Al Sharpton is MSNBC

Sharpton Becomes Full-Time MSNBC Anchorman  "Sharpton's public demagoguery helped feed a mob mentality that had lethal consequences in Crown Heights, Brooklyn (1991) and in Harlem at Freddy's Fashion Mart (1995). Sharpton to this day refuses to apologize for these and other campaigns. His credibility as a journalist should be questioned on that basis."

NYT: MSNBC “a Nonstop Lecture on Liberal Values”

"I suggest Mr. Sharpton crack open the Bible he so often stands on to bear false witness against his neighbor, incite riots, and exploit the suffering of the poor. This is a man of God? Not even the ladies of “The View” buy this, as they didn’t with the Duke Lacrosse case."

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Sharpton’s Debut: The Reviews Are In and It’s Not Pretty  "Sharpton himself made it clear to the audience that this is what his show was going to be about. So we have a good year ahead of us leading up to election day with a nightly assault on conservatives by none other than the most successful race-baiting defamer available, Al Sharpton."

Al Sharpton's new MSNBC show 'PoliticsNation' isn't worth watching. Yet.  "If he can ever become comfortable on-camera and expand his horizons, Sharpton may eventually bring to MSNBC the combination of intellect and passion that has made so many of his press conferences over the years little wonders of argument, controversy, hype, entertainment, and enlightenment. Whether he’ll ever reach that point on PoliticsNation remains to be seen. Or, depending on the ratings, not seen at all."

Today, in 1939, World War II began with Germany’s invasion of Poland.

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Invasion of Poland, Fall 1939  "On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. From East Prussia and Germany in the north and Silesia and Slovakia in the south, German units, with more than 2,000 tanks and over 1,000 planes, broke through Polish defenses along the border and advanced on Warsaw in a massive encirclement attack. After heavy shelling and bombing, Warsaw surrendered to the Germans on September 27, 1939. Britain and France, standing by their guarantee of Poland's border, had declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939. The Soviet Union invaded eastern Poland on September 17, 1939."

This followed the British-French appeasment of Hitler over Czechoslovakia  A dark day in the annals of pacifism and its consequences.  But here is a defense of Chamberlain's pacifism.

However Chamberlain's spine stiffened after Germany invaded Poland and he declared war. Many overlook this side of the man, but it was almost too little, too late. As it is almost always with anti-war democracies.  Can there be a parallel with Iran today?

Introduction to the Holocaust  "In the aftermath of the Holocaust, many of the survivors found shelter in displaced persons (DP) camps administered by the Allied powers. Between 1948 and 1951, almost 700,000 Jews emigrated to Israel, including 136,000 Jewish displaced persons from Europe. Other Jewish DPs emigrated to the United States and other nations. The last DP camp closed in 1957. The crimes committed during the Holocaust devastated most European Jewish communities and eliminated hundreds of Jewish communities in occupied eastern Europe entirely."

Introduction to the Holocaust — Historical Film Footage

Obama Just Found Media’s Limit

Commentary Magazine  "At the Washington Post, James Downie reviews the minor kerfuffle blow by blow, and can’t quite believe what he’s seeing:"

•If the White House has spent months working to appear above the partisan fray – as they insist they have – then pulling a blatantly partisan stunt like this torpedoes all of that PR work.

•Pretending the timing was a coincidence has backfired with the press and pundits. Did the White House really think, when it sent Jay Carney to his press briefing, that people would swallow his line that the timing was “coincidental”?

•In the aftermath of the announcement, the narrative of the afternoon on cable news ran in part that the White House had not cleared the date with the speaker, with some outlets suggesting that Boehner’s office had only been given 15 minutes notice. If true, the White House was disrespectful and should rightly be admonished.

Krauthammer: Let’s face it, Boehner should have let Obama speak on the night of the GOP debate  "Simple logic: When your opponent’s in the process of making a mistake, get out of his way. Krauthammer’s theory is that letting The One address Congress that night would have made him look petty (or rather, pettier than usual) while setting up the GOP field for a sweet Obama pile-on at the debate immediately afterwards."

Shelby Steele: Obama and the Burden of Exceptionalism   "Post-'60s liberals, with the president as their standard bearer, seek to make a virtue of decline."

