John 14:6 For Dummies

Prof. Mike Adams "...I was taken aback by my old friend Neal Boortz’ somewhat harsh treatment of a man who called his show some months ago and quoted John 14:6 as evidence that Christianity is the only path to heaven. Of course, Neal isn’t a pastor and he tends to do things just to get a rise out of people. So his comments weren’t nearly as objectionable as Joel Osteen’s sidestepping of the “How many paths to heaven?” question on Larry King Live a few years ago."

What’s at stake in America’s battle over free enterprise.

Arthur C. Brooks   "We also need policies that weaken the free-enterprise system by lowering the rewards it brings to the winners as well as the consequences to the losers. As candidate Obama famously told Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher — “Joe the Plumber” — on the campaign trail in October 2008, “I think when you spread the wealth around it’s good for everybody.” Adherents to this philosophy believe that the best ways to meet their objectives are forced income redistribution, expansion of the state, or both. This is why the landmark policy initiatives of the past year — from health-care reform to financial-market regulation — have had bigger government and rising income redistribution at their core. Bureaucracy and taxes are not incidental to these policies, and not a mere cost of doing business; they are part of what many of our leaders seek to create and what they see as a better, fairer America." 
   Arthur C. Brooks is president of the American Enterprise Institute and author of the new book The Battle: How the Fight Between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America’s Future.

The Turkish Government as Global Arbiter of Ethnic Violence

Victor Davis Hanson   " At this point, it doesn’t much matter — as this latest hysterical reaction reminds us, much of the world not only sides with Israel’s enemies but sides with them to such a degree as to suggest that, in any existential moment to come, the world either will be indifferent or will be on the side of Israeli’s enemies. Quite frightening, when you think of it."
Cartoon by Lisa Benson

The Republican Retreat on Health Care

National Review "Republicans ought to be seizing on each revelation to press the case for repealing Obamacare. It is, after all, the worst law the Democrats have enacted on Obama’s watch; and it is also the GOP’s best issue in this year’s elections. Instead Republicans have largely allowed the Democrats to switch the subject from their unpopular health-care legislation to financial regulation, oil spills, and immigration. They have been reacting to the news instead of trying to make it."

16 illegals sue Arizona rancher

Washington Times "An Arizona man who has waged a 10-year campaign to stop a flood of illegal immigrants from crossing his property is being sued by 16 Mexican nationals who accuse him of conspiring to violate their civil rights when he stopped them at gunpoint on his ranch on the U.S.-Mexico border. Roger Barnett, 64, began rounding up illegal immigrants in 1998 and turning them over to the U.S. Border Patrol, he said, after they destroyed his property, killed his calves and broke into his home. "
Yet another reconquista photo album the MSM won’t print   Hat tip: Neal Boortz

NOW IS OUR CHANCE TO NATIONALIZE THE OIL INDUSTRY

Neal Boortz "What is Reich snorting? "This is the only way the public will know what's going on?" From government? From the Obama administration? Really?
"There is so much wrong with this leftist footstool's statement it's hard to know where to begin; but as to the public knowing what's really going on if the feds take over, just remember this: The government can legally lie to you. You cannot legally lie to the government."
CAPTURED IN SARASOTA, FL  Great car sign.

Feds open criminal probe of oil spill

Washington Times "Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. revealed the criminal and civil probes into the BP oil-rig disaster just hours after President Obama vowed that government investigators would conduct a "full and vigorous accounting" of the still-uncapped spill. The president also ordered the oil giant to compensate those whose livelihoods have been harmed."

New Iran sanctions more likely, or less, after nuclear bomb report?

Christian Science Monitor  " “I think this new report should have the effect of strengthening the determination of the council to proceed to tougher sanctions,” says James Phillips, a Mideast expert at the Heritage Foundation in Washington. “But now it seems that with this incident with the not-so-peaceful flotilla, the vote may be pushed back – and we could even see some sanctions in [the resolution] stripped out.”"

News Analysis: Four Days That Shook DADT

Mertro Weekly "In the 96 hours between Monday morning, May 24, and Thursday evening, May 27, America may have seen the most deft legislative accomplishment of the Obama administration thus far.
It began Monday morning, when the White House first got the senior leaders of the Pentagon and the advocacy organizations seeking to end the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy to make significant compromises about the end of the policy. Second, the White House helped move congressional leaders in both chambers to consent to compromise language and introduce the resulting legislation." H/t to Volokh Conspiracy.

In Israeli Army, Gays Are 'No Big Deal'  Just trying to make sense of all this.

Obama doesn’t have a clue

Dick Morris "Meanwhile, the nation watches nervously as the same policies Obama has brought to our nation are failing badly and publicly in Europe. When Moody’s announces that it is considering downgrading bonds issued by the government of the United States of America, we find ourselves, suddenly, in deep trouble. We have had deficits before. But never have they so freaked investors that a ratings agency considered lowering its opinion of our solvency. Not since Alexander Hamilton assumed the states’ Revolutionary War debt has America’s willingness and ability to meet its financial obligations been as seriously questioned."

The Problem with Playing Defense

Noah Pollak "Quite a performance! Wouldn't it be remarkable if the Israelis had gotten ahead of the story by making their own accusations and demands? Here are a few ideas of the kind of concrete action the Israelis could take -- if they had the stones to really take a stand."...Noah Pollak is assistant editor of the Middle East Quarterly.

Toomey Stands with Israel  "It is time to stand up for Israel and to examine the records of candidates as to how they’ve addressed Israeli security needs and the condemnation of the “international community” when Israel must defend itself."

Post-American Obama, Watch the Video of the Jewish Soldiers Being Savagely Beaten by Turk Jihadists

Atlas Shrugs "I asked John Bolton for his take on it. He said, "How Obama reacts in the UN Security Council and more generally will say a lot about his views on Israel." You gotta love how post-American Obama was so quick to call policeman James Crowley "stupid," motivated by racism in the Gates affair, but when Jewish soldiers are getting beaten to a pulp, the Obama administration morally equivocated and "condemned those acts which resulted in the loss of life." What the hell does that even mean? "