Update
Remember if you are blocked getting to a posted article,
that a Google search of the title will often find it. ~Bob
General News and Comment
Excerpt: The effective kickoff of Hillary Clinton’s
presidential campaign was an act of deck-clearing so breathtaking, so brazen,
that it remains difficult to process. The former secretary of state summoned reporters to the United Nations, made
a statement on Iran
nuclear negotiations, then admitted deleting more than 30,000 e-mails she had
deemed personal from the account she exclusively used while in office. This was
the culmination of a deliberate, multiyear end run around congressional
oversight, the Freedom of Information Act and the archiving of federal records.
Documents she found inconvenient to sort while in government were convenient to
destroy after leaving office.
Hillary Clinton e-mail saga actually won the government an
award. By Al Kamen
Excerpt: Hillary Clinton’s assertion that
any e-mails she sent on her personal account to State Department officials
were saved by the agency’s e-mail system alas was undercut by an inspector
general’s recent finding that
the department’s e-mail archiving system actually was not capable of doing so. So
seems only fitting that the nonprofit National Security Archive announced Wednesday night that
it has awarded its annual Rosemary Award to the Federal Chief Information
Officers Council — the top officials in charge of the government’s
$80 billion IT purchases — for the “worst open government performance” in
2014. The council got the nonprofit’s highest honor as a result of the
government’s persistent failure to save its e-mails.
Excerpt: On the first Tuesday in December, 2012,
Barack Obama hosted an afternoon soiree at the White House. His guests? The
entire news staff of MSNBC and The Huffington Post. Like so many times in his
Presidency, Obama believed he was getting a raw deal from the press and was
sinking in the polls. So he called in his "unofficial Pravda", The
Huffington crowd and the "tingle down my leg" crowd at MSNBC. Rachel
Maddow was in attendance, as was "tingling Chris Matthews", Ed
(Erectile Dysfunction) Schultz, Al Sharpton and the rest of Obama's slobbering
adorers. The meeting was intended to be clandestine but Ed Schultz, so
delighted to be in the presence of the anointed one, began tweeting about the
meeting as soon as he exited the White House gates. Obama's Press Secretary was
forced to confirm this unscheduled visit at a press conference the next day.
Forbidden 'Diversity' at The New York Times. By Brent Bozell
Excerpt: In an interview, Times editorial page editor Andrew
Rosenthal claimed, "We were looking for a broad range of viewpoints and
subjects and backgrounds and geographical locations and every kind of form of
diversity that you can think of." Lower the trumpets. Bring in the fact checker.
It seems the viewpoint-diverse Times can't seem to locate a conservative
acceptable to executives prowling the halls in the snooty Times offices in
midtown Manhattan .
The Coming Chinese
Crackup. The endgame of communist rule in China
Excerpt: Despite appearances, China ’s political system is badly
broken, and nobody knows it better than the Communist Party itself. China ’s
strongman leader, Xi Jinping, is hoping that a crackdown on dissent and
corruption will shore up the party’s rule. He is determined to avoid becoming
the Mikhail Gorbachev of China ,
presiding over the party’s collapse. But instead of being the antithesis of Mr.
Gorbachev, Mr. Xi may well wind up having the same effect. His despotism is
severely stressing China ’s
system and society—and bringing it closer to a breaking point. Predicting the
demise of authoritarian regimes is a risky business. Few Western experts
forecast the collapse of the Soviet Union
before it occurred in 1991; the CIA missed it entirely. (Wow, I find this truly
fascinating! But I still have huge reservations about the Party ever letting go
of any real power, no matter what happens. They can always bring in a Division
from outside, as they did for Tiananmen Square ,
and wipe out any and all that might even be thought to be in the way of
continued dominance by the upper crust. --Del )
Hillary Clinton
Wants to Send Citizens to Camps—Fun Camps! Politician famous for
humorlessness says we have a "fun deficit." By Scott Shackford
Excerpt: So Clinton
hands over to us all to consider the idea of a progressive sending adults to
camps, and the idea of a politician infamous for being humorless and suspicious
being an arbiter of "fun," wrapped in a great big bow.
