Update
Jeremiah Pollen, the son of friends of ours, Ashia and Seth,
wearing Ashia's sticker from the election last week. Ashia was one of my nurses at the
VA--terrific nurse, now a terrific mom. I told her the Dems probably voted him
three time, once here and twice in Chicago. ~Bob
General News and Comment
Column in the WSJ Thursday: County's finest puts on
finest for finest judicial pick in Dane
County
Excerpt: You’d think the county’s top cop — an eight-year
elected official — would be scrupulous enough to avoid appearing in uniform and
with a marked sheriff’s office vehicle in campaign
materials for a state Supreme Court justice. You might also think that a legal
mind as keen as one belonging to a Supreme Court justice might dissuade him
from such activity. But maybe this is one of those among-friends deals where
strict adherence to the rules doesn’t apply. Conservative blogger self-identified
Republican Robert Hall, of Madison ,
filed the complaint against Mahoney, a Democrat, last month.
Chief Justice Shirley
Abrahamson sues over amendment approved by voters
http://host.madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/chief-justice-shirley-abrahamson-sues-over-amendment-approved-by-voters/article_e448ebbb-f376-5a40-a2f0-ac0515b31ba3.html
http://host.madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/chief-justice-shirley-abrahamson-sues-over-amendment-approved-by-voters/article_e448ebbb-f376-5a40-a2f0-ac0515b31ba3.html
Excerpt: Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Shirley
Abrahamson filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday to try and hold on to her
leadership spot after voters approved a constitutional amendment that was
likely to result in her demotion. (Can't let the people decide these
things--they're Democrats. ~Bob)
Supreme Court upholds
American flag ban–for Cinco de Mayo
Excerpt: Back on May 5, 2010–Cinco de Mayo–staff members at
Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, California, told several students that
they had to change out of patriotic-colored clothing, because it could incite
violence–apparently from the school’s Hispanic population. Some students
refused–with two even choosing to return home, rather than turn their shirts
inside-out.
Older, Must Hear: Afterburner with Bill Whittle: The
Working Class
In this week's Afterburner, Bill Whittle takes on the
liberal agenda by addressing the underlying assumptions of Juan Williams when
he asked Newt Gingrich this question:
Can Phone Companies Do More to
Block Robocalls?
Excerpt: The Federal Trade
Commission, which goes after businesses for deceptive business practices, say
it receives on average of 150,000 complaints a month on robocalls and has filed
more than 100 lawsuits against violators of the Do Not Call rules. (...) "For
every company we can shut down, there are probably 10 to 100 companies that can
pop up in its place," said Patty Hsue, an FTC staff attorney who leads the
agency's technical initiatives against robocalls. A common example is
"Rachel from Cardholder Services." (A few months ago, there was a
brief and unsatisfying discussion here at TOJ about dealing with
telemarketers. This is a follow-up on that discussion. --Ron P.)
Obama Uses Easter
Prayer Breakfast to Criticize Christians
Excerpt: President Obama took the occasion of the Easter
Prayer Breakfast today to criticize Christians. Appearing to veer off script,
he said slowly, "On Easter, I do reflect on the fact, that as a
Christian, I am supposed to love.” Obama continued: “And I have to say that
sometimes, when I listen to less-than-loving expressions by Christians, I get
concerned.” (Read the comments. --JB)
New Preamble to the
Constitution
Excerpt: The following has been attributed to State
Representative Mitchell Kaye from GA. This guy should run for President one
day... "We the sensible people of the United States, in an attempt to help
everyone get along, restore some semblance of justice, avoid more riots, keep
our nation safe, promote positive behavior, and secure the blessings of
debt-free liberty to ourselves and our great-great-great-grandchildren, hereby
try one more time to ordain and establish
some common sense guidelines for the terminally whiny, guilt ridden,
delusional, and other bed-wetters. We hold these truths to be self evident:
that a whole lot of people are confused by the Bill of Rights and are so dim
they require a Bill of NON-Rights."
Worth Reading
Excerpt: What began as a trickle has become a stream that
could become a cleansing torrent. Criticisms of the over criminalization of American life
might catalyze an appreciation of the toll the administrative state is taking
on the criminal justice system, and liberty generally.
