Immaculate Intervention: The Wars of Humanitarianism

STRATFOR  "The doctrine becomes less coherent in a civil war in which one side is winning and promising to slaughter its enemies, Libya being the obvious example. Those intervening can claim to be carrying out a neutral humanitarian action, but in reality, they are intervening on one side’s behalf. If the intervention is successful — as it likely will be given that interventions are invariably by powerful countries against weaker ones — the practical result is to turn the victims into victors. By doing that, the humanitarian warriors are doing more than simply protecting the weak. They are also defining a nation’s history."

Immaculate Intervention: The Wars of Humanitarianism is republished with permission of STRATFOR.

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

Foxworthyish:Obama might be a socialist

Washington Times  "If [you] want to lower the cost of health care but left out tort reform, you might be a socialist lawyer.

"If you're a Columbia University professor and gave a student named Barack Obama an A in economics, you are definitely a socialist.
"And finally, in the eighth year of the Obama presidency, if Bangladesh is hosting "Aid America" concerts or you're standing in line for toilet paper, you have a socialist president.
"It's time to stand up and loudly call a socialist ... a socialist!"
Via Lucianne

Smearing Ryan's Medicare Plans

Paul Ryan

Washington Examiner  "It's also important to note that Medicare as we know it won't be around for future generations anyway, because it's financially unsustainable. So the real policy debate we need to having is whether we want to move in the liberal direction, which relies on higher taxes and more centrally-imposed cost controls, or a more free market approach in which taxes are kept low and health care costs are contained by creating a real consumer-driven market for health care. That debate is beyond the scope of this post, but the important point is that Medicare won't survive in its current form no matter what."

Obama Announces Reelection Bid

Drudge

National Journal  "For all of these problems, though, Obama has enduring strengths. Americans like him, and they like the idea of him. They believe he has their best interests at heart. They seem to understand that he surrounds himself with people who genuinely want to search for solutions, even if they get them wrong. And he has significant accomplishments to his name: the New START arms control treaty with Russia, the advancement of civil rights for gays, an education policy that is promising, a financial reform bill that shows signs of being tougher than expected."

Why Hillary Clinton must run in 2012  "To be fair, Hillary voters never fell in love with Obama, they just fell in line. Their relationship is less like a Julia Roberts chick flick and more like a Bengali arranged marriage.

"Because of their arrangement, Hillary-loving Obama voters are quick to jump ship whenever Mr. Hope-and-Change looks like he's getting played again by his political opponents, is in over his head or is dissing their girl." Remember that Clinton is still a socialist; Obama just has a way of making her look like William Buckley.

Who Still Supports Obama?  "One other interesting thing to note about the study is how students plan to get information about the 2012 campaign. Their first source is major national newspapers, which I assume means the New York Times and I assume they read online. But their second source of information about the 2012 campaign will be Facebook and friend statuses. "

Stamp of approval?

American Thinker  A civilization that exalts and celebrates its rock-stars and movie actors over its soldiers and important leaders has forgotten obvious things and is beyond decaying...it has but mere decades left. If a country has lost its collective memory, it cannot know what it was that made it once great.

Have you looked at U.S. postage stamps recently? They are childish, silly, and racist."
....

USPS

 "It's almost as though a law had been enacted to prevent the intelligent representation of American History through its postage stamps."

TIME Mag Editor: Burning the Koran Is Worse Than Burning Bible

Ghosh/ Charlierose.com

Gateway Pundit  "Time Magazine world editor Bobby Ghosh told host MSNBC host Chuck Todd on Friday that burning the Koran is worse than burning the Bible. According to Gnosh, the Koran is directly from God, while the Bible isn’t."

