The more I reflected on what was happening, the more it astonished me. As a child of the Deep South, I’d grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult, I was starting to wonder if I’d been afraid of the wrong white people all along. My worst fears had come to pass not in Georgia, but in Washington, D.C., where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony. For all the fear I’d known as a boy in Savannah, this was the first time I’d found myself at the mercy of people who would do whatever they could to hurt me — and institutions that had once prided themselves on bringing segregation and its abuses to an end were aiding and abetting in the assault. Hypersensitive civil-rights leaders who saw racism around every corner fell silent when my liberal enemies sneered that I was unqualified to sit on the Court; editors and reporters who claimed to be objective substituted a pretense of balance for true fairness, presenting outrageous, wholly unsupported allegations side by side with spluttering denials. The implausible was now being treated more favorably than the obvious.'Via Kandy Sealy at Guardian Eagles
Monday, January 13, 2014
Clarence Thomas confronts Joe Biden and his Senate Committee in 1991
Gates-Gate; the president badly needs a Republican scandal right now
When the Commander-in-Chief is a narcissist "No wonder the media are pushing the Chris Christie bridge story so hard; the revelations about President Obama's conduct in office in Robert Gates's new book are frightening. America's national security is in the hands of a flat-out self-obsessed narcissist. Via Moe Lane and Ace of Spades, we learn what happened when Admiral Mullen and General McChrystal asked for 5000 more troops for Afghanistan early in Obama's first term, to arrest a deteriorating situation:" ....
Just How Obsessed Were the Sunday Shows with Bridgegate? "Here’s how long each program took before they deigned to discuss something other than the scandal:" ...
Just How Obsessed Were the Sunday Shows with Bridgegate? "Here’s how long each program took before they deigned to discuss something other than the scandal:" ...
The Christie-Obama Show
Aides to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie are pointing out that the Obama administration approved of the New Jersey tourism ads starring Christie and his family that a Democratic congressman has encouraged federal investigators to probe.
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“ 'The Stronger Than The Storm campaign was just one part of the first action plan approved by the Obama Administration and developed with the goal of effectively communicating that the Jersey Shore was open for business during the first summer after Sandy,” Christie spokesman Colin Reed said Monday."
Feds looking into Christie use of Sandy relief funds "The money was earmarked for a marketing campaign and had absolutely nothing to do with general relief of New Jersey residents. The marketing campaign was approved by HUD so it could not have been "directly" used except as part of the advertising campaign. To claim otherwise is pure politics."
More views on Bridge-gate
Dems Pile on Christie While Ignoring Hillary’s Past ... "The list reads like an AM radio golden oldies countdown: Travelgate, the magical and mysterious Rose Law Firm billing records that showed up in a closet in the White House years after being subpoenaed, Whitewater, Bimbogate, and the vast right-wing conspiracy that unzipped her husband’s pants and forced him to have oral sex with Monica Lewinsky."
Judge Jeanine Pirro Gets Bridge-gate Exactly Right! "I’m not a Christie fan but what’s fair is fair. Judge Jeanine Pirro got it exactly right with her thorough coverage in the opening statement of her Saturday show."
Judge Jeanine Pirro Gets Bridge-gate Exactly Right! "I’m not a Christie fan but what’s fair is fair. Judge Jeanine Pirro got it exactly right with her thorough coverage in the opening statement of her Saturday show."
Americans have more to fear from the Obama administration than America's enemies do:
New Scandal, Same Old Christie "This week, the raging bull turned sad puppy for two hours of bravura contrition after cashiering yet another top aide who, he says, lied to him. It is a different time, and this is a very different scandal. Yet, I can’t help suspecting it’s the same old Christie." Andy McCarthy
IRS writing regs that allow it to suppress the tea party
Noisy Room
"The IRS got caught with their pants down last year. So now they are writing regulations that will allow them to do legally what they were doing illegally before. Every time you think these people can sink no lower, they go out of their way to prove you wrong. A cabal of leftist groups sued the IRS demanding they adopt these regulations, whereupon the IRS went out of its way to comply. This is a classic set up. It was probably agreed to in advance between the IRS and the plaintiffs. Now that they are complying, the leftists have magically dropped their suit!
"Here is how to fight back. The following was written by Cleta Mitchell, one of the best attorneys in this field. Read it, follow the instructions and pass them around. The following is reprinted verbatim with permission:" ....
"Here is how to fight back. The following was written by Cleta Mitchell, one of the best attorneys in this field. Read it, follow the instructions and pass them around. The following is reprinted verbatim with permission:" ....
Germany persecutes homeschoolers, with an assist from the Obama administration.
NRO
" Robin West...writes that homeschoolers are dangerous precisely because of the fact that, far from being docile sheep, homeschoolers are as adults more likely to be politically engaged, which Professor West worries might “undermine, limit, or destroy state functions that interfere with family and parental rights.” ... Many others on the left argue that homeschooling should be either banned outright or effectively regulated out of existence.
