Cowardice

EGYPTIAN CLERIC: ‘EVERY ZIONIST WHO ENTERS EGYPT…SHOULD BE KILLED’

IRAN THREATENS TO DEPLOY NAVY OFF U.S. COAST

SAUDI WOMAN SENTENCED TO 10 LASHES FOR DEFYING DRIVING BAN

Palestinian Fatah Party committee member: Netanyahu, Obama ‘scumbags’

AQAP Releases Seventh Issue Of ‘Inspire’ Magazine, Commemorating 9/11

Obama: ‘You Can’t Have a Modern Industrial Economy’ With Lower Taxes

Obama Official Flees Reporter Asking About Solyndra

Employer Health Premiums Rise Sharply

Health premiums now more than a new car

Does the AFL-CIO support union violence? Trumka spokesman deflects question, blames Andrew Breitbart

Too Much of a Good Thing. Why we need less democracy

NC governor recommends suspending democracy to focus on jobs

SHEILA JACKSON LEE TELLS RIGHT MEDIA & BLOGS TO SHUT UP AND STOP PLAYING RACIAL POLITICS, THEN SECONDS LATER SAYS OBAMA’S BUY AMERICAN SHOULD BE BUY AFRICAN AMERICAN

Rhode Island Will Offer In-State Tuition for Illegal Immigrants

VAN JONES SAYS TEA PARTY IS FIGHTING TO TAKE AWAY CIVIL RIGHTS & THE MIDDLE CLASS…SO RICH PEOPLE DON’T HAVE TO PAY BACK AMERICA FOR MAKING THEM RICH

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CBO: Obama budget worse than projected on 10-year deficit

US Cost of Living Hits Record, Passing Pre-Crisis High

OIL FUTURES: Oil Surges As Libya Flares, Japan Crisis Ebbs

Consumer Take on Inflation May Be Different From Fed’s

Congress Passes Sixth Stopgap Bill to Keep Govt. Running

Frustration With Obama Builds

Obama Nominee Crumbles at Budget Hearing

The coming showdown between Boehner and Obama on Obamacare, NPR and EPA policy riders

Lack of voter confidence in direction of the country highest of Obama’s presidency

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Fox News Reporter Attacked at Wis. Protest During Live Broadcast

Pro-Union Rallies Simmering with Violence and Hate Speech

Rabid Union Thug Foams at the Mouth… ‘I’ll Make You Pay, Tea Baggers’
WARNING: Video contains offensive language.

‘I Get Slammed’: Georgia Conservative Says Cop Refused to Arrest Union Attacker

Pro-Union Protester Uses Hard Blind-Side Shove on Opponent in Atlanta

‘Fascists Go Home!’: Tea Partier Injured in Assault by ‘Teamster’ at Sacramento Protest

MoveOn.org Protester Throws Slavery Jab at Black Tea Partier

International Socialists Orchestrate Unions‘ Rally to ’Save the American Dream’

Rep. Paul Ryan: Wisc. Democrats ‘Lack Respect for Rule of Law’

Protesters Across U.S. Decry Wisconsin Anti-Union Efforts

Did Police Ignore ‘Hippie’ Rave at Wis. Capitol and ‘Bro Down’ With Protesters?

Hundreds of Wisconsin Cops Take Sides With Leftist Protesters Inside Capitol Building

Union Chief Doesn’t Condemn Comparisons of Wisconsin’s Walker to Hitler

Walker: It Only Takes One Democrat Doing His Job to Help Wisconsin

Wisconsin Gov. Not Backing Down…Says He’ll Start Firing Workers if Dems Don’t Come Back

Largest crowds since Vietnam War march in Wisconsin

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Troopers Hunt for Wisconsin Senators

67% Disapprove of Fleeing Democrats

Wis. Assembly Reaches Deal to Vote on Budget Bill; Police Dispatched to Find Senators

Blogger who prank-called Gov. Scott Walker as Koch brother once wrote article attacking American troops

Wis. Governor Explains Falling for Prank Call, Stands Ground on ‘Budget Repair’ Bill

Flashback: Milwaukee School District Spent $786,000 a Year on Viagra for Teachers

Mega Math Fail: Top Teachers Union Honcho Claims $26,000/Year = $500/Month!

