Reading list for a cold day

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Patriot Act author: Obama’s intel czar should be prosecuted   ... "The intelligence director said he tried to give the "least untruthful" answer he could without revealing classified information."
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"Sensenbrenner, a former chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is pushing the USA Freedom Act, which would limit the NSA's power, tighten oversight and end the bulk collection of phone records.
"He was the original author of the Patriot Act in 2001, which the NSA has cited when filing secret court requests to conduct surveillance."

Krauthammer: Democrats will rue vote on the nuclear option (Video)  "Krauthammer suggested the Senate's nuclear option was retaliation for the criticism Democrats dealt with from the GOP for the fumbled rollout of ObamaCare.
" 'They do want to have the power to at least put some judges in because they are losing from all other elements of their agenda," he said. "But the Republicans will return the favor in the future.' "

JFK and a Silly Little Communist  
“He didn’t even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. It’s — it had to be some silly little Communist.”
— Jacqueline Kennedy, Nov. 22, 1963

... "The real conspiracy about the Kennedy Assassination is the myth built by the left that sinister right wing forces cut down the young president – when it was really just a silly little Communist."

Now Democrats are not limited to blaming a single political philosophy; they can make nearly half the American electorate the villains, which TV shows such as Law [and] Order did readily.

 George Will: ‘The Education of This President Is a Protracted and Often Amusing Process’. "...- as it was this week - as he continues to alight upon the obvious with a sense of profound and original discovery. He's alighting on what is obvious to governors. This is really why we should have governors more often than senators as president."
 

"Actually, it might be amusing for commentators, but it's not amusing for Americans to watch a president in his second term still learning the basics about how our government works.
"This is indeed why we rarely in our history elect senators as president and instead rely on governors that have demonstrated an ability to govern.
Unfortunately, the media didn't care about this in 2008 as they aided and abetted the election of a junior senator from Illinois with absolutely no qualifications for the highest office in the land other than being a charismatic Democrat that they fell in love with.
"What might end up being sadder is it looks like after eight years of this failed experiment they're going to back another Democrat they're in love with who also has no experience running anything.
"Are liberal media members capable of learning from their mistakes?"

 

Impeachment Lessons; The Nineties taught us it’s not guilt that matters; it’s political will.

A lesson in government that must be heeded:

rogueoperator

Andrew C. McCarthy  .... "Not only is impeachment the intended constitutional remedy for systematic presidential lawlessness; it is, practically speaking, the only remedy.

"It is beyond cavil that the president is willfully undermining the constitutional system that he swore to preserve, protect, and defend. He presumes to rewrite, and dramatically alter, the laws he vowed to execute faithfully — not once in a blue moon but as a deliberate scheme of governance."
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"Today’s Democrats, however, are less members of a party than of the movement Left. Their objective, like Obama’s, is fundamental transformation of a society rooted in individual liberty and private property to one modeled on top-down, redistributionist statism. " ....

I'm sure foremost in the minds of those who consider impeachment of this president is knowing there will be "Rodney King" rioting in the streets of this now-third-world nation. Nelson Mandela could heal a nation, but Obama can only divide one.

The Idles of the Boy-King

At the apex, a monumental throne was being assembled, and upon it, a sculpted image of the boy king. The humongous frontispiece was to become a wonder to behold: a behemoth in the midst of the desert to remind the slaves and wanderers of the all-seeing eye of the majestic sovereign. And surrounding the gigantic structure as far as the eye can see were to be lines and lines of towering, whirling windmills....

Ronbosoldier at Before its News

 

148 Years Ago, The Republican Party Passed The 13th Amendment Outlawing Slavery

Weasel Zippers

"148 years ago yesterday, to be precise. With Abraham Lincoln a REPUBLICAN president, despite what certain colleges would like to feed their students…
"What did the Democrats do?
"Nearly every Democrat voted against it."  Full article

So where did the pro-segregation Dixiecrats go?   "Contrary to legend, it makes no sense for them to join with the Republican Party whose history is replete with civil rights achievements. The answer is, they returned to the Democrat party and rejoined others such as George Wallace, Orval Faubus, Lester Maddox, and Ross Barnett. Interestingly, of the 26 known Dixiecrats (5 governors and 21 senators) only three ever became republicans: Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and Mills E. Godwind, Jr. The segregationists in the Senate, on the other hand, would return to their party and fight against the Civil Rights acts of 1957, 1960 and 1964. Republican President Dwight Eisenhower proffered the first two Acts."
Eric M. Wallace, Ph. D; Dr. Wallace is the founder and Publisher of Freedom's Journal Magazine.

statehistoricalsocyofmissouri.org; 1964

So, how dare Democrats spew this racialist screed?    "Utterly vile racial demagoguery from the Secretary of Health and Human Services (via CNS News):"....

World leaders and their standing

 

"I heard Vatican analyst John Allen suggest that world moral authority would pass from Nelson Mandela to Pope Francis. If you like your moral authority you can keep your moral authority…

"Interesting to consider that two of the world’s most humble guys would also be the most popular."  Chip Bok

Election Integrity Activists: Obamacare 'Biggest Voter Registration Fraud Scheme in History'

Big Government  "Phillips and Catherine Engelbrecht of True The Vote, another election integrity group, cite as proof what left-wing organizations are saying about how they plan to use Obamacare. Demos, a left-wing organization funded by liberal billionaire George Soros, published a report earlier this year titled: “Building a Healthy Democracy: Registering 68 Million People to Vote Through Health Benefit Exchanges.”

"On page six of the report, author Lisa Danetz argues that Obamacare “will enroll 68 million individuals.' ”

Krauthammer's Take: America's Pacific Allies Should Be Worried

NRO Editors 

 

"Charles Krauthammer had harsh words Wednesday night for American foreign policy when it came to China’s establishment of a zone of control over the East China Sea.
“ 'We had one strong response, which was to send American warplanes into that zone without obeying the Chinese demand that you check in with them,” Krauthammer said on Special Report, lauding the pair of B-52 bombers that flew through the airspace. However, he lamented that the U.S. has ordered its civilian airlines to comply with the Chinese rules even as Japan has told its airlines to ignore them.
"Acknowledgement of the zone by the American government “undercut . . . and alarmed” the Japanese, Krauthammer said.
"America’s allies in the region, he said, were right to worry that the United States might be putting its relationship with China ahead of them, just as it appears to be putting its relationship with Iran ahead of its allies in the Middle East."

Ted Cruz and Mike Lee being vindicated on shutdown

Thomas Lifson   "The GOP establishment is loath to admit it, but the government shutdown is turning out to be a brilliant political chess move on the part of Senators Ted Cruz and Mike Lee. The Obamacare disaster, fully predictable by anyone who understands the effect of incentives and the fundamental incompetence of academic theorists and left wing ideologues, has made the go-for-broke attempt to stop it an obvious profile in courage. "

.... "President Obama's promise that it will not be repealed "while I am president" makes his ego the problem, and Democrats who support him become equally culpable."

Related: Play Him as He Lies   " Fortunately, there is a way out for those whom our president has liberated from those embarrassingly flawed, “bad-apple” schemes. “So if you’re getting one of these letters,” he said in that “better put some ice on it” way he has with people of all ethnicities, “just shop around in the new marketplace.” Only he could make it sound like the marketplace he shopped around in during his Choom Gang binges."

The Minimum Wages of Politics (Updated)

 

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE       "Economic inequality” is to be the great theme of the remainder of the Obama administration, the president announced in a speech that combined rank economic ignorance with shallow demagoguery. And the first item on Barack Obama’s new economic agenda is an increase in the federal minimum wage to $9, higher than the minimum wage in any state excepting Washington.  (Emphasis added)

Comical Conservative

"President Obama can reliably be counted upon to ignore elementary economics — which is to say, reality — when it is politically attractive to do so, and this case is no exception. A wage is a price — the price of labor — and raising prices lowers demand, other things being constant. The effects of a minimum-wage increase probably would not be dramatic on their own, since relatively few employed Americans make the minimum wage, though it will raise the bottom rung of the economic ladder another few inches out of the reach of those without sufficient skills or education to command a higher wage in the marketplace."
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Low-information voters and Democrats in general may not grasp this next point since their priority is keeping power at this nation's expense:
"There is a way to increase wages while increasing overall employment, and that is to raise the demand for labor. Unfortunately for the planners and schemers in Washington, doing so requires more than simply passing a law. Higher demand for labor is the result of a growing and productive economy...."

 

Thank you, Hobby Lobby

Michelle Malkin

"Religious liberty is front and center on the nation’s Thanksgiving table. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. The family-owned craft store company is intrepidly challenging the constitutionality of Obamacare’s abortion coverage mandate. Hobby Lobby’s faithful owners deserve our thanks and praise as they defend freedom of conscience for all Americans."

Opinion inequality

Jennifer Rubin   "This week the president spoke about economic inequality. It is a problem to be sure, but it tends to blot out other types of inequality that are quite significant."
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"But there is a great mass of Americans are unplugged. There were about 240 million voting-age adults in 2012; only about 130 million votes were cast. Even among the 130 million who vote, there are millions who don’t know the name of a single cabinet member, never watch a talking head cable TV show and vote (maybe at most) once every four years.

"The plugged in are highly opinionated in most cases. They thrive on confrontation and drive much of the national debate. They’ve made politics into an esoteric subject with its own language. In doing so, they make politics angry, petty and somewhat incomprehensible — which are the reasons a great many Americans choose to unplug themselves. Political insiders sneer at “low information” voters, but in reality these are “low interest” voters who have decided to check out.

  

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Yale to hold Non-Human Rights Conference

College Insurrection  "There were plenty of headlines about a lawsuit seeking a court ruling that four captive Chimpanzees were persons and entitled to “the right to bodily liberty via a writ of habeas corpus.” The suits, filed in New York Supreme Court, are based on scientific evidence proving that chimpanzees are self-aware and autonomous, and therefore entitled to be recognized as “legal persons” with certain fundamental legal rights."

 

..."Among the papers to be presented are:

• Personhood and Liberal Neutrality: Should we provide public aid to pets’ owners?”
• Posthuman Personhood
• Establishing Nonhuman Legal Personhood
• What Is A Person and How Can We Be Sure?
• The Personhood of Cyberconsciousness

A Month of Horror for Christians under Islam: September, 2013

Raymond Ibrahim   "The same month that Obama tried to wage war on behalf of the jihadi rebels in Syria (citing “human rights” concerns), some of the war’s worst atrocities were committed against that nation’s Christian minority, most notably in Ma‘loula, an ancient Christian region where the inhabitants still spoke the language of Jesus.
"There, among other things, the al-Qaeda-linked jihadis fired mortars and missiles onto at least two ancient churches before looting them; some 80 Christians trying to defend their homes were killed.  Others who could not flee were forced on pain of death to convert to Islam.
"One man’s last words before being slaughtered by the rebels were: “I am a Christian, and if you want to kill me for this, I do not object to it.”   A nun involved with humanitarian relief said the man “Is a Martyr in Christ in the full sense of this word, since he was murdered solely because of religious hatred!'"

What Islamists do to Christians  "Maaloula was the scene of heavy fighting in September. It is considered to be one of the birthplaces of Christianity and is home to a number of shrines and monasteries, which are listed as UNESCO world heritage sites.
"According to the Syrian Patriarch of the Melkite Greek Catholic church, Gregory Laham, some 450,000 Syrian Christians have been forced from their homes by the civil war that began in March 2011. He added that “at least 57 Christian sites” have been damaged or destroyed since the beginning of hostilities, and blamed the United States and its Western allies for aggravating the situation by providing assistance to the rebels."