Will Ordinary Dems Ever Say 'Enough'?

September 20, 2012
By Karin McQuillan

(American Thinker) - I have a lot of liberal friends. I know they disagree with Republican principles and proposals -- profoundly disagree. That's fine. They are decent, big-hearted, smart people. They love our country. I'm proud to have them as friends. There are many problems that face our nation that should not be partisan.

So when will they say "Enough" to President Obama?

Will I ever hear them say things like what's below? For example:

I want honest talk when our embassies are overrun and our ambassador and others murdered -- not nonsense that it had "nothing to do with the United States," 9/11, the killing of bin Laden, the Muslim Brotherhood, and al-Qaeda. I don't want to hear about how "it is in response not to U.S. policy, not to, obviously, the administration, not to the American people. It is in response to a video -- a film." Do not tell me that it was a spontaneous riot caused by an obscure YouTube posting from last June. Please. We are really not that stupid.

I don't want one more lecture on Islam as a religion of peace and tolerance. Your job is to protect our country from the jihadis, not interfaith outreach.

Why is our national security being limited to drone strikes? What about the need for intelligence? If we still had a functioning intelligence capability, wouldn't we have known about the planning of the attacks in Cairo and Libya?

I want free speech -- it is not okay that a man who posts something obnoxious on YouTube was carted off by federal agents in the middle of the night.

I don't want my president to meet with Letterman and Beyoncé and refuse to meet with Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu. It is a dereliction of your responsibilities. It is unbefitting and disrespectful to the office of president. Israel is facing the looming threat of a nuclear Holocaust from Iran. What on Earth are you doing choosing Letterman over your job as president?

I don't want my president to hold a fundraiser in Las Vegas instead of staying in Washington when there are anti-American riots in 21 Muslim countries across the globe.

I don't want my president to tell me that the Muslim Brotherhood are moderates, when their motto is "Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope."

I don't want my president to not protect our embassies on 9/11.

I don't want a president who fought against sanctions on Iran in Congress, then gutted them with hundreds of exemptions, including oil for China, and claims that that's all he has to do to deal with the threat of a nuclear Iran.

I want a president to attend his national security meetings each day in person so he can ask questions and discuss options, instead of half the time skipping the meeting and reading a brief summary.

Will my Democrat friends ever hold Obama accountable on the economy? Republicans were revolted by Bush's overspending, and they created the Tea Party to insist on fiscal responsibility. Where are the rebels in the Democrat party? Will they ever say any of what follows?

I want a president who works with his own party and submits a budget to Congress, as required by law.

I want the president to take the debt seriously.

I want to hear how you're going to save Medicaid and Social Security from going bankrupt. People rely on those programs. We can't afford for them to fail while you are milking them for votes.

Don't lie to me that "taxing the rich" is going to pay for your yearly trillion-dollar overruns.

Stop printing money to finance our crushing debt burden. You are jacking up oil prices and the price of everything that is transported. You are killing the middle class every time they fill up their cars or buy groceries. You have doubled the price of gas. Enough. Stop spending money we don't have.

Twenty-three million Americans don't have work. Fewer people are working now than when you took office. The recession and banking crisis ended in 2009. Mr. President, what policies did you put into place to stimulate the private sector, and where are the results? Any new ideas other than attacking the rich?

My friends are silent, which leaves me with nothing but questions. Where is their sense of holding Obama responsible -- for anything? Where is there sense of what is creepy behavior by a president? Obama has time for The Pimp with a Limp, but not for national security briefings? Where is their sense of our constitutional rights and protections? A citizen is carted off by federal agents for posting something on YouTube, and they are silent? Why aren't they crying like Clint Eastwood when 23 million fellow Americans are out of work? How can they want four more years of the same?

This is not what they voted for. They voted for something much better. Is there any broken promise, any failure, any lie, any flouting the law, any dereliction of duty, any divisive political tactic that would make them say "Enough"?

The author was a Peace Corps Volunteer who served in Senegal, a clinical social worker and psychotherapist, and a mystery author whose novels highlighted the wildlife and peoples of Kenya. She currently writes for American Thinker.

Conservative Group to Run Netanyahu Ads in Florida (Video)

Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, September 20, 2012, 1:34 AM


(The Gateway Pundit) - Conservative group Secure America Now is running an ad in Florida using Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The ad focuses on the security of Israel in the Muslim world. It is a direct hit on Barack Obama’s dangerous Middle East strategy.

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The Politico reported:

Bibi Netanyahu is not running a campaign in the US – it just looks that way in this new ad.

A spot featuring only the Israeli prime minister talking about Iran is set to hit the airwaves in select Florida markets tomorrow, a media tracking source confirms.

The spot is the work of a c4 called Secure America Now – which, thanks to its tax status, doesn’t have to disclose its donors.

A Republican involved with the project said its airing in Miami, West Palm Beach and Ft. Myers. The flight is ultimately going to be $1 million, the official said – a media-tracking source said about $400,000 has been placed so far.

Those markets house some of the state’s largest Jewish communities.

The spot comes just after Netanyahu, who all but endorsed Mitt Romney in Israel in July, appeared on “Meet the Press” and distanced himself a bit from the GOP candidate’s criticisms of President Obama, but also discussed Israel’s concern about a nuclear Iran.

Obama and the Cloward-Piven Strategy of Orchestrated Crisis

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

How perfectly they have played the devilish schemes. Too bad there are no brownie points in hell. Apparently they have taught the tactic to their radical Muslim brethren who are pretty good themselves of orchestrating crisis to usher in change, aka, the "Arab Spring" and the current pretense of a video inciting radicals against America.
The information presented below is from 2009...this is for you late bloomers and a good refresher for the rest of us. We have to battle the brainwashing attempts through the MSM illusion that everything is just happening as a matter of course, rather than what is the actual truth; we live in a constant manufactured news cycle and the purposeful destruction of America justifies their end game- Global Domination. They must have the former to achieve the latter. - W.E.

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H/T Rhonda T.

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Exposing The Hoax Of Global Stupidity: Antarctic sea ice sets another record

09/19/2012

(Forbes) - Antarctic sea ice set another record this past week, with the most amount of ice ever recorded on day 256 of the calendar year (September 12 of this leap year). Please, nobody tell the mainstream media or they might have to retract some stories and admit they are misrepresenting scientific data.

National Public Radio (NPR) published an article on its website last month claiming, “Ten years ago, a piece of ice the size of Rhode Island disintegrated and melted in the waters off Antarctica. Two other massive ice shelves along the Antarctic Peninsula had suffered similar fates a few years before. The events became poster children for the effects of global warming. … There’s no question that unusually warm air triggered the final demise of these huge chunks of ice.”

NPR failed to mention anywhere in its article that Antarctic sea ice has been growing since satellites first began measuring the ice 33 years ago and the sea ice has been above the 33-year average throughout 2012.

Indeed, none of the mainstream media are covering this important story. A Google News search of the terms Antarctic, sea ice and record turns up not a single article on the Antarctic sea ice record. Amusingly, page after page of Google News results for Antarctic sea ice record show links to news articles breathlessly spreading fear and warning of calamity because Arctic sea ice recently set a 33-year low.

Sea ice around one pole is shrinking while sea ice around another pole is growing. This sure sounds like a global warming crisis to me.

CRS report: number of able-bodied adults on food stamps doubled after Obama suspended work requirement

September 19, 2012

(Washington Examiner) - Obama administration officials have insisted that their decision to grant states waivers to redefine work requirements for welfare recipients would not “gut” the landmark 1996 welfare reform law. But a new report from the Congressional Research Service obtained by the Washington Examiner suggests that the administration’s suspension of a separate welfare work requirement has already helped explode the number of able-bodied Americans on food stamps.

In addition to the broader work requirement that has become a contentious issue in the presidential race, the 1996 welfare reform law included a separate rule encouraging able-bodied adults without dependents to work by limiting the amount of time they could receive food stamps. President Obama suspended that rule when he signed his economic stimulus legislation into law, and the number of these adults on food stamps doubled, from 1.9 million in 2008 to 3.9 million in 2010, according to the CRS report, issued in the form of a memo to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va.

“This report once again confirms that President Obama has severely gutted the welfare work requirements that Americans have overwhelmingly supported since President Clinton signed them into law,” Cantor said in an emailed statement. “It’s time to reinstate these common-sense measures, and focus on creating job growth for those in need.”

Under the rule adopted in 1996, food stamps for able-bodied adults without dependents were limited to three months in a 36-month period unless the participant in the program “works at least 20 hours a week; participates in an employment and training program for at least 20 hours per week; or participates in a (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) ‘workfare’ program for at least 20 hours per week.”

