Judicial nomination remarks show Obama is more isolated than ever

Washington Post  "When I heard that President Obama was going to publicly announce his nominees for the D.C. Circuit Court today, I thought he would take the opportunity to show poise and make an effort to bolster his slipping presidency. I thought he would try to break out from the hand-to-hand combat in Washington and stem the growing malaise within his administration. So I was surprised that, instead, the president adopted a whiny, defensive pout. Obama would rather air his grievances with Republicans than present himself as an effective, engaged president. And no one in the White House can talk him out of it. That’s a bad sign for the president."
The writer twists the knife some more with this to which I've added emphasis:
"Recently, former President Bill Clinton was credited with — or blamed for, depending on your point of view — saying that, “Obama doesn’t know how to be president.” Today was the clearest example I’ve seen in a while that the presidency just doesn’t suit Obama."

Karma! IRS Can’t Locate Its Receipts

Washington Free Beacon  Neener neener neener!

"The IRS spent over 4 million taxpayer dollars on a conference in 2010, CNN reported Tuesday evening. The actual amount wasted is unknown because the IRS was not required to keep its receipts, something that they require taxpayers to do.
"CNN correspondent Dana Bash discussed the excesses of the agency in a report on 360, including gifts, video spoofs and upscale hotel rooms for agency higher-ups, but the cost of those and the conference itself was unclear because the IRS had engaged in poor record-keeping:"....

The Hollow Core of Obamaism

Jonah Goldberg  "One of the reasons Obama elicits so much cynicism outside his cult of personality is that many of us suspect that his rhetoric is just so much marketing for protecting the perks and expanding prerogatives of a bloated administrative state.   Real wartime governments are prone to bloat and inefficiency too, but there is at least an ethos that says there is a priority higher than protecting the interests of bureaucrats. When you see a government acting as if taxpayer concerns are a joke and a devotion to limited government is cast as something between illegitimate dissent and paranoid dementia, hearing the head of that government exhort the citizenry to shut up and fall in line is nothing short of infuriating."

Sharpton and MSNBC - perfect for each other

American Thinker  "Sharpton has a long history of racism and anti-Semitism that trails him wherever he goes, though this has been neatly excised by MSNBC, Bill Clinton and others who have found it politically useful to rub elbows with Sharpton. This has been a shameful practice - the likes of Sharpton have done harm not only to fellow African-Americans but to the nation as a whole.
....
"Sharpton has a long history of racism and anti-Semitism that trails him wherever he goes, though this has been neatly excised by MSNBC, Bill Clinton and others who have found it politically useful to rub elbows with Sharpton. This has been a shameful practice - the likes of Sharpton have done harm not only to fellow African-Americans but to the nation as a whole."

MSNBC Publicly Shamed For Employing Al Sharpton With His “Outrageous History Of Hate”…

Weasel Zippers  "Number of times Sharpton has apologized for his past actions: Zero."

WZ cites this Politico article:  "The evidence: A new documentary short from The New York Times and Retroreport.org about the 1987 Tawana Brawley hoax, during which Sharpton was found guilty of defaming a local prosecutor who he accused of attacking and raping the 15-year-old Brawley. As the documentary shows, there had been no rape; Brawley had defaced herself. Stevens also accuses Sharpton of using the Brawley case to inflame racial tensions and promote his own career."
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""If you are an NBC exec and have kids, sit down with them and watch the Times documentary on Tawana Brawley," he writes. "And when your kids ask why your colleague Al Sharpton is working for NBC, you can explain to them why everything you’ve tried to teach them about honesty, fair play and decency is wrong and Al Sharpton is right." "

 The Tawana Brawley Story  "Brawley, after all, was a 15-year old African American teenager, who had been allegedly assaulted by six white men — including a police officer — from her upstate New York community.
But as her tale played out on the nightly news, another story unfolded, one that raised serious questions about Brawley’s claims and her advisers, including the Rev. Al Sharpton."

Christie's big test: who will he pick to replace Sen. Lautenberg?

The odd couple

Big Government   "The death Monday of NJ Sen. Frank Lautenberg presen
ts Gov. Chris Christie with a host of difficult choices. This being New Jersey, of course, it is even more complicated as state law appears to be in conflict. It is unclear if a special election to fill the seat would occur this year, during the state's general election this November, or in the election next year. The implications of each affect Christie's calculus on this, his first big, national political test."

It's a lot more complicated than you might think; Whom he picks to replace Lautenberg will speak volumes. "Whom Christie selects to take Lautenberg’s seat in the interim will both affect and be affected by these considerations. ....
...."So let’s do a bit of old-fashioned speculating, and take a look at a few possible picks and what each could/would mean this year and beyond."

Real 'Bombshell' Is That Reporters More Experienced Than ABC's Trey Hardin Already Had to Know What He Revealed

And now, pray for Darrell Issa because he will be destroyed by Democrats.

Newsbusters  "In what some have described as a "bombshell" statement, ABC News Political analyst Trey Hardin said something on Monday morning any reporter with any kind of meaningful inside connections in Washington should have known, but apparently wouldn't dare say or write: "I can say with a very strong sense of certainty that there are people very close to this president that not only knew what the IRS were doing but authorized it."
"Martin continued: "It simply just does not happen at an agency level like that without political advisers likely in the West Wing certainly connected to the president’s ongoing campaign organization that didn’t know about it." Again, Kerry Picket at Breitbart News, released hearing testimony previous obtained (bolds are mine):"....  Read more.

