Political Digest for August 3, 2012

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I post articles because I think they are of interest. Doing so doesn’t mean that I necessarily agree (or disagree) with every—or any—opinion in the posted article, or that I was able to verify the information present, which is the responsibility of the author. In some cases I post things sent to me by readers I might not have posted on my own, to get ideas circulating.

U.S. model for a future war fans tensions with China and inside Pentagon

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-model-for-a-future-war-fans-tensions-with-china-and-inside-pentagon/2012/08/01/gJQAC6F8PX_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines

Excerpt: Marshall’s small office in the Pentagon has spent the past two decades planning for a war against an angry, aggressive and heavily armed China. No one had any idea how the war would start. But the American response, laid out in a concept that one of Marshall’s longtime proteges dubbed “Air-Sea Battle,” was clear

The Defense Implications of Rare Earth Shortages

http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=22209&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DPD

Excerpt: Rare earth elements are essential in a number of products crucial to the operations of the U.S. military. Indeed, rare earth phosphors, metals, alloys and magnets are regularly used in laser designators, jet aircraft engines and missiles, to name a few applications, says Jeffery A. Green, the founder of the Strategic Material Advisory Council and an adjunct scholar with the National Center for Policy Analysis. For the supply of these resources, the Department of Defense (DOD) said in recent statements that it will rely upon international markets. However, rare earth elements are just that -- rare -- and the world's limited supply is concentrated in a country that is solidifying its reputation as a trade manipulator. The Chinese central government has offered direct support to the rare earth elements industry since the 1980s, allowing it to come to dominate global production. China produces more than 94 percent of the world's rare earth oxides, virtually 100 percent of all commercially available rare earth metals, and more than 90 percent of the rare earth alloys. China manufactures approximately 75 percent of the world's samarium-cobalt magnets and 60 percent of the neo magnets -- crucial tools for DOD production needs. While relying upon Chinese manufacturers to meet demand (the United States has almost no domestic production in this market anymore) may not be an inherently bad idea, Chinese trade practices lend little reliability to this supply line.

Worth Reading: Generational Warfare: Old-age entitlements vs. the safety net. By Nick Gillespie and Veronique de Rugy

http://reason.com/archives/2012/07/23/generational-warfare

Excerpt: Social Security and Medicare, which provide retirement and health insurance benefits for senior Americans, generally without regard to need, are funded by taxes on the relatively meager wages of younger Americans who will never enjoy anything close to the same benefits. From any serious fiscal or moral viewpoint, and particularly for the sake of helping those truly in need, Social Security and Medicare should be ended. 9Just when I get to retirement age, pitiless mathematics catches up with socialist statism. ~Bob.)

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If Romney nominates Ryan, they should just go ahead and cancel the VP debate. #PreemptiveMercyRule

Assault on the suburbs: The Book to Defeat Obama: Stanley Kurtz’s Spreading the Wealth.

http://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2012/07/29/the-book-to-defeat-obama-stanley-kurtzs-spreading-the-wealth/2/

Excerpt: If someone was to say that these people want nothing less than to destroy suburbs in America, you might think that this sounds too crazy to be any kind of real possibility. Yet this is their goal and their hope, motivated by the belief that the growth of the suburbs was not a result of the desire to spread out and lead a good life by people who wanted to realize the American dream, but instead was fueled by racism, greed, and a desire to benefit from exploiting poor minorities. (Seems like the title of a bad movie, right? The link below will take you to a review and summary of Stanley Kurtz's new book blowing the whistle on Obama's plans for a second term. If you know anyone in the suburbs sitting on a political fence, let them know about this. I'm reminded by this that last year at one of our Saturday lunches, I offered that Obama did not want to turn the United States into France but into Venezuela. I was pooh-poohed at the time, but I now claim vindication by this book. –WT. It bewilders me why so very many people kept and keep giving Obama the benefit of the doubt. When it walks like a duck, talks like a duck and acts like a duck....in all likelihood, it's a DUCK! I guess it's not politically correct to SAY that a majority of the American people elected a DUCK. –M.)

Obama Administration's War on Persecuted Christians. By Raymond Ibrahim

http://www.investigativeproject.org/3695/obama-administration-war-on-persecuted-christians

Excerpt: The Obama administration's support for its Islamist allies means a lack of U.S. support for their enemies or, more properly, victims—the Christian and other non-Muslim minorities of the Muslim world. Consider the many recent proofs:

Can Conservatives Be Environmentalists?

http://blog.heritage.org/2012/08/02/morning-bell-can-conservatives-be-environmentalists/?roi=echo3-12738012642-9316899-74993cfd65bb94cefb17f913a26a2e6e&utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Morning%2BBell

Excerpt: Efforts to protect the environment in America have ignored the most powerful force for improving the environment: free people. The results of these misguided policies have been higher energy prices, lower incomes, less access to resources, and technological stagnation—often failing to produce tangible environmental benefits. It doesn't have to be this way.

Obama authorizes secret support for Syrian rebels

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/02/us-usa-syria-obama-order-idUSBRE8701OK20120802

Excerpt: President Barack Obama has signed a secret order authorizing U.S. support for rebels seeking to depose Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his government, sources familiar with the matter said. Obama's order, approved earlier this year and known as an intelligence "finding," broadly permits the CIA and other U.S. agencies to provide support that could help the rebels oust Assad. (Wonder who leaked this “secret”? Obama, when choosing sides among murders who hate us, naturally picks the side that is most likely to persecute and murder Christians. And, eventually, Americans. ~Bob.)

Sudan: Woman Is Sentenced to Death by Stoning for Adultery

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/02/world/africa/sudan-woman-is-sentenced-to-death-by-stoning-for-adultery.html?_r=1&ref=africa

Excerpt: A woman convicted of adultery has been sentenced to death by stoning and is being held with her 6-month-old baby in jail, activists said Wednesday, in the second such sentence in the past few months in the country. President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said last month that Sudan would adopt a “100 percent” Islamic constitution, prompting concerns that the country would apply Islamic law more strictly after the secession a year ago of South Sudan, which is mostly non-Muslim. (This will be celebrated by progressives who believe that all cultures are equally valid. They will probably play tapes of her death at Obama fund-raisers. ~Bob.)

Chick-Fil-A Breaks World Sales Record. By Katie Pavlich

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/08/02/chickfila_breaks_world_sales_record

Excerpt: The left's attempt to damage Chick-Fil-A completely backfired yesterday. Not only did customers wait for hours in line to "eat more chikin" but many Chick-Fil-A locations ran out of food. (Chick-fil-A has set a record in sales on Support Chick-fil-A day, thanks to the efforts of Christian activists who support traditional marriage and oppose the attack against the company for their courageous stand. The implications of this success can't be stressed enough. It comes in the wake of a sea change in black churches, which have turned on Obama for supporting gay marriage. Bad news for him and the loony left. Prominent Lefties who railed against Chick-fil-A's courageous stand to support traditional marriage included Boston mayor Thomas Menino and Chicago 1st Ward Alderman Poco "Joe" Moreno, who both said they would try to block any attempt of the chicken seller to open a store on "their" turf. Chicago's Marxist mayor Rahm Emanuel also got into the fray saying "Chick-fil-A's values are not Chicago's values." This Chick-fil-A sales record is perhaps the most successful nationwide smackdown of the radical left that America has ever seen. Praise God (but keep your powder dry. The worst is yet to come). --Don Hank)

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I dream of the day when our sandwiches will not be judged by the color of their politics, but by the contents of their sesame-seed buns.

