A Russia expert explains how Putin will likely respond to his downed plane

Vox World

"Q: Why would Russia fly into Turkey's airspace in the first place?

"A:There are a few possible reasons.

"First is pilot error. They were operating near the border and so strayed over by mistake. It's unlikely, given modern avionics, but nonetheless we can't completely exclude the possibility.

"The second thing is that this could, since Turkey is a NATO state, have been Russia just trying to flex its political-diplomatic muscles. Wanting to make the point that they can do this with impunity — which, of course, they have done in NATO's northern reaches." . . .

Hacker Group 'Anonymous' Releases List of ISIS Attacks Set for Sunday

Rick Moran

"The hacker group Anonymous has issued a warning about several planned attacks by Islamic State in several countries set for Sunday.

"International Business Times:

"Anonymous, the loose collective of online activists, said Saturday it has uncovered information about Islamic State group attacks in Paris as well as at locations in the U.S., Indonesia, Italy and Lebanon, all apparently set for Sunday. OpParisIntel, a group within Anonymous, released a statement saying it had collected information about imminent attacks by the militant group -- aka Daesh, ISIL and ISIS -- in the French capital a little more than a week after a series of coordinated attacks there left 130 dead and hundreds injured.

"Anonymous also said the Islamic State group is planning an assault at the WWE Survivor Series event scheduled to take place in the Philips Arena in Atlanta Sunday at 7.30 p.m. EST, as well as attacks at multiple events in Paris.

"The collective published the list of potential targets alongside a statement: "The goal is to make sure the whole world, or at least the people going to these events, know that there have been threats and that there is possibility of an attack to happen. Another goal is to make sure Daesh knows that the world knows and cancels the attacks, which will disorientate them for a while."

 "The targets listed by Anonymous are as follow[s]:"

Full article here.

Bill Whittle on how liberalism breeds terror

Legal Insurrection

“What kind of failure of intelligence is that?”

"In the newest edition of Afterburner, Bill Whittle lays blame for the recent terror attacks in Paris and Mali at the feet of liberals who appease and reward radicalized Muslims.

"Whittle points out that increased immigration to France from Muslim countries led to no-go zones which became incubators for radical Islam. Instead of dealing with this problem, he continues, socialists rewarded immigrants with more sympathy and benefits.

"Finally, Whittle asks why the West is responding to mass murder and terrorism with peace signs, a point which was also made recently by Stephen L. Miller of National Review."
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Widows and Orphans

Bokbluster

"In the wake of the ISIS attacks on Paris, the leader of the free world retaliated vigorously against his enemy – Republicans. He struck hard against anyone who questioned whether terrorists might surf a wave of Syrian refugees into America.

"His weapon of choice was sarcasm:

“Apparently they are scared of widows and orphans coming into the United States of America,” Obama said of the GOP. “At first, they were too scared of the press being too tough on them in the debates. Now they are scared of three year old orphans. That doesn’t seem so tough to me.”

"Widows and Orphans

"Hours later, as French security forces closed in on a terrorist hideout, a woman outfitted in a suicide belt blew herself up.

The head and spine of Europe’s first female suicide bomber flew through a window and landed on the street outside when she blew herself up during the siege of Saint-Denis.

Well Red: Democrats And Hillary In Bed With Socialism

Weasel Zippers

"Democrats can’t explain the difference between Socialists and them anyway"

NY Times article:

"Senator Bernie Sanders’s speech on Thursday explaining his democratic socialist ideology carried little risk among supporters and other Democrats: A solid majority of them have a positive impression of socialism, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll released this month.

"Fifty-six percent of those Democratic primary voters questioned said they felt positive about socialism as a governing philosophy, versus 29 percent who took a negative view." . . .

Majority of Americans Feel Like ‘Stranger in Own Country’

Big Government

"A recent survey of public attitudes by Reuters/Ispos, though, suggests caution for the GOP establishment.

"Whatever failings there may be in his specific policies, Donald Trump’s campaign has tapped into a strong, visceral feeling of millions of Americans. Seeking to destroy Trump, the candidate, may further alienate the Republican party from a rapidly growing block of voters.

"According to the Reuters survey, 58 percent Americans say they “don’t identify with what America has become.” While Republicans and Independents are the most likely to agree with this statement, even 45 percent of Democrats share this feeling.

"More than half of Americans, 53 percent, say they “feel like a stranger” in their own country. A minority of Americans feel “comfortable as myself” in the country." .  . .

Panic breeds actions born out of emotions rather than somber reflection. The Republican establishment is understandably panicked at the thought of Donald Trump capturing the party’s nomination for President. It is convinced, perhaps incorrectly, that a Trump candidacy will doom the party’s chances next year.

Even This MSNBC Host Is Blasting Obama Over Refugee Rhetoric

ForAmerica  "You know the president has crossed a line when dozens of TV pundits of all political stripes think he went too far in his remarks on the GOP and Syrian refugees.

"MSNBC’s Chris Matthews fired back at President Obama’s remarks that GOP lawmakers are “scared of 3-year-old orphans.”

"The Washington Examiner reported:"

Why Does the Left Continue to Insist that Islamic Terrorism Has Nothing to Do with Islam?