Obama’s economic stimulus legislation suspended the rule for all states starting April 2009. Delaware continued to enforce the rule anyway, along with New York City and parts of Colorado, South Dakota, and Texas. This suspension expired at the end of the 2010 fiscal year (Sept. 30, 2010) and Congress rebuffed Obama’s requests to extend it in his fiscal years 2011 and 2012 budgets. However, Obama used his regulatory authority to effectively extend the waivers to nearly all states over the past two years. (The law grants the executive the authority to do this in states where the unemployment rate is above 10 percent or there’s a “lack of sufficient jobs.”)

Though the weakening of the economy would have led to an increase in food stamp usage with or without a waiver, the doubling of the use of food stamps by the able-bodied population without dependents exceeded the 43 percent increase in food stamp usage among the broader population over the same 2008 to 2010 time frame. This gives more weight to the idea that the waiver fueled the food stamp growth among the population it affected, beyond where it would have been even in a weak economy.

The CRS report does not have data for the 2011 and 2012 fiscal years.

Read the full report here.

Obama's Racist Perspective: New achievement targets for D.C. students tied to race, income

Sept. 20, 2012


(Washington Post)- Every public school in the United States has aimed for the same goal over the past decade: that all students be proficient in math and reading by 2014.

But that noble ambition, educators and experts almost universally agree, was never realistic. Now, in the District and many states, goals over the next five years tend to be lower for black, Hispanic and poor children than they are for white and Asian students, and in the District, they tend to be higher at schools in affluent areas than in poor neighborhoods. It’s a policy shift that strikes some parents as a form of prejudice.

Officials say the new targets account for differences in current performance and demand the fastest progress from students who are furthest behind. The goals vary across much of the country by race, family income and disability, and in Washington, they also vary by school.

At Anacostia High, which draws almost exclusively African Americans from one of the District’s most impoverished areas, officials aim to quadruple the proportion of students who are proficient in reading by 2017, but that would still mean that fewer than six out of 10 pass standardized reading tests. Across town at the School Without Walls in Northwest Washington, a diverse and high-performing magnet that enrolls students from across the city, the aim is higher: 99.6 percent.

Meanwhile, at Wilson Senior High, 67 percent of black students — and 88 percent of Asians and 95 percent of whites — are expected to pass standardized math tests five years from now.

Setting different aspirations for different groups of children represents a sea change in national education policy, which for years has prescribed blanket goals for all students. Some education experts see the new approach as a way to speed achievement for black, Latino and low-income students, but some parents can’t help but feel that less is being expected of their children.

“It’s disgraceful,” said Alicia Rucker, a Ward 7 resident and single mother of six, one of whom graduated from Georgetown University and five of whom are still living at home and enrolled in D.C. public schools. “It’s ridiculous to even believe that if you expect less from someone, you’re going to get more.”

City and federal education officials say they’re not retreating from the conviction that all children can learn. Instead, they say, they’re trying to bring about real change by setting attainable goals that reflect an unavoidable truth: Some schools, and some students, lag far behind others.

Under the new approach, low performers will be required to make larger gains each year than higher-achieving students so that the gap between student groups is cut in half by 2017.

“What we have to be very honest about is that schools, and groups of students within schools, are starting at different places right now,” said Daria Hall of the Education Trust, an influential nonprofit group that advocates for lifting the achievement of underprivileged children and endorses the new approach.

“What we need is to have a system that starts where they are right now and moves them all forward,” Hall said, “and moves those who are furthest behind further, faster.”

But for Rucker, the Ward 7 mother, it’s impossible not to see targets that differ by race and income as a form of prejudice — what George W. Bush famously called “the soft bigotry of low expectations.”

Adjusting expectations to make them more realistic may help mask profound needs in some of the city’s least-privileged communities, she said.

“We need to have as high expectations for any child in Ward 2 as Ward 7, for any child in Ward 3 as Ward 8. There should be no difference,” she said. “The playing field should be level, and if the playing field is not level, then we should bring more resources into areas of greatest need.”

The policy shift follows intensifying criticism that No Child Left Behind — the federal education law that requires 100 percent proficiency by 2014 — unfairly punishes schools for failing to meet pie-in-the-sky achievement targets.

The Obama administration has awarded waivers from key provisions of No Child Left Behind, allowing states to adopt different achievement goals for different groups of students so long as the lowest performers are required to make the fastest gains.

“We are expecting dramatic improvements, but trying to be realistic about what’s achievable within a relatively short time frame,” Daren Briscoe, a U.S. Education Department spokesman, wrote in an e-mail.

Besides the District, 27 of the 33 states that won waivers — including Maryland and Virginia — have set different targets for different groups of students.

In Maryland, state officials aim for black students statewide to progress from 76 to 88 percent reading proficiency by 2017. White students’ reading proficiency should grow from 92 to
96 percent over the same period, according to Maryland targets.

Virginia officials originally put forth goals that would have narrowed racial achievement gaps only slightly. That prompted complaints from civil rights groups, and in August, state and federal officials agreed to make revisions. The state education board will set new targets in late September, targets that are expected to vary by student group.

The District’s goals were set by the Office of the State Superintendent, which oversees both the traditional school system and charter schools.

Citywide, the proportion of white students who pass standardized tests in reading will have to grow from 88 to 94 percent by 2017, or about 1 percentage point each year. Pass rates for black children, meanwhile, must grow five times faster — from 41 to 71 percent.

At Anacostia High, the goal is to lift reading proficiency from
14 percent in 2011 to 57 percent in 2017 — a target that will require growth of 7 percentage points a year. That’s much more growth than is required at School Without Walls, which is starting at
99.1 percent proficiency.

D.C. public school officials rejected the notion that the new targets will translate into relaxed ambitions for the neediest kids, describing them as minimum expectations, not ultimate goals.

“I don’t by any stretch of the imagination think that these targets mean that anybody in the District [is] lowering their expectations for our kids,” said Cate Swinburn, the school system’s chief of data and accountability. “In no way does DCPS hold our students to different expectations based on their skin color or language ability or special learning needs.”

Ultimately, whether the District’s goals — or the country’s goals — are ambitious enough to close achievement gaps is a matter of judgment, said Andrew J. Rotherham, a past member of the Virginia Board of Education who writes and consults on education issues. It’s a matter of what the public is willing to accept.

“Look, our schools are political creations,” Rotherham said. “You’ve got to start from there. Decisions about them are politically derived.”

Some parents say they’re more concerned about whether city leaders have a workable plan and political will to reach the new targets — especially in the city’s less affluent neighborhoods — than they are about the targets themselves.

“I just want to know, if I put on my parent hat: What are you doing to make sure that my child is going to be receiving the same level of support or resources that the children at the higher-achieving school is going to get?” said Iris Toyer, a longtime Ward 8 education activist and the mother of four D.C. schools alumni. “What are the adults willing to do to put everybody on even footing?”

Hat tip: Michael Savage

New Holocaust emerging by Muslims in Europe

Kristallnacht vs Recent Anti-Semitic Attacks in France

Various Internet Sources

Kristallnacht, also referred to as the Night of Broken Glass, series of coordinated attacks against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and Austria November 9–10, 1938, carried out by SA paramilitary and civilians. German authorities looked on without intervening. The attacks left the streets covered with broken glass from the windows of Jewish-owned stores, buildings, and synagogues. At least 91 Jews were killed in the attacks, and a further 30,000 arrested and incarcerated in concentration camps. Jewish homes, hospitals, and schools were ransacked, as the attackers demolished buildings with sledgehammers. Over 1,000 synagogues were burned (95 in Vienna alone), and over 7,000 Jewish businesses destroyed or damaged. The pretext for the attacks was the assassination of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan, a German-born Polish Jew in Paris, France. Kristallnacht was followed by further economic and political persecution of Jews, and is viewed by historians as part of Nazi Germany’s broader racial policy, and the beginning of the Final Solution and The Holocaust.

TODAY – Paris – Four were injured when a small package bomb exploded inside a kosher grocery store in a Paris suburb.

OTHER RECENT ATTACKS IN FRANCE


August 7, 2012 – Paris – A 17 year-old Jewish girl was severely beaten by an 18 year-old Arab girl at a mall in a Paris suburb. The attacker made anti-Semitic insults during the incident, including “Dirty Jew, I’m going to put you in the ground.” Police at the mall arrested the assailant.

July 20, 2012 – Paris – A synagogue was desecrated for the third time in 10 days, when vandals threw prayer books and shawls on the floor and shattered the building’s windows.

