A lot of good (mostly) political items came in over the weekend

Well, a lot came in over the weekend as I was trying to help Bonnie get the Madison Condo squared away. My big accomplishment was getting the DVDs hooked up with the TVs. Okay, the one in the bedroom only plays in block and white, very frustration after a couple hours trying of trying every possible cable configuration twice. But this Marine trained tech now suspects a bad cable. Thanks to all who sent. With this much coming in some days, I suppose I should go back to calling it a “Political SitRep,” though I still lack the time and energy to search for items like  I did. ~Bob

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Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics. –Albert Camus

Book Recommendation: Midnight in Mexico: A Reporter's Journey Through a Country's Descent into Darkness. By Alfredo Corchado

http://www.amazon.com/Midnight-Mexico-Reporters-Countrys-Darkness/dp/159420439X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1375110685&sr=1-1&keywords=midnight+in+mexico

You know it’s bad in Mexico, but you don’t know how bad until you read this report by a Mexican-American reporter who loves Mexico, has covered the violence, drug cartels and corruption there for years, often at risk of his life, and despairs about Mexico’s future. A well-written personal account which should be read by every American. Given the length of the border, and a lack of will and resources, we cannot keep this from coming to the US.

To THE WHITE HOUSE - For The President. By Andy Weddington

http://acoloneloftruth.blogspot.com/2013/07/to-white-house-for-president.html

Excerpt: Though not law, the President of the United States is expected to be an upstanding citizen - exemplary in thought, word, and deed. More, stout character - that emanates from a core of integrity and moral courage - is required; to carry out the Oath of Office and to do what is right by humanity and for country.

“No Talking Points” from about race problems

http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/bestoftv/2013/07/27/nr-lemon-no-talking-points.cnn.html

Five steps from a black CNN reporter.

Slow Learners: New $444 million hockey arena is still a go in Detroit

http://money.cnn.com/2013/07/26/news/economy/detroit-bankruptcy-arena/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Excerpt: Detroit's financial crisis hasn't derailed the city's plans to spend more than $400 million in Michigan taxpayer funds on a new hockey arena for the Red Wings. (As Rome knew, you have to give the “headcount” [Capite censi] games and grain or they get “restive.” ~Bob.)

Republican and Democratic Approaches to Health Reform: Is There a Dime’s Worth of Difference? By John Goodman

http://healthblog.ncpa.org/republican-and-democratic-approaches-to-health-reform-is-there-a-dimes-worth-of-difference/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=HA#more-31310

Excerpt: After the outcome of another election or two, Republicans might well have the chance to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare). What would they replace it with? Dylan Matthews at the Wonk Blog the other day said there has been only one serious health reform proposal on the GOP side of the aisle in recent years. It’s called the Patients’ Choice Act, sponsored by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.). This is essentially the health reform plan John McCain endorsed in 2008 ― the one that the Obama campaign spent millions of dollars attacking during the election. Matthews admits there “are real differences” between the two approaches. But he adds, “They aren’t huge ones.” He offers a chart that implies the differences are merely differences of degree, not of kind. Really? There are basically three criteria by which to judge a public policy: efficiency, equity and liberty. To what degree does the policy allow us to achieve a social objective at minimum cost? (Efficiency) To what degree does the policy treat people fairly? (Equity) And to what degree does it leave individuals free to make their own decisions? (Liberty)

George Will: Detroit doesn’t have a fiscal problem, but a ‘cultural collapse’
http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/28/george-will-detroit-doesnt-have-a-fiscal-problem-but-a-cultural-collapse/#ixzz2aRmEyS7s

Excerpt: “Can’t solve the problems because the problems are cultural,” Will said. “You have a city, 139 square miles. You can graze cattle in vast portions of it. Dangerous herds of feral dogs roam in there. You have 3 percent of fourth graders reading at the national math standards. Forty-seven percent of Detroit residents are functionally illiterate. Seventy-nine percent of Detroit children are born to unmarried mothers. They don’t have a fiscal problem, Steve. They have a cultural collapse.”

Pivot over, politics as usual: Economy not on Organizing for Action’s ‘Action August’ agenda

http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/28/economy-not-on-organizing-for-actions-action-august-agenda/

Excerpt: Beginning on Obama’s birthday, August 4, OFA will spend the month promoting the administration’s top issues ahead of the 2014 midterm elections: the benefits of enrolling early in Obamacare (August 4), immigration reform (August 5), climate change (August 13), gun control (August 21), and immigration reform again (August 31).

Motorcyclist turns tables on would-be robbers near Colorado Springs

http://gazette.com/motorcyclist-turns-tables-on-would-be-robbers-near-colorado-springs/article/1503696

Excerpt: One of the men was armed with a knife, Kramer said. The motorcyclist didn't comply with their demands. Instead, he punched the knife-wielding man and then pulled out a handgun, which he was lawfully carrying, Kramer said.

Obama Deals Death Blow To Military Healthcare

http://justcommonsense-lostinamerica.blogspot.com/2013/07/obama-deals-death-blow-to-military.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FMoXTa+%28Lost+in+America%29

Excerpt: Largely going unnoticed this past week was Barack Obama's wield of a death blow to the remnants of reasonable military health care. As Congress forwarded to Defense Budget to the White House this week, Obama made no mention of the defense costs to move squadrons of fighters and navy destroyers into Africa to give him "extra security" during his African visit. The $100 million dollars expended to assure the comfort of Barack and Michelle and family wasn't questioned. 

80 percent of organ donors' lungs are rejected, resulting in certain death for those waiting

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0713/lung_surgery_breakthrough.php3#.UfaJntK-o0E

Excerpt: Now, the University of Pennsylvania and five other medical centers are testing technology aimed at improving the situation. It involves cleaning and refurbishing donor lungs while the organ "breathes" in a specially designed machine. Lungs that would normally be discarded can be tuned up, evaluated and, in many cases, reused. (Since I’m in the market for a couple of low mileage, gently used lungs, this was of interest to me. ~Bob.)