Is this the new tone the President was talking about? WARNING: the content and the language is extremely graphic and offensive

Alleged SEIU Protesters Heckle ‘Uneducated’ Black Tea Partier, Ask if He Has Children He ‘Claims’

No Respect: Union Protesters Continue Chants as Indiana Legislators Pause for Prayer

‘You Are a Bad Jew!’: Union Protester Loudly Scolds Conservative Activist

‘That’s Assault!’: Union Protester Whacks Young FreedomWorks Activist

Video Update on the Democrat Who Said, ‘YOU NEED TO GET A LITTLE BLOODY WHEN NECESSARY’

Indiana Official Fired After Personal Tweets Suggested Police Use Live Ammo on Wisc. Protesters

Col. Pro-Union Protesters Wave Mexican Flag While Chanting ‘USA’

‘Take the Bastards Down’: SEIU’s New Favorite Song Has Violent Ring to it

Clueless In Wisconsin: Socialists March by Liberals Ridiculing Beck for Pointing Out Socialists Are Involved

Van Jones Calls for Massive Day of Action to Restore Workers’ Rights

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Race Card Fraud

New Black Panther Malik Shabazz: Black People can’t be racists!

Documents show media plotting to kill stories about Rev. Jeremiah Wright

Journolisters’ Plot to Stifle 2008 Rev. Wright Coverage Not the First Example of Proven Media Coordination

NAACP Bigotry in their ranks

Think Progress Manufactures Another Fake Tea Party Racism Story

The Washington Post Apologizes

You’re Too White. Go Back to Europe!

Let’s Not ‘Scratch a Sore’ – NBC News Dances Around Race Stories

George Will Challenges Biden and Page On Congressman Being Called N-word

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Black Panthers Grateful to Holder For “Payback Time”

Civil Rights Panel to Renew Subpoenas, Pursue Federal Probe in Black Panther Case

New Black Panther Party Leader Malik Shabazz Heaping Praise on Osama Bin Laden

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I am having a very difficult time understanding many of my “fellow Americans”.

I look around me and see the “American Way” quickly becoming something I am less than proud of.   I see that corruption in our federal government has risen to extreme levels that I never thought possible.

Radicals, socialists, communists, crooks, thugs and automatons pervade the highest levels of our government.

I see a huge power shift from the people to our corrupt government.

I see Black Panther bullies given a pass for outlandish intimidation of voters at a polling place.  By the way, my concern has NOTHING to do with race, it has only to do with America and our law.  I wonder how Mr. Holder would have handled guys in white sheets intimidating black voters in Mississippi?  (I would hope he would stow them under the jail as he should have done with the Panthers. Now I have insulted both the panthers and the clan.)

I see a health care law enacted that creates many more problems than it solves and a US Army unit training in Georgia to handle “domestic unrest” with in our own borders.

I see terrorists being called ill instead of hateful and Americans who cherish traditional American values being ridiculed and mocked.

I see presidential promises broken with a wink instead of an apology (and America winks back).

Speaking of apologies, I see POTUS apologizing to the world for everything that is good in America.

I see our government trashing our relationships with our closest allies and sucking up to those who hate us.

I see our economy being trashed and our children’s future being squandered.

I see what has been a worthless media, rising up and becoming a malignant force that seems to be bent on our destruction.

And our congress! when did it become the enemy of America?

I feel like Rip Van Winkle!

It seems that bad has become the new good and good has become outdated, uncool, and stupid. (Props to Isaiah the Hebrew prophet for warning us this would happen)

The point is, I see these things and think: Germany, circa 1936, Argentina, circa 1955 (or North Korea, circa today).  Whereas, millions of my fellow citizens, see a great new hero who is leading America to its glorious destiny.

And, when I try to talk to one of these citizens who refer to themselves by the euphemism “progressives”,  I begin to see how much trouble we are really in.  Trying to talk to these “progressives” about our founders and the constitution or freedom and its price, is worse than trying to talk to a fence post.  At least the fence post can generally be counted upon to be free from body odor and refrain from spitting on you or clubbing you to death with nonsensical sound bites and mantras.