President Obama has turned America into a banana republic
UNDER OBAMA:
- THE POTUS CAN REWRITE ANY LAW
- THE POTUS CAN ENFORCE OR NOT ENFORCE ANY LAW
- THE POTUS CAN APPOINT WITHOUT ADVISE OR CONSENT
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More to the point, AB asks:
- WOULD HE BLACKMAIL OPPONENTS?!?!?!?!
- MAYBE A MAN WHO LIED ABOUT HIS ASSOCIATIONS WITH REZKO, FARRAKHAN, AYERS, REV. WRIGHT, EDWARD SAID AND RASHID KHALIDI, ACORN, AND THE NEW PARTY AND WHO REFUSES TO RELEASE HIS COLLEGE AND LAW SCHOOL RECORDS, AND HIS LAW PRACTICE FILES HAS A LOT MORE TO HIDE?...
- AND JUST AS BIG A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY AND THE RULE OF LAW?
Posted by Reliapundit
The Arbitrary Diktats of Generalissimo Obama
"I wrote about this topic last month and asserted that one of “the defining characteristics of a civilized government is adherence to the rule of law.”
"Why is this important? Here’s some of George Will’s analysis of how Obama is subverting the law.' "
Charles Krauthammer asks: Can Obama write his own laws?
"Why is this important? Here’s some of George Will’s analysis of how Obama is subverting the law.' "
Charles Krauthammer asks: Can Obama write his own laws?
Al Qaeda is on the run and here they come!
... "Over the weekend on Fox News Sunday, the Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol again reminded Americans of Obama's phony claim." Katie Pavlich
Fallujah has fallen to al-Qaeda: The failure that has led us here ... "To be fair, the blame for the rise of ISIS and al-Qaeda in the region is not just Obama’s, nor is it President George W. Bush’s. They share the blame because they failed to understand the dangers their foreign and military policy decisions posed. Theirs was a fundamental failure to properly address those dangers." ...
That being said...
... "Unless the current administration recognizes the territory grab by radical groups as a credible threat, this will not be the last time we hear of a city falling to al-Qaeda linked forces."
Sunday, January 12, 2014
Chris Matthews: GOP Winning In 2014 Will Bring “A Return To Jim Crow Days ... Literacy Tests And Poll Taxes”…
“ 'If only the people who voted in 2010 [tea partiers] show up this November you can kiss all this goodbye. You’ll see the beginning of the end what could have been what many of us believe should have been a historic turn toward full democratic government in this country where everyone has a chance for the top office, where everyone is looked after by those in power. It will mean Republican control of both the House and Senate and with that a slow grinding effort to kill not just the President’s health care plan but his presidency itself, it will be a double downing to suppress the votes of those who voted for him, a return to something like Jim Crow days and all the old anti-black gimmickry of that time, literacy test and poll taxes.' ” says Himself.
Saturday, January 11, 2014
Krauthammer: How to fight academic bigotry; boycott the boycotters of Israel
Liberals should never again claim victimhood because of the McCarthy-era "blacklists". Hear Bill Whittle speak about "social proof"; known also as politically correct peer pressure that forces culture farther to the left.
Charles Krauthammer "For decades, the American Studies Association labored in well-deserved obscurity. No longer. It has now made a name for itself by voting to boycott Israeli universities, accusing them of denying academic and human rights to Palestinians.
"Given that Israel has a profoundly democratic political system, the freest press in the Middle East, a fiercely independent judiciary and astonishing religious and racial diversity within its universities, including affirmative action for Arab students, the charge is rather strange.
"Made more so when you consider the state of human rights in Israel’s neighborhood. As we speak, Syria’s government is dropping “barrel bombs” filled with nails, shrapnel and other instruments of terror on its own cities. Where is the ASA boycott of Syria?" ...
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"What to do? Facing a similar (British) academic boycott of Israelis seven years ago, Alan Dershowitz and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg wrote an open letter declaring that, for the purposes of any anti-Israel boycott, they are to be considered Israelis."
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"Thousands of other academics added their signatures to the Dershowitz/Weinberg letter. It was the perfect in-kind response. Boycott the boycotters, with contempt.
But, as with teenagers jumping on the latest feel-good fad, here come artists, hoping to burnish their street cred for attaboys in desired social circles:
"But academia isn’t the only home for such prejudice. Throughout the cultural world, the Israel boycott movement is growing. It’s become fashionable for musicians, actors, writers and performers of all kinds to ostentatiously cleanse themselves of Israel and Israelis."
Now, Dr. Krauthammer gets to the salient point that he has been preparing us for:
"How? How to answer the thugs, physical and intellectual, who single out Jews for attack? The best way, the most dignified way, is to do like Dershowitz, Weinberg or Kissin.
"Express your solidarity. Sign the open letter or write your own. Don the yellow star and wear it proudly."
To wit:
A Call to Academics Worldwide to Join Nobel Laureates and University Presidents to Stand in Solidarity with Israeli Academics Facing Threats of Boycott
The text of this petition:
Charles Krauthammer "For decades, the American Studies Association labored in well-deserved obscurity. No longer. It has now made a name for itself by voting to boycott Israeli universities, accusing them of denying academic and human rights to Palestinians.
"Given that Israel has a profoundly democratic political system, the freest press in the Middle East, a fiercely independent judiciary and astonishing religious and racial diversity within its universities, including affirmative action for Arab students, the charge is rather strange.
"Made more so when you consider the state of human rights in Israel’s neighborhood. As we speak, Syria’s government is dropping “barrel bombs” filled with nails, shrapnel and other instruments of terror on its own cities. Where is the ASA boycott of Syria?" ...
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"Thousands of other academics added their signatures to the Dershowitz/Weinberg letter. It was the perfect in-kind response. Boycott the boycotters, with contempt.
But, as with teenagers jumping on the latest feel-good fad, here come artists, hoping to burnish their street cred for attaboys in desired social circles:
"But academia isn’t the only home for such prejudice. Throughout the cultural world, the Israel boycott movement is growing. It’s become fashionable for musicians, actors, writers and performers of all kinds to ostentatiously cleanse themselves of Israel and Israelis."
Now, Dr. Krauthammer gets to the salient point that he has been preparing us for:"How? How to answer the thugs, physical and intellectual, who single out Jews for attack? The best way, the most dignified way, is to do like Dershowitz, Weinberg or Kissin.
"Express your solidarity. Sign the open letter or write your own. Don the yellow star and wear it proudly."
To wit:
A Call to Academics Worldwide to Join Nobel Laureates and University Presidents to Stand in Solidarity with Israeli Academics Facing Threats of Boycott
The text of this petition:
"We are academics, scholars, researchers and professionals of differing religious and political perspectives. We all agree that singling out Israelis for an academic boycott is wrong. To show our solidarity with our Israeli academics in this matter, we, the undersigned, hereby declare ourselves to be Israeli academics for purposes of any academic boycott. We will regard ourselves as Israeli academics and decline to participate in any activity from which Israeli academics are excluded."
Benghazi: Bad Movie Review or Act of Terror?
Bokbluster
"Here’s Andrew Wilson’s review in The American Spectator."
Down and Out in Benghazi "It is time to present the top prize for fraudulence in international reporting in 2013 — the annual Walter Duranty award. As Moscow bureau chief for the New York Times at the height of Joe Stalin’s reign of terror, Duranty not only reported the news, he invented it — earning the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 and wining the sobriquet of “Stalin’s apologist.' ”
"David Kirkpatrick wrote a long piece in the NYT December 28 that said the attack on Benghazi was the act of a bunch of locals very pissed off about a movie. The Washington Post later reported that a former GITMO detainee who had trained under Osama bin Laden and fought with the Taliban played a role in the attack.
"As they say, “what difference does it make?” Well, President Obama did say that al Qaeda was on the run and headed for defeat. After the attack Susan Rice went on five Sunday news shows to say it was caused by the internet video. And Hillary promised the father of murdered Navy Seal, Tyrone Woods, that they would prosecute the movie maker."Was Benghazi a Bad Movie Review or Act of Terror?
"The fact is the mystery of Benghazi can easily be solved by the man himself. In the second 2012 presidential debate Obama insisted that it is was an act of terror."Here’s Andrew Wilson’s review in The American Spectator."
Down and Out in Benghazi "It is time to present the top prize for fraudulence in international reporting in 2013 — the annual Walter Duranty award. As Moscow bureau chief for the New York Times at the height of Joe Stalin’s reign of terror, Duranty not only reported the news, he invented it — earning the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 and wining the sobriquet of “Stalin’s apologist.' ”
You Still Don’t Understand Islamism, Do You?
This is a companion article to Debate! Christian Muslim Forum (Interfaith) vs. North American Infidels! , further down in the Tunnel Wall
Barry Rubin ... "The main problem, however, was that all Islamism was a
political threat, but it was the second position that eventually won over the Obama administration. Take note of this; since 2009, if you wanted to build your career and win policy debates, only al-Qaeda was a problem. The Muslim Brotherhood was not a threat; after all, it did not participate in September 11. This view was well-known in policy circles, but it was easy to mistake this growing hegemony as temporary.
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political threat, but it was the second position that eventually won over the Obama administration. Take note of this; since 2009, if you wanted to build your career and win policy debates, only al-Qaeda was a problem. The Muslim Brotherhood was not a threat; after all, it did not participate in September 11. This view was well-known in policy circles, but it was easy to mistake this growing hegemony as temporary.
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