George H.W. Bush shaves head for 2-year-old cancer patient

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57595370/george-h.w-bush-shaves-head-for-2-year-old-cancer-patient/

Col. Bud Day, Medal of Honor Recipient, dies at 88

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/col-bud-day-medal-honor-recipient-dies-88-19797029

Excerpt: Retired Col. George "Bud" Day, a Medal of Honor recipient who spent 5½ years as a POW in Vietnam and was Arizona Sen. John McCain's cellmate, has died at the age of 88, his widow said Sunday. (We were lucky to have him survive as long as he did, given the horrendous treatment his body endured as a POW. RIP, Colonel. –Del. I hope he didn’t get to hear Obama prating about how the chief torturer, Ho Chi Minh, was “inspired” by Thomas Jefferson. The people who put this country first are passing. All that will soon be left will be the Detroit-taker mobs, howling for welfare, disability and Obama phones when the money runs out. ~Bob.)

Vietnamese Americans agitate for human rights in their homeland: Vietnamese refugees in the United States and a reform party press for political change in the communist country.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-viet-tan-20130727,0,996663.story?track=rss

Excerpt: His parent's activity with a pro-democracy group finally drew his father from the family's comfortable Garden Grove home to Vietnam, where he hoped to train residents to use nonviolent methods in lobbying for reforms. Instead, he was charged with subversion and arrested.

Hindu Women Dead & Many Hindus Injured by Muslim Mobs in Meerut for Playing Music in Temple During Ramadan

http://www.chakranews.com/hindu-women-killed-many-hindus-injured-by-muslim-mobs-in-meerut-for-playing-music-in-temple-during-ramadan/4012

Murder during Ramadan is Halah. Music is Haram. Got it. Infidel? ~Bob.

Islamists kill 20 in Nigeria's north

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1793698/Islamists-kill-20-in-Nigerias-north

Members of the Religion of Peace celebrate the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. ~Bob.

Attack on Minya churches repelled by residents, security forces

http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2013/07/28/attack-on-minya-churches-repelled-by-residents-security-forces/

Excerpt: “They threw molotov cocktails at Al-Azraa and Anba Ebram churches but were not able to break in as nearby Muslims and Christians were securing the churches,” said Ishak Ibrahim, researcher at Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR). He added that the protesters tried to storm in El-Eslah church but were prevented. 

Scores killed as Egyptian security forces fire on demonstrators at Morsi rally

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/egypt-steps-up-battle-against-morsi-supporters-with-investigation-clashes/2013/07/27/032cae80-f699-11e2-9434-60440856fadf_story.html

Excerpt: The death toll from clashes between Egyptian security forces and supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi has risen to 72, the health ministry reported Sunday, as both sides appeared to harden their resolve and doubts grew about the chances for national reconciliation.

Wave of car bombings target Iraqi Shi'ites, killing 60

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/29/us-iraq-violence-idUSBRE96S06420130729

Excerpt: Car bombs ripped through busy streets and markets in Iraq on Monday, killing at least 60 people in predominantly Shi'ite areas in some of the deadliest violence since Sunni insurgents stepped up attacks this year. (The next Syria. Members of the Religion of Peace just can’t seem to get along. ~Bob.)

Massive jailbreak near Benghazi, Libya, lets more than 1,000 inmates free

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57595817/massive-jailbreak-near-benghazi-libya-lets-more-than-1000-inmates-free/

Excerpt: More than 1,000 detainees escaped from a prison near the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi in a massive jailbreak Saturday, officials said, as protesters stormed political party offices in Libya's main cities. (And the results of Obama’s not-Congressionally-authorized war in Libya continue to pile up. ~Bob.)

LIBYA: Anti-Islamofascist protesters storm and trash Muslim Brotherhood headquarters after opposition activist was assassinated

http://www.barenakedislam.com/2013/07/29/libya-anti-islamofascist-protesters-storm-and-trash-muslim-brotherhood-headquarters-after-opposition-activist-was-assassinated/

Excerpt: “We don’t want the Brotherhood, we want the army and the police,” some protesters chanted, echoing a slogan used in Egypt. Protesters in Libyan cities stormed Islamist-affiliated party offices. In Benghazi, they invaded and set fire to a building that housed the Muslim Brotherhood’s political wing. They also burned the Muslim Brotherhood flag. (Nature abhors unbalance and will always strive to restore balance. The Arab Spring, a product of Western powers and press, and especially of the rogue Obama administration, introduced a severe unbalance in the Arab world. Libya, Egypt, Turkey and others had been conditioned for decades to a comfortable and prosperous way of life that came from a secular form of government. The Arab Spring and the attendant propaganda, much of it from the pro-Islam West, temporarily changed many Muslims' minds and brainwashed them into accepting an Islamist government. But this was not the form of government they were used to. Women had become accustomed to a modicum of freedom, education, voting rights, etc. Most had been comfortable with westernized fashions and beardlessness. People just generally don't want a bearded fanatic meddling in their private affairs, even if at bottom they are Muslims themselves. Obama and the rest of the pro-Islam West were so excited when they saw the first stirrings that they imagined they could harness this unrest to persuade people to accept an Islamic strait jacket. They were so wrapped up in their soulless project that they forgot to poll the people and take the national pulses. As usual, the world changers ran up against reality: unintended consequences (or God's hand as some would say). Now they are experiencing the backlash that any sensible person could have predicted. But the lust for power clouds the thinking of those who fancy themselves on the vanguard of history. The events in Libya are nature's attempt to restore balance. Today I saw on a European TV channel a meeting between Egyptian leaders and a representative of the EU who no doubt imagined she could persuade Egyptians to don the Shariah strait jacket again. No amount of goading, no amount of TNT falling on the heads of citizens of sovereign countries, will shepherd them into the pens of the elites again. Something has broken. Finally, let us not minimize the role of the whistleblowers in reducing the power of the elites. The utter depravity and lies of the Obama administration have been exposed, triggering a sea change everywhere. Without these courageous people putting their necks, their freedom and their jobs on the line, this restoration of the balance may eventually have happened anyway, but certainly much later. You may love or hate them, but you owe them a lot, no matter how you view it. --Don Hank)

Doctors among (six) dead in Philippines hotel blast

http://www.arabnews.com/news/459375

Excerpt: Asked who he thought was responsible for the attack, he said: “It’s hard to speculate at this time.” Muslim groups including the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) have waged a guerrilla war for a separate Islamic state in Mindanao since the 1970s, a conflict that has claimed an estimated 150,000 lives. The Aquino government and the MILF signed a preliminary deal in October last year outlining the broad terms for a peace treaty that is expected to be signed before he ends his six-year term in 2016.

