Please, Doctor Ben Carson, do NOT run for president.

I fear for Dr. Carson and what will be done to him if he should be lassoed into running for president. All we know and admire about this man will be destroyed by the left when they superimpose the image of him that they create over all that he actually is.


I see Dr. Carson as a political innocent whose impact is stronger as the voice of reason in the hurricane of demagoguery swirling around the election campaigns. I see him perhaps as a surgeon general, but as honorable as he is, he will be vulnerable to attacks from the left.

Foreign policy and terrorism are coming to the forefront of concern and it will take a president skilled and courageous in international affairs, but I do not see anything in Dr. Carson's resume' that would create those qualities. In fact all the shortcomings in Obama's background are the same as those in Ben Carson's, save for the decency and humanity I see in the doctor.


Only those who have been governors of states seem to have been properly prepared to run a nation, deal with political opposition and get their hands dirty if they must. (That last characteristic has been a resume enhancement for Democrats.)  Mr. Obama has not been the least afraid to get his hands dirty, but that quality alone has not made him an effective president. There is mostly the ability to unify national leadership behind a well-defined cause and that takes leadership qualities Obama lacks. I fear these also may not be sufficient in a man of the quality and experience of Dr. Ben Carson and to put him in the position of a presidential candidate will only harm this good and decent man. If we elect this national treasure as president I fear we will set Dr. Carson up for failure.


If Dr. Carson is our candidate, make no mistake: I will vote for him, if for no better reason than to cancel a Democrat vote.  But please, Dr. Carson, for all our sakes, but especially your own, I beg you not to run for president.

The Tunnel Dweller

Al Sharpton Empowered

John Fund & Hans von Spakovsky

 

... "Many principled liberals are privately appalled that President Obama and Eric Holder have exalted the status of Al Sharpton, and they fear that any new attorney general will also be in thrall to him. Some have even gone public. Liberal journalist Margaret Carlson of Bloomberg News wrote last year: “We’ve gone from Martin Luther King to the Reverend Al Sharpton, and . . . it’s very dispiriting.”

"Indeed, in King’s famous 1963 speech at the Washington Mall, he told of his “dream” that his four children would “one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

"That dream remains as noble as ever, but it won’t be advanced by the Reverend Sharpton and his “I have a scheme” method of activism. One of the saddest legacies of the Obama-Holder years will be that while they claimed MLK’s mantle as their own, they left the country more racially polarized than before and cynically worked overtime to give credibility to the Al Sharptons of the world.

The Lie That Will Start a World War

http://jewishappleseed.org/apple/tishahb'av.htm

American Thinker   ... "No one but the Jews has a genuine religious claim to the 35 acres of the Temple Mount, and anyone who has studied the history knows this.  Even Christians – who do have legitimate claims to other sites in the area – do not contest the Mount.  This is not arcane knowledge.  It can be gleaned in a few minutes of relatively light reading.

"Yet our media deceptively hides this from the public.  We are being lied to whenever the media tells us that the area is sacred to Muslims, rather than apprising us that the claim is an Islamic fraud, so obvious that even the imams have to know that they are lying.  That five-year gap does not go away."..   By Mike Konrad

The Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem long before Islam existed

Obama tries to shake off Carter aura...

thegatewaypundit
 

The Financial Times Ltd.    ...  "Replete with George W Bush-style rhetoric about a “network of death” and “this brand of evil”, Mr Obama’s speech this week was an effort to reboot his flagging presidency.

"In political terms, the more martial Mr Obama was trying to shake of the Jimmy Carter aura that has been hanging over his White House; the steady corrosion of leverage at home and influence abroad in the face of Middle East turmoil that slowly leaves an incumbent looking impotent.

"From the foreign policy perspective, Mr Obama conducted what amounted to a genuine pivot in his approach to the world – embracing the central point of many of his critics who insist that a leadership vacuum has emerged in the world that only the US can fill." ...  Via Drudge.

