Facebook and Linked In: I
appreciate all the folks commenting on my Facebook page, but I don’t do
Facebook. I used it to promote my books, but that failed as all the comments
pushed the books down the page and thus I gave up. I would delete my page, but
it is useful to sign into some websites with. Likewise, I have never used
Linked In for anything except to link to people who asked. I have no idea what
good it is. It’s nice that people keep endorsing me for things on it, but of
little value as I’m being forced to retire. I really have no time or energy for
either. Sorry. I’m having to rest and sleep more these days.
Thanks to all who stepped up and sent today’s great items—a
LONG list. Since I haven’t had the time or energy to search for the type of things
I used to post, it seems more folks are sending me more items. ~Bob
Must read: Hanson at his
best: Life In The Twilight. By Victor Davis Hanson
Excerpt: Go to sleep in 2009 and wake up now. The world has
changed: golf is the people’s game; racist, sexist, homophobic thought and
speech are predicated on the ideology of who says it; the IRS, the NSA, and the
Justice Department are watching you; the State Department is run like a
campaign organization; the president offers politically correct thoughts on
local trials; the attorney general worries about “my people”; the government is
producing more oil and gas by trying to stop it; wind and solar are the way of
the future; gropes and pornography are either career-ending or cause for needed
sabbaticals; and high unemployment, debt, and low growth are proof of a robust
recovery. The model of our future will be a landscape like Detroit, as those on
MSNBC or on NPR find ever more clever ways to assure us that the city is
“saved” from the free-market capitalist and racist buccaneers.
Walter Lee Jones II
was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis (PF) at the age of 28. A devoted father
of two young sons, and ecstatic about his third son on the way.
And dead at 29. If you hear me complain about having PF at
67 and being on the lung transplant list, it’s okay to smack me in the
snot-locker. ~Bob
Guest post on
Leadership
Black man in hoodie
stabs white girl 11 times
http://www.wnd.com/2013/07/black-man-in-hoodie-stabs-girl-11-times/
http://www.wnd.com/2013/07/black-man-in-hoodie-stabs-girl-11-times/
Excerpt: Police in New
York City are trying to find a black man wearing a
hoodie who is responsible for a horrific attack on a teenage white girl who was
stabbed 11 times just steps from her front door. The knife-wielding maniac
ambushed Natasha Martinez, 17, as she returned home from working her shift at a
local McDonald’s restaurant. (Waiting comment from the President. Whose daughter
could she have been? Whose son could the attacker have been? ~Bob.)
The Hazards of
Gloating Over Detroit.
By Chris Ladd
Excerpt: When right-wing blogs blather on about “government
dependence,” they evoke images of impoverished urban masses trapped in a cycle
of poverty. They consistently fail to identify the demographic most thoroughly
dependent on government – inhabitants of the deep red rural
counties. Rural residents depend on food stamps (SNAP) at almost a 50% higher rate than city-dwellers.
There's only one way
to free Bradley Manning. By Archbishop Cranmer
Excerpt: The strongest suspicion is that within all such
demonstrations there is a heavy bias against a theoretical notion of America. We may
all smile at Middle-Eastern protests about 'the Great Satan', but many in
Europe have a speaking sympathy for the notion even as many would cheerfully
take up the offer of a Green Card if one were offered tomorrow. One
suspects that the Islamic fundamentalist and modern PC puritans alike have an
innate dislike and distrust of a nation that uniquely places 'the pursuit of
happiness' as a living objective in its foundational documents.
Who Cares What Jay Z
Thinks and Why Don Lemon Is Right About Blacks In America. By Chrystal Wright
Excerpt: This fake race war also brought out the worst
behavior in black Americans who called people like me and Don Lemmon, “house
niggas, sellouts, and Uncle Toms” among other unsavory names for daring to
offer constructive criticism and say blacks are their own worst nightmare and
need to take responsibility for their bad behavior!
He Beat Allen West
And All He Got Was The Most Boring Job In Congress. By Ben Terris
Excerpt: Standing on an outdoor stage for the better part of
a half an hour has left Rep. Patrick Murphy completely soaked in sweat.
