Detroit’s Liberal Nightmare

Heritage  "For the record, Detroit has been under liberal leadership for decades. And the city’s big problem today is that its road forward is blocked by the very same political machine that helped deliver it to its state of ruin. Case in point: the state’s powerful teachers unions. In 2003, a philanthropist pledged $200 million for the creation of 15 charter schools in the city. Despite the city’s tragic public school system, the plan failed and the offer was withdrawn following protests by the Detroit Federation of Teachers. Little has changed, eight years later. A state-appointed emergency financial manager has proposed sweeping changes to the city’s public school system, including a plan to convert 41 of the city’s schools to charter schools. Guess who’s opposed to the reforms? That very same union." Obama's base of support. How can the African-American population continue to support a party that has been so instrumental in perpetuating this wretched state of affairs?

Many have seen this photo comparison of Hiroshima to Detroit, but if you haven't, you should. This one comes from Free Republic.

Bernanke on inflation, um, according to Rich Terrell

http://terrellaftermath.com/

The TW does not condone this cartoon; we just post it here because of its news value. And because of the seriousness of the charges it makes, they must be looked into.

America Through the Looking Glass

Victor Davis Hanson "Our near-term energy future apparently lies in borrowing money to buy oil from those we praise for drilling where we never would ourselves.

"In the face of $4-a-gallon gas, President Obama claimed that domestic oil and gas production was at a record level — failing to note that such expansion was due entirely to prior leases granted during the Clinton and Bush administrations of the sort that he has so far mostly denied."

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After touching on oil drilling, then Mr. Hanson goes on to other weighty things...

Muslim Students association pledge of allegiance

UP POMPEII  The Muslim Student Association’s pledge of allegiance is a restatement of the Muslim Brotherhood’s credo which states:

Allah is our objective
The Prophet is our leader
Qur’an is our law
Jihad is our way
Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope

Creeping Sharia  "The credo’s(sp) are nearly identical because the Muslim Student Association was founded by the Muslim Brotherhood:"....
"The MSA has branches on hundreds of campuses in the U.S. and Canada and many of its campus leaders have engaged in and been arrested for waging jihad. The video above clearly indicates MSA members at UCLA, and elsewhere, are willing to die spreading Islam. The Koran is their law (sharia), and jihad is their way."
America needs more and more people like Rep. Peter King.

Jihad Watch

Ann Coulter; Liberals: They Blinded Us With Science

Ann Coulter "The EPA proposed banning alar based on a study that involved pumping tens of thousands times more alar into rats than any human could possibly consume, and observing the results. The rats died -- of poisoning, not tumors – but the EPA banned it anyway. Poor people went back to eating Twinkies instead of healthy fresh fruit."....
 "After decades of this nonsense, The New York Times' Paul Krugman has the audacity to brag that liberals believe the "truth should be determined by research, not revelation." Yes -- provided the "research" is conducted by trial lawyers and Hollywood actresses rather than actual scientists."

Ann refers to this attack by Ed Schultz of-naturally-MSNBC: Ed Schultz Attacks 'Toxic' Ann Coulter: 'There Is Always Misinformation' When She's On TV  
"Schultz conveniently ignored that Coulter cited the Times in her piece. That's unfortunately what passes for journalism at MSNBC these days.
"Rather than mimic his negligence, let's take a look at what the Times reported in its November 2001 article "For Radiation, How Much Is Too Much?":"...

Obama and Libya

American Thinker on: Congress and its war powers  "President Truman authorized the Korean War without Congress in 1950. And ever since, in Iran, Lebanon, Libya, Panama, Somalia, Bosnia and Haiti there has been a greater unilateral executive authorization. Unless Obama is able to keep the intervention within the 60-90 day time limit, then I don't think he has much to worry about in terms of legality." Then this: Soros heavily involved in the 'Responsibility to Protect" movement

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/lisabenson

And this: General Ham 'Strung'   "We have heard the usual hand wringing pronouncements from politicians, all their now depressingly familiar bleating about exit strategies and end games. The real problem here is that we have policy being made by people who think they can govern by nuance and the shading of reality. We should expect nothing less of dilettantes who seek to impose impossible levels of distinction on the simple, timeless truths of war and life and death now playing themselves out once again in Libya."

For crying out loud, Barry - Make up your mind! "Go...stay...go...Does Obama have a clue what he's doing? Of course, it would help if we had a strategy. Administration spokesmen are insisting that regime change is not part of the mission. They are also insisting that Gaddafi needs to go - or stay but reform - or go, but not necessarily feet first."

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/natebeeler/2011/03/22/85409

This is the Way the Coalition Crumbles "The intervention is noble and necessary, but without unapologetic American leadership it will crumble beneath the weight of its own good intentions."
Obama Continues to Slam Bush on Iraq  "Yet, according to Fox Nation, the claim that the U.S. has more international support now than it did when it entered Iraq is inaccurate. According to the news site, the coalition of countries that backed Bush in Iraq was twice as large as the coalition now backing Obama.
"It’s unfortunate that Obama hasn’t used the crisis in Libya as an opportunity to rethink his previous harsh criticism of the Bush administration."

