Lebanese Minister Wiam Wahhab... : "I Like the Germans in the World Cup because They Burned the Jews"

Atlas Shrugs "How long is the world going to sanction this evil? How many Jews have to be annihilated?"

Anti-Business Obama

Heritage  "Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said this week:

Now, this president understands deeply that governments don’t create jobs, businesses create jobs. And our job as government is to try to make sure we’re creating the conditions that allow businesses to prosper so they can hire people back, get this economy going again.

"In reality, this President has done the exact opposite. He has attempted to use government spending to create jobs, failed miserably, and has only succeeded in creating an environment where businesses — the real job creators — are afraid to put America back to work."

Speaking of screwing up economies: Obama on Vegas: 'I love this town'  "The president never apologized, and while [Las Vegas Mayor]Goodman says he doesn't "hold any grudges," he declined to meet with the president while he was in town, citing a scheduling conflict.
"I checked my schedule; it was full," Goodman told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. "I'm meeting with Wayne Newton at 5 — that has been set up for over a week."  Plus he had a lot of laundry to fold.

Photo: http://www.hudin.com/blog/damn_the_baboons/

The Selective Modesty of Barack Obama

Charles Krauthammer , NRO   "Notice, too, how Obama habitually refers to cabinet members and other high-level government officials as “my” — “my secretary of homeland security,” “my national security team,” “my ambassador.” The more normal — and respectful — usage is to say “the,” as in “the secretary of state.” These are, after all, public officials sworn to serve the nation and protect the Constitution — not just the man who appointed them.
"It’s a stylistic detail, but quite revealing of Obama’s exalted view of himself. Not surprising, perhaps, in a man whose major achievement before acceding to the presidency was writing two biographies — both about himself.
"Obama is not the first president with a large streak of narcissism. But the others had equally expansive feelings about their country. Obama’s modesty about America would be more understandable if he treated himself with the same reserve. But it is odd to have a president so convinced of his own magnificence — yet not of his own country’s."  Rush commented on this today.

Obama v. Arizona

Weekly Standard  "In fact, the Obama administration goes so far as to assert that S.B. 1070 prevents it from getting tough on truly nasty illegal immigrants: "S.B. 1070 disrupts federal enforcement priorities and resources that focus on aliens who pose a threat to national security or public safety ... undermin[ing] the federal government's careful balance of immigration enforcement policies and objectives."
"But that line of argument wholly misses the point. When courts decide whether federal law preempts state law, the question is not whether the state law conflicts with the president's selective enforcement of federal statutes. The question is whether the state law "stands as an obstacle to the accomplishment ... of the full purposes and objectives of Congress," as embodied by the federal statutes. S.B. 1070 satisfies that test – it does nothing more than allow state officials to enforce Congress's purposes and objectives as expressed in current federal statutes." Emphasis added.

Obama’s New Take on Partisanship

Victor Davis Hanson "President Obama’s falling approval ratings are not just due to ineptness on the Gulf oil spill, the economy, and the war, but also to a growing perception of abject hypocrisy and lack of character. The disjunction between Senator Obama and President Obama explains a great deal of why he cannot convince either his opposition or the public as a whole that he will ever quite be sincere about anything."

Do the States Have the Power of Nullification?

Volokh Conspiracy "In a recently published book, Nullification, author Tom Woods maintains that states have a power to nullify laws that exceed the powers of Congress to enact."...."Political activists should not waste their precious energies on sketchy constitutional theories such as the assertion of a state power to nullify unconstitutional laws that, for better or worse, have long been rejected by the Supreme Court–as Wisconsin’s was in Ableman v. Booth–that five justices certainly would not today support, and that rest on dubious claims about original meaning."

Useful Idiots

Big Journalism

What is a Useful Idiot?  I never get tired of explaining this.

Lucianne

Ann Coulter vs. Bill Kristol: Beginnings of a Conservative Schism?

