IRAN AND NORTH KOREAN ARE MAKING A MOCKERY OF HIM
By RALPH PETERS, NY Post:
In the old days at Officer Candidate School, the “tac officers,” snapping and snarling, would circle a hapless would-be lieutenant:
“You’re lost, Candidate.”
“You’re confused.”
“What are you going to do now?”
“Make a decision! Make a decision!”
That cherished image of the bewildered victim of calculated harassment fits President Obama perfectly, when it comes to the shambles he’s made of foreign policy in record time.
Around the globe, our enemies — immediate and potential — are testing Obama to see how far they can go. Thus far, he hasn’t set a limit anywhere. Not a single dictator or terrorist leader got a single time-out.
Last week, North Korea nuke-mooned him, then spit missiles in multiple directions. Our president admonished Pyongyang. Words solve everything in Obama-World.
The Master of the Teleprompter didn’t seem to grasp the basics:
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Lost in the Labyrinth of Race
By Victor Davis Hanson:
One of the unexpected results of the Sotomayor nomination is a refocusing on the politics of racial identity and the fossilized institutions of affirmative action-or the belief that the U.S. government should use its vast power to ensure an equality of result rather than a fairness of opportunity.
In the last fifty years, United States has evolved into a complex multiracial state. Race no longer is necessarily an indicator of income or material success-as the record of, say, Japanese-Americans or, indeed Asians in general, attests.
And what criterion constitutes race itself nowadays, when almost every family has someone who is half-Hispanic, a quarter-Asian, one-half black, or part Pakistani? What percentage of one’s lineage ensures purity of race, or qualifies for minority status? Are California Hispanics minorities, or so-called whites that are now a smaller percentage of the state population?
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The media hate the truth – and they lie on behalf of Obama
Marie Jon:
“He who hates, disguises it with his lips, and lays up deceit within himself; when he speaks kindly, do not believe him, for there are seven abominations in his heart.” (Proverbs 26:24, 25)
There is a helpless, sinister sense that seems to be hanging like a heavy weight over the country. One can compare the emotion to that of a death of a loved one — America.
Many astute individuals are beginning to understand that something very different from changes of the past is happening to their country. The Democratic National Committee has adopted an extreme, radical-left ideology. It no longer represents the party our parents remember. It would be more aptly renamed the Democratic Socialist Party.
What does a politically-left agenda mean to the average Joe and Jane? Well, unless you’ve been living in a cave: President Obama’s agenda is to increase big government and give us more entitlement programs that will never pan out. He is demanding redistribution of wealth, whether we like it or not. These initiatives will diminish individual liberties — although that, of course, is not being widely discussed.
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Zoellick Warns Stimulus ‘Sugar High’ Won’t Stem Unemployment
By Timothy R. Homan, Bloomberg:
World Bank President Robert Zoellick warned policy makers that fiscal-stimulus plans are insufficient to turn around the “real economy” and rising joblessness threatens to set off political unrest across the globe.
“While the stimulus has given an impulse, it’s like a sugar high unless you eventually get the credit system working,” Zoellick said in an interview yesterday with Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital with Al Hunt.” “When unemployment increases, that’s probably the most political combustible issue.”
Zoellick’s caution is a contrast with private economists, who are raising their outlooks for growth from India to China as stimulus measures take effect. The biggest developed and emerging nations have committed spending increases and tax cuts totaling 2 percent of their combined economies, a level the International Monetary Fund recommended to end the recession.
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Oppression Liberators Need not Apply
George Joyce, AT:
This is a job announcement from the website of one of America’s top inner-city public charter schools located in Oakland, California (no kidding):
“AIPCS is always in search of teachers and staff who are smart, ambitious, and motivated to teach inner-city youth. We are looking for hard working people who believe in free market capitalism to join our family at AIPCS.
“AIPCS believes in setting a high standard for ALL students regardless of race, ethnicity, language, economic standing, etc.”
“Multi-cultural specialists, ultra liberal zealots, and college-tainted oppression liberators need not apply.”
“If you believe ‘hard work’ is the key to academic success for minority students, poor students, and all other students, we encourage you to submit the following documents by fax or email.”
Let me get this straight. An inner-city public charter school job announcement specifically discriminates against the following applicants: socialists, multiculturalists, “ultra liberal zealots, and college-tainted oppression liberators.
Takes your breath away doesn’t it? In a time when white conservatives have been viciously abused for merely thinking along these lines, the American Indian Public Charter School in Oakland openly and courageously protects its young students from America’s mostly harmful liberal educrats. The result is a flourishing academic environment that produces some of California’s top scores and manages to send its students to places like MIT and Cornell
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Highway robbery
David Warren:
The figure of $1.4 million, for the amount of the taxpayers’ money that will be spent on saving each job at General Motors and Chrysler, has now appeared in the media. I have no idea whether it is accurate; more fundamentally, no idea how anyone could arrive at a plausible final reckoning, at the bottom of a sheet of wildly expensive variables.
What began as a $4-billion bailout, and was defended at that level by a prime minister who wrote and reasoned so eloquently against corporate bailouts when he was running the National Citizens Coalition, has blossomed within weeks into a $13.5-billion bailout. But once again, the taxpayers who must cover this — plus far more in compound interest, since the money must be borrowed — have and will have no way of knowing the total.
Government bailouts are unlimited, more or less by definition. For were a government to say, “You may have $13.5 billion, but after you’ve blown that in, you’re on your own,” it might as well say, “You may have zero.” Once the principle of fiscal accountability is abandoned, it is abandoned.
The political calculation is straightforward. The money is really going to save the seats of a few local MPs, at a cost of so many billion per seat for the next election. The joke is if they lose them anyway, we still have to pay.
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Why The Fed Will Not Be Able To Prevent Higher Inflation
The View From 1776
As former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan admitted in post-meltdown testimony to Congress, no group of bureaucrats, no matter how intelligent or how well informed, can accurately predict the timing of economic turns or determine the correct theoretical equilibrium rate of interest.
With an economy as huge as ours, one with tremendous internal momentum, the Fed is in the position of a one-man row boat attempting to dock an ocean liner being pushed by heavy winds and strong tide. Even if the Fed honestly seeks to forestall inflation, its loose money policies have already built up well nigh irresistible inflationary momentum.[...]
A mad, bad dictator dangerous to know
Times [UK]:
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Politically, Mr Obama has tried the “open hand” – sending no fewer than four US delegations to Pyongyang this year – and learnt that the dictatorship is hard-wired to interpret conciliation as naivety or weakness. Mr Gates has dismissed nuclear blackmail as wholly self-destructive. Detailed policies must drive that tough message home. Ultimately the North Korean dictatorship understands only force.
Obama is a snaive as he is dangerous.
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