[VIDEO] A clear graphic representation of WWII’s staggering slaughter. . .

". . . and the fact that the world is doing better since then."

Bookworm Room  "This video is an extraordinary visual representation of the demographic catastrophe that was WWII, as well as the staggering number of individual tragedies that WWII represents. It’s also an uplifting reminder that the world does actually seem to have made some progress.

"Because of my obsession with governments that support or deny individual liberty, I also found the video a useful reminder that totalitarian governments view their own citizens as little more than cannon fodder and their enemies’ citizens as even less than that. (Around WWII, the major players amongst totalitarian governments were Germany, the Soviet Union, China, and Japan all of which suffered and imposed staggering military and civilian deaths.) While the Allies during WWII, were certainly less respectful of their enemies’ civilian population than Western armies are today, and they threw more soldiers into the battle than our armies do, when held up against the totalitarian nations’ way of waging war, the Allies still look good, even in retrospect." . . .

American Silliness Dec 22, 2015

Students Sign Petition to Ban 'Racist' Song 'White Christmas' from Radio  Video

"Last week, I presented some college students with a petition urging radio stations to stop playing the holiday classic "White Christmas" because the song only focuses on "White" Christmases. This clearly makes it racially insensitive, since it completely ignores Christmases of other colors. 

"Students were all too willing to check their privilege and take a stand against Bing Crosby's racially charged micro-aggression. Just watch."

Related:  Let #BlackLivesMatter protest at Mall of America  "I like the optics."  Like the optics of this Ferguson protest there a while back?

(Community organizer) Obama Praises Recent College Protests, But Urges Them Not To ‘Shut People Up’ In Process

New York City lays out transgender protection on dress codes, bathroom use   "New York City has warned landlords, employers and businesses they could be running afoul of the law by purposely calling a transgender woman "him" or "Mr." when she prefers a female title and pronoun, or by barring her from using a women's restroom."

Obama confiscates blasters from Stormtroopers during White House photo op

This is called a "conundrum"

"Conundrumn. Origin unknown. 1. A kind of riddle based upon some fanciful or fantastic resemblance between things quite unlike; a puzzling question, of which the answer is or involves a pun.
. . .  

2. A question to which only a conjectural answer can be made."

Conservative Veterans for America

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY AL SHARPTON! IT’S 20 YEARS SINCE HE INCITED FIREBOMBING OF FREDDY’S

The Lid

"It seems as if, every time there is a death which can be re-engineered into a racial bias incident such as Michael Brown, for instance, that  MSNBC host Al Sharpton finds a way to give the eulogy. But, in a proven case of bias which took place twenty years ago, the future advisor to President Obama and NYC Mayor DeBlasio was nowhere to be found. That is because Sharpton was one of the main causes of the hatred which led to fire bombing of Freddy’s Fashion Mart. He didn’t toss the firebomb, but the anti-Semitic and racial bias which came out of his mouth and out of the mouths of others while in his presence, produced the massacre as assuredly as if the fire was set with his hands."

"The United House of Prayer, a large African-American church, was also a major landlord in Harlem. They raised the rent on Freddy’s Fashion Mart, a Jewish-owned clothing store which had operated from the same Harlem location for over 40 years. In turn, Freddy’s had to raise the rent on its sub-tenant, a black-owned record store. A landlord-tenant dispute ensued. As he has done so often in his life, Al Sharpton turned this non-racial economic dispute into a racial conflict."  Much more here.

Related: #BlackLivesMatter showdown at the Mall of America?
. . . "As private property, the Mall of America is under no obligation to host demonstrations., and in fact has a policy against demonstrations on its premises.
"If a restraining order is issued and #BLM goes ahead with its plans, there could be quite a showdown at the mall on the day before Christmas Eve.  Which, I imagine, is exactly what #BlackLivesMatter wants."
Here's your legacy, Mr. Obama.

America needs a Golda Meir, if not a Lady Thatcher

The Lid  "As Barack Obama continues to demonstrate his ineptness at fighting the war against radical Islamic terrorists, it is clear that we would all be much safer if he could learn from a strong-willed, straight-talking, chain-smoking, grey-haired, former teacher who fought terrorists over four decades ago, despite the objections of an appeasement-minded world. That grey-haired lady was Golda Meir."
. . . 
"This remark caused a fidgety buzz to drone around the packed chamber, and it seemed to deepen when she spoke bitterly about the 11 Israeli athletes kidnapped and murdered at the Munich Olympics the summer before, an outrage compounded by the German government’s subsequent release of the surviving killers in return for the freeing of a hijacked Lufthansa plane and its passengers." . . .

. . . "Golda Meir is no longer with us, and that is too bad because like she did when she was the Israeli premier, she could teach the world a thing or two about dealing with terrorism. If you think the Bibi/Obama relationship is rough.  This strong-willed, straight-talking, chain-smoking, grey-haired former teacher who grew up in Milwaukee would put Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in their places."  Read the rest...

On the Omnibus bill

Five Reasons The Omnibus Bill Is A Terrible Christmas Present To The American People  by Rep. Mark Sanford; Congressman, South Carolina First District (R)
. . . "Five, it left untouched the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) land grab in the form of an expanded definition of “Waters of the United States.” I have long been a proponent of the environment, but what is being done here by the agency will have far-reaching negative effects in a place like Bluffton or Lobeco, given the amount of low land we have in the county. The idea that we would have to go to a federal bureaucrat to clean a neighborhood ditch defies common sense." . . .