In 2007, professor Tim Wu of Columbia Law School recounted a
game played by some prosecutors. One would name a famous person — “say, Mother
Teresa or John Lennon” — and other prosecutors would try to imagine “a
plausible crime for which to indict him or her,” usually a felony plucked from
“the incredibly broad yet obscure crimes that populate the U.S. Code like a
kind of jurisprudential minefield.” Did the person make “false pretenses on the
high seas”? Is he guilty of “injuring a mailbag”?
Not Just Paul: Paul Blooms As Clinton
Wilts In Colorado , Iowa ,
Virginia , Quinnipiac University
Swing State
Excerpt: Former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's lead is wilting against leading Republican
presidential candidates in three critical swing states, Colorado ,
Iowa and Virginia ,
and she finds herself in a close race with U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky Colorado and almost all Republicans effectively tie her
in Iowa Clinton Colorado and Iowa , while
Virginia
Sneak peek inside
Hillary Clinton 2016: Campaign will avoid first person. By Jeff Zeleny and Dan Merica, CNN
Excerpt: One approach is to avoid blatant suggestions of the
historic nature of her candidacy, hoping to fight impressions that Clinton ’s presidential
aspirations are all about her. (Moroccan-Funded Candidate Preparing to Announce
Bid for President: Hillary and her team won’t be able to resist “blatant
suggestions of the historic nature of her candidacy,” and the media will
trumpet that anyway. “It’s time for a woman” is simple, easy to agree with,
easy to remember, and perhaps most usefully, has very little to do with
her. Don’t focus on what Hillary Clinton has done in her positions of
responsibility, her decision-making honesty, her character, her approach to
governing, or her philosophy, voters! Focus on her gender! -- Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt
Betting on Billary: Moroccan cash flows to Clinton
Excerpt: The Clinton
Foundation is accepting a major donation from a Moroccan
government-owned company to hold a high-profile conference next month in
Marrakech with the king of Morocco — an event likely to reignite concerns about
the foundation’s acceptance of foreign money just as Hillary Clinton prepares to announce her presidential candidacy.
Excerpt: Modern American universities used to assume four
goals.
First, their general education core taught students how to
reason inductively and imparted an aesthetic sense through acquiring knowledge
of Michelangelo, the Battle of Gettysburg, “Medea” and “King Lear,” Beethoven’s
“Ode to Joy,” and astronomy and Euclidean geometry. ... The American
undergraduate university is now failing on all four counts.
The Secret Life of
Barack Obama. By Ben Shapiro
Excerpt: "Delusional dictatorship is a danger to
regional peace. But delusional American leadership is a threat to global peace.
. . . The unicorns still roam free, even if free people live in danger of
chains."
From Rathergate to Rolling Stone: Fake But Accurate.
By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: That scandal led to the coining of the phrase,
“Fake, but Accurate”. Ten years later, they’re still fake but accurate. Rathergate
has many similarities to the Rolling Stone rape hoax. Both ignored the basic
rules of journalism to pursue a narrative. The narrative was so full of holes
that bloggers and even casual readers realized that something was wrong and
stepped in where the professional journalists had failed.
Excerpt: Democrat Lincoln Chafee, who hails from the great
state of Rhode Island , recently announced that
he is forming an exploratory
committee and therefore will likely run for president of the United States .
(Liberal Dem. His father was a moderate Republican and heroic Marine company
commander in Korea .
~Bob)
Is it Sexist to Call Hillary Clinton "Hillary"? By Michael Minkoff
Excerpt: Give me a break. There are so many issues with this
trumped up “problem.” For one, Hillary Clinton herself, or her campaign
managers, used Hillary in pretty much all of her campaign materials.
Remember “Ready for Hillary”? Or just “Hillary 2016”? Yeah.
So don’t blame men for that. Unless her campaign was run by men. Then blame them.