It is more like trying to teach a pig to fly.  It is a complete waste of time and it annoys the pig.

In reading this, you may conclude that I hate Mr. Obama, but that is not the case.  I hate what he is doing to the America i grew up in.  The one that was created and preserved by the blood and sacrifice of my ancestors.  The one that I have served and struggled to pass on to my posterity.

But I do not hate Barack Obama.

I believe he is simply being himself and doing what he sincerely thinks is best for himself and those he cares about.  There are no surprises with Mr. Obama.  He is exactly what he seemed to be before he was elected and he is behaving exactly as he told us he would (for example: why should he prove he is ineligible for this great job when he can get a pass and keep feeding at the trough?).

When he reminded Republican law-makers that “Elections have consequences” shortly after his inauguration, he was simply setting the tone for his presidency.  He brought his friends and associates with him to Washington just as Jimmy Carter (the last president whose stupidity we almost didn’t survive) did.  It just so happens that rather than being a bunch of “crackers” (and I mean that in the kindest possible way.  Some of my best friends are from Georgia) Obama’s cronies are a bunch of thugs, crooks and radicals (ooops, now I have insulted Chicago).

I don’t hate Barak, I just want the USA to survive him and get back on track.

And I should say this:

Our country has been off track since long before Mr. Obama bounded onto our stage.  In fact, we have been the proverbial “frogs in a pot” for decades.

We have been steadily pursuing a slide down the slippery slope we started in 1962 when prayer was first banned in schools.  This slide was certainly accelerated in the decade beginning in 1965 during which we sacrificed 50,000 American lives in a futile war in Vietnam for which we had no clearly defined objective and no commitment to “win” (whatever that meant to the politicians), then again in 1973 when Roe v. Wade paved the way for the legal slaughter of over 40,000,000 unborn babies so far.

I thought the slide was over when Ronald Reagan was Elected in 1980.  Unfortunately, that merely just a pleasant delay, but it made me feel optimistic about our country again after the Carter fiasco…er… administration.

When you think about it, If the Obama regime serves as a wake up call to a sleeping American populace (who have been enjoying the warming water in the pot for at least five decades) before we actually boil to death, Mr. Obama could be the best thing that has happened to America in fifty years!

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Columnist Larry Elder published a thought provoking article at http://www.JewishWorldReview.com entitled: “President Obama, Make the Case for Afghanistan — or Get Out”.  In it, he makes THE important point regarding any war to be fought by US troops:  If the US is not TOTALLY committed to win a war, it is immoral to ask the youth of our nation to leave their homes and risk all to pursue it.

Evidently, we did not learn that important lesson for which we paid 50,000 precious American lives (not to mention most of our country’s global credibility) in Vietnam.  Our government owes the American people, particularly those who are sent to fight this war:

  1. A clearly defined objective  What does “winning” this war actually mean?
  2. A total commitment to “win” this war as quickly possible with the minimum loss of American lives.
  3. Or, in the alternative, Immediate withdrawal.

Excerpts from Mr. Elder’s commentary:

We need “a warrior,” not “a flower child.”
The anguished mother of an American soldier killed in Afghanistan said this about President Barack Obama. She objects to the rules of engagement, which she feels caused her son’s death. The recent Rolling Stone piece on the former Afghanistan commander, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, showed widespread troop disapproval of these rules, designed to minimize civilian casualties but which increase the danger to coalition soldiers in the field.
But this is the mindset of Obama.

As a candidate for president, Obama criticized President George W. Bush for “wrongly” taking the nation to war in Iraq and thus “neglecting” Afghanistan. Then President Obama spent months deciding whether to agree to the 40,000 additional troops requested by McChrystal, whom Obama appointed after firing his successor. Reportedly, the general wanted 80,000 more troops but scaled it down after fierce resistance. And Obama agreed to a goal of recruiting and training approximately 250,000 Afghan troops and police, well short of the 400,000 requested by McChrystal.