"It's fucking hot out," he says, flapping his arms to dry out his
armpits. This may be his only off-script moment this morning.
San Antonio Proposal Could Bar Christians From City Council. By Todd Starnes
Excerpt: Churches across San Antonio are expressing outrage over a
proposed anti-discrimination law that would protect LGBT workers but would not
provide a religious exemption and would effectively prohibit anyone who opposes
homosexuality from holding public office or getting a city contract. The
proposed change would add “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” to the
city’s discrimination ordinance. It would protect gays, lesbians, transgender,
and veterans – a move that had critics accusing the council of playing politics
with the military.
Chicago in Big Trouble. By Walter Russell
Mead
Excerpt: The city is all out of
money, and with an imploding public education system and harrowing levels of
violence, it is losing residents fast. Illinois, which itself lost more
than 800,000 people to out-migration in the past two decades,
is essentially Chicago on a larger scale, with hundreds of billions in unfunded pension liabilities and complete political sclerosis. The
state cannot bail out Chicago, and judging by
the feds’ reluctance to even lift a finger for Detroit,
Chicago
shouldn’t expect much more.
Egypt MB
Protests Underscore Hypocrisy of America's Islamists. By John
Rossomando
Excerpt: America's leading Muslim Brotherhood legacy groups,
including the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Islamic Society
of North America (ISNA) and the Islamic Circle of America (ICNA), are demanding
that the Obama administration take punitive action against Egypt in the wake of
last week's shooting of Muslim Brotherhood demonstrators.
From your Facebook
passwords to Section 8 housing… why Barack Obama should be impeached for
dismantling the very Constitution he swore to preserve, protect and defend.
Excerpt: Despite all of that, one has to wonder, does Barack
Obama not actually understand the document he has spent a quarter century
studying, teaching and “defending” or is he some kind of self directed
progressive Manchurian Candidate? Whichever is the case, one thing is
unassailable, Barack Obama is a using the power of the presidency to eviscerate
the Bill of Rights. Not the whole thing mind you, but enough to turn the
granite foundation of American freedom into a termite ridden balsa wood floor
that could give way at any moment.
Excerpt NPR’s politics blog has published a chart — compiled from a House
Ways and Means staff analysis — of the different levels of IRS targeting
between conservative and progressive groups. Bottom line? Far more
conservative groups faced IRS scrutiny, they faced more questions, and were
approved at a much lower rate than progressives. The chart is based on the
IRS’s now-discredited “BOLO” (be on the lookout) lists.
President Obama calls
the United States and Europe ‘developing countries’ in latest embarrassing
gaffe
Excerpt: As we’ve seen on a number of previous occasions, Barack Obama clearly
struggles with his words when he is without his beloved teleprompter. He
famously claimed to
have visited 57 states (Preview) in his 2008 campaign, and recently was unable to tell the difference between England and Great Britain. I don’t think any
American president, however, has ever referred to the United States, leader of
the free world, as a “developing country” before, and nor is Europe a country,
as much as the emperors of the European Commission would like the EU to be a
superstate. (You have to understand, they are developing into Caliphate
dominoes. Or maybe our economies and militaries are being reduced and destroyed
to make all equal? –Barb)
White House: Jimmy
Carter Taking 'Private Trip' to North Korea
The White House confirmed on Monday that former
U.S. President Jimmy Carter is traveling to North Korea,
but sought to distance itself from his visit, calling it a “private trip.”
White House spokesman Josh Earnest referred all additional questions to the
State Department. “I can tell you that President Carter
istraveling to North
Korea on a private trip,” Earnest
said.
Family of Intruder
Who Was Killed by Homeowner Wants Homeowner “Charged With Something”
Leader: 'Open Season'
on Nigerian Christians by Islamists
Excerpt: Christians
in Nigeria are
an endangered species, according to Pastor Ayo
Oritsejafor, president of the Christian
Association of Nigeria. Oritsejafor met this week with U.S. lawmakers,
pleading for help in
combating the Islamist groups, which have mercilessly attacked Christian
communities for the past several years –
makingNigeria one of the most dangerous places in the world for
Christians….In 2012, more than 100 Christians died on average each month
in
northern Nigeria,
many by members of the Jihad group.
