After bin Laden: Top Five Agenda Items for Obama’s Middle East Speech

Heritage  "...2. Put the U.S.–Israeli alliance first.
"The popular uprisings have demonstrated that the Israeli–Arab conflict is not the source of all problems in the Middle East. Thus, the White House was wrong from the start to make peace negotiations the foundation of its regional policy. The U.S. can help the two sides reach a peace settlement, but Arabs and Israelis must negotiate directly with each other. They cannot wait for Washington to do all the heavy diplomatic lifting or impose a settlement. Furthermore, at present the Palestinians are hardly the best partner for peace—they have partnered with Hamas, a terrorist group that denies the right of the Israeli nation to exist and mourns the demise of Osama bin Laden. The U.S. should be reaffirming that its first commitment and concern is strengthening its alliance with the region’s strongest democracy and the country that shares common cause with the United States."  Cartoon from MidEastTruth



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The Most (Un)Wanted Judges



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 Pajamas Media  "President Obama’s nominees believe that once they are sitting in their lifetime-tenured positions on the federal bench, they can create, invent, originate, construct, and initiate whatever “laws” they believe are necessary to change America culturally, politically, and economically into the liberal utopia they believe it should be — even if the rest of us have to be dragged kicking and screaming into their ideal world. They represent a great danger to our liberty, our freedom, our way of life, and the rule of law."

Hans A. von Spakovsky is a Senior Legal Fellow, and Deborah O’Malley is a Visiting Research Associate, in the Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation.





Just a few decisions from the liberal judiciary hall of fame:

Leftist Judge Rules ObamaGov can force US Citizens to buy its products

Far left Activist Judge rules against Wisconsin Union law

One Leftist Judge Slaps Down Seven Million Voters in California

Leftist Judges Declare Soledad Cross ‘Unconstitutional’



After bin Laden: End the Public Diplomacy Apology Tour

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Heritage  "A column in the London daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat expressed a bitterness about bin Laden that could hardly have been imagined before his death. Editor-in-chief Tariq Alhomayed wrote: “He who tricked our sons and cast them into hell did not die on the battlefield—but in the middle of his luxurious house hiding behind his wife.” He concluded, “Certainly, the world is a better place after the death of a terrorist who betrayed his religion, his family, and the world.”

"The world has been waiting for this kind of condemnation since September 11, 2001."

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Why I Take Obama's 'Common' Offenses Against Officers Personally

American Thinker  "President Obama continues to use the White House as a platform to dishonor police officers."
On May 11, Obama and First Lady Michele welcomed a rap poet who celebrates cop killers to the White House. Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr., known professionally as "Common," performed a few days before thousands of police officers arrived in Washington for "National Police Week," the annual memorial to honor fallen officers."....
"Common and Obama have more in common than disrespect for law enforcement. There's the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's pastor of 20 years who preached racist, anti-American, anti-government diatribes. Common began attending Wright's church at the age of eight. He defended Wright against critics of his inflammatory sermons. He "rapped" for Obama from Wright's pulpit on New Year's Eve 2008."
Jan LaRue is senior legal analyst with the American Civil Rights Union.

CNN Tries to Contain Damage from Spitzer Outing Zakaria's Consultations for Obama

Media Research Center "The revelation of Zakaria’s personal efforts to ensure Obama’s success all started from a paragraph in a Wednesday, May 11 New York Times article praising Obama’s quest to master the Middle East:"

Chris Muir, Day by Day Hat tip to Freedom Fighter's Journal

Michael Yon: PFC Bradley Manning's Charge Sheet

Michael Yon This is from some time back and just discovered by the Tunnel Dweller. The search also revealed a number of sites supporting Manning which we will not link to in this site. You can find them without TW's help if you need to.

Michael Yon

Michael Yon vs. Rolling Stone Magazine  "This could go on for pages, but Rolling Stone is not worth it, and thrashing them might only build their readership. I’ve found in the past that boycotts work. I led a boycott against one magazine and it went bankrupt. It’s doubtful that Rolling Stone will go bankrupt for its sins, but you can cost them money not by boycotting their magazine, but by boycotting their advertisers. That hurts. Just pick an advertiser whose products you already buy, boycott it, and tell the advertiser why you are not buying their product." With a slight language advisory.

CO2 Mitigation: It’s Dopey

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Pajamas Media  "A wind turbine in England just produced only enough electricity over an entire year to keep one light bulb on for three months. Let’s have fun with the numbers …"

...."So there you have it. After the biggest and most expensive propaganda campaign in human history, leading to the biggest tax increase in human history, it turns out that trying to stop “global warming” is the least cost-effective use of taxpayers’ money in human history — and that’s saying something." The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley is a British politician, business consultant, and policy advisor.