Important: Clinton
Excerpt: Some donors have direct ties to foreign
governments. One is a member of the Saudi royal family. Another is a Ukrainian
oligarch and former parliamentarian. Others are individuals with close
connections to foreign governments that stem from their business activities.
Their professed policy interests range from human rights to U.S.-Cuba
relations.
All told, more than a dozen foreign individuals and their
foundations and companies were large donors to the Clinton Foundation in the
years after Mrs. Clinton became secretary of state in 2009, collectively giving
between $34 million and $68 million, foundation records show. Some donors also
provided funding directly to charitable projects sponsored by the foundation,
valued by the organization at $60 million. (The Clinton Foundation is Bill and
Hillary's "Fun Camp," paying for perks like first class travel for
them. ~Bob)
Black Protesters: [VIDEO] Protest Outside Hillary’s
Office Over ‘Billions Stolen’ by Clinton
http://americanactionnews.com/articles/video-protest-outside-hillary-s-office-over-billions-stolen-by-clinton-foundation
Quote From The Patriot Post
"The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the
support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body. It is
the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A
degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and
constitution." --Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, Query XIX, 1782
(revered as the founder of the Democrat party--not that they follow any of his
principles. ~Bob)
Gun News
Access, Denied: More
Gun Sellers Blocked From Financial Sector. By Kelsey Harkness
Excerpt: After serving multiple deployments overseas with
the U.S. Army Special Forces, Josh Burns began building his own rifles at home.
In Sept. 2013, he and his wife Felicia, who also served in the military,
decided they would make a business out of selling guns. “This is his hobby that
[Josh] masks as a business so he can play with guns,” Felicia told The Daily
Signal recently while setting up their stand at the New
Orleans Area Gun and Knife Show.
But starting their small business, Apocalypse Sports in
Ponchatoula , La.
What they found, is that because they sell guns, payment
processors did not want to do business with them. (This is not complicated. By
including those who sell firearms in the list that includes get-rich-quick
schemes, payday loans, and on-line gambling, the DOJ bureaucrats exercised PC
bias to make it more difficult for honest people to start and run businesses. The
regulations that every gun seller must meet in any state guarantee it cannot be
anything like payday loans and other fly by night businesses, in fact, they are
more secure than the average hardware store. Putting them on that list was
indefensible, and just one more example of how the authority of the DOJ has
been misused consistently under Erick Holder and his team of ultraliberals. If
a Right Wing AG had pulled anything like this, the media would have been on it
like white on rice, but of course, the bias of the media is not worth discussing
either. --Del. If the list can be used to support political agendas, a GOP
president could put abortion clinics on it. ~Bob)
Race Card News
How we made SAE the
most diverse frat in our Texas
Excerpt: Of all the fraternities that have been embroiled in controversy in recent days, it seems none have
developed a worse reputation than ours: Sigma Alpha Epsilon. In the wake of a
video released earlier this month showing members of the University of Oklahoma
chapter chanting a racially insensitive and deeply offensive song,
SAE has been widely characterized as a racist, white institution grounded in a Confederate history. But a two-hour drive
away from where that video was shot, there’s a chapter of SAE that turns that
image on its head. At a college just over the Texas border, Sigma Alpha Epsilon is known
as the most diverse frat on campus. It’s the frat that welcomes both
foreign students and Texas
natives, that recruits both athletes and music majors. We know this version of
SAE exists because we founded it.
Worth Reading
http://lastresistance.com/10666/espns-stephen-a-smith-damaged-democrat-myths/
http://lastresistance.com/10666/espns-stephen-a-smith-damaged-democrat-myths/
Excerpt: According to Politifact, the Civil Rights Act of
1964 passed the House 290-130, with 61% Democratic support and 80% Republican
support. When it was passed in the Senate, following a two-month filibuster led
by Democrats Russell, Thurmond, Ervin, Byrd, and Fulbright, it passed with 69%
Democratic support and 82% Republican support. President Lyndon Johnson signed
the bill into law, and so the myth was made that Democrats were primary
supporters of civil rights legislation, while Republicans were opponents. When
the Voting Rights Act passed the next year, the results were similar, with more
Republican support in both Chambers.
