From Drudge: REPORTER TURNS AGGRESSIVE WITH OBAMA

Obama to reporter: 'Let me finish my answers' next time  "After some jousting about the size of his loss in Texas in 2008 -- the president said it was "a few percentage points," but it was more like 11 -- Obama told his interviewer: "If what you're telling me is that Texas is a conservative state, you're absolutely right.""

News 8 goes one-on-one with President Obama  "After the interview, Obama pointed out that he doesn't like an interviewer challenging his comments.
""Let me finish my answers the next time we do an interview, all right?" he said."

Obama spokesman: 'I'm not going to take your questions' "Reporters' questions often go unanswered. When replies are given, they frequently are more scripted than meaningful. Public employees generally are required to obtain permission to share their expertise, and when interviews are allowed, a media 'handler' is listening in to keep control over what is said. And when replies come via e-mail, it's unclear who has written them," they wrote. "

Mr. Obama and liberals in charge of Washington

Mr. Magoo Goes to Washington  "The bloom is gone, the magic dissipated (remember: “this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow”?). And what’s left?
"My friend and I were pondering that. Arrogance. That’s one thing that’s continued unabated — a function, I suggested, of the Magoo myopia.
"And then the penny dropped. Obama’s arrogance is often remarked upon, even by his less starry-eyed supporters. Arrogance, a chilly disconnection with common reality. (Don’t like the price of gas? Buy a new, smaller, more fuel-efficient car. How many kids do you have, for God’s sake?) Some diagnose narcissism. Maybe so. But here’s the extraordinary thing:
"Obama actually believes he is doing a good job."
Does all this remind you of Maxwell Smart of the 1960's?

Obama Gimmick "As Barack Obama travels around the country on the campaign trail .. and yes, he is officially on the campaign trail .. make sure to keep your eye on this little gimmick that he is pulling."....
"This ignorance [of voters] is what has led us to this monumental moment in history and it is now time for the few informed voters to take the lead." Read about stealth tax hikes here.

Michael Barone: President Whatever  "As his partisan and petulant speech showed, Obama realizes things are not going his way." 
Remember this word as it is applied to Obama more than any other term: Petulant

–adjective;  moved to or showing sudden, impatient irritation, especially over some trifling annoyance: a petulant toss of the head.

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From Dhimmi England: When will a Clergymans collar be deemed offensive to Muslims?

Up Pompeii  "...a man who drives a van, in said van was a leaf crucifix, a small palm cross, for this most haenous of crimes he now faces dissmissal from his job.
"This small palm cross has been deemed offensive "to others" this is clearly "newspeak" for Muslims.
"But his bosses at publicly funded Wakefield and District Housing (WDH) in West Yorkshire – the fifth-biggest housing organisation in England – have demanded he remove the cross on the grounds it may offend people or suggest the organisation is Christian. Mr Atkinson’s union representative said he faces a full disciplinary hearing next month for gross misconduct, which could result in dismissal."

More here, including pictures. "‘I have worked in the coal mines and served in the Army in Northern Ireland and I have never suffered such stress. The treatment of Christians in this country is becoming diabolical. It is political correctness taken to the extreme.’

"But he added: ‘I have never been so full of resolve. I am determined to stand up for my rights. If they sack me, so be it. But I am standing up for my faith.’"

The office where Colin Atkinson's boss has a poster
of [Cuban] revolutionary Che Guevara on the wall

That Obama deficit speech: "Patient Obama"

Clown Ministry

Victor Davis Hanson   "Last week the president gave a speech on the deficit, rightly trying to convince Americans that it is now beyond unsustainable. Yet his theme was that the Republicans’ attempts to reduce it were cold-hearted, endangering the most vulnerable among us, such as those with Down’s Syndrome, while protecting the proverbial “rich” from commensurate sacrifice. Let us, then, look at Obama, and the context of his speech, as a doctor might a patient."

"Symptoms of the Illness:"....

Prognosis: "There is no real therapy to be recommended since the illness will have to run its course, with a prognosis that remains uncertain until it resolves one way or another in about two years — or in late 2012."

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

Holy Land Foundation prosecutions; Obama Empire Strikes Back : ‘We Blame Bush!’

Patrick Poole "That’s right. The excuse they are currently floating to their friends in the establishment media to explain the decision not to prosecute CAIR officials and the other Islamic leaders implicated in the Holy Land Foundation case (all of whom had been named unindicted co-conspirators) is that the Bush administration chose not to prosecute them in 2004 and they were just reaffirming what John Ashcroft had decided way back when."

The previous article Mr. Poole refers to that started all this.

Patrick Poole is a regular contributor to Pajamas Media, and an anti-terrorism consultant to law enforcement and the military.

