Bachmann/ Wallace in overdrive

What Chris Wallace’s ‘flake’ comment could do for Michele Bachmann   "Wallace, of course, has apologized, a gesture Bachmann appears to have said she won’t accept. As a result, the episode is likely to linger in the news (ahem), boosting her followers’ energy and possibly posing damage to her reputation as Wallace’s question gets repeated in the news. A risk? Certainly. But in this case, it looks like one she’s more than willing to take."

Andy McCarthy: What’s Flakey Is Chris Wallace’s Notion of Federalism  "But look, Wallace was big enough to say he was sorry, and to do so with a refreshing “I messed up” — it’s nice to hear a stand-up guy who doesn’t do the weaselly “I’m sorry if you misunderstood me” routine. If, as Katrina reports, Michele hasn’t accepted the apology, she ought to. Americans aren’t just looking to replace President Obama’s policies; his frequent lack of grace also grates. So be gracious — it’s not just good politics, it’s the right way to be."

President Obama media doubles down on doublespeak 

Bush tapping the phones of foreign terrorists with congressional authority - fascism. Obama’s continuing attempts to rein in free speech on the Internet - good public policy.
Bush on Air Force One - junkets, fund-raising for GOP fat cats. Obama on Air Force One - fact-finding missions, reassuring the American people of his tireless FDR-like commitment to them.
Two hundred-point midday drops on the Dow under Bush - ominous plummet. Same drops under Obama - the market is seeking direction.
Democrat women elected under Bush - a triumph of feminism. Republican women elected under Obama - a setback for feminism. (Brit twit Tina Brown actually said this last week to Obama worshipper George Stephanopoulos on “Good Morning America.”) Also here.

Different Media Standards? Barack Obama Vs George W. Bush

How the President Fared In the Press vs. Clinton and Bush

drawfortruth.wordpress.com

Obama's Afghan policy according to Mike Ramirez

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

Gaffe: when a politician accidentally tells the truth

http://terrellaftermath.com/

Pro-Palestinian flotilla activists armed with poison chemicals for Israeli troops

DEBKAfile  "Contrary to the purportedly peaceful nature of the flotilla setting out this week to break Israel's Gaza blockade, Israeli intelligence sources reported Monday, June 27, that some of the activists aboard the boats are extremists who are perfectly willing to forcibly resist efforts to intercept them and are ready to kill Israeli servicemen coming on board."



Tension Builds as Israel Warns Planned Gaza Aid Flotilla 

American activist Ann Wright* is a former official of the U.S. State Department who will take part.
"We say to the people of Gaza, we are coming!" she said.
"Hundreds of people will be on board the flotilla, including journalists, politicians, writers and religious figures."

Right: US activists chant slogans as they hold placards after a news conference about an international flotilla to blockaded Gaza, in Athens, June 27, 2011


Israel Orders Military to Stop Gaza Aid Flotilla   "The head of the Israeli government press office had said in a letter to journalists Sunday that the flotilla is being organized by Western and Islamic extremists, and that those taking part would be in violation of Israeli law."

*Ann Wright,an American peace activist will participate in the flotilla.

Obama and the Strategic Petroleum Reserve



http://terrellaftermath.com/



First Ignored, Then Attacked: 6th International Climate Change Conference

Alan Caruba  "In the words of Gandhi, “First they ignore you, then they mock you, then they fight you, then you win.”"  ....

"When, in 2009, emails exchanged between a handful of scientists who provided the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change with the most specious, deliberately duplicitous “data” to prop up the “global warming" hoax were revealed, the whole house of cards began to collapse."
Mr. Caruba blogs at Warning Signs

Next and not unrelated:

Does Ethanol Keep Our Gas Cheap? "...the growth in ethanol production reduced wholesale gasoline prices by $0.25 per gallon on average. The Midwest region experienced the biggest impact, with a $0.39/gallon reduction, while the East Coast had the smallest impact at $0.16/gallon."

Ethanol ruling aside, higher corn prices bad for everyone  "...And corn prices are likely to continue their spike if the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is successful in mandating a 5 percent increase of corn-based ethanol, to 15 percent, in gasoline."  Thanks for the cheaper gasoline.

Where do we go to get our reputations back?

American Thinker "In 2008 having elected and given immense power to a person with no experience, no school records, no verifiable birth certificate, and paying lawyers millions to keep these details of his history secret. What kind of a people or country born in freedom would be so careless as to take such a risk? How do we explain these errors in judgment to our children and grand children, and the world? We have let this man and his group of revolutionaries harm this nation and the entire world in no small way. How do we make amends for letting such things happen?"