Beyond that, it makes sense to call her Hillary, because another Clinton has already been
president. It’s what happened with
George W. Bush as well. Remember those “W: The President” bumper stickers? That
wasn’t a sign of disrespect. That’s the way we distinguished George W from his
father. (It's starting. The charge of "racism" was used since 2008 to
shield Obama from any disagreement or criticism. Sexism will be used to shield
Billary. ~Bob)
[VIDEO] Scott
Gun News
Suspect shot to death
in Newton County
Excerpt: Witnesses told police that three men and three
women were inside the affected apartment. One of the women left the unit and
encountered Quintavious Reed in a breezeway. Reed forced the woman back inside
the apartment. Investigators said Reed got into a struggle with one of the men
inside the unit. The victim, who had a gun, fatally shot Reed.
Off-duty officer
fires shot during confrontation with burglar
Excerpt: A female Atlanta Police officer pulled her eight
hours and looked forward to going home. But when she arrived at her suburban
residence, she says she quickly realized crime had followed her to her
doorstep. She saw her front door open and
figured she was being burglarized. Within minutes she was involved in a
confrontation and that suspect was shot.
Race Card News
Gee, they noticed: Broken families lead to broken
communities. By Jonetta Rose Barras
Excerpt: Saving males of color has become a cause across America . Even
before President Obama put his imprimatur on the issue, touting his My
Brother’s Keeper initiative and before “Black Lives
Matter” became a movement, nonprofit organizations began researching the
psyche and socioeconomic status of black and Hispanic males. They also had begun
proposing various solutions. (Before the New Deal started the welfare state,
most black kids grew up in two-parent families. That was the case even under
slavery, where families often were torn apart by the slave-holder. [See: The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom,
1750-1925. By Herbert G. Gutman
http://www.amazon.com/Black-Family-Slavery-Freedom-1750-1925/dp/0394724518] Of course, the 1960s changed our
culture, trashing conventional morality and starting the trend towards single
parenthood. A recent study said that only 2% of the kids who grew up in
two-parent families were poor throughout their lives, while 20% of kids from
single-parent families were life-time poor. [See "How Not to Be Poor."
By Blake Bailey
http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba428]
Currently 70% of black babies and 50% of Hispanic babies are non-marital
births. Whites, at 30%, have little reason to feel smug. ~Bob)
Older, but worth reading: How Not to Be Poor. By
Blake Bailey
Excerpt: About 31 million Americans live in households with
incomes below the poverty level,
according to the latest U.S. Census data. Poverty is more than a lack of income.
It is also the consequence of specific behaviors and decisions. The 2001 Census
data clearly show that dropping out of high school, staying single, having
children without a spouse, working only part time or not working at all
substantially increase the chances of long-term poverty. Certain behaviors are
a recipe for success.
Among those who finish high school, get married, have children only within a
marriage and go to work, the odds of long-term poverty are virtually nil.
Video: White
SC
http://www.newsmax.com/US/white-police-officer-charged/2015/04/07/id/637046/
http://www.newsmax.com/US/white-police-officer-charged/2015/04/07/id/637046/
Excerpt: The horrific video that came to light yesterday is
deeply troubling. It is clear the killing of #WalterScott was
unnecessary and avoidable, and my prayers are with the Scott family as they go
through this ordeal. The swift action taken by SLED and the relevant
authorities upon receiving the video shows the severity of this terrible event.
With several protests planned today, I join community leaders in North Charleston in
calling for peace. I understand the hurt, the frustration and the anger many
are feeling today. But violence solves nothing. We must come together as a
community, as a state, and as a nation in working to bring our communities
together and rebuild trust. --Sen. Tim Scott
For Barack Obama,
#BlackLivesMatter Only When They Can Be Used As A Prop
http://lastresistance.com/11030/for-barack-obama-blacklivesmatter-only-when-they-can-be-used-as-a-prop/
http://lastresistance.com/11030/for-barack-obama-blacklivesmatter-only-when-they-can-be-used-as-a-prop/
Excerpt: When the White House released an official statement
about the massacre—the deadliest in Kenya since 1998—it did not mention
the words “Christian,” “radical Islam,” or “Islam” at all. The release failed
to mention that the Kenyan Christians were specifically targeted by Al-Shabaab
wholly because of their faith. It spoke in generalities. The whole text can
be read here.