July 5, 2012 – Toulouse – A 17-year-old student of the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school, where four Jews were murdered by Mohammed Merah on March 19, was assaulted on a train going from Toulouse to Lyon. The two young men responsible for the attack were arrested.

June 8, 2012 – Sarcelles – An 18-year-old Jew was physically assaulted and had a phone stolen by assailants who were shouting anti-Semitic insults.

June 2, 2012 – Lyon – Three Jewish youth wearing skullcaps were assaulted while walking to a Jewish school for Shabbat services. A group of more than 10 assailants surrounded the youths chanting “dirty Jew,” and proceeded to attack them with hammers and bars, hitting two in the head and one in the arm.

March 26, 2012 – Paris – A 12-year-old Jewish boy was beaten outside the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school in Paris by youths reciting anti-Semitic slogans. The boy was hit and punched in the back of his head as he left the school.

March 19, 2012 – Toulouse – Four Jews were shot and killed at the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school by an armed terrorist on a motorcycle, later identified by authorities as Mohammed Merah. Rabbi Jonathan Sandler, 30, and his two children Aryeh, 6, and Gabriel, 3, were killed as they were entering the school premises. Merah then entered the school, continuing to shoot at students and faculty, and eventually set his sights on 8-year-old Miriam Monsonego, the daughter of the school’s principal, whom he chased down and killed. Merah is also believed to be responsible for the killing of three French soldiers the previous week. In a phone call to a French television station, Merah stated that he targeted the Jewish school to avenge the killing of children in Gaza. Reports indicate that Merah traveled to and received training in Pakistan and Afghanistan and identified with the terrorist organization Al Qaeda. On March 22, following a 32-hour standoff with French police, Merah was killed in his apartment complex.


Source: MichaelSavage.com

'The Middle East will never have a chance at democracy'

September 20 2012

The Obama administration’s efforts to establish democracy in the Middle East are doomed to failure, Savage told his listeners. America’s Judeo-Christian foundation provided it with the “values that were necessary for a republic to arise out of the ashes of a revolution.”

The culture of the Middle East, Savage continued, has no such solid foundation.

“Cass Sunstein is a very dangerous academic egghead, and he has a dangerous wife named Samantha Power,” Savage said, adding:

These three women – Susan Rice, Hillary Clinton and Samantha Power – are the ones who orchestrated the overthrow of Mubarak and the killing of Gadhafi.

You might say, “But they meant well.” Yes, but the road to you-know-where is paved with good intentions.

They wanted to bring democracy to an area that isn’t ready for it, to a region that will never ever have a democracy.

They’re incapable of it.

This area, these people, this culture is never going to have a chance at democracy.

Democracy is not easy to achieve. The people need to have a basis for their democracy.

Fortunately for us, the people who founded America had a basis for their republic in the Christian Bible, which taught them compassion, constraint and other values that were necessary for a republic to arise out of the ashes of a revolution.

Those in the Middle East don’t have such a document. They have a document that is very different. Read it and you’ll find out what I’m talking about.

The average Middle Easterner doesn’t want to flip camel burgers. He would rather die.

But the mainstream media in the United States will not explain this to you.

And so it falls upon men like me to talk about the tyranny of the egghead wars and of Obama’s radical accomplices.

It’s all in my book “Trickle Down Tyranny.”

Source: MichaelSavage.com

Selective Edit? Mother Jones Admits Romney Tape Missing 'One to Two Minutes'

by Joel B. Pollak
19 Sep 2012, 12:04 AM PDT

Breitbart.com - Mother Jones, the left-wing magazine that released a controversial video of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's remarks to a fundraiser in May, now admits that it has no full tape of what Romney said, and that its video is missing "one to two minutes" at the most important moment.

The Legal Insurrection blog's William Jacobson and The Blaze both raised questions on Tuesday about whether Mother Jones had, as promised, revealed the full video, given an apparent jump cut in the critical section of Romney's remarks.

"Something is missing. Romney’s 47% answer was cut off before completed, and is not picked up on the Part 2 audio video," Jacobson noted.

Late Tuesday evening, Jacobson obtained the following comment from David Corn of Mother Jones:

According to the source, the recording device inadvertently turned off. The source noticed this quickly and turned it back one [sic]. The source estimates that one to two minutes, maybe less, of recording was missed.

Corn was forced to update his original post, which promised the "full" video, to reflect the fact that a key portion of the video is, in fact, missing.

There is no way to know, without the missing footage, exactly what Romney said. On Monday evening, Romney called for a complete video of his remarks to be released.

That now turns out to be impossible, either because Romney's remarks were never recorded in full (as Mother Jones now claims), or because some of his remarks--perhaps mitigating some of the controversial effect of his statements--were selectively edited out of the tape by Mother Jones or its chain of sources (including former President Jimmy Carter's grandson).

Earlier on Tuesday, new media pioneer James O'Keefe pointed out the hypocrisy of the mainstream media in accepting, without question, a snippet of a video recording that aimed to portray a Republican in a bad light, while conservatives are still doubted even after providing full video or audio, as O'Keefe did with his famous ACORN tapes.

Whether Romney is right or wrong about the "47 percent" of Americans he says have become dependent on government--he stood by his May remarks on Monday evening--he may have been taken out of context.

Mother Jones has failed a basic test and broken its promise to its readers and the public. There is now reason to doubt that it provided Romney's full remarks--not just the context, but the remarks themselves. And there is new reason to suspect manipulation.

Corn promised the complete version of Romney's remarks. Instead, he provided a version that is missing a large portion of video at the critical moment.

Mother Jones's entire story now deserves to be treated with suspicion, if not contempt.

The Secret (Weapon) Romney Tapes

Mother Jones admits that the tape is perhaps altered
and has missing minutes. It's Trayvon time.

Posted By:StormCnter,
9/19/2012 6:17:03 AM
Lucianne.com

The far-left magazine Mother Jones is making a splash, or what Democrats think is a splash, with video from a private fundraiser held in May for Mitt Romney. (Snip)While the Romney campaign must not back off the issue of Obama's utter failure in foreign policy (but do a better job than Romney did in the first hours of the Middle East and North Africa turmoil), these so-called "secret tapes" could be precisely what the campaign needs to get back on to message about Obama's government-centered society of dependency and Romney's individual-centered society of opportunity.

Original Article>>

Pep Talk – We’ll just have to win

Posted by William A. Jacobson
Tuesday, September 18, 2012 at 9:59am
@ Legal Insurrection

Consider this Pep Talk V.

Every 3-4 days for the past several weeks there has been a mass media pronouncement that Romney has lost: When Paul Ryan was nominated and false “fact-checks” purported to declare him a proven liar. When Clint Eastwood took the stage and presented the perfect metaphor for the Obama presidency, an empty chair. When Mitt Romney did not get enough of a post-convention bounce. When Obama got a post-convention bounce. When Mitt Romney spoke the truth about Obama’s collapsing Middle East policy and proclivity to sympathize with the hurt religious sensibilities of anti-American Islamists, and the media lost its mind.

And now that a tape has been released that shows Romney stating an obvious truth about the dependency state, although as Romney said, not very elegantly. The media is giddy with delight.

The collapse of job growth, staggering debt, a failed and destructive Middle East policy, the likelihood of a nuclear Iran, an Israel which will not survive a second Obama term … none of that matters to a media which openly is advocating for Obama.

You can let the media win, or you can double your efforts to defeat a President whose reason to be is to lessen U.S. influence in the world, to reduce the country to just one among many, to impose a European-style socialism, and yes, to create a dependency state in which the Julias of the country look to government as savior.

If Obama’s vision is your vision, then give in to the media hype, get demoralized, and start piling on Romney. You will have company among some “Republican” pundits.

If Obama’s vision is not your vision, then none of what is going on should matter. Whether the tape hurts Romney is irrelevant. Was this fight ever about electing Romney?

Defeating Obama is a fight which needs to be fought with everything you have, regardless of who is winning the media narrative.

The media was stunned in 2010 because they believed their own spin and expected that the rest of the country did too. We know better. The spontaneous outpourings of protest by the people the media hates — at Chick-fil-A and with empty chairs — show that you are not alone.

Fight below the media radar. Turn November 6 into the biggest shock of their lives.

Florida Family Faces Fines For Holding Bible Study (Video)

Posted by Jim Hoft
Tuesday, September 18, 2012, 8:36 AM
@ The Gateway Pundit

It’s an Obama world…
A Florida family is facing fines for inviting friends and family over for prayer and Bible study.



