Everyone wants
Congress to compromise. So, why don’t they?
Excerpt: Compromise is the name of the political game, according
to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll that shows almost seven in ten
people believe that it’s more important for politicians to cooperate across
party lines than stick to their positions. (If compromise is good, we could
have ended WWII in 1943 with a compromise, saving all that bloodshed and death.
Hitler gets to keep half of Europe and kill
only half the Jews. Often compromise with wrong is wrong. ~Bob.)
Yes, We Do Have a Debt Problem: The president and his
supporters try to downplay the continuing crisis. By Veronique
de Rugy
Excerpt: After years of bipartisan overspending, public debt
today—that’s the money that the federal government owes to domestic and foreign
investors—is almost 90 percent higher than at the onset of the financial crisis
in 2008. It climbed by $1 trillion dollars between December 2011 and December
2012 alone to its current level of $12.03 trillion, according to the CBO in
May. Public debt is now 75.1 percent of GDP, the highest level since 1950, and
it is projected to reach 76.2 percent next year. (Every reasonable person
knows you can only pay off the MasterCard by charging it to the VISA card for
so long, then things go crash. ~Bob.)
The Era of the
Psychotic Candidate. By Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt
Excerpt: Remember Alvin Greene? He was the
guy who scraped together the filing fee to appear as a candidate for Senate on
the Democratic line in South Carolina
in 2010, and who won the nomination, even though almost no one in the state
knew who he was. One of his major ideas to improve the economy was making an
action figure of himself. We all had fun laughing at the surreal
Forrest-Gump-come-to-life, and he was enjoyably crazy candidate, right up until the moment hestarted howling and wailing at a
reporter who showed up at his home, and then it started to feel like
we were laughing at a man with serious mental-health issues. We can still laugh
at Anthony Weiner . . . and we will be laughing at him for a long time. But it
is starting to feel like we're watching a man with serious, deep-rooted
psychological issues relating to his sexuality, his self-control,
his ability to assess risk, his inability to admit the truth unless confronted
with overwhelming evidence of his falsehoods, his willingness to see others as
objects and God knows how many other issues… (Well, he was a Democrat
Congressman. Of course he has problems with “his self-control, his ability to
assess risk, his inability to admit the truth…” ~Bob.)
McAuliffe bragged
about GreenTech’s cash position while begging feds for faster processing of
‘cash for visas’
Excerpt: At a time when attorneys
representing GreenTech Automotive said the green car firm was in financial trouble [3] , company
chairman Terry McAuliffe was running for governor – and telling a
reporter his business was flush with cash. (If Virginia
elects him governor, they will get what they deserve, just as America is
today. ~Bob.)
Al-Qaeda claims Abu
Ghraib and Taji mass jailbreaks
Remember the good old days, when Obama was running for
re-election and assured us he had al Qaeda “on it’s heels”? ~Bob
When will Jeffrey
Zients return from South
Africa?
http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/23/when-will-jeffrey-zients-return-from-south-africa/
http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/23/when-will-jeffrey-zients-return-from-south-africa/
Excerpt: Amid new revelations about the IRS targeting
scandal, the Obama administration’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) said
Tuesday that former OMB head Jeffrey Zients’ extended absence from the United
States is due to a family vacation. OMB’s statement came after The Daily
Caller reported that former leader Jeffrey Zients met at the White
House with key figures at the Internal Revenue Service just before news broke
that the IRS was targeting conservative nonprofit groups for abusive audits and
delays. (South Africa
is a dangerous, high-crime place. Hope he doesn’t have an “accident.” ~Bob.)
Profiling. By Walter
E. Williams
Excerpt: You might say, "Profiling is unfair, and
individuals should be judged individually!" Taken to the limit, such a
position is ludicrous. Suppose police are trying to catch the criminal who just
raped a woman in a city park. Would you want them to use sex profiling -- i.e.,
just round up men -- or should they round up everyone, regardless of sex? I'm
betting that most people would view the latter as stupid. But there is a near
equivalent in government. Ninety-six percent of the FBI's list of most wanted
terrorists are Muslim, and most terrorist attacks in the U.S. have been
committed by young Muslim males. Despite this, the Transportation Security
Administration people behave as if each person who seeks to board a plane is of
equal danger. That's why they search, frighten and inconvenience 5-year-olds
and elderly people.