Again: Media Skew Swing State Polls To Boost Obama

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/08/01/media-skew-swing-state-polls-to-boost-obama

Excerpt: This poll, and many others like it, are simply propaganda. They are meant to reinforce the idea that Obama's and the media's attacks on Mitt Romney are working. They are meant to reverse the growing belief that Obama's reelection is in serious jeopardy.

Mexico Dissolves Its FBI, Moves To Legalize Drugs. By Chris W. Street

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/08/01/MEXICO-DISSOLVES-THEIR-FBI-AND-MOVES-TO-LEGALIZE-DRUGS

Excerpt: In a stunning development, President-elect Enrique Peña and his Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), who won control of Mexico’s government on July 1st, moved to dissolve the Agencia Federal de Investigación (AFI). Modeled after the United States FBI, the AFI was founded in 2001 to crack down on Mexico’s pervasive government corruption and drug trafficking. …. Coupled with the Obama Administration’s “Dreamer” Executive Order curtailing deportations of illegal aliens, a hands-off policy on both sides of the border foreshadows a huge increase in “narco-trafficking” violence and corruption flooding into the United States.

Lessons from the Red Terror About Islamist Organizations: an Interview with Prof. Anna Geifman. By David P. Goldman

http://pjmedia.com/spengler/2012/08/01/lessons-from-the-red-terror-about-islamist-organizations-an-interview-with-prof-anna-geifman/

Excerpt: Geifman: Terrorism is a variant of a phenomenon which psychiatrist and historian Robert Lifton called “totalism.” Its devotees — anarchists, Marxists, or Islamists — want to impose a new order based on an “all-or-nothing claim to truth.” They operate within distinctive parameters of a “theology of Armageddon — a final battle between good and evil” – in which the stakes are nothing less than universal salvation.

Like Birds on a Telephone Wire. By Bernard Goldberg

http://www.bernardgoldberg.com/like-birds-on-a-telephone-wire/?utm_source=BernardGoldberg.com+Newsletter&utm_campaign=c3fc69c044-NEWSLETTER&utm_medium=email

Excerpt: It’s hard to say what bothers me most about what we call the mainstream media. Their bias, of course, is an evergreen, always high on the list. So is their arrogance. Their refusal to admit mistakes is galling (see CNN playing “Stupid Girls” song to lead into Sarah Palin segment, then with a straight face saying it was unintentional). But their mindless lack of originality – their zombie-like repetition of what some other journalist just said or wrote – at this moment, tops my list.

The Save America” Bill

http://militaryveteransolutions.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Save-America-The-Peoples-Bill-7-4-12.pdf

It will never happen in one bill, IMHO, and not sure I’d support everything in this, but some interesting concepts. ~Bob.

Rep. Capps rented room to staffer for years, didn’t report income to IRS for over a decade. By Matthew Boyle

http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/02/rep-capps-rented-room-to-staffer-for-years-didnt-report-income-to-irs-for-over-a-decade/#ixzz22P0UQmUj

Excerpt: In a possible congressional ethics violation, California Democratic Rep. Lois Capps rented a room in her personal home to one of her congressional staffers for years and did not report the income to the IRS — during that time, or for more than a decade — until 2012. Capps also withheld that information from the proper congressional authorities for five years — from 2001 until early 2006.

New Obama bundler Terry McAuliffe has a history of cronyism

http://freebeacon.com/meet-the-macker/

Excerpt: One of President Obama’s newest campaign bundlers is a career Democratic fundraiser with a history of shady business dealings and failed political ambitions. Terry “The Macker” McAuliffe, who has raised millions of dollars for clients such as former President Bill Clinton, Al Gore, and the Democratic National Committee (DNC), is one of the most well connected players in American politics.

Obama Bundler, Fannie Mae Executive, “Obot” Jim Johnson Met With Syrian Officials In 2010

http://patdollard.com/2012/07/obama-bundler-fannie-mae-executive-obot-jim-johnson-met-with-syrian-officials-in-2010/

Excerpt: Indyk is Vice President and Director for Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. Indyk emailed an official in the Syrian regime about a trip that former Fannie Mae executive Jim Johnson was planning on making to Syria in June of 2010. Indyk goes on to describe Johnson’s continuing relationship with Obama, including huge sums donated to his campaign, stating that “he is very influential in the Obama White House and in the Democratic Party.” (That would be the Jim Johnson who made 1% millions destroying the value of your home while at Fanny Mae. ~Bob.)

Oops!… Obama’s Top Bundler Jonathan Lavine Was In Charge of Bain During GST Steel Layoffs. By Jim Hoft

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/07/oops-obamas-top-bundler-jonathan-lavine-was-in-charge-of-bain-during-gst-steel-layoffs/

Excerpt: One of Obama’s top campaign financiers – Jonathan Lavine – is also managing director at Bain, bundling between $100,000 and $200,000 in contributions for the 2012 Obama Victory Fund, according to estimates released by the Obama campaign. The president has also relied on other leading figures in the private equity sector as hosts for high-dollar fundraisers and as members of his Jobs Council.

Government Motors Spends $600M on UK Soccer Promo

http://freebeacon.com/government-motors-spends-600m-on-uk-soccer-promo/

Excerpt: General Motors plans to shell out as much as $600 million to sponsor a European soccer team despite owing $27 billion to American taxpayers. GM’s Chevrolet logo will appear front and center on the jerseys of soccer powerhouse Manchester United, as part of one of the largest sponsorship deals in U.S. history. GM will pay $60 million per year for the logo—nearly double the $31 million European insurance company Aon paid—despite plummeting sales and massive liabilities.

Worth Reading: Obama's Signature Move: Unsealing Private Records. By Ann Coulter

http://townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/2012/08/01/obamas_signature_move_unsealing_private_records

Excerpt: One month before the 2004 Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate, Obama was down in the polls, about to lose to Blair Hull, a multimillionaire securities trader. But then the Chicago Tribune leaked the claim that Hull's second ex-wife, Brenda Sexton, had sought an order of protection against him during their 1998 divorce proceedings. Those records were under seal, but as The New York Times noted: "The Tribune reporter who wrote the original piece later acknowledged in print that the Obama camp had 'worked aggressively behind the scenes' to push the story." (“You didn’t win that, Barack. Someone broke the law to help you.” ~Bob.)