American Reported Killed Fighting for Al-Qaida in Syria. By John Rossomando

http://www.investigativeproject.org/4103/american-reported-killed-fighting-for-al-qaida-in

Excerpt: A Pittsburgh man may be the latest American killed as part of the global Muslim jihad against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The man, identified as Amir Farouk Ibrahim, 32, was reportedly killed July 22 in fighting between Syrian Kurdish forces and those linked to the Islamic State of Iraq, an al-Qaida affiliate. (Sad. Memorial Contributions may be sent to the Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund. ~Bob.)

US launches 1st drone strike in Yemen in 7 weeks

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2013/07/us_launches_first_dr_1.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LongWarJournalSiteWide+%28The+Long+War+Journal+%28Site-Wide%29%29

Excerpt: US drones launched the first strike in Yemen in 49 days, killing six "militants" in an attack today on a convoy in a southern town controlled by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

Accused Fort Hood shooter releases statement to Fox News. By Catherine Herridge, Pamela Browne

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/07/26/accused-fort-hood-shooter-claims-us-military-at-war-with-his-religion/#ixzz2aMbWqL76

Excerpt: “My complicity was on behalf of a government that openly acknowledges that it would hate for the law of Almighty Allah to be the supreme law of the land," the 42-year-old Army psychiatrist said. Hasan then apparently asked if this was a war on Islam. "You bet it is," he said. "I participated in it.” (I'm trying to figure out how the DOD can continue to call the attack at Ft Hood "workplace violence" when Hasan has proclaimed to the world that he is a jihadist warrior, and was attacking as part of the war between Islam and the USA. I wonder how long the judge will let the charade go on, when the guy is condemned by his own words. And please Heaven, will they give him the death penalty and shoot the MFSOB? --Del)

Whistleblowers & NSA

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2013/07/27

Excerpt: According to Binney, there is substantial danger that data collected from phone and internet communications as well as financial records will be used to target particular Americans, a scenario recently played out when the IRS was caught harassing tea party members, he pointed out. Because the threat is real and the spy organization's reach well beyond its original charter, Binney said he has signed an affidavit for the Electronic Frontier Foundation's lawsuit challenging the NSA's constitutional authority to collect this kind of information. Another peril to U.S. citizens are FISA Courts (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court) which can order the transfer of domestic intelligence data but have no way of validating the intelligence being given to them, he continued. 

Team Obama Steps Up Racial Standards for Neighborhoods
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/07/23/team-obama-steps-up-racial-standards-for-neighborhoods/?intcmp=obnetwork#ixzz2aPGcv9z1

Excerpt: The old way was to punish exclusion. The new way is to punish lack of inclusion. The punishment is also different. Rather than fines and prosecutions for those who sought to keep minorities out, the new penalty would be a withholding of federal funds from local and state government agencies dependent on HUD grants if they fail to push greater diversity.

Farrakhan Reacts to Trayvon Verdict: “We Have To Rebel Against These Tyrants”

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2013/07/28/Farrakhan-Uses-Trayvon-To-Call-For-Black-Revolt

Excerpt: In this week's installment of Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam YouTube video series, "The Time and What Must Be Done," the controversial minister uses the shooting of Trayvon Martin to argue that America was "not made" for minorities, imploring his audience to "rebel against these tyrants"--presumably the institutional forces of "white supremacy.""You are gonna have to come to the realization that the death or murder of Trayvon was a nail in the coffin of white supremacy. …We have to separate. We have to find a path, and America, you have to let the black man go." (Nothing about the death of Christopher Cervini? ~Bob.)

Edward Snowden's not the story. The fate of the internet is: The press has lost the plot over the Snowden revelations. The fact is that the net is finished as a global network and that US firms' cloud services cannot be trusted

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jul/28/edward-snowden-death-of-internet

Excerpt: The first is that the days of the internet as a truly global network are numbered. …Second, the issue of internet governance is about to become very contentious….The fact is that Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft are all integral components of the US cyber-surveillance system. 

TSA Adds Extortion to List of Abuses

http://lastresistance.com/2800/tsa-adds-extortion-to-list-of-abuses/

Excerpt: Having already established that they are intent on making your airport visit as miserable as possible, the TSA is now making it clear that they will relent, a little, if you give them money. Words like “extortion,” “Mafia,” and “legalized mugging” should all come to mind. It’s for your protection? I think the Godfather had a really similar line

Election Officials Who Vowed War on Voter Fraud Find Little Proof of Ithttp://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2012/09/24/colorado-election-officials-who-vowed-war-on-voter-fraud-find-little-proof-it/

Excerpt: They vowed to wage a war on voter fraud. But those officials are having a hard time finding much of an enemy to fight. State officials in key presidential battleground states, many of them Republican, have found only a tiny fraction of the illegal voters they initially suspected existed. Searches in Colorado and Florida have yielded numbers that amount to less than one-tenth of 1 percent of all registered voters in either state.

Obama: Ho Chi Minh Was Inspired by Our Founders

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/07/25/obama-ho-chi-minh-was-inspired-by-the-founders/

Excerpt: President Obama hailed hard-core communist revolutionary Ho Chi Minh today as a pretty open guy who was actually inspired by the Founders. Obama took a break from his jobs-pivot speeches to meet Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang at the White House. The pair held joint remarks in the Oval Office afterward. Obama said their first bilateral meeting “represents the steady progression and strengthening of the relationship between our two countries.” (So no freedom of speech, religion, press or assembly in today’s Vietnam is Jefferson’s fault? ~Bob.

Obama hosts Ramadan dinner at White House

http://www.baynews9.com/content/news/baynews9/news/article.html/content/news/articles/ap/2013/07/25/Obama_hosts_Ramadan_dinner_at_White_House.html

Excerpt: Obama spoke at a White House dinner he hosted to celebrate the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. The meal, or iftar, breaks the day of fasting when Muslim families and communities eat together after sunset. (Still no money for tours because, you know, sequester and deficit. ~Bob.)

Obama celebrates Ramadan: 'Islam has contributed to the character' of US
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/313665-obama-celebrates-ramadan-with-white-house-dinner#ixzz2aLNF3OVr
Excerpt: President Obama late Thursday celebrated Ramadan with a traditional dinner in the State Dining Room, saying that throughout the nation's history, “Islam has contributed to the character of our country.” In remarks before the Iftar dinner, eaten by Muslims after sunset to end the day of fasting, Obama quoted from the Koran, according to a White House pool report. "As the Koran teaches, whoever does an atom's weight of good will see its results." (Christian? Really?….. Here is the list of the 1% invited to celebrate in the WH that is no longer open to US citizens. http://www.scribd.com/doc/156052876/Expected-Attendees-at-the-White-House-Iftar-Dinner. --Barb)

The Horrific Muslim Infiltration Of Britain

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=07b_1368058553

A British girl visits her home town.

