Reading list: life under liberalism

Victor Davis Hanson; The Obama Administration’s Ethics Problem 
Mr. Hanson lists case after case of this administration's poor character, then concludes with this:
 ... "The common denominator?

"In all of these cases, politics trumped ethics. Because Obama professed that he was on the side of the proverbial people, administrators assumed that they had a blank check to do or say what they wished without much media audit. The mystery is not whether some administration officials were incompetent or unethical or both, but whether there are any left who are not."

Huge Ukip British victory sends message of hope to North American Patriots

 

"The message?

“ 'Dave and Ed just don’t get it: By branding Ukip racists they’re damning millions of decent Britains”-Stephen Glover, Daily Mail, May 22, 2014.

"Obama comrade, Prime Minister David Cameron, Labour Leader Ed Miliband and Liberal Leader Nick Clegg threw everything but the proverbial kitchen sink at Ukip trying to impact their voter turnout by branding them “racists”.

"But supposedly low information voters in Britain didn’t buy the Party propaganda."

Redistribution masquerading as reparations 

 ... "There is a complete disconnect between cause and effect — anyone with a particular skin color is presumed to be a victim of policies even from generations earlier. It’s a simplistic and non-evidentiary approach which generalizes anecdotes and ignores the myriad of factors that influence success or failure in life.

"Rather, this is a societal redistribution, in which the not actually guilty pay, and the not actually injured get compensated, via the power of government to redistribute wealth.
It’s just redistribution with a different justification."

MSNBC, of course.

A Performance Review; The president needs a lot of improvement.

Fred Barnes  "The public’s judgment of President Obama is that his performance in office is not so great. Nearly every opinion poll shows that more Americans disapprove of how he’s doing his job than approve. Sometimes the gap between disapprove and approve is more than 10 percentage points.

"But public opinion isn’t the only way to assess a president’s effectiveness. In 2000, Fred Greenstein, a scholar of the presidency at Princeton, came up with six “qualities that bear on presidential performance.” While they are subjective measures open to disagreement, they’re nonideological, nonpartisan, and they offer a useful way to judge presidents.

 

"So the question is: Does Obama exhibit the qualities Greenstein says are important for any president? Let’s look at the six:" ...   Full article...

Sen. Corker: White House Meeting About Obama’s Foreign Policy ‘One Of The Most Bizarre I’ve Attended’

CBS DC

 

... "Another senator who attended the meeting said Obama’s advisers refused to provide lawmakers with answers about whether the president plans to keep U.S. troops in Afghanistan after the war formally concludes later this year or about the Pentagon’s efforts to find nearly 300 kidnapped Nigerian school girls.

"Unsatisfied, some of the lawmakers started to leave one by one before the meeting had finished....

"The meetings, which have been taking place both at the White House and on Capitol Hill, come as Obama prepares for a speech Wednesday at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, where he is expected to try to answer critics who say he has surrendered America’s global leadership and faltered on problems in the Middle East, Russia, China and beyond." ...
 

Obama, Benghazi, and that 3 AM phone call

During The Benghazi Attack, The White House Called… YouTube     ... "The memo suggests that even as the attack was still underway — and before the CIA began the process of compiling talking points on its analysis of what happened — the White House believed it was in retaliation for a controversial video." ... Was this that three AM phone call we discussed in 2008?

US Hero Waited 20 Hrs. on Benghazi Rooftop While Obama Called YouTube & Went Campaigning "Diplomatic security agent David Ubben, like former Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty, ran into the Special Mission Compound (SMC) to help save US officials under siege in Benghazi. Ubben was struck by a mortar round that killed Woods and Doherty. His leg was shredded. Ubben was forced to wait twenty hours before a plane was sent to pick him up.

"While Ubben was waiting for help with a shredded leg the Obama White House called YouTube and the president flew off to campaign in Las Vegas."

 

 

More e-mails…another thorn in Obama’s side   "And so the clouds of Benghazi gather yet again over the White House as e-mails have surfaced showing that Barack HUSSEIN Obama…this most traitorous of men…contacted YouTube about the infamous ‘Innocence of Muslims’ video while the attacks at Benghazi were ongoing. This is serious stuff folks as it shows that while Obama did NOT send troops to help our people under attack at the mission…saying there was NOT enough time to save them (and how did he know the time frame while the attack was ongoing unless he helped plan it)…but he did have time to call YouTube and lay the foundation for the LIE that the attack was caused by said video. "

"And these e-mails unequivocally prove that the video accusations did NOT come from the CIA as Obama and his minions claimed…as they came BEFORE the CIA even began comprising their own talking points on what they believed happened that night"....

http://netrightdaily.com/2014/05/cartoon-mad-lib/

Dangerous Times: Benghazi Means Betrayal   "Obama has known about  ‘Eid butchery since he attended Muslim school in Jakarta from age six to ten. Al Qaida simply applies animal butchery to human children and other innocents, if they refuse to convert to Islam."

Honoring, or Mocking, Those Whom Died for Our Freedoms and Democratic Ideals?

Voice of Lillpop

 

... "Some questions to ponder:

"1. Our government is run by an administration that ignores Constitutionally-protected freedom of religion by demanding that services which violate the religious beliefs of certain groups be provided by those groups, contrary to Amendment 1 of the US Constitution.

"The same Obama administration consistently ignores and circumvents existing immigration law so as to curry favor with illegal aliens whom are being targeted as future Democrats.  This extraordinary violation of the rule of law ignores the will and needs of millions of American citizens, including Veterans, in order to pander to those whom have invaded America.