100 Days is a Long Time. By Victor Davis Hanson

http://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2012/08/02/100_days_is_a_long_time

Excerpt: A lot can happen in 100 days or thereabouts. Napoleon, for example, went from ignominious exile at Elba to triumph in Paris to utter defeat at Waterloo. South Korea was lost and then saved by Gen. Matthew Ridgway in about 100 days of winter in 1950 and early 1951. In 1948, supposedly doomed incumbent President Harry Truman went from 17 points down in the polls to a victory margin of 4.5 percentage points on Election Day.

America Dined Out Yesterday

http://justcommonsense-lostinamerica.blogspot.com/2012/08/america-dined-out-yesterday.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FMoXTa+%28Lost+in+America%29

Excerpt: I left at 4pm yesterday to have dinner at Chick Fil A. The nearest one to my home is at the corner of Bell Road and 83rd Avenue in Peoria, Arizona. Heading east on Bell Road, I turned south onto 83rd Avenue and immediately noticed four Peoria police cars, lights flashing, directing traffic around the Chick Fil A franchise. Hundreds of Americans were lined up outside the building and the line for the drive through continued out of the property and south for nearly a mile. The entire north bound right lane of 83rd avenue was occupied with drive through customers. I had to continue south on 83rd and try to find a place to U-turn and return to the long line of cars trying to get into the Chick Fil A outlet.

Zawahiri: Arab revolts by-product of jihad against US. By Al-Masry Al-Youm

http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/zawahiri-arab-revolts-product-jihad-against-us

Note to media and leftists cheering the “Arab Spring.” ~Bob. Excerpt: The brother of Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has said that recent Arab revolts would not have seen successful had not it been for pressure by Salafi jihadists who fought against the US and brought war to its soil through the September 11 attacks.

Somali comedian who poked fun at Islamists shot dead

http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/19169024/somali-comedian-who-poked-fun-at-islamists-shot-dead

Didn’t get the “Islam is a religion of peace” memo. ~Bob. Excerpt: Gunmen shot dead a well-known comedian known for poking fun at Al-Qaeda linked Shebab insurgents in the Somali capital Mogadishu, officials and colleagues said Wednesday.

Polygamous immigrant families to be paid more benefits after Government blunder 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2180942/Polygamous-immigrant-families-paid-benefits-Government-blunder.html

It would be Islamophobic not to pay them more. ~Bob. Excerpt: Immigrants with more than one wife will qualify for extra benefits under reforms to Britain’s welfare system, after an attempt to crack down on the problem backfired. Polygamous marriages, largely confined to Muslim families, are only recognised in Britain if they took place in countries where they are legal.

On “Republicans versus Women.” By Larry Greenberg

Those for whom abortion rights is the main issue (Republicans vs. Women) in favoring Democrats have fallen for ideological hyperbole. This editorial reveals how much of a silly rag the Times has become. While I would not want to see anything like complete prohibition of abortion, for this to be considered a social justice issue is bizzaro feminism. Where are these proponents of women's' rights on honor killings, sex slavery, etc., right here in America. Oh by the way, I don't hear our feminist Secretary of State Hillary and her pals criticizing the Saudis whose firemen let girls die in a burning school lest they touch them. How about this horror against a woman?

Woman burnt alive in front of daughters Subhro Maitra, TNN Jul 29, 2012, http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-07-29/kolkata/32922675_1_minor-daughters-malda-complaint

MALDA: The failure to give birth to a son and the inability to fulfill her husband and in-laws' demand for money cost a woman her life. She was burnt alive allegedly by her husband and in-laws in front of her minor daughters on Friday night. The victim, a resident of Khejurbona village, succumbed to her injuries on Saturday morning. The woman's mother has lodged a complaint but the accused have gone into hiding. The victim, Jahiran Biwi, married Serajul Islam, a labourer, seven years back. They had two daughters - Tamanna, 5, and Sahamida, 2.

I have to conclude that much of the hullabaloo about "women's rights to their bodies" is, in many cases, their rationalization of their desire to live the life of Park Avenue "Sex in the City" convenience. As to the notion that fetuses are not viably human and do not merit protection of law, that is easily refuted by science. Fetuses may not be viable until the 7th or 8th month, but they are certainly human beings: http://www.ehd.org/prenatal-images.php?thum_id=411 , http://www.babycenter.com/fetal-development-images-10-weeks. I don't think most conservatives are zealots on this subject, but it seems that adherents to Democrat orthodoxy have given a bad name to common sense.

Report cites killings blamed on non-deported illegals

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jul/31/illegals-released-feds-19-murders-142-sex-crimes/?page=all#pagebreak

Excerpt: The Obama administration released illegal immigrants who went on to commit more crimes, including charges of 19 murders, 3 attempted murders and 142 sex crimes, the House Judiciary Committee said in a report Tuesday. All told, 16 percent of the nearly 47,000 illegal immigrants the administration was notified of but declined to deport between 2008 and 2011 under its Secure Communities program have gone on to be charged with other crimes, the committee said. (As long as they voted early and often…. ~Bob.)

‘Islamic Democracy’ Does Not Make Statesmen out of Terrorists … or Politics out of Jihad. By Andrew McCarthy.

http://pjmedia.com/andrewmccarthy/2012/08/01/islamic-democracy/

Excerpt: The Obama administration will not explain how it came to issue a visa to Hani Nour Eldin, a known member of the Egyptian terrorist organization Ga’amat al-Islamia, the Islamic Group (IG). The explanation is not forthcoming because what it portends is even more sinister than this one infuriating incident. To call the IG a “terrorist organization” is not just purple prose.

Captive Minds: Conformity and Campus Intellectuals. By Janice Fiamengo

http://pjmedia.com/blog/captive-minds-conformity-and-campus-intellectuals/

Excerpt: Milosz was interested not only in the compulsions of totalitarianism but in the significant emotional and psychological attractions of the Communist system: the reassurances and rewards of ceding responsibility for judgment, and the manifold reasons why an intellectual could find himself at home in conformity. Can it be that, even free of threat or compulsion, many intellectuals will choose to surrender their independence of thought?

France: Pig heads placed at entrance to mosques

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4263397,00.html

Excerpt: Muslims attending morning prayers Wednesday were confronted by two pigs’ heads in the entrance to their mosque in a French town where an Islamist gunman killed two paratroopers in March. The incident in Montauban was described as a “racist provocation” by a watchdog which monitors anti-Islamic actions in France and as an “odious and blasphemous act” by the Montauban mayor, Brigitte Bareges.

GOP Angry Over Reid Claim That Romney ‘Paid No Taxes for 10 Years’

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/reid-romney-release-taxes/2012/08/01/id/447246?s=al&promo_code=FA12-1

Excerpt: Republican anger was welling up on Wednesday after Democratic Senate leader Harry Reid claimed — without any supporting evidence — that Mitt Romney had paid no taxes for 10 years.

