The EPA Gets Caught in a Big Fat Lie

Warning Signs  "The notion that the Environmental Protection Agency uses “science” to justify their regulations is false, just like most of the claims they issue on various aspects of the nation’s environment. Their favorite scam is to estimate the number of deaths they will prevent with some new draconian regulation.
"The EPA is the American equivalent of the Gestapo, a ruthless enforcement agency with a very Green agenda that is opposed to the use of many beneficial chemicals, every form of energy, and the right of people to be left alone." ....

"The EPA has been short on the truth about all of its claims for four decades and needs to be shut down in order to let a truly science-based agency replace it with strict congressional oversight and limitations.
"The time is long overdue to pull the plug on the Environmental Protection Agency." Alan Caruba. 

Just a reminder: Obama’s jobs bill still has no cosponsors

Hot Air  "We have a federal system, not a parliamentary system, so our legislature doesn’t take votes of no-confidence to force an executive out of power.  But given the high-profile rollout of the AJA by Obama, including his demand for a joint session to escalate pressure for action, the lack of any co-sponsors on these bills is about as close as we’ll get to a vote of no confidence in this executive short of an outright floor-vote failure in the Senate on the bill."
Not even Kucinich? Bernie Sanders? Maxine Waters?

Obama jobs bill filed in the House ‘at the request of the president,’ but with no cosponsors
"Both versions, H.R. 12 and S. 1549 contain the same language and have no co-sponsors.
"“Members have not been asked to co-sponsor the bill. Instead, members have asked that the GOP leadership bring it up so we can address the need for job creation in this country,” a senior Democratic aide told TheDC. “We weren’t chasing co-sponsors.”’ "  The Daily Caller

Google's YouTube Allows Terrorist Supporter To Use Image Of Murdered 4yr old Israeli Child Elad Fogel

JAWA Report  "At approximately 0:48 into this video this user has a image of murdered Fogel child, 4yr old Elad Fogel[<--Link Warning...strong stomach required]"

Defending Obamacare with 'a Soviet-Style Power-Grab’

Mark Hemingway  "It's bad enough that America is devolving into an onerous regulatory state, but impeding those who report on federal agencies and the rules they make is inexcusable. It's hard to conjure a rationale for this that isn't wholly political, given the unending stream of unflattering reports about the impact of Obamacare as HHS struggles to implement it." Via The Weekly Standard

http://www.worldmag.com/editorialcartoons/

You've gone soft, you little worms!

Roger Kimball: Has America “Gone Soft”?  "Two points: When, Barack, did you start thinking — or, more to the point, start saying — that America was “a great, great country”? It wasn’t so long ago that you were jetting around the world apologizing for America. What changed your mind? Could it be that your handlers have let you in on the fact that bad-mouthing the country is not a good re-election strategy?
"They’re right about that, you know, but my chief point is the second: Who told you that America had lost its competitive edge “over the last couple of decades”? Whoever it was, you should sack him. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
"Like Koko in the Mikado, I have a little list, and I offer it to you, Barack, free and for nothing, without tax or levy:"...


Stephen Green writes this open letter to the president  "I saw the rise of a new political movement, a new Tea Party. This Tea Party didn’t throw fits. The rest of American didn’t have to endure tantrums as they went out on the streets, Greek-style, to demand more and more largess. No. They assembled peacefully, quietly, and asked you to do less to try and “help” them. That doesn’t seem soft to me, Mr. President.
I watched them endure taunts from your allies, and even from you, Mr. President..."

American Thinker has this.  Plus this Eric Allie cartoon (right).

Byron York: 'Soft' America: What Obama really meant
"Others have argued that Obama's statement revealed a mix of "condescension, incompetence, and narcissism," in the words of columnist Charles Krauthammer.".... "Look at Obama's speeches in the last couple of months, and he has repeatedly scolded audiences for not working hard enough and for not sacrificing enough to achieve the goals he has set for his administration.  He's done it with both supporters and with adversaries."

William Kristol: Bittersoft Liberalism    "It’s liberalism that’s become, unfortunately, bitter and soft. It’s bitter about the American people’s resistance to doing what their liberal betters tell them to do. It’s soft in its understanding of the exigencies and limitations of the real world. Obama is wrong: It’s not America that’s bittersoft. It’s liberalism."

Mark Steyn: ‘Soft’ Nation   "This is a great, great country that got so soft that 53 percent of electors voted for a ludicrously unqualified chief executive who would be regarded as a joke candidate in any serious nation. One should not begrudge a man who seizes his opportunity. But one should certainly hold in contempt those who allow him to seize it on the basis of such flaccid generalities as “hope” and “change”: That’s more than “a little” soft." "  Of course, Mr. Steyn means that in a nice way.

Jay Carney Quotes Mitt Romney Saying Individual Health Insurance Mandate ‘A Conservative Idea’

Mediaite  "Just when things were going so well for Mitt Romney, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney has to come along and throw a wrench into the works."

