Reality Versus Mirages in Egypt. By Thomas Sowell
Excerpt: Nothing symbolizes the Utopianism of our times like
both liberals and some conservatives calling for us to cut off aid to the
Egyptian military, because of the widespread killings in what is becoming a
civil war in Egypt.
Such utter lack of realism from the left is not new, but hearing some
conservatives saying the same things takes some getting used to.
The Middle East:
All Bad Choices: From Libya
to Iran,
our past actions have drastically limited our current choices. By Victor Davis
Hanson
Excerpt: Iran
is either fueling violence in Syria
or racing toward a bomb, or both.
Syria
is past imploding. Take your pick in a now-Manichean standoff between an
authoritarian, thuggish Bashar Assad and al-Qaeda franchises that envision a
Taliban-like state. There is increasingly not much in between, other than the
chaos of something like another Sudan.
Restoring
America
- There's More Than One Way. By Andy Weddington
Excerpt:
Those elected to "represent" us have encased themselves in a
beautifully wrapped gift box - box, wrapping, nor bow of red, white, and
blue. That is, our "representatives" have blessed themselves
"special" - not of the people.
Excerpt: Democratic California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a new
law into effect on Monday afternoon affording students confused about
their “gender identity” a host of new rights, including the ability to use
either a boy’s or girl’s restroom and either locker room. (From the insane sate
of CA. I predict it will reach NY in 18 months and IL within 5 years. This is
liberalism to its logical conclusion. Cordially, Larry Greenberg)
The End of Policy: America’s political parties have
reached the end of their agendas. By Peter Suderman
Excerpt: But they too are stuck in a rut. Yes, as the party
of activist government, there is always something more to be done. But the
president's party seems nearly as drained of policy energy as the GOP, resting
on recycled ideas and expansions of existing programs.
Former Pakistani
leader Musharraf charged with 2007 assassination of ex-PM Bhutto
Excerpt: A Pakistani court on Tuesday indicted former
president and army chief Pervez Musharraf on murder charges in connection with
the 2007 assassination of iconic Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto,
deepening the fall of a once-powerful figure who returned to the country this
year to make a political comeback.
What Is Going To
Happen If Interest Rates Continue To Rise Rapidly?
Excerpt: If you want to track how close we are to the next
financial collapse, there is one number that you need to be watching above all
others. The number that I am talking about is the yield on 10 year U.S.
Treasuries, because it affects thousands of other interest rates in our
financial system. When the yield on 10 year U.S. Treasuries goes up, that is
bad for the U.S.
economy because it pushes long-term interest rates up.
US oil reserves reach highest level in 28
years
Excerpt: U.S.
proven reserves of crude oil and lease condensate totaled 29.5 billion barrels
in 2011, a 15-percent increase from the previous year
and the highest level since 1985, according to a new report from the Energy Information Administration. Crude
oil proven reserves alone totaled 26.5 billion barrels, a 14 percent increases
from 2010.
Excerpt: I am an American soldier. In 1776 I fought an enemy
ten times my strength...in pursuit of a glorious dream. In that first winter an
infant Congress could not feed or clothe me...so I spent the winter at Valley
Forge eating grub worms and the barks off of trees, slept in mud and marched
barefoot through the snow....because you asked me to.
NLRB employee,
Democrat Activist charged with photographing young boy in Disney restroom
Thank God he wasn’t a Republican. There’d be nothing else in
the news for weeks. ~Bob
How Obama has abused
the Patriot Act: The White House's justification for collecting Americans'
phone data doesn't stand up to the light of day.
Excerpt: On Aug. 9, the Obama administration released a previously
secret legal interpretation of the Patriot Act that it used to justify the bulk
collection of every American's phone records. The strained reasoning in the
22-page memo won't survive long in public light, which is itself one of the
strongest arguments for transparency in government. As the late Supreme Court
Justice Louis Brandeis wrote, "Sunlight is said to be the best of
disinfectants."
Obama’s Iran-Contra:
The real Benghazi
scandal
Excerpt: One would be hard pressed to find a more
significant impeachable offense than aiding and abetting the sworn enemies of
the United States,
especially when any such support includes sending weapons to our murderous
adversaries. …In the case presented here, the enemy consists not of drug lords
but of al-Qaeda, along with a witches’ brew of anti-American jihadists.
Have
Energy, Will Export. By Walter Russell Mead
Excerpt:
Some of that low [gasoline] demand
is due to the protracted recovery from the recession, but the bigger and more
permanent trend is the increasing gas mileage of new cars. Of course, the
other component of the rise of US exports is an increase in our domestic energy
supply, largely thanks to shale oil and gas. Petroleum and coal exports have
boomed in recent years, more than doubling from 2010 to 2013.
