Egypt’s Muslim
Brotherhood Leaders Arrested, Army Moves In
Egyptian sources report that senior officials in the Muslim
Brotherhood have been placed under house arrest and the military is securing
strategic facilities across the country. The Islamist group that backed
President Mohamed Morsi in last year’s successful bid to win the nation’s first
democratic election is also now being scrutinized for corruption in the
ranks. The group’s funding structure and records are being
probed, according to a report posted Wednesday by the
Egyptian Al-Ahram newspaper. (Female protester in Tahrir Square interviewed
by CBS said, “Morsi is ruining our country. He is spending us into
oblivion. He is promoting terrorists.” An ex-general, I believe,
also interviewed said, “He is ruining Egypt. Do we have to wait for
total collapse?” Indicated they could see the course of Morsi and MB’s
actions…want no part of it for a free Egypt. Egyptians have more
balls than US, or maybe, having seen the light of freedom, want to reach for it
versus enslavement to a global hierarchy....Meanwhile, US funding MB in Egypt….Barb)
Tweet from @allahpundit
12:03 p.m. Egypt
in chaos as reports of coup swirl. Fox News: Zimmerman. CNN: Zimmerman. MSNBC:
Zimmerman.
Tweet from Seth @dcseth54m
How did Morsi let himself get put under house arrest? Didn't
the Mubarak situation teach him anything? Always have a Gulfstream on standby.
Tweet from Robert @deepereyes16m
All this stuff going on in #Egypt, is it
because of some YouTube video?
White House delays
health-care rule that businesses provide insurance to workers
Excerpt: The White House on Tuesday delayed for one year a
requirement under the Affordable Care Act that businesses provide health
insurance to employees, a fresh setback for President Obama’s landmark
health-care overhaul as it enters a critical phase. (Setback? Yes, setback
until after the midterm elections. ~Bob. The Democrats figure they won't be
able to take the house of representatives, and may even lose the senate if the
employer insurance mandate is implemented in 2014. No matter what anyone says,
that is the reason for the delay. And the ONLY reason. --LLW)
Marines, Americans
Respond To: A Public Letter To The Commandant Of The Marine Corps
The Mindset of the Left: Part II. By Thomas Sowell
Excerpt: "Poverty" once had some concrete meaning
-- not enough food to eat or not enough clothing or shelter to protect you from
the elements, for example. Today it means whatever the government bureaucrats,
who set up the statistical criteria, choose to make it mean. And they have
every incentive to define poverty in a way that includes enough people to
justify welfare state spending. Most Americans with incomes below the official
poverty level have air-conditioning, television, own a motor vehicle and, far
from being hungry, are more likely than other Americans to be overweight. But
an arbitrary definition of words and numbers gives them access to the
taxpayers' money.
Zimmerman Trial: Star
Witness Rachel Jeantel and the Politics of Soft Bigotry
Excellent article by Crystal Wright, who posts as
“Conservative Black Chick” and takes a lot of foul racist abuse from the
“tolerant left.” ~Bob. Excerpt: As defense attorney Don West grilled Rachel
Jeantel, liberal commentators fell all over themselves making excuses for
Rachel’s shocking behavior in court and contempt for their process. I can tell
you one thing for certain if Jeantel wasn’t black, none of these liberal
pundits, especially the white ones would have made excuses for her rude
behavior. They would have called it just what it was. . . unacceptable.
Liberal
Apartheid: The elite mostly lead a reactionary existence of
talking one way and living another. By Victor Davis Hanson
Excerpt: Gore has made hundreds of millions of dollars in
the Marcus Licinius Crassus style of hyping a disaster and then profiting from
its remedy. Gore hates carbon emissions. So much so that he dismisses those who
live by them, such as coal-company executives, coal miners, and the rubes who
mindlessly use coal-based electricity. But Gore also likes money and what money
can do for him — SUVs, private jet travel, multiple residences. That’s why he
just sold his interest in a failed cable-television network to a broadcasting
network backed by a Middle Eastern authoritarian sheikhdom, known for both its
anti-Semitism and its huge cash profits from the sale of fossil fuels.
How Did the U.S.