Six ways Democrats lose out in the 2015 spending bill  From Dec 10th

Obama Accuses Trump of Exploiting Working-Class Fears

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NY Times   "President Obama said in a radio interview airing on Monday that Donald J. Trump, a leading contender for the Republican presidential nomination, is exploiting the resentment and anxieties of working­class men to boost his campaign. Mr. Obama also argued that some of the scorn directed at him personally stems from the fact that he is the first African­American to hold the White House. " . . .

Transitioning to the Post-Obama Era

"Obama, when facing midterm and general elections, warned that executive-order amnesty and non-enforcement of immigration laws were simply out of bounds for a constitutionally elected president. Then he pursued both, and became exactly the constitutional monster that he had warned us about."

Victor Davis Hanson 

 

"How will the country wake up from its coma in 2016 to reality in 2017?

"Next year the lame-duck, legacy-starved Obama administration will double down on its executive orders, bureaucratic fiats, and circumvention of the law. Obama will seek to fundamentally transform America, contrary to law, effecting change in ways he was not able to by adhering to the law.The media, as it has the past seven years, will not only ignore the illegality, but also rationalize and commend it.

"Then comes 2017.

"If a Republican is elected president, what will the media and its liberal sympathizers do should the next chief executive decide to follow the Obamamodus operandi?

"Consider a number of issues, starting with immigration." . . .

"Obama has said anything and everything with implicit media sanction. And we are already harvesting with Trump what Obama and the media have sown."

Can all of Obama's ex-Secretaries of Defense be wrong?

"The two men also still have a friendly relationship, Hagel told Foreign Policy. Nonetheless, he just took several large steps down the same road as Robert Gates and Leon Panetta, who preceded Hagel at the Pentagon and later laid out their grievances in memoirs written after they left office."

Another secretary of defense talks?  "Secretary Hagel is now the latest to say something negative about President Obama's managerial style.  
Mr. Hagel now claims that the White House tried to destroy him:

In an interview with Foreign Policy magazine published Friday, he said he remains puzzled why White House officials tried to “destroy” him personally in his last days in office, adding that he was convinced the United States had no viable strategy in Syria and was particularly frustrated with National Security Adviser Susan Rice, who he said would hold meetings and focus on “nit-picky” details.

. . . "At the same time, there is a pattern here going back to Secretaries Gates and Panetta.
It goes like this:   

1) The secretary of defense makes a presentation, but the president does not want to hear it.

2)  The Secretary gets frustrated and decides to spend time with family.

Chuck Hagel’s Astonishing Admission on Syria  "The former defense secretary has exposed yet another example of the White House’s negligence."

. . . "However, the most revealing moment of the interview was not an instance of White House micromanagement, but rather indecisiveness. " . . .

Must-see ISIS recruiting video uses American politician (and it ain't Trump)

Thomas Lifson  "Hillary Clinton has got a lot of 'splainin to do.  And just wait until Donald Trump takes a look at the ISIS recruiting video below that zooms in on a picture of her husband as it denounces “fornicators” among the American infidels.
"I urge readers to view this 4-minute-plus English-language video in its entirety.  It is stunningly well done, and it helps explain how ISIS is able to appeal to Muslims living in the West, often upset at their place in society, and looking for a way to assert their righteousness and strength."

Trump demands apology from Hillary over claim ISIS using tapes of him for recruiting
. . . "This puts Hillary in a very awkward place. Does she try to brazen through, the way Trump does? If so, will it work for her? My guess is that it will not, that a double standard will apply – the politician (Hillary) being held to a different standard than the outsider (Trump). This will knock her off balance, to say the least." . . .

Weekly Standard has this on the subject

Hillary’s Debate Fact-Check Request Backfires

Daily Caller  "When Hillary Clinton urged viewers of Saturday’s Democratic presidential debate to vet her claim about donations she’s received from Wall Street, she may not have expected people to take her literally.

"That’s because a check of OpenSecrets.org — which Clinton said supports her contention — shows that the Democratic front-runner has received more campaign contributions from the securities and investment industry than she has from the education industry.

“I think it’s important to point out that about three percent of my donations come from people in the finance and investment world,” Clinton said.

“You can go to OpenSecrets.org and check that,” Clinton continued, adding that “more donations from students and teachers than I do from people associated with Wall Street.”

According to Open Secrets, Clinton got more money from Wall Street than teachers.

"During her 2008 presidential campaign, Clinton likewise received more contributions from the securities and investment industry than she did from the education industry."  . . .  
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2015/12/19/hillarys-debate-fact-check-request-backfires/#ixzz3uyGEZEVx

Six Ways Pro-Choice People Try to Censor Pro-Lifers

Timothy Brahm

. . . "Any open-minded person should be disgusted whenever people try to silence their political opposition. I’m almost never disgusted with pro-choice people. I honestly think most of them mean well, but suffer from a combination of self-deception, flawed reasoning, and difficult emotional experiences. But I become truly angry when anyone attempts to shield himself and others from hearing arguments against his view by preventing his opposition from speaking." . . .

. . . "Censorship is at its strongest when it is hidden in the shadows, so out of a desire to make it as weak as possible and make it easier to recognize in the future, I am going to briefly share six experiences (or types of experiences) where I have seen attempts to censor pro-life people."