Quotes

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. --HL Mencken

I believe in an America where the free enterprise system flourishes for all other systems to see and admire -- where no businessman lacks either competition or credit -- and where no monopoly, no racketeer, no government bureaucracy can put him out of business that he built up with his own initiative. --President John F. Kennedy (1917-1963). (Guess JFK didn’t know they “didn’t build that. ~Bob.)

Manufacturing Gaffes. By Daniel Greenfield.

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2012/08/manufacturing-gaffes.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FromNyToIsraelSultanRevealsTheStoriesBehindTheNews+%28from+NY+to+Israel+Sultan+Reveals+The+Stories+Behind+the+News%29

Excerpt: If you read the newspaper, watch the telly or turn the radio dial to something besides talk or the greatest hits of the 70's, 80's and today, then you know that Romney's international trip was a disaster. How do you know that? Well you know it the same way that Soviet citizens knew that their economy was booming and it would only be a matter of time before the oppressed slaves of capitalism threw off their shackles and bowed their arrogant heads to the hammer and sickle. They read it in the paper.

Man texts, "I need to quit texting," before driving off cliff

http://waff.images.worldnow.com/images/19176838_BG1.jpghttp://waff.images.worldnow.com/images/19176838_BG1.jpg

Excerpt: A college student from Texas believes he is lucky to be alive after a terrible crash. He was texting and driving when his truck flew off of a cliff. (Going for the Darwin Award, 2012. ~Bob.)

Germany: Muslim sprays tear gas into face of two women wearing the Star of David

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/08/germany-muslim-sprays-tear-gas-into-face-of-two-women-wearing-the-star-of-david.html

Excerpt: Because of a Jewish Star of David, a Muslim in the small Bavarian town of Stein has attacked two women. As the 23-year-old in a swimming pool noticed that one of the two older ladies chain had a chain around her neck featuring the religious symbol, he first showered them with insults from the desert and then showed the Hitler salute. Then he lay in wait for the duo before coming up and spraying tear gas into her face.

"Ugh": ATF Supervisor Showed Annoyance, Not Remorse For Murder of Border Patrol Agent. By Katie Pavlich
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/08/02/ugh_atf_supervisor_showed_annoyance_not_remorse_for_murder_of_border_patrol_agent

Excerpt: Today Obama Deputy Campaign Manager Stephanie Cutter was mocked for using "ugh" in an email about Solyndra going under. While Solyndra was a terrible idea implemented with zero respect for American taxpayers, Operation Fast and Furious was implemented and carried out with zero respect for human life. ATF supervisor David Voth, who was in charge of overseeing field agents in Phoenix, responded to news that the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was connected to the Fast and Furious case with annoyance, not remorse. Voth wrote, "Ugh….things will most likely get ugly."

Obama Campaign Sues to Restrict Military Voting

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/08/02/obama-campaign-sues-to-restrict-military-voting

Excerpt: Obama, like many Democrats, like to say that, while they may disagree with the GOP on many issues related to national security, they absolutely share their admiration and dedication to members of our armed forces. Obama, in particular, likes to be seen visiting troops and photos taken with members of our military. So, why is his campaign and the Democrat party suing to restrict their ability to vote in the upcoming election? (Why? Because service members are citizens and patriots, thus not in Obama’s “base.” ~Bob.)

Ukrainian feminists stage topless protest near Tower Bridge over Olympic body’s ‘support for bloody Islamist regimes’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2182630/London-Olympics-2012-Topless-Ukrainian-feminists-stage-protest-Londons-Tower-Bridge.html

Excerpt: Four topless activists from a women's rights group were arrested today after they carried out a protest in central London. Police were called to City Hall to deal with the protesters, who had accused the Olympics' governing body of having supported 'bloody' Islamist regimes.

Worth Reading: ‘When Government Plays a Part, It can Bring the Private Sector Along.’ By Jim Geraghty

http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/313024/when-government-plays-part-it-can-bring-private-sector-along

Excerpt: The House Energy and Commerce Committee released some White House and other e-mails relating to Solyndra. Unsurprisingly, there were many, many warnings that this was a quite risky method of using taxpayer dollars, and it appears those warnings were ignored: … (Investor): “One of our solar companies with revenues of less than $100 million (and not yet profitable) received a government loan of $580 million; while that is good for us, I can’t imagine it’s a good way for the government to use taxpayer money.

Is the Inertia Greater Than the Momentum? By Dr. Robert Owens

http://drrobertowens.com/2012/08/02/is-the-inertia-greater-than-the-momentum/

Excerpt: The causes of our problems are not hard to see. Americans aren’t obese because evil restaurateurs are forcing them to eat fried butter on a stick. We are bulging at the seams because we eat too much and exercise too little. Americans aren’t trapped in upside down mortgages because evil bankers waylaid us and forced us to sign up for a house that was too big and cost too much. (Yes. And Druggies don’t have a “disease” because a giant germ ran out of am ally and stuffed coke up their noses. They made a choice to try illegal drugs. ~Bob.)

Romney’s 4% GDP solution is mathematically possible!. By James Pethokoukis

http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/08/romneys-4-gdp-solution-is-mathematically-possible/

Excerpt: In the WSJ today, Romney economic adviser Glenn Hubbard outlines what results Americans can expect from the Romney economic plan of tax cuts, deregulation and entitlement reform:

Vacant Detroit becomes dumping ground for the dead

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_DUMPING_THE_DEAD?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-08-02-14-44-37

Life and death in a progressive-run utopia. ~Bob. Excerpt: From the street, the two decomposing bodies were nearly invisible, concealed in an overgrown lot alongside worn-out car tires and a moldy sofa. The teenagers had been shot, stripped to their underwear and left on a deserted block. They were just the latest victims of foul play whose remains went undiscovered for days after being hidden deep inside Detroit's vast urban wilderness - a crumbling wasteland rarely visited by outsiders and infrequently patrolled by police.

Making Its Triumphant Return: TOTUS

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/331575.php

Excerpt: If you've become president, you didn't do that on your own. You didn't build that Teleprompter or program in that script. Someone else did that. President Obama spoke to supporters in Florida this afternoon, but was careful to stick to his script, relying heavily on his teleprompters. (Suggest he dump Biden, make TOTUS the VP nominee. ~Bob.)

Political Digest for August 2, 2012

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Worth Reading: Tom Kratman's Afterword to Carnifex

http://www.southtexian.com/2009/03/tom-kratmans-afterword-to-carnifex.html

This is the "Afterword" I mention in my review of Kratman's great sequel to A Desert Called Peace, the science fiction novel Carnifex. It is a discussion of "progressives," who feature in the novel. It is worth reading on it's own. But don't let that stop you from buying the books. ~Bob.