NRO  "If you Google “Christian terrorism,” you’re probably a jackass to begin with. But if you do — bidden not by your own drive to jackassery but by the natural curiosity inspired by this “news”letter — you’ll find lots of left-wing trollery about how the worst terrorist attacks on American soil have been committed by Christians. . . . 

"What I find interesting is that many of the same people who clutch their pearls at the mere suggestion that Islamic terrorism has anything to do with — oh, what’s the word again? — oh right: Islam, seem to have no problem making the case that “Christian terrorism” is like a real thing. Remember how so many liberals loved — loved — Obama’s sophomoric and insidious tirade about not getting on our “high horses” about ISIS’s atrocities in the here and now because medieval Christians did bad things a thousand years ago? They never seem to think that argument through. Leaving out the ass-aching stupidity of the comparison, it actually concedes the very point Obama never wants to concede. By laying the barbaric sins of Christians a thousand years ago at the feet of Christians today, he implicitly tags Muslims with the barbarism committed in their name today.

. . . 

THE BIG LIE

"Yesterday, Hillary Clinton said: “Let’s be clear, though. Islam is not our adversary. Muslims are peaceful and tolerant people and have nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism.”

. . . "In fact, I think it would be disastrous if our political leaders went around saying anything like “Islam is our enemy.”

Then comes the "however":

"It’s the second part of that Hillary quote that I have trouble with. Yes, some — most! — Muslims are peaceful. And while peacefulness and tolerance don’t necessarily go hand-in-hand (just look at opinion polls in the Muslim world on questions of sharia, homosexuality, women’s equality, free speech, and, of course, the Joooooooz), let’s stipulate that a great many Muslims are tolerant in their own fashion, too. " . . .

College agers who left their "safe space"

Hat tip to Jeff Hayden, Plano, TX

"The DNC just lost it's mind - and perhaps it's own base - with this new ad"

Legal Insurrection

Democrats prefer you fear Republicans more than radical Islamists

"Ridiculous. Embarrassing. The stupidity and blatant intellectual dishonesty of this ad makes me hostile. Normally, what the DNC says and does pales in comparison to the follies of the social justice warriors and 60s-era “activist” sect, but this is just too much.

"The DNC rails in this ad about “incitement,” saying that inciting fear “isn’t presidential”; the problem is that this very ad attempts to incite more fear than even the most radically offensive, white hood-wearing, backwoods racist could ever hope for.

"They don’t want you to be afraid of radical Islamists. They want you to be afraid of Republicans. I’m not sure how this messaging could get any stupider or more opportunistic, but I welcome the comments section to have some fun with it.

"Most importantly, as Alex Griswold points out, the DNC may have just alienated their own base:" . . .

Obama trashes America in a speech in Malaysia

Thomas Lifson 
"I am disgusted that President Obama disparaged the United States in a speech he delivered overseas, in Malaysia, of all places.  In doing so, he not only revealed his conspicuous lack of patriotism, but displayed an amazing lack of awareness about the country hosting him.

"Dave Boyer of the Washington Times reports:

President Obama discussed America’s faults Friday with young Asian leaders, saying the U.S. suffers from “pitfalls” such as income inequality, a political system controlled by the wealthy and political parties divided along racial lines.

"Obviously, Obama is unaware that the largest political party in Malaysia is race-based.  The United Malays National Organization (UNMO) has supplied all six of the prime ministers who have run the government since the country’s founding and have made Malaysia an Islamic state, despite the fact that Malays account for a bare majority of the population, with very large Chinese (22.6%) and Indian (6.7%) minorities.  The country enforces quotas designed to discriminate against the Chinese- and Indian-heritage citizens in favor of the Malays, who lag in education, income, and adaptation to the demands of an industrial and commercial society.

"Obama is almost certainly completely ignorant of Malaysia’s horrific history of race-based slaughter – i.e., in 1969, when Malays roamed the streets of Kuala Lumpur and elsewhere beheading Chinese.

"It is bad enough that a president demonizes his own country abroad.  But to disparage our race politics in a country like Malaysia is unforgivable."
Emphasis mine, TD

Hillary's tough talk can't cover up her role in ISIS' emergence

Investors.com

"After the Islamist carnage in Paris, however, his first-term secretary of state on Thursday called for ramping it up against ISIS in a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations. Or sort of. "We must lead the world to meet this threat," Clinton told an assembly of liberals.

It's the foreign policy tag team of President Obama and Secretary Clinton that withdrew America from world leadership while shrinking the U.S. military. How credible is her call for "a new phase" against ISIS, with "a broader target set," "an immediate intelligence surge" and giving U.S. "troops advising and training the Iraqis greater freedom of movement and flexibility"?

"Without naming it, Clinton praised President Bush's 2007 Iraq surge, but charged that afterwards the Iraqis "were betrayed and forgotten." Betrayed by whom, Mrs. Clinton? By you and your boss, for whom withdrawal from Iraq was the only goal.
She refuses to consider sizable U.S. ground forces, but says "Congress should swiftly pass an updated authorization to use military force" — force the world knows we have no intention of using?

"Yet Clinton provides a wish list of Mideast diplomatic breakthroughs that a U.S. with no skin in the game will somehow bring about: "work with" Putin's Russia, get "our Arab and Turkish partners" to "step up in a much bigger way," bring in Jordan and Saudi Arabia, "counter Iranian influence across the region.' " . . .