#DoBlackChristianLivesMatter ? I guess not. Black lives only matter when one
can use them to stoke racial tensions. Black lives only matter when
Obama’s reverence of Islam isn’t at stake. Black lives only matter when they
aren’t Christians being specifically targeted and slaughtered by Islamic
radicals.
Undocumented Democrat News
Judge Rebukes Obama's
Immigration Deception
Excerpt: After further deliberation, Hanen this week
declared his injunction will remain in place in part because Obama’s
lawyers misled the court. The administration revealed two weeks after Hanen’s
first ruling that it had already granted more than 100,000 work permits to
illegals before the court issued its injunction, and the judge wasn’t too
happy. “Whether by ignorance, omission, purposeful misdirection, or because
they were misled by their clients,” Hanen wrote, “the attorneys for the
Government misrepresented the facts.” “Even
worse,” he added [emphasis in the original], the government’s lawyers “urged this Court to rule before disclosing
that the Government had already issued 108,081 three-year renewals under the
2014 DACA amendments despite their statements to the contrary.”
"You're Greener than Gore" News
The Landscape-Scarring, Energy-Sucking, Wildlife-Killing
Reality of Pot Farming. This is your wilderness on drugs. By Josh Harkinson,
Mother Jones
Excerpt: STARTING ABOUT 90 MILES northwest of Sacramento , an unbroken swath of national forestland
follows the spine of California 's rugged
coastal mountains all the way to the Oregon
border. Near the center of this vast wilderness, along the grassy banks of the
Trinity River's south fork, lies the remote enclave of Hyampom (pop. 241),
where, on a crisp November morning, I climb into a four-wheel-drive government
pickup and bounce up a dirt logging road deep into the Six Rivers National
Forest. I've come to visit what's known in cannabis country as a "trespass
grow."
Will
Environmentalists Kill California
Excerpt: ...while heavy restrictions on water use might be a
hassle for those who want to keep their cars clean, pools filled, and grasses
watered, it has the potential to devastate California’s agriculture industry. Places
like the Central Valley of California are a massive national producer of
produce, and Napa
Valley California .
Excerpt: As Japan
promises the United Nations it will cut carbon dioxide emissions, the country
simultaneously plans on building 43 coal-fired power projects to make
up for shuttered nuclear power. (Obama and his green cronies will beggar
the poor and make the middle class poor, while they and the rest of the world
grow rich at our expense. ~Bob)
Religion of Peace News
Islamophobia! Madison
http://host.madison.com/news/local/crime_and_courts/madison-man-who-allegedly-wanted-to-join-islamic-state-terrorist/article_8c1c8796-fcbb-50f4-94d0-19a7c4641049.html
http://host.madison.com/news/local/crime_and_courts/madison-man-who-allegedly-wanted-to-join-islamic-state-terrorist/article_8c1c8796-fcbb-50f4-94d0-19a7c4641049.html
Excerpt: Joshua Van Haften, 34, was taken into custody by
the FBI when he arrived at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago
on a flight from Turkey .
... Van Haften will be charged with attempting to provide material support and
resources, namely himself, to a foreign terrorist organization, according to a
news release from the attorney's office. ... Court records show Van Haften was convicted of second-degree
sexual assault of a child in 2000 and sentenced to seven years in prison. (Madison
will rally to his side, against this Islamophobia. After all, Madison knows that all cultures are
equally-valid, even those who sell women as sex slaves, murder people,
including children for their faith, and burn POWs alive. Except, of course,
rural, Christian American culture which must be destroyed. ~Bob)
Sounds Good , But....Statement by the President on
the Framework to Prevent Iran
Excerpt: Iran
will face strict limitations on its program, and Iran Iran
Excerpt: Iran 's
Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan categorically rejected as a
"lie" a Guardian report alleging that Tehran has granted access to its military
facilities under the recent framework agreement with the world powers. "No such agreement has been made;
principally speaking, visit to military centers is among our redlines and no
such visit will be accepted," Gen. Dehqan stressed on Wednesday,
rejecting "the report by foreign media outlets, such as the Guardian"
as "untruthful allegations".