Worth Reading: Romney and the Palestinian Culture of Destruction. By Bruce Thornton

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/bruce-thornton/romney-and-the-palestinian-culture-of-destruction/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=0ba95262ef-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag

Excerpt: These reactions are drearily predictable, including the incoherent charge of “racism” against somebody making a cultural argument. More important, once again Palestinian revanchist obsessions, anti-Semitism, and the jihadist death cult are ignored, and the reasons for Israeli defensive measures passed over, while Western materialist obsessions like “racism” “colonialism,” and “national aspirations” are used to explain destructive behavior the origins of which lie in cultural and religious dysfunctions.

Worth Reading: Are There Too Many Guns? By John Goodman

http://healthblog.ncpa.org/are-there-too-many-guns/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=HA#more-26497

Excerpt: Assault weapons are not usually the weapon of choice. Neither of the two worst shooting sprees in U.S. history involved assault weapons. James Huberty, who killed 20 people at a McDonald’s restaurant in San Ysidro, California, in 1984, used a shotgun, a pistol and a hunting rifle. George Hennard, who killed 22 people at a Luby’s Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas, in 1991, used two ordinary pistols. Still, gun opponents seem obsessed about them. So what exactly is an “assault weapon”? … You would think that the definition would hinge on a weapon’s fire power or its capacity to maim or kill. Not so. Assault weapons are mainly defined by their appearance. As Steve Chapman explained the other day: Assault weapons are functionally indistinguishable from ordinary semiautomatic hunting rifles. They don’t fire more rapidly, they don’t deliver more lethal rounds, and they don’t spray bullets. They only look like military arms.

Always Worth Reading: Milton Friedman's Centenary. By Thomas Sowell
http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2012/08/01/milton_friedmans_centenary

Excerpt: No one converted Milton Friedman, either in economics or in his views on social policy. His own research, analysis and experience converted him.

As a professor, he did not attempt to convert students to his political views. I made no secret of the fact that I was a Marxist when I was a student in Professor Friedman's course, but he made no effort to change my views. He once said that anybody who was easily converted was not worth converting.

Chick-fil-A visit in Tulsa, Oklahoma on August 1, 2012

I just got back from Chick-fil-A. I got in line for the drive through at 11:12 am. I wanted to beat the lunch crowd, don't you know. There were cars as far as I could see in both directions. Hundreds upon hundreds of them. And people standing and waiting in line. KRMG said it was the same all over Tulsa. I went through the drive through, got served at 11:37 am, and headed for home. I didn't hear anyone yelling, or see anyone giving people the finger, either. I look for other restaurants coming out for traditional marriage soon. –Larry.

Occupy Blood in the Streets, the Town of Tampa

http://politichicks.tv/4083/occupy-blood-in-the-streets-the-town-of-tampa

Excerpt: On August 27, organizations such as Code Pink, Students for a Democratic Society, various labor unions and Occupy movements are converging on Tampa, Florida for what they’re calling the “March on the RNC”.

70,000 Christians 'locked in concentration camps.' By Michael Carl

http://www.wnd.com/2012/07/70000-christians-locked-in-concentration-camps/

Excerpt: However, whatever secular benefits may have trickled down to residents of the isolated communist nation, there is no evidence of any improvement in the condition of the persecuted church there, he said. “We have not heard any reports of improvement for Christians in the country and have no reason to believe anything has changed,” Morgan said. “The regime still has up to 70,000 Christians locked away in virtual concentration camps.” (When you consider for a moment that no Western government, nor the EU nor the UN, has ever supported a "democracy" movement in N Korea where this barbarous and inhumane treatment of Christians is occurring -- even though Obama, Cameron, Sarkozy, NATO and the rest of the Western powers and media have ranted incessantly about the need to support the Arab Spring, supporting, as we now know, Islamists who in turn are completely wiping out indigenous Christianity in the Middle East in the name of "democracy," it ought to be crystal clear that one of the main goals of the Western elites is to eliminate Christianity and inflict as much damage upon Christians as they possibly can throughout the world. But they forget: Christianity has been watered by the blood of its martyrs for 20 centuries. Don Hank)

Obama, Romney In Florida Running Almost Neck And Neck, Poll Shows

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/31/obama-romney-florida_n_1724477.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

Excerpt: President Barack Obama is now barely edging out Mitt Romney in Florida, making the state effectively a tossup, according to a poll released Thursday by the Democratic firm PPP. (Democrat poll, liberal outlet. ~Bob.)

Bitter Boundary Dispute Roils India, China Relations. By Walter Russell Mead

http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2012/07/31/bitter-boundary-dispute-roils-india-china-relations/

Excerpt: The boundary disputes unsettling the peace of Asia don’t just involve tiny islands in the South China Sea. Himalayan glaciers and valleys are also involved — and it’s not just India and Pakistan who are at daggers drawn in the Asian high country. India and China have never settled their disputed land border. They fought a war over it in 1962, but maps still show the entire province of Arunachal Pradesh as Chinese or Indian, depending on whose map it is.

Hillary Clinton Slams Bachmann for Investigation Call

http://freedomoutpost.com/2012/07/hillary-clinton-slams-bachmann-for-investigation-call/

Excerpt: On Monday Secretary of State Hillary Clinton slammed House Republicans Reps. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), Tom Rooney (R-Fla.), Lynn Westmoreland (R-Ga.) and Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) for the letters that they sent in which they called for a serious investigation into how deeply ties are within the U.S. government to the Muslim Brotherhood and specifically they called out Clinton’s deputy chief of staff Huma Abedin. Clinton tried to act as though she never plays politics like this, though this is not politics, it’s fact. She said that such suggestions about her aide has “no place in our politics” for such “assaults.”

Daily Presidential Tracking Poll

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll

Excerpt: The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows Mitt Romney attracting 47% of the vote, while President Obama earns support from 44%. Five percent (5%) prefer some other candidate, and four percent (4%) are undecided. Romney has a 20-point advantage among white voters. Obama is supported by 91% of black voters and 57% of other minority voters.

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Kudos to @RahmEmanuel for his fight to ensure none of Chicago's hundreds of murder victims will suffer the horror of Chick-Fil-A

Coalition of Black Pastors Slams Mayors For Wanting To Ban Chick-Fil-A, Say It's The "Same Thing" As Banning Blacks From Restaurants...

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/caap-cities-wanting-ban-chick-fil-same-thing-banning-blacks-restaurants-0

Excerpt: The President of the Coalition of African-American Pastors says supporters of traditional marriage are facing the same discrimination that blacks faced during the civil rights movement. “Some people are saying because of the position that Chick-fil-A has taken - they don’t want them in their cities,” Rev. William Owens said at the National Press Club on Tuesday. “It’s a disgrace. It’s the same thing that happened when I was marching for civil rights, when they didn’t want a black to come into their restaurant, they didn’t want us staying in their hotels.

Another company scraps US expansion plans due to Obamacare medical device tax

http://michellemalkin.com/2012/07/31/obamacare-device-tax/

Excerpt: An Indiana company’s decision to scrap expansion plans due to a looming tax on medical devices has renewed pressure on the Senate to consider a House-passed bill repealing the tax.

