Top 25 Left-Wing Films: #15 – ‘Born on the Fourth of July’ (1989)

Big Hollywood 
 "Using a true story or not, this is something Hollywood loves to do; haul out the template I call the He Who Believes In The Goodness Of America Template.
"And it goes a little something like this… When a character arrives on screen and makes clear that he believes in the goodness of America, Hollywood’s intolerant politics will only allow the arc of that character to rise in one of three ways:

1.He Who Believes In the Goodness of America will be revealed as the villain.
2.He Who Believes In the Goodness of America will be a liberal fighting evil conservatives.
3.He Who Believes In the Goodness of America will have that illusion shattered forever.

"I’m not sure how effective this formula is in the real world, but anti-American filmmakers use it all the time."

Mike Ramirez Cartoon

Warning Signs

Abbas promises apartheid Palestine state (Revised)

Ethel C. Fenig "Mahmoud Abbas, the expired term head of the mythical country of Palestine, has promised

"We have frankly said, and always will say: If there is an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, we won't agree to the presence of one Israeli in it," Abbas told reporters in Ramallah.

This space below is reserved for statements of condemnation from Hollywood and media persons:



Mental health care, Arab style  "Israel's late Prime Minister Golda Meir, of blessed memory, once stated that peace would end the Arab-Israeli war when the Arabs loved their children more than they hated Israelis. Sad proof that peace is not about to break out from Arabs soon is this horror story from the English edition of the Israeli Hebrew daily, Ha'aretz (the Land)."...Ethel C Fenig

Mallard Fillmore



http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/mallard/2000/mallard1.asp



Why we must stick with Obama's Afghan strategy

General Petraeus with General Abdul Khalil Bakhten.

Washington Post  "The U.S. presence in Afghanistan is driven also by our struggle with al-Qaeda senior leadership and the future of Pakistan. International forces stationed along the Durand Line are about 30 miles from many of the most dangerous centers of Islamist terrorism in Pakistan. From those positions, we can understand what is happening in Pakistan and, occasionally, take action. We should never underestimate the importance of this positional advantage. It cannot be replaced by technology, discussion with Islamabad or anything else. From the Afghan border we have a unique vantage point on the groups that most directly threaten the American homeland and the stability of the entire nuclear-armed subcontinent."

The shallow "we've been there almost a decade and it's time to end this" argument just won't wash in reality.

Frederick W. Kagan is director of the Critical Threats Project at the American Enterprise Institute. Kimberly Kagan is president of the Institute for the Study of War. They are independent military analysts who have conducted research for commanders in Afghanistan.


Max Boot: More Progress in Afghanistan  "...one of the more unsung good-news stories out of Afghanistan: the success that U.S. troops have been having in preventing catastrophic terrorist attacks in Kabul by the Haqqani Network."

Using Regulation Against The Will Of The People

Big Government  "Written into the Declaration of Independence is a simple imperative, “Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” Our nation was built on this concept, but the Obama administration is using its power to write regulation to circumvent the will of the people and advance its own agenda."

Shock Audio: New Black Panther Leader Reveals Collusion at NYC Meeting With Ahmadinejad to Build Alliance

Atlas Shrugs  "It is important to remember Obama's close ties to these haters and subversives. Louis Farrakhan and Obama have a long history, and it was Obama's Department of Justice that refused to prosecute the Black Panthers who were threatening white voters in Philly.
"This is a terrible thing, but it was expected. What makes it deadly is that Obama is in the White House."

Chinese Submarine Launched Missile Off California Coast-Unproven!

Truthorfiction  This was prompted by emails now circulating about the mysterious contrail being a Chinese "shot-across-the-bow" of the US.
"...offering his reasons why he did not think that this was a launched missile. He said that launched missiles increase their speed, travel East to West and do not alter course. He told reporters that the object in the sky had not changed its speed but was altering course and was travelling in the wrong direction. He also said that the contrails expansion at the bottom of the frame had given it an optical illusion of a water launch and since missiles go up into the higher atmosphere other nations would have reported a sighting on their radar."
Hat tip to Joy Roeder, Garibaldi, Oregon (my boyhood home).

Big Government Strikes Back

Heritage  "Last week’s events in Washington were a preview of lawmaking in 2011, but Congress was not where the real action was. While the media was distracted by the last breaths of a defeated leftist majority in Congress, it was the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that gave true picture of how the Obama Administration will advance their agenda in 2011." (Emphasis added.)

Stop the State Bailouts Before They Start  "California already came to Washington asking for an $8 billion bailout last year. The spendthrift 111th Congress said no. At a bare minimum the 112th Congress should hold the line and refuse to bailout any state government. Instead, Congress should consider a way for states to file for bankruptcy or its fiscal equivalent. While such a law would raise some serious federalism issues, as long as states are allowed to enter into bankruptcy voluntary, it could be constitutionally acceptable. But David John warns"...

http://terrellaftermath.com/

Regulated To Death By ObamaCare?

Investors.com  "A post at the time by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on her Facebook page fueled opposition to funding end-of-life counseling by discussing openly what many privately fear and something we have written about before — that end-of-life counseling and efforts to measure cost-effectiveness of treatment will combine in a perfect storm to ration care in a way that lets government bureaucrats decide who lives and who dies.

""The America I know and love," Palin wrote, "is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society' whether they are worthy of health care.

"Such a system is downright evil."

Has Regulation Put An End To Rule Of Law?  Thomas Sowell:  "The Constitution of the United States begins with the words "We the people."  But neither the Constitution nor "we the people" will mean anything if politicians and judges can continue to do end runs around both.

"Bills passed too fast for anyone to read them are blatant examples of these end runs. But last week, another of these end runs appeared in a different institution when the medical "end of life consultations" rejected by Congress were quietly enacted through bureaucratic fiat by administrators of Medicare."

.....But Not Gilad Shalit

Atlas Shrugs  "U.N. to investigate treatment of WikiLeak traitor spy Bradley Manning, but not of the brutalized, kidnapped Gilad Shalit."

Who is Gilad Shalit? "Gilad Shalit (Hebrew: גלעד שליט‎, born 28 August 1986) is an Israeli soldier who was captured on 25 June 2006 by Hamas in a cross-border raid." Wikipedia.

Petraeus: NATO, Afghan, Pakistani Forces to Coordinate More Operations

GlobalSecurity.org  "Petraeus also praised Pakistan for its counter-insurgency efforts in the past two years in areas near the Afghan border where the Taliban and other militants seek shelter. He said Pakistani forces have conducted "impressive" operations in the Swat Valley, the North West Frontier Province and northwestern tribal regions."

Taliban claims responsibility for Pakistan deadly blast  "The Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for Saturday's suicide bombing in the country's northwest tribal area, which killed at least 43 people and injured 90 others, CNN said.
"A suicide bomber attacked a crowd of people waiting for food aid in the Bajaur region bordering with Afghanistan. The explosion took place about 600 meters from a U.N. World Food Programme distribution point in the town of Khar, a spokesman for the agency was quoted by CNN as saying."