Why are those responsible for Fast and Furious getting new federal jobs?
M.M:
There are now enough Operation Fast and Furious officials playing hide-and-seek in the Obama administration to fill a “rubber room.”
That’s the nickname for taxpayer-subsidized holding pens — such as the ones in the New York City public schools — where crooked employees are separated from the system and paid to do nothing. Perhaps the White House can stimulate a few construction jobs by adding an entire rubber room annex for “reassigned” scandal bureaucrats at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It’s getting mighty crowded.
On Tuesday, the Justice Department announced it was shuffling Kenneth Melson, acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, out of his job. The disclosure comes amid continued GOP investigations into the administration’s fatally botched straw-gun-purchase racket at the border and the spreading outrage over legal obstructionism and whistleblower retaliation by DOJ brass. The DOJ inspector general is also conducting a probe.
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When debt levels turn cancerous
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard:
Now we know where the tipping point lies. Debt becomes poisonous once it reaches 80pc to 100pc of GDP for governments, 90pc of GDP for companies, and 85pc of GDP for households. From then on, extra debt chokes growth.
Stephen Cecchetti and his team at the Bank for International Settlements have written the definitive paper rebutting the pied pipers of ever-escalating credit. “The debt problems facing advanced economies are even worse than we thought.”
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Series of Costly Case Settlements Warns Darwin’s Bullies: Stop Censoring Intellectual Freedom
Evolution News & Views:
“Three case settlements this year show that it is a costly mistake for intolerant academic elites to suppress the viewpoints of Darwin-critics,” said Casey Luskin, an attorney and policy analyst with Discovery Institute’s Center for Science & Culture. “The growing trend is that those who discriminate against intelligent design face stiff penalties.”
This month, the state-run California Science Center (CSC) paid $110,000 to avoid a public trial and settle a lawsuit by American Freedom Alliance (AFA). The suit was filed because CSC violated AFA’s First Amendment right to discuss intelligent design (ID). As part of the settlement, CSC has also invited AFA back to present the ID event CSC previously cancelled. The case number is BC 423687.
In January, the University of Kentucky paid over $100,000 to settle astronomer Martin Gaskell’s claim that he was wrongfully denied employment for doubting Darwinism. Soon thereafter, Applied Mathematics Letters paid thousands of dollars and publicly apologized to avoid litigation after it wrongfully withdrew mathematician Granville Sewell’s peer-reviewed paper critiquing neo-Darwinism.
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Booting Melson Won’t Contain Gunwalker Scandal
by Arnold Ahlert:
In what is being characterized by The Hill as the ”first major investigative victory” for Congressman Darrell Issa (D-CA) in the Mexican gunrunning scandal known as Fast and Furious, Kenneth Melson, acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is being replaced. Todd Jones, U.S. attorney for the District of Minnesota, will take over as acting director, according to an announcement released yesterday by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). Mr. Melson is being reassigned to a lesser position at the Office of Legal Policy, where he will be retained in the role of senior advisor for forensic science.
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New warning bells in Operation Fast and Furious probe
By: Examiner Editorial:
A bruised and battered veteran of the U.S. Civil Service explained how the government silences whistleblowers and other uncooperative employees: “They give you a big promotion, a fancy title and a new office, but no staff and nothing to do. Then they tell you to watch the flagpole in front of headquarters and, if that flag moves, you come tell us immediately. After that, you’re never heard from again.” Whistleblowers in the Washington bureaucracy come in all ideological stripes, but the one thing they almost invariably have in common is being subjected to this treatment. Some stick to their guns and alert the public to a problem in government, but most are bored into submission.
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Gunwalker Cover-Up Accelerates: Ken Melson Reassigned
by Patrick Richardson:
The Chicago Tribune is reporting that Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Acting Director Ken Melson, who has been linked to Operation Fast and Furious which allowed thousands of military-style weapons across the border into Mexico, is stepping down to take a position in the Department of Justice:
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Update: Milwaukee Thug ID’ed as Former Teachers Union and SEIU Organizer!
by Kyle Olson:
Israeli security forces use a system of profiling passengers in order to protect air travel. They don’t conduct these silly random searches we see almost daily in America. The Israeli security guards know the type of person who is most likely to carry out a terrorist attack; they don’t need to pat down 95-year-old grandmothers.
Likewise, when the protests turned ugly outside of the Milwaukee Catholic school where Gov. Scott Walker was appearing last Friday, I instinctively knew that the worst offenders would be teacher union leaders.
Why? Because a nasty, belligerent attitude has become a requirement for a leadership post in most teachers unions. Sure, union leaders publicly talk about the need for civility and open-mindedness, but in their unscripted moments they spew vitriol, intimidation and hatred.