Islam Comes to Moore, Oklahoma (Updated)

 

Warning Signs   ... "Don’t call it a religion. And surely do not call it the “religion of peace.” There was nothing peaceful about Islam from its earliest days when the citizens of Mecca came to the conclusion that Muhammad and his followers were a threat to them. That was 1,400 years ago.
"If it were in my power, I would require every American to read “It’s All About Muhammad: A Biography of the World’s Most Notorious Prophet” ... "
“More than two-thirds of the canonical biographical materials have to do with the violence he used to spread his religion.”  It was a short step from Muhammad, the self-proclaimed prophet who later called himself the messenger of Allah, to Alton Nolen, the Muslim convert who is alleged to have beheaded a former co-worker." By Alan Caruba

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UPDATE:  An American convert to Islam beheaded a former colleague in Moore, Oklahoma. US law enforcement officials are not calling it terrorism.    ... "Nolen’s Facebook page – under the name Jah’Keem Yisrael – features virulently anti-Christian, anti-American and anti-Israeli posts as well as photos of ISIS and Al-Qaeda terrorists.
"In a post to “fellow Muslims,” for example, he writes: “America and Israel are wicked. Wake up Muslims!!!”
"Nonetheless, US law enforcement officials say there is no indication that the decapitation is linked to terrorism.
"Nolen’s colleagues told investigators that he had made numerous
attempts to inspire fellow employees to convert to Islam."
The ISIS one-finger salute This will negate the Christian "One Way" gesture, I'm sure.
About that Musim Brotherhood three-finger salute Sadly, Muslim children are giving it.

Language advisory: Left wing comedian Bill Maher bashes liberals and their defense of Islam. I have never had good to speak of Maher, but he does show courage by dealing with this subject. His comments are inadvisable for your kids unless you are some kind of new-age progressive parent. (Video)

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Learning more about the victim of a beheading at a Moore warehouse

A Little On Victim Killed In Beheading Attack, Colleen Hufford   
"I wanted to post a bit about Mrs. Hufford. We’ve spent a lot of time talking about her killer, and that is necessary, to know what we fight.
"But we also need to take time and honor the life of the mother and grandmother he killed, Colleen Hufford.
"Unfortunately, there’s not a lot out there, and maybe that’s good for the privacy of her family. But here’s a local spot with a little bit about her."

Her home had been devastated by the Moore Tornado.

"Mrs Hufford, 54, was a mother and a grandmother, who had been married for 25 years, whose husband came to pick her up from work every night. They lost their home in the tornado in May.

"The second victim, Traci Johnson, 43, was released from the hospital today."

KOCO News  Video.

Bill Hayden • 6 minutes ago

Tragedy? Workplace violence? Have some courage, KOCO and be journalists! It was an act of Islamic terrorism and you are afraid to call it that because political correctness has sucked every ounce of courage out of the press.

TaterSalad • 2 hours ago

Democrats now have blood on their hands for coddling and permitting these barbarians to operate, not identifying them for what they really are as Muslim terrorists and caving into their demands at every turn so as to "not make them mad".
It now is time to place people like Eric Holder and Barack Obama on notice for not attacking this problem but giving Islam a platform to operate in America.

Will we be seeing Al Sharpton in Moore, Oklahoma? Today's posts on the Oklahoma beheading

If only the company had posted this sign...

Jah'Keem Yisrael and Protecting Muslim Sensibilities ... "And as shocking as a woman being beheaded in broad daylight is, what’s more horrifying is the fact that after she arrived in the morning in one piece and left in the afternoon zipped into a body bag, as usual the politically correct types seem to be more concerned with protecting Muslim sensibilities than acknowledging bloody jihad." ...

In wake of Oklahoma Muslim Beheader, Muslim Leaders Want Security Protection from “Islamophobia”

"This speaks volumes and is illustrative of the whole of the war. The reaction is never to look inward and reform the texts and teachings that spur millions of Muslims to wage jihad. No, the reaction — and it is always uniformly the same — is to attack the victim, to attack the defense, attack attack attack under the guise of victimhood."