Political Correctness Can Have ‘Ugly Consequences,’ says AMAC

http://amac.us/political-correctness-can-have-ugly-consequences-says-amac

Excerpt: Police would be unable to provide eyewitness descriptions of perpetrators under a proposed New York City law that seeks to limit profiling of suspects. “It’s an overreach that would give criminals the edge and put innocent citizens at risk, all in the name of Political Correctness,” according to Dan Weber, president of the Association of Mature American Citizens.

Breaking: Holder Tries to Re-grab Texas, Announces Nationwide Attack on Election Integrity

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/07/25/breaking-holder-tries-to-re-grab-texas-announces-nationwide-attack-on-election-integrity/

Excerpt: But this announcement is all about the midterm elections. Obama wants the House back, and the Justice Department is again being turned into a political weapon using the cloak of civil rights. …Because Democratic interests are so perfectly aligned with the civil rights establishment — in no small measure because of extreme bloc voting by American blacks — the DOJ is now an arm of the DNC.

Will Justice Outlast the Trayvon Martin Hysteria? If President Obama gets his way, he'll turn our lives into a game of survival horror.

http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2013/07/25/will-justice-outlast-the-trayvon-martin-hysteria/

Excerpt: I thought of Outlast after considering last week’s remarks by President Obama which he offered in response to the verdict in the George Zimmerman trial. Predictably, the president chose to amplify the narrative that the black community was somehow owed a conviction. The threat to liberty posed by our nation’s highest executive suggesting that a criminal case ought to be decided not on the facts, but to satisfy a subjective sense of racial justice, cannot be overstated. 

Change! Obama Website Deletes Promise to Protect Whistleblowers

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/07/27/change-obama-website-deletes-promise-to-protect-whistleblowers/

Excerpt: Two days after the National Security Agency’s PRISM program made headlines, President Obama’s Change.gov campaign website underwent a stealth makeover. The Sunlight Foundation noticed the change after June 8th. That was the last time that this Obama promise and others saw the light of day on on the president’s website…. Just like that, Obama no longer promises to protect those who blow the whistle on government misdeeds.

Benghazi Survivor David Ubben coming forward

http://shoebat.com/2013/07/27/benghazi-survivor-injured-in-attack-coming-forward/

Excerpt: Moreover, Ubben, whose right leg was essentially shredded, has now come forward and told some of his story to Fox News. There are hopes that he may testify in front of Congress. Perhaps one of the most shocking revelations in this story is that after Ubben was hit, he waited at the Annex for twenty hours before help arrived. (Oh, “phony.” Just another bump in the road to global Caliphate. The above link has the Video. –Barb)

Supreme Court shutouts reveal reckless decisions

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/07/22/supreme-court-losses-column/2576625/

Excerpt: But we might do well to pay more attention where the court rules unanimously, particularly when they go against the White House. When a president pursues policies that require such expansive federal power that he can't get a single justice to agree, something is probably amiss…. When presidents routinely claim sweeping powers that every Supreme Court justice rejects, something is wrong.

Canadian Terrorist to be Deported from Mauritania Back to Canada

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/170289#.UfUYUdI3v0c

Excerpt: A 24-year-old Canadian who has been held in a Mauritanian prison since December 2011 on terror-related charges, has been released and will be deported to Canada soon, the CBC reported. The man, Aaron Yoon, was sentenced to two years in prison last July after being convicted of having ties to an al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group that operates in the North African region and of posing a danger to Mauritanian national security.

PA daily says official US invite to talks will include ’1967 lines’ despite official Israeli stance

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/170333#.UfUXjtI3v0c

Has Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu agreed to negotiations based on the 1949 armistice line, despite previous claims to the contrary? According to Palestinian Authority-based media outlets, the official invites to Israel-PA talks, which will be sent by the United States, are to include a statement that the talks will be based on the “1967 lines” with possible territorial swaps. The report was carried by both Al-Ayyam and Al-Hayat. (Gee, guess who else will be with the Christians in the stadiums? Déjà vu WWII, only it’s WWIII. –Barb)

Bennett: Terrorists Should be Killed, Not Released

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/170321#.UfUXItI3v0c

Excerpt: Economy Minister Naftali Bennett announced on Saturday night that he would vote against the release of 104 terrorist prisoners, a demand by the Palestinian Authority in order to start peace negotiations. Bennett said that he has also instructed all the ministers from the Bayit Yehudi to vote against the release as well. The ministers will vote on the release on Sunday morning. (Maybe POTUS wants drone practice? –Barb)

‘Why Hunt Down German Nazis, but Release Muslim Nazis?’ Father whose wife and three young children were killed by terrorists doesn’t understand Israel’s approach to murderers.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/170327#.UfUWdNI3v0c

Excerpt: “Why does the Weisenthal Center track down Nazis who murdered Jews, while here we have Muslim Nazis who murdered Jews, who spilled blood as if it were water, who burned a mother and three children and an unborn baby alive – and they are released? Is there a difference between them and the Nazis criminals?” he asked, quoting Rabbi Weiss. Holtzberg burst into tears as he recalled the funeral for Rachel Weiss and her children. The four were killed when terrorists hurled a firebomb at a bus full of civilians, setting it on fire.