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D-Day- and beyond- Airborne site; one of the best I've ever seen

Trigger Time  This site has links for the researcher, the historian and for those just learning about D-Day, perhaps after viewing "Saving Private Ryan" and "Band of Brothers". Those focusing on the upcoming anniversary of D-Day may find this of great interest. Just don't let the critique of the "Band of Brothers" series affect your appreciation of  it.

The site includes then and now photos of men and locations from England and France.

Among them is this photo of an Easy Co. reunion: Taken several years after WWII, this photo shows the following, standing l. to r.:Amos 'Buck'Taylor, Darrel 'Shifty'Powers, Herb'Junior' Suerth, Robert Rader, and Ed Tipper. Below l. to r.: Floyd 'Tab' Talbert, Wally Wentzel, Don Moone, and Walter 'Smokey' Gordon

Parachute infantry uniforms  Including advice for the collector.

 "This page offers examples of unquestionably original uniforms acquired directly from vets or their families BEFORE the insane prices started-up. My purpose in posting these is to inform collectors of what real stuff looks like (see also Insignia, Equipment, and Souvenirs pages), not to gloat about what I've got." Mark Bando.

Band of Brothers page in the site. A related site has this
critique of the BoB series by Mark Bando.

In addition, this TW post contains a wealth of information under this single link.

Photo from the Souvenirs page. Of a man presumably collecting a souvenir.

Huckabee’s Exit Paves Way for Bachmann

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Commentary Magazine  "That may have disappointed those who voted for him in 2008 and would do so again next year. But it was music to the ears of the other Republican candidates. In a weak field, Huckabee, an outsider and ordained Baptist minister who would up being the runner-up in the 2008 primaries to John McCain, was a potential top tier 2012 candidate. His exit from the race potentially benefits almost all of the other candidates but some more than others." 
Later in this same article, Mr. Tobin has this to say about Gingrich:
"But whether they buy into Gingrich’s   attempt to portray himself as a redeemed sinner will be a fascinating test of conservative opinion. My guess is that social conservatives will consider his marital infidelity while leading impeachment efforts that were rooted in President Clinton’s similar behavior as something that is between the former speaker and his God. But they and other Republicans won’t forget the embarrassment they felt when his hypocrisy was revealed. The wonkish Gingrich can neither play the guitar nor push the right buttons with evangelicals. No sale."  Jonathan S. Tobin
I like Newt's intellect and his vision for America, but am afraid Mr. Tobin may be right.

Michael Barone: Obama's hypocritical rhetoric on immigration reform

President Obama gestures while speaking about
 immigration  reform in El Paso, Texas.-LM Otero/AP

Washington Examiner  "....Hypocrisy because while Obama complained about "politicians" blocking comprehensive immigration bills, he was one of them himself.

"In 2007, when such a bill was backed by a lame-duck Republican president and had bipartisan backing from Senate heavyweights Edward Kennedy and Jon Kyl, Sen. Obama voted for union-backed amendments that Kennedy and Kyl opposed as bill killers."



The New Transparency: White House Bans Reporter After She Uses Cell Phone To Record Protest

Crooks and Liars   "Marinucci was granted a press pass last month to cover an Obama fundraiser in San Francisco. During the fundraiser, a group that called themselves Fresh Juice Party stood up to sing a protest song against the treatment of Bradley Manning, after paying $76,000 for a table at the fundraiser (tangentially, Nicole Sandler interviewed Naomi Pitcairn of Fresh Juice, and I'm not entirely clear that Pitcairn is clear about what she was protesting). Marinucci recorded the event and uploaded the video for her online column. And that's where the trouble begins."
 
Update: Chronicle responds after Obama Administration punishes reporter for using multimedia, then claims they didn't    "Update: In a pants-on-fire moment, the White House press office today denied anyone there had issued threats to remove Carla Marinucci and possibly other Hearst reporters from the press pool covering the President in the Bay Area.
"Chronicle editor Ward Bushee called the press office on its fib:

Sadly, we expected the White House to respond in this manner based on our experiences yesterday. It is not a truthful response. It follows a day of off-the-record exchanges with key people in the White House communications office who told us they would remove our reporter, then threatened retaliation to Chronicle and Hearst reporters if we reported on the ban, and then recanted to say our reporter might not be removed after all.

The Chronicle's report is accurate.

A plague on both your houses  Don't feel too infatuated with the protestors, however. Here is what they were protesting:

Marinucci was covering the event when about a half-dozen protesters who paid a combined $76,000 to attend the breakfast broke into a song chastising Obama for the government's treatment of Pfc. Bradley Manning, an Army intelligence analyst suspected of illegally passing government secrets to the WikiLeaks website.

They were supporting the traitor.

The Lutheran Church and the War Between the States

Via The Freedomist:

From: Unsettled Christianity  "The national politics of the 1860s was represented in the Lutheran church split. The Lutheran church was bitterly divided by theological and political issues; the same issues that divided a nation in a Civil War."