Obama’s Private Youth Army: Recruiting 8-Year-Olds
Atlas Shrugs:
First of all, it needs to be said: Obama, get your hands off our kids. Seriously. Stop the fascist recruitment. It’s sick.
Obama said he was going to build a civilian army — and he is using our children. How? He uses the classrooms, as I exclusively broke the story here: Organizing for America recruitment in the classroom.
But AmeriCorps (can Obama pronounce the second syllable?) is the machinery for his youth army. And there is huge dough behind it — yours and mine.
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A glimpse into our Kafkaesque future under Obamacare
Joesph Smith, AT:
Merriam-Webster defines “Kafkaesque” in part as “having a nightmarishly complex, bizarre, or illogical quality.”
For a taste of the Kafkaesque under ObamaCare, consider the 159 new boards, panels and programs in the 2,733 page Senate Health bill, as compiled by Senate Republicans. These panels would be the face of ObamaCare for every aspect of every medical need of every American.
Now consider one citizen’s prolonged run-in with the Social Security Administration, as described in a Wall Street Journal account of “the sometimes-Kafkaesque process debtors can face when challenging the validity of a claim.” Keep in mind that one can substitute any of the 159 ObamaCare panels for the role of the Social Security Administration in what follows.
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Alberta fed up with the Robin Hood routine
Don Martin, NP:
When the billions flowed as a hefty budget surplus, Albertans didn’t mind subsidizing a better life for poorer provinces.
Petro-dollars helped Nova Scotia become the national leader in physicians per capita, gave Quebec students the lowest-anywhere tuitions, created unrivaled regulated daycare space in Prince Edward Island and gave New Brunswick the bucks to hire plentiful nurses.
So lucrative has the transfer of wealth become that, according to an excellent new analysis by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, the less fortunate provinces now outperform almighty Alberta in delivering almost all services, including health care and the cost of post-secondary education.
In the good times, it was shrugged off as the price of Confederation. Easy come, easy go, it seemed.
But Alberta’s deep in deficit doo-doo — and it’s had enough.
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Non-doctors would be trained to administer a lethal potion to elderly people who ‘consider their lives complete’
Holland proposes giving over-70s the right to die if they ‘consider their lives complete’
President Obama Shows Utter Contempt and Disdain for the Faith Community by Including Abortion Funding in Healthcare Legislation
Christian Newswire:
Under the current legislative proposals, Catholics, Evangelicals and other faithful Christians would be forced to fund abortions with their tax dollars.
It is now clear that the promises President Obama made to the faith community to reduce the number of abortions and affirm human rights for all were just empty words to curry favor with Catholic and Evangelical voters in 2008.
It is one thing to have a sincere disagreement over abortion. It is quite another thing to force Catholics and other faithful Christians to pay for the killing of innocent children with their tax dollars.
The message and lesson learned from this should be clear to the entire faith community. President Obama does not respect and share your values. The President does not embrace your commitment to human rights and social justice and the President will say whatever is necessary to win your vote.
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What an oddly worded article. Why does the writer invoke progressive code words and phrases like ‘social justice’ and ‘human rights’ in this context? Christians who were duped by a leftist extremist like Obama were idolaters. Wake up. Could you really not see through his vacuous oratory? Were you willfully unaware of his voting record or position on abortion? What’s really scary is the ease with which so many who identify with the Christian faith are so completely devoid of discernment. Government has never been the friend of Christ. It is the responsibility of the individual, not the state, to effect positive change in society.
Deuteronomy 15:11 “For the poor will never cease to be in the land; therefore I command you, saying, ‘You shall freely open your hand to your brother, to your needy and poor in your land.’
YOU, not the state.
