The Lost Meaning of Independence Day

Bruce Thornton   "Bound up in this idea of freedom, however, was its dependence on the virtues citizens had to possess in order to use this freedom responsibly and for the proper aims. For freedom was not ^th century called license, a selfish indulgence that cares nothing for the state as a whole either now or in the future. To act on whatever appetites and passions arise in one is to enslave the soul to them and subject the self and the state to their destructive effects. As Russell Kirk wrote, “The worst enemies of enduring freedom for all may be certain folk who demand incessantly more liberty for themselves.” "
“doing as one likes,” which is not true freedom, but what the 18
 

MSM protecting Hillary from scandal taint

Thomas Lifson  "A former member of then- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's protective detail has been sentenced to a year in prison, extending the strong of scandals that have engulfed the agency since Mrs. Clinton's tenure began.  The diplomat had faced a possible 7 year term, but pleaded guilty, sparing the expense and delay of a trial and perhaps shortening his sentence.  AP reports:
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"In order to maintain the media-generated illusion that Mrs. Clinton was an excellent SecState, as if miles flown on a private 757 were an index of effectiveness, the media are for the most part ignoring the burst of scandal uncovered in her wake. Rainsberger's sentence, for instance, merited an AP dispatch, but it does not appear to have been widely picked up, despite the fact that it closely follows news of another similar scandal."

www.washingtontimes.

Acquitting Zimmerman

NRO  "The question is no longer whether or not George Zimmerman will be convicted of murdering Trayvon Martin, the question is what will happen after he is acquitted."

Mona Charen; When it comes to killing, only some racial recipes are newsworthy.    " If the victim is white and the killer is black, it’s not interesting (unless the killer is a celebrity). If the victims are both white, it’s only interesting if the victim or the murderer is a comely blond female (preferably a nymphomaniac). If the victim and killer are both black, it’s a yawn. If the victim is black and the killer is white — make way for sweeps week!"

Weiner, Spitzer, Clinton: life is good if you're a Democrat

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Eliot Spitzer: I did not control my ‘urges’   "“It’s an exploitive industry, yes,” Spitzer said, after saying he didn’t know if the women he personally paid for sex were exploited.

"Spitzer went on to say that as governor, he pushed for human trafficking legislation to protect women from exploitation, and he acknowledged there was a “tension” that was “problematic” between his stated position on prostitution and his personal actions. He also said the exploitation was why he doesn’t believe prostitution should be decriminalized

National Journal

 

'Women for Anthony' hosts event  "The host list, featuring a number of high-powered women who were Clinton backers, makes clear what a number of media outlets have reported — that Abedin is a central figure in her husband’s campaign."

Being a Democrat inoculates you from scandal: Clinton accused of 1978 hotel rape

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“FATWA THIS!” Bob Beckel of The Five says U.S. needs to stop building mosques until we figure out who the terrorists are…

The Right Scoop "Bob Beckel is turning into a regular surprise. In a segment on Boko Haram burning school children alive over the weekend in Nigeria, Beckel called Muslim clerics everywhere cowards for not speaking out against such horrors and said America needs to stop building mosques until we can determine who the terrorist really are."

Here Beckel calls for stopping Muslim student visas till the terror issue is cleared up:

Former MSNBC Producer Says MSNBC Lies For Obama/ Character assassination of those who oppose Obama

American Glob    "We all knew this was true but it’s nice to get confirmation from an insider, isn’t it?
"Oh and here’s the gravy, the story was published at the Huffington Post…

How Do You Know When President Obama Is Lying? MSNBC Won’t Tell You

MSNBC has usually reacted to expanded militarism and surveillance by downplaying the abuses or defending them.

Had McCain or Romney defeated Obama and implemented the exact same policies, treating whistleblowers like Manning and Snowden as foreign espionage agents, one would expect MSNBC hosts to be loudly denouncing the Republican abuses of authority.

Related: Brent Bozell on 'Hannity': Slams Liberal Media's 'Nonstop' 'Character Assassination' in 2012  " Regarding his assertion that the media "stole" the election, Bozell added, "But I'm absolutely convinced, absolutely convinced and this book proves it, if the media had done their job fairly and honestly, there's no way Barack Obama would have been re-elected. I absolutely believe that." "  More... 

