Why President Barack Obama should not visit Russia.

American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research  "Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced last week that President Vladimir Putin had called to congratulate Barack Obama on his reelection and claimed that the American president accepted an invitation from Putin to come to Russia. Obama's plans, which have not yet been publicly announced, seem truly puzzling.

"In the past 12 months, Putin's foreign and domestic policies have been nothing but a brazen, in-your-face challenge to U.S. interests and values. Russia has sided with Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria as it slaughtered tens of thousands of its own citizens, casting three vetoes in the U.N. Security Council to shield Damascus from international sanctions. Moreover, it has signaled the end of its already limited and caveat-ridden support for international efforts to contain a nuclear-bound Iran."

From the Moscow Times; The Reason Russian-Americans Dislike Obama  "Most of my Moscow friends who took an interest in the U.S. election and knew the difference between the candidates fell into the same category. This wasn't because they feared that Republican candidate Mitt Romney would make good on his promises to stand up to Russia. On the contrary, few among Russia's intelligentsia support President Vladimir Putin, and they probably wouldn't mind if the West took a tougher stance against Russia's current leadership."

It’s Time For Republicans To Give America a History Lesson

American Glob  ",Grab your imaginary microphone and video camera, we’re going to do a man-in-the-street type of experiment.

Now we’re downtown in your city and we’re going to ask passersby the following question:
Which party started the KKK?
OK, now we’re done. You know what 9 out of ten people answered? Republicans.
Of course, that’s wrong. The KKK was started by Democrats, in fact it was considered the terrorist wing of the Democratic Party. Senator Robert Byrd, a Democrat who died one year after Obama took office was even a member.
Why did so many people get the answer wrong? There are many reasons but the main one is that the Democrats and their allies in the media have spent the last four years beating a drum on a daily basis calling Republicans racists. More...

From Althouse; "Everytime I think the Democratic race card players could not get more vile..."
"It's an obvious scheme — actually, I am not amazed — to scare conservatives into believing that there are some Democrats who may not be criticized. If you accept the pushback, it will occur again and again. It's bullying, really. The key is to recognize it and confront it soundly, or it will go on and on."

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Newt nails it again: America is NOT a center-right nation; the left dominates

David Horowitz TV   "Hear Newt Gingrich take on the Republican political consultants and their game plans that lost this last election." Video at the link plus the video below.

"David Horowitz started the Center for the Study of Popular Culture (now the David Horowitz Freedom Center) in 1988. Over the next 18 years, he attracted 50,000 contributing supporters and established programs such as The Wednesday Morning Club, the Individual Rights Foundation, Students for Academic Freedom, and FrontPage Magazine, the Center’s online journal of news and political commentary. DiscoverTheNetworks.org, launched in 2005, is the largest publicly accessible database defining the chief groups and individuals of the Left and their organizational interlocks. Since 2003, the Center has promoted an Academic Bill of Rights to support students’ academic freedom, and free the American university from political indoctrination and renew its commitment to true intellectual diversity."

Ceasefire another royal opportunity handed to Hamas by Israel's "friends".

WND; Today's Scripture reading from 2 Samuel 7:24;

For You have made Your people Israel Your very own people forever; and You, LORD, have become their God.

'Son of Hamas' Says Israel Made a Mistake with Ceasefire  "Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of one of the founders of the Hamas terrorist organization and author of the book “Son of Hamas,” said on Friday that Israel made a mistake by agreeing to a ceasefire with Gaza’s terrorist rulers. "Yousef has spent a number of years abroad following a decade in which he risked his life working undercover as an agent for the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet). His code name during that time was 'The Green Prince.' "
...."Speaking about the possibility that Israel would have to work towards toppling the Hamas regime in Gaza, the former Shin Bet agent said, "This is necessary, but we have to work very hard for it. This is necessary not only for Israel - but for the benefit of humanity. Hamas was born to destroy. It cannot build.”
" "I have trouble believing that Hamas will be able to one day build a modern state,” said Yousef. “I hope their lies will be exposed to the Palestinian public." "

This and the following cartoon from the Jerusalem Post

Atlas Shrugs; Hamas victory: Hudna windfall, weapons smuggling bonanza   "Under Islam, a hudna is a temporary ceasefire to regroup and rearm, and that is exactly what Hamas is doing. Why would civilized men reward the targeting of innocent civilians? Hamas initiated the use of force, and they should pay, dearly. The people of Gaza elected these barbarians; they must pay the price of their government, just as we pay for the sins of ours. And if the people of Gaza support Hamas (as many of them do), they deserve what the government of Hamas deserves.