Republicans: Obama administration hiding big job losses from sequester

http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hill/budget-appropriations/241473-gop-labor-department-hiding-big-job-losses

Excerpt: Republicans accused the Obama administration Tuesday of intimidating defense contractors and seeking to hide job losses from pending cuts to the Pentagon’s budget in order to help the president’s reelection campaign. 

US Entrepreneurship Dead?

http://www.fedupusa.org/2012/07/us-entrepreneurship-dead/

Excerpt: An interesting report was posted this morning…America may be going out of business when it comes to starting new businesses, according to a recent report. The study—from the non-profit New America Foundation—argues the U.S. is seriously in danger of losing its entrepreneurial spirit because the number of small business created has been declining since the 1970s. (I can identify with this. As soon as my from-scratch business started to grow, I discovered I was dad to my employees. I got by at first by non-hiring. I would let them come in at whatever time they liked so that they were considered contractors. But later I needed actual employees and had to pay their health insurance and pay them when they said they were sick I tried cutting back the hours of one guy, so he quit, went to a government agency and said I had "fired" him. I wrote a letter inviting him to come back on the old schedule, but he couldn't face me. The government let me off the hook when they saw the letter. A lady who came for a job interview ran across the lawn and fell and sprained her ankle. She tried to sue me but lost. I made about the same amount per hour as they did. As regulations got worse, and as new hires behaved more and more like political agitators, I saw the handwriting on the wall and let them all go. And that was before Obama, the union boss-in-chief. --Don Hank)

Las Vegas Oddsmaker Predicts Obama Will Have a Landslide Loss

http://lubbockonline.com/interact/blog-post/may/2012-06-22/las-vegas-oddsmaker-predicts-obama-will-have-landslide-loss

Excerpt: Las Vegas Oddsmaker Wayne Allyn Root predicted that Barack Obama will suffer a massive loss in the General Election even though the current polls do not show Obama necessarily losing. (Hope this isn’t just wishful thinking. ~Bob.)

Corporate Welfare in the Federal Budget

http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=22204&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DPD

Excerpt: Rising federal spending and huge deficits are pushing the nation toward a financial and economic crisis. Policymakers should find and eliminate wasteful, damaging and unneeded programs in the federal budget. One good way to save money would be to cut subsidies to businesses in the form of corporate welfare, says Tad DeHaven, a budget analyst on federal and state budget issues for the Cato Institute. Policymakers claim that business subsidies are needed to fix alleged market failures or to help American companies better compete in the global economy. However, corporate welfare often subsidizes failing and mismanaged businesses, and induces firms to spend more time on lobbying rather than on making better products. Instead of correcting market failures, federal subsidies misallocate resources and introduce government failures into the marketplace. According to analysis by the Cato Institute, corporate welfare in the federal budget costs taxpayers almost $100 billion a year. Of all the departments of the federal government, the Department of Agriculture is the greatest supplier of corporate welfare, laying out some $25 billion in the forms of farm aid, investment and risk mitigation. The Departments of Energy and Housing and Urban Development were also big spenders, handing out $17 billion and $16 billion, respectively.

Irrational infatuation with biofuels: Lawmakers drive up cost of food and energy. By Richard Rahn

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jul/23/irrational-infatuation-with-biofuels/

Excerpt: Are you upset about rapidly rising food costs and high gas prices? You can thank members of Congress and the administration for this situation. Much of the United States is in the midst of a major drought. That’s not the fault of the political class, but those folks have made the consequences of the drought far worse for the entire world.

The End of Teachers Unions. By Terry M. Moe

http://www.hoover.org/publications/defining-ideas/article/122771

Excerpt: Unbeknownst to almost everyone at the time, however, the American education system of 2012 was in the early stages of a revolution. The ingredients of change were barely visible, and the revolution would unfold slowly over a period of decades. By 2030, though, it was virtually complete: radically changing the education system and shattering the structure of political power that had long preserved a failing status quo. It was a revolution in education. But it was also a revolution in politics—without which the revolution in education could never have succeeded.

Worth Reading: Myth Vs. Fact - Internet Taxes. By John Nothdurft

http://heartland.org/policy-documents/policy-tip-sheet-myth-vs-fact-internet-taxes

Excerpt: For instance, Rhode Island has seen no additional sales tax revenue from its Amazon tax, and because Amazon reacted by discontinuing its affiliate program, Rhode Islanders are earning less income and paying less income tax."

Budget officials: Navy’s 30-year shipbuilding plan underfunded by $94 billion. By Cristina Silva

http://www.stripes.com/news/budget-officials-navy-s-30-year-shipbuilding-plan-underfunded-by-94-billion-1.184394

Excerpt: The Navy’s most recent 30-year construction plan underestimates the cost of growing and maintaining its fleet by more than $3 billion annually over the next three decades, according to a recent analysis by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office. According to the report, the Navy faces a $94 billion funding gap from 2013 through 2042 as it looks to build roughly 268 ships for its aging inventory.

Russia to get stronger nuclear navy, Putin says. By Gleb Bryanski

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/30/us-russia-putin-navy-idUSBRE86T1D320120730

Excerpt: President Vladimir Putin oversaw the start of construction of one of Russia's newest generation submarines on Monday and vowed to boost nuclear naval forces to safeguard the country's position as a leading sea power. Warning that its navy would protect top energy producer Russia's interests in the oil-rich Arctic, Putin led the ceremony to begin building the submarine Prince Vladimir, named after the ruler who founded a precursor state to modern Russia. (Wonder who he really thinks it’s named after? ~Bob.)

The Trouble With Elections. By Burt Prelutsky

http://www.burtprelutsky.com/2012/08/the-trouble-with-elections.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+burtprelutsky%2FSQlQ+%28BurtPrelutsky.com%29

Excerpt: The drawback to elections, no matter where they take place, is that all sorts of people get to vote. Just look around and you’ll see the disastrous results of democratic elections. In Gaza, the people elected terrorists who owe their allegiance to Hamas. In Egypt, they elected Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, who gave a victory speech in which he announced that the future capital of Egypt would be Jerusalem, of all places, and put out a call to his people, saying, “You are all Hamas. Come forward, you lovers of martyrdom.”

Gaffe quote from NRO’s Morning Jolt with Jim Geraghty

But to judge from the coverage of the past week or so, Romney makes a "gaffe" every time he speaks -- and the media, obsessed with advancing a "narrative," now applies the word "gaffe" to very deliberate statements. What the term gaffe now means is, "a statement that someone, somewhere, doesn't like.” (The whole piece is worth reading. No link—you have to subscribe. ~Bob http://visitor.r20.constantcontact.com/manage/optin/ea?v=001RgvbKVLa7a5BY3s-bMhqwQ%3D%3D)

Good Piece: The smallness of the new Obama. By Charles Hurt

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jul/31/hurt-the-smallness-of-the-new-obama/?page=all#pagebreak

Excerpt: It has become the disappearing presidency. He went from peddling the “audacity of hope” to sheer hopelessness. From promising change to — literally — begging for change. Any spare change.