War of words escalates between Issa and White House  "The pushback from the White House, in the person of David Plouffe, was a vicious smear of Issa that was debunked 20 years ago:
....

"Still, Plouffe's outrageous comments take the prize for lowest blow of the week. It appears that the White House has decided to get in the gutter to hit back against criticism of their handling of the IRS scandal and I'm sure Republicans won't be far behind in the race to the bottom."

Issa gets the Chicago treatment: Plouffe Suggests Issa May be a Criminal

White House Dossier "The kerfuffle over House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa’s calling White House Press Secretary Jay Carney a liar is nothing compared to the ugly Chicago, Alinskyite politics that reared its head in response.

Plouffe

"The very president who was supposed to be above something as pedestrian as politics has shown once again that he is in fact the ugliest practitioner of it since Richard Nixon.
" “Strong words from Mr Grand Theft Auto and suspected arsonist/insurance swindler. And loose ethically today,” tweeted David Plouffe Sunday in response to news that Issa had called into question Carney’s honesty."

...."This is effectively Obama roughing up his chief antagonist on Capitol Hill in the most coarse and malignant manner. It’s a sure signal to other White House allies, on Capitol Hill and elsewhere, to begin trying to destroy Issa.
"And it’s a desecration of Obama’s office. Then again, that’s nothing much new.
"But more interestingly, it may be a sign that the White House is much more gravely concerned about Issa than it lets on."

Free Bradley Manning at Meade

Blackfive "Not actually giving away free samples, just whining that treason is not important enough to lock someone up for. Friend of UJ and the site "the One-Eyed Jack" took one for the team and drove through the gaggle of dirty, nasty, patchouli-smelling hippies  to give us this report."

All in all, it seemed like much ado about nothing. There seemed to be one cop for every two protestors, and other than the Code Pink folks (in their trademark pink tops/shorts, etc), there seemed to be left wing radicals of almost every stripe (based on the signs I saw). The protestors did cause the powers that be to spend a ton of money, though…

"UJ: I think they look great on the other side of the fence. Too bad it is not in with Bradley. I'm kidding, I wholeheartedly support the right of the ass-clowns to conduct buffonery in support of traitors. It's the American way." 

U.S. publishes details of missile base Israel wanted kept secret

This president is a foreign policy disaster!
McClatchy  ""If an enemy of Israel wanted to launch an attack against a facility, this would give him an easy how-to guide. This type of information is closely guarded and its release can jeopardize the entire facility," said an Israeli military official who commented on the publication of the proposal but declined to be named because he wasn’t authorized to discuss the facility. He declined to say whether plans for the facility have been altered as a result of the disclosure.           

" "This is more than worrying, it is shocking," he said."

Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/06/03/192895/us-publishes-details-of-missile.html#.Ua0-qUAa6lg#storylink=cpy

Another urban legend: Muslims exempted from ObamaCare

This came to me today and the text contained these claims:

ObamaCare allows the establishment of Dhimmitude and Sharia Muslim diktat in the United States. Muslims are specifically exempted from the government mandate to purchase insurance, and also from the penalty tax for being uninsured. Islam considers insurance to be "gambling", "risk-taking", and "usury" and is thus banned. Muslims are specifically granted exemption based on this.

How convenient. 
      So I, as a Christian, will have crippling IRS liens placed against all of my assets, including real estate, cattle, and even accounts receivable, and will face hard prison time because I refuse to buy insurance or pay the penalty tax. Meanwhile, Louis Farrakhan will have no such penalty and will have 100% of his health insurance needs paid for by the de facto government insurance. Non-Muslims will be paying a tax to subsidize Muslims.. This is Dhimmitude.

Oddly enough, posts like this usually say the story was checked against Snopes and this one even included the link to their site. But when the site was checked, the Snopes report totally rejected this story. Yet that did not stop the original source from telling us to forward this on to as many people as we can.  See the Snopes report yourself where they label the rumor as false.

Truth or Fiction gives us more background here:
There is a provision for a religious conscience exemption in the HR-3590 health care bill that was signed into law by President Obama but there is no Muslim restriction against the purchase of health insurance.

Members of some religious organizations may claim a Religious Conscience Exemption if their sects meet the conditions by having a health care sharing ministry that is exempt from taxation under section 501(a).   For more please click here for finding on the HR-3590.

Health insurance and life Insurance are two different products. According to the Islam online web site, there are a variety of views of  religious restrictions toward life insurance and investing because it is looked upon as gambling but no evidence was found of any restrictions toward Muslims purchasing medical, home owners and automobile policies.

 

FactCheck states:

Finally, the e-mail repeats one other claim we’ve debunked before. It says that "I … will face hard prison time because I refuse to buy insurance or pay the penalty tax." This is false. The House version of the bill left open the possibility of criminal penalties for deliberately evading a tax for not having health insurance, but the Senate version did not, nor did the final law.

Further research.
Please check any stories like this out before forwarding them on. Rumors of this type make many opponents of this president's policies look exactly like the low-information voters who put him into office for another four years. We have to be better than those people. TD

Major Democratic donors flock to Christie

New Jersey On-Line "Gov. Chris Christie is cashing in donations from top Democratic fundraisers and other traditionally liberal donors across the country, even nabbing the support of a handful of rainmakers aligned with President Obama and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, a Star-Ledger review of state and federal records shows.
"The checks are flying into the Republican governor’s war chest from all sorts of unlikely places — the hedge fund run by liberal billionaire George Soros*, for example, and the politically progressive halls of the University of California, Berkeley."
*Uh-oh. Emphasis added.