MAJOR ALERT for Private School and Homeschool Parents. The Plan: Your Child WILL be Taught Common Core.

http://www.missourieducationwatchdog.com/

Excerpt: Do you think you have freedom to educate your child as you, the parent, sees fit? Do you look to the State for educational development/delivery for your child or have you selected private/homeschool options? …. The state not only controls the public development/direction of education, it will also control both private/homeschool educational development/ direction. (Refers to AL but FL has big “initiative” too…Barb)

Military Chaplain Being Punished For Speaking About God

http://lastresistance.com/2848/military-chaplain-being-punished-for-speaking-about-god/

Excerpt:….According to Ken Klukowski: “As reported by Fox News’s Todd Starnes, when Reyes referenced this famous line in his essay, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) contacted the base commander, Col. Brian Duffy, demanding he take action on Reyes’s ‘anti-secular diatribe.’ MRFF’s letter says that by Reyes’s ‘use of the bigoted, religious supremacist phrase, ‘no atheists in foxholes,’ he defiles the dignity of service members.’ They accuse him of violating military regulations.” Further, the MRFF wants Reyes to be punished: “Faith based hate, is hate all the same…Lt. Col. Reyes must be appropriately punished.” (If football is too dangerous, regime can recycle all these stadiums by feeding Christians to animals for regime sport. What year is this? Long for the days of MASH TV when the chaplain was understood, his role important and honored. PC has led to this. America is restricting its cherished freedoms with a regime hell-bent to match the control of China on personal freedom of citizens. –Barb)

Obama Assigns Job Of Gun Confiscation To…

http://www.westernjournalism.com/obama-assigns-job-of-gun-confiscation-to/

Excerpt: For this reason, Barack Obama has decided to remove 2nd Amendment rights from the realm of politics and constitutional guarantee by transforming the question of gun violence into an issue of public health. On January 26th, Obama issued Exec Order # 14, a “Presidential Memorandum directing the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to research the causes and prevention of gun violence.” … “Public health’s role is to reduce these firearm injuries and deaths.”

Minimum Wage Jobs; It Ain't Rocket Science

http://justcommonsense-lostinamerica.blogspot.com/2013/07/minimum-wage-jobs-it-aint-rocket-science.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FMoXTa+%28Lost+in+America%29

Excerpt: Just about every economic study over the last half century has shown that raising the minimum wage almost always leads to lower employment rates. So, while it's no surprise that our "business-challenged" President is proposing a $9.00 federal minimum wage rate, I'm still taken aback that so many ordinary Americans don't get it. And Washington D.C. sure doesn't get it as two weeks ago that ghetto demanded that Walmart pay $12.50 an hour or get the hell out....which is just what Walmart is doing at a loss to D.C of thousands of jobs. (As Dr. Thomas Sowell points out, most people are unable to think to Stage Two, the results of the policy. ~Bob.)

Many people will never know what hit them. By Douglas J. Hagmann

http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/archives/9048

Excerpt: The Examiner article quoted “The Guerrilla Economist™” as follows:

“Deutsche Bank. Big bank. Biggest bank in Germany, and one of the biggest banks in the Euro Zone… they’re going to go belly up. Watch it. Watch it, I said it, it’s going to happen. They are in such a danger zone, they don’t know what to do. Deutsche Bank’s derivative debt is greater than the global economy. That is one bank. $72 trillion in derivative exposure. The entire global economy, all the countries in the world is only $66 trillion GDP.” (If true, this will wreck the world economy, including us. ~Bob.)

Three white guys beat up a black guy in DC as #JusticeForGeorge
http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/29/three-white-guys-beat-up-a-black-guy-in-dc-as-justiceforgeorge/#ixzz2aT1zHlru

Excerpt: “This is for George Zimmerman.” That’s what one of three white men told a black man as they approached him early Saturday in Washington before committing what police are saying may be a hate crime, according to Metropolitan Police Officer Anthony Clay. The men kicked the man, who was not identified, as they took his iPhone and wallet, the officer said Sunday, according to CNN.

Facts that Liberals can’t deal with

Facts that Liberals can’t deal with

Robert A. Hall

Liberals like to pretend that the Democrats are the “fact and science based” party, but they are pretty good at ignoring facts when it suits their narrative. Take these facts, which an internet search will verify. But be warned—if you tell them to a liberal, he will call you a “hater,” or a “racist.”

• Conservatives are on average much happier than Liberals. People who go to church regularly are much happier than secularists. People who are married are happier than the single. People with jobs are happier than the unemployed, regardless if they get a comfortable level of benefits for not working. Liberals hate these facts because the democrats have become the party of the un-churched, unmarried and unemployed.

• Conservatives give far more money to charity, and not just churches, than Liberals.

• More people are murdered by hammers, or by fists and feet every year than by rifles, included the dreaded but misnamed “assault rifles.”

• Muslims and their media apologists talk of Islamophobia and fret about a “backlash” every time there is an Islamic terror attack. But from 2002 to 2011, Muslims are estimated to have suffered hate crimes at a frequency of 6.0 incidents per 100,000 per year – 10 percent lower than blacks (6.7), 48 percent lower than homosexuals and bisexuals (11.5), and 59 percent lower than Jews (14.8).

• Blacks make up 13% of the population, but commit 53% of the murders. The majority of the victims are black, in some cities as many as 85%. Despite the demagoguery after the Zimmerman case about “open season on young black men” in Florida, a black person is far safer walking at night through a white neighborhood than through a black one.

• Blacks are far more likely to murder whites, than whites are to murder blacks. Even “white Hispanics.”

• By far, the vast majority of Muslims who have died by violence in the last 40 years have died at the hands of fellow Muslims, not the evil infidels.

• Liberals say there is no vote fraud. But 20% of the registered voters in Ohio are ineligible. Some counties have more registered voters than citizens of voting age. The get angry when you tell them this. They don’t want ID for voting, but are fine with requiring minorities to have ID to fly, buy alcohol, drive, cash checks, buy guns, be admitted to a hospital, when stopped by police, apply to school, apply for credit, use a credit card, pawn something, buy a house, check out a book, apply for government benefits, apply for a professional license, get into federal buildings, and enter the Democrat National Convention.

• Houston, TX has about the same population and average income as Chicago, IL, and a higher minority population, but Houston, with concealed carry laws, has about half the murder rate of Chicago, with some of the strictest gun laws in the country.

• Despite their blaming everything from tornados to bed begs on it, there has been no significant global warming since 1995.

• Millions of black, brown and yellow kids in the third world have died of Malaria because liberals banned DDT, to feel good about saving birds. (West Nile Virus and bedbugs are spreading in the US for the same reason.) Now, of course, liberals are supporting eagle-chopper wind farms to feel good about being for green energy, to hell with the birds.

• Comparing Obama’s promises and speeches from 2005-2008 to what he has done and what he says now infuriates liberals. The list is too long to detail, but you can find statements on the deficit, the patriot Act and many other things that were untrue or pure demagoguery.

• Liberals wanted black rule in Zimbabwe and after it came, black life expectancy dropped from about 63 to about 36.

• Liberals wanted the Shah of Iran overthrown. The regime they helped replace him with stones women for adultery, hangs gays, started a war with Iraq that cost a million lives, used children as human mine detectors, supports terrorism and is trying to build an atomic bomb. If we lose New York, the blood is on their hands.