Editorial:
How President Obama is flouting Obamacare: More reasons to delay and re-write
this ill-conceived law. By Chicago
Tribune
Excerpt:
Congress need not start from scratch. Lawmakers can build on what all of us
have learned from three years of painful trial and error. Three years of
attempting, but failing, to make this clumsy monstrosity work for the American
people. (Well, they endorsed him. ~Bob.)
Tribalism,
Post-Tribalism and Counter-Tribalism. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt:
The left has shrunk down to a social welfare movement obsessed with perfecting
the municipal governments and non-profits that administer cities filled with
savages. Its self-image is elitist, but its horizons are hopelessly petty. It
reflexively backs absurd identity politics causes because there is nothing else
for it to do except embrace its own dissolution.
The
Making of Allen West Inc. : The former Congressman, unseated in the nation's
most expensive race, is building an empire. Losing is the best thing that ever
happened to him. By Ben Terris and Shane Goldmacher
Excerpt: By losing his spot in
Congress, West may have failed upward. "In some ways, my ability to impact
the conversation has somewhat exponentially grown," he says. His docket is
so full these days that a 75-minute meeting is carved into his calendar just to
discuss all the far-flung elements of "the empire."
Allen
West calls Obama 'a very dangerous threat to the existence of America'. By Kevin Derby
Excerpt:
"I recommend Obama read Montesquieu's ‘Spirit of the Laws’ in order to
understand our fundamental principle of separation of powers and checks and
balances. I want to thank my professors at the University
of Tennessee, Kansas State
University, and the Army
Command and General Staff College for giving me a proper education. I have no
clue what they taught Obama at Occidental, Columbia, and Harvard -- 'cause this fella
sure ain't no constitutional scholar. But then again, anyone seen those
transcripts?”
Mark
Steyn for U.S.
Senate!: but he's not an American citizen. By Leslie Larson
Excerpt:
Hewitt launched a "Ready for Hillary" type effort with an online
petition to urge Steyn to run at SteynforSenate.com. More
than 3,500 people have signed the petition so far. Steyn, a columnist at the National
Review, seems amused by the idea and has been tweeting in response to
supporters using the hashtag #Markmentum.
Coptic
Pope blasts Muslims Brotherhood, US, EU. By Mary Abdelmassih
Excerpt:
"Over the past weeks we have witnessed an increasing trend of anti-Christian rhetoric calling for 'the attack upon and
eradication of Christians and
churches' in Egypt,"
said Coptic Bishop Anba in the United
Kingdom. "The result of such
incitement, at least in part, has been the unprecedented attack on fifty two
churches and numerous Christian
homes and businesses across eight governorates in Egypt, within the space of twenty
four hours." Yesterday Dr. Naguib Gabriel, President of Egyptian Union of
Human Rights Organization, said "82 churches, many of which were from the
5th century, were attacked by pro-Morsy supporters in just two days."
The Platters tell it
like it is
The 1955 hit song by The Platters in has come back to haunt
us…Chet
Police: Black teens
kill white man 'for fun'
http://www.wnd.com/2013/08/police-black-teens-kill-white-man-for-fun/#dyPFBlcM60CAYo2J.99
http://www.wnd.com/2013/08/police-black-teens-kill-white-man-for-fun/#dyPFBlcM60CAYo2J.99
Excerpt: As the family of an Australian baseball player
gunned down in Oklahoma
mourns his death, police said today that the college athlete was targeted by
three black teenagers who simply “wanted to see someone die.” (Not big
news—blacks killing whites. Big news—white Hispanic kills black. ~Bob.)
Tweet from Cameron Gray @Cameron_Gray
Will the same people who demanded justice for Trayvon
Martin, also demand justice for Australian baseball player Christopher Lane
President Reagan's
Commitment To Racial Equality Began Early In Life
Excerpt: The new film Lee Daniels' The
Butler depicts President Ronald Reagan as indifferent to the suffering of
blacks as well as the country's civil rights progress. Breitbart News has debunked that cinematic meme, but
Reagan's commitment to racial equality began long before he even considered a
life in politics.
Rename it “The Blue Dress Foundation.” ~Bob
Tweet from Crystal Wright @GOPBlackChick
Prof. Dyson blames Detroit's
woes on white racists. Detroit
governed by black politicians for decades.
Burning churches.
By Rich Lowry
Excerpt:
For the first time in 1,600 years, they didn’t pray
this past Sunday at the Virgin Mary and Anba Abraam monastery in a
village in Southern Egypt. Islamists firebombed and looted the
monastery that dates back to the fifth century. For good measure, they
destroyed a church inside. They then announced that they would be
converting
the monastery into a mosque. (Waiting for statement from Obama…~Bob.)