Come for the Coffee, Stay for the Race Conversation. By
Jonah Goldberg
Excerpt: It’s ironic. The Obama years were supposed to usher
in an era of racial harmony. That didn’t happen — which presumably is why
Schultz feels the need to help mend our racial wounds. What has happened,
however, is that hordes of college graduates, unable to find jobs suitable to
their degrees, have ended up toiling away at places like Starbucks. It’s kind
of ingenious. Since sociology majors can’t find relevant jobs, Schultz is
making the jobs they have relevant to their majors. If this becomes a trend,
maybe my dog walkers will start reciting Proust in French on their perambulations.
(Dennis Miller just commented that instead of ordering black coffee, you now
have to order un-creamed coffee. --DG)
Why Aren't There
Starbucks in These Majority Black Cities? By Gary
http://godfatherpolitics.com/21163/why-no-starbucks-in-these-majority-black-cities/
http://godfatherpolitics.com/21163/why-no-starbucks-in-these-majority-black-cities/
Excerpt: Places like Highland Park,
Michigan , which is at the center of Detroit , is inhabited by
a population that is 94 percent African-American. Or in Benton Harbor,
Michigan , which is almost 90 percent
African-American. There is not a Starbucks in either town. There is not a
Starbucks in East St. Louis,
Illinois, in which 98 percent of the population is African-American.
Nor is there one in Gary, Indiana,
whose population is 85 percent African-American.
Twenty Blacks Victimized in Shootings
Excerpt: You’ve probably heard about the 20 black victims in
numerous shootings between Sunday afternoon and Monday morning. The violence
helped propagate the “hands up, don’t shoot” narrative and further riled Barack
Obama, Eric Holder and their co-conspirators in the Leftmedia, all of whom
raised alarm over the recent deaths of blacks involving white police officers.
Well, the first part is true anyway – though you’d be forgiven for having no
idea what we’re talking about. The shootings, all of which took place during a
24-hour period, bloodied the streets of Chicago
but were largely absent from the headlines. Obama hasn’t said a word about
these deaths, probably because it was black-on-black crime, which doesn’t
translate into political constituency race-bait like a good cop killing a
street thug does. Here’s what we know about Chicago murder rates from the latest year of
data: The black murder rate was approximately 34 per 100,000, the Hispanic rate
was 11 per 100,000, and the white rate 3 per 100,000. Translation: This isn’t a
“gun problem”; it’s a young black male problem.
Police Brutality
Of all the news accounts of police brutality, protests, and
riots taking place, I have yet to hear anyone mention the following advice. If
you haven't done anything wrong and the police contact you for some reason,
comply with their requests. It doesn't matter who you are. If you run, disobey
commands, or fight with them you are asking for trouble. Read your blogs on a
regular basis and think they are enlightening. --Another old Marine. (A black
Marine buddy, who saw a lot of combat in Vietnam , sys, "If a cop says
stop, you stop. if you don't stop, what happens next is on you." ~Bob)
Undocumented Democrat News
Federal Judge Admonished DOJ Over Apparent Deception: 'I
Was Made to Look like an Idiot.' By Ildefonzo Ortiz
Excerpt: The U.S. Government lied to a federal judge,
misrepresented facts and illegally gave 100,081 illegal aliens immigration
status despite a pending lawsuit and an injunction. That is the argument that
attorneys representing Texas
and more than two dozen other states made.
During the heated court hearing Andrew Hanen, a U.S.
District Court Judge, said that the apparent violation had made him look like
an idiot since he initially believed the U.S. Government.
Religion of Peace News
Excerpt: Former Chief of the Joint Chiefs, retired Admiral
Michael Mullen told Chuck Todd on Meet the Press that he fears Iran much more
than the Islamic State. "It's an incredibly complex country that we don't
know very well. We've had no relations with them for more than 35 years.
There's a complexity inside that country that is represented by enormous
tension" between President Hassan Rouhani and Supreme Leader
Ali HosseiniKhameini. Mullen identified Khameini as the leader
of the “ideological” faction that controls Iran ’s military and judiciary.