A Pakistani member of the English Defence League speaks out
Jihad Watch:
The English Defence League (EDL), a group standing up against the spread of Sharia and Islamic supremacism in England, is often stigmatized as racist and fascist — but here again this common tactic of the Left is without substance. Sajid Khan, a Pakistani member of the EDL, kindly sent me this message:
I am an ex-Muslim and a proud EDL member. I have been to many of their demos, including London. The information about the EDL in the mainstream media has been quite biased and just stupid. For instance, they say that the EDL is “right wing” and “racist”. This is wrong, as I am a liberal who supports equal rights for different races, colours, sexualities and religions. This is primarily why I support the EDL.As an ex-Muslim, who still has to hide this fact from many (if not all) my fellow Muslims including my family, I believe that your average White English Christian pub-going non-halal meat-eating and pork-eating Infidel living in the West is the only liberal voice out there opposing the hordes of violence-supporting backward “right-wing” religious foreigners who come into the West and think that homoseuxals should be tortured and killed, and who think that women must gain their husband’s or father’s permission to go out for the most basic of things like seeing a doctor for treatment.
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There is a battle going within the EDL leadership between Chris Renton and Paul Ray [Lionheart] and it is a mess. Time will tell whether or not this organisation remains intact or becomes fractured beyond repair. Various rather nasty accusations are flying around and it is impossible to sort it out.
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The Next Economic Meltdown
by Vasko Kohlmayer, FrontPage:
“Economists: Another Financial Crisis on the Way” read a recent ABC News headline. The headline was occasioned by a report from an elite group of economists, financiers and former federal regulators headed by the Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz. The report warned that the American economy and the financial system are in danger of descending into another crisis. The fault, according to the authors, lies with “our government leaders,” who “have shown little capacity to fix the flaws in our market system.” This lack, they urged, should be remedied by more regulation.
Even though the recommendation may sound superficially reasonable, the advice is not only badly flawed, but it is a prescription for more trouble. To see why, we only need to ask this question: When have our government leaders managed to fix any problem in the market place? The market may not always produce the kind of results we like, but we have a long history of experience to show that attempts to correct it almost invariably produce more bad than good. Even in those cases where politicians’ intent is pure, the interference tends to produce unforeseen consequences that are nearly always detrimental.
In the real world, however, politicians’ regulatory motives are seldom chaste.
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Greece will be saved, but what about other debtors?
By Adrian Michaels, Telegraph [UK]:
That won’t be the end of the matter. For ordinary Greeks, out on strike and rioting again yesterday, the aggressive austerity measures are likely to mean years of soul-sapping recession. The country’s leaders hugely misled their partners and the markets about the state of its finances; the correction is particularly brutal as a result. As Warren Buffett says, it is only when the tide goes out that you see who has been swimming naked. Greece is chief nudist at a naturists’ convention, and a very cold wind is blowing.
Meanwhile, Spain, Portugal and Ireland are also heading for years of darkness. Nor can other economies in the eurozone rest comfortably. A system better equipped to handle massive economic shocks is needed. The rest of the European Union might be smug now, but that will change once they are dragged into debate about referendums and treaty changes needed to install such a system. This comes just a few weeks after the deeply divisive Lisbon Treaty finally came into force and was supposed to end further constitutional change for a decade.
The course of the deep global recession has exposed the weak system of management of the euro. When the European Monetary System, a precursor to the euro, was put in place in 1979, it was envisaged that a European Monetary Fund would also be created. It, like the International Monetary Fund, was supposed to be there to help countries in trouble and also impose policy conditions for any aid disbursed. The EMF never happened; such strong political interference from the centre was a federal step too far.
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Apparently it’s all the fault of Christians …
The real showdown between Christians and Muslims isn’t in the Mideast
The Islamist Mindset
by Raymond Ibrahim, Pajamas Media:
Is it inconsistent for Muslim “holy warriors” to engage in voyeuristic acts of lasciviousness? Because would-be jihadists and martyrs have been known to frequent strip bars — such as the 9/11 hijackers and Major Nidal Hasan [1], whose “late-night jiggle-joint carousing stands at odds with the picture of a devout Muslim” — many Americans have concluded that such men cannot be “true” Muslims, leading to the ubiquitous conviction that they are “hijacking Islam.”