At least ten Nazi war
criminals who were to be deported are still living in the U.S. -
because no European country will take them
At least ten Nazi war criminals who were ordered deported by
the United States government
never left the country, the Associated Press reported Monday –
because no country was willing to take them in. During the lengthy legal
process to deport them, and even beyond, the government provided them with
Social Security, Medicare, and other benefits, the report said. Four of
the Nazis - Vladas Zajanckauskas, Theodor Szehinskyj, Jakiw Palij, and John
Kalymon – are still alive, residing respectively in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New York City,
and Michigan.
(I bet Israel
would take them. ~Bob)
Six Decades Later, a
Second Rescue Attempt
Excerpt: One of the airmen, Ensign Jesse L. Brown, was the
son of an African-American sharecropper from Mississippi. The other, Lt. Thomas J. Hudner
Jr., was the son of a white patrician merchant family from Massachusetts. An hour into the flight,
Ensign Brown’s plane was hit by enemy fire, forcing him to crash land on the
side of a mountain at Chosin, north of Pyongyang. Lieutenant Hudner brought his
plane down nearby and found Ensign Brown, but could not rescue him.
Zug Island - The Story of The Windsor Hum
Excerpt: For the past two years there has been a mysterious
low frequency hum emanating from a manmade island called Zug, located on the
U.S. side of the Rouge River (between Windsor, and Detroit). A factory, owned
by USS steel inhabits the island. A moat, and extremely high fences surround
this place; it’s even guarded by security forces of some kind.
Federal government to
fund Windsor hum research
Excerpt: With a general idea of the “where,” pinpointing the
mysterious “what” that’s causing the Windsor hum
might become a reality thanks to some local research expertise and funding from
the federal government. On Monday, Bob Dechert, parliamentary secretary to
Minister of Foreign Affairs John Baird, came to Windsor to announce the
government’s plan to fund a $60,000 research project that will help figure out
what is causing the strange l0w-frequency noise that has been plaguing the
city’s west end since the spring of 2011.
Daniel Henninger:
Obama's Creeping Authoritarianism
Excerpt: The second-term over-and-over, elevated in his
summer speech tour, is the shafting of the middle class. But the real purpose
here isn't the speeches' parboiled proposals. It is what he says the shafting
of the middle class is forcing him to do. It is forcing him to
"act"—to undertake an unprecedented exercise of presidential power in
domestic policy-making. ObamaCare was legislated. In the second term, new law
will come from him. Please don't complain later
that you didn't see it coming. (All big government socialists are
authoritarian, because in their view government must be used to coerce people
to do things (in their own best interests, of course) that they don’t want to
do, such as buy health insurance or pay for college students’ birth control.
~Bob.)
Egypt Vows to End Sit-Ins by Supporters of
Deposed President
Excerpt: Egypt’s
military-backed government instructed its security forces on Wednesday to end
two sit-ins by tens of thousands of supporters of the deposed Islamist
president, a decree that many feared could lead to a new round of violent
confrontations. (All the situation needs is for Obama to say, “Morsi could have
been me.” ~Bob.)
Over 1,000 Iraqis
killed in July, highest monthly toll since 2008: U.N.
This will go on until an Islamist or secular autocrat gets
total power and suppresses the opposition. ~Bob
As Afghan Pullout
Nears, Civilian Casualties Rise
Excerpt: The number of civilians
killed or wounded in Afghanistan rose by 23 percent in the first six months of
2013, according to a United Nations report on civilian casualties, reversing
a decline last year and signaling the
challenge Afghan forces face as they take over all combat duties from American
soldiers. (Let’s see, we are being drawn into Syria
to “do something” about all the civilian casualties, while getting out of Iraq and Afghanistan, thus increasing
civilian casualties. Have I got that right? ~Bob.)
In Gaza, Iran
Finds an Ally More Agreeable Than Hamas
Excerpt: In recent months, Iran
has suspended millions of dollars in monthly aid to Hamas because the group did
not stand by President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, its former patron, in his
struggle against rebel forces. Unlike Hamas, Islamic Jihad did not leave its
base in Damascus
and has kept up relations with the government of Mr. Assad, a longtime Iranian
ally.
