Did
Marines Ambush Defense Secretary Hagel? By Andy Weddington
Excerpt:
Said Loretta Sanchez, a California Democrat, describing the task of
opening up ground combat to women as providing Equal Opportunity for women,
"I'm real excited to get this done. Combat performance is an important
issue when people are looking at moving up in all of these organizations."
Excerpt: What would it take to get you to enroll in
Obamacare? A folksy song? A celebrity endorsement? An ad in a porta-potty? Taxpayer money may be used for all of
those things and more as October 1—the date when the health insurance
exchanges are supposed to open—approaches. But all the campaigns and millions of dollars in advertising may not be enough,
especially for the demographic Obamacare so desperately needs: young people.
Was Israel’s
Latest ‘Air’ Attack on Syria
from a Submarine? By Tom Gross
Excerpt: An attack two weeks ago that destroyed an advanced
Russian missile shipment delivered to Syria’s Assad regime should also serve as
a warning to Iran – and to those complacent Western diplomats who have
(dangerously in my view) reconciled themselves to the idea of allowing Iran to
go nuclear and then trying to contain it. For it seems that the July 5 attack
on an arms depot near the Syrian naval base of Latakia, which has been
attributed to Israel, came not from the air (as CNN and the New York Times
reported last weekend) but from under the water.
Mother of slain Benghazi victim Sean
Smith: ‘My son is dead. How could that be phony?’
http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/25/mother-of-slain-benghazi-victim-sean-smith-my-son-is-dead-how-could-that-be-phony/
http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/25/mother-of-slain-benghazi-victim-sean-smith-my-son-is-dead-how-could-that-be-phony/
Excerpt: The mother of a Benghazi victim is furious about the new
White House strategy of calling the terrorist attack and many other scandals
plaguing the Obama administration “fake” or “phony.” Patricia Smith,
mother of Sean Smith, who was slain in the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack,
lashed out on “Your World” on the Fox News Channel about that
terminology.
Family of Murdered
Border Patrol Agent: Nothing 'Phony' About Deaths Linked to Fast and Furious
Excerpt: “These deaths are real. My son’s death was real. I
am outraged that President Obama is talking about phony scandals when he knows
all too well that my son was a victim of Operation Fast and Furious that was
authorized by members of his Justice Department and a U.S. Attorney that he
appointed.
The President’s Broken Window Fallacy: Carbon Policies
and Jobs. By Benjamin Zycher
Excerpt: At a general level, employment created — that is,
shifted — as a result of a government policy is a cost rather than a benefit
for the economy as a whole, unless the policy improves resource allocation by,
say, correcting for some sort of market inefficiency. (Whether or not
government policies can be predicted systematically to improve the efficiency
of resource use is the central focus of the vast public choice literature). As
counterintuitive as that may seem, imagine that a federal policy had the effect
of increasing the demand for high-quality steel. That clearly would be a
benefit for steel producers, or more broadly, for owners of inputs in steel
production, including steel workers. But for the economy as a whole, the need
for additional high-quality steel in, say, an expanding wind-power sector would
be an economic cost, as that steel (or the resources used to produce it) would
not be available for use in other sectors.
Obamacare Glitch No.
One: Verifying Eligibility
Excerpt: This process is a red flag for opponents of
President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, which was enacted in March 2010 Earlier
this month, the Washington Post reported that health
insurance marketplaces will not be required to verify consumer claims. The
Obama administration said “it would significantly scale back the health law’s
requirements that new insurance marketplaces verify consumers’ income and
health insurance status. Instead, the federal government will rely more heavily
on consumers’ self-reported information until 2015, when it plans to have
stronger verification systems in place.”
Study finds fracking
chemicals didn't pollute water: AP
Excerpt: A landmark federal study on hydraulic fracturing,
or fracking, shows no evidence that chemicals from the natural gas drilling process
moved up to contaminate drinking water aquifers at a western Pennsylvania
drilling site, the Department of Energy told The Associated Press.
Egypt's Mursi accused
of murder, kidnapping before rallies
Excerpt: The Egyptian army is detaining ousted President
Mohamed Mursi over accusations of kidnapping, killing soldiers and other
charges, the state news agency said on Friday. (See, he was running guns to
Mexican drug cartels, which killed two American agents and over 500
Mexicans…oh, wait, wrong president. Sorry. ~Bob.)
Hamas Shuts Down Three Media Outlets in Gaza
http://forward.com/articles/181188/hamas-shuts-down-three-media-outlets-in-gaza/
http://forward.com/articles/181188/hamas-shuts-down-three-media-outlets-in-gaza/
Excerpt: Gaza’s Islamist rulers Hamas closed the
offices of three media companies, including the Saudi-owned Al Arabiya
television and Palestinian news agency Maan, on Thursday, employees and a Hamas
spokesman said.