• Liberals blame slavery for the troubles of black people. So would this be a better country if slavery had not existed and no blacks were brought here in chains? And would blacks be better off? In the time period when 500,000 black Africans sold by fellow blacks and Arabs to white slave traders and were brought to North America as slaves, a million white Europeans were kidnapped into slavery into Muslim lands, according to research by Dr. Thomas Sowell. Muslims also took many blacks into slavery, perhaps more than Europeans did, but there are no records and they died out.

• It is certainly true that the government we supported in South Vietnam was repressive in many ways. But the communist government that liberals fought hard to replace it with gives the people far less freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press or economic freedom than the Republic of Vietnam did, with nary a peep from the left.

• Something like 91% of honor killings, where a woman or girl is murdered by male family members for crimes as trivial as talking to a man, are carried out by Muslims. They happen even in the USA.

• Female Genital Mutilation is not limited to Muslims, and not all Muslims practice it, but it is wide spread in Muslim countries. Estimates are that as many as 60% to 90% of the girls in Egypt have been “cut.”

*****

Robert A. Hall is the author of ten books, including The Coming Collapse of the American Republic.

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For a free PDF of this book, e-mail him at tartanmarine(at)gmail.com.

Books by Robert A. Hall: 

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Royalties go to charity.

Some good stuff for your weekend

Well, we can breathe a little easier (not the way I need to, alas!), as we closed on the sale of the Des Plaines condo,, though at a terrific haircut (thank you Fannie, Freddie and the CRA). The expense of the hotel I’m staying in will actually be slightly higher per month, but no stairs to climb and I can walk away when I retire. Will be living on Social Security (though unlikely to live long enough to get back what I paid in) and savings, but be debt free, except what we charge each month and pay off on the credit card. Still a LOT of unpacking in Madison, and with my energy level, it may take months.

Leaving you some items for the weekend, as I’ll be off-line unpacking. ~Bob

Did Marines Ambush Defense Secretary Hagel? By Andy Weddington

http://acoloneloftruth.blogspot.com/2013/07/did-marines-ambush-defense-secretary.html

Excerpt: Said Loretta Sanchez, a California Democrat, describing the task of opening up ground combat to women as providing Equal Opportunity for women, "I'm real excited to get this done. Combat performance is an important issue when people are looking at moving up in all of these organizations."

Can Obamacare Get the Young Blood It Needs to Live?

http://blog.heritage.org/2013/07/26/morning-bell-can-obamacare-get-the-young-blood-it-needs-to-live/?roi=echo3-16376960226-13873642-f656c9bf62e6f7cfd186677e7b0954f8&utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Morning%2BBell

Excerpt: What would it take to get you to enroll in Obamacare? A folksy song? A celebrity endorsement? An ad in a porta-potty? Taxpayer money may be used for all of those things and more as October 1—the date when the health insurance exchanges are supposed to open—approaches. But all the campaigns and millions of dollars in advertising may not be enough, especially for the demographic Obamacare so desperately needs: young people.

Was Israel’s Latest ‘Air’ Attack on Syria from a Submarine? By Tom Gross

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/was-israel-s-latest-air-attack-syria-submarine_740163.html

Excerpt: An attack two weeks ago that destroyed an advanced Russian missile shipment delivered to Syria’s Assad regime should also serve as a warning to Iran – and to those complacent Western diplomats who have (dangerously in my view) reconciled themselves to the idea of allowing Iran to go nuclear and then trying to contain it. For it seems that the July 5 attack on an arms depot near the Syrian naval base of Latakia, which has been attributed to Israel, came not from the air (as CNN and the New York Times reported last weekend) but from under the water.

Mother of slain Benghazi victim Sean Smith: ‘My son is dead. How could that be phony?’
http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/25/mother-of-slain-benghazi-victim-sean-smith-my-son-is-dead-how-could-that-be-phony/

Excerpt: The mother of a Benghazi victim is furious about the new White House strategy of calling the terrorist attack and many other scandals plaguing the Obama administration “fake” or “phony.” Patricia Smith, mother of Sean Smith, who was slain in the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack, lashed out on “Your World” on the Fox News Channel about that terminology.

Family of Murdered Border Patrol Agent: Nothing 'Phony' About Deaths Linked to Fast and Furious

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2013/07/26/family-of-murdered-border-patrol-agent-nothing-phony-about-deaths-linked-fast-and-furious-n1649746

Excerpt: “These deaths are real. My son’s death was real. I am outraged that President Obama is talking about phony scandals when he knows all too well that my son was a victim of Operation Fast and Furious that was authorized by members of his Justice Department and a U.S. Attorney that he appointed. 

The President’s Broken Window Fallacy: Carbon Policies and Jobs. By Benjamin Zycher

http://www.american.com/archive/2013/july/the-presidents-broken-window-fallacy-carbon-policies-and-jobs

Excerpt: At a general level, employment created — that is, shifted — as a result of a government policy is a cost rather than a benefit for the economy as a whole, unless the policy improves resource allocation by, say, correcting for some sort of market inefficiency. (Whether or not government policies can be predicted systematically to improve the efficiency of resource use is the central focus of the vast public choice literature). As counterintuitive as that may seem, imagine that a federal policy had the effect of increasing the demand for high-quality steel. That clearly would be a benefit for steel producers, or more broadly, for owners of inputs in steel production, including steel workers. But for the economy as a whole, the need for additional high-quality steel in, say, an expanding wind-power sector would be an economic cost, as that steel (or the resources used to produce it) would not be available for use in other sectors. 

Obamacare Glitch No. One: Verifying Eligibility

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2013/07/22/Obamacare-Glitch-Number-One-Verifying-Eligibility.aspx#page1

Excerpt: This process is a red flag for opponents of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, which was enacted in March 2010 Earlier this month, the Washington Post reported that health insurance marketplaces will not be required to verify consumer claims. The Obama administration said “it would significantly scale back the health law’s requirements that new insurance marketplaces verify consumers’ income and health insurance status. Instead, the federal government will rely more heavily on consumers’ self-reported information until 2015, when it plans to have stronger verification systems in place.”

Study finds fracking chemicals didn't pollute water: AP

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57594498/study-finds-fracking-chemicals-didnt-pollute-water-ap/

Excerpt: A landmark federal study on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, shows no evidence that chemicals from the natural gas drilling process moved up to contaminate drinking water aquifers at a western Pennsylvania drilling site, the Department of Energy told The Associated Press.