Todd Starnes reported:

A Florida family is facing fines for hosting a weekly Bible study in their home – an act that city officials argue violates zoning codes.

Shane and Marlen Roessiger, of Venice, Fla. are facing a $250 per day fine for hosting Friday night prayer and Bible study gatherings that are attended by as many as 10 people.

“It is difficult to understand how it is illegal to have a prayer meeting on Friday night with a half dozen people but it is alright if I invited the same group on Monday evening to watch Monday night Football,” Roessiger said.

The Roessigers are also facing a fine for putting a small sign in their front yard that reads: “Need Prayer (941) 484-4915.”

“It’s a weekly Bible study,” said Brad Dacus, president of the Pacific Justice Institute. “It’s the same kind of Bible study that occurs in households across America.”

The Pacific Justice Institute is representing the Roessigers as they fight back against the city’s attacks. Dacus said they are hearing of a number of assaults on home Bible studies across the nation.

“They are having a specific problem with this family solely because they are having family and friends over to read the bible and pray,” Dacus told Fox News. “That may be fine in some tyrannical parts of the world. That is not okay in the United States of America.”


Hat tip: Press Patrol

**Insta-Fact Check** Live-Blogging The ObamaMedia

by John Nolte
18 Sep 2012

Breitbart.com - Because the corrupt media is so breathtakingly corrupt in its push to reelect a failed president, Big Journalism needs a running live blog. Please help us in our quest to capture the breadth and scope of this corruption by forwarding your tips to jnolte@breitbart.com or Twitter me @NolteNC.

Newest posts are at the top.

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Media Losing Its Impact: Obama's Handling of Forign Policy Takes Hit In New Poll

Though the media did everything in its power to distract from Obama's foreign policy meltdown last week, a new poll proves the media's ability to impact public opinion just isn't what it used to be.

According to a new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll taken this week, Obama's approval rating for his handling of foreign policy fell from 53% to 49%.

Among Independents, the president might be in real trouble due to a drop of a full 12 points, from 53 to 41%.

In worse news for the president, this poll was taken before the news broke of the three day warning the White House had before the attack on the Libyan consulate that resulted in the deaths of four Americans. Once that news makes its way into the American conversation, these numbers certainly won't get better.


Video: Watch Romney Use Release of 47% Video To His Advantage

Here's the full interview of Romney on Neil Cavuto's show. Romney looks relaxed and energized by this debate. He also refers twice to the "redistribution" video just released by Matt Drudge.

When you consider how freaked the media is and how desperate the Obama campaign behaves, you have to wonder what internal polling is showing.

Anyway, watch the full video. Romney sounds great and is talking about the kinds of things he should be talking and in the way they need to be talked about.

Polling might prove my gut wrong, but since the release of this video I've felt all along that if handled correctly, it would be a plus for us and thus far Romney is handling it very well.


TWO-FER: Ann Curry Fired, 'Today Show' Still Drops To Second Place

In a business-sense, anything bad that happens to the media is good for America. So here's something to celebrate:

Less than three months after a tearful Ann Curry bid goodbye to NBC’s “Today” show, it’s the network’s turn to cry.

The once-dominant morning powerhouse is falling even further behind in the ratings race after forcing 15-year veteran Curry aside and replacing her with freshman Savannah Guthrie.

ABC’s ascendant rival “Good Morning America” looks set to win its third consecutive week in a row — not just in total viewers but also among core viewers ages 25 to 54, according to preliminary ratings.

Boo to the hoo.


Ben Smith Ben Smiths Obama's 'Redistribution' Video As Though It Was All A Wacky 90's Phase

Ben Smith loves to do his BenSmithing in plain site and disguise it as real reporting. But what he's doing here is making a big --hardy-har-- joke about the Obama video unearthed today as though it's a big fat nothing-to-see-here.

"Hey," Ben Smith is telling the media, "Let's not create a narrative out of this; we all knew Barack was a little to the left in the 1990s!"

Spin, baby, spin.

This is why I call Ben Smith the Lex Luthor of the corrupt media. He's a genius at this kind of stuff and the corrupt media loves him for it. Now they all see how this latest damning Obama video can be downplayed and wrist-flicked.



CNN Leads With White House Failure to Protect Libya Consulate

You have no idea how much easier it is to watch CNN's "The Situation Room" without Wolf -The Dem Talking Point Moron- Blitzer hosting.

The guest host -- didn't catch his name -- opened the show with "the growing backlash" hitting the Obama White House over security lapses in the face of warnings surrounding the Libyan consulate.

"Did they drop the ball?"

The clips that followed ran through the bullet points, none of them good for the White House spin that's currently claiming they were not warned in advance and that the attacks were not pre-planned (which is absolutely absurd).

In the White House briefing room, it looks to be Fox News's Ed Henry and ABC News's Jake Tapper pressing Jay Carney and revealing a ton of contradictions and double talk that only create more questions.

The segment lasted over ten minutes and was the kind of reporting we've been waiting a week for.



Media and Dems Losing 47% Debate BIGTIME

I'm starting to think David Corn might be a right-wing plant at "Mother Jones," because judging by how things went today, the media and the Democrats stepped right into our briar patch

The media and Democrats are all whining about how offended the poor little 47% should be over Mitt Romney's comments. But the mistake they're making is believing that anyone in the 47% thinks of themselves as part of the 47%. Everyone always thinks the other guy is the deadbeat.

Meanwhile, conservatives -- including Romney himself just now on Neil Cavuto's show -- are fighting the debate on grounds where we can win: the difference between producers and parasites and a President Obama who judges compassion by how much he can increase government dependancy and a President Romney who wants to create an econony that decreases government dependancy.

That's a winning message and thens some and I'm already seeing the media looking as though they wish they hadn't overplayed it.



GAMECHANGER: Drudge Dredges Up 1998 Obama: 'I Actually Believe In Redistribution'

Anyone who doesn't think this is a gamechanger doesn't' understand how media works today. The corrupt media has their narrative and those of us in New Media have ours.

Drudge found this (or someone sent it to him) and now it's what we call the Big Daddy link, front and center.

Breitbart News will blare the president's appalling remarks out, as will talk radio, conservative blogs and social media.

Thus, a counter-narrative will be created and because most voters agree with Romney and only left-wing crazies agree with Obama, we will win.

Who wants to be there are more videos out there?

We got 50 days to go -- many twists and turns to come.



MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Uses Bill Kristol's Romney Slam Against Sununu

Again, I just don't understand the good Bill Kristol thinks he's doing with his "honesty." Does Kristol tell fat people they are fat because it's important to be honest?

Constructive criticism I get. But piling on to criticize something that can't be taken back serves what purpose? How does fueling a narrative like this help our country or party? It's not about saying to Romney, "Hey, think about doing this or that better." It's just piling on.

had Kristol taken out an full page anti-Romney ad it would have the exact same impact it's having now. We know he would never do that, so why is he doing this?

His motives make no sense to me.

Am I missing something?



Afternoon Edition: Stories ObamaMedia Will Ignore -- Obama's Bounce Has Completely Vanished

The narrative is that the race is over and yet during last week's supposedly fatal week for Mitt Romney, he gained six points on Obama in the Gallup tracking poll, which now has both men essentially tied:Obama 47, Romney 46.

Rasmussen has Romney up two and has had the GOP nominee steadily leading for a few day now.

Again, what we had last week with the Cairo apology and what we have this week with the 47% video isn't reporting by the media, but rather a media determined to create a reality that will become self-fulfilling.

Keep fighting. We're winning.



Afternoon Edition: Polls ObamaMedia Will Ignore -- Romney Ahead in FL

Romney 48, Obama 47.


Watch NBC's Chuck Todd Dutifully Report Huge Story He Will Then Ignore

Normally, I don't concern myself with MSNBC, but Chuck Todd is NBC's Chief White House Correspondent -- so his non-stop shilling for Obama is worthy of note.

Watch this clip. It aired as part of Todd's "Daily Rundown" this morning.

What's obvious is that Todd is only reporting this major story so he can be on the record as reporting it. But after that mention -- *poof* it was gone. How do stories get any bigger than evidence of a White House lying about intelligence no one acted upon that might have saved four American lives, including our Libyan ambassador?

They don't.

But this was it from Todd. The rest of his show was spent obsessing and concern-trolling the Romney 47% video and neither CNN nor MSNBC has gone near that Libya story all day.

To be fair, I can't monitor CNN and MSNBC constantly. So I might have missed something. But I'm not a casual viewer, either, and if I missed it it's almost certain a large majority of the viewing audience did, as well.

But there is no question whatsoever that neither Todd nor CNN nor MSNBC is in any way interested in informing their viewers of what should be the only story driving the day.