This Day in the Civil War/ Uniforms of the North and South

Civil War Interactive 
April 18th, 1861:DAUNTLESS DEFENDERS DARE DISPLEASURE
1862: NEW ORLEANS NAVAL NASTINESS NOTED
1863: COMMODORE CONFISCATES CONFEDERATE CARGO
1864: RED RIVER RENDEZVOUS RUINED

Union Army Uniforms and Insignia of the Civil War

Confederate Uniforms for Officers, NCOs and Enlisted

How Not to “Lose” Iraq

Max Boot  "...a continuing American military presence in Iraq post-2011 would very much be in our interest—because it would enable us to influence not only Iraq’s future course but also the future course of the entire region. Yet time is running out to renegotiate the Status of Forces agreement which President Bush signed in 2008 and which mandates the departure of all 50,000 U.S. troops by the end of this year."

Libya Is Not Iraq

Victor Davis Hanson  "Now, in exasperation, many on the left have suggested that they are no more hypocritical than those on the right, who supported the removal of the dictator Saddam Hussein, but now oppose bombing the dictator Qaddafi, supposedly because a liberal Obama, not a conservative Bush, is commander-in-chief. But here are some reasons why Iraq in 2003 made sense, and Libya in 2011 makes no sense."....
"To be fair, in Obama’s defense, it perhaps soon may be said that we suffered greatly in victory in Iraq and, by comparison, far less in defeat in Libya."

Truth Behind Obama's Indecision In Egypt - Episode 2   Video and sound

Vigil for Peace seeks end to wars in the Middle East

Tillamook, Oregon Headlight-Herald   Exerpt: "On March 18, 15 people stood together on all four corners of First and Main streets in Tillamook in a vigil for peace. This vigil was part of a national effort sponsored largely by Veterans For Peace.
"We would like to personally thank each of you who showed up to mark this anniversary. Many others showed support by honking, cheering, waving and giving a thumbs up. If the response we got from passing motorists is any indicator, the majority of people in our community are sick and tired of the fighting, and of watching their taxes support war, rather than better roads, education and safety services."

My response today, which will hopefully be published this week in the Headlight-Herald:

I wonder how those at the peace vigil would have handled al Qaeda after 9/11, with their bases in Afghanistan. Al Qaeda had a nation of their own where they trained forces to kill non-Muslims by the thousands. They still seek to do this and Afghanistan is still their prime choice for bases. President Bush and our armed forces have kept these people on the run and in fear of their lives for attacking us.
Terrorists are happy to have these "lone wolf"attacks on us, but having an army of murderers would be far better for them. As usual, pacifists stand as shields protecting them. Hitler's conquest of Europe could have been easily prevented if he was opposed at the start. But anti-war people prevented free countries from resisting the Nazi evil and millions died because of it.

Pacifists have caused the death of innocents throughout the past century and they may yet aid in our deaths.

Al-Jazeera's fans in the White House

Rick Moran  "Apparently, the president and half the state department are just tickled about a network that excuses terrorism against the Jews, and spreads the most ridiculous rumors about what is happening in the Middle East. It reveals far more about them that the White House looks upon these shills for the Qatar royal family than it does the network that so laughably skews its news against the US."

Classic anti-Semitism from Al Jazeera Cartoon .











What A Surprise! Obama Loves Al-Jazeera "In the halls of American power, the Arab Spring has brought Al-Jazeera in from the cold.
"Seven years after then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called the broadcaster’s reporting “vicious, inaccurate and inexcusable” and President George W. Bush joked about bombing it, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praised it as “real news” in her recent Senate testimony.
"And, in fact, she in effect said we needed to emulate it.
"Not only that, her staffers, as well as those of the CIA and the Obama White House, were attending the Congressional Correspondents’ Dinner as Al-Jazeera’s guests."

WikiLeaks Gives Bashar al-Assad A Gift

Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion "Why release these cables at this moment, when Bashar al-Assad is trying to suppress protests by blaiming foreign conspirators?
"Was it just coincidence that the cables were released as violence mounted in Syria? Either this was a cynical ploy by WikiLeaks to take advantage of the violence in Syria to generate publicity, or WikiLeaks recklessly disregarded the dangers such a release presents to the protesters.
"The support given to opposition groups in years past may have no connection to the people in the streets, but the WikiLeaks disclosure surely will be used by al-Assad as an excuse for even more brutal repression.
"WikiLeaks has given al-Assad a major gift, and the people of Syria will pay the price."

Don't our jobs come from that top one percent?

Neal Boortz  "It seems that no matter what statistics are presented -- some people just can’t give up the idea that raising taxes on the rich is really the only way to solve our current spending problems. Obama says it, they believe it, and that By God settles it. These people, it seems, simply aren’t going to let facts get in the way of some good old fashioned jealousy.

"There are four things that I wish people would try to keep in mind when they are considering their favorite left-wing politicians demands for higher taxes on the disgusting rich." And those four things are...