Egypt's Mursi accused of murder, kidnapping before rallies

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/26/us-egypt-protests-idUSBRE96O11Z20130726

Excerpt: The Egyptian army is detaining ousted President Mohamed Mursi over accusations of kidnapping, killing soldiers and other charges, the state news agency said on Friday. (See, he was running guns to Mexican drug cartels, which killed two American agents and over 500 Mexicans…oh, wait, wrong president. Sorry. ~Bob.)

Hamas Shuts Down Three Media Outlets in Gaza
http://forward.com/articles/181188/hamas-shuts-down-three-media-outlets-in-gaza/

Excerpt: Gaza’s Islamist rulers Hamas closed the offices of three media companies, including the Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television and Palestinian news agency Maan, on Thursday, employees and a Hamas spokesman said.

War..And Rumors of War..2nd U.S. Civil War

http://justcommonsense-lostinamerica.blogspot.com/2013/07/warand-rumors-of-war2nd-us-civil-war.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FMoXTa+%28Lost+in+America%29

Excerpt: I've written often about the coming 2nd American Civil War. I became convinced that we'll have that war beginning sometime in the next decade. And lately, I've seen and read literally hundreds, perhaps thousands of posted messages that are saying the same thing. More and more people are convinced that the only solution to our problems will come from war, and the ensuing "culling" of career welfare queens, America hating socialists, corrupt politicians on both side of the political spectrum, 30 million illegal Mexican invaders, and a few million Black thugs who create havoc in their runaway crime sprees. (I don’t think there will be a Civil War, as in two sides fighting each other. As I say in The Coming Collapse of the American Republic, I think there will be economic collapse, followed by political and social collapse, with riots, looting, starvation, and massive bloodshed and death. Thousands of wars, as folks try to defend themselves from looters. All royalties go to help wounded veterans. I will send you a free PDF to read on your computer if you write to me at tartanmarine(at)gmail.com. you can read the reviews on Amazon.com. http://tiny.cc/g02s4.)

Keeping the heat on for truth on Benghazi

http://www.nextgeneration.tv/v/8697

This Next Generation TV Video: "Allen West: "Shame on You" to Those who Ignore Navy SEALs' Sacrifice" shows the SOS sign right on his lectern and also shows more than once the huge petition from SOS about getting to the truth of Benghazi. --Del

Vouchers: My Personal Case. By Larry Elder

http://townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/2013/07/25/vouchers-my-personal-case-n1648227/page/full

Excerpt: APEX stood for Area Program Enrichment Exchange, and involved several L.A. area high schools, including Fairfax High. Intended for "advanced" students, the program allowed them to take courses not offered at their home school. In my case, I had exhausted all of the Spanish courses at Crenshaw High, the predominately black inner-city school I attended.

Out of Control: What Eliot Spitzer plans to do if he wins. By Michael Warren

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/out-control_740068.html

Excerpt: If elected [as New York City's comptroller], Spitzer would essentially be the city’s chief financial officer, a glorified accountant responsible for New York’s $70 billion budget. But that’s small potatoes next to the comptroller’s other role of overseeing pension funds for city workers totaling $140 billion. And Spitzer, who’s now outpolling his Democratic primary opponent, has been brutally honest about what he’d like to do with that responsibility.

Women's military veterans group drops Mayor Bob Filner as keynote speaker

http://www.10news.com/news/womens-military-veterans-group-drops-mayor-bob-filner-as-keynote-speaker-072413

Excerpt: A group of women military veterans announced Wednesday that it has rescinded an invitation to Mayor Bob Filner to speak at its conference in San Diego next month in light of the sexual harassment allegations against the former congressman. (I wonder if all those folks who voted for San Diego Mayor Bob Filner for Congress over Iraq war vet and hero Nick Popaditch because of the Republicans’ “War on Women” are happy with all the sexual harassment charges against Filner now. ~Bob.)

Joe Garcia 1 year ago: "unequivocally...I’m going to live in the district." Now: I haven't moved yet. Oops.

http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2013/07/nrcc-hits-joe-garcia-for-not-living-in-congressional-district.html

Excerpt: It has been almost a year since Joe Garcia told The Miami Herald's editorial board that he'd move into the new Key West-to-Miami-Dade Congressional District 26 if he won. Garcia won. But he hasn't yet moved. His office said the freshman Democrat is in the process of getting a place.

Untruth at The New Yorker: A column on the Trayvon Martin case elicits an egregious attack. By Victor Davis Hanson

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/354454/untruth-new-yorker-victor-davis-hanson

Excerpt: It is rare to read an essay in which almost every statement is wrong, but that is the case with “A Sermon on Race from National Review” by one Kelefa Sanneh, appearing on The New Yorker’s website — little more than McCarthyite character assassination in the form of a reply to my column this week on the president’s and the attorney general’s reactions to the verdict in the Trayvon Martin case. Here we go:

Great column: Stein’s Law: Like Detroit, things that can’t go on forever don’t. By Charles Krauthammer

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/354461/steins-law-charles-krauthammer

Excerpt: If there’s an iron rule in economics, it is Stein’s Law (named after Herb, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers): “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.” Detroit, for example, can no longer go on borrowing, spending, raising taxes, and dangerously cutting such essential services as street lighting and police protection. So it stops. It goes bust.

Muslims are Not a Minority. By Daniel Greenfield

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2013/07/muslims-are-not-minority.html

Excerpt: The most persistent myth of the Western Dhimmi narrative is that Muslims are a minority and must receive special protection and accommodation. But Muslims are not a minority. There are 1.5 billion Sunni Muslims worldwide, outweighing Catholics as the next largest religious faction at 1.1 billion and Hindus at 1 billion.

Black America's True Nemesis: Liberals, not Zimmerman. Lloyd Marcus

http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/07/black_americas_true_nemesis_liberals_not_zimmerman.html#ixzz2a5fmGugO

Excerpt: Everyone knows that the black community is a mess. White folks ain't killin' us. We are killing each other.

Tunisian politician Mohamed Brahmi assassinated

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-23452979

Excerpt: Many Tunisians, particularly the young, complain that their quest for secular democracy has been hijacked by intolerant Islamists, including the Muslim Brotherhood which forms part of the current government, our correspondent says.