Obama Undermines the Law on Immigration. By Tom Tancredo

http://townhall.com/columnists/tomtancredo/2012/08/01/obama_undemines_the_law_on_immigration/page/full/

Excerpt: In July of 2011, Obama spoke before the National Council of La Raza. Addressing the demands by Hispanic leaders that he simply grant an administrative amnesty, he said “I know some people want me to bypass Congress and change the laws on my own.” La Raza’s audience broke out in applause and one audience member repeatedly yelled “Yes you can!” While acknowledging “the idea of doing things on my own is very tempting” and “not just on immigration reform,” he told La Raza “that’s not how the system works.”

White House pressuring defense industry not to warn of layoffs

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jul/31/sequestration-has-defense-in-the-dark/?page=all#pagebreak

Excerpt: Republicans on Tuesday accused the White House of trying to “intimidate” defense companies into keeping silent about major job losses if automatic military spending cuts take effect early next year, after the administration said Monday that it would be “inappropriate” for employers to warn workers of layoffs. Defense industry officials were caught in the middle, trying to weigh the requirements of a federal law that says they must give employees 60 days’ notice before major layoffs versus the Labor Department, which said Monday that it doesn’t believe the law applies in this case.

Heckling Romney Abroad. By Brent Bozell

http://townhall.com/columnists/brentbozell/2012/08/01/heckling_romney_abroad/page/full/

Excerpt: Mitt Romney might have thought it was eminently sensible in an NBC interview in London to repeat exactly what the TV networks had already reported on security at the London Olympics, namely, that there was room for concern. Romney succeeded only in demonstrating how unbelievably shameless and partisan our "objective" media can be. The networks and national newspapers aggressively declared Romney had committed a diplomatic fiasco overseas and repeated London tabloid headlines heckling Romney with insults, such as "Mitt the Twit." (Why would you be concerned that Pakistani officials were selling Olympic Visas to all comers? Everyone there belongs to the “Religion of Peace,” thus no threat. ~Bob.)

Iran significantly 'speeds up nuclear enrichment​'

http://m.yahoo.com/w/legobpengine/news/iran-significantly-speeds-nuclear-enrichment-135002884.html?orig_host_hdr=news.yahoo.com&.intl=US&.lang=en-US

Excerpt: "Iran has broken new records in terms of the pace at which it has been enriching uranium, and it has continued to race ahead so as to create as short a 'storming distance' as possible between it and the bomb," the Maariv daily said. (So much for sanctions! May still be time to stop this rogue nation from developing nuclear weapons should Romney win the Presidency! GBH)

First, the ‘fast & furious’ small fry. By Michael A. Walsh

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/first_the_fast_furious_small_fry_OenrvLwXSybd9tZoe8PONI#ixzz22IBlgoLj

Excerpt: Yesterday’s report on the Fast and Furious fiasco was just the first shoe. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), whose House Oversight Committee has been spearheading the investigation, promises two more. Shoe No. 1 blames five employees of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) for the botched “gunwalking” operation, which sent some 2,000 guns to the Mexican drug cartels — guns later used to kill hundreds of Mexicans and at least two Americans.

Obama asks public schools to ignore bad behavior by black students. By Kyle Rogers

http://www.examiner.com/article/obama-asks-public-schools-to-ingore-bad-behavoir-by-black-students?cid=rss

Excerpt: Back in 2007, I had two white female public school teachers tell me why Barack Obama was desperately needed as president. They said that black male students have no male role models. If only Obama was elected, black male students would improve their behavior and academic performance, they claimed. In many major cities, black academic performance has actually gotten worse since Obama took office. We have also seen the dramatic nationwide rise of black teen mob violence under the Obama administration. (This wouldn’t be possible in a country with a Constitution that guaranteed equal protect of the law, regardless of race. Or, as MLK should have said, “I have a dream that one day a black kid will be able to beat the crap out of a white kid and not be punished for it.” ~Bob.)

Hillary Compares Islamic Violence to Christianity

http://politicaloutcast.com/2012/08/hillary-compares-islamic-violence-to-christianity/

Excerpt: “Religions against one another, it is even within religions, within Christianity, within Judaism within, oh, Islam, within Hinduism there are people who believe their version of that religion is the only right way to believe. And so in some of the countries that we are concerned about that are majority Muslim countries it’s the intimidation and violence against Muslims who are in minority sects that we most worry about.” (After every Allahmurder, the left and the media warn about the possible “backlash” against Muslims. It never seems to happen. ~Bob.)

Amtrak, America's government-owned passenger rail corporation, plans to spend $151 billion it doesn't currently have.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2012/07/rail-renovations

Excerpt: Earlier this month, Amtrak, America's government-owned passenger rail corporation, released a plan outlining how it's going to spend $151 billion it doesn't currently have (and has no prospect of receiving anytime soon) to bring true high-speed trains to America's crucial Boston-New York-Washington rail axis. .... The more you delve into the details of the plans, the sillier they appear. (Full speed ahead on the high-speed road to ruins. –Chris)

Pentagon warns lawmakers: Sequester cuts would lead to 'unready, hollow' military force
http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hill/budget-appropriations/241551-pentagon-sequestration-major-step-to-hollow-force

Excerpt: Deputy Defense Secretary Ash Carter on Wednesday warned that sequestration would be a “major step” to “an unready, hollow” military force. Testifying at a House Armed Services Committee hearing on sequestration, Carter began laying out some of the impacts of the $55-billion cut facing the Pentagon in 2013 if sequestration is not reversed.

US aircrew's remains found in sunken WWII aircraft

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0812/sunk_wwII_ship_discovered.php3

Excerpt: The remains and personal belongings of five American airmen have been recovered from the wreck of a US Air Force plane, almost 70 years after it sank in Canadian waters, a diplomat said Tuesday. (Spare a thought and a prayer for the tens of thousands of US and allied servicemen and women who have died of disease or accidents in the military since 1775. They died in our service, doing our bidding, in freedom’s cause, as surely as those killed in combat. ~Bob.)

Eat Chicken and Speak Up For Freedom

http://justcommonsense-lostinamerica.blogspot.com/2012/08/eat-chicken-and-speak-up-for-freedom.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FMoXTa+%28Lost+in+America%29

Excerpt: I probably eat fast food once a month. But today I'm joining millions of other Americans and going to Chick-fil-A to have chicken sandwich. I have always held contempt for the radicalism of the Liberal Left, whether it was spitting in the face of Vietnam vets or demanding that religious folks accept what they deem immoral, or forcing churches to fund abortions and birth control. (I personally don’t have a concern about gay marriage. I wish it was the biggest problem facing America. Not in the top ten IMHO. But I have a huge problem with politicians and government punishing people for exercising their First Amendment Free Speech rights. ~Bob.)