Obama: Don’t believe
everything you read in the Huffington Post
http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/31/obama-dont-believe-everything-you-read-in-the-huffington-post/
http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/31/obama-dont-believe-everything-you-read-in-the-huffington-post/
Excerpt: President Barack Obama told House Democrats
Wednesday morning that they should not believe everything in the Huffington
Post, referring to the liberal publication’s critiques of Larry Summers, the
President’s former economic advisor whom he is now considering as a possible
chairman of the Federal Reserve.
The Black "fomenters", the Sharptons and Jacksons
and, yes, Barack himself, have suffered some from White "blowback",
the citing of numerous Black culture failures that lead to the Black "12
per centers" who hog nearly half of every welfare dollar, the 97% Black on
Black crime rate, and the 50% of all prison felons being Black. All of these
statistics are explained away by liberals by simply declaring all Blacks
victims of "Whitey". None of that is true of course. However, the
great irony is that Whites are responsible for one huge Black cultural
failure...the Black marriage rates.
HARRP is a new one on me. Tend to take things like this with
a grain of salt until verified. ~Bob.
The Military's Pandora's Box. By Dr. Nick Begich and Jeane
Manning
Excerpt: As early as 1970, Zbigniew Brzezinski predicted a
"more controlled and directed society" would gradually appear, linked
to technology. This society would be dominated by an elite group which
impresses voters by allegedly superior scientific know-how. Angels
Don't Play This HAARP further quotes Brzezinski: "Unhindered
by the restraints of traditional liberal values, this elite would not hesitate
to achieve its political ends by using the latest modern techniques for
influencing public behavior and keeping society under close surveillance and
control. Technical and scientific momentum would then feed on the situation it
exploits," Brzezinski predicted. (Have a free cellphone, dummkopf. –Barb.)
HAARP is a weapon of
mass destruction. Radio Waves strong enough to cause earthquakes are controlled
by the U.S. military.
Excerpt: What they have found is that by sending radio
frequency energy up and focusing it, as they do with these kinds of
instruments, it causes a heating effect. And that heating literally lifts the
ionosphere within a 30 mile diameter area therein changing localized pressure
systems or perhaps the route of jet streams. …. Changing weather in one place
can have a devastating downstream effect. (Anybody else remember the government
saying, “There have not been many tornados this Spring” just before the
devastating back-to-back F5 OK tornadoes on almost identical paths to previous
in May? Some link to mysterious “booms” heard around the country, with
earthquake-like shaking of their homes (blamed on fracking in some areas). Program
on Syfy 07/31/13 at 2200 hours interviews one supposed HAARP employee who says
there are now 240 established bases around the world. –Barb)
Excerpt: As it stated in their official release, the
facility is being bought by the highest bidder. Haarp Status
updates at TheWeatherSpace.com are continuing so either the
facility is still on, run by another group of scientists, or other facilities
with the same technology are continuing to affect the atmosphere. There
are many facilities like HAARP across the world, with smaller ones said to be
in the United States as
well. (Let me get this…a weaponized system is being sold to the highest bidder?
In the US?
With bases admitted elsewhere in US and globally (as indicated in Syfy
program…). How reassuring. So who was the highest bidder? –Barb)
McCain: Hillary
a ‘Rock Star,’ Fox News ‘Schizophrenic’
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/07/31/mccain-hillary-a-rock-star-fox-news-schizophrenic
Excerpt: In a lengthy interview with the left-wing New Republic, John McCain, the Republican
Party's 2008 nominee blurted out his affection for Hillary Clinton more than
once. At one point the Arizona Senator said that choosing between Rand Paul or
Clinton for president in 2016 would be a "tough choice." He then went on to call the former
Secretary of State a "rock star" and criticize Fox News as
"schizophrenic" over the issue of immigration reform.