Why I believe Iran
Excerpt: My belief is that the Iranian government cannot be
trusted and is based upon my personal experiences in
the Middle East . Simply put, as long as Iran legitimizes
state-sponsored terrorism, publicly states that Israel has
no right to exist, and continues to develop delivery systems that can
target Israel (as well as its regional neighbors) that it cannot
be trusted to negotiate, in good faith, an agreement to give up its quest for a
nuclear arsenal. The conduct of this authoritarian theocracy has not changed
since November of 1979 when the newly established Islamic Republic
of Iran allowed the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and held 52
American hostages for 444 days. Only months later, in the fall of 1980, I was
deployed off the coast of Iran as
a rifle platoon commander in a battalion landing team, prepared to deal with
Iranian threats to shut down shipping lanes in the Strait of Hormuz.
Excerpt: Suspected for years of plotting to dismantle the U.S. electric
grid, American officials have confirmed that Iranian military brass have
endorsed a nuclear electromagnetic pulse explosion that would attack the
country's power system.
American defense experts made the discovery while
translating a secret Iranian military handbook, raising new concerns about Tehran 's recent nuclear
talks with the administration.
Worth Reading
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/krauthammer032015.php3
Excerpt: The fundamental reality remains: This generation of
Palestinian leadership — from Yasser Arafat to Mahmoud Abbas — has never and
will never sign its name to a final peace settlement dividing the land with a
Jewish state. And without that, no Israeli government of any kind will agree to
a Palestinian state. Today, however, there is a second reason a peace agreement
is impossible: the supreme instability of the entire Middle
East . For half a century, it was run by dictators no one liked but
with whom you could do business. For example, the 1974 Israel-Syria
disengagement agreement yielded more than four decades of near-total quiet on
the border because the Assad dictatorships so decreed. That authoritarian order
is gone, overthrown by the Arab Spring.
Excerpt: Secretary of State John Kerry has long been an
admirer of Bashar Assad. He absurdly characterized Assad as “a man who wants change” and advocated the return of Israel ’s strategic Golan
Heights to the Syrian dictator. Of course, had Israel heeded Kerry’s advice, ISIS, Hezbollah or
Iran or perhaps all three
would today be swimming in Israel ’s
Sea of Galilee . In February 2009, in a
sickening display of corrupt morals or lack of scruples, or perhaps both, Kerry
was photographed having an intimate dinner with Assad and his wife. In 2011, the
year that Assad commenced genocide against his people, he described the
autocrat as a “very generous” man. Kerry hasn’t lost a step since
that time.
"Pro-Reform
Islamism" in Turkey
Excerpt: When formerly militant Islamists reflagged
themselves as pro-European Union reformists and came to power in Turkey in 2002,
they launched a propaganda campaign to send one single message to liberal Turks
and a suspicious West: "Don't be afraid. We are here to broaden civil
liberties." They were right, at least partially: They were there to
broaden civil liberties -- but for devout Muslims only.
Un-Islamic? Apostasy under Kelantan’s hudud carries
the death penalty
Excerpt: The hudud bill to be tabled by Parti Islam
Se-Malaysia (PAS) before the Kelantan State Assembly prescribes the death
penalty for the offence of apostasy, the Malay Mail Online reports today. (If
this passes, will Obama and Kerry declare Malaysia , the largest Muslim
country, un-Islamic? ~Bob)
Muslim cleric in
fresh July 2010 terror charges
Excerpt: Muslim cleric Sheikh Ismael Kalule, in and out of
prison on charges of purported terrorism, has again been charged afresh over
the July 11, 2010 twin terror bombings of Lugogo and Ethiopian
Village in Kampala . ...
A total of 76 people perished in the two incidents that occurred at
Kyadondo Rugby Club and the Ethiopian Village Restaurant.
Afghan woman set
ablaze by mob for burning Koran
Excerpt: A woman who reportedly burned a copy of the Koran inside
a riverside shrine in the Afghan capital was surrounded by an angry crowd, set
ablaze and dumped into the chilly waters Thursday evening in a startling act of
mob violence. The parents of the 32-year-old woman, who died in the attack,
told authorities her name was Farkhunda and that she suffered from mental
illness, said Farid Afzal, head of investigations for Kabul police.