Christians
Murdered All Over Egypt, New Puppy at White House. By J. Christian Adams
Excerpt: It’s Sunny at the White House! But not in Egypt if you
are a Christian or a Franciscan
nun.
Tweet from Crystal Wright @GOPBlackChick
Can you get a library card? Then you can get voter ID. Every
state offers free ones.
Nine states with the
highest personal income tax rates lost $90.05 billion in adjusted gross income
between 2000 and 2010
Excerpt: When people don’t like the direction in which their
state is headed, they often vote with their feet. That’s precisely what Illinoisans
did during the last decade, and they took their income with them. (I’m gone
from Illinois
the day I retire. ~Bob)
The truth Johnny Depp
wants to hide about how Comanche indians butchered babies, roasted enemies
alive, and would ride 1,000 miles to wipe out one family. By Jonathan
Foreman
Excerpt: S C Gwynne, author of Empire Of
The Summer Moon about the rise and fall of the Comanche, says simply: ‘No tribe
in the history of the Spanish, French, Mexican, Texan, and American occupations
of this land had ever caused so much havoc and death. None was even a close
second.’
Consensus
in Egypt.
By Mark Steyn
Excerpt:
As a result, the factions in Egypt
are united only in their contempt for Washington.
Obama is despised by Sisi and the generals for being fundamentally unserious;
by the Brotherhood for stringing along with the coup; by the Copts for standing
by as the Brothers take it out on them; and by the small number of genuine
democrats in Egypt for his witless promotion of Morsi’s thugs as the dawning of
democracy. Any “national-unity government” of the kind the usual deluded twits
are urging on Egypt
would be united only in its unanimous loathing of Obama, his secretaries of
state, and his inept ambassador.
Two
More Colorado Counties Will Vote on Whether to Secede from State. By Andrew
Johnson
Excerpt:
A group of northern Colorado counties are
taking more steps toward establishing the 51st state: Two more countries will
ask residents if they want to secede the Centennial State on
a ballot this fall. Phillips and Weld counties are the fourth and fifth
counties to put the question for a vote, following Cheyenne,
Sedgwick, and Yuma.
How
to keep the NSA out of your computer: build your own private, parallel
Internet. By Clive Thompson
Excerpt: He and
his fellow Athenians built it. They did so by linking up a set of rooftop wifi
antennas to create a "mesh," a sort of bucket brigade that can pass
along data and signals. It's actually faster than the Net we pay for: Data
travels through the mesh at no less than 14 megabits a second, and up to 150
Mbs a second, about 30 times faster than the commercial pipeline I get at home.
Now hiring ObamaCare
'navigators'-No insur exper necy, No messy bgrnd checks. By Andrew Malcolm
http://license.icopyright.net/user/viewFreeUse.act?fuid=MTczOTQ2MTc
http://license.icopyright.net/user/viewFreeUse.act?fuid=MTczOTQ2MTc
Excerpt: According to President Obama, implementation of
ObamaCare, his signature chunk of legislation, is rolling out exactly as he
envisioned. If so, he needs eyeglasses to go along with his Nicorette. With
questionable legal authority, the Obama administration has already had to
postpone two major aspects of the complex legislation, despite three full years
of preparation time. (Obamacare "navigators" to help you out? Out of
all your most private information. Which you will be giving to individuals
that, for all you know, just finished doing 5 years for identity theft. Yep,
we're in a hurry, see, so no time for any checking whatsoever on these
people. Ah.... thanks, but no thanks, I would be trying on my own to chart my
way through the pages (20+?) of the application if I were to sign up for this. Which,
as it happens, with Medicare it seems I won't have to, although I will likely
wind up paying more for care, and taking longer to get any help. The usual
benefits of government-run systems. But for the rest of the population.... good
luck! --Del)
Here, Morsi’s
supporters are beating a policeman to death. They have killed hundreds this way
and worse.
Yes, but Obama supports Morsi and his followers. To be good
little Americans, aren't we supposed to support the 'president'? –Don Hank
Lord
Tebbit: The English Defence League are not far right.
Excerpt:
This isn’t an article that looks to explain what we actually do believe, but
one that asks the reader to give us a chance. Contrary to Lord Tebbit’s claim
in the Huffington Post article referenced above, we don’t have “policies” on
which we can be judged. We’ve never claimed to be the experts and we aim to be
able to represent anyone who is concerned about the spread of Islamic
extremism, whatever their politics.
