
impact on carbon pollution. As long as the project is delayed (thus
requiring oil transport via rail car), 7.4 million additional tons of carbon
dioxide will be released into the atmosphere.
Religion of Peace News
Excerpt: The Islamic State terror group released a video on
Sunday showing the Islamic jihadis beheading 21 Egyptian Christians who
were previously kidnapped in Libya .
The Egyptian Copts, who were dressed in prisoner-like orange jump suits, were
lined up along a beach and abruptly beheaded in the graphic five-minute video.
Excerpt: One of the Islamic State's so-called
"provinces" in Libya
claims to have captured the town of Nawfaliyah .
The group has released a photo set showing a large convoy entering the town.
The military-style parade likely took place earlier this month. One of the
photos can be seen above and the rest are at the end of this article. In
addition to the jihadists' purported gains in Nawfaliyah, the organization's
fighters seized several key buildings, including radio and
television stations, in the city of Sirte .
Separate photos posted on social media show the Islamic State's province
broadcasting propaganda from one of the captured media facilities. The WAL
News Agency in Libya
reports that the radio station has been broadcasting a speech by Abu Muhammad
al Adnani, the Islamic State's spokesman.
Egyptian, Libyan
airstrikes on ISIS targets in Libya after terrorists behead 21 Copts
Excerpt: Egypt ’s
Air Force has hit Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) positions in Derna , Libya ,
after the execution of 21 Christian Egyptians by the terrorist group. Libyan
forces loyal to the authorities have also targeted the IS in the country, a
commander said. Up to 50 militants have been killed in the airstrikes on Libya , Egyptian
state TV reported. Egypt’s military has issued a televised statement,
confirming the dawn strikes and stating that the attacks targeted IS camps,
training sites and weapons storage locations in Libya, Reuters reported. (Obama issue his usual statement that
terror is bad, but al-Sisi bombed the crap out of the bad guys in Libya who
killed the Copts. BTW, Putin got a warm reception in Cairo ,
where Russia
is building 4 new nuke power plants. The more the Western oligarchs sanction Russia , the more they push Russia into the
arms of Eastern countries and lucrative trade deals in currencies other
than the dollar. Meanwhile, Europe goes it alone in negotiations with Russia while Obama stays home and China , the
world's no. 1 economy, shows whole hearted financial support for Putin.
Who is really being isolated? --Don)
Shots fired at Copenhagen synagogue:
Danish police
Excerpt: One person was shot in the head and two police were
wounded in an attack on a synagogue in central Copenhagen , Danish police said, ...
Good News: Danish police kill gunman believed behind
2 shootings
Excerpt: Police in Copenhagen killed a gunman early Sunday
they believe was responsible for a pair of deadly attacks just hours earlier,
the first at a cafe hosting a forum on free speech and the second outside a
synagogue where a bar mitzvah was underway. The killings, with their eerie echo
of last month’s terrorist attacks in Paris , had
sent Denmark ’s capital into
lockdown and had prompted a massive manhunt that extended across the border
into Sweden .
In all, the attacks left two people dead and five police officers injured.
(More "random" killings, Mr. President? ~Bob)
Hundreds of tombs
defaced in French Jewish cemetery: minister
Excerpt: France 's
interior minister said Sunday several hundred tombs had been defaced at a
Jewish cemetery in the northeast of the country, in what he called "a
despicable act". "The country will not tolerate this new injury which
goes against the values that all French people share," said Bernard
Cazeneuve of the incident in the town of Sarre-Union
in the Alsace
region.
Tweet from Wisdom for Women @wisdomforwomen
More Women fly F-16’s in Israel
than drive cars in Saudi
Arabia .
Livni and Herzog’s delusions about 'peace.' While the Middle East is burning around us, the center-left political camp is still trying to convince Israeli voters that
Excerpt: If these terrorists could do this to a fellow
Arab-Muslim, imagine what Islamic Jihadists like Iran , Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic
Jihad and Fatah would do to the Jewish state. But despite this harsh, horrific
reality in the Middle East .
Backlash After
Students at South
African University
Demand Jews De-register
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0215/demands_jews_de-register.php3
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0215/demands_jews_de-register.php3
Michelle Takes Swipe
At American Sniper: Criticizes Chris Kyle’s Sex In Military Movie, ‘It’s Always
a HE’
Excerpt: First Lady Michelle Obama joined critics
of American Sniper, taking issue with the gender of the main character --
even though the story revolves around the real-life exploits of Navy SEAL
sniper Chris Kyle. "Of course, it’s always a 'he.' We sort of forget about
the 1.5 million women veterans who have served in uniform," she said. (I
look forward to the Obama girls serving and graduating from sniper school.
~Bob)
FLASHBACK: Check Out
Reagan’s Response to Terrorism Compared to Obama’s
Excerpt:
Times sure have changed, haven’t they? Both President Reagan
and President Obama had to deal with terrorist actions during their time in
office, but their responses couldn’t be more different
Westerners join Iraqi
Christian militia to fight Islamic State
Excerpt: Thousands of foreigners have flocked to Iraq and
Syria in the past two years, mostly to join Islamic State, but a handful of
idealistic Westerners are enlisting as well, citing frustration their
governments are not doing more to combat the ultra-radical Islamists or prevent
the suffering of innocents. The militia they joined is called Dwekh Nawsha –
meaning self-sacrifice in the ancient Aramaic language spoken by Christ and
still used by Assyrian Christians, who consider themselves the indigenous
people of Iraq .
Video: ISIS Suicide
Bomber Was Set to Go Out with a Bang. But He Wasn’t Expecting It to Happen Like
This.
