Cracking Chris Short It is embarrassing to read comments and columns that have been done at a high-school level as far as quality goes. This is private and just between us conservatives: write as if you have some education so your opinions will be respected.
"E-mail is a(sic)* probably the most overused form of communication out there today. It is also probably one of the most poorly used communication methods on the planet. Here is a quick rundown on how not to look like a moron via e-mail."
*Irony alert.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Monday, November 15, 2010
Ted Koppel’s Delusions About TV News
Ron Radosh "It was true that back then, the networks tried to pretend to be non-partisan and objective. They forbade their employees, for example, to attend anti-war marches even if they were completely partisan and on the movement’s side. An old friend of mine was a top producer in those years for 60 Minutes, and she recently told me of her conversations with the president of CBS News in which she argued with him that the entire news division should be allowed to protest the war and attend rallies if they wished. He turned her down, but her partisanship — and that of her colleagues — was apparent, and readily visible in the stories they put on the air."
Trying terrorists in civilian courts
Judge Excludes Damning Testimony Against Al Qaeda Terrorist, Ahmed Ghailani "The government’s case against Ahmed Ghailani, the terrorist who participated in al Qaeda’s bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, took a major hit on Wednesday. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan ruled that the government was prohibited from introducing a key witness. Why? Because the government learned about this witness’s identity during the CIA’s so-called enhanced interrogations of Ghailani. Therefore, this evidence is supposedly tainted – or “fruit of the poisoned tree.” "
The Obama administration is taking an Alinskyite approach to the prosecution of Ahmed Ghailani.
By Andy McCarthy. "Military commissions are not kangaroo courts. The administration has affirmed this, however reluctantly, by endorsing them. If they are too politically freighted for Obama to direct them for the likes of Ghailani, there is no reason we can’t design a new system for national-security cases — one that ensures fairness and trustworthy results without arming the enemies of humanity with a lawfare arsenal. All it takes is the courage to admit error and the will to correct it. That may be too much for those in the Alinsky thrall, but it would be a worthy task for a new Congress."
The Obama administration is taking an Alinskyite approach to the prosecution of Ahmed Ghailani.
By Andy McCarthy. "Military commissions are not kangaroo courts. The administration has affirmed this, however reluctantly, by endorsing them. If they are too politically freighted for Obama to direct them for the likes of Ghailani, there is no reason we can’t design a new system for national-security cases — one that ensures fairness and trustworthy results without arming the enemies of humanity with a lawfare arsenal. All it takes is the courage to admit error and the will to correct it. That may be too much for those in the Alinsky thrall, but it would be a worthy task for a new Congress."
A Failing Agenda Fails (Updated)
Heritage ...“Obama’s decision to allow the talks to collapse—and make no mistake, the decision was made at the presidential level—was a colossal blunder. It reflects serious shortcomings in his strategic thinking since it will have dramatic repercussions for U.S. foreign policy. Not only does it show the emperor has no clothes when claiming he favors free trade, but unless he can get this back in the very quick order he referenced in Seoul, the U.S. will lose all credibility in pushing other trade issues, such as the nine-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal."...
President Obama's disastrous Asia trip reveals the monumental decline in American power.
By Eliot Spitzer in Slate Magazine " The president of the United States went as a supplicant to Asia, and he returned spurned and lonely. President Obama's trip to Asia may turn out to have been a more important event than the midterm elections, for it was in Asia that the new world order—and America's diminished place in it—became apparent." Weasel Zippers photoSmackdown in Seoul: Obama Gets an ‘F’ in South Korea "The president has just created a rift with a nation of increasing importance to the United States."
Great news: Dems ready to push amnesty during lame duck session
Photo: Weasel Zippers
OBAMA AND REID TO PANDER TO LATINO VOTERS AND ATTEMPT TO PASS AN AMNESTY BILL DURING LAME DUCK SESSION
Gingerbread 'person', the PC pudding: Now even biscuits can't escape the politically correct brigade
UK Daily Mail "In the nursery rhyme, the Gingerbread Man fled from the clutches of an old woman and her husband.But now he has been cornered by an even more unforgiving foe – political correctness.Council bureaucrats have stripped gingerbread men of their gender and renamed them gingerbread ‘persons’ on menus for 400 primary schools.
Via Neal Boortz
Illegal Immigrants Flee Arizona Enforcement, Sanctuary Cities Attract Them
Heritage "Our work (along with many others) to guide states and localities resulted in SB1070. More states are looking to follow Arizona’s lead. With the exodus occurring in Arizona, other states should make sure they don’t become the next home for those fleeing Arizona.Westboro Baptist Protesters Get Tires Slashed Following Protest Saturday
Sunday, November 14, 2010
One and done: To be a great president, Obama should not seek reelection in 2012
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Douglas E. Schoen and Patrick H. Caddell "We do not come to this conclusion lightly. But it is clear, we believe, that the president has largely lost the consent of the governed. The midterm elections were effectively a referendum on the Obama presidency. And even if it was not an endorsement of a Republican vision for America, the drubbing the Democrats took was certainly a vote of no confidence in Obama and his party. The president has almost no credibility left with Republicans and little with independents.
