More Cat Stevens: The music of revolution

Al Jazeera "We speak with rock icon Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens, about his latest song My People which is inspired by the popular uprisngs(sic) calling for freedom and change in the Arab world."
The image I get is this 1960 Volkswagen van bedecked with flowers and a guitar in the front seat, loaded with 500 pounds of explosives. The driver yells "Allahu Akbar!", which being translated means "peace train!" .



How Obama Is Making Gas Prices Higher

Heritage  "Anyone could have predicted that the recovering world economy, coupled with the continued growth of India and China, was going to push oil prices higher. So if an Administration wanted to keep gas prices down, they could have mitigated increased oil demand by increasing domestic oil production. But that is not what the Obama Administration has done. Instead of increasing domestic oil supplies, the Obama Administration has cut them at every opportunity, and Americans are now suffering because of those choices"

Yet Another New Obamacare Bureaucracy

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Heritage  "To fix the problem, the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO)—a government entity created under the new law to oversee the changes made by Obamacare to the private insurance market—stepped in. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued regulations giving CCIIO the power to waive that requirement, thus arbitrarily determining winners and losers under the new law and resulting in a system where some must abide by new regulations while others are given a “get out of jail free” card by bureaucrats at CCIIO"
We'll be asking questions later, so be sure you get this all down.

Six Steps to Reining in the Administrative State  "This terribly unpopular law led millions of citizens to ask of themselves and their neighbors: Are we citizens in a constitutional republic or subjects of the administrative state?
"Then the elections came. Americans went to the polls and voiced their opposition to the health care overhaul. But is it too late for Congress to roll back the administrative state? Drawing on a recent Center for American Studies scholars’ conference on that topic (look for more papers to come),  Robert Moffit offers six steps for Congress to roll back the administrative state."

Paul Ryan accuses W.H. of skirting Medicare law "Ryan claims the White House owes Congress a plan for shoring up Medicare funding because the federal government is covering more than its targeted share of the program. Ryan points to a provision of the 2003 Medicare law that requires the president to act. "



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Speaking of bureaucracies:  Debt, the Economy and Government 'Investments'  "Did you know that those in the federal government -- the folks who brought you $1.6 trillion of yearly deficits, brought you $14 trillion of debt and make Elmo a reality -- offer Americans 56 separate programs to help them better understand their finances?"  And.....

The U.S. government gives its citizens lots of overlap and inefficiency for their tax dollars "Have you got a hangnail? Somewhere in the federal bureaucracy there has to be a program even for such a minor ill. Because there are dozens and dozens of programs for everything else. So says a new report from the Government Accountability Office"

Freedom on the March? No Thanks to the American Left

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Pajamas Media  "...the American left’s support of national actors who are anti-democratic and anti-American. Their pattern of conduct has seen them dealing with the most disreputable leaders in the world.
"Ironically, this anti-American predilection shows leftists actually do have the ability to show outrage over Libya. When President Reagan ordered the bombing of Libyan targets in 1986, in response to a Libyan terror attack on a German nightclub frequented by American military personnel, the left condemned the act as “immoral,” for “seriously violating laws and norms governing international relations.” "
  R. Dozier Gray is a military veteran, private business consultant, and member of the Project 21 black leadership network

The Libyan people are no more our ally than Qaddafi.

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Andrew C. McCarthy "In any event, guess who else wants Qaddafi gone tomorrow? None other than Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi, the Muslim Brotherhood’s sharia compass, who is still tingling from his recent, triumphant return to Egypt, right across the border from Eastern Libya, where Qaddafi’s fiercest opposition just happens to be. He did make time, though, to issue a fatwa last week calling for the Libyan despot’s assassination.

"Not to worry, though. We have it on good authority (the U.S. government) that the Muslim Brotherhood is a “largely secular” organization, with a real passion for democracy. Perhaps if one of the Libyan secularists is moved to carry out the fatwa — which, of course, should be understood as a strictly secular edict — Secretary Clinton could find a new friend of America in Sheikh Qaradawi.