Excerpt: This week, eight suicide bombers were killed by
U.S. Marine trained-Iraqi Security Forces when they tried to infiltrate Ayn-Al
Asad Air Base in Iraq .
In a new video, shared by the Kurdistan Regional Government another potential attack
doesn’t go as planned for Daesh.
Interesting: The anatomy of a failed hostage rescue
deep in Islamic State territory
Excerpt: Yet the commandos who rushed through gunfire into
the makeshift prison found only half-eaten meals and a wisp of hair. The
hostages had been there. But they were gone. ... But some of those who worked
on the rescue mission say they believe the White House itself is at least
partly to blame for the failure. They charge that there were delays in bringing
the plan to Obama’s desk, and that, as a result, the rescuers missed the
hostages by a matter of days, or even hours. (A decision delayed is a decision
made. ~Bob)
Why the (Toothless) Iran Sanctions
Bill Matters. By Daniel Pipes
Excerpts: Nearly all the 54 Republican U.S. senators will vote in favor of the Kirk-Menendez
bill requiring sanctions on Iran
if the P5+1 negotiations fail. President Obama has promised to veto it. Now,
the senate is gearing up for a high-drama vote; will Democrats provide the 13
to 15 votes needed for a veto-proof majority? Lost in the shuffle is a
little-noticed section of the bill that, if passed, guts it.
Muslim school
graduation ceremony cancelled over radical speakers
Excerpt: A graduation ceremony for a private Muslim school
was cancelled Saturday due to the radical views of two guest speakers, the mayor
said. The Academy of North American Sharia had planned to have Salah
Alsawy and Omar Shahin speak at the ceremony, which was to be held in the Montreal suburb of Outremont .
The Real War on Women: Isis
chops off women's hands 'for using mobile phones' in northern Iraqi city of Mosul . Five men were also
flogged for using mobile phones. By Vasudevan
Sridharan
Excerpt: "Today evening, the IS militants cut three
women's hands off for unknown charges," an anonymous source in the Nineveh
province told the Iraqi News, while later reports suggested they were
punished for using mobile phones. The source added: "They also whipped
five people for using cell-phones to contact their relatives while standing on
the celebration stage in the Cultural Compound in central Mosul ."
Life under Isis in Raqqa: The city where smoking a cigarette could
see you publicly flogged, imprisoned and even decapitated
Excerpt: The group enforces a strict interpretation of Islam
in areas in Syria and Iraq under its
self-declared 'caliphate'. Some ultraconservative versions of Sharia denounce
the habit as harmful and therefore haram (forbidden).
UT-Arlington student
admits making up claim that gunman followed her to campus, threatened her
Excerpt: The student also posted on social media that the
man might have targeted her because she is Muslim. In a Facebook post, she
referred to the killings of three Muslim students this week in Chapel Hill , N.C.
Excerpt: Suspected Boko Haram militants attacked a village
on the shore of Lake Chad early Friday, marking the
first such violence against the neighbor contributing the most military might
to the regional fight against the Nigeria-based terror group.
The Iran Axis
Strikes Back in Golan Region. By Jonathan Spyer
Excerpt: A force consisting of Hezbollah fighters, Iranian
Revolutionary Guards and Syrian regime soldiers launched an offensive this week southwest of Damascus , in the direction of Quneitra province and the Golan Heights . Their aim is to regain territory lost to
Syrian rebels and jihadis over the past year, and to establish a strong
defensive line before the capital.
Tweet from Meta World Data @Pqlyur1
Wow. We dropped 8 whole bombs on ISIS
in the last 24 hours. How will they be able to withstand that kind of shock and
awe?
US embassy issues
alert after report of Lunar New Year terror plot in Kunming
Excerpt: The US
embassy in Beijing says it is aware of
unspecified media reports that terrorists are planning an attack in Kunming , Yunnan ,
over the Lunar New Year period. A source close to China's domestic security
apparatus told the Post terrorists were planning to retaliate against
Beijing's recent attempts to hunt down Uygurs from Xinjiang who fled to
Indonesia and Malaysia.
Pope Francis
Denounces ISIS Slaughter: ‘Their Blood
Confesses Christ’
Excerpt: This
morning, Pope Francis condemned the brutal slaying of 21 Coptic Christians
perpetrated by ISIS in Libya
over the weekend, proclaiming them martyrs killed out of hatred of their
Christian faith. (Will the people protesting the murder of three innocent
Muslim students in NC by a left-wing atheist over a parking dispute protest
this? Or don't #ChristianLivesMatter? ~Bob)
The Political Left’s
Marriage to the Islamic Jihad
http://blog.understandingthethreat.com/2015/02/16/the-political-lefts-marriage-to-the-islamic-jihad/
Excerpt: This is the first of a four (4) part series on the
long historical relationship between the political left/Progressives and the
global Jihadi Movement over the last century and its current culmination in the
attempt to bring down Western civilization in general, and the United States
specifically. In this first edition, we will review the general history of the
relationship between the Left and the Islamic Jihad movement, and the disconnect
from reality that must take place for the Left to believe the leaders of any
totalitarian movement will allow them to survive despite a hundred years
of history to the contrary.
US Air Strike Filmed
By ISIS Fighter in Iraq - ISIS Artillery Cannon Struck
Just gone! ~Bob
*****
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://www.amazon.com/Coming-Collapse-American-Republic-prevent/dp/1461122538/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1304815980&sr=1-5
For a free PDF of Collapse, e-mail him at tartanmarine(at)gmail.com. Hall’s
eleven books are listed here:
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2010/07/new-book-published.html.
His blog of political news and conservative comment is www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com.
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