Morning Edition: Polls ObamaMedia Will Ignore - Romney Ahead in CO

Colorado: Romney 47, Obama 45.

And this after Romney's supposedly fatal comments last week.



Today's Anti-Romney Media-Narrative Fueled By Bill Kristol's 'Weekly Standard' Slam

Fifty days from an election, what purpose does Bill Kristol serve with this -- other than to ensure this narrative is given another day of life as the media moves on to... "Republicans critics...":

So Romney seems to have contempt not just for the Democrats who oppose him, but for tens of millions who intend to vote for him.

All during the Clinton years, I watched in awe as one negative narrative after another was turned into a positive because Clinton was able to keep Democrats in line and swarm the airwaves with smart surrogates who knew how to handle every fire that blazed up, big and small.

Where are Romney's GOP surrogates -- especially the ones who told us Romney was the only guy who could beat Obama? And why is Kristol effectively taking out an ad that benefits Obama instead of helping turn this into the win it obviously could and should become?

Last week we saw the same thing -- we saw our very own come out and affirm a media fury surrounding Romney's perfectly reasonable criticism of the Obama Administration apologizing to our Cairo attackers. And what good did this circular firing squad do? What good did it serve?

A truth that doesn't serve a good shouldn't be spoken. Bill Kristol fueling today's anti-Romney media narrative when he could just stay silent (no one's asking anyone to lie) is no different than me telling my neighbor she's fat.

Why would I do that?

Because it's true!

Is that a good enough reason?

Of course not. Nor is that a good enough reason for Bill Kristol to "tell the truth."

There's a bigger moral world than your selfish desire to be seen as "intellectually honest."

Fight.

Don't enable the media's Big Lie that Romney's a buffoon not ready to be president.

Fight!



Today's List of Important Stories the Media Covers Up To Protect Obama

Of course, everything on this list is dutifully reported. The media dutifully reports almost everything. But if the media isn't talking about, it's not really being reported, is it?

OBAMA JUST LOST THE ELECTION – CAUGHT ON HIDDEN CAMERAS AND MICROPHONES

by BigFurHat - September 18, 2012
@ iOwnTheWorld.com

Video unearthed by KleinOnline Busts Obama – Socialism, Marxism, Communism

Posted on September 19, 2012 by BC
@ im41.com

If you think you have heard Obama’s slogans before, chances are you have. They are as old as the hills.


How this man was ever elected as president I will never know? A lot of our boys have died defending America from this “evil.”

“History calls those men the greatest who have ennobled themselves by working for the common good; experience acclaims as happiest the man who has made the greatest number of people happy.”
- Marx, Letter to His Father (1837)

Let’s see if you have learned anything? Here is a little history lesson:

Who said it ?

1) “We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.”

A. Karl Marx
B. Adolph Hitler
C. Joseph Stalin
D. None of the above



NEW YORK – A 1995 video depicts Barack Obama calling for “democracy with a small ‘d,’” while pushing a society based on collectivism and “common good.”

In the video unearthed by KleinOnline, Obama hails unions and collective bargaining as encapsulating the societal “common good” of which he speaks.

Obama urges society to collectively move “forward” – a word that would later serve as his 2012 campaign slogan.

Obama was speaking in an Aug. 11, 1995 interview pushing his just published book, “Dreams From My Father.” At the time, Obama was a community organizer planning to launch a political career.

Obama tells the interviewer the “best part” of the dream of his “African father and white American mother,” was the “notion that we collectively can decide on our fate.”

He continued: “That things like technological change, things like mass media, things like the market are all subject to our control. That we can make decisions for better or for worse and continue to move forward and progress.”

Obama was asked whether the collective meant “us” or “those of us who own the major media and other corporate entities.”

He replied, “You know, I think in the end it does have to be a broad us. It has to be democracy with a small ‘d.’”

Obama explained what he meant by democracy, laying out a “common good” that includes unions.

“I think that recapturing the spirit that existed not just in the civil-rights movement but in the union organizing movement, in the populous movement. I think there is a running thread; one of the better angels of our nature in this country which has been the notion that, you know, we can sit around the table and find common ground and make democracy work in the way that it should be working.”

He continued, “It’s not popular right now to say that, and to believe in sort of a common good, but I think that notions of a common good are the glue that hold our society together and make democracy possible.”

The interviewer then asked Obama whether he is “willing to stake your political career on your common ground?”

“That’s the core of my faith,” Obama replied… Read More

Ronald Reagan warning about the evil that Obama is preaching now.

A Convergence of Colossal Coincidences

September 19, 2012
by Guy Somerset

When news broke on September 11, 2012 that an American embassy and consulate were besieged it was distressing. It only became alarming when the White House and American news organizations reported that the date’s significance was little more than a coincidence.

By the next day, after the first United States ambassador in thirty-three years had been assassinated, this narrative was altered. The attack in Egypt was still a “fluke,” but maybe not Libya. For once it seemed even the vaunted ignorance of the American populace had been overestimated.

I don’t believe in coincidences, although many lamentably do. I believe there are enormous and continual efforts made by powerful interests to convince the public that incredibly improbable happenstances continuously occur.

So to the extent that various incidents have been “coincidenced” right out of existence, they bear repeating.

One of the more revealing “coincidental” moments happened on July 17, 1996, when TWA Flight 800 was shot down by a missile (or not, despite the evidence).

Where that projectile originated is in some dispute. Probably it was from the American Navy, which was conducting exercises in the immediate vicinity. Possibly it was from terrorists in a boat below. But mistake or massacre, it happened.

When former Sen. Pierre Salinger, past correspondent for ABC News, provided documentation he went from respected colleague to laughingstock in one day. This is presidential power and media complicity in action.

But Salinger was correct. Technicians detected explosives residue on recovered fabric. Chemists did the same.

Eyewitnesses reported seeing a missile rise from the ocean’s surface up to an aircraft which subsequently exploded and fell into the sea. These people were located from every conceivable angle. One even had a serendipitous photo from that night which seemed to show a missile in the background.

The government said that all these people were hallucinating and didn’t see what they said they saw. Some literally didn’t know up from down. The smoking-gun photo was a fake, then it was an illusion, and then it simply went away. Everyone made a “coincidentally” corroborating mistake. Meanwhile, 230 innocents died.

Another interesting “coincidental” occurrence was April 20, 1999, when it was reported that two disaffected youths stormed Columbine High School, leaving 21 injured and 13 murdered.

Few doubted the original narrative, yet strange and chilling stories began to emerge. Parents who rushed to the scene stated that authorities refused to enter the building to stop the carnage for an hour or more. Many parents say they retrieved their own weapons but were barred from doing the job that the local SWAT team was too cowardly to attempt, and that those same officers may have accidentally shot fleeing students.

Moreover, the plausible account of dual disgruntled loners with a few homemade pipe bombs became dubious once it was revealed the number of incendiaries was nearer to one hundred, including at least two twenty-pound propane timed devices.

Article continues>>

Source: TakiMag

Top Muslim Calls For U.N. To End Free Speech

These words of course are nothing short of the U.N. being asked to (further) comply with blasphemy lies under sharia. This Saudi Professor has nothing to say about controlling the radicals inside of his religion, just control the speech of everyone else. That is quite offensive to me personally and to most Americans. These remarks to a very Muslim-friendly United Nations that are quite dangerous and will one day, I have no doubt be adopted. - W.E.

Obama has also sanctioned blasphemy laws, see video.

