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Patriot Headlines | Grassroots Commentary Daily Digest
July 20, 2015
THE FOUNDATION"We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die: Our won Country's Honor, all call upon us for vigorous and manly exertion, and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world. Let us therefore rely upon the goodness of the Cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands Victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble Actions." —George Washington, General Orders, 1776FEATURED RIGHT ANALYSISChattanooga: Heroic ActionsBy Mark Alexander
Thursday morning's daily White House email — the day of the attack — was a message honoring Ramadan. Equally notable, Friday morning's email made no mention of Thursday's attack — it was a solicitation for DNC funds. The attacks have generated a lot of national ranting about Muslims, but we caution that we should not marginalize all Muslims as suspect Islamists. That is precisely what Obama and his Leftists did after the recent murders in Charleston — marginalized all white Southerners interested in our heritage as racist and endeavored to remove any vestige of that heritage from public places, including National Military Parks. The actions of one do not reflect the beliefs of all, but clearly this assault was incited by Islamist hatred — and that should be the target of our outrage. Additionally, there is little being said about the two reasons the casualty list was not much higher. The media has largely ignored the fact that there were many other personnel at the Reserve Center that fateful morning. "Mike Battery" (Battery M, 3rd Battalion, 14th Regiment), had just completed annual training in California, and there were 22 Marines at the center cleaning and conditioning equipment, along with additional Navy staff. The first reason that more were not murdered was explained by Marine spokesman Maj. Clark Carpenter: "There were heroic acts by our Marines on that day. They did exactly what we expect Marines to do. They got their Marines to safety. They took care of their Marines first, and then those Marine leaders went back into the fray to make sure that others were protected. They went back into the fight to try to stop him." Maj. Carpenter added that when the nation looked back on this incident, "It's going to be a story of heroes, with both our Marines and our Sailors, and without question, the first responders from the police department." Indeed, the second reason there were not many more casualties is that as police arrived they engaged the assailant, which is to say those police officers diverted Abdulazeez's fire away from the additional (unarmed) Marines and Navy personnel. We grieve for the families of the five murdered Patriots: Sgt. Carson A. Holmquist (USMC), Staff Sgt. David A. Wyatt (USMC), Gunnery Sgt. Thomas Sullivan (USMC), Lance Cpl. Squire Wells (USMC) and Petty Officer 2nd Class Randall Smith (USN). Comment | Share TOP RIGHT HOOKSObama Acts to Head Off Crime Spree of ... the Elderly?If there's a singular purpose for Barack Obama and his cadres its limiting access to guns in as many ways as possible. The latest attempt is a push to prohibit Social Security recipients from owning firearms if they are judged mentally incompetent. First let's stipulate that nobody wants people who are mentally incompetent owning or using guns without at least some restrictions. But the question is the standard used. The Social Security Administration has never before participated in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, but, if the SSA begins using the same standards as the Department of Veterans Affairs, at least four million beneficiaries could see their gun rights eliminated by a bureaucrat. We don't want the government defining or deciding mental competence with standards that have nothing to do with crime. And especially not this administration. Indeed, given the Obama administration's track record of disdain for American veterans — both through the bureaucratic shenanigans at the VA and in targeting veterans in DHS reports about extremism — it won't be long before veterans are barred from owning firearms, or, conversely, their benefits are restricted if they're gun owners. Indeed, many veterans have already been judged "incompetent" when that's clearly not the case. Now prohibitions could extend to the average Social Security recipient. We're forced to ask what problem Obama thinks he's trying to solve. Our nation has not been under assault by senior citizens or veterans. It has been under attack from Islamic jihadists, and that's the one thing Obama seems most reticent to address.Comment | Share Trump on McCain: A Barb Too FarAt the 2015 Family Leadership Summit Friday, reality TV star and billionaire extraordinaire Donald Trump continued to attempt to rend the Republican Party by launching an attack against Sen. John McCain. "He's not a war hero. He's a war hero because he was captured," Trump bloviated. "I like people that weren't captured." Trump is standing behind his comments, despite nearly the whole GOP field criticizing him for them. On Sunday, Trump doubled down, tweeting, "The Veterans Administration is in shambles and our veterans are suffering greatly. John McCain has done nothing to help them but talk." Two different issues. McCain endured an ordeal that would break weaker men like Trump. What he did or did not do afterwards does not strip McCain from the title of "hero."Besides, while McCain was asking for more missions in Vietnam, Trump