"The hudna calls on Israel to stop all attacks on Gaza, including targeting of individuals (mass murderers and such). It also requires “all Palestinian factions” to stop all hostilities against Israel from Gaza, including rocket fire and attacks along the border. But it won’t stop “splinter” groups that merely rename themselves overnight in order to continue the campaign of Islamic terror. Israel is going to relax border restrictions with Gaza, which means that weapons smuggling will step up in intensity.
"Obama praised Netanyahu for accepting the ceasefire proposal that had been advanced by Morsi, thereby adding to Morsi’s stature even as he assumed dictatorial powers in Egypt. It was no accident that after Obama propped him up as his partner in negotiating the Hamas hudna, Morsi issued a decree banning challenges to his rulings."....

Mark Steyn; Dome and Domer;
"The other day, re Israeli missile defense, Reuters columnist Anthony De Rosa tweeted:

If Iron Dome is so successful, what’s the purpose of killing so many in retaliation, especially “human shield” casualties?

"I like this guy’s answer." says Steyn, and so do I.

The Politically Correct Guide to Racism for Idiots

Conservative Daily News

1800's election poster reveals Democrat racism in its origins

"Conservatives may be unaware that the Democrat Party has passed new legislation redefining the rules of logic and political discourse regarding racism. For those who have grown used to such concepts as “hypocrisy,” and “logical inconsistency,” they need to eliminate these from their thinking and vocabulary.
"Everyone must get hip to the new rules of civility and tolerance, or else face serious penalties. The following are some examples that should get you racist wingnuts up to speed on the “New Discourse.”
"Clear cases of Racism against Black Democrats:"

 Read the list in its entirety here

"Simply put, if you are a conservative who is for Constitutionally limited government, free market capitalism, equality under the law, and freedom for all Americans, then you are a racist. If you are for unlimited government and increasing dependency on the Democrat Party, then you are not a racist. Any questions?"

Related, from legal Insurrection:  "Everytime I think the Democratic race card players could not get more vile, more deranged, more patronizingly demeaning to blacks, someone manages to defy even my vivid imagination.
"This time, it is the Editorial Board of The Washington Post, which issued a truly amazing screed ... claiming that critics of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice are motivated by race and sex, as demonstrated by the facts that most are male and a significant percentage come from former confederate states (emphasis mine):
....
"Boxer’s mocking of Rice, Condoleezza’s family status created a firestorm of controversy, but plenty of liberals defended the attack.

"Rice, Condoleeza, also was physically attacked at the start of those hearings, by White Liberals:

IBD; Obama helped destroy the Middle East

JUST SAY NO to Democrats  From 7/19/2012

"The Obama Record: After angry Egyptians pelted her motorcade with shoes, chanting “Leave!,” Secretary of State Clinton insisted the U.S. wasn’t there to take sides. Too late.

" ‘I want to be clear that the United States is not in the business, in Egypt, of choosing winners and losers, even if we could, which of course we cannot,” Hillary Clinton intoned earlier this week.
"Of course, the administration could, and it did, picking and even colluding with the Muslim Brotherhood. And one of its hard-liners, Mohammed Morsi, now sits in the presidential palace, where he refused to shake unveiled Clinton’s hand.
"This administration favored Islamists over secularists and helped them overthrow Hosni Mubarak, the reliable U.S. ally who had outlawed the terrorist Brotherhood and honored the peace pact with Israel for three decades. The Brotherhood, in contrast, has backed Hamas and called for the destruction of Israel."
Do ALL of Obama's people like to say,"let me be clear"?

Flashback: The View Lefty Joy Behar Thinks Term “Black Friday” Might Be A “Little Racist”…

Weasel Zippers

Speaking Truth to Hamas

Andrew G. Bostom  "The remarkably courageous Ramallah-born Mosab Hassan Yousef, the eldest son of Hamas cofounder Sheikh Hassan Yousef and a former Hamas activist himself, served time on several occasions in Israeli prison. Yousef is also known as "the Green Prince," the code name assigned him by the Shin Bet (Israeli security agency), with whom he later collaborated for a decade to thwart numerous terrorist attacks during the second intifada, sparing hundreds of Israeli lives. "

What If Iran Had Had Nukes?  "Imagine this past week with a nuclear-armed Iran watching from the wings. "

"Israel — as its friends and enemies never forget — is a “one-bomb country.” One nuclear weapon is all it would take to wipe out a nation whose territory is smaller than Djibouti, with a population not as large as that of Burundi — fewer than 8 million people, 20 percent of them Arabs who are enjoying rights denied to Arabs (not to mention non-Arab minorities) elsewhere in the Middle East.