 

 Oklahoma Beheader Linked to Al Qaeda Leader Awlaki, Boston Bomber's Mosque

... "Writing in the Jewish Advocate last year, columnist Charles Jacobs described Imam Webb as someone who “teaches vicious hatred and calls for young Muslims to engage in Jihad against non-Muslims in order to establish a global Islamic state.' ”

Beheading in the heartland    ... "No "nexus to terrorism"? How about being inspired by terrorists? Does that count as a terrorist attack? It would be amusing if it wasn't so tragic how authorities fall all over themselves, twisting their logic into pretzels, in trying to avoid using the term "terrorist" and "Islam" in the same sentence." ...

Childhood Friend of Alton 'Jah'Keem Yisrael' Nolen 'Not Surprised' By Beheading

... "Nolen's tendency to anger and violence was well-established. After his prison conversion to Islam, his anger and talk of violence were directed at unbelievers and America in general. His Facebook page is full of such rantings. He was active at at least one mosque in the area, and openly sympathized with terrorism. He believed women should be stoned for their transgressions and was in an argument about that at his workplace, apparently resulting in his being fired and leading to the horrific events. Such a mix of violent tendency with religious zeal has proved deadly before. It will again. For Kenneth Tucker's part, he thinks Nolen was bound to his path with or without Islam."

That may be, but Nolen's method of killing was definitely Islamic. TD

'How Can You Say It’s Not Islamic?’ Megyn Takes on Muslim Speaker Over Violence By Radical Islamists   ... "Ghouse, founder of World Muslim Congress, said that Islam does not teach violence, but that some Muslims do.

"Gabriel refuted that, saying that beheadings are strictly Islamic and are happening across the world by radicalized Muslims who are trying to emulate the prophet Muhammad." ...

 

The Facebook page of Oklahoma beheader, Alton Alexander Nolen. AKA: Jah’Keem Yisrael

Nolen goes by his Muslim name Jah’Keem Yisrael on Facebook, where his cover photo features several Taliban fighters.

Bare Naked Islam

 

He posts about the Muslim predilection for beheading. I apologize for this graphic entry on Nolen's Facebook page; The significant portion is the quote from the Koran in it. TD

BREAKING: Beheading Suspect Fired After Argument Over Stoning Women  "The Islamic Council of Oklahoma has stated that Nolen is "not known to any of the leadership in Oklahoma mosques," however the Facebook page reviewed and confirmed by the Gazette as his shows several photos of him interacting at "the Islamic Mosque in Oklahoma City.' "

On-the-job-injury; Woman beheaded at Oklahoma workplace

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Good thing this was not a no-firearms facility  "A man fired from an Oklahoma food processing plant beheaded a woman with a knife and was attacking another worker when he was shot and wounded by a company official, police said Friday.
...
 "Nolen allegedly stabbed , 54, severing her head, Lewis said.

"Yes, she was beheaded," Lewis told The Associated Press before a Friday news conference.

Lewis said Nolen then allegedly stabbed Traci Johnson, 43, a number of times before Mark Vaughan, a reserve sheriff's deputy and the company's chief operating officer, shot him.

"This was not going to stop if he didn't stop it. It could have gotten a lot worse," Lewis said. "The threat had already stopped once we arrived.' "

...
"Lewis said Nolen then allegedly stabbed Traci Johnson, 43, a number of times before Mark Vaughan, a reserve sheriff's deputy and the company's chief operating officer, shot him."

Reserve Deputy Sheriff Mark Vaughan.

FBI looking into suspect’s religious background after Oklahoma beheading, religious group condemns his actions   "Adam Soltani, the executive director of the Council on American Islamic Relations in Oklahoma, says Nolen’s actions are condemned by the Muslim community and his faith should not be connected to this horrific crime."