In fact, Islamists rely on several rationalizations — doctrines, even — that make “jiggle-joint carousing” consistent with Muslim piety. Considering that Islamic law permits sex slaves (Koran 4:3), who can be kept topless [2] by their masters, and makes sex one of the highest paradisiacal rewards, this should come as no great surprise. However, to elaborate:
First, the doctrine of taqiyya allows Muslims residing among infidels to deceive the latter by, among other things, behaving like infidels, e.g., frequenting strip bars: “Taqiyya [3] [deception], even if committed without duress, does not lead to a state of infidelity — even if it leads to sin deserving of hellfire.”
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A national ID card in 2010?
The Week:
National identification cards, long feared by privacy advocates, may soon become mandatory for American workers. In a bipartisan effort to curb the hiring of illegal immigrants, Sens. Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) have proposed legislation that, if passed, will require all working Americans to carry biometric ID cards containing fingerprint records and other personal information. Sen. Schumer calls the measure “the nub of solving the immigration dilemma.” But Chris Calabrese, an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer, warns the cards would be a “massive invasion” of privacy. Are national ID cards the solution to our immigration woes — or an unacceptable intrusion into our lives?
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H/T: Linda at The Great Pumpkin
Federal Decision on ACORN Funding: Does ACORN Have a Right to Your Tax Dollars??
Patterico:
News broke a couple of days ago that a federal judge had ruled that Congress violated the Constitution when it passed a bill cutting off ACORN’s funding. Specifically, the judge ruled in her opinion that the Congressional act had violated the Bill of Attainder Clause.
I don’t find the decision convincing. It seems to me that the opinion essentially establishes some sort of ongoing right to federal funding. This isn’t like a case where the Government actually punishes someone — such as the hypothetical Eugene Volokh Execution Act of 2009 mentioned in this 2009 Eugene Volokh post on the subject. Congress is simply saying: we choose not to fund a particular organization. Such decisions, it seems to me, are for Congress to make, and not some federal judge.
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Shine a light in on “Earth Hour”
By Judi McLeod, CFP:
Freedom lovers the world over have an opportunity to shine a cleansing light on one of the Global Warming Movement’s biggest hypocritical events: Earth Hour.
Earth Hour, which began back in 2007, calls for people to plunge the world into darkness and spread the lie of man made Global Warming.
This year Global warming activists, sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) are once again calling for the dark for for a March 27 “Earth Hour”.
Desperate now that polls show people see man made global warming as a scam, Earth Hour promoters are telling people “lights off” “to demand action on climate change”.
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Dissidents Urge UN to Fight Cyber-Censorship
UN Watch:
Manifesto Slams Belarus, Burma, China, Cuba, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam
GENEVA, March 12, 2010 – Marking the first World Day Against Cyber-Censorship, UN Watch and a global coalition of dissidents, non-governmental organizations and human rights activists submitted a new declaration on internet freedom to the United Nations, urging its endorsement by the world body.
The Geneva Declaration on Internet Freedom (click here for text), drafted by a committee of dissidents headed by two well-known political prisoners-Yang Jianli of China and Ahmad Batebi of Iran-calls for the protection of human rights activists imprisoned for social or political expression posted on blogs and other websites.
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Is this why the Palestinians ‘deserve’ a state, Mr Biden?
Melanie Phillips:
The New York Times reports that the Palestinian Authority and Fatah have dedicated a public square to the memory of a woman who in 1978 helped carry out the deadliest terrorist attack in Israel’s history:
The woman being honored, Dalal Mughrabi, was the 19-year-old leader of a Palestinian squad that sailed from Lebanon and landed on a beach between Haifa and Tel Aviv. They killed an American photojournalist, hijacked a bus and commandeered another, embarking on a bloody rampage that left 38 Israeli civilians dead, 13 of them children, according to official Israeli figures. Ms. Mughrabi and several other attackers were killed.To Israelis, hailing Ms. Mughrabi as a heroine and a martyr is an act that glorifies terrorism. But, underscoring the chasm between Israeli and Palestinian perceptions, the Fatah representatives described Ms. Mughrabi as a courageous fighter who held a proud place in Palestinian history. Defiant, they insisted that they would not let Israel dictate the names of Palestinian streets and squares.
