Chairman Issa: NLRB a ‘rogue agency’

The Hill  " “The public has a right to know the truth about why a government agency would choose to take action to benefit organized labor that threatens thousands of non-union jobs in South Carolina while setting a precedent impacting manufacturers across the country,” he said. “It is imperative that Congress get complete facts about NLRB’s decision-making process in this matter. Its continued refusal to fully cooperate will not deter this committee as it moves forward in efforts to determine what occurred and to hold NLRB officials to account.” "

Mike Reagan:  NLRB vs. Boeing – Tyranny vs. Freedom  "One of the shameful hallmarks of a dictatorship is the restriction of movement — telling citizens or groups they cannot travel or relocate freely."

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Obama Versus Obama

Victor Davis Hanson  " "Corporate jets" and "millionaires and billionaires" are promiscuously lumped in with those earning above $200,000 in annual income, as if the two groups were synonymous and equally duty bound to pay higher taxes. So how can Obama reduce the unemployment rate to below 9.2 percent, given his past deprecations of business and the job-hiring affluent, coupled with his record of new regulations and rules that favor unions and shut down businesses? At this late stage it proves difficult for Obama to coax those whom he once so gratuitously offended and went after."

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/photos/barack-obama-cartoons/36

NORMAN PODHORETZ :  What Happened to Obama? Absolutely Nothing.  "That is why my own answer to the question, "What Happened to Obama?" is that nothing happened to him. He is still the same anti-American leftist he was before becoming our president, and it is this rather than inexperience or incompetence or weakness or stupidity that accounts for the richly deserved failure both at home and abroad of the policies stemming from that reprehensible cast of mind."

Ron Radosh: What Does Obama Believe? Norman Podhoretz Gets it Right " ...our president indeed is a serious leftist, who developed intellectually and politically in the left-wing culture of his time and who believes deeply in its goals and its programs. Democrats have denied this, he writes, but do so only by ignoring or dismissing what Mr. Obama himself, in a rare moment of candor, promised at the tail end of his run for the presidency: “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” "

Rioters, first and foremost, are Democrat Voters

Collins Report  "In an official statement, Milwaukee Aldermen Bob Donovan and Joe Dudzik said the riot had been “…spawned by a culture of violence that has been brewing in Milwaukee for some time,” and which “…has much to do with a deteriorating African American culture in our city.”

"In speaking of single parent homes which provide no supervision and demand no responsibility, failed schools and perpetually high unemployment and teen pregnancy rates, Donovan and Dudzik broke every rule of political correctness, stating facts which liberal Democrats dutifully ignore for fear of alienating a Jesse Jackson or losing the support of Black voters."

....  However in Chicago....

"Contrast the response to events in Wisconsin with what took place on Memorial Day in Chicago when North Avenue Beach was suddenly shut down by city officials.

"The reason for the closing, as announced by far Left Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy and later confirmed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel–an unusually high incidence of heat exhaustion.

"And with the assistance of the Chicago Sun Times and ABC News, Emanuel and McCarthy STUCK to that story in the face of hundreds of reports of criminal acts committed by 1000 or more Black gang bangers who attacked beach goers and destroyed property"

chicagonewsreport.com

"For those of you complaining about the north ave beach in Chicago closing

 yesterday,  you can thank the gang bangers for that," said one Twitter user.

Police: State Fair mugger targeted whites; 'easy targets'

Philadelphia Mayor Nutter

WLS890am  "Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was asked on WLS Radio’s Roe and Roeper Show Friday if he thought the crimes warranted hate crime status, “I think it is absolutely outrageous, it is a hate crime, and I would imagine the prosecutor will be very aggressive on this. There is no tolerance whether it’s white on black or black on white, there shouldn’t be any tolerance in general for that kind of problems.”"....

"Police say the teen told investigators whites were chosen because he considered them "easy targets.""

Meanwhile in LA: Rapper could face charges tied to flash mob calls.

American Thinker had this yesterday.

Some real perspective over at  Wake up Black America. This man has courage. But maybe no friends.

Let Tavis Smiley or Cornel West know your thoughts on this, since they have a stake in it all.

"If you don't treat poor and working people with dignity now, chickens are going to come home to roost later," West said. "And it won't be about love and justice. It will be about revenge, hatred, and then we all go under."

Basically, this is a Maxine Waters-style call to riot; "Brothers in the hood, you have our approval to help yourselves to new stuff!

Time for a Foreign Policy Paradigm Shift; More Reasons to Renounce the Left

Bruce Thornton  "The paradigm of American neo-imperialist, neo-colonialist sins as the cause of our enemies’ aggression, one allegedly legitimized by the disaster of the Vietnam War, must be put to rest. We must take off the “kick me” sign the left has hung on America’s back for forty years, and develop a new paradigm: a foreign policy based on the unembarrassed assertion of American power in service to American goodness, backed up by a demonstrated willingness to stand by our allies and punish our enemies. If we do, we will find it much easier to pursue our global interests and defend our security."

Throughout the twentieth century evil men have dominated guilt-ridden peaceful populations because of the unearned guilt the pacifists had placed on themselves. That guilt still burdens the west while evil grows unabated and more murderous by the year. Courageous leaders who would face down this growing darkness are castigated by the left as war-mongers and racists. Meanwhile threats mount against civilization caused by forces of religious intolerance from the outside and anarchy from the inside. We see the former manifested in the ayatollahs and the Islamists; the latter is evident by forces within such as this, and this, and this.

Meet Washington's Foreign-Policy Fools

The National Interest  "Washington’s policy pirouettes during the Arab Spring have been breathtaking. As protests rose in Egypt, vice president Joe Biden cited Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak’s value as an ally. As the regime tottered the administration endorsed a phased transition. As Mubarak’s end neared, U.S. officials endorsed his ouster. None of these pious pronouncements had the slightest effect in Cairo. Popular demonstrations reached a roaring crescendo because most people had tired of dictatorship, not because Washington reluctantly warmed to democracy. Rather, the administration looked pathetic, desperately trying to get ahead of the latest crowd.

"The administration continues to play much the same game in Yemen. When protests first sprouted in Yemen, the White House was backing president Ali Abdullah Saleh. He was a standard issue Third-World thug, but he won favor in Washington for being willing to battle jihadists, including the local al-Qaeda organization." Much more...

Hat tip to Big Peace.

Charles Krauthammer: The system works

Charles Krauthammer  "Of all the endlessly repeated conventional wisdom in today’s Washington, the most lazy, stupid and ubiquitous is that our politics is broken. On the contrary. Our political system is working well (I make no such claims for our economy), indeed, precisely as designed — profound changes in popular will translated into law that alters the nation’s political direction.

"The process has been messy, loud, disputatious and often rancorous. So what? In the end, the system works. Exhibit A is Wisconsin. Exhibit B is Washington itself."

....

"Notice how the loudest complaints about “broken politics” come from those who lost the debate. It’s understandable for sore losers to rage against the machine. But there’s no need for the rest of us to parrot their petulance."

America — not just declining, it’s intentionally being destroyed!

Black Quill and Ink  Quoting Cicero:

“A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves against those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city . . . . A murderer is less to fear.”

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UK Anarchy? Poverty Didn’t Cause Those Riots; Just Ask Some Of Those Arrested! Calls for rioting in the US

UK Daily Mail  "Poverty, social exclusion, poor education - these are just some of the theories put forward to explain the recent rioting.

"Yet shockingly, among those in the dock accused of looting are a millionaire's grammar school daughter, a ballet student and an organic chef.

"A law student, university graduate, a musician and an opera steward also said to have taken part.

"They are just some of the youngsters from comfortable middle-class backgrounds who have been charged with criminality."