"The best way for him to address both our national challenges and the serious threats to his credibility and stature is to make clear that, for the next two years, he will focus exclusively on the problems we face as Americans, rather than the politics of the moment - or of the 2012 campaign."
Dead Souls
Victor Davis Hanson "Here is a daily inanity: “The great majority of Muslims are moderates,” and its ancillary “Only a tiny percentage of Muslims are terrorists.” Both are true, but they have value as admonishments only if there were a widespread Western effort to demonize Islam and persecute Muslims, or we knew that mass destruction required millions of conventional troops. But neither is true.
"Last year anti-Semitic hate crimes far outnumbered attacks in America on Muslims."
"Last year anti-Semitic hate crimes far outnumbered attacks in America on Muslims."
Barack and unintended consquences
American Thinker "This man and his administration are completely oblivious to the unintended consequences of their policies and actions."....
"Don't you think that players like George Soros, (who said, with no regrets, that the main lesson he learned from his collaboration with the Nazis' persecution of Jews, was to think ahead) is preparing to "have a good year" much like he had in profiting from the global fiscal crisis of 2009? And at who's expense?"
'Vanity, thy name is Obama' ""American Narcissus" (article below) may deal with a familiar subject to AT readers. Several contributors have highlighted this aspect of Obama's personality since before he was elected. But Last has a good eye for the absurd, as well as being able to place Obama's vanity into a context that shows how it damages his presidency and the nation:"
Narcissus "was a hunter from the territory of Thespiae in Boeotia who was renowned for his beauty. He was exceptionally proud, in that he disdained those who loved him. As divine punishment he fell in love with his own reflection in a pool, not realizing it was merely an image, and he wasted away to death, not being able to leave the beauty of his own reflection."
This is the Moment "On the night that [Obama] defeated Hillary Clinton in the primaries, the hand of fate was so clear to him he could proclaim:
"Don't you think that players like George Soros, (who said, with no regrets, that the main lesson he learned from his collaboration with the Nazis' persecution of Jews, was to think ahead) is preparing to "have a good year" much like he had in profiting from the global fiscal crisis of 2009? And at who's expense?"
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Narcissus "was a hunter from the territory of Thespiae in Boeotia who was renowned for his beauty. He was exceptionally proud, in that he disdained those who loved him. As divine punishment he fell in love with his own reflection in a pool, not realizing it was merely an image, and he wasted away to death, not being able to leave the beauty of his own reflection."
This is the Moment "On the night that [Obama] defeated Hillary Clinton in the primaries, the hand of fate was so clear to him he could proclaim:
I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on earth. This was the moment—this was the time—when we came together to remake this great nation so that it may always reflect our very best selves and our highest ideals.American Narcissus/ The vanity of Barack Obama "Obama’s vanity is even more jarring when paraded in the foreign arena. In April, Poland suffered a national tragedy when its president, first lady, and a good portion of the government were killed in a plane crash. Obama decided not to go to the funeral. He played golf instead. Though maybe it’s best that he didn’t make the trip. When he journeyed to Great Britain to meet with the queen he gave her an amazing gift: an iPod loaded with recordings of his speeches and pictures from his inauguration."
Man up, Media and Open Your Eyes! (Updated)
Big Journalism "Which brings me full circle to why the libs and the media seem so intertwined. They have a nearly identical mindset. Every time Dear Leader does a one-on-one interview and talks about “changing America,” real Americans sit there and yell at their TV sets and say, “ya, we know what you mean about change, you said it to Joe the Plumber,” the reporter nods and acts delusionary and moves on to the question about what Michelle is planning to wear during their next vacation. Blind leading the blind. Reporter and subject cannot see themselves for who they are."
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Obama: ‘What About Compliments?’ By WILLIAM KRISTOL "But the vanity that Jonathan V. Last elaborates on elsewhere in this issue seems to be standing in the way of such learning. President Obama has been mugged both by the voters and by reality—but he thinks that he’s still looking good, that he deserves plaudits, and that the only problem is people don’t know about all the compliments he’s been getting."
Obama: ‘What About Compliments?’ By WILLIAM KRISTOL "But the vanity that Jonathan V. Last elaborates on elsewhere in this issue seems to be standing in the way of such learning. President Obama has been mugged both by the voters and by reality—but he thinks that he’s still looking good, that he deserves plaudits, and that the only problem is people don’t know about all the compliments he’s been getting."
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