Bachmann’s political touch turns doubter into fan
By: Byron York:
Anyone who doubts Michele Bachmann’s talents as a hands-on politician didn’t see her performance here Monday. In an otherwise unremarkable town hall meeting, Bachmann turned a potentially embarrassing encounter with a grouchy voter into an opportunity to win the most treasured political commodity in Iowa these days: a vote in Saturday’s Republican straw poll.
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Krauthammer: Obama puts nothing on the table and blames everybody else
by The Right Scoop:
Krauthammer, responding to Obama’s press conference today, said that he looked weak, plaintive and small today as he came out and blamed the Tea Party, Europe, Japan, the Middle East, and “probably God because he’s the author of earthquakes” for everything that’s happened instead of blaming himself:
Levin reminds Obama what he really inherited
by The Right Scoop:
Levin took a few moments to remind our ‘Blamer-in-Chief’ of what he really inherited when he became president:
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Rush reads the “Obama Blames…” diaries
by The Right Scoop:
This is an instant classic. I call it the “Obama Blames…” diaries, where Rush reads through six pages of Obama blaming everyone else for the problems during his administration:
Every Single One: The Politicized Hiring of Eric Holder’s Voting Section
by Hans A. von Spakovsky:
Recently released documents — disclosed by the Obama Justice Department only after a court battle — reveal that the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice is engaging in politicized hiring in the career civil service ranks. Typical Washington behavior, you say? Except the hiring in question is nearly unprecedented in scope and significantly eclipses anything the Bush administration was even accused of doing. And the evidence of the current political activity is far less impeachable than what was behind the libelous attacks leveled at officials from the Bush years.
For nearly a year, the Civil Rights Division rebuffed Pajamas Media’s Freedom of Information Act request for the resumes of attorneys hired into the Division during the tenure of Eric Holder. PJM was finally forced to file a federal lawsuit earlier this year. Only then did Justice relent and turn over the documents. The result leaves little wonder why PJM’s request was met with such intense resistance.
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The War against Real but Forgotten Evil
by Terry Scambray:
A review of Moral Combat: Good and Evil in World War II, by Michael Burleigh (Harper Collins, 2011, 562 pp.)
On August 5, 1945 as the Enola Gay passed over Iwo Jima on its way to drop an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, it rendezvoused with two observer planes, one of which was named, Necessary Evil. In Moral Combat: Good and Evil in World War II, Michael Burleigh shows that “necessary evil” may be the simplest and most accurate way to describe the horrors committed by the Allies in WWII.
Burleigh’ masterful tome is a response to several schools of thought about WWII, but mainly to relativist historians and journalists. Such writers equate Allied bombing of civilians with Germany’s monstrous atrocities; some of these writers also excuse the Japanese rape, torture and murder in the Orient as understandable responses to European colonialism.
The poison of such rationalizations has long been promoted by a variety of thinkers who view the Western heritage, a sterling part of which is the Allied victory in WWII, as a skeleton in the collective closet of the West and specifically America.
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The UN In Action: Treading Lightly On Syria While Stomping On Israel
Joseph A. Klein:
While the Security Council was playing around with its statement on Syria, the United Nations continues to stomp on Israel. In addition to the UN Human Rights Council’s obsession with persecuting Israel for alleged human rights violations while letting real human rights abusers off the hook, the UN has been busy paving the way for the Palestinians to pretend that they can become an independent state without negotiating in good faith with Israel.
As reported by Anne Bayefsky, editor of EyeontheUN, a provisional list of speakers for the opening session of the General Assembly in September lists the speaker from “Palestine” as “H.S.” or Head of State. Since the Islamic bloc of states and their allies constitute an automatic General Assembly majority, the General Assembly will very likely pass a resolution this fall recognizing the Palestinians’ claims to an independent state along the pre-1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital.
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Allen West – Tea Party Traitor?
I like West but I never thought he would cave on this issue and I must now reconsider my estimation of his political convictions.
Whatever the rating agencies say, many in China believe the U.S. is no longer creditworthy.
Niall Ferguson:
Xian, China—viewed from inside the Beltway, the passage of legislation to raise the federal debt ceiling was a triumph for democracy.
“The push and pull Americans saw in Washington these past few weeks…was the will of the people working itself out,” declared Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate. The appearance of Gabrielle Giffords to vote for the bill raised not just the ceiling but also the roof.