Excerpt: Jones even taped a video for ATF employees to
discourage whistleblowing, gave special treatment to a supervisor cited for
negligence in Fast and Furious, and hasn’t been willing to engage with Congress
in the Fast and Furious investigation, Issa said. “Jones was first brought into
the job of ATF Acting Director in the middle of the Fast and Furious scandal
after Justice Department officials had falsely denied reckless conduct and
allegations by his predecessor that there was an effort underway to shield the
Department’s senior political appointees from the scandal,” he said. “Because
of the numerous ATF mistakes during his tenure as Acting Director pertaining to
Fast and Furious, his nomination is a slap in the face to the family of fallen
Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, Mexican citizens whose murder has been linked
to Fast and Furious weapons, and ATF whistleblowers whom he failed to support.”
(See F&F with hundreds of dead is a phony scandal, not like a real scandal
when Romney put his dog on a car roof decades ago. ~Bob.)
Excerpt: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said today that
military and intelligence personnel are not receiving permission to chase down
solid leads in bringing the perpetrators of the Benghazi attack to justice. Graham noted
that CNN recently interview Ahmed Abu Khattala, head of Ansar al-Sharia, and
asked him about the attack on-camera, “but nobody from the FBI, the Libyan
government has ever talked to him and he’s a person of high interest, according
to our government.” “CNN found him within two hours. …” (The
administration doesn’t want Benghazi
in the news, even to get the killers. ~Bob.)
The Environmental Apocalypse. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: Early in the morning, while most are still
sleeping, groups of elderly Chinese women spread out across city streets. They
tear open trash bags, pick through the litter and sort out bottles and cans
that come with a deposit. And then they bring them to the local supermarket to
a machine that scans and evaluates each can, accepting and rejecting them one
by one, and finally printing out a receipt.
Is populism dead? By
Victor Davis Hanson
Excerpt: Gas has gone up about $2 a gallon
since Barack Obama took office. Given average yearly rates of
national consumption, that increase alone translates into an extra $1
trillion that American drivers have collectively paid in higher fuel costs
over the last 54 months. Such a crushing burden on the cash-strapped commuter
class is rarely cited in the liberal fixation on cap-and-trade, wind and solar
subsidies, and the supposed dangers of fracking.
The News in Zingers.
By Argus Hamilton
Excerpt: Private Bradley Manning faces life in jail after
his conviction for providing classified intel to WikiLeaks. He'll end up
pardoned. President Obama once promised Americans the most transparent
administration in history and thanks to WikiLeaks it's all come true.
Death by democracy.
By George Will
Excerpt: Government employees’ unions living parasitically
on Detroit have
been less aware than ichneumon larvae. About them, and their political
collaborators, the question is: What. Were. They. Thinking? Well, how did
Bernie Madoff or Enron executives convince themselves their houses of cards
would never collapse? … It is axiomatic: When there is no penalty for failure,
failures proliferate.
Schools keep distance
from Obamacare enrollment
Excerpt: Supporters of the health law see back-to-school
season as a natural time for Obamacare outreach, a chance to find young
families who could benefit from new health coverage options. But weeks before
the school bells start ringing in parts of the country, there’s no concerted
effort to reach parents at the schoolhouse door. It’s yet another sign of how
the undying controversy could overshadow attempts to get people enrolled.
Hillary Clinton's
2008 slaps still sting President Obama
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/barack-obama-hillary-clinton-2008-campaign-95035.html
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/barack-obama-hillary-clinton-2008-campaign-95035.html
Excerpt: But some of Clinton’s most memorable ‘08 shots at
Obama have had resonance far beyond the short shelf life of the standard
campaign hit parade: her mockery of his vow to transform Washington in his own
image, her cry of “elitism” and her skepticism about his managerial chops echo
today in the form of GOP attacks and the lingering doubts of some in his own
party.
Marine Tattoo from
the Sgt. Grit E-Newsletter
I couldn't stop staring at his tattoo. It was nothing much
at all but it made a deep impression on me. It was a simple block-letter
U.S.M.C., punctuation included. No one else seemed to notice, but it spoke
volumes to me. It said, in my mind, to the civilian riffraff that crowded the
place: I've been to places that you'll never go, done things you'll never do
and I've been better than you'll ever be - I'm a Marine, then and forever, and
that isn't something just anyone can be; I earned it and I'm part of a hallowed
brotherhood.
Quote
"Once a government is committed to the principle of
silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down
the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of
terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in
fear."
