Obama's Step Forward on Libya

Council on Foreign Relations  "It took nearly four months, but last week the Obama administration finally did the right thing: It recognized the National Transitional Council as the rightful government of Libya. That will allow the rebels to tap into billions of dollars in frozen Libyan government accounts in the U.S. Access to those funds is crucial not only for furthering the campaign to topple Moammar Gadhafi, but also for constructing a working government in Benghazi that can eventually be expanded to the rest of the country."
Max Boot is a senior fellow in national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is completing a history of guerrilla warfare and terrorism.

80% of Americans want a tax increase



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Life as run by liberals: Boys And Girls Banned At Swedish Preschool?! Kids To Be Called ‘It’

Big Peace  "“The category of gender was canceled at one of Swedish kindergartens. The words “boy” and “girl” are no longer used there, while pronouns “he” and “she” were replaced with “it”. Kindergarten teachers believe that they are successfully breaking the gender stereotypes so that the people of two sexes would not feel predominant towards each other. Experts say, though, that such seeming equality may lead to the genetic rebirth of the population and to the decline of human civilization."

GOP Rep. Peter King To Hold Third Round Of Congressional Hearings On Muslim Radicalization…

Weasel Zippers  "Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., plans the third in a series of controversial hearings for July 27. It will focus on the Somalia-based al-Shabaab terrorist organization and its recruiting tactics in the U.S."

Good Things / Costs and repercussions don’t matter in politics.

Thomas Sowell   "Higher miles per gallon for cars is a Good Thing in politics, even if it leads to cars too lightly built to protect occupants when there is a crash. More students going to college is another Good Thing, even if lowering standards to get them admitted results in lower educational quality for others.
"Too much of a Good Thing is bad."

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The "Murdoch" phone hackings

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

Phone hacking: Rupert Murdoch, James Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks at last face questions
"James Murdoch faces the crunch moment in his battle to remain in charge of News International. He is expected to be put under intense pressure by members of the culture media and sport select committee following accusations that executives covered up the extent of wrongdoing by News of the World journalists."   More here.

Conservative Solutions, White House Attacks

The Heritage Foundation "White House press secretary Jay Carney described the plan as “duck, dodge and dismantle,” and the White House blog warns that the spending cuts it requires would burden “seniors and the most vulnerable” and would be “harmful to the economic recovery in the short-term.” (Point of fact: Obama’s trillions of dollars in spending have led to 9.2 percent unemployment and anemic job growth.)
"Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) office hysterically warned it would “end Medicare” and called the only proposed plan in Washington a “political stunt.”
"These liberal scare tactics echoed the President’s press conference last week in which he struggled to even utter the plan’s name, warned that the measures in the legislation are drastic and that a balanced budget amendment is unnecessary:"...

Liberals from Capitol Hill to the cable networks keep insisting that the nation will go into default unless Congress raises the nation’s debt ceiling by August 2.  "All along we have felt that such a claim is at least technically wrong, seeing that unquestionably we will be able to make interest payments on our bonds. More confounding, however, is that the ones yelling the loudest that the debt limit must be raised also keep insisting that a vote tomorrow in the House of Representatives to raise the debt limit is “an empty and symbolic gesture.”"

Obama officially threatens to veto Republicans' 'cut, cap and balance' bill

http://www.comicallyincorrect.com/comicallyincorrect_002.htm

Wynn Slams Obama On Business: "Responsible For Fear In America"

RealClearPolitics  "Everybody's afraid of the government and there's no need soft peddling it, it's the truth. It is the truth. And that's true of Democratic businessman and Republican businessman, and I am a Democratic businessman and I support Harry Reid. I support Democrats and Republicans. And I'm telling you that the business community in this company is frightened to death of the weird political philosophy of the President of the United States. And until he's gone, everybody's going to be sitting on their thumbs."
Via Neal Boortz.

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/photos/barack-obama-cartoons/32

Taxpayer-funded exhibit slurs GOP govs as Nazis

American Thinker  ""Artist" Sean Michael Stimac has released his piece, "The Faces of Fascism," for display at the Marquette (Michigan) Arts and Cultural Center.  In it, Republican governors Walker, Kasich, Scott, and Snyder appear on a Nazi-style propaganda poster with the visage of the Third Reich's eagle, and in its talons is not the swastika, but the Republican Party's token elephant."

From the comments section:

Republican governors who are working to keep their promises to clean up Democrat messes made in their states are Nazis, huh?  In the meantime, another Democrat executive takes over two out of three players in a major American industry (as in GM and Chrysler), takes over the country's financial sector and takes over the health-care system and he is clean-and-pure as the wind-driven snow!  Who is looking more like Nazis, Republicans or Democrats?  Bear in mind, the word "Nazi" is a contraction for the German translation of "National Socialist" and socialism runs through Democrat veins.

Glad to see the writer used the word "Democrat" instead of the official name of the party. It's less of a misnomer.

New rule for WH press corps: stop asking questions when you see the President

Hot Air  "Say, didn’t Jay Carney once work in journalism — you know, that profession that Speaks Truth to Power, holds government accountable, afflicts-the-comfortable-while-comforting-the-afflicted?  It seems that either he has forgotten that Speaking Truth to Power requires at the very least Asking Questions to Power first, although Carney didn’t forget to play his Moral Authority Card yesterday when telling the White House press corps that they wouldn’t be allowed into the debt-ceiling meeting.  They had rudely transgressed by “shouting” questions at Barack Obama:"...

Mother told to feed her child in a toilet - so Muslims will not be offended

UpPompeii  "Can you imagine what would have happened if this had happened to a Muslim female and child, this overt pandering to the Muslim community in the UK is now an epidemic, that a mother should be told to feed her child in a toilet is completely disgusting - as the mother concerned said - "would you eat your meal in a toilet", I am only surprised that the officials did not make it clear to her that she must not use Muslim toilets - this was not the case I hasten to add, she was just told to use the toilets."
"Does this mean that if you are not a Muslim, and you are in a restaurant or cafe having a meal, and a Muslim in your proximity objects to what you are eating - you may be asked to finish your meal in the toilet - highly improbable I agree but where does this kind of thing end???

Things That Offend Muslims

Upset Muslims Hold Protest Against Security Screenings at US Border

“Muslims are terrified,” he says. “They don’t want to be targeted. They don’t want to be identified, they don’t want to be listed as trouble makers for future treatment, and they’re just terrified even though they’re citizens.”

"In the last 24 months 126 people were indicted on terrorist-related charges in the United States. All of them were Muslim."

Obama's Tibet Two-step (updated)

Thomas Lifson  ..."On the other hand, the Dalai Lama has a large following in America, especially among the sort of people who generally like Barack Obama.

"Fortunately for him, Barack Obama is a master of the double message, sending contradictory communications to different groups, often deploying visual elements to carry a message in conflict with his words. The most notorious such incident was when he gave the finger to Hillary Clinton during a speech."....

"Yesterday, Obama pulled a similar, if less obvious stunt with the Dalai Lama. Reader Bill Schanefelt spotted the following photograph and commented:"...

Once again we have an egregious example of the arrogant contempt THE ONE has for traditionally respected figures.
Now, His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, may not be my or your cup of tea, but he is the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people and is generally well-regarded no matter how much of an admitted socialist he is.
But this pose shows it all--rumpled socks (matching what?), exposed leg, no tie, a look of disdain, hardback chairs, and an informal setting away from the usual fireplace before which presidents normally sit when meeting such worthies.