"Israel is surrounded by Muslim-majority states with 60 times its population and 650 times its territory. Most of those states refuse even to recognize Israel. Some go further. Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, threatens genocide: “Israel must be burned to the ground and made to disappear from the face of the Earth.” "

American liberals support and defend people like these against an Israel that wants only to live in peace:

• 92 Year Old Palestinian Woman: Palestinians Should Massacre Jews Like We Massacred Them in Hebron.
• Some historical footage of the massacre. 

Liberals: Time To Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

CDN  "The additional cost of providing ObamaCare has gone political, particularly for Papa John’s Pizza. Erin Haust and Matt Vespa and Chris Vaca have written very good CDN articles explaining why the Papa John’s dust up is important to America’s freedom. In another article, Chris Vaca says, “I bring this up because once again they show themselves for what they truly are, hypocrites.” [emphasis mine] While Chris’ article was primarily about information, his observations fit so well that I just had to use it.

"Where are the liberals when it comes time to actually PAY for ObamaCare? This Salon article says that ObamaCare costs will add 10¢ to 14¢ to the cost of each pizza, or from 0.4 percent to 0.7 percent. Forbes’ Caleb Melby points out “that [John] Schnatter’s underlying logic doesn’t make sense when you look at the numbers.” There’s plenty of cost increase analysis, but no offers to pay for the, according to Melby’s analysis, inexpensive ObamaCare costs."....

McCarthy and Krauthammer on Gaza

 Charles Krauthammer;  Why was there war in Gaza?
"In effect, Israel had created the first Palestinian state ever, something never granted by fellow Muslims — neither the Ottoman Turks nor the Egyptians who brutally occupied Gaza for two decades before being driven out by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War.
"Israel wanted nothing more than to live in peace with this independent Palestinian entity. After all, the world had incessantly demanded that Israel give up land for peace.
"It gave the land. It got no peace."

Andrew C. McCarthy; We’re already seeing the wages of November 6.

"The day of reckoning is here.

"For over 30 years, the United States government and the institutions that drive public opinion have made like Susan Rice when it comes to the ideological threat that Islamic supremacists pose to freedom, fabricating reasons to remain in denial. Thus inured, the American people have elected, and now reelected, a president notoriously fond of America-bashing Islamists. The attraction would not be hard to understand if we were not so ideology-averse — GOP strategists having made Obama’s radicalism a subject nearly as off-limits as Islamic supremacism, helpfully leaving the Left to fill the canvas with their portrait of Mitt Romney: “Where Gordon Gekko Meets Michael Vick.”

"The president is a movement leftist who sees in our society a condemnable legacy of racism, imperialism, and economic exploitation that cries out for “fundamental change.” That is not meaningfully different from the Islamist perspective of America."

Fracking industry keeps eye on Obama; EPA report could doom future

World Net Daily brings us this article from the Washington Times:  "The drilling process that has brought U.S. energy independence within reach faces renewed scrutiny from the Obama administration and an uncertain future in many states.
"Oil and gas industry leaders remain enthusiastic yet cautious that hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as “fracking,” will be fully embraced by the newly re-elected President Obama and state leaders.
"Fracking is a controversial but highly successful practice that has unlocked massive amounts of fuel. Endorsements from Mr. Obama and state leaders would make fracking the cornerstone of U.S. energy policy for decades to come.
"Industry leaders won’t have to wait long for their first clue to what the future holds."

HuffPost omits Hamas celebrating, justifying bus bombing from source AP story; more

Huff Watch
•...newspapers and blogs that use AP as primary source published top-line stories of Tel Aviv bus bombing that included the Hamas official's praise and justification of this terror act.
•HuffPost's version of the AP story, however, which it did not make a headline, omitted the Hamas official's praise and justification, and falsely claimed Hamas had made no official statement about the incident.
•These are not isolated incidents or "accidents," but rather, are part of HuffPost's continuous pattern of protecting Hamas and effectively doing its PR --- while giving top-line, enduring coverage to stories containing inflammatory accusations against Israel and Jews that it knows (or should know) are untrue. 

Very interesting and enlightening with numerous revealing screen shots.