O'Reilly Obama Interview Shows That President Still Hasn't Changed Course

Fox News "On the revolution sweeping Egypt and other Middle Eastern capitals, President Obama still cannot articulate what U.S. interests are and how he will use tools available to him to advance those interests.
"This could be as easy as saying, "we stand with those seeking democracy, we insist that the dictator of Egypt leave, and we will oppose and work against the Islamists who want an even worse alternative to existing repression."
"Instead, Mr. Obama seemed again to reprise the role of the litigator-in-chief who took three months in 2009 to respond to an urgent request for more troops from our military commander in Afghanistan, and who refused to support democracy forces in Iran as they took to the streets in 2009 and again last year.
"When asked directly by O’Reilly if the Muslim Brotherhood is a threat to the U.S., the president responded:

“I think the Muslim Brotherhood is one faction in Egypt, but they are well organized there are strains of their ideology that are anti-U.S.”

Big Lie in Bill O’Reilly’s Obama Interview: The Muslim Brotherhood Has Only One Strain, An Islamic Supremacist Virus  "Perhaps the President has forgotten that the Muslim Brotherhood spawned the terrorist organization Hamas. Perhaps he skipped over the senior London-based Muslim Brotherhood leader Muhammad Ghanem’s statement to Iran’s Arabic-language news station, Al-Alam, that the Egyptian people “should be prepared for war against Israel.”
"Backing Ghanem’s stance, Muslim Brotherhood deputy leader in Egypt Rashad al-Bayoumi later told Japan’s NHK TV that a new provisional government, presumably including Muslim Brotherhood participants, should dissolve the 30 year old peace treaty with Israel. Is war against Israel one of those “strains” of the Muslim Brotherhood’s ideology that President Obama is willing to accept? How about their call for the immediate closing of the Suez Canal?"
Please refer to the Mike Ramirez deer-in-the-headlights cartoon below.

The 1099 Repudiation; A revealing debate over one of Washington's dumbest ideas..

Wall Street Journal  "Less than a year ago, liberals couldn't see how anyone could possibly object to a rule requiring businesses to file 1099 tax forms with the Internal Revenue Service every time they spent more than $600 with a single vendor. Yes, this would result in a vast new paperwork and accounting burden for 30 million businesses and hit start-ups hardest, not to mention farms, charities and churches. But Democrats saw IRS surveillance of nearly all business-to-business transactions as merely an exercise in good government."

Afghan Red Cross worker with one leg set to be hanged for conversion to Christianity

Rick Moran  "An Afghan physiotherapist will be executed within three days for converting to Christianity.
"Said Musa, 45, has been held for eight months in a Kabul prison were he claims he has been tortured and sexually abused by inmates and guards."....
"He claims he was visited by a judge who told him he would be hanged within days unless he converted back to Islam.
"But he remains defiant and said he would be willing to die for his faith.
"He told the Sunday Times: 'My body is theirs to do what they want with.
'Only God can decide if my spirit goes to hell.'"

Ramirez on Egypt and Obama

http://townhall.com/cartoons/michaelramirez

Clueless on Cairo

Victor Davis Hanson  "What do I derive from all this? Hillary was right about her 3AM slur, and Obama is acting as any 2-year Senate veteran might in such a crisis. There is no consistent support from the left for democracy movements overseas. Strongmen like Gaddafi, Ahmadinejad, and Assad are weirdly seen as either untouchable or genuine in a way a Mubarak or a Jordanian king is not. And the latter are vulnerable only when it looks like they may fail; if they seem stable, we hear not a peep from Obama about their human rights records."

http://townhall.com/cartoons/EricAllie/



ElBaradei explains the worth of peace agreements with Muslims: Israel Has Peace Agreement With Mubarak, Not Egypt

Shawarma Mayor  "“At the moment, they have a peace treaty with Mubarak, but not one with the Egyptian people,” El Baradei said. “The Israelis should understand that it is in their long-term interest to have a democratic Egypt as a neighbor, and that it is prudent to acknowledge the legitimate interests of the Palestinians and to grant them their own state.”"

 

Senate Fort Hood report whitewashes Obama's culpability

Error Theory "The Fort Hood massacre itself also suggests that Obama's counter-terrorism "back off" command extended to all Muslims. It came out in November 2009 that agents dropped their Nidal Hasan investigation because they deemed his communications with al Qaeda leader Awlaki to be protected speech:"

U.S. officials now confirm Hasan sent as many as 20 e-mails to Awlaki. Authorities intercepted the e-mails but later deemed them innocent or protected by the first amendment.