The 911 calls during the attacks

Weasel Zippers: "Media, Including HuffPo, TPM, Appear To Deliberately Leave Out The Muslim Connection In The Stories About Beheading In Oklahoma….Update: HuffPo, TPM Update Stories (After Our Story)"   "HuffPo is perhaps the most egregious in the missing info department. Here is the HuffPo story on motivation:

While the motive for the beheading is currently unclear, the Associate Press reported that the suspects and the victims only knew each other through work and were not involved outside of their jobs…Lewis [police sergeant] said his department has asked the FBI to look into Nolen’s background.

Off-Duty Cop Stops Beheading Attack by Shooting Suspect

Man Accused Of Oklahoma Beheading Has Muslim Greeting Tattooed On Abdomen
... "The Arabic message, essentially meaning “peace be upon you,” is used as a greeting by Muslims."

“I got goosebumps,” Man accused of beheading Oklahoma woman convicted of assaulting trooper in 2010  "A search of court records shows Nolen also has a criminal past, beginning with drug charges in 2006 and in 2009.
"In 2010, Nolen sparked a manhunt after being pulled over near Langston and assaulting a state trooper."

Local Muslims fear retribution   ... "Saad Mohammad, a spokesman for the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City, said leaders of the society’s mosque in northwest Oklahoma City are on alert and taking security precautions to protect the Muslims who gather there from any violence that someone might try to attempt in retaliation for the Moore incident.

"Mohammad said the anti-Muslim sentiments people may have could be heightened due to the beheadings and violence being perpetrated by the Islamic extremist group ISIS overseas.

“ 'They have this ISIS thing on their minds and now this guy has brought it to America,” Mohammad said." ...

Will Obama Cancel DNC Fundraiser in Wake of Heartland Beheading?     ... "Whether Obama plans to cancel his Friday fundraiser to make a public statement is presently unclear.

"Earlier this month, Obama told NBC News he regretted the "optics" surrounding his decision to go golfing just minutes after making a speech about the beheading of another American, journalist James Foley, who was beheaded by ISIS terrorists.

From Going Postal to Going ISIS   Legal Insurrection asks, "Are we entering the age of beheadings?"
"I would not be surprised if we see many more such beheadings by lone wolves motivated by ISIS-style ideology."

“On behalf of everyone at Vaughan Foods, we are shocked and deeply saddened by the events of today,” the company said in a statement issued yesterday.

Mark Vaughan: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

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Krauthammer: Our real Syria strategy — containment-plus

Charles Krauthammer   "Late, hesitant and reluctant as he is, President Obama has begun effecting a workable strategy against the Islamic State. True, he’s been driven there by public opinion. Does anyone imagine that without the broadcast beheadings we’d be doing anything more than pinprick strikes within Iraq? If Obama can remain steady through future fluctuations in public opinion, his strategy might succeed.

"But success will not be what he’s articulating publicly. The strategy will not destroy the Islamic State. It’s more containment-plus: Expel the Islamic State from Iraq, contain it in Syria. Because you can’t win from the air. In Iraq, we have potential ground allies. In Syria, we don’t." ...
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"Containment-plus. It’s the best of our available strategies. Obama must now demonstrate the steel to carry it through."

The Profound Stupidity of Liberalism on Display

Power Line  "The View is a television show that, apparently, a lot of women watch. Currently, Rosie O’Donnell, who was once famous for something–I have no idea what–is one of the hosts. Still, many women watch. So this video of The View’s women grappling with the Obama administration’s response to ISIS terrorism is noteworthy.

"I want to highlight O’Donnell’s contribution near the end: We are bombing Syria because Syria has so much oil, so there is a “financial incentive.” What the Hell is this supposed to mean? Why are liberals obsessed with oil? And what, exactly, is the “financial incentive”? Here is the clip, then some further comments:


"O’Donnell’s comments are astonishingly foolish. For one thing, Syria has very little oil: it produces less than 1/2 of 1% of the world’s petroleum. Whereas we, the United States, are the number one source of fossil fuel energy. And how would bombing ISIL give the U.S. access to more oil, at rates somehow cheaper than those at which we can develop our own endless petroleum resources? At over $1 million per Tomahawk missile, isn’t this doing it the hard way?" ...