If we truly want to undo the damage done by Obama and the Democrats, do we really think any Northeastern Republican will get it done? Can any Republican elected by New Englanders be anything but a RINO? Consider the states that Republicans who vote with Democrats for liberal issues come from. TD

Friday night document dumps: Learn to follow the news on Saturday

Hot Air  "When a White House dumps documents late on a Friday, it’s not because they aren’t newsworthy.  It’s usually because they’re embarrassing, or potentially incriminating.  Yesterday we got an almost perfect example of the art when the Obama administration finally released selected documents on the Fast & Furious scandal that prove “extensive” communications between the ATF’s field office and the White House on the deadly project:" Related: Bombshell: DOJ Considering Elimination of ATF



 Sipsey Street Irregulars has this and the childrens book pictured:"The documents show extensive communications between then-ATF Special Agent in Charge of the Phoenix office Bill Newell - who led Fast and Furious - and then-White House National Security Staffer Kevin O'Reilly. Emails indicate the two also spoke on the phone. Such detailed, direct communications between a local ATF manager in Phoenix and a White House national security staffer has raised interest among Congressional investigators looking into Fast and Furious." (Italics in the original.)

Kudos to CBS News for covering “Fast and Furious” while the rest of the MSM looks the other way  " That’s right: While NBC, ABC, and others have looked the other way, CBS News has spent the past few weeks doggedly reporting cover-ups tied to Fast and Furious. They’ve also been asking how far up the chain of command Fast and Furious goes? (In other words – who authorized this mess to begin with?)"
You can be sure NBC will not cover it. Remember NBC?  The network whose correspondents kept asking President Bush to apologize for this and that.

Obama to Keynote Event of Gay Group That Promotes LGBT Curriculum in Elementary Schools

CNS News  "– President Barack Obama will speak on Saturday at the Human Right Campaign’s (HRC) annual dinner in Washington, D.C. – the HRC is a pro-homosexual lobbying group that, among things, is promoting a lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender-inclusive curricula for children in elementary school."

....
"The HRC’s description of “What Welcoming Schools Offer” states, in part, the following:

Curriculum must be LGBT inclusive starting in elementary school for the following reasons:....

Al Qaeda infighting led to Awkali killing in Yemen. Ayman Zawhiri is in Yemen

DEBKAfile  "The tip-off which enabled two American drone-borne Hellfire missiles to kill the US-born Anwar al-Awkali by locating his convoy in the Khashef in the Jawf province of Yemen, 140 kilometers east of the capital Sanaa, reached US intelligence as a result of a power struggle within Al Qaeda's leadership in Yemen.

"Killed too was a second US-born al Qaeda operative. (Good grief, don't tell Ron Paul!)

DEBKAfile's counter-terror sources disclose that the internal strife which led to their deaths was sharpened by the recent arrival in Yemen of the new Al Qaeda leader Ayman Zuwahiri.

DEBKAfile exclusive.

Oh, the stupidity out there! Cornell Belcher: Cain's "Brainwashed" Remark Was "Racist, Bigoted"

truthgun.com

RealClearPolitics  "Democratic strategist Cornell Belcher says there is a media "double-standard" over Herman Cain saying blacks have been "brainwashed." Belcher calls Mr. Cain a bigot and a racist and says this incident is a "teachable moment." "  Just when you thought every race card imaginable had been played, he comes up with this one.
Also here.

Here's everything you could want to read on this. Maybe more.

Krauthammer: Land without peace: Why Abbas went to the U.N.

Charles Krauthammer  "...Abbas responded by boycotting the talks for nine months, showing up in the 10th, then walking out when the freeze expired. Last week he reiterated that he will continue to boycott peace talks unless Israel gives up — in advance — claim to any territory beyond the 1967 lines. Meaning, for example, that the Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem is Palestinian territory. This is not just absurd. It violates every prior peace agreement. They all stipulate that such demands are to be the subject of negotiations, not their precondition."

http://www.gorrellart.com/

"Abbas unwaveringly insists on the so-called "right of return", which would demographically destroy Israel by swamping it with millions of Arabs, thereby turning the world’s only Jewish state into the world’s 23rd Arab state. And he has repeatedly declared, as recently as last week in New York: “We shall not recognize a Jewish state.” "

Iranian Pastor Sentenced to Death; To Die Today: Nadarkhani Refuses to Convert

Voice of the Martyrs

International Business Times  "Before his last hearing Wednesday, Nadarkhani had been given three previous chances to repent, and all three times he has refused. After his final refusal Wednesday, no verdict has been announced, but many expect that he could be put to death as soon as Friday.
"The case has slowly garnered international attention, and there are a number of Christian rights groups advocating for his release."

Iranian Christians International

C.S. Lewis : "You never know how much you really believe anything
until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you." "At the recent hearings, the court in Rasht ruled that Pastor Youcef was not a practicing Muslim before becoming a Christian but that he remains guilty of apostasy because of his Muslim ancestry."

Apostasy in Islam
In the Islamist's view, everyone is born a Muslim and leaves it later. Ergo, one does not "convert" to Islam; one "reverts" to Islam.