Iranian defense minister:
This nuke deal doesn’t allow you to inspect our military sites
Excerpt: I wonder how the White House will spin this. This
isn’t some middle-management apparatchik inside Iran ’s defense bureau saying it who
can be safely ignored. This is Dehqan, the minister of defense.
Excerpt: Obama now concedes -- as does Iran 's foreign minister, Javad Zarif -- that
while Iran
was facing
crippling sanctions it continued to install thousands of centrifuges
at its illicit facilities. In his weekly address on Saturday, Obama said there
were three options for Iran 's
nuclear program: aerial bombardment, his deal, and sanctions.
Not surprisingly, Obama warned that sanctions "always led to Iran
making more progress in its nuclear program." Here's the catch: Two days
earlier, at the announcement of the framework agreement, Obama praised the
efficacy of renewing sanctions in case Iran cheats.
Excerpt: Barack Obama is a young man. By the time he leaves
office, he will be in his mid-50s. Based on life expectancy, he could live for
another 40 years or so. So he will be around to see the full consequences of
his disastrous Iran
nuclear “framework.”
61% Think Iran Unlikely To Honor Nuclear Treaty With U.S.
Excerpt: Voters are almost evenly divided over the framework
deal the Obama administration has cut with Iran to slow the latter’s nuclear
weapons program. But most doubt that Iran
will abide by
its terms or that its compliance can be verified by the United States . The
latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 39% of Likely
U.S. Voters favor the agreement the United States
has reached with Iran that
ends some economic sanctions on that country in exchange for verifiable
cutbacks in Iran ’s
nuclear weapons program. But slightly more (41%) oppose that deal.
Excerpt: Iran 's
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says that there is "no
guarantee" of a final deal with world powers on its nuclear programme. Earlier,
President Hassan Rouhani had said Iran would not sign a final deal
unless sanctions were lifted "on the first day" of implementation.
Obama's Success Story: Al Qaeda Is Capitalizing on
Yemen’s Disorder, U.S.
Excerpt: The new American defense secretary acknowledged
Wednesday that Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen had exploited the
tumult partly created by the Saudi-led airstrikes there to capture territory,
in what has become a broad expansion by the Sunni extremist group.
Calling the situation “obviously very unsettled,” Defense
Secretary Ashton B. Carter said that the war in Yemen had left a number
of groups vying for power, including Al Qaeda in the
Arabian Peninsula, also known as A.Q.A.P., an enemy of the United States.
("This
counterterrorism campaign will be waged through a steady, relentless effort to
take out [the Islamic State] wherever they exist, using our air power and our
support for partner forces on the ground. This strategy of taking out
terrorists who threaten us, while supporting partners on the front lines, is
one that we have successfully pursued in Yemen
and Somalia
for years." Barack Obama, September, 2014. " Credit Ash Carter, the
new Defense Secretary. He didn’t get the memo about lying through his teeth and insisting that all
is well: --Jim Geraghty, Morning
Jolt. http://www.nationalreview.com/newsletters)
Excerpt: They did so swiftly, convicting him on every count
Wednesday, including 17 that carry the death penalty. It took the jury more
than 11 hours over two days to reach its verdict, less than half the time it
took for a jury to convict Timothy J. McVeigh in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal
Building in Oklahoma City . Whether Tsarnaev is sentenced
to life in prison without the possibility of parole or dies by lethal injection
will be decided later this month when the same jury returns to conclude the
portion of the trial known as the penalty phase. (To bad they took him
alive--saved a lot of time and expense. I doubt you can get 12 in Massachusetts who will
vote for death. ~Bob)
Canada supports
Israel
Excerpt: The Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in one
of his all-time great speeches, vowing to defend Israel at "whatever the
cost" -- including at the UN. (Something you would never hear from Obama. Cordially,
Larry Greenberg)
Excerpt: Mortar rounds hit two houses in villages outside
the provincial capital El-Arish Wednesday night, killing mostly women and
children.
*****
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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