‘We are all Dalal Mughrabi,’ declared Tawfiq Tirawi, a member of the Fatah Central Committee, the party’s main decision-making body, who came to join the students. ‘For us she is not a terrorist’, he said, but rather ‘a fighter who fought for the liberation of her own land.’
Note in particular the last three words. This man is talking about Israel: not the West Bank, not Gaza, but Israel.
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Harry Reid hides behind 11-year-old kiddie shield Marcelas Owens
By Michelle Malkin:
This new video is currently the featured clip on the Senate Democrats’ YouTube site. It’s health insurance-bashing demagoguery and dumbing-down and cowardice and child exploitation at its worst. Watch what the Senate Democrats have entitled “Young Health Care Activist Discusses Health Insurance Industry Abuses:”
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A Question for the Media
Atlas Shrugs:
The media’s coverage of the Rifqa Bary case has been so incompetent it borders on criminal. It’s dhimmi media, for sure. For example, the case of the immigration question, I must ask, why isn’t the media asking?
If the parents’ immigration status is “unclear” (which it is not, as I broke the story of their illegal paperwork here), how can Rifqa be illegal? How can her parents be one thing and not another and why haven’t those tax evaders been deported? And why hasn’t the media ONCE pursued the immigration question? Look at this:
The Columbus Dispatch, the home of hijabed Heagney:
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Sarah Palin knows her Canadian health care history. Do we?
Kevin Libin, NP:
“There was no road out of there at that time,” Chuck Heath explained to reporters. “The ferry schedule was very erratic. We had no doctor in Skagway. The plane schedule was very erratic. The winds dictated whether the planes could come in or not.”
In any case, as there’s certainly no evidence the Heaths didn’t pay for the care they received in Canada. In fact, visiting Americans typically did (and still do). Actually, in the ‘60s, Canadians often did. U.S. journalists seem happy to take it for granted that health care up here has always looked exactly like it does today, but it hasn’t. As blogger Matthew Campbell rightly points out “if Palin’s family did travel in the mid-1960s, they would not have used the same state-run system that Canada uses today.” Rather, they would have used a system that looked and operated much like the American system at the time.
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NBC’s Castro-Driven Journalism
By Humberto Fontova, AT:
There’s no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something’s a story because Drudge links to it.
- NBC’s Chuck Todd, March 6, 2010.Oh, really?
Well, how about partnering with a Stalinist regime’s military robber-barons to boost their currency booty and hide their tortures, mass-murders, and mass-jailings? To wit:
In June 2007, Castro’s Stalinist regime held a “tourism fair” in Havana to kick off an ambitious plan to boost the Cuban military’s tourist booty. By some peculiar coincidence, NBC’s “Today Show” decided to broadcast from Havana that very week. Amidst smiling, clapping, dancing tourists, Matt Lauer and Andrea Mitchell advised viewers on how to legally vacation in Cuba.
Don’t look for this from NBC, but Castro’s Soviet-trained and armed military and secret police own most of Cuba’s tourist facilities. Along with providing these inquisitive Cuban officials with certain insights regarding visitors to Castro’s fiefdom, this setup also insures that most of what tourists spend in Cuba lands in the pockets of the only people in Cuba with guns.
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Mere hate should not be a crime
Lorne Gunter, National Post:
Salman Hossain may have the most detestable opinions of anyone in the country — not that he himself would care about what a columnist in a “Zionist newspaper” such as the National Post thinks.
There is no question that his ravings against Jews, “infidels” and western soldiers are repulsive and hateful. His calls for a holocaust against North American and European Jews, or at least for their deportation “to their own territory or maybe the South Pole to live with the penguins” are irredeemable. “There’s no Jew better than an exile Jew.”
But are his views dangerous? No, at least not in the sense of what we normally mean by “dangerous.”
They are dangerous only under the expansive, currently fashionable definition of “wilful promotion of hatred” against an identifiable group. And since this modern politically correct definition constitutes a slippery slope into thought crimes and restrictions on free speech, Mr. Hossain’s right to post his nonsense must be defended in order that we can protect freedom of expression for everyone.
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