WND

One of the world’s most influential Muslims is now calling on the United Nations – in light of the YouTube movie blamed for violent protests across the Mideast – to impose international restrictions on free speech, criminalizing any statement that impugns Islam.
Sheikh Abdullah Bin Bayyah, a professor at King Abdul Aziz University in Saudi Arabia, is a member of several international organizations, including the Centre for Studying the Aims of Sharia in the U.K., as well as serving as the vice chairman of the International Union of Muslim Scholars.
The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre ranked bin Bayyah No. 31 on its list of the 500 most influential Muslims in the world for 2011.
In a public declaration issued to several Islamic bodies, including the All Dulles Area Muslim Society, one of the largest Muslim mosques in the D.C. metro area and the U.S., bin Bayyah called upon “people of reason and understanding” to put a legal stop to statements that would offend Muslims and thereby threaten world peace.
“We ask everyone to ponder the ramifications of provoking the feelings of over one billion people by a small party of people who desires not to seek peace nor fraternity between members of humanity,” bin Bayyah wrote. “This poses a threat to world peace with no tangible benefit realized. Is it not necessary in today’s world for the United Nations to issue a resolution criminalizing the impingement of religious symbols? We request all religious and political authorities, as well as people of reason to join us in putting a stop to this futility that benefits no one.”
Bin Bayyah’s statement was titled a “Declaration Regarding the Offensive Video to Muslims,” a clear reference to the YouTube film, “Innocence of Muslims,” which has been widely – if controversially – blamed for inciting riots against embassies in the Middle East and the resulting death of four U.S. diplomats.
The Obama administration had similarly asked Google, the parent company of YouTube, to review whether “Innocence of Muslims” violates its terms-of-use policies.
Thus far, Google has refused to remove the video from YouTube, though it blocked access in some sensitive countries.
Pundits from a wide spectrum of news outlets have agreed the video is protected by free speech rights in the U.S.
Bin Bayyah’s statement continued, condemning the embassy attacks in the Middle East: “We implore you not to inflict violence upon anyone, whether foreign delegations or otherwise. You should not destroy property or flout the values and cherished principles that you defend, as attacking innocents, killing foreign diplomats and ambassadors contravenes religious and moral principles before it contravenes political ones.”
Nonetheless, bin Bayyah reiterated the U.S. should make videos like “Innocence of Muslims” illegal, even while he claimed to back “free speech.”
“To our Western neighbors … we are extremely concerned with a small active minority in your countries that seeks to perpetuate a state of conflict and war,” bin Bayyah wrote. “We estimate that such objectives do not serve the general interest. Therefore, it is our hope that you reconsider and criminalize the denigration of religious symbols, as such provocations do not serve the principles of free speech, principles that you and us both seek to uphold.”
In a WND commentary, Diana West discussed other leading Muslims’ attempts to criminalize criticism of Islam.
“Mohamed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood president of Egypt (who denies that al-Qaida attacked the U.S. on 9/11, by the way), directed the Egyptian Embassy in Washington to ‘take legal action’ against the movie’s producers,” West writes. “Morsi doesn’t seem to understand First Amendment protections.”
West continued, “Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Qandil asked for similar action ‘within the framework of international charters that criminalize acts that stir strife on the basis of race, color or religion.’ This is a direct appeal to hold Americans accountable to the U.N. blasphemy resolution Hillary Clinton, along with the Islamic bloc, has championed, despite its repressive controls on free speech.”
West was referring a “defamation against religion” resolution the Organization of Islamic Cooperation has been pushing at the U.N. every year since 1999. Last year, Clinton worked with the OIC to pass a revised version, Resolution 16/18, which included both the usual condemnation of defaming speech and a paragraph affirming “the positive role that the exercise of the right to freedom of opinion and expression” plays in “strengthening democracy.”
Critics of the defamation resolutions fear they could be used to outlaw valid and critical scrutiny of Islamic teachings, as some OIC states do through controversial blasphemy laws at home.
The Clinton compromise version, though still roundly criticized, enjoyed more popularity at the U.N. itself and was adopted by consensus.

Source: The Weeping Eagle
posted 9.15.12

Ideological Indoctrination - Part 1

EX-KGB Talks About Infiltration Into U.S. By 60's Radicals

KGB agent warns us of Communist infiltration within our government, media, education, films, etc. You can't watch this without remembering the warning of Soviet defector Anatoliy Golitsyn that the plan of the KGB was to take over America without firing a shot.
- W.E.



hat tip: the weeping eagle

Obama's Lawless Regime: Feds ignore rules and use stimulus cash to buy Chinese solar panels

The Senator Paul Simon Federal Building in Carbondale, Ill. (energystar.gov)

(Washington Times) - Government officials blame unfair competition from China for the collapse of solar panel manufacturer Solyndra, but such concerns didn’t stop the federal government from breaking stimulus program rules to use Chinese solar panels atop a federal building housing the offices of a senator, congressman and several agencies.

Even the contractor questioned whether Chinese-made panels could be used under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the stimulus program that mandated use of U.S.-made products. His query in early 2010 was dismissed and the General Services Administration moved forward with using the Chinese panels on the Sen. Paul Simon Federal Building in Carbondale, Ill., records show.

Questions about the panels, which were assembled overseas, were raised in a four-page advisory memo sent by the inspector general to the GSA in the summer of 2011, but the findings take on added significance as government officials increasingly place blame on Chinese subsidies for troubles in the U.S. solar market.

Since last summer, Solyndra LLC and another solar company, Abound Solar, have filed for bankruptcy despite receiving generous federal loan guarantees. After both bankruptcies, government officials were quick to place blame on subsidies from China that allowed foreign solar panel manufactures to sell their products below cost, squeezing U.S. solar companies.

Meanwhile, the contractor on the Illinois building project, J.R. Conkey & Associates, initially questioned GSA officials on whether solar panels assembled in China could be used under the stimulus program, but a procurement officer told the company to proceed, according to records.

“We did what we were told to do by the federal government,” Jim Conkey, the company’s president, said Monday.

According to the inspector general’s memo, Conkey officials asked the GSA contracting official “whether non-ARRA [Recovery Act] compliant solar panels could be used” on Feb. 16, 2010, before the installation of the panels.

“The contracting officer directed Conkey to ‘proceed with the panels specified in the schedule contract since they have already been determined as satisfying all applicable contract clauses including the ARRA Buy American Act requirement,’ ” the memo stated.

The inspector general’s memo said the overall roof work was performed under a $1.8 million task order awarded to J.R. Conkey & Associates, though Mr. Conkey said a portion of the project involving stimulus funding for the panels at issue involved about $200,000.

Dan Cruz, a GSA spokesman, said an agency review found no other instances of GSA projects using solar panels made outside of the U.S.

In a written response to the inspector general last year, officials also disagreed with several aspects of the review. The Federal Acquisition Service, an arm of the GSA, said the contract to J.R. Conkey was for a “complex roof mounted electrical grid system” and that the panel in question — the SP205 — was “one component of this overall system.”

“Here, the panels themselves are not a contract item” the service’s response stated. “Rather, they are an important part of a solar system, but are integrated along with an inverter, tubes and other components into a system.”

And for purchases of such systems, the Trade Agreements Act, not the Buy America Act, applies, according to Federal Acquisition Service officials, who added that only the Bureau of Customs, now a part of the Department of Homeland Security, could make a determination of [Trade Agreements Act] compliance.

Still, the inspector general’s memo stated that the panels violated the provisions of the stimulus program, according to the memo.

“The photovoltaic panels installed were assembled in and shipped from China,” the memo stated. “Under the ARRA, the Chinese panels cannot be purchased with ARRA funds.”

Story Continues →

By Jim McElhatton
The Washington Times
Monday, September 17, 2012

Now would be the right time to recall Obama’s words and actions in the Mideast

Only Lewis Carroll could have done justice to the Obama administration’s fall down the dark hole into the U.S.’ latest Middle East misadventures.

Beginning with his Cairo and Istanbul speeches in the spring of 2009, President Obama attempted, indeed, “a new beginning,” as speechwriter Thomas E. Donilon, now, significantly, national security adviser, labeled them. Were it not so tragic, analogies to Carroll’s masterpiece would describe the situation that ensued: whether Iranian Mad Hatters screaming “Off with their heads!” or an obsequious American mainstream media’s Humpty Dumpty defining meanings for words at their whim.

In an appeal to Arab-Muslim intellectuals as well as Islam’s politicians, the President morphed its long history of intolerance and aggression into a paean of praise. The fables of Arab custodianship of enlightenment when Europe was in the Dark Ages were trotted out. The morbid contemporary history of abuse of women, intellectual obscurantism, cheapening of life, barbaric legal codes, child marriage and endogamy, corrupt economic practices at every level, in contemporary Muslim societies were all ignored. Flattery was the order of the day: Mr. Obama even alluded to important Islamic contribution to the American ethos, something no one yet even among the most chauvinistic Muslims had attempted.

A superficial glance at the United Nations Arab Human Development Report 2002 – facts and opinions so obvious accumulated despite that twisted organization — would have refuted Mr. Obama’s underlying assumptions and his remedies for exorcism of the region’s problems.

Instead, Mr. Obama made apology for real and perceived past American failings his order of the day.

Historians will argue forever over the contribution this Obama Doctrine made to the already intolerable chaos the region had been heading into for decades.