Worth Reading : Marco Rubio Recounts The History of Obama’s Treatment of Israel
Excerpt: There are three central and related themes to the
Obama Administration’s foreign policy. First is a persistent refusal to draw
distinctions between U.S.
allies and U.S.
enemies. Second, which follows logically from the first, is something akin to
an allergy to pursuing American victories that result in the defeat of our
enemies. And third is the striking contrast this approach presents to President
Obama’s Manichean rhetoric and hardball negotiating tactics directed at his
domestic political opposition. Those unappealing features were all on display
in the Administration’s petulant response to the re-election of Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who – unlike the Iranian mullahs – is a man Obama
approaches with the enmity he approaches Republicans, and whose re-election
Obama seems to take as a personal rebuke (and which many Israelis
seemed to regard as one) after staging a nasty public, partisan
fight over Netanyahu’s speech to Congress and after Obama’s own campaign
staffers decamped to Israel to help Netanyahu’s opponents.
Why Bibi won? Israelis think Obama interfering in
election, poll finds
Excerpt: Sixty-two percent of respondents said the Obama
administration is interfering, 31% said it is not interfering, and 8% did not
know.
ISIS claims credit
for twin suicide attacks in Yemen
Excerpt: Friday’s suicide bombings during midday prayers at
two mosques in Yemen
that killed more than 100 and injured hundreds more were likely the work of the
Islamic State terror group and not al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP),
Yemeni diplomats told Fox News Friday. (As always, most of the victims of
Allah-murder are fellow Muslims. Nothing more "Islamic." ~Bob)
The Army’s Fort Hood
http://www.wsj.com/articles/kathy-platoni-the-armys-fort-hood-disgrace-1426806479
Excerpt: Excerpt: It was more than five years ago that the gunshots rang out, but those of us who survived can still hear their echoes. On Nov. 5, 2009, an Army psychiatrist named Nidal Hasan—an American radicalized by extremist Islamic beliefs—opened fire on his fellow soldiers inFort Hood ,
Texas Del.
Yes. But when an unarmed white kid was shot dead by a black guy guarding his
neighborhood, the president and media had little to say. Likewise when black
cops kill unarmed white guys. See: "What if
Trayvon Had Been White, and the Shooter Black? By Michael Filozoff. http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/03/what_if_trayvon_had_been_white_and_the_shooter_black.html#ixzz1qBLNnX9L
Excerpt: Excerpt: It was more than five years ago that the gunshots rang out, but those of us who survived can still hear their echoes. On Nov. 5, 2009, an Army psychiatrist named Nidal Hasan—an American radicalized by extremist Islamic beliefs—opened fire on his fellow soldiers in
and "White teen killed by black cop in Alabama mirrors Ferguson "
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/27/white-teen-gilbert-collar-killed-by-black-cop-trev
~Bob)
What Netanyahu’s Victory in Israel
Excerpt: Benjamin Netanyahu has survived a serious political challenge, despite a chorus of
complaints about his leadership style as well as gripes over living costs,
housing prices, and wages. That would be a bigger surprise in countries where
peacetime elections tend to focus on economics. But in Israel ,
“peacetime” is a relative concept, and this is a country with so many active
political parties that winning 30 of 120 seats in parliament allows you to form
a government. How did he do it? First, he recognized that his party needed to
win back the votes of hardliners on the peace process who threatened to stray
toward the far-right parties.
Excerpt: Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu’s triumph in Israel ’s
election this week, so shocking and appalling to the Western press, is many
other things, too. It is a recognition by Israelis of Netanyahu as the Churchill
of our times, a statesman who stands apart from virtually all other Western
leaders who, whether out of cravenness or willful blindedness, downplay the
gathering storm from Iran .
It is a repudiation by Israelis of those same Western leaders, who funded the
“anyone-but-Netanyahu” campaign that tried to install in his place a compliant
Jew to endorse their policies of appeasement.
Palestinians Glorify
Terrorist Responsible for 37 Israeli Deaths
Excerpt: A $655 million judgment levied by an American jury last
month for facilitating terrorist attacks a decade ago apparently did little to
persuade the Palestinian Authority (PA) to stop glorifying terrorists. The PA
recently dedicated a monument in Ramallah to terrorist Dalal Mughrabi, who led
a 1978 bus hijacking attack that killed 37 Israeli civilians, Palestinian Media
Watch (PMW) reports.
*****
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.
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