About that Austerity in Spain: There Isn't Any. By Mike Shedlock
Excerpt: When Keynesian clowns point to Spain and say
"austerity doesn't work", ask them "where is the
austerity?" Also ask "where is the labor reform?" Then ask
"where is the pension reform?"
Teachers Union May Sue Over ‘Constitutional Right’ to Wear Shorts
to Work!
Excerpt: Big Labor has a new favorite group of victims of
social injustice - the teaching staff of Lewis County, West Virginia. Citizens
have been complaining to school board members about the “way teachers dress,”
according to school board president Paul Derico. As a result, the school board
unanimously passed a dress code for teachers, banning blue jeans, faded jeans
and shorts.
Excerpt: Let's try to imagine Obama governing with the same
attitudes, the same tone in which he campaigned in 2008! You remember!
It was Kumbaya, where there were no red states or blue states, no class
warfare, no race warfare, no demonizing a fellow cause he's got more money in
the bank. The Obama who spoke kindly of both the rich and poor, spoke not
of individual mandates, spoke in favor of deporting illegals who invaded us,
spoke kindly of his predecessors, was in favor of civil unions for gays but
advocated strongly for the marriage between a man and a woman as central to the
advances of American culture. Hell, he even praised Ronald Reagan as a
transformational leader!
Damascus Countdown? White House about to use
military force in Syria.
That would be a catastrophic mistake. The focus should be Iran.
Excerpt: The countdown to U.S.
intervention in the mess in Damascus
appears to be nearing the zero hour. The Obama administration is actively
considering using military force to bring down the Assad regime in Syria.
Specifically, the White House and Pentagon are analyzing the idea
of running a 24/7 “no-fly zone” over Syria, as well as training and
arming rebel forces to defeat the Assad forces. But the costs would be high —
upwards of $1 billion a month — and might not even be successful. (And if Russia
intervenes militarily to support their Syrian ally, as they did their Serbian
ally in 1914? ~Bob.)
Syrian Rebels Target
Hizballah. By John Rossomando
Excerpt: A string of bombings, rocket attacks and
assassination attempts has brought the
Syrian civil war into Hizballah's Lebanese stronghold. Hizballah has found
itself unable to keep Syria's
rebel factions from attacking its assets deep inside Lebanon. The group became subject
to reprisals ever since it began fighting alongside forces loyal to Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad earlier this year. (I’m hoping for a long war of
attrition, ending in a draw. ~Bob.)
In
the name of diversity, social engineering coming to communities everywhere.
Katie Pavlich
Excerpt:
With the recent bankruptcy filing by Detroit,
you'd think governments everywhere would take a step back a re-evaluate central
planning. Instead, the federal government is doing the opposite through a new social
engineering program that will map every community in the country, all in the
name of diversity.
America versus Mark Steyn and the National Review Online: What
are the chances? Laura Rosen Cohen
Excerpt: My late Bubbie Molly Rosen (pictured with me)
always told us “If you want a helping hand, look to the end of your arm.”
President Obama &
the Race Issue. By Bill O’Reilly
Excerpt: They blame guns, poor education, lack of jobs, but
rarely do they define the problem accurately. The reason there is so much
violence and chaos in the black precincts is the disintegration of the African
American family. About 73% of all black babies are born out of wedlock. The
lack of involved fathers leads to young boys growing up resentful and
unsupervised. But when was the last time you saw a public service ad telling
young black girls to avoid become pregnant? (In case you missed it. Most people know I'm not a fan of Bill
O'Reilly, for reasons I won't go into, but he nailed it last night. – LLW)
Two
Presidents? Two Monarchs? By Mark Steyn
Excerpt:
As I wrote in
the early weeks of the Duchess of Cambridge’s blessed event, the “First Family”
(a concept unknown to the Constitution) now costs taxpayers more per annum than
all European royal families combined. The whole lot could comfortably fit in
the 40-car motorcade accompanying the Obamas to Martha’s
Vineyard — which I trust will be renamed Trayvon’s Vineyard for
the duration.