But it becomes clearer by the moment, American policy over the past four years has further exacerbated peace and stability in the region, world peace, and above all, American security:

Mr. Obama and his advisers fed the irrationality of Mideast debate not only by denouncing earlier strategies but by impugning U.S. motives.
Mr. Obama and his advisers adopted Muslim “victimization”, viewing Israeli-Arab relations as the be all and end all of Mideast problems.
Mr. Obama and his advisers prioritized Israeli settlements, ignoring the concomitant role of a large Israeli Arab minority in any two-state fix.
Mr. Obama and his advisers trivialized U.S. sacrifices, refusing personal intervention to save status of forces negotiations for an Iraq alliance.
Mr. Obama and his advisers attempted to appease Iran’s mullahs ignoring their 17 years of secret pursuit of mass destruction weapons.
Mr Obama and his advisers trashed Poland and Czech Republic’s anti- missile effort enhancing Teheran’s threat to Israel, Europe and the U.S.
Mr. Obama and his advisers played revolutionary politics, abandoning longtime allies and rationalizing Moslem Brotherhood’s jihad history.
Mr. Obam and his advisers dallied over the Syrian imbroglio, “leading from behind”, as competing forces radicalized drawing in neighbors.
Mr. Obama and his advisers ignored the obvious 9/11 anniversary threat in anarchic Libya and Egypt, helping bring on death and defeat.
Mr. Obama and his advisers’ contradictory statements demonstrated confusion, obfuscating obvious continued well-planned terrorism.

Most of all, of course, the Obama administration continues to belittle the U.S. role of superior force as a main determinant of international relations, the ultimate strength of any diplomatic effort.

There will be no easy road back to even marginal stability in the Mideast, of course, not least given the inability and cowardice of its political class to move into the modern era.

But while the overwhelmingly Arab economic and social problems remain, the nature of the Teheran regime and its pursuit of dominance of the region through acquisition of weapons of mass destruction must remain Washington’s paramount concern. Suggestions from the usual suspects that some sort of compromise might be achieved, allowing Teheran nuclear weapons capability in exchange for Iran’s voluntary halt short of weaponization, only threaten further catastrophe.

Past Iranian performance cannot lend credibility to such an arrangement.

When American policymakers again pick up the ball, whether this president or Mr. Mitt Romney, a publicly proclaimed red line for Iran backed by sincere mobilization of all resources is the only U.S. policy that can begin Mideast stabilization. That decision awaits, obviously, with even more horrendous events in the offing if such policy reversal is not undertaken — and quickly.


Posted September 17th, 2012
Sol W. Sanders, WorldTribune.com

Hat tip: Michael Savage

SAVED! And just in time for the election....Government wins temporary freeze of military detention order

Let the Marshall Law begin!

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The government won an emergency suspension of a ruling that blocked the indefinite military detention of terrorism suspects after arguing it would hurt America's ability to fight wars overseas.

An appeals court order late on Monday granted a temporary stay sought by the Justice Department after a judge had ruled unconstitutional part of a statute that authorizes indefinite military detention for people deemed to have "substantially supported" al Qaeda, the Taliban or "associated forces."

The government had asked the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York on Monday to freeze the ruling by U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest.

The Justice Department, which represents U.S. President Barack Obama, argued the judge's September 12 injunction barring enforcement of a portion of the National Defense Authorization Act's "Homeland Battlefield" provisions would harm U.S. war efforts abroad.

The case stems from a lawsuit filed in January by former New York Times war correspondent and Pulitzer Prize-winner Chris Hedges and others. They said they had no assurance that their writing and advocacy activities would not fall under the scope of the provisions.

The United States argues that the plaintiffs had no basis to fear being locked up for their activities, and that the judge's order interfered with the president's powers at a time of war.

Monday night's order by Circuit Judge Raymond Lohier said the district court's order is stayed until an appeals panel considers the issue.

Carl Mayer, a lawyer for Hedges, said Tuesday that the order was procedural and "we are confident the district court opinion will be vindicated."

A spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan declined to comment.

The cases are Hedges et v. Obama, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, No. 12-cv-331 and Hedges et v. Obama, 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, No. 12-3176.

(Reporting By Grant McCool and Basil Katz; Editing by Doina Chiacu)

Biden Quotes Official Communist Party News Agency

What is Biden doing reading communist propaganda, and why does he believe it is credible?



It seems logical to me that China would attack the person who would do the most good for the United States, and the most harm to the Chinese economy.

I notice that they didn’t mention Obama!

During a campaign event in Iowa, VP Joe Biden quotes the Chinese Communist party’s news agency (September 17, 2012).

SOURCE: im41.com

SPOT ON: Liberal Media Trys to Spin Romney Video in Obama's Favor While Conservatives Embrace It's 47% Remarks

Videos published by Mother Jones on Monday of Mitt Romney speaking at a closed-press fundraiser drew immediate attacks from Democrats — but they've also, finally begun to gin up enthusiasm among conservatives for the Republican nominee.

"Dammit! I'm just now seeing these Romney secret videos," RedState founder and CNN contributor Erick Erickson said on Twitter. "We need that guy on the campaign trail!"

"In the battle of caught-on-tape scandals, I'll take Romney's (accurate statement) over Obama's (promising Putin) any day," Brady Creemens, a writer for the Right Sphere, tweeted, referring to a hot mic Obama promise of post-election "flexibility."

Creemens continued, "Oh, Romney doesn't much care for those who benefit from the system without contributing? Good. Me neither. I think I'll vote for him."

Romney's remarks at a private fundraiser were secretly recorded, including the statement: "There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it."

The comments provoked a firestorm on social media and prompted a strongly-worded statement from Obama campaign manager Jim Messina: "It’s hard to serve as president for all Americans when you’ve disdainfully written off half the nation.”

Raccio later explained in an interview with BuzzFeed that "it only serves to excite the conservative base into knowing that Mitt Romney understands the situation we’re facing in the country."

"Mitt Romney needs to be vocal about that because I don’t believe the majority of Americans want so many people on the government dole unchecked," Raccio said.



SOURCE: BuzzFeed

The 25 Most Obnoxious Quotes From Barack Obama

Sep 18, 2012
John Hawkins

25) "No, no. I have been practicing...I bowled a 129. It's like -- it was like Special Olympics, or something." -- Barack Obama

24) "I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions." -- Barack Obama

23) "I do think at a certain point you've made enough money." -- Barack Obama

22) "To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets. At night, in the dorms, we discussed neocolonialism, Franz Fanon, Eurocentrism, and patriarchy. When we ground out our cigarettes in the hallway carpet or set our stereos so loud that the walls began to shake, we were resisting bourgeois society's stifling conventions. We weren't indifferent or careless or insecure. We were alienated.

But this strategy alone couldn't provide the distance I wanted, from Joyce or my past. After all, there were thousands of so-called campus radicals, most of them white and tenured and happily tolerant. No, it remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names." -- Barack Obama

21) "I believe in keeping guns out of our inner cities, and that our leaders must say so in the face of the gun manfuacturer’s lobby." -- Barack Obama

20) "Junkie. Pothead. That's where I'd been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man. Except the highs hadn't been about that, me trying to prove what a down brother I was. Not by then, anyway. I got high for just the opposite effect, something that could push questions of who I was out of my mind, something that could flatten out the landscape of my heart, blur the edges of my memory. I had discovered that it didn't make any difference whether you smoked reefer in the white classmate's sparkling new van, or in the dorm room of some brother you'd met down at the gym, or on the beach with a couple of Hawaiian kids who had dropped out of school and now spent most of their time looking for an excuse to brawl. ...You might just be bored, or alone. Everybody was welcome into the club of disaffection." -- Barack Obama

19) "...I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on earth. This was the moment -- this was the time -- when we came together to remake this great nation so that it may always reflect our very best selves and our highest ideals." -- Barack Obama

18) "We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen." -- Barack Obama

17) "I am not in favor of concealed weapons. I think that creates a potential atmosphere where more innocent people could (get shot during) altercations." -- Barack Obama

16) "It’s very rare that I come to an event where I’m like the fifth- or sixth-most interesting person." -- Barack Obama

15) "The Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home. . . . What I think we know — separate and apart from this incident — is that there is a long history in their country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately, and that’s just a fact." — President Obama on Gates’ arrest.