Excerpt: I've written often about the coming 2nd American
Civil War. I became convinced that we'll have that war beginning sometime in
the next decade. And lately, I've seen and read literally hundreds, perhaps
thousands of posted messages that are saying the same thing. More and more
people are convinced that the only solution to our problems will come from war,
and the ensuing "culling" of career welfare queens, America hating
socialists, corrupt politicians on both side of the political spectrum, 30
million illegal Mexican invaders, and a few million Black thugs who create
havoc in their runaway crime sprees. (I don’t think there will be a Civil War,
as in two sides fighting each other. As I say in The Coming Collapse of the American Republic, I think there will be economic collapse, followed
by political and social collapse, with riots, looting, starvation, and massive
bloodshed and death. Thousands of wars, as folks try to defend themselves from
looters. All royalties go to help wounded veterans. I will send you a free PDF
to read on your computer if you write to me at tartanmarine(at)gmail.com. you
can read the reviews on Amazon.com. http://tiny.cc/g02s4.)
Keeping the heat on
for truth on Benghazi
This Next Generation TV Video:
"Allen West: "Shame on You" to Those who Ignore Navy SEALs'
Sacrifice" shows the SOS sign right on his lectern and also shows more
than once the huge petition from SOS about getting to the truth of Benghazi. --Del
Vouchers: My Personal Case. By Larry Elder
Vouchers: My Personal Case. By Larry Elder
Excerpt:
APEX stood for Area Program Enrichment Exchange, and involved several L.A. area high schools,
including Fairfax High. Intended for "advanced" students, the program
allowed them to take courses not offered at their home school. In my case, I
had exhausted all of the Spanish courses at Crenshaw High, the predominately
black inner-city school I attended.
Out
of Control: What Eliot Spitzer plans to do if he wins. By
Michael Warren
Excerpt:
If elected [as New York City's comptroller],
Spitzer would essentially be the city’s chief financial officer, a glorified
accountant responsible for New York’s
$70 billion budget. But that’s small potatoes next to the comptroller’s other
role of overseeing pension funds for city workers totaling $140 billion. And
Spitzer, who’s now outpolling his Democratic primary opponent, has been
brutally honest about what he’d like to do with that responsibility.
Women's military
veterans group drops Mayor Bob Filner as keynote speaker
Excerpt: A group of women military veterans announced
Wednesday that it has rescinded an invitation to Mayor Bob Filner to speak at
its conference in San Diego
next month in light of the sexual harassment allegations against the former
congressman. (I wonder if all those folks who voted for San Diego Mayor Bob
Filner for Congress over Iraq
war vet and hero Nick Popaditch because of the Republicans’ “War on Women” are
happy with all the sexual harassment charges against Filner now. ~Bob.)
Joe Garcia 1 year
ago: "unequivocally...I’m going to live in the district." Now: I
haven't moved yet. Oops.
Excerpt: It has been almost a year since Joe Garcia told The
Miami Herald's editorial board that he'd move into the new Key
West-to-Miami-Dade Congressional District 26 if he won. Garcia won. But he
hasn't yet moved. His office said the freshman Democrat is in the process of
getting a place.
Untruth at The New Yorker: A column
on the Trayvon Martin case elicits an egregious attack. By Victor Davis
Hanson
Excerpt: It is rare to read an essay in which almost every
statement is wrong, but that is the case with “A Sermon on Race
from National Review” by one Kelefa Sanneh, appearing on The New Yorker’s website — little more
than McCarthyite character assassination in the form of a reply to my
column this week on the president’s and the attorney general’s
reactions to the verdict in the Trayvon Martin case. Here we go:
Great column: Stein’s Law: Like
Detroit, things
that can’t go on forever don’t. By Charles
Krauthammer
Excerpt: If there’s an iron rule in economics, it is Stein’s
Law (named after Herb, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers):
“If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.” Detroit, for example, can no longer go on
borrowing, spending, raising taxes, and dangerously cutting such essential
services as street lighting and police protection. So it stops. It goes bust.
Muslims
are Not a Minority. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt:
The most persistent myth of the Western Dhimmi
narrative is that Muslims are a minority and must receive special protection
and accommodation. But Muslims are not a minority. There are 1.5 billion Sunni
Muslims worldwide, outweighing Catholics as the next largest religious faction
at 1.1 billion and Hindus at 1 billion.
Black
America's True Nemesis: Liberals, not Zimmerman. Lloyd Marcus
Excerpt: Everyone knows that the black community is a mess. White
folks ain't killin' us. We are killing each other.
Tunisian politician
Mohamed Brahmi assassinated
Excerpt: Many Tunisians, particularly the young, complain
that their quest for secular democracy has been hijacked by intolerant
Islamists, including the Muslim Brotherhood which forms part of the current
government, our correspondent says.
Sad
Trombone: Anthony Weiner's Lead Implodes Following Sexting Scandal 2.0. Guy
Benson
Excerpt:
Apparently even New Yorkers have their limits on
issues of propriety in politics (cue the juvenile double entendres) : Mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner has
suffered a massive erosion of support among New York City Democrats
following revelations this week that his sexting with women continued
long after his 2011 resignation from Congress, a new NBC 4 New York/Wall Street
Journal/Marist Poll has found. (If your Election-lead lasts more than four
hours, call your doctor immediately! ~Bob.)