America's best-educated kids don't go to school. By Jack Kelly
Excerpt:
With public school students at the 50th percentile, home schoolers were
at the 89th percentile in reading, the 86th percentile in science, the 84th
percentile in language, math, and social studies.
The
Shale Boom and Income Mobility. By Walter Russell Mead
Excerpt:
Looking at that NYT map, we can see that North
Dakota and eastern Montana
are the most upwardly mobile areas in the country. It’s no coincidence that
those blue shaded areas overlap the Bakken formation, one of the largest shale
oil and gas plays in the United
States. And energy-rich Texas, home to the oil-rich Permian basin and the Eagle Ford shale formation, is
also relatively upwardly mobile.
Should
the Third Amendment Prevent Government Spying? By Glenn Harlan Reynolds.
Excerpt:
When the Framers drafted the Third Amendment, they had a specific evil in mind:
The quartering of troops "upon" a population by the English crown. As
the term suggests, this wasn't just about getting a cheap place for soldiers to
stay. Forcing citizens to put up troops in their homes was expensive and the
troops -- then drawn from the jails and gutters, for the most part -- were
likely to rob, rape and assault members of the household at the least
provocation.
How Adding Iodine to
Salt Resulted In A Decade's Worth Of IQ Gains For The United
Excerpt: Iodized salt is so ubiquitous that we barely notice
it. Few people know why it even exists. Iodine deficiency remains the world's
leading cause of preventable mental retardation. (Wait, I thought it was a
Communist plot? ~Bob.)
Excerpt: My recent post on ObamaCare’s War on Men
discussed the fact that ObamaCare’s elimination of gender-based insurance
premium differentials unfairly penalizes men. It generated 128 comments, many
of which speculated that pregnancy generated the cost differential. As the
following data show, women appear to use more health care even after their
childbearing years are over. It is unlikely that babies are responsible for the
entire cost differential. Even if they are, a price system that does not
reflect differential usage will do a poor job of allocating resources.
Obama Turns To
Comedians To Promote Health Coverage
Excerpt: Who needs jocks when you've got Jennifer Hudson and
Amy Poehler? That seems to be the message coming out of the White House
following a star-studded meeting yesterday led by White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett. Its mission: Figure out how to
help promote the Affordable Care Act. … This comes less than a month after the
NFL rejected the Obama administration's plan
to recruit pro football stars in the effort.
Quotes from The Patriot Post
"We wonder if Obama or Attorney General Eric Holder is
familiar with the case of Marissa Alexander of Jacksonville, a black woman who received a
20-year prison sentence in May 2012 for firing warning shots against her
allegedly abusive husband. The judge rejected a defense under Florida's stand-your-ground law. Alexander
told police it was to escape a brutal beating by her husband, against whom
she'd already taken out a protective order. For defending herself, she went to
jail -- as some still wish for George Zimmerman. But by standing her ground
with a firearm, she may have saved her life, just like Zimmerman."
--Investor's Business Daily
"An illegal alien who's been deported 11 times was
caught again, this time with 220 pounds of pot in his car. He's in big trouble
-- he was supposed to bring back a receipt for Eric Holder's guns." --Fred
Thompson
"Detroit has become the
largest city in U.S.
history to file for bankruptcy. What happened was Detroit's population dropped something like
70 percent, but the government got bigger. The tax base got smaller, but the
government got bigger. Thank God that kind of thing could never happen in Washington."
--comedian Jay Leno
Tweet from Rep. Tom Price, MD @RepTomPrice19 Jul
POTUS says #Obamacare is
"doing what it's designed to do." What? Raise costs? Limit access to
care? Kill jobs?