14) "But I don't want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess. I don't mind cleaning up after them, but don't do a lot of talking." -- Barack Obama

13) "If Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, ‘We’re gonna punish our enemies and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us,’ if they don’t see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election, then I think it’s gonna be harder and that’s why I think it’s so important that people focus on voting on November 2." -- Barack Obama

12) "It was usually an effective tactic, another one of those tricks I had learned: (White) People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves. They were more than satisfied, they were relieved -- such a pleasant surprise to find a well-mannered young black man who didn't seem angry all the time." -- Barack Obama

11) "The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person..." -- Barack Obama

10) "The issue here is not gonna be a list of accomplishments. As you said yourself, Steve, you know, I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president — with the possible exceptions of Johnson, F.D.R., and Lincoln." -- Barack Obama

9) "I don’t believe it is possible to transcend race in this country. Race is a factor in this society. The legacy of Jim Crow and slavery has not gone away. It is not an accident that African-Americans experience high crime rates, are poor, and have less wealth. It is a direct result of our racial history." -- Barack Obama

8) "The private sector is doing fine." -- Barack Obama

7) "That's just how white folks will do you. It wasn't merely the cruelty involved; I was learning that black people could be mean and then some. It was a particular brand of arrogance, an obtuseness in otherwise sane people that brought forth our bitter laughter. It was as if whites didn't know that they were being cruel in the first place. Or at least thought you deserving of their scorn." -- Barack Obama

6) "It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks' greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere...That's the world! On which hope sits!" -- Barack Obama quotes Rev. Wright

5) "You know, the truth is that right after 9/11, I had a (flag) pin. Shortly after 9/11, particularly because as we're talking about the Iraq war, that became a substitute for, I think, true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security, I decided I won't wear that pin on my chest..." -- Barack Obama

4) "If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen." -- Barack Obama

3) "I can no more disown (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother - a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe." -- Barack Obama

2) "...I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby." -- Barack Obama

1) "You got into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." -- Barack Obama

SOURCE: Townhall.com

Academic Dishonesty

9.18.12

Many of the nation's colleges and universities have become cesspools of indoctrination, intolerance, academic dishonesty and an "enlightened" form of racism. This is a decades-old trend. In a 1991 speech, Yale President Benno Schmidt warned: "The most serious problems of freedom of expression in our society today exist on our campuses. The assumption seems to be that the purpose of education is to induce correct opinion rather than to search for wisdom and to liberate the mind."

Unfortunately, parents, taxpayers and donors have little knowledge of the extent of the dishonesty and indoctrination. There are several clues for telling whether there's academic dishonesty and indoctrination. One is to see whether a college spends millions for diversity and multiculturalism centers and hires directors of diversity and inclusion, managers of diversity recruitment, associate deans for diversity, and vice presidents of diversity. See whether colleges spend money to indoctrinate incoming freshmen with programs such as "The Tunnel of Oppression," in which, among other things, students call one another vile racial and sexual names in order to develop "oppression awareness."

An American Council of Trustees and Alumni survey in 2004 of 50 selective colleges found that 49 percent of students complained of professors frequently injecting political comments into their courses even if they had nothing to do with the subject, while 46 percent reported that professors used their classrooms to promote their own political views. One English professor told his students that "conservatism champions racism, exploitation and imperialist war." The "critical race studies" program at UCLA School of Law says that its aim is to "transform racial justice advocacy." At an East Coast college, an exam was found with questions such as, "How does the United States 'steal' the resources of other (third world) countries?" The answer marked correct was, "We steal through exploitation." An economics professor told his class, "The United States of America, backed by facts, is the greediest and most selfish country in the world." A Germanic languages professor told his class, "Bush is a moron, a simpleton and an idiot."

A recent National Association of Scholars report, "A Crisis of Competence," reported that the UCLA Higher Education Research Institute found that "more faculty now believe that they should teach their students to be agents of social change than believe that it is important to teach them the classics of Western civilization." Use of public funds for private advocacy not only is academic dishonesty but also borders on criminality.

In today's college climate, we shouldn't be surprised by the outcomes. A survey conducted by the Center for Survey Research and Analysis at the University of Connecticut gave 81 percent of the seniors a D or an F in their knowledge of American history. Many students could not identify Valley Forge, words from the Gettysburg Address or even the basic principles of the U.S. Constitution. The National Center for Education Statistics reported that only 31 percent of college graduates can read and understand a complex book.

A 2007 national survey titled "Our Fading Heritage: Americans Fail a Basic Test on Their History and Institutions," by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, found that earning a college degree does little to increase knowledge of America's history. Among the questions asked were: "Who is the commander in chief of the U S. military?" "Name two countries that were our enemies during World War II." The average score among college graduates was 57 percent, or an F. Only 24 percent of college graduates knew the First Amendment prohibits establishing an official religion for the United States.

A 2006 survey conducted by The Conference Board, Corporate Voices for Working Families, the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, and the Society for Human Resource Management found that only 24 percent of employers thought graduates of four-year colleges were "excellently prepared" for entry-level positions.

Our sad state of college education proves what my grandmother admonished: "If you're doing something you're not supposed to be doing, you can't do what you're supposed to do."

SOURCE: Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. To find out more about Walter E. Williams and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.


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Emails reveal Justice Dept. regularly enlists Media Matters to spin press

Published: 12:56 AM 09/18/2012

Internal Department of Justice emails obtained by The Daily Caller show Attorney General Eric Holder’s communications staff has collaborated with the left-wing advocacy group Media Matters for America in an attempt to quell news stories about scandals plaguing Holder and America’s top law enforcement agency.

Dozens of pages of emails between DOJ Office of Public Affairs Director Tracy Schmaler and Media Matters staffers show Schmaler, Holder’s top press defender, working with Media Matters to attack reporters covering DOJ scandals. TheDC obtained the emails through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.

Emails sent in September and November 2010 show Schmaler working with Media Matters staffer Jeremy Holden on attacking news coverage of the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation scandal.

Holden attacked former DOJ Civil Rights Division attorneys J. Christian Adams and Hans von Spakovsky on Sept. 20, 2010 for what he called an attempt “to reignite the phony New Black Panther Party scandal.”

Before Holden posted his article at 7:52 p.m., Schmaler sent him several emails with information helping him attack both former DOJ oficials.

“Here’s one Wolf letter,” read the subject of one email Schmaler sent Holden that contained no text. The email was likely a reference to Virginia Republican Rep. Frank Wolf, a member of Congress who led the Republican charge on the New Black Panther Party scandal involving alleged voter intimidation at a November 2008 polling place in Philadelphia.

In response, Holden told Schmaler that “The response to interog 38 is particularly helpful. Thanks!”

Interrogatory 38 was a reference to a question from Congress that the Justice Department answered, concerning the role of several senior officials in discussing litigation related to that voter intimidation case.

A follow-up email shows Schmaler sending Holden more information.

“[H]ere’s another one to Smith,” Schmaler wrote. “[I]t’s about perrelli contact with w. WH. helpful in that it makes clear perrelli didn’t have discussions w/ WH on the case (obviously confirming he knew of it) … but also illustrates [REDACTED] they’ve tried to throw up that won’t stick[.]”

Holden responded at 8:34 p.m. — three hours after Schmaler sent her first email at 5:34 — to say, “Post is live, FWIW [for what it's worth]. Thanks again.”

Nearly two months later, on Nov. 18, 2010, Holden wrote a new blog post he described as an “EXCLUSIVE,” titled “Right-wing commission to vote on flawed New Black Panthers report.”

“The conservative-dominated U.S. Commission on Civil Rights will vote Friday on an interim report that omits critical evidence disproving allegations that the Obama administration refuses to enforce voting-rights laws against racial minorities, according to Media Matters’ analysis of a copy of the report we obtained,” Holden wrote in the Nov. 18 article.

Holden attacked Adams again, and Christopher Coates — another now-former DOJ attorney.

After Holden published that piece, Schmaler sent him an email titled “Great piece…” and continuing in the body of the message, “On USCCR investigation.’” One minute later, Holden responded, writing, “Thanks!”

At 9:50 a.m. on July 8, 2011, Media Matters’ Matt Gertz wrote to Schmaler asking for her help “debunking what I think is a conservative media myth about Operation Fast and Furious.”

Gertz told Schmaler that “Xochitl directed me to you as the person to talk to.” Gertz was referring to Xochitl Hinojosa, a DOJ spokeswoman and former Media Matters staffer.

“Several media outlets, including Fox News this morning, are claiming that Fast and Furious was paid for with stimulus dollars,” Gertz wrote to Schmaler. “My research suggests that this is not true, and I was hoping you’d be able to confirm that.”

Gertz added that he needed a response “by 1 p.m.” because he thought the issue was “likely to snowball if it isn’t stopped.”

In less than two hours, Schmaler responded with an answer from her “budget folks” in DOJ. “You’re right,” she told Gertz, before explaining why she thought so.

At 1:13 p.m., Gertz responded, writing, “Thanks again for your help, here’s the piece” and adding a link to his online article.


NEXT: Concern over a Fast and Furious segment on Fox News

Source: The Daily Caller