Lose the Egyptian People? By Jeffrey Goldberg
Excerpt: So here’s a question that’s nagging at me as we
watch millions of Egyptians express their loathing for Mohamed Mursi, their
hapless, power-grabbing president, and for his Muslim Brotherhood movement: How
exactly did the U.S. come to be seen by Egyptian secularists and liberals as the
handmaiden of a cultish fundamentalist political party whose motto includes
this heartening sentiment: “Jihad is our way, and dying in the way of Allah is
our highest hope”?
Social Security Paid
1,546 Dead People $31 Million -- Deceased Collected Benefits Up to 20 Years
Female reporter, 22,
gang-raped by five men in Egypt
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4993986/woman-gang-raped-by-five-men-in-egypts-protests.html#ixzz2XvDcvA6t
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4993986/woman-gang-raped-by-five-men-in-egypts-protests.html#ixzz2XvDcvA6t
Covering Pre-Existing
Conditions in a Market-Driven Health System. By James Capretta
Excerpt: The entire Obamacare edifice rests on the deceptive
assertion that the law’s primary purpose is to cover persons with pre-existing
conditions. The president and his team never defend the vast majority of the
law’s provisions. What they do claim is that Obamacare was necessary to protect
Americans, especially the sick, from the unregulated abuses of the health
insurance industry. That argument, misleading as it is, resonates to some
degree with the public, which is why the administration keeps repeating it over
and over again.
Bottom of Form
Health Insurance
Costs Set for a Jolt
Excerpt: Healthy consumers could see insurance rates double
or even triple when they look for individual coverage under the federal health
law later this year, while the premiums paid by sicker people are set to become
more affordable, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of coverage to be
sold on the law's new exchanges. A review of rates proposed by carriers in
eight states shows the likely boundaries for the least-expensive and most
costly plans on the exchanges. The lower boundary is particularly important
because the government wants to attract healthy people to the exchanges, and
they may choose to pay a penalty and take the risk of going without coverage if
they believe they can't get an acceptable deal. For a 40-year-old single
nonsmoker -- in the middle of the age range eligible for exchanges -- a
"bronze" plan covering about 60 percent of medical costs will be
available for about $200 a month in most places, the proposals show. Though less generous than "silver"
and "gold" plans on the exchanges, a bronze plan would still include
fuller benefits than many policies available on the individual market today. The
challenge for the law is that healthy 40 year olds can typically get coverage
for less today, especially if they are willing to accept fewer benefits or take
on more costs themselves.
MSNBC hits 7-year
low, lags behind Fox News, CNN
http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/02/msnbc-tanks-hits-7-year-lows-lagging-behind-fox-news-cnn/#ixzz2XzHGBczm
http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/02/msnbc-tanks-hits-7-year-lows-lagging-behind-fox-news-cnn/#ixzz2XzHGBczm
Excerpt: In numbers released by Nielsen Media Research,
MSNBC has fallen to third in the primetime race, behind CNN. But it gets worse
for MSNBC, with its “total day” ranking dropping to fourth place, behind Fox
News, CNN and HLN. This quarter marks the 46th straight quarter that Fox News
has been first in “total day” and “primetime” as it continues to dominate the
cable news show rankings. Fox held the top 13 programs in cable news based on
total viewers for the entire quarter and claimed nine out of the top 10 programs
in the 25-54 demographic. (Huh. Turns out editing news clips to fit your
viewpoint isn’t that popular. ~Bob.)
Satire: Organizing for Action: The secret emails
revealed
Excerpt: I’m working with the president to put together his
drone kill list and I noticed that you still haven’t donated to OFA yet. Maybe
now’s the time to act? As you know, OFA is on the forefront helping to push the
president’s agenda. I would hate for you to be killed by an air robot before
you see us change America.
More to come soon, but in the meantime, please take a minute out of your busy
day to give us $5. Your life is worth $5, right?
Tweet from Jonah Goldberg @JonahNRO29s
Hey Egyptian protestors. Start a chant about the Zimmerman
trial and all the nets will break away to cover you.