Viewed from Beijing, it looked very different. Indeed, it’s hard to imagine what more we could have done to vindicate the Chinese Communist Party’s position that Western democracy is a form of institutionalized chaos to be avoided by all sane Asians.
One of my friends from China asked me how much of the federal debt was owed by the government to itself. I had to check. The answer is just less than a third, since various agencies like the Social Security Trust Fund are major holders of U.S. Treasuries.
“So,” he mused, “Congress just voted not to default on the debt the government owes itself?” I had to admit that was correct. “And how much of the federal debt is owed by the government to the American people?” More checking. The answer is that just more than a third is owed to U.S. citizens and the banks and pension funds that manage their savings.
“So the will of the people was that it would be better not to default on the government’s debt to…the people?” I couldn’t deny it.
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Israeli Marxism
by Steven Plaut:
It is difficult to explain to people living outside of Israel, and especially to Americans, the extent to which Israelis truly believe in communism.
Sometimes they call it socialism, but they basically mean communism.
This is not to say that they behave as communists in their private lives. Quite the contrary, Israelis live as the ultimate ideal of capitalism. They are enormously individualist. They are exceptionally good at starting and managing businesses, and of development and marketing innovations. Israel as a country has more start-up businesses than all of Europe. It registers more patents than any European country.
Yet those very same Israelis, who demonstrate every day their skills in succeeding in markets, hate markets. The word “socialism” carries enormously romantic and positive implications for Israelis. Especially among educated (non-Russian-born) Israelis. The word capitalism is something of an obscenity for most Israelis. I suspect that someone arrested for assault could get himself off in court if he claimed the victim had called him a capitalist, it being a form of hate speech. The Israeli media invariably use the word “capitalism” in conjunction with the word piggish. (Ironically, the one exception is the business editor of Haaretz, who supports market capitalism, while the rest of the same newspaper yearns for communism.) The only conceivable form of market economy in the minds of the Israeli chattering class is “piggish capitalism.” You would not believe the portion of Israeli professors and intellectuals who use that expression. The head of the Histadrut, Israel’s largest organized crime family, uses it, being a loyal believer in piggish communism.
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Honor Killings Reported by Sun News Canada
WALID SHOEBAT:
Here is a good report of the issues of “Honor Killings”
Who made a billion dollars on 10/1 bet that U.S. credit rating would be downgraded?
Who made a billion dollars on 10/1 bet that U.S. credit rating would be downgraded?
The Taboo on Mentioning Black Mob Violence
By John Bennett:
If you point out a wave of racial mob violence, you are “race-baiting,” according to several liberal commentators. Perhaps these liberals are the ones Attorney General Holder referred to when he called ours a “nation of cowards.”
The wave of racist violence committed by black flash mobs is different from any other form of racism today. The neglected social problem of racial mob violence is unique in its organization, the high numbers of people involved, the intensity of the violence, and the stark racial impact of that violence. The violence is also unique in that it has been purposefully obscured by the mainstream media, with the editor of the Chicago Tribune, among others, saying that his paper will not report on the race of the attackers.
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Norway, Free Speech, and the Counterjihad
By Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer:
Ever since the heinous murders in Norway, we have been subjected to an unrelenting campaign of vilification. It appears that the Norway mass murderer Anders Breivik cited us, along with John Locke, Thomas Jefferson, Barack Obama and a host of others, in his lengthy cut-and-paste manifesto; despite that manifesto’s ideological incoherence, his citations of our work has led to an international campaign to blame us for the massacre. The New York Times, NBC, the BBC, CNN, the Washington Post, many European publications, and a host of others have claimed that we are responsible for creating a climate of “hate” in which a Breivik was inevitable. This is not only false, but such charges against us challenges fundamental principles of the freedom of speech.
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The War Against Israel Goes On
by Guy Millière:
The « Gaza flotilla » failed. Only one boat reached the eastern coast of the Mediterranean. Most of them could not even leave their ports of departure. An attempt to replace the fleet with a « flytilla » of demonstrators on a plane to Tel Aviv failed miserably.
It would, however, be dangerous to consider this failed attempt more than a limited and short-lived victory. « Pro-Palestinian » organizations in Europe and the United States continue to spread their venom and are already preparing for their next battles : the quest for a U.N. recognition of a Palestinian state within the « 1967 borders », and the organization of the Durban III summit on September 22nd in New York.
These organizations must be seen for what they are : instruments in a war against Israel that has never stopped since 1948, and that has simply undergone a change in tactics.
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