Starry-eyed
Liberal Meets the Reality of Medicaid Patients. By M. Catherine Evans
Excerpt:
By the end of 90 days [of doing her job of registering 45 ER Medicaid patients
daily], Samantha told me what really affected her was the cold reality that
most of the Medicaid patients treated her like dirt. They showed no gratitude
for the fact that Samantha's taxes were going to help them. On top of their
sense of entitlement, Samantha noticed many welfare mothers and fathers
mistreated their children while the kids were the ones waiting to be seen!
A
surprising crystal meth epidemic. By Thomas Lifson
Excerpt: According to a report in
the Asian Wall Street Journal, North Korea is grappling with
widespread use of crystal meth. Jason Strother writes: North Korea is experiencing a
"drug epidemic," according to a study
published in the Spring 2013 edition of the journal North Korea Review. "A New Face of North Korean Drug
Use: Upsurge in Methamphetamine Abuse Across the Northern Areas of North
Korea" explains how during the past several years meth production has gone
from government-owned factories to privately run underground laboratories and "home kitchens."
Kansas lawmaker ‘appalled’ by Islamic display in
school
Excerpt: A display outlining
the five pillars of Islam has been removed by Wichita school
officials after some parents took issue with the visual following the first day
of class at Minneha Core
Knowledge magnet school last
week.
Hillary's Racial
Politics: She makes a polarizing pitch that ignores trends in voter turnout.
Excerpt: By the way, Georgia,
Indiana and Tennessee have some of the strictest voter
ID laws of the more than 30 states that have such laws, yet the Census report
says black turnout exceeded that of non-Hispanic whites in 2012 in all three.
Where is the evidence that voter ID laws keep minorities from voting?
Judge Says Courts
Must Accept Shariah Influence
Excerpt: An Oklahoma
constitutional amendment barring the state's courts from weighing or using
Shariah law was struck down in federal court. How can a law written to protect
the Constitution be unconstitutional?
Librarian wanted to
alter reading contest rules after same kid kept winning
Excerpt: Nine-year-old Tyler Weaver’s love of reading has
propelled him to the top of his local public library’s reading club every
summer, but his continuous success is causing one librarian to worry about the
fairness of the program. … Gandron had plans to change the contest rules,
making the reading contest less of a contest and more of a luck-of-the-draw.
Before Tyler’s
mother spoke to the The Post-Star, the library director had planned to
just draw children’s names out of a hat to determine the future winners. (The
“everyone gets a trophy” nanny state springs into action to punish success.
~Bob.)
Three ’72 Dolphins
players refuse WH invite for political reasons
Excerpt: “I’ll just say my views are diametrically opposed
to the President’s,” Fernandez said. “Enough said. Let’s leave it at that. I
hope everyone enjoys the trip who goes.”
Elmore Leonard’s
Rules for Writing
Excerpt: These are rules I've picked up along the way to
help me remain invisible when I'm writing a book, to help me show rather than
tell what's taking place in the story. If you have a facility for language and
imagery and the sound of your voice pleases you, invisibility is not what you
are after, and you can skip the rules. Still, you might look them over.
Stoning – the true
horror. By Anne Marie Waters
Excerpt: Recently I posted a blog about the treatment of
women in many Islamic states and the fact that such treatment, if following the
legal definition, amounts to a crime against humanity. In it, I linked to a
document produced by Amnesty International entitled "How
to stone someone to death" (pdf). The document describes in
step-by-step detail, as outlined in the Iranian penal code, exactly how to bury
someone up to their waist — or chest if female — and throw stones at their head
until they die.
It’s Science: Centers
for Disease Control Give Gun Supporters Positive News
http://girlsjustwannahaveguns.com/2013/08/its-science-centers-for-disease-control-give-gun-supporters-positive-news/
http://girlsjustwannahaveguns.com/2013/08/its-science-centers-for-disease-control-give-gun-supporters-positive-news/
Excerpt: But one thing stood out to me; not as surprising
but as worthy of comment. It’s this pearl: people who use a gun in self-defense
are less likely to be injured when they are attacked, even when compared with
other forms of self-defense.
Ohio College Evicts Veteran Who Questioned Financial Aid
Office
Excerpt: A Marine Corps veteran who questioned how Marietta College
managed his GI Bill benefits was evicted from the southeastern Ohio campus under
dubious circumstances on April 16, the day after the Boston Marathon bombing.
Tweet from Famous-Quote.net @famousquotenet
Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
- Edmund Burke
Chicago: 5 Wounded In Uptown Shooting
Excerpt: Police sources said three of the victims are gang
members. Two were innocent bystanders. Police sources said three different
gangs in the area have been fighting for territory.
Worker breaks up
mugging in Seneca
Park off Mag Mile
Excerpt: The man, identified by police as Kawame Jaco, 22,
had asked the woman for money and, when she said no, took his belt and began
hitting her while continuing to demand money, police said.
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