"How many American lives were sacrificed so that our renegade government could ignore basic religious freedoms to 65 million Americans, and ignore our borders and immigration laws for political gain?
...

"Conclusion:

"Given the cynical, anti-American policies of the Obama Administration, those Americans whom have sacrificed their all for America are, regrettably, being mocked this Memorial Day.

"The good news is that our Constitution, battered and abused as it is, is still viable.

"Solution?

"We the people must remember the American war dead on November 4 and vote to remove those whom refuse to honor the sacrifices made on our behalf.

"Do it in memory of the brave men and women who died for our freedoms and liberty!"
 

Full article...

 

 

Commencement Fail Week at College Insurrection

College Insurrection

 

"If nothing else, the Class of 2014 will be remembered for commencement season.

• “Thanks for Not Disinviting Me”
• Condoleezza Rice Defended by… The New York Times?
• Smith College Economics Profs Decry Campus Activists for IMF Director’s Commencement Cancellation
• Former Princeton President Blasts College Students for Speaker Controversy
• Harvard joins list of schools giving its commencement speaker the “brownshirt” treatment
• P.J. O’Rourke tells Rutgers Grads to ‘Go Forth and Fail’

"Where did these students get the idea to act in such a way?

• Nancy Pelosi Tells College Grads to be Disruptors

"They’re listening to you, Nancy…

• UC Berkeley Students Demand “Sustainable Cap And Gowns”
• Former Quinnipiac Student Stages Graduation Bomb Threat to Hide Dropout Status

Keep reading. There's more...

The Blame Bush Meme*

The Right Planet

"Blame Bush … because we are Democrats! And we are as pure as the wind-driven snow. That’s why we are never wrong. We, the liberal Democrats, can’t be wrong, because we are liberal Democrats. Of course, it’s Bush’s fault. Who else’s fault would it be? Not George Bush?

"HAHAHAHA!!!!

"Only those who are not liberals can be fascists or racists … like George Bush … or you, if you’re not a progressive liberal. If you are reading this, and you don’t agree, you are racist or fascist, possibly both, and maybe worse. This has been confirmed by British researchers. Everybody knows that. "      More here. Unless George Bush has hacked your computer, of course.

*Meme:   "A meme (/ˈmiːm/ meem) is "an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture." A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices that can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena with a mimicked theme. " ...

Message from Hell — An Interview with a Former Black Panther

Noisy Room   "This is a riveting and revealing discussion with former Black Panther Anthony Bryant, who is interviewed by G. Edward Griffin on his experience as a prisoner in Castro’s prisons in the video above.

"The late Mr. Bryant hijacked a National Airlines jetliner en route from New York to Miami and directed it to Cuba back in 1969. He was arrested in Cuba and spent 10 years in prison after being accused of being a CIA agent by Cuban authorities. Tony Bryant authored the book Hijacked and detailed his experiences as a prisoner in Castro’s Cuba."
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" ...Informers working for the CDR watched everyone twenty-four hours a day, and marked down anyone who came into the block. If someone visited someone’s home and stayed longer than a few hours, the police would pay them a visit to see what they were doing. You cannot visit neighbors and stay as long as you like, even if you’re invited. If you do, you will be arrested, according to Bryant."

It was at this time that Bryant began to question his own belief and devotion to socialist-style revolution. Bryant asked, “Was this what they had been fighting for?” Bryant attributes his turn away from Communism to God.
One of the YouTube commenters claims he has this video interview with G. Edward Griffin and Anthony Bryant on VHS tape, and expressed displeasure with the individual who posted the video, alleging a portion of the video had been cut off at the very end … the portion where Bryant allegedly says, “Communism is humanity’s vomit; and we need to clean it up.”

Sen. Pat Roberts on free political speech and Harry Reid’s unhinged Koch addition

Bookworm Room  "It will take a little less than 15 minutes of your time and is well worth it. Roberts does a lovely job of eviscerating the opposition to the Citizens United decision as well as Harry Reid’s obsessive, disturbing, and increasingly unhinged opposition to Charles and David Koch:"
 

Poland's Walesa says the US no longer world leader

Yahoo News   "Poland's former president and Nobel Peace laureate, Lech Walesa, said Friday he plans to urge President Barack Obama to take a more active world leadership role when he visits Poland in June.

 

"Speaking to The Associated Press, Walesa said "the world is disorganized and the superpower is not taking the lead. I am displeased."

 

"The former Solidarity leader said that when he meets Obama in Warsaw, he wants to tell him that the U.S. should inspire and encourage the world into positive action." ...

Andrew Klavan: Why Democrats Call You Racist

The Daley Gator  
 

 

Hat tip to Restoring America Together

These Photos Show WWII History Just Beneath The Surface Of Our Cities

On 14 October 1940, during the London blitz, a bomb partially destroyed the Balham station civilian air raid shelter     From The Guardian

More here from The Guardian

HuffPo   "Behind every wall, under every paving stone, there are layers of hidden stories that ordinarily remain confined to history books.

"Thanks to artist Halley Docherty, however, some of these hidden histories have once again been made visible. Docherty used Google Street View to map archive photos from World War II onto today's streets, reviving life during the war years. The series was published in The Guardian.

"Docherty's fascinating images bridge the distance between the gruesome war years and today's events by contrasting familiar, modern street scenes with the same locations at a darker time -- when Nazi Germany occupied France, London was under siege during the Blitz, and Japan was devastated by atomic bombs. "

German soldiers parade down the Champs-Elysées in Paris, June 1940. (Halley Docherty/The Guardian)