--Harry S. Truman, August 8, 1950
--Harry S. Truman, August 8, 1950
Excerpt: I like to quote this once in a while, although most
people think it is not speaking of them, but THEIR children: When an opponent declares, “I will not come
over to your side,” I calmly say, “Your child belongs to us already… What are
you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In
a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.” –
Adolf Hitler, 1933
Obama supporters
harass mourners at funerals
Excerpt: The company testified in its filing that union
members blocked grieving family members from leaving its parking lot, used
bullhorns to shout obscenities at workers and mourners, and unleashed a German
Shepard on a dead woman’s daughter and husband. …and they found the death of a
child amusing…The funeral home was eventually forced to call the police when
picketers allegedly disrupted a child’s funeral with laughter. The officer asked
the Teamsters to leave, but protesters returned when he drove away.
The Greatest Phony America's Ever Known
Excerpt: I could go on and on and on, but in order to avoid
the inevitable violent vomiting impetus from more of your nasty phony baloney
than America can possibly handle, I would just like to say: “How dare you, Mr.
President, claim the nonstop ugly scandals during your Saul Alinsky inspired
attack on America are phony, when everyone with a brain, a heart and a soul
knows damn well what you are up to and how you are intentionally implementing
the ‘Rules for Radicals’ agenda so appropriately dedicated to Satan.”
GOP
Sees "Dream" Senate Challenger in Tom Cotton. By Caitlin Huey-Burns
Excerpt:
A race that could shape the U.S. Senate landscape will begin next week with
some Southern barbeque in a tiny Arkansas
town called Dardanelle. Republican
Tom Cotton plans to announce his bid for the upper chamber there, where he grew
up on his family's cattle farm. The freshman congressman -- a 36-year-old
Harvard law graduate and a veteran of the Iraq
and Afghanistan
wars -- is GOP recruiters’ dream challenger to take on Democrat Mark Pryor,
considered among the most vulnerable incumbents in the country.
Chilling: How Hollywood Helped Hitler
Excerpt: In devastating detail, an excerpt from a controversial new
book reveals how the big studios, desperate to protect German business, let
Nazis censor scripts, remove credits from Jews, get movies stopped and even
force one MGM executive to divorce his Jewish wife. The 1930s are celebrated as
one of Hollywood’s golden ages, but in an exclusive excerpt from
his controversial new book, The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact with Hitler (Harvard University Press, on
sale Sept. 9), Harvard
post-doctoral fellow Ben Urwand uncovers a darker side to Hollywood’s past. (Ain’t
nothin’ changed. Just a different reincarnation. Race/religious hatred still
being used. –Barb)
No Joke! Meet Obama's
New 'Nudge' Czar: White House team seeking to subtly alter your behavior
Excerpt: Maya Shankar, a White House adviser cultivating a
team tasked with subtly influencing Americans’ behavior, previously worked
closely with the George Soros-funded Center for American
Progress, WND has learned. Shankar has discussed utilizing cognitive science
for social activism and is a champion of so-called social justice.FoxNews.com ran a piece Tuesday on Shankar’s team,
which is seeking experienced behavioral scientists looking to change people’s
actions on everything from tax compliance to energy costs.
When cultural and
political institutions converge to destroy the national fabric. By David Solway
Excerpt: From the standpoint of societal ruin, what is most
alarming is the calamitous ideological conjunction that occurs when a corrupt
and declining culture and a totalitarian-oriented politics coincide and begin
to collaborate affectively and intellectually. Such an alignment is very
difficult to resist or transform since the one reinforces the other so
intimately and seamlessly that what
emerges is a unified entity, an impregnableimaginarium or what we might call a politiculture.
Excerpt: But this is how freedom dies, one “reasonable”
restriction at a time, until the whole enterprise collapses under its own
artificial weight. There’s a bracing quality to the muscular prose of the
Constitution, free as it is of petty legalisms and multiple subordinate
clauses. …The real issue here, though, is not whether reporters are also
citizens and thus subject to penalties should they choose to withhold
information in criminal cases; the real issue is the Obama administration’s
decision to pull Risen into its net, as part of its ongoing war on leaks,
leakers, and the fences who market their stolen property, aka reporters.