"But then again, the American people did elect him. Clearly Americans were looking for a new kind of exceptionalism in him (a black president would show America to have achieved near perfect social mobility). But were they also looking for—in Mr. Obama—an assault on America’s bedrock exceptionalism of military, economic and cultural pre-eminence?"

The global warming debate

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/michaelramirez

Proof that Al Gore is right about global warming!

"The south polar ice cap of Mars is receding, revealing frosty mountains, rifts and curious dark spots."

Actual proof!

Where are the 2.5 Million Jobs, Mr. President?

Karin McQuillan  "We sat down together at the internet and did a Google search, 'stimulus job creation.'

"We found out where the number 2.5 million jobs' created or saved' comes from. It comes from a formula. The formula comes from a theory. The formula says that for every dollar the government spends, 1.5 dollars' worth of economic activity is generated, and presto, jobs come out. The economic geniuses working for Obama want us to believe that by definition, since they spent almost a trillion dollars in 'stimulus', they automatically created 2.4 million jobs. This is called the multiplier effect. "

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"The 2.5 million jobs are invisible because they don't exist. The suffering of my relatives and friends and that of 25 million unemployed Americans is real, and increasingly desperate. It's time to follow the success in job creation of Republican states such as Wisconsin and Texas, and drop the unsuccessful ideas of this wastrel White House. Please, Mr. President, we can't afford another 2.5 million of your phoney jobs."

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Life under Democrats: Food Regulators Out of Control

Heritage  "First Lady Michelle Obama’s obsession with “childhood obesity” has bothered many since it began two years ago, especially those who think that White House nagging of parents should be reserved for more pressing issues. Now it is getting more serious, with food regulators starting to infringe on the free speech rights of advertisers."....

"As Katz wrote, “Nutritional staples such as Cheerios, peanut butter, and yogurt are verboten under the proposed standards, which effectively constitute a government-regulated grocery list.”

"The regulations hit traditional favorites where it hurts. In turn, the free market and consumer choice is manipulated to fit a misplaced government agenda that doesn’t solve the problem."

President Obama’s Regulatory Dust-Up

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Obama’s Tour of Denial and Blame   "It’s being billed as a listening tour—a three-state journey across the Midwest where President Barack Obama will hear directly from Americans about the economy and talk about his ideas for job growth. Instead, though, it has the characteristics of a political campaign swing, and the rhetoric the President has brought along for the ride is marked by a desperate effort to blame someone other than himself for America’s economic woes."

Regulatory Cost Battle Flares Anew Between Obama, House GOP  "In fact, a tally of regulatory cost ranges identified by Obama has a high-end total of $105 billion for four rules administered by the Environmental Protection Agency, and another $5 billion for regulations that would be administered by the Department of Transportation. The most expensive regulation on Obama’s list, dealing with health hazards from smog, is estimated to cost the economy between $19 billion and $90 billion."

Why Al Qaeda is Unlikely to Execute Another 9/11

STRATFOR  "It must be remembered that simple terrorist attacks are relatively easy to conduct, especially if the assailant is not concerned about escaping after the attack. As jihadist groups such as AQAP have noted in their online propaganda, a determined person can conduct attacks using a variety of simple weapons, from a pickup truck to a knife, axe or gun. Jihadist ideologues have repeatedly praised Nidal Hassan and have pointed out that jihadists operating with modest expectations and acting within the scope of their training and capability can do far more damage than operatives who try to conduct big, ambitious attacks that they lack the basic skills to complete."

But whatever terrorists do, there will be many who will insist the US government was actually the cause of it.

'Al-Qaeda jihadist animation targets children' 

 "The cartoon was posted on al-Shamouk, a genuine al-Qaeda-linked Web forum. But, Kohlmann and others note, it didn’t come through the official media arm of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, known as AQAP. "It didn’t even come from a well-known figure within the group.

Forums like Shamouk are basically huge bulletin boards, making it relatively easy for anyone to contribute."

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"Raisman said they’re pleased that the cartoon has inspired fears about the recruitment of children. 

"They are also probably quite happy for the publicity."

Doesn't this poster make you want to blow up an airplane?