But believe us, it's gonna come

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Obama Tells 'His Press Corps' To 'Behave' / The liberal media are realizing the price of Obama adulation

IJReview.com 

"It’s good to be king. Even when you’re visiting a foreign country. In South Africa, Saturday, Barack  Obama admonished “my press” to “behave” – after they had the audacity to ask too many questions.

" “Americans, behave yourselves,” he said, during a joint press conference with South African President Jacob Zuma, as reported by breitbart.com. Obama complained – as he has in the past – that “my press” tries to squeeze “three or four or five questions in there,” while complimenting Zuma on his more obedient media.

"The Associated Press noted that “both U.S. and South African reporters asked multi-part questions,” while confirming Obama’s description of U.S. journalists as “his press corps.” "  Hat tip to Rich Cutter Avalone

HANSON: The press and its Faustian deal   "In the old Dr. Faustus story, a young scholar bargains away his soul to the devil for promises of obtaining almost anything he wants.
"The American media has done much the same thing with the Obama administration. In return for empowering a fellow liberal, the press gave up its traditional adversarial relationship with the president."   Read more.  

Nancy Pelosi demonstrates why she has earned the moniker, most vapid woman on earth.

We the People

"As she rambles on incoherently about the values of Obama Care, it seems obvious that it was a good idea she advised people not to read it before passing it."
 

FYI: vapid

"No peace, no honor": US may pull all troops out of Afghanistan next year

No more French surrender jokes, OK?

American Thinker  "Afghan President Hamid Karzai is acting more and more like the last president of South Vietnam, Nguyen Van Thieu. This, from Thieu's obit in the New York Times in 2001:

But a recently published book by Larry Berman, ''No Peace, No Honor: Nixon, Kissinger and Betrayal in Vietnam,'' (The Free Press), draws on previously secret archives to show that President Richard M. Nixon and Henry S. Kissinger, then the national security adviser, ignored Mr. Thieu's objections to their peace negotiations with Hanoi and agreed to withdraw American troops from Vietnam without any guarantees that North Vietnam would respect the Paris peace accords of 1973.

 Read more.
George Orwell said that the easiest way to end a war is to lose it. One more connection Obama has to 1984.

Obama's foreign policy as revealed in his Berlin speech

Obama hits a wall in Berlin

George Will  (From June 20) "The question of whether Barack Obama’s second term will be a failure was answered in the affirmative before his Berlin debacle, which has recast the question, which now is: Will this term be silly, even scary in its detachment from reality?

"Before Berlin, Obama set his steep downward trajectory by squandering the most precious post-election months on gun-control futilities and by a subsequent storm of scandals that have made his unvarying project — ever bigger, more expansive, more intrusive and more coercive government — more repulsive. Then came Wednesday’s pratfall in Berlin."....

Obamacare enforcer, the IRS released thousands of social security numbers

ConservativeDailyNews.com   "On Monday evening, the Internal Revenue Service confirmed that tens of thousands to possibl[y] 100,000 social security numbers were mistakenly released to the public through an IRS web page.

" PublicResource.org discovered the listing of Social Security Numbers and notified the IRS of the privacy issue. The IRS immediately cut-off internet access to the page.

"Although American’s Social Security cards prominently display the fact that the number should not be used for identification, it is. Credit card companies, mortgage lenders, banks and others use the number to identify a unique person. Access to this number can lead to identity theft, fraud and with the IRS taking on the role of Obamacare enforcer – crimes we haven’t even imagined.

"Ham-handed information management policies and procedures, like those used to unfairly scrutinize Conservative groups, are likely responsible for the leak of private information.

"Imagine how great it will be once the IRS has direct access to American’s healthcare information…  (Emphasis added)

Obamacare so confusing, government computers can’t handle it   "Imagine how much fun this will all be when beef consumption, sodas, alcohol and other things become 50% premium risks? Premiums may “necessarily skyrocket” as we speed on our way to a single-payer, fully government-run healthcare system."