No Joke: Obama HHS Secretary Praises Al Sharpton On MLK Day, “He’s Spent His Life Fighting For What’s Right”…

Weasel Zippers

“ 'Punk faggots” and the Jews lynched  in Crown Heights beg to differ."

Via Washington Examiner:

 Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Burwell on Monday morning praised Al Sharpton in a breakfast speech before his National Action Network.

“I’ve had the pleasure of knowing the Reverend for many years, and have worked with him from my time in the Clinton administration to my time at Walmart to now,” Burwell said, according to her prepared remarks.

After quoting Martin Luther King Jr., Burwell added, “Reverend Sharpton has spent his life fighting for what’s right, no matter how challenging. I want to thank you for your courage, tenacity and persistence.”

What exactly does Burwell have in mind as far as “fighting for what’s right”?

Does she think Sharpton was fighting for what’s right when he defamed a district attorney by falsely claiming the official had participated in the gang rape of a black teenager?

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Just say it: Radical Islam has declared war on all non-Muslim civilization

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Pat Condell:  Islam "Has Nothing To Do With Islam"

Drawing Mohammad Cartoons is the "Worst Act of Terrorism"? 

Al-Quds ‘University’ allows supporters of Hamas to teach students how to murder Jews at prayer (Video)

Jonah Goldberg:  The Left’s Islamophobia obsession shows the extent to which victimology dominates our politics.  . . . "Simply put, victimology is the language and currency of our politics. Fighting for victims is a calling and minting new victims and grievances is a trillion-dollar industry. Heroism, fidelity, courage, duty, temperance: Their stock value may be volatile but the long-term trends have been bad for a while. But guilt and resentment are the gold and silver of our realm, a perfect hedge against the civilizational recession.

"And so before the street-sweepers even put a dent in the discarded “Je Suis Charlie” signs, the media was already on the prowl for signs of Western overreaction. The New York Times editors warned that “perhaps the greatest danger in the wake of the attacks” was a backlash against Muslim immigrants." . . .

An Islamic Reformation?   . . . "Without a centralized authority to say who can speak for the religion and who cannot, Sunni Islam developed more like reform Protestantism than traditional Catholicism.  Pretty much any Muslim with a Koran can claim to be an imam, and pretty much any room can serve as a mosque." 

Millions stand for free speech—and the media is still afraid

"Coverage of the attacks on Charlie Hebdo in Paris this month may be about spun out, but questions regarding media censorship of the attacks, the cover of Charlie Hebdo, and Obama’s absence from the Paris unity march rage on.
"On Meet the Press this weekend, Chuck Todd spoke with the new editor of Charlie Hebdo, Gerard Biard, about American media outlets’ decision to blur out the cover of the satirical magazine." ...

ObamaCare slaps states with $15 billion in new costs

Galen Institute . . . "Punishing states for using Medicaid managed care is yet another ObamaCare attack on private health plans.

"According to the Milliman report, Florida could face added costs of up to $1.4 billion over the next ten years to fund ObamaCare, Pennsylvania, $1.3 billion, and Texas, $1.1 billion.  Tennessee, where Medicaid recipients are fully enrolled in managed care, could face added costs of $731 million over that time.  Maryland will need to come up with $680 million, and Louisiana with $787 million.  States that don’t contract with Medicaid managed care plans will not have to pay.

"The tax is due regardless of whether or not a state decides to expand Medicaid.  The worst decision would be to scrap their Medicaid managed care plans to avoid this new ObamaCare tax.  This is one more example why the best solution is to eradicate all of the ObamaCare taxes — along with the rest of the law."

 

The Galen Institute, Inc., is a not-for-profit, free-market research organization devoted exclusively to health policy. It was founded in 1995 by Grace-Marie Turner to promote a more informed public debate over individual freedom, consumer choice, competition, and diversity in the health sector.

"Selma": more windfall profits for Reverend Al

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Alan Caruba:  Al Sharpton Seeing Red Over All-White Oscars . . . "This is the same man who has been rubbing elbows lately with the President of the United States (!) and hailed as a civil rights icon at a recent fund-raising event by New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo. Obama hailed him for his “dedication to the righteous cause of perfecting our union”, whatever that means. As The Times reported, “Major corporations sponsored the lavish affair.”

 

"There is the reek of corruption surrounding Rev. Sharpton that speaks poorly of the high ranked politicians who lend him credibility and the corporations that help underwrite his blatant exploitation of racial events such as those in Ferguson, Missouri. It does not speak well of MSNBC that has provided him with a television show as a platform devoted to stirring up resentment among blacks."
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Mr. Caruba crystallizes his thoughts on this affair with these words:

I have reached an age where the analysis of every event in American life seems to come down to race, gender or some other factor often unrelated to what is occurring. We are too often a nation of unrelenting complainers unwilling to see what a great nation it is.

I can only speak for myself when I say I am deeply offended by the antics of Rev. Sharpton because he’s unhappy this year’s Oscar nominees are “white.” Last time I checked, not paying your taxes was a crime.

Oh, by the way, I will not be watching the Oscar awards. Other than the State of the Union speech, it is one of the most boring annual shows on television.

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Branco Cartoon – Hands Up, Wallets Out

 I give this next one a must-read as well:

Roger Simon; Oscar Report: Al Sharpton Calls Me a Racist!  "Maybe it’s actually a badge of honor — after all Sharpton himself makes Bull Connor seem like Martin Luther King — but the Rev Al has called me a racist because I am one of those (white!) Academy members who did not vote for Selma as an Oscar nominee.  I cannot tell a lie.  He’s right.  Not only that, I did not vote for the movie for screenplay either, the only other category for which I can nominate, since I am in the writers branch. "
. . .
"But I have bad news for Al.  I’m not going to pay him one penny to get one of his pseudo-papal absolutions saying I’m not really a racist (even though I was in the civil rights movement and a financial backer of the Black Panthers, to my ever-lasting shame)." . . .

US foreign policy vicars: a ship of fools.

 

No Room for Parody   "I was sound asleep when the phone rang and so I cannot be absolutely sure the conversation was not a dream, but it seemed real enough.

“ 'Hello,” the caller began. “My name is Mr. Mensch, I am president of the Parodists of the World, professional comedy writers, and we want to engage you in a suit against the administration for tortious interference with our livelihood.”

“ 'What exactly are you alleging, I mean specifics?” I responded.
He then launched into a litany of grievances against the administration which the Parodists claimed had made it impossible for them to continue making a living."... Read more:




 Thomas Lifson:  Worst. State Department. Ever.
"The State Department has been infiltrated. Not as much by communists or Islamists, but by morons.

"The Obama State Department has not only been downgraded to an afterthought, as foreign policy is controlled by a White House national security cabal that includes Valerie Jarrett and Ben Rhodes, it has been staffed by people who deeply humiliate us on the world stage.
A pictorial walk down memory lane:" . . .Read more: