Peggy Noonan: WH Staffers Nickname President 'Obam-me'

Newsmax  "White House staffers have adopted a new and unflattering nickname for their boss: "Obam-me," Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan says she heard in chats with a few senators.

"And how did the staffers come up with that name?

" 'Because it's all about him and his big thoughts," Noonan writes in a column. "I guess the second-term team is not quite as adoring as the first.' "

The Decline of College

Victor Davis Hanson  "For the last 70 years, American higher education was assumed to be the pathway to upper-mobility and a rich shared-learning experience.
"The result was a more skilled workforce and a competent democratic citizenry. That ideal may still be true at our flagship universities, with their enormous endowments and stellar world rankings.
"Yet most elsewhere, something went terribly wrong with that model. Almost all the old campus protocols are now tragically outdated or antithetical to their original mission. 

"Young Americans for four years took a common core of classes, learned to look at the world dispassionately, and gained the concrete knowledge to make informed arguments logically."...

Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution,Stanford University, and the author, most recently, of “The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern”

Many, many bikers roar into DC to compete with the Muslim demonstration

Why do I say "compete"? Because the Muslim rally was organized, I suppose, for Muslims to protest their poor image in American society and to ask that they be respected, which is fine enough as far as it goes. But I heard not one word of anger from Muslims over the murder and destruction around the world done by Muslims in the name of Islam.

WND  "It was originally billed as “The Million Muslim March,” though organizers later revised it to the “Million American March Against Fear.”
"But at noon Wednesday in the nation’s capital, there weren’t a million Muslims or Americans to be found anywhere – not even close.

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The Weekly Standard had reported Tuesday that police were expecting “the size of the March will be somewhere in the hundreds, not thousands, of participants.”
Mark Segraves of the NBC affiliate in Washington reported that only “about 25 people,” including activist Cornel West, were at the Muslim march as of 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, with a group of Christians about the same size nearby.
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"The name of the “Million Muslim March” was changed to the “Million American March Against Fear” because organizers said the original name proved too “scary.”
"In fact, The American Muslim Political Action Committee was criticized for scheduling the march on the anniversary of 9/11.
"But organizers insist the name was changed because, “Many non-Muslim Americans are terrified of Muslims, who are portrayed by Hollywood and the US media as fanatical terrorists.”"

"Portrayed by Hollywood"? The last few times I saw terrorism films, it was usually extreme right-wingers or violent Christians committing the acts.
Perhaps that is just as well; if Hollywood does make a movie with Islamic terrorists, we'd have to endure more episodes of this president and his cabinet groveling before the Muslim world. TD

However, the counter-protest by bikers was in evidence everywhere.
Driving in from Canada and from all over the United States, the bikers, who were denied a permit for their demonstration, were flooding the capital.
At approximately 1 p.m., “2 Million Bikers to DC” Facebook page co-founder Belinda Bee posted that police have counted nearly 1 million bikers are on the streets of Washington.

Meanwhile, Canadian and American bikers came to DC for 9-11:
 

One of a kind photo from Hollywood in 1943

Brings  back memories of the old days when movies were something for the family. It is a 1943 promotional photo of many of the actors under contract with MGM at the studio's 20th birthday party.

This is an amazing picture, made during World War 2, and features some actors in uniform. It is one you will never see the like of again.

Front Row: James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, Lucille Ball, Hedy Lamarr, Katharine Hepburn, Louis B Mayer, Greer Garson, Irene Dunne, Susan Peters, Ginny Simms, Lionel Barrymore

Second Row: Harry James, Brian Donlevy, Red Skelton, Mickey Rooney, William Powell, Wallace Beery, Spencer Tracy, Walter Pidgeon, Robert Taylor, Pierre Aumont, Lewis Stone, Gene Kelly, Jackie Jenkins

Third Row: Tommy Dorsey, George Murphy, Jean Rogers, James Craig, Donna Reed, Van Johnson, Fay Bainter, Marsha Hunt, Ruth Hussey, Marjorie Main, Robert Benchley

Fourth Row: Dame May Whitty, Reginald Owen, Keenan Wynn, Diana Lewis, Marilyn Maxwell, Esther Williams, Ann Richards, Marta Linden, Lee Bowman, Richard Carlson, Mary Astor

Fifth Row: Blanche Ring, Sara Haden, Fay Holden, Bert Lahr, Frances Gifford, June Allyson, Richard Whorf, Frances Rafferty, Spring Byington, Connie Gilchrist, Gladys Cooper

Sixth Row: Ben Blue, Chill Wills, Keye Luke, Barry Nelson, Desi Arnaz, Henry O'Neill, Bob Crosby, Rags Ragland
Other sources for this:
http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/11/a-1943-group-photo-of-65-movie-stars/
http://www.katharinehepburntheater.org/blog/katharine-hepburn/katharine-hepburn-among-the-mgm-stars/

And then today we have:  

Hat tip to Val Brose, Santa Maria, CA 

Free speech on our college campuses?

From FIRE: Foundation for Individual Rights in Education

From Berkeley to the 'Blueprint': Prof. Dave's Fight for Free Speech on Campus

Which brings us to this:  California College Forbids Passing Out Constitutions...On Constitution Day   "In a stunning illustration of the attitude taken towards free speech by too many colleges across the United States, Modesto Junior College in California told a student that he could not pass out copies of the United States Constitution outside the student center on September 17, 2013—Constitution Day. Captured on video, college police and administrators demanded that Robert Van Tuinen stop passing out Constitution pamphlets and told him that he would only be allowed to pass them out in the college’s tiny free speech zone, and only after scheduling it several days or weeks ahead of time." 

This Sketch Is Dead-On

From Chicks on the Right comes this portrayal of American media that is, unfortunately, too close to the truth.
"This sketch from the BS of A is awesome and I love it, because 1. It's funny, and 2. We've interviewed Buck Sexton on our radio show, and he's not only just a wee bit accomplished and genuinely nice, but obviously has a wicked sense of humor, too.  
...
"It's just too bad that while this sketch is indeed funny, it's also a completely accurate depiction of our lamestream liberal American media.  Which is equally pathetic and frightening."

Have liberals turned America into a "banana republic"?

American Banana Republic    Mark Steyn: The decay of a free society doesn’t happen overnight, but we’re getting there.

 

“ 'Banana republic” is an American coinage — by O. Henry, a century ago, for a series of stories set in the fictional tropical polity of Anchuria. But a banana republic doesn’t happen overnight; it’s a sensibility, and it’s difficult to mark the precise point at which a free society decays into something less respectable. Pace Obama, ever swelling debt, contracts for cronies, a self-enriching bureaucracy, a shrinking middle class preyed on by corrupt tax collectors, and thuggish threats against anyone who disagrees with you put you pretty far down the banana-strewn path."

Thomas Lifson; Obama claims, 'We're not some banana republic' and Mark Steyn examines the evidence  " Obama has been behaving like a caudillo in ways beyond those enumerated by Steyn. Laughter may still be effective in persuading low information types about the fundamental transformation Obama is implementing." 

 

Dictator's job: Promise them everything and give them nothing.

The MSM will have a field day over this, especially Chris Matthews

White nationalists aim to take over tiny North Dakota town   "Paul Craig Cobb wants to transform the town 70 miles southwest of Bismarck into a community that mirrors his white supremacist views. He did so quietly at first, asking residents whether their land was for sale. But recent reports from The New York Times and the Southern Poverty Law Center exposed his mission and turned it into a national story." 

 

Remember when militant gays wanted to take over Alpine, CA in 1970?  ...."Tough mountaineers, woodsmen and fishermen all, they have preserved the pioneer purity of their independent existence. Now that existence stands threatened, and by as unlikely a force as could be imagined—the militant homosexuals of the Gay Liberation Front."  More.

And, of course, the Nation of Islam wanted entire states turned over to them .
I refer you to item four in their website.  And item ten at this same site is pretty much what Paul Craig Cobb (three names again!) wants for his white supremacists.
"10. We believe that intermarriage or race mixing should be prohibited. We want the religion of Islam taught without hindrance or suppression."

Great minds think alike; "American Nazi Party Commander George Lincoln Rockwell (center) at a Nation of Islam (NOI) rally, Uline Arena, Washington, DC, June 25, 1961."