was weaseling out of the draft. While McCain was experiencing debilitating torture as a prisoner of war, Trump caroused as a Manhattan playboy. When McCain returned, broken from the war, Trump was being hit with Fair Housing Act discrimination suit. McCain responded brilliantly: "I think he may owe an apology to the families of those who have sacrificed in conflict and those who have undergone the prison experience in serving our country. … In the case of many of our veterans, when Mr. Trump said that he prefers to be with people who are not captured, well, the great honor of my life was to serve in the company of heroes. I'm not a hero. But those who were my senior ranking officers … those that have inspired us to do things that we otherwise wouldn't have been capable of doing, those are the people that I think he owes an apology to." Comment | Share Obama 'Recovery' Slows Debt ReductionThe White House has released a little-noticed but concerning bit of information on the economy and our nation's debt. Known as the "Mid-Session Review," the report "contains revised estimates of receipts, outlays, budget authority, and the budget deficit for fiscal years 2015 through 2025." Barack Obama has long made a habit of boasting about reducing the deficit. (When reducing something, it helps to have quadrupled it first.) But The Wall Street Journal notes that the good times might not keep rolling: "First, the good news: Short-term deficits are falling. The Obama administration now forecasts the annual deficit will reach $455 billion this year, down 22% from its forecast at the start of the year and around 6% below last year's level. The level represents around 2.6% of the country's total economic output, down from a forecast of 3.2% earlier this year. Moreover, the administration sees the deficit falling another 6% next year to $429 billion, or around 2.3% of gross domestic product. The bad news? Economic growth has continued to underperform expectations. And because the administration's economists don't see growth rebounding later to play catch up, the revenue that's lost to lower growth isn't going to be recouped in future periods."Whereas previous estimates were for 3% and higher economic growth, the new ones are in the 2% range. That's the rub, isn't it? Obama's "stimulus," regulations and tax hikes were supposed to lead us to the economic promised land. Instead, we got perpetual stagnation, and, compared to past recoveries, this one has no right to be called one. Comment | Share
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OPINION IN BRIEFScott Powell: "The concern about sanctuary cities today should not focus only on the problem of alien criminals, exemplified by 8,145 offenders released from custody during just the last eight months. Sanctuary cities can also provide a safe haven for very bad actors intending to wreak mass havoc on America, such as Islamist terrorists and drug cartel kingpins. In addition to the need to plug the sanctuary city hole by enforcing existing federal law requiring local governments to cooperate with ICE, there are other gaps to fill. An important recommendation of the 9/11 Commission was to tighten up the student-visa program after it was determined that the hijacker who flew Flight 77 into the Pentagon, Hani Hanjour, had entered the U.S. on a student visa."Comment | Share SHORT CUTS"Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem." —The GipperDezinformatsia: “Were guns a big part of activities — social or other activities? Did [Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez] hunt? Did he shoot? Was that just part of small-town Tennessee activity?” —NBC's Andrea Mitchell, trying desperately to make guns and other conservative Southern culture a factor Obama's way or the highway: “If Congress says no to this deal, then there will be no restraints on Iran, there will be no sanctions left. ... Our friends in this effort will desert us. We will be viewed as having killed the opportunity to stop [Iran] from having weapons. [Iran] will begin to enrich again, and the greater likelihood is what the president said the other day — you will have a war.” —Secretary of State John Kerry But war's not off the table, either: "One of the reasons this deal is a good one is that it does nothing to prevent the military option — the U.S. military option." —Secretary of Defense Ash Carter Demo-gogues: "We've got to do all we can over the next few months to make sure we elect Democrats who will fight for every single American at all stages of life." —solicitation from Barack Obama to support entitlement programs, though clearly Obama does not support "every single American at all stages of life" Heckled for getting it right: "Black lives matter. White lives matter. All lives matter." —Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, who was booed and heckled at the Netroots Nation conference for suggesting other lives matter too "Obama entered the El Reno federal penitentiary in Oklahoma Thursday and spoke to the prisoners there. He urged lawmakers to eliminate mandatory sentences for non-violent drug offenders. He was the first North American leader all week to be on the news for going into a prison." —Argus Hamilton Comment | Share Semper Vigilans Fortis Paratus et Fidelis! Managing Editor Nate Jackson Join us in daily prayer for our Patriots in uniform — Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen — standing in harm's way in defense of Liberty, and for their families. |
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