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Egyptian Sheikh Calls for Worldwide Sharia & Threatens Christian Extermination
by Billy Hallowell:
A startling interview with Sheikh ‘Adel Shehato that was published in Roz Al-Yousef, an Egyptian daily newspaper, raises some serious concerns about Egypt’s future. Shehato, a senior official in Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ), was imprisoned back in 1991 and freed during the uprisings back in March. Now, he is speaking out and sharing his radical views about sharia law, worldwide domination and Jewish and Christian “infidels.”
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West Lambastes Democrat’s Tea Party Insult as ‘Reprehensible’ Read more on Newsmax.com: West Lambastes Democrat’s Tea Party Insult as ‘Reprehensible’ Important: Do You Support Pres. Obama’s Re-Election? Vote Here Now!
By Newsmax:
Rep. Allen West lambasted Rep. Andre Carson’s outrageous comments that the tea party is racist and implying lynching as “reprehensible.”
Carson, an Indiana Democrat and the Congressional Black Caucus whip, said during a recent caucus event in Miami that some members of Congress would “love to see us [African-Americans] as second-class citizens,” and “some of them in Congress right now of this tea party movement would love to see you and me . . . hanging on a tree,” Politico reports.
Carson labeled tea party actions as “the effort that we’re seeing of Jim Crow.”
West, a Florida Republican who is the only GOP member of the Congressional Black Caucus, told “Fox and Friends” host Steve Doocy today: “I think I’m reconsidering my membership in the Congressional Black Caucus.”
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Chilling Free Speech in the Great White North
By Terry Heinrichs:
Americans aware of journalists Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn are likely also aware that these two were hauled before Canadian “Human Rights Commissions” for supposed speech-crimes. Levant was pursued because he published the Mohammed cartoons, and Steyn, for, well, casting some Muslims in a bad light. Both men had their cases dropped, probably because they were articulate, famous, and had relatively deep pockets. Others who have been charged have not been so lucky. While such commissions stand as a serious threat to an open public discourse, they are not the only menace “controversial” speech faces in Canada.
Speech in the U.S. is subject to many types of restrictions, but there is no law that criminalizes “hate speech” as such. Canada has such a law. It punishes citizens for up to two years in the slammer for “communicating statements, other than in private conversation” that “willfully promote hatred against an identifiable group.” This law, passed in 1970, has not been widely used. It has been deployed about 15 times since 1993, all but twice against impecunious white Canadians.
However, the Canadian government is currently considering a bill which would amend the hate speech section of the Criminal Code in ways that expand the reach of the Act and give the government greater power over the content of what Canadians may say.
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Police arrest 15 at Playland in dispute over Muslim headwear
Police arrest 15 at Playland in dispute over Muslim headwear
Three NLRB decisions ‘will kill jobs and force business closures,’ critics say
Three NLRB decisions ‘will kill jobs and force business closures,’ critics say
Gaddafi, Muslim Brotherhood and Arab Intrigue
WALID SHOEBAT:
This report shows the danger we are in and the power struggles to gain power in the Middle East. Gaddafi in order to maintain power would both make alliances with terrorists as well as fight them, as well as reach out to the West for major oil deals. The objective of the Muslim Brotherhood is world domination under a Muslim Caliphate. The Brotherhood will ally with apparent enemies both Muslim and Non Muslim when it is weak militarily and then use violence when it feels it has the upper hand. The West through NATO has handed power to the Muslim Brotherhood in Libya. The fallout and hazards to us in the West will be immense in the not too distant future.
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‘This Is WAR’ — Congressional Black Caucus Travels US Cities Using Violent Rhetoric: Declares ‘War’ on Racist Tea Party, Says Tea Party Wants to Lynch Blacks, Calls for Bank Runs, Civil Unrest in Their Neighborhoods and Homes
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Israel — an Apartheid State?
by Dennis Prager:
Next month, the UN-sponsored hate-Israel festival known as Durban III takes place. Under the heading “anti-racism,” the great bulk of the conference, like Durban I and Durban II, consists of condemning Israel for racism and equating it to an apartheid state.
Of the world’s many great lies, this is among the greatest.
How do we know it is a lie? Because when South Africa was an apartheid state, no one accused Israel of being one. Even the UN would have regarded the accusation as absurd.
Israel has nothing in common with an apartheid state, but few people know enough about Israel — or about apartheid South Africa — to refute the slander. So let’s respond.
First, what is an apartheid state? And does Israel fit that definition?
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The Lone Wolf Jihad
by Raymond Ibrahim:
For starters, rather than once attempting to understand the ideology of jihad itself and its place in Islamic history and tradition—not to malign, but for proper context, to understand what one is up against—the administration, like the one before it, preferred to take the easy, politically-correct, way out: focus on formal organizations and people—al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, as the root source of the problem—while ignoring the jihadi elephant in the room.