U.S. Border Patrol
Deporting Illegal Alien with 37 Criminal Convictions in USA http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/us-border-patrol-deporting-illegal-alien-37-criminal-convictions-usa#sthash.efN10PJB.dpuf
Racists! ~Bob.
Illegal Immigrant
Horror
Excerpt: The story reprinted below is beyond horrifying.
It's also what happens when the federal government refuses to enforce our
borders and when the president and attorney general---the nation's two top law
enforcement officers---choose to ignore the rule of law. … "On Wednesday,
police in Austin
arrested two Mexican nationals who reportedly participated in the gang-rape of
a 13-year-old girl on June 29.
Why hasn't America
progressed on race? By Newt Gingrich
Excerpt: The tragic truth is that at the end of segregation,
the great moment of opportunity for African-Americans, we had a failure of
government and a failure of culture. The rise of big bureaucracy in the Great
Society starting in 1965 combined with the rise of a counterculture which
despised middle-class values and which taught the poor patterns and habits of
destruction -- and those two patterns of bad bureaucracy reinforcing bad
culture have led to a disaster.
Charles Murray captured part of this in an extraordinary
book in the mid-1980s called "Losing Ground," which was the seminal
work in being able to pass welfare reform, in which he demonstrated that the
patterns we were building were actively destructive of the poor.
Ever hear of the “Big
Six” during the Civil Rights Era? Democrats Paid Black Leaders to stop
Revolution of Younger Black Population
http://newsninja2012.com/ever-hear-of-the-big-six-during-the-civil-rights-era-democrats-exalted-black-leaders-to-stop-revolution-of-younger-black-population-2013-04-07/#axzz2PpRCzVBI
http://newsninja2012.com/ever-hear-of-the-big-six-during-the-civil-rights-era-democrats-exalted-black-leaders-to-stop-revolution-of-younger-black-population-2013-04-07/#axzz2PpRCzVBI
NHS Inquiry: British Healthcare System Caused Up to 13,000
"Needless Deaths" Since 2005
Excerpt: The NHS’s medical director will spell out the
failings of 14 trusts in England,
which between them have been responsible for up to 13,000 “excess deaths” since
2005.
Woman Pulls Shotgun
Out of Trunk, Stands Her Ground (video)
Excerpt: Pro-tip: If you’re going to rape someone at a gas
station with people watching, with an umbrella and a knife… expect that the
woman likely has a shotgun in her truck and after you make the mistake of
slapping her, she will kill your ass. (Killed a black guy, she can expect the
full Zimmerman treatment. Oh, wait, she’s black too. She’s good. ~Bob.)
Obama Promised
Lobbyists Won't Run the White House!
The Good Old Days. See next piece. ~Bob
Obama administration packed with lobbyists he vowed not to
hire. By Timothy P. Carney
Excerpt: President Obama has hired more than 100 lobbyists
in his administration, a new academic study reports. This doesn't match Obama's
campaign promise to exclude lobbyists, or his pretenses of having kept that
promise.
USC Student: Police
Said I Wasn't Raped Because He Didn't Orgasm
End the war on Women at liberal universities! ~Bob.
Female medic earns
Silver Star in Afghan war
Excerpt: A 19-year-old medic from Texas
will become the first woman in Afghanistan
and only the second woman since World War II to receive the Silver Star, the
nation's third-highest medal for valor. Army Spc. Monica Lin Brown saved the
lives of fellow soldiers after a roadside bomb tore through a convoy of Humvees
in the eastern Paktia province in April 2007, the military said.
After Repeated Controversies, Sharpton is Still Smokin'. By
Jonah Goldberg
The long record of Al Sharpton's terrible behaviors is
really impressive (and depressing). How this man could have been so
obviously and deeply involved in chicanery, deception, dishonesty, and
promotion of violence, and yet still be considered important and someone whose
views on various subjects are critical, is both puzzling and another sign of
the decay of our society. Del
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