Egypt all-veiled TV aims to cover women's needs

http://news.yahoo.com/video/egypt-veiled-tv-aims-cover-205059833.html

The “Arab Spring,” celebrated by all right-thinking multiculturalists, transnational progressives and their media sycophants, is doing a great job keeping women in their rightful, Allah-ordained subservient place. ~Bob.

Halal Games and Anti-Jihad War Apparatus in Islamized London: Halal Games and Anti-Jihad War Apparatus in Islamized London. By Enza Ferreri

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/07/halal-games-and-anti-jihad-war-apparatus-in-islamized-london.html

Excerpt: London is the most Islamic city to have hosted the Olympic Games ever. There are at least 1 million Muslims thought to live in London, although the figure is likely to be higher. And these Olympics will be dominated by Islam in more than one way.

Nurses ‘poisoning’: Christians call for inquiry

http://tribune.com.pk/story/415582/nurses-poisoning-christians-call-for-inquiry/

Excerpt: Nine Christian trainee nurses at the Civil Hospital Karachi fell ill Sunday night allegedly after drinking poisoned tea prepared at their hostel. They were claimed to have been deliberately poisoned because of their faith. 9Don’t drink the tea at the “Arab Spring.” ~Bob.)

Ethics panel finds Rep. Laura Richardson guilty on seven counts
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/241573-ethics-panel-finds-rep-laura-richardson-guilty-on-seven-counts

Excerpt: The House Ethics Committee issued a report on Wednesday finding Rep. Laura Richardson (D-Calif.) guilty on seven counts of violating the chamber’s rules by improperly pressuring her staff to campaign for her, destroying evidence and tampering with witness testimony. Richardson agreed to pay a fine of $10,000 within four months and promised to require staffers who work on her campaign to sign a waiver stating that they haven’t been pressured to do so. (Political staff understands, usually, that if the member gets fired, they get fired, so are happy to campaign. Must not have liked her. ~Bob.)

Slavery In the Quran, Traditions, and Classical Law: What Does Modern Islam Practice? By James M. Arlandson, Ph.D.

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/07/james-m-arlandson-slavery-in-the-quran-traditions-and-classical-law.html

Excerpt: This series of articles is intended for educators, journalists, legislators, city council members, judges, government bureaucrats, think tank fellows, TV and radio talk show hosts, and others who occupy “check points” in society. They initiate dialogues and shape (not to say control) the flow of the conversation. They are the policy and decision makers. They seem to believe that shariah has no problems; it’s just misunderstood. Its critics exaggerate (and maybe they have been guilty of that in some cases). The critics are probably just “Islamophobic.” Islam, after all, is a world religion, so it deserves respect. (Christianity and Judaism are also world religions, but these “thought leaders” don’t seem to think they deserve “respect.” Maybe because there is little to fear from their adherents. ~Bob.)

‘You Didn’t Build That’ and the Darkness of Collective Punishment: The fallacy of collective achievement led directly to last century's murderous scapegoating. By Oleg Atbashian

http://pjmedia.com/blog/you-didnt-build-that-and-the-darkness-of-collective-punishment/

Excerpt: As Obama’s “you didn’t build that” quote is probed and analyzed, note that the idea of redistributing other people’s achievements is only the tip of an ideological iceberg.

ICNA Embraces America's Favorite Salafi Preacher

http://www.investigativeproject.org/3692/icna-embraces-america-favorite-salafi-preacher

Excerpt: Yasir Qadhi, billed by the New York Times as "one of the most influential conservative clerics in American Islam," recently told one of the nation's largest Islamic conferences that the Quran "destroys" American capitalism. "Who amongst us would have predicted five years ago that this nation would despise and hate the very [economic] system that they used to claim was the reason for their success?" he asked hundreds at a session of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA)'s national conference in late May.

Don’t Give Up on the USA

http://soundcloud.com/stockbridge/dont-give-up-on-the-usa

New song.

Attacks on Christianity are Designed to Silence Christians and Keep them Home on Election Day. By Gary DeMar

http://godfatherpolitics.com/6419/attacks-on-christianity-are-designed-to-silence-christians-and-keep-them-home-on-election-day/

Excerpt: We have that freedom and right. We can “petition the government for a redress of grievances.” It’s written right in the Constitution. God through His mercy has established the United States as a civil society in which we can through our voice and vote make changes for the betterment of all. To remain silent in the face of evil is a grave sin.

Video: Syrian rebels execute militiamen

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4263386,00.html

Excerpt: Graphic footage from Aleppo shows four militiamen loyal to Assad at close range while crowd chants 'Allahu Akbar'. (Multiculturalism in action. Enjoy. ~Bob.)

GOP wants investigation of Obama administration meetings outside White House. By Alex Pappas

http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/01/gop-wants-investigation-of-obama-administration-meetings-outside-white-house/#ixzz22K6D5fdn

Excerpt: The chairman of the Republican National Committee said Wednesday there should be an investigation to determine whether Obama administration officials are breaking the law by intentionally holding meetings outside the White House to keep them off visitor logs. “We need to have a full-scale investigation so that we can in fact determine whether or not, under the facts and circumstances, that we have a crime,” RNC chairman Reince Priebus said in an afternoon conference call with reporters. Priebus also said officials may have broken the law by using a personal email account to conduct business.

Source: Iran readies attacks against Saudi Arabia, Qatar. By Reza Kahlili

http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/01/source-iran-readies-attacks-against-saudi-arabia-qatar/#ixzz22K79mmCf

Excerpt: Iran is preparing for a direct attack on Saudi Arabia should Syria’s Bashar Assad be in danger of falling to rebel forces that the Islamic regime believes are being supported by the Arab kingdom, according to a source within Iran’s Revolutionary Guards. Iran also blames the Saudis for unrest in two of its provinces. (Hard to believe they’d be this dumb, though they do a lot of dumb things. ~Bob.)

The Navalny charges illustrate the failure of Obama’s Russian reset. By Tom Rogan

http://dailycaller.com/2012/07/31/navalny-charges-illustrate-failure-of-obamas-russian-reset/#ixzz22K86AUrp

Regardless, it is now evident that President Obama’s attempted détente with Putin’s Russia has been a dismal failure. In both Russia’s international and domestic actions, while cloaking himself in the false visage of an enlightened strong man, Putin has engaged in a brutal pursuit of power. This week, Alexey Navalny, a leading Russian anti-corruption campaigner, was arrested and charged with embezzlement.

Americans flock to support Chick-fil-A

http://www.wnd.com/2012/08/americans-flock-to-support-chick-fil-a/

Excerpt: Across the country today, Americans are flocking to Chick-fil-A restaurants in a national show of support for the eatery after the company’s president publicly stated his support for the biblical definition of marriage between one man and one woman. (Pictures of the mob scenes. I think it’s as much to support the right of people to speak their views without having politicians use power of the government to punish them for their views. It’s possible to support gay marriage and freedom of speech. ~Bob.)