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Liberating Libya for Jihadists
by Bruce Thornton:
The fall of Muammar Gaddafi is making some in the West giddy with the usual “Arab Spring” wishful visions of democracy and freedom flourishing throughout the Muslim Middle East, even as the last binge of democratic intoxication, the fall of Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak, has left the hangover of a newly empowered Muslim Brotherhood, increasing assaults on Christian Copts, growing anti-Americanism, and terrorist attacks on Israel originating in Egypt and including Egyptian citizens among the attackers. And now, according to DEBKAfile, we may see Libya heading in the same anti-Western, Islamist direction.
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Scrub a dub dub
Here is the Aga Khan/Rick Perry curriculum: Scrubbed from the web, cache scrubbed from Google Search
NLRB’s Labor Day Gifts To Unions
By Sean Higgins:
The National Labor Relations Board announced a trio of pro-union rulings today that are, coincidentally or not, just in time for the Labor Day holiday.
The first announcement was the rollback of a pair of previous changes that made it easier for employees to contest union representation. The second announcement was a ruling that will make it easier for unions to organize smaller groups in workplaces, giving them a foothold in workplaces they have struggled to organize in the past.
Unlike NLRB’s complaint vs. Boeing (BA) for opening a new 787 Dreamliner facility in right-to-work South Carolina, these actions won’t grab headlines. But they are the latest in a series of aggressive actions that favor unions.
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The Obama Effect
By ABRAHAM KATZMAN:
When an Orthodox Jewish, kippa-wearing Democratic candidate might lose a congressional election in the most Jewish (and 75% Democratic) congressional district in America – a seat occupied by Democrats for nearly a century – to a non-Jewish Republican, something significant is going on. And Golda Koppelman knows what that something is.
New York’s 9th Congressional District (Brooklyn and Queens) is gearing up for the September 13, 2011 special election to fill the seat vacated by disgraced Democrat Anthony Weiner. Koppelman, a Holocaust survivor who has lived her American life in the district, is a devout Jewish mother and grandmother, with family in both Israel and America. Like many of her generation, she’s also a devout Democrat. Until now.
“I have never voted for a Republican in my life” she says. But in this election, “I don’t even care who the Democrat is; I am voting Republican to show Obama I am upset with his policy on Israel.”
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Climate Science and Corruption
Russell Cook:
Do personal and financial ties corrupt views on global warming? The warmists thinks so, but only when skeptical scientists are involved.
Skeptic climate scientist Dr. S Fred Singer, a contributor to American Thinker, relayed the following in his weekly Science & Environmental Policy Project email (reproduced here):
IPCC Censorship: Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, a Vice-Chair (Vice President) of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, objected to Fred Singer participating in a seminar on global warming / climate change that was to be held at SEII Foundation Universitaire in Brussels. A google translation of part of the letter van Ypersele sent follows:
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Obama’s proposed regs would cost billions annually
By Dave Boyer, The Washington Times:
President Obama told Speaker John A. Boehner in a letter Tuesday that his administration is considering seven regulations that would each cost the U.S. economy more than $1 billion per year, although he added that these rules are “merely proposed.”
All told, the seven proposed rules cited by Mr. Obama would cost companies at least $38 billion per year and could cost as much as $100 billion annually.
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Revealed: U.S. State Department Warned U.S. Citizens in Jerusalem to Avoid Beck Event?
by Buck Sexton:
In the aftermath of the Glenn Beck “Restoring Courage” rally, questions have emerged about a U.S. State Department message released the day of the event that warned Americans to stay away.
The timing and specifics of the event warning have led some to claim that ideological opposition to the Beck event– not just concerns for American safety– could have influenced the decision.
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The President’s Enumerated Powers, Rulemaking by Executive Agencies, & Executive Orders
Publius Huldah:
On election night, November 2, 2010, Rep. John Boehner said in his victory speech:
…While our new majority will serve as your voice in the people’s House, we must remember it is the president who sets the agenda for our government. … [emphasis added]
Next morning, Ezra Klein commented in the Cult of the President lives on:
I’d like Boehner to show us where in the Constitution it says that the president sets the agenda for the government.
But Boehner is not as astute as Ezra Klein, and does not know that it is our Constitution which sets the “agenda” for the federal government. The agenda the Constitution sets restricts the federal government to war, international relations & commerce; and domestically, the establishment of an uniform commercial system: a monetary system based on gold & silver, weights & measures, patents & copyrights, a bankruptcy code, and mail delivery (Art. I, Sec. 8, cls.1-16). 1
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Science now settled
Lawrence Solomon, Financial Post:
The science is now all-but-settled on global warming, convincing new evidence demonstrates, but Al Gore, the IPCC and other global warming doomsayers won’t be celebrating. The new findings point to cosmic rays and the sun – not human activities – as the controller of climate on Earth.
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