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/garyvarvel

Max Boot asks: Shouldn’t Post-Qaddafi Plans Have Been a Given?  "Is the coalition now enforcing a no-fly zone prepared to do something on the ground to ease Libya’s transition, or will we just wash our hands of the place and hope for the best?"

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/danasummers/2011/03/21/85427

Has Barack Obama ever been brave? Perhaps more pertinently, will he ever be?

The Economist  "Political courage is hard to define. But you know it when you see it. The senior George Bush increased taxes and paid with his job. Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act even though he knew it would cost the Democrats the South.
The much-maligned younger Mr Bush showed a moment of true grit, when he defied almost everyone and refused to leave Iraq to chaos in 2007. Maybe Mr Obama will find the same raw courage when at last he thinks it warranted. All one can say is that it has not happened yet. Meanwhile, Libya and Bahrain burn."

Obamacare’s Failed First Year

Heritage  "The reason why President Obama and his liberal allies have failed to turn public opinion around is simple: The major claims made by the President in the effort to pass Obamacare have all been exposed as frauds, and the early implementation by his Administration has been a complete disaster.

"Center for Policy Innovation Senior Fellow and Why Obamacare is Wrong for America co-author Bob Moffit details just some of the Obamacare claims that have been exposed as fictions:"...And here they are:...

One Year Later: Time doesn't change views on health care law  "According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Wednesday, on the one year anniversary of the signing of the law, 37 percent of Americans support the measure, with 59 percent opposed. That's basically unchanged from last March, when 39 percent supported the law and 59 percent opposed the measure."

These are not your father's schools

http://terrellaftermath.com/

The Left's Economic Terrorism Plans for America

American Thinker  "The Blaze has obtained a taped recording of the radical plans of Stephen Lerner, a former official of SEIU, on of the most powerful unions in the country. In a meeting held on March 19, 2011, Lerner is heard talking to a group of community organizers, socialists, and union members in a discussion about tactics and strategies on how to disrupt and destabilize the American economy and create widespread uncertainty and fear."

Former SEIU Leader Exposed Planning Economic Terrorist Attack   "We have a very simple strategy:"

How do we bring down the stock market
How do we bring down their bonuses
How do we interfere with there ability to be rich...

Former SEIU leader caught on tape laying out the unions’ plan for economic chaos  "A former official of one of the country’s most-powerful unions, SEIU, is detailing a secret plan to “destabilize” the country.
"Specifically, the plan seeks to destroy JP Morgan, nuke the stock market, and weaken Wall Street’s grip on power, thus creating the conditions necessary for a redistribution of wealth and a change in government.
"The former SEIU official, Stephen Lerner, spoke in a closed session at a Pace University forum last weekend."

Stephen Lerner

Former SEIU Official Details Plan to Crash Stock Market, Redistribute Wealth  "Lerner also says explicitly that, although the attack will benefit labor unions, it cannot be seen as being organized by them. It must therefore be run by community organizations." 

The way our daughters dress for school

Why Do We Let Them Dress Like That?  "But it's easy for parents to slip into denial. We wouldn't dream of dropping our daughters off at college and saying: "Study hard and floss every night, honey—and for heaven's sake, get laid!" But that's essentially what we're saying by allowing them to dress the way they do while they're still living under our own roofs." Jennifer Moses

Clueless counterpoint: "I want them to value themselves and their peers -- to not judge other girls as skanks, to not view boys as those creatures whom they have to guard against at all times. I want them to believe that their sexuality isn't something to be afraid of, to be doled out stingily and grudgingly. I want them to know it's not the length of your skirt that matters; it's what's going on between your ears."   Mary Elizabeth Williams , Salon

Feminazis Worry Their Daughters Will Dress for Sex Like They Did   "As for the girls themselves, if you ask them why they dress the way they do, they'll say (roughly) the same things I said to my mother: 'What's the big deal?' 'But it's the style.' 'Could you be any more out of it?' What teenage girl doesn't want to be attractive, sought-after and popular? And what mom doesn't want to help that cause?"

How the Wall Street Journal Set Off a Firestorm Against Petrobras

Forbes  "What's all of this nonsense about the US giving Petrobras a $2 billion loan for their drilling in Brazil? This article should put that rumor to bed." 
From Neal Boortz, whom the TW refers to often, especially on the complicated issues. One must respect the way Mr. Boortz can make the incomprehensible understandable. And so much the left does today is truly incomprehensible.
Oh, and if you go to Mr. Boortz's Reading Assignments, be sure to catch this one: "Capitalism may be to blame for the lack of life on the planet Mars. That is according to Hugo Chavez."
Mr. Chavez, Senator Kucinich will see you now.

Having said all that, this still applies: President Obama Can’t Wait to Buy More Foreign Oil  "But President Obama is not against all offshore oil drilling. When other countries are the ones developing their natural resources, President Obama is all for it. This Sunday in Brazil, President Obama highlighted that country’s recent offshore oil discoveries: “We want to help you with the technology and support to develop these oil reserves safely, and when you’re ready to start selling, we want to be one of your best customers.”"

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/michaelramirez