Politics Daily "Until now, there has been somewhat of an unspoken rule, adhered to by most on the right, that conservative Republicans would vigorously oppose Obama's liberal domestic policies while supporting his efforts to win in Afghanistan. After all, Republicans had staunchly backed George W. Bush when he made the case for fighting al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. Changing course now would seem craven -- playing politics with national security. And so, in foreign policy, Obama was criticized from the right only when he appeared to be showing weakness, not when he displayed toughness."
 The length of this war is not of our choosing; we will be fighting al Qaeda and their allies for the next few decades somewhere as long as they want to kill Americans wholesale. Israel's half-century struggle against those who desire to wipe them off the face of the earth is certainly not Israel's choice.
Presently we are fighting them in a region that has nuclear weapons terrorists would love to possess.

The Ground Zero mosque; a contrary view

American Thinker "For Americans to publicly shame and censure the proponents of the mosque project is appropriate, for it is a truly tasteless and shameless act;, but to try and use the power of the STATE to prevent the shameless display is EXACTLY what the government of a [third] world dictatorship would do."  Arthur Koenig  This is what you called reasoned, non-political debate.

Cartoon via Warning Signs.

This is how the brilliant one thinks?

American Thinker "This elitist who's "brilliance" is continually touted by the Main Stream Media, is incapable of thinking that those who either disagree or distrust him could possibly have any reason beyond his middle name or the pigmentation of his skin."

Israelis Are Racists, and Besides, Some of My Best Political Hacks Are Jews  "And given his lack of sympathy for the Jewish state, one wonders just how much advanced notice would be advisable for Israel to give to the U.S. if it were compelled to attack Iran because the U.S. refuses to do so." Jennifer Rubin

Elena Kagan’s ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ Sharia Policy

Andrew C. McCarthy "I wonder if Elena Kagan knows about Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani.  Ms. Ashtiani is about to be stoned. That’s where they bury you up to your chest and hurl rocks at you until you die." ...."During her a stint at the Clinton White House, we now know, Ms. Kagan struck the pose of a champion of women’s rights — at least if you weren’t an unborn girl. So fierce was her devotion to the cause of “reproductive freedom” that she subverted science in the service of abortion on demand — specifically, to preserve the partial-birth abortion procedure, which exceeds even stoning in its ghastliness. She then went on to Harvard Law School where, as dean, she became the champion of sharia."

Gets reprieve?

The Obama-Pelosi Lame Duck Strategy

WSJ  "That's why there have been signs in recent weeks that party leaders are planning an ambitious, lame-duck session to muscle through bills in December they don't want to defend before November. Retiring or defeated members of Congress would then be able to vote for sweeping legislation without any fear of voter retaliation." John Fund.

"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." - Thomas Jefferson  Via Boortz.
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Wall Street Bails Out on Obama

Townhall  "In all of Barack Obama's campaign speeches, you would have to search high and low to find him blaming buyers who bought a home that was beyond their means, buyers who made no down payment or buyers who lied about their income. He never blamed the reckless use of adjustable-rate mortgages that contained interest rates that would soon be beyond their means. " Donald Lambro is chief political correspondent for The Washington Times.


 

States Fight Back Against Federal Tyranny and Abuse

David Limbaugh "If that isn't bad enough, get this: It extends way beyond road projects. The logos are also being required, for example, on police and fire vehicles acquired by cities in part with stimulus funds.
States are also fighting back through their state officials. Arizona state Sen. Russell Pearce is incensed over the Obama administration's "outrageous" and bogus lawsuit against the state of Arizona over its perfectly legitimate effort to protect its border and citizens. ...
 "... It's outrageous, what (the administration is) doing. This is about an agenda. This is a president that is acting like a dictator. This is a president who is ignoring the rule of law and siding with lawbreakers over the citizens of this country and the citizens of this state while damage is being conducted every single day. Every single day!" "

Judges Reject White House's Drilling Ban Request

WSJ   "The three-judge panel ruled that Interior Secretary Ken Salazar didn't prove the U.S. would suffer irreparable harm without an immediate ban on exploratory drilling in deep waters."The secretary has failed to demonstrate a likelihood of irreparable injury if the stay is not granted," reads the panel's decision, issued late Thursday shortly after the panel heard arguments from both sides in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans." Via Heritage. Emphasis added.