Wikipedia on Ghosh

Ghosh the Haditha "massacre" reporter  "Regular readers will recognize the name of the Muslim-born Aparisim ‘Bobby’ Ghosh.
"Mr. Ghosh, along with Tim McGirk gave us the ‘scoop’ libel that Marines had killed civilians in Haditha Iraq in cold blood. A report that turned out to be completely fabricated."  Hat tip to Rush Limbaugh

Obama draws the line on Libya

http://terrellaftermath.com/

Afghan mob kills at least 12 UN workers in protest over Terry Jones’s Koran-burning

Hot Air  "“Wait,” you say, “since when did Terry Jones burn a Koran?” Turns out he did it 12 days ago after some sort of kangaroo court/mock trial. I didn’t know about it until today; apparently, after being savaged last fall for condemning Jones’s provocation while devoting saturation coverage to it, most of the national media wisely decided to ignore him this time. Most, but not all: Someone must have picked up the story because, by last Thursday, our “friend” Hamid Karzai had formally denounced Jones’s act. "

Koran-burning pastor says murders of UN staff aren’t his fault  "Should Jones have burned the Koran? No. But not because doing so might incite some evil people halfway around the world to commit atrocities against innocents. Rather, he shouldn’t have done it was needlessly hurtful without adding any value to the debate. Indeed, aside from generating publicity for himself, he’s likely generated sympathy for Islam and disdain for churches of his ilk."

Mark Steyn on Dead Jews – No News/ Graphic images

Maggie's Notebook  "CNN reported the story with quotation marks around ‘terror attacks,’ apparently question the fact that the murders are “terror,” or more clearly put, Islamic jihad. The New York Times gave only the barest details. A question for Democrats: How do you accept what your media silences? Really. How can you abide it? How can you allow your press to ignore this video?"

Elad Fogel before the Arabs came



Mark Steyn: Dead Jews Is No News "Today the delegitimization of Israel is all but universal: Indeed, these days Palestinian leaders pay more lip service to the “two-state solution” than Europeans. On Israel’s national day, prominent Britons of Jewish background write to The Guardian to deplore the existence of the Jewish state. And “Israeli Apartheid Week” is multiculti Toronto’s gift to the world."

Caroline Glick:  Our World: Three Jewish Children "Someone might consider the fact that in the Palestinian Authority, anti-Jewish propaganda is so ubiquitous and so murderous that killing the Fogel babies was an act of heroism. The baby killers knew that by murdering Udi, Ruth, Hadas, Yoav and Elad they would enter the pantheon of Palestinian heroes. They can expect to have a sports stadium or school in Ramallah or Hebron built for them by the Palestinian Authority and underwritten by American or European taxpayers.

Elad Fogel afterward.

"And indeed, the murder of the Fogel children and their parents was greeted with jubilation in Gaza.

"Carnivals were held in the streets as Hamas members handed out sweets."

Measuring Force

Thomas Sowell  "Too often in the past, going all the way back to the days of Woodrow Wilson, we have operated on the assumption that a bad government becomes better after the magic of "change." President Wilson said that we were fighting the First World War to make the way "safe for democracy." But what actually followed was the replacement of autocratic monarchies by totalitarian dictatorships that made previous despots pale by comparison.
"The most charitable explanation for President Obama's incoherent policy in Libya-- if incoherence can be called a policy -- is that he suffers from the long-standing blind spot of the left when it comes to the use of force" ....
"As for the national interests of the United States of America, Barack Obama has never shown any great concern about that."

http://wpcomics.washingtonpost.com/client/wpc/po/2011/03/30/

Rep. Miller Introduces the LEAVE Act

Numbers USA  "...a comprehensive immigration enforcement bill that would require the use of E-Verify for all employers nationwide, end the practice of birthright citizenship, prohibit states from granting in-state tuition benefits to illegal aliens, increase the number of border patrol and immigration and customs enforcement agents, and assist local municipalities in the enforcement of federal immigration laws, among other things."
This will be demagogued* by liberals and the fact that it is supported by  the American Nazi Party should really make Democrat mouths water. Keep in mind that many of those against this measure are supporters of the Communist Party USA.
Hat tip to Overcriminalized.com.

* Sure "demagogued" isn't a word, but neither is "accessed".

ABC's Jon Karl Touts Liberal Advocacy Group's Claim That 'Tea Party Darlings' Are 'Hypocrites'

Media Research Center  "Karl didn’t raise any concerns about hyping the claims of the EWG, an organization that, as Michelle Malkin pointed out in 2002, has railed against hair spray, playgrounds and the conservative journalist John Stossel. Instead, Karl chided these House GOP members for receiving federal money for farm subsidies."