Obama vs. our generals

LA Times  "In the first two years of Obama's presidency, his top aides had grown accustomed to a process in which Obama drew out and explored the views of his full team and searched for a consensus — decision by ballot, some called it.
"Increasingly, however, that process has changed, according to a wide group of Obama's personal friends, informal advisors and top aides interviewed during the spring. In recent months, they say, the president has been relying more heavily on his own instincts and feeling less impelled to seek accord among advisors."

Tony Branco;comicallyincorrect.com/

Real-World Effects of Anti-War Activism  "Bumper sticker slogans, like War No More, aren’t serious; and they need to be examined in terms of their human consequences. In this instance, it won’t be pretty. But for many anti-war activists on the left, it won’t really matter. They will have turned their attention to new efforts to promote social justice, to inspire hope, and to free the captives, even as those they leave behind will suffer, will bleed and will die." Peter Wehner

Elders are Right: Drawdown Sends Negative Message to Afghan Civilians  "Hajji Kala Khan, a tribal elder from Maiwand: “This drawdown will embolden the morale of the Taliban, and actually it has already emboldened them. The Taliban are saying to the elders not to support Americans or you will be killed, and now they say, ‘The Americans are leaving and your lives will not be spared.’ ”"Max Boot

Obama's plan to raise taxes on small businesses in this country

Neal Boortz  "Addressing Obama’s plan for tax increases on small businesses Geithner said that the administration had “no alternative” but to raise taxes on small businesses because if you didn’t you would “have to shrink the overall size of government programs.” "

"Don’t you just love this?  Doesn’t this pretty much describe the Democrat and the Obama philosophy?  When given the choice between reducing the size of government and raising taxes, the answer is clear!  You must raise taxes?"

People of the government, by the government and for the government.

Small business owners; BOHICA!  "You see, Tim Geithner, and big-government politicians are under this false liberal assumption that all money earned in the United States belongs to the government, and it is the government that decides how much of it you get to keep."

Follow-up: In Rose Bowl, Mexico is 'home' team as U.S. soccer team is booed (updated)

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American Thinker  "The massive river of immigrants from Mexico, legal and illegal, that the Democratic Party has been chaperoning into America for decades, in goals and desires, is not your grandparents' immigrants. The vast majority come to share space and partake of our prosperity (such as it is), not to become Americans. They are encouraged in these aims by those who welcome them for their own electoral purposes -- Democrat activists, who know that, as an unassimilated nation apart, laden with grievances and a sense of victimhood, Mexican immigrants are most likely to become dependable clients and voters of the statist party."

US Soccer Team Viciously Booed in L.A. -- Mexico was "home team" Enemedia calls it "Uniquely American"  "The US soccer team booed, its players on the receiving end of vile obscenities in LA's Rose Bowl, and the left-wing media calls this a marvelous moment for America. Yes, the LA Times is at it again (where's the Rashid Khalidi tape, traitors?)."

What’s Up With All the Presidential Gaffes, Anyway?

Michael Ledeen  "That would explain today’s embarrassment (embarrassment to us, to the nation–he speaks for us, after all–since he doesn’t seem to suffer embarrassment very often), but it doesn’t explain things like the apology for his lack of fluency in “Austrian” or his lack of knowledge that we have a Marine Corps (pronounced “core”). That comes from lousy education, from lack of basic knowledge about the world. And if I’m right about the small number of administration officials who get to see his words before they’re delivered in public, it tells us that they, too, aren’t properly educated.
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" It’s part of the Orwellian universe that envelops many of our leaders, a universe in which they feel free to simply invent “facts” so long as they fit the emotional and ideological pattern that really matters to the elite."

Remember this? Letterman writer: Obama 'too competent' to make jokes about   "It's not because he's black and it's not because we're afraid. It's just that he's, just so far, just a little too damn competent and we ain't used to that. [multiple panelists say "yeah."]"

 Why so many presidential mistakes in so little time?
"Obama and friends even taught at these elite institutions of higher learning; why Obama himself was a perfessor or something at the University of Chicago's Law School. Again though he produced no major articles or profound insights as is customary from a university noted for its research. "

Demonic and The Underrated Ann

Coulter and her most recent book

Andrew Klavan   "I don’t expect anyone to give her the Pulitzer Prize. The Pulitzer is one of those prizes liberals give to other liberals so they can call each other “prize-winning.” It’s appalling, however, that in a country where a blithering bomb-throwing hack like Paul Krugman is given an ongoing column in a prominent former newspaper, Coulter is considered too incendiary to have a mainstream column of her own. Her weekly piece online is routinely so witty, slashing and packed with information that it makes even some of the best newspaper columns look like pretty weak sauce in comparison."....

"But she is, I’m convinced, one of the essayists of the day, possibly of the age, and some of her writing will be taught in schools long after the work of more sober and “respectable” journalists is forgotten."