Our Schizoid Foreign Policy

Victor Davis Hanson "Autocratic and dictatorial Russia has become a veritable friend. America will say very little about the Russian government’s involvement in the chronic assassination of journalists and dissidents. We don’t mind passing along nuclear-weapon information about our British allies to Russia if it furthers better relations with Moscow and results in a treaty. We apparently are more worried about offending Vladimir Putin than about offending our Polish and Czech allies. We eagerly sign an arms treaty that most people believe favors Russia more than ourselves, and we shrug when Russia does not, as promised, help thwart Iranian nuclear proliferation."
But Israel better not mess with us or else.

Sorry, but Israelis Have Good Reason to Be Fearful

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Commentary Magazine  "I’ve written elsewhere that Arab democracy is Israel’s only hope for long-term peace. And if the current revolutions indeed succeed in producing it, most Israelis will cheer. But our experience is that, in this region, change can always be for the worse, and usually is. Right now, nobody can promise that this particular change won’t be the same."

'My People' and the American People Eric Holder Serves (Updated)

American Thinker  "House Republicans need to put another item on their to-do list: ask Attorney General Eric Holder for his resignation ASAP."

Texas Lawmaker says Civil Rights Division only protects black voters

They're playing games, literally, in the Justice Department

Eric Holder: Black Panther case focus demeans 'my people'  "The Attorney General seemed to take personal offense at a comment Culberson read in which former Democratic activist Bartle Bull called the incident the most serious act of voter intimidation he had witnessed in his career."

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Conservative Group: Did Obama Justice Dept. Collaborate With Those Trying to Overturn California’s Same-Sex Marriage Ban? "A conservative advocacy group wants to know if the U.S. Justice Department had any behind-the-scenes correspondence or communication with various law firms and/or groups that are suing California over its voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage."

Farrakhan: Jews are pushing the US into war

Close friend of Obama's former pastor 

Jerusalem Post  "President Obama," Farrakhan said, "if you allow the Zionists to push you, to mount a military offensive against Gaddafi and you go in and kill him and his sons as you did with Saddam Hussein and his sons, I’m warning you this is a Libyan problem, let the Libyans solve their problem among themselves.” Farrakhan called Muammar Gaddafi "my brother" and "my friend."

Al Sharpton And Louis Farrakhan Welcome Libyan Dictator Moammar Khadafy  Audio from the Sharpton radio show.

Eugene Walcott aka Minister Louis Farrakhan aka Calypso Louie-sings "Stone Cold Man"

Document: A Guide to the Blasphemy Laws of Pakistan

MEMRI  "...Following is a guide to various sections of the Chapter XV of the PPC, regarding the "Offences Relating to Religion:"

"Section 295: Harming or defiling a place of worship with intent to insult a religion
"Section 295-A: Deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage the religious feelings of any section of society by insulting its religion or religious beliefs
"Section 295-B: Defiling the Holy Koran
"Section 295-C: Use of derogatory remarks regarding the Holy Prophet of Islam
"Section 296: Disturbing religious assembly
"Section 297: Trespassing on burial places
"Section 298: Uttering words with deliberate intent to wound religious feelings*
"Section 298-A: Use of derogatory remarks regarding holy personages
"Section 298-B: Misuse of epithets, descriptions and titles reserved for certain holy personages or places
"Section 298-C: Person of Ahmadi group calling himself a Muslim or preaching or propagating his faith"

*They must have got this idea from American campus speech codes.

Iran would "slaughter" people in revolt: defector

Reuters   "Ahmed Maleki, who was vice consul of Iran's consulate in Milan before fleeing to Paris with his family last month, is the latest in a string of officials to defect from the Islamic state and join a year-old opposition group called the Green Wave.
"He said in an interview that Iranians had been inspired by images of popular revolt in North Africa but faced a regime far more brutal than those of Egypt, Tunisia or even Libya."
All that is holding back their brutality is Obama's offer of friendship.

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House Hearing: Obamacare Threatens American Medical Innovation

Obama takes us from this...

The Foundry  "Until now, the United States has been the world leader in medical innovation, but this is by no means a given for the future. Due to burdensome, time-consuming regulations, medical innovation faces an uphill battle in the United States. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has taken note of this and just this week released a white paper proposing a new approval pathway for medical devices that would accelerate the process and reduce costs for medical device companies. Unfortunately, at the same time that the FDA is taking steps to encourage future innovation, new taxes under Obamacare will further diminish the United States’ competitiveness in the industry."

...to this.