Fox Ran 'John 3:16' Ad During Super Bowl XLV After All, At Least in Washington, D.C. Market

Newsbusters  "The ad, sponsored by the Fixed Point Foundation, was "originally rejected by Fox Sports for containing too much 'religious doctrine' and for being too offensive," Nathan Black of The Christian Post noted this morning. Like Grossman, Black had no explanation from the Fox officials as to why they changed their minds."
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Rich Terrell: One million electric cars on the road by 2015

http://terrellaftermath.com/: Making the Tunnel Wall look great since 2011.

Christina Aguilera completely screwed up the National Anthem

Neal Boortz  "Now .. having said that ... let's add that The Star Spangled Banner is a hideous song and damned near impossible to sing even if you DO remember the words. We need a new national anthem --- and don't act like we would be changing hundreds of years of history here; this un-singable song was only made our National Anthem in 1931."....

"Oh sure .. the "God shed his grace on thee" line will give the whiners and the ACLU something to scream about. After all, the "G" word isn't mentioned in our present anthem. But isn't it about time we told the ACLU to go pound sand anyway?"

Why Christina Aguilera’s National Anthem Struck a Nerve  "Aguilera issued a statement last night about her version saying “I got so caught up in the moment of the song that I lost my place. I can only hope that everyone could feel my love for this country and that the true spirit of its anthem still came through.”"

Christina Aguilera and Groupon followed in the footsteps of Janet Jackson with an embarrassing fluff at the Super Bowl  "Messing with the national anthem is no laughing matter – just ask Rosanne Barr, who caused national uproar with a ghastly version she performed before a baseball game in 1990 and has never been able to live it down."  UK Guardian

GOP eyes rules that firms say hurt jobs

Washington Post  "The Post reviewed more than 200 letters and reports that businesses sent to Issa targeting regulations across the federal government. The rules under scrutiny include familiar issues suchas greenhouse gas emissions, health-care reform and the landmark Wall Street overhaul. But the committee also will examine more obscure regulations. For instance, makers of some cleaning products that remove mold and mildew have asked the committee to reconsider rules that require their products to be registered as pesticides under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act. " Keeping in mind that the Post is a liberal, Democrat-supporting publication, here is their next sentence: "Among those pushing for changes are some of Washington's most powerful interest groups."

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Comedy central: Waxman whacks 'fishing expeditions'  "Nobody was laughing, though, when Upton added that under Waxman's leadership, the committee failed to convene a single hearing on Obamacare. "During the months following passage of the bill, the American people were subjected to rising premiums, increased costs, employers that were considering ending their health care coverage, unpopular policies secretly inserted into regulations without public comment, insurers exiting the market altogether, and the need to exempt many businesses from the disastrous effects of the PPACA. Yet this committee remained silent." Clearly, Upton doesn't know that was when Waxman was off on a real fishing expediti"

Egyptian Opposition Says Talks Were 'Positive' But 'Inconclusive'

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty   "Experts on the ground, however, say the Muslim Brotherhood is not the radical group it is often made out to be.
"Elizabeth Arrott, the head of Voice of America's bureau in Cairo, said the group has quieted down in recent years.
""I think that a lot of people, when they immediately hear about the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, think of Hamas and, eventually, Al-Qaeda, which are indeed offshoots of the original organization, which started here in Egypt,” she said. “After, there was a fair amount of violence by members, however, the general group here has turned into much more of a social movement." Could these be the same people who said Obama was a centrist?
And here: Egyptian opposition demands Mubarak step down, parliament removed, fair elections held  Via GlobalSecurity.org

Obama: Egyptians Won't Permit a Repressive Government to Fill Mubarak Void  ""What I want is a representative government in Egypt and I have confidence that if Egypt moves in an orderly transition process, they will have a government in Egypt that will work together with us" as partners, Obama said from the White House..." And you can keep your doctor and current health care plan and your taxes won't go up one dime and...

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California Cap and Trade Tripped Up By Pollution Rhetoric

Heritage  "And this past December, much to the delight of many environmentalists, CARB passed the first carbon cap-and-trade scheme in the United States. Everything looked ready to go … until a San Francisco Superior Court judge issued a ruling, just made public last week, that, if made final, would stop CARB from implementing its plan. The plaintiffs in the suit? The Center on Race, Poverty, and the Environment."
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