Irony Alert: IRS employee union: We don’t want
Obamacare
Excerpt: IRS employees have a prominent role in Obamacare,
but their union wants no part of the law. National Treasury Employees Union
officials are urging members to write their congressional representatives in
opposition to receiving coverage through President Obama’s health care law.
West
Virginia Democrats
descend on Washington
to protest the 'war on coal'
Excerpt: Democrats from West
Virginia are headed to Washington, D.C., todefend the coal industry against the Environmental Protection Agency's greenhouse gas emissions
regulations that President Obama often
touts.
I Am The Police End Of Watch
This is a fantastic short video in the streets of LA. It is
good clean shooting. –Sender
President Robert
Mugabe: We should ‘chop off’ gay men’s heads
The “black rule” Progressives fought for in Zimbabwe. ~Bob.
Six more convicted in
killings released under court decision
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/blog/bs-md-ci-prisoners-freed-20130725,0,3710245.story
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/blog/bs-md-ci-prisoners-freed-20130725,0,3710245.story
In related news, the victims are still dead. ~Bob.
Six Reasons Why CNN
Is Now... The Most Disgraced Name in News
A tough competition. ~Bob.
White House hardens
stance on budget cuts ahead of showdown with Republicans
Excerpt: Senior White House officials are discussing a
budget strategy that could lead to a government shutdown if Republicans
continue to demand deeper spending cuts, lawmakers and Democrats familiar with
the administration’s thinking said Thursday.
The Obama media pool
lacks racial depth
Gross. College
Students Sign Petition to Legalize “Fourth Trimester” Abortions (Video)
VIDEO: A Human Face
Put on the Benghazi
Tragedy: Video of Former Navy SEAL Glen Doherty
MIT scientists
successfully implant false memories in mice
http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/25/mit-scientists-successfully-implant-false-memories-in-mice/
http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/25/mit-scientists-successfully-implant-false-memories-in-mice/
Excerpt: “Memories can be unreliable.” No, that quote
doesn’t come from the opening lines of a science fiction novel, nor from the
narration of the movie ”Inception.” Instead, the words are from the
abstract of a new study published in the latest edition of the
academic journal Science, in which scientists at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology caused mice to feel mild pain, and then successfully
triggered memories of that pain in environments where the mice had no reason to
expect it. (Still no cure for cancer? Or, say, pulmonary fibrosis, scientists?
Actually, this has been done in kids and young adults through intense pressure
to “remember” abuse that never happened. See: http://faculty.washington.edu/eloftus/Articles/sciam.htm
~Bob.)
FBI letter to Rand Paul reveals drones
used 10 times in US
http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/26/fbi-letter-to-rand-paul-reveals-drones-used-10-times-in-us/#ixzz2aAiL2cqw
http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/26/fbi-letter-to-rand-paul-reveals-drones-used-10-times-in-us/#ixzz2aAiL2cqw
Excerpt: The Federal Bureau of Investigations has used
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, at least ten times in the United States,
a letter from the agency to Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul revealed on
Thursday. “Since late 2006, the FBI has conducted surveillance using UAV’s in
eight criminal cases and two nationals security cases,” the letter reads…. Paul also raised concerns about the internal process
for approving drones in past cases, in which the FBI has consulted “legal
counsel” instead of pursuing a warrant in a court of law.
Obama Promises,
Including Whistleblower Protections, Disappear From Website
Excerpt: Amid the Obama administration's crackdown against whistleblowers,
Change.gov, the 2008 website of the Obama transition team laying out the
candidate's promises, has disappeared from the internet.
Mann vs. Steyn: Heresy Shall Be Crushed. By Daren Jonescu
Excerpt: Remember when scientists and other truth-seekers
used to get all riled up about the way the Catholic Church treated Galileo? The
outcry was not over the fact that Galileo was a "peer-reviewed"
researcher, and therefore beyond question. Quite the contrary: the argument was
that, from the point of view of the quest for truth, no one, including the
representatives of official orthodoxy and authority, ought to be regarded as
beyond question. In the Michael Mann lawsuit against Mark Steyn
and National Review, it is the "award-winning researcher" who is
joining the fight for Church orthodoxy, while the defendants are the persecuted
Galileos.
Scary: Nine sputtering cities may follow rusted,
busted Detroit.
By Eric Boehm
Excerpt: Detroit might
have captured national headlines by declaring bankruptcy, but it is not the first
— and probably not the last — city to face financial ruin. It’s a fact even the
mayor of Detroit, Dave
Bing, acknowledged Sunday, when he predicted his city was the first of “many
dominoes that will fall.” The situation in
Detroit is the result of a unique mix of civic corruption, poor financial
planning and economic collapse. But one of the driving factors in Detroit’s bankruptcy is
an unsustainable public pension crisis, similar to what many other
cities are facing.
Military Censors Christian Chaplain, Atheists Call For Punishment
Excerpt: A Christian
chaplain in the military is being officially censored for engaging in free
speech, and anti-Christian activists
are demanding he be punished.
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