Sad Trombone: Anthony Weiner's Lead Implodes Following Sexting Scandal 2.0. Guy Benson

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2013/07/25/poll-anthony-weiners-lead-collapses-following-sexting-scandal-20-n1649058

Excerpt: Apparently even New Yorkers have their limits on issues of propriety in politics (cue the juvenile double entendres) : Mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner has suffered a massive erosion of support among New York City Democrats following revelations this week that his sexting with women continued long after his 2011 resignation from Congress, a new NBC 4 New York/Wall Street Journal/Marist Poll has found. (If your Election-lead lasts more than four hours, call your doctor immediately! ~Bob.)

Irony Alert: IRS employee union: We don’t want Obamacare

http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/2533520

Excerpt: IRS employees have a prominent role in Obamacare, but their union wants no part of the law. National Treasury Employees Union officials are urging members to write their congressional representatives in opposition to receiving coverage through President Obama’s health care law.

West Virginia Democrats descend on Washington to protest the 'war on coal'

http://washingtonexaminer.com/west-virginia-democrats-descend-on-washington-to-protest-the-war-on-coal/article/2533521

Excerpt: Democrats from West Virginia are headed to Washington, D.C., todefend the coal industry against the Environmental Protection Agency's greenhouse gas emissions regulations that President Obama often touts.

I Am The Police End Of Watch

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=511107388962621

This is a fantastic short video in the streets of LA. It is good clean shooting. –Sender

President Robert Mugabe: We should ‘chop off’ gay men’s heads

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2013/07/26/president-robert-mugabe-we-should-chop-off-gay-mens-heads/

The “black rule” Progressives fought for in Zimbabwe. ~Bob.

Six more convicted in killings released under court decision
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/blog/bs-md-ci-prisoners-freed-20130725,0,3710245.story

In related news, the victims are still dead. ~Bob.

Six Reasons Why CNN Is Now... The Most Disgraced Name in News

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/07/25/How-CNN-Disgraced-Itself-more-than-any-other-news-outlet

A tough competition. ~Bob.

White House hardens stance on budget cuts ahead of showdown with Republicans

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-hardens-stance-on-budget-cuts-ahead-of-showdown/2013/07/25/8894c6f6-f53c-11e2-a2f1-a7acf9bd5d3a_story.html

Excerpt: Senior White House officials are discussing a budget strategy that could lead to a government shutdown if Republicans continue to demand deeper spending cuts, lawmakers and Democrats familiar with the administration’s thinking said Thursday.

The Obama media pool lacks racial depth

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/white-house-press-corps-of-largely-white-faces/2013/07/25/d8fdacec-f556-11e2-9434-60440856fadf_story.html

Gross. College Students Sign Petition to Legalize “Fourth Trimester” Abortions (Video)

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/07/gross-college-students-sign-petition-to-legalize-fourth-trimester-abortions-video/

VIDEO: A Human Face Put on the Benghazi Tragedy: Video of Former Navy SEAL Glen Doherty

http://gretawire.foxnewsinsider.com/video/a-human-face-put-on-the-benghazi-tragedy-video-of-former-navy-seal-glen-doherty/

MIT scientists successfully implant false memories in mice
http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/25/mit-scientists-successfully-implant-false-memories-in-mice/

Excerpt: “Memories can be unreliable.” No, that quote doesn’t come from the opening lines of a science fiction novel, nor from the narration of the movie ”Inception.” Instead, the words are from the abstract of a new study published in the latest edition of the academic journal Science, in which scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology caused mice to feel mild pain, and then successfully triggered memories of that pain in environments where the mice had no reason to expect it. (Still no cure for cancer? Or, say, pulmonary fibrosis, scientists? Actually, this has been done in kids and young adults through intense pressure to “remember” abuse that never happened. See: http://faculty.washington.edu/eloftus/Articles/sciam.htm ~Bob.)

FBI letter to Rand Paul reveals drones used 10 times in US
http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/26/fbi-letter-to-rand-paul-reveals-drones-used-10-times-in-us/#ixzz2aAiL2cqw

Excerpt: The Federal Bureau of Investigations has used unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, at least ten times in the United States, a letter from the agency to Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul revealed on Thursday. “Since late 2006, the FBI has conducted surveillance using UAV’s in eight criminal cases and two nationals security cases,” the letter reads…. Paul also raised concerns about the internal process for approving drones in past cases, in which the FBI has consulted “legal counsel” instead of pursuing a warrant in a court of law.

Obama Promises, Including Whistleblower Protections, Disappear From Website

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/26/obama-whistleblower-website_n_3658815.html?1374857923

Excerpt: Amid the Obama administration's crackdown against whistleblowers, Change.gov, the 2008 website of the Obama transition team laying out the candidate's promises, has disappeared from the internet.

Mann vs. Steyn: Heresy Shall Be Crushed. By Daren Jonescu

http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/07/mann_vs_steyn_heresy_shall_be_crushed.html#.UfKl9mGb6wU.twitter

Excerpt: Remember when scientists and other truth-seekers used to get all riled up about the way the Catholic Church treated Galileo? The outcry was not over the fact that Galileo was a "peer-reviewed" researcher, and therefore beyond question. Quite the contrary: the argument was that, from the point of view of the quest for truth, no one, including the representatives of official orthodoxy and authority, ought to be regarded as beyond question. In the Michael Mann lawsuit against Mark Steyn and National Review, it is the "award-winning researcher" who is joining the fight for Church orthodoxy, while the defendants are the persecuted Galileos.

Scary: Nine sputtering cities may follow rusted, busted Detroit. By Eric Boehm

http://watchdog.org/97943/nine-sputtering-cities-may-follow-rusted-broken-down-detroit/

Excerpt: Detroit might have captured national headlines by declaring bankruptcy, but it is not the first — and probably not the last — city to face financial ruin. It’s a fact even the mayor of Detroit, Dave Bing, acknowledged Sunday, when he predicted his city was the first of “many dominoes that will fall.” The situation in Detroit is the result of a unique mix of civic corruption, poor financial planning and economic collapse. But one of the driving factors in Detroit’s bankruptcy is an unsustainable public pension crisis, similar to what many other cities are facing.

Military Censors Christian Chaplain, Atheists Call For Punishment

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/07/24/Military-Censors-Christian-Chaplain-Atheists-Call-for-Punishment

Excerpt: A Christian chaplain in the military is being officially censored for engaging in free speech, and anti-Christian activists are demanding he be punished.