Rosie O'Donnell: Another Leftist embarrassment in one ridiculous week  " In keeping with my contention that this was a pretty darned embarrassing week for Leftists, let me point out Rosie O'Donnell's sullen comments on her new revised View that the lust for oil and financial gain is at the bottom of O'bama's(sic) decision to bomb Syria.
"One problem.  
"Syria doesn't have much, um, oil.  
"In fact, as the Powerline blog  daddies point out, they provide one half of one percent of the world's oil, not to mention that the US sits on top of more oil than any other country if we'd only access it.  
" And then there's that problem if you bomb the oil wells, you're not going to get much oil out of it, eh.  
"So here she is, in all her glory." ...

Eric Holder's resignation (Updated)

UPDATE: Alan Caruba: Goodbye Eric Holder  ... "In the end, though, it seems like everything was about race for him and the President. Holder inserted himself into the Ferguson, Missouri, shooting of a black youth by a white police officer and, while the facts are still being investigated, the likelihood is that it was justifiable self-defense. And the President, speaking at the United Nations last week also mentioned Ferguson as an example of America’s racial bias. What happened in Ferguson was about law enforcement and justice, but neither saw it in that fashion.

"What America needs now for the remainder of Obama’s term in office is a colorblind Attorney General."

The Eric Holder Tragedy  "The resignation — if that’s what it is — of Attorney General Eric Holder signals the end of one of the most divisive tenures in the history of the cabinet. It was no doubt inevitable after Mr. Holder was determined, in a bi-partisan vote, to be in criminal contempt of the 112th United States House. He became the only sitting cabinet officer in history to be so found. He reacted to the contempt finding with more contempt. From that point on his tenure in office was unsustainable." ... Editorial of The New York Sun

 Who Will Replace Eric Holder?   "While NPR says that Solicitor General Don Verrilli is the frontrunner to replace Holder, here are two other names to put on your radar:"  Deval Patrick and Kamala Harris.

Al Sharpton Says He's Helping The White House Pick The Next Attorney General

" 'The resignation of Attorney General Eric Holder is met with both pride and disappointment by the Civil Rights community," he said. "We are proud that he has been the best Attorney General on Civil Rights in U.S. history and disappointed because he leaves at a critical time when we need his continued diligence most."

"According to a Politico profile in August, in the aftermath of the racially charged protests in Ferguson, Missouri, Sharpton has become Obama's "go-to man" on race issues." ...
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Sharpton sent a statement to Business Insider clarifying that he is not involved in the "decision making."
Via Lucianne

 

House Investigators: Holder Played Politics With the Law   “ 'Mr. Holder has consistently played partisan politics with many of the important issues facing the Justice Department,” Goodlatte said. “I hope that the next Attorney General will take seriously his role as the nation’s top law enforcement officer, working with Congress to ensure that the laws of our land are followed instead of being a roadblock on the path to justice.' ”

Sharpton In ‘Conversations’ To Choose Holder Successor   “ "We come to Washington to appeal to the Justice Department to set national law and to come in and deal with these cases,” said the longtime firebrand who participated in the 1987 Tawana Brawley hoax and the 1995 street agitation that ended with a fatal shooting and arson at a Harlem clothing store “There must be specific criminal investigation on excessive force in these cases,” Sharpton said." 

Holder's Exit Not Fast Or Furious Enough   ... "Holder was the first African-American to be named the nation's top cop, a welcome and poignant milestone in our troubled history.
"But to the nation's detriment, he proved a racialist and conducted himself in the most dishonest manner, enforcing the law for some groups and not for others. He injected politics into the law at every turn.
"He ranks among the worst attorneys general ever to serve. He's also one of the longest-serving, and the damage he's done may be lasting.
"Four years ago, we demanded President Obama sack his rogue attorney general, but he stood by him as he grew bolder in his activism and constitutional flouting."