Finally agreeing to an increase of 30,000 troops, Obama simultaneously announced that in July 2011, troops will begin coming home. Afghan political analyst Ahmad Sayedi predicted this announcement would embolden Afghan terrorists: “When the USA sets a timeline of 18 months for troop withdraw, this by itself boosts the morale of the opponents and makes them less likely to take any step towards reconciliation.” Sen. John McCain recently said, “You cannot tell the enemy when you’re leaving in warfare and expect your strategy to be able to prevail.”

The “war of necessity” became the schizophrenic war.

How stupid can one administration be????  Commit or get out!

Please enjoy the full article at:

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/elder070110.php3

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Thomas Sowell, as usual, cuts through the political demagoguery and CYA positioning surrounding the Gulf oil spill. In a pair of articles published at http://www.JewishWorldReview.com entitled “Oil and Snake Oil” and “Degeneration of Democracy” he calls us back to reason and establishes the central issues for our consideration.

I, personally, find it interesting that through all the rhetoric and finger pointing (which reminds me of my second grade class when our very stern looking teacher steps back into the room after a brief absence and stands glaring with her arms crossed) no one has presented one iota of evidence that BP has done anything illegal. Until that happens, BP must be considered the unfortunate victim of a terrible accident.  (What a concept: innocent until proven guilty!) In which case they are being crucified to help compound their misfortune and provide political currency.

The big oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is bad enough in itself. But politics can make anything worse.
Let’s stop and think. Either the government knows how to stop the oil spill or they don’t. If they know how to stop it, then why have they let thousands of barrels of oil per day keep gushing out, for weeks on end? All they have to do is tell BP to step aside, while the government comes in to do it right.
If they don’t know, then what is all this political grandstanding about keeping their boot on the neck of BP, the Attorney General of the United States going down to the Gulf to threaten lawsuits— on what charges was unspecified— and President Obama showing up in his shirt sleeves?
Just what is Obama going to do in his shirt sleeves, except impress the gullible? He might as well have shown up in a tuxedo with white tie, for all the difference it makes.
This government is not about governing. It is about creating an impression. That worked on the campaign trail in 2008, but it is a disaster in the White House, where rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
If the Obama administration was for real, and trying to help get the oil spill contained as soon as possible, the last thing its Attorney General would be doing is threatening a lawsuit. A lawsuit is not going to stop the oil, and creating a distraction can only make people at BP start directing their attention toward covering themselves, instead of covering the oil well.
If and when the Attorney General finds that BP did something illegal, that will be time enough to start a lawsuit. But making a public announcement at this time accomplishes absolutely nothing substantive. It is just more political grandstanding.
This is not about oil. This is about snake oil.

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Just where in the Constitution of the United States does it say that a president has the authority to extract vast sums of money from a private enterprise and distribute it as he sees fit to whomever he deems worthy of compensation? Nowhere.
And yet that is precisely what is happening with a $20 billion fund to be provided by BP to compensate people harmed by their oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Many among the public and in the media may think that the issue is simply whether BP’s oil spill has damaged many people, who ought to be compensated. But our government is supposed to be “a government of laws and not of men.” If our laws and our institutions determine that BP ought to pay $20 billion– or $50 billion or $100 billion– then so be it.
But the Constitution says that private property is not to be confiscated by the government without “due process of law.” Technically, it has not been confiscated by Barack Obama, but that is a distinction without a difference.
With vastly expanded powers of government available at the discretion of politicians and bureaucrats, private individuals and organizations can be forced into accepting the imposition of powers that were never granted to the government by the Constitution.

If you believe that the end justifies the means, then you don’t believe in Constitutional government. And, without Constitutional government, freedom cannot endure. There will always be a “crisis”– which, as the president’s chief of staff has said, cannot be allowed to “go to waste” as an opportunity to expand the government’s power.
That power will of course not be confined to BP or to the particular period of crisis that gave rise to the use of that power, much less to the particular issues.

Please enjoy both commentaries in their entirety at:

Oil and Snake Oil

and:

Degeneration of Democracy

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