Zimmerman Prosecution
Predictably Collapsing. By Andrew C. McCarthy
Excerpt: The state of Florida’s politically
driven decision to charge George Zimmerman with murder has resulted, as some of
us predicted it would, in a pathetically weak case. It has
taken only a few days of trial to collapse of its own weightlessness – undone,
in fact, by the direct testimony of a prosecution witness,
as Bryan Preston relates at the Tatler and Ed Morrissey details at Hot Air. (What is worrisome is the result of
this case being dismissed. There will be screaming from the race-baiters
and possibly some disturbances, even a riot is possible. And Zimmerman
will have to spend the rest of his life watching out for some crazy guy bent on
getting revenge for Trayvon. –Del.
They may be afraid to acquit. ~Bob))
Excerpt: If you ask Kathleen Sebelius, everything good that
happens is partly the result of health reform. When bad things happen, she
either says nothing or blames the result on someone else. What’s the truth of
the matter? Most of what the administration wanted to happen is not happening.
But unintended things are happening — some good and some bad. What does this
mean for the way doctors practice medicine? On the plus side, consumer-driven
health care has been given a boost and entrepreneurs are responding with
products that seem to be far removed from the accountable care model the
administration is pushing. On the negative side, hospitals are merging and they
are acquiring doctors. In the process, they are making the market less
competitive, gaming third-party payment formulas and doing other things that
make our health insurance premiums and our taxes higher than they otherwise
would be.
University Tells Student to Remove Cross Necklace. By Todd Starnes
Excerpt: A Sonoma State University student was ordered to
remove a cross necklace by a supervisor who thought other students might find
it offensive, in a case that prompted even one campus official to speculate
that “political correctness got out of hand.” (OK, the good news is that this
instantly scared the university people witless and they are anxious to
apololgize and get this forgotten ASAP. The bad news is that some idiot
really thought he could get away with this kind of insanely repressive and
inappropriate treatment of a free person in a free country wearing a very
reasonable bit of personal jewelry reflecting her faith. PC on steroids
again. But so incredibly stupid that the school didn't hesitate a second
to back the student and offer all kinds of regrets about this. –Del. Bet they
would not have told a female Muslim student to remove her head scarf, which is
a religious symbol. ~Bob.)
A tale of two
economies: Chile has
employed free-market principles to outperform Ecuador. by Richard
Rahn
Excerpt: Chile
and Ecuador
provide an almost perfect test case of competing economic visions. Back in
1980, Ecuador had a slightly
higher per capita income than Chile.
In the past 33 years, Ecuador
has increased its real per capita income a little more than threefold, but
during the same period Chile
has increased its per capita income more than sixfold. (A simple
comparison between different approaches taken by somewhat similar
nations. The results tell you what you want to know, without a dozen PhDs
in Economics writing you a 50,000 word technical report. --Del)
Human Rights Watch
says mobs "assaulted and in some cases raped at least 91 women"
in Cairo's
Tahrir Square.
Excerpt: Egypt's Tahrir Square has
seen nearly hundred women falling victim to "rampant" sexual attacks
during the past four days of protests against President Mohamed Morsi, Human
Rights Watch (HRW) said. The global rights watchdog said on
Wednesday that the mobs sexually assaulted "and in some cases raped
at least 91 women" in Tahrir
Square amid a climate of impunity. (As usual in a
Muslim country, hard to tell who the “good guys” are. ~Bob.)
Fraud as Science. By
John Jaeger
Excerpt: Newspapers, magazines, television programs,
classrooms, and conversations all over America are
awash in fraud which is being covered by the mantle of “science.” The
birth of the Global Warming Fraud can be traced to a conference organized by
anthropologist Margaret Mead, in 1975. You can
read the paper documenting the conference attended by anti-human
hoaxsters here.
Anyone who dares to challenge this sacred majesterium of ”science” is
a heretic and an ignoramus, according to advocates of The Global
Warming Fraud.
Tweet from Nathan Wurtzel @NathanWurtzel
Trade deficit up as America's main industry of posting
cat videos on the Internet does not appear to be generating money.
Tweet from Ken Gardner @kesgardner
Your tax dollars at work: still no money for WH tours, but
the State Department has spent $630,000 to buy “Likes” on Facebook.
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