 

At least this nation's history has given African Americans cause for anger -which so very many have risen above- but what did these Nazis want?

Hmmm. Blacks and white supremacists might clash, but Muslims and Nazis are a match made in Heaven.

Gay couple (or words to that effect) ruin Christian couple’s business

iOwnTheWorld.com
 "No, these idiots are not noble. They haven’t struck a blow for gay rights. They targeted  a Bed and Breakfast that had a policy of no unmarried couples allowed to stay in the same room together.
"But these creeps used that blanket policy as a means to further the gay agenda.
Daily Mail-
"Legal bills from their case against the gay couple they refused a room to have made it impossible to stay in business."
Vindictive progressives hacked their website and made death threats.  How can anyone feel sympathy for these two men?

 

 

"Their hotel website says: ‘We have few rules but please note that out of a deep regard for marriage we prefer to let double accommodation to heterosexual married couples only.’ 

"Such rules are so strictly adhered to that Mrs Bull has admitted that even her own brother, when he comes to stay, is required to stay in a separate room to his female partner.’
"In August 2008, the Bulls received a letter from Stonewall, the gay rights organisation, saying it had received a complaint and warning the hotel it was breaking the law.
"The following month Mr Preddy, from Bristol, rang to book a double room for two nights, but did not mention he was part of a homosexual couple."  Read more

"I have to question the bad reviews on the internet; If gay activists will make death threats, they will most definitely destroy this establishment's reputation on the internet."

Wisdom and joy from the Comical Conservative

The Comical Conservative   "The number #1 Conservative Humor Aggregator! We also post serious stuff too..."

Or put another way:

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The Islamist-inflicted ordeal of the Syrian Christian town of Maaloula

Here is a follow-up to this post from Sept 8th about the Christian enclave of Ma'loula or Maaloula. Wikipedia tells us:
Religiously, the population consists of both Christians (mainly Antiochian Orthodox and Melkite Greek Catholic) and Muslims. For the Muslim inhabitants, the legacy is all the more remarkable given that they were not Arabised, unlike most other Syrians who like them were Islamised over the centuries but also adopted Arabic and shifted to an "Arab" ethnic identity.

The Historic Christian Town Of Maaloula, Syria, Now Under Control Of Islamists

Snipers haunt Syrian Christian town of Maaloula  "Maalula(sp), city of culture and history, welcomes you," reads a sign at the entrance to Syria's best known Christian town. But any semblance of welcome evaporates once inside Maalula.
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"On September 14, for the first time, the town known across the Middle East for its "Exaltation of the Cross" feast day was not decorated with lights, nor did it host Christian and Muslim visitors dining and celebrating together."

Christian village Maaloula falls into jihadists' hands as Al-Qaeda grows in Syria



Syrian Christians forced to convert to Islam in isolated town  "They shot and killed people," one Maaloula resident says. "I heard gunshots and then I saw three bodies lying in the middle of a street in the old quarters of the village. Where is President Obama to see what has befallen us?"

" 'I saw the militants grabbing five villagers and threatening them and saying, "either you convert to Islam, or you will be beheaded,'" another Christian resident said.

"Another said one church had been torched while other gunmen stormed into two other churches and robbed them."

Why does the Islam we see daily only destroy, never build? And why does the left support their war against civilized nations? 

The real Navy Yard scandal

Charles Krauthammer  "In the liberal remake of “Casablanca,” the police captain comes upon the scene of the shooting and orders his men to “round up the usual weapons.”
"It’s always the weapon and never the shooter. Twelve people are murdered in a rampage at the Washington Navy Yard, and before sundown Sen. Dianne Feinstein has called for yet another debate on gun violence. Major opprobrium is heaped on the AR-15, the semiautomatic used in the Newtown massacre."
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Krauthammer turns to the subject of committing the psychotic, something the civil rights crusaders and the ACLU go ballistic over as cruel:

"Sounds cruel? On the contrary. For many people living on park benches, commitment means a warm bed, shelter and three hot meals a day. For Alexis, it would have meant the beginning of a treatment regimen designed to bring him back to himself before discharging him to a world heretofore madly radioactive."

As Dr. Charles said, the murdered dozen and Alexis all died with his rights intact.