Never leave a young
man behind: Photo of marine who slowed down to help a nine-year-old boy finish
a 5k race goes viral
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2382356/Marine-Myles-Kerr-slowed-help-year-old-boy-finish-5k-race-goes-viral.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2382356/Marine-Myles-Kerr-slowed-help-year-old-boy-finish-5k-race-goes-viral.html
President Obama’s
no-Congress strategy
President Barack Obama is planning to bypass congressional
Republicans with a surge of executive actions and orders on issues like voting
rights, health care, job creation, the economy, climate change and immigration.
And this time, he really, really, really means it. Really. (Is this supposed to
“nudge” behavior? –Barb. There will someday be a GOP President who will do
this. ~Bob.)
House Judiciary chairman calls Holder's
testimony 'deceptive and misleading'
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/314921-goodlatte-slams-holder-after-judiciary-committee-investigation#ixzz2ajnwZ6qo
Excerpt: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) slammed Attorney General Eric Holder after an investigation by Goodlatte's committee reported discrepancies between Holder's congressional testimony and decision to approve a search warrant for emails from Fox News Correspondent James Rosen. (Can’t say “Lie.” –Barb)
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/314921-goodlatte-slams-holder-after-judiciary-committee-investigation#ixzz2ajnwZ6qo
Excerpt: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) slammed Attorney General Eric Holder after an investigation by Goodlatte's committee reported discrepancies between Holder's congressional testimony and decision to approve a search warrant for emails from Fox News Correspondent James Rosen. (Can’t say “Lie.” –Barb)
Chicago Tribune Editorial: The
part-timing of America:
Obamacare will push workers — not just employers — to cut hours
Excerpt: The Affordable Care Act will give companies — and,
surprisingly, their workers — a big incentive to embrace more part-time
employment. That isn't necessarily a problem, except when it comes to paying
the health-insurance bills for all those part-timers. Looks like that job will
fall to you, taxpayers. (Well, they endorsed him. When I dropped my
subscription. ~Bob.)
'Wear a headscarf or we will kill you': How the 'London Taliban' is
threatening women and trying to ban gays in bid to impose sharia law
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1377780/London-Taliban-targeting-women-gays-bid-impose-sharia-law.html#ixzz2aixLafTD
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1377780/London-Taliban-targeting-women-gays-bid-impose-sharia-law.html#ixzz2aixLafTD
Excerpt: Women who do not wear headscarves are being
threatened with violence and even death by Islamic extremists intent on
imposing sharia law on parts of Britain,
it was claimed today.
Pakistan: Shia Convert Killed by Family Members
Excerpt: Master Aijaz Khan, who was a school teacher at Mianwali High School was killed after his brother
opened fires on him.
Excerpt: Employees of Amazon, which scored a coup by
securing a rare one-on-one interview with the president for its journalism
outlet Tuesday, donated more than $116,000 to Obama’s 2012 re-election
campaign, according to data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics.
Manning’s enablers: The US Army — and our schools. By Ralph
Peters
Excerpt: Now begins the separate sentencing phase of
Manning’s military trial. But the long “guilty” list ensures he’ll spend
decades in a military prison. Yet two “unindicted co-conspirators” were missing
in the dock throughout the trial. Not Julian Assange and his Wiki-gnomes, but
the US Army and our blame-America culture. (Col. Peters has nailed it here. It's
a very sad and somewhat scary commentary on how things that used to be done
competently are now no longer done with the minimal level of competence that
the military absolutely must have. How can things have gotten this damn stupid?
--Del)
42nd Abortion Clinic
Closed This Year Due to Filthy, Unsafe Conditions
Excerpt: The North Carolina Department of Health and Human
Services announced Wednesday that it has suspended the license of Femcare, an
abortion clinic in Asheville,
for two dozen serious health and safety violations discovered during a routine
inspection on July 18 and 19th.
Racial Targeting and
Population Control
How
Obama Neglects the Poor. Arthur Brooks
Excerpt:
Again and again, the president offers a higher minimum wage as a solution. Yet
as the overwhelming majority of economists have argued for decades, the minimum
wage actually harms the poorest and most marginalized workers—those with the
most tenuous grip on their jobs. In January, a study from the National Bureau
of Economic Research surveyed the most recent studies and concluded: "The
evidence still shows that minimum wages pose a tradeoff of higher wages for
some against job losses for others."
In
Newtown, Gun
Permits Surge After Shooting. By Joseph de Avila and Alison Fox
Excerpt:
"I think people realize that you can't call the police all the time and
expect them to save you," said Newtown
resident Bill Stevens, 48 years old, an avid hunter who owns more than a dozen
firearms. "It's sinking in to some folks that 'I need to take
responsibility for keeping my family safe.' "
Americans
Are Far More Compassionate Than "Socially Conscious" Europeans. By
Dan Mitchell
Excerpt:
Wow, people in the United
States are so generous that their voluntary
giving amounts to 10.2 percent of gross domestic product. The only other
nations that even crack 5 percent of GDP are the Netherlands,
Canada, and the United Kingdom.
Most of the supposedly compassionate welfare states have dismal levels of
charitable giving. (Because even in the US, conservatives are far more
giving than liberals, who prefer to give other people’s money. ~Bob.)
The
Tragedy of U.S.
Foreign Policy. Robert D. Kaplan
Excerpt:
For seeking to adjust the balance of power in one’s favor has been throughout
history an amoral enterprise pursued by both liberal and illiberal powers.
Nevertheless, when a liberal power like the United States pursues such a goal
in the service of preventing war among major states, it is acting morally in
the highest sense.
Tweets from Larry
Sabato @LarrySabato
Bush II lost 43 House seats, 9 senators, 7 governors &
265 state legislators from 2001 to 2009. And so far, Obama has lost net of 55
House seats, 4 senators, 9 governors & 607 state legislators since 2009. Clinton lost net of 46
House seats, 7 senators, 11 governors & 524 state legislators over 8 years.
Reagan lost net of 18 House seats, 8 senators, 2 governors - but added 18 state
legislators - over 8-year tenure. Ike lost net of 47 House seats, 12 Senate
seats, 14 governors & 1009(!) state legislators from 1953-61
Governor Howard Dean
now says Governor Sarah Palin is/was right about IPAB in Obamacare
Excerpt: Dean says IPAB is a “rate-setting” board that would
ration care by reducing Medicare physician reimbursements so drastically
certain medical services would no longer be available.
Vandalism
(?) in South Bay, California:
Communications Tower Toppled. Baron Bodissey
Excerpt:
The following video was compiled by Vlad
Tepes to consider a
series of incidents in the South Bay area of California
that may or may not be connected with each other. They’re being described as
“vandalism”, but is that what they really are? Or are they something more
deliberately sinister?
No-Go
Marseille: The International Cultural Enrichment News: Diversity at work...in
your community. By Baron Bodissey
Excerpt:
The socialist leader of the French city of Marseille has requested that the central
government in effect declare his entire city a no-go zone, due to its endemic
and escalating culturally enriched violence. Today, however, the interior
minister refused the request.
Evil
Never Sleeps. By Michael Reagan
Excerpt:
I think I've figured out what the problem with conservatives is. We don't
understand the rules of the political power game. We think after we win big elections
or defeat the Soviet Union, we can go home and
savor our victories.
House
Judiciary Commitee's 'Immigration Recess Packet' Stresses Enforcement First.
Caroline May
Excerpt:
The “Immigration Resource Kit,” obtained by The Daily Caller, features four
sections, the first three laying out the committee’s goals, starting with
strengthening border security and immigration enforcement. The second section
deals with improving legal immigration programs, the third looks at what to do
with the illegal immigrants that are currently in the country and the final
section offers aid on communicating the message — including 10 talking points
on the problems with the Senate immigration bill.
Nancy
Mace to Announce Primary Challenge Against Lindsey Graham. By W. James Antle
III
Excerpt:
[Nancy] Mace, who has written articles for The Daily Caller, is a Fort Bragg
native who graduated from South Carolina’s military college in 1999,
becoming the first woman graduate since the Citadel was founded in 1842. She
later wrote a memoir of her experience at the school and runs a public
relations firm in Charleston.
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