Laura Johnson's £1m detached family home in Orpington, Kent. It has extensive grounds and a tennis court

Prepare to gag:  Smiley and West: Poverty, Income Inequalities in US Could Lead to UK-Like Riots

"If you don't treat poor and working people with dignity now, chickens are going to come home to roost later," West said. "And it won't be about love and justice. It will be about revenge, hatred, and then we all go under."  Basically, this is a Maxine Waters-style call to riot; "Brothers in the hood, you have our approval to help yourselves to new stuff!"

Mayor Nutter’s Call; It is a sign of the times that basic decency has grown unusual.  Expect this courageous man to be attacked by the usual suspects, two of whom are linked to in the preceding article.

Concealing black hate crimes  "Across the U.S., mobs of black youths are organizing on Facebook to loot stores and beat whites. Yet none dare call the "flash mob" attacks hate crime, least of all the attorney general."



 

PBS hosts Smiley and West

 

Abbas’ Vision of an Ethnically Cleansed Palestinian State

Jonathan S. Tobin  at Commentary Magazine  "This demand for an ethnically cleansed Palestine would mean the forced removal of all Jews living in the territories. Since he is calling for that state to exist in all of the territory of the West Bank, Gaza and the part of Jerusalem that was illegally occupied by Jordan from 1949 to 1967, that would mean in theory the eviction of over a half a million Jews to accommodate his ambition."

Art by Bosch Fawstin

11th Circuit strikes down Obamacare mandate

Legal Insurrection    "We first conclude that the Act’s Medicaid expansion is constitutional. Existing Supreme Court precedent does not establish that Congress’s inducements are unconstitutionally coercive, especially when the federal government will bear nearly all the costs of the program’s amplified enrollments.

"Next, the individual mandate was enacted as a regulatory penalty, not a revenue-raising tax, and cannot be sustained as an exercise of Congress’s power under the Taxing and Spending Clause. The mandate is denominated as a penalty in the Act itself, and the legislative history and relevant case law confirm this reading of its function."

The Iowa Republican debate

American Thinker: Testy exchanges mark Iowa debate  "Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum also had some criticism for Bachmann, taking her to task for not coming to Iowa to campaign against three judges who voted for gay marriage. And everyone piled on Ron Paul for his ludicrous position on Iran. Paul thinks that if Iran wants a nuclear weapon, they should be able to develop it without any interference from us. Thus speaks the radical isolationist sage from Texas."....

All in all, a pretty good night for the GOP. They showcased their candidates who all came off, to one degree or another, as presidential. Given the expectations, that's probably the best they could have hoped for. Rick Moran, who picked Huntsman as the loser.

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Fox News: Fireworks Erupt at GOP Presidential Debate in Iowa  "Romney comes out of the debate looking to keep his position at the top of the pack, as the candidates head into the nonbinding, but influential Iowa Straw Poll this weekend."....

" "It's about time we talk to Cuba," Paul said at one point. He also said the United States had created the hostile relations between it and Iran."  

 I see Ron Paul attracting Obama voters. TD

WSJ: Debate Jolts Republican Race to Life Former House speaker Newt Gingrich spent much of his debate chastising the debate panelists, accusing them of "gotcha questions."

"Every one of the candidates raised their hands to attest that they wouldn't accept any deficit-reduction deal with tax increases, even if the deal included $10 of spending cuts to $1 of revenue rises." Via Lucianne.

National Review Online: Scoring the Iowa Debate   "An NRO panel of experts assess the Republican candidates’ performances on Thursday night in Des Moines."

....

"Americans may be focused on fiscal problems at home, but the Republican party needs a nominee in 2012 who can challenge Barack Obama’s disastrous foreign-policy record as well as his mishandling of the economy."...."This attempt to morph the party of Reagan into that of Carter is not only dangerous, it raises questions about whether the GOP has a candidate ready to fulfill perhaps the most important and sacred presidential duty."  More here, here, here, NRO has more.

 

Pajamas Media: First Blood in Ames  "None of this, however, means that there weren’t plenty of moments of interest. It’s very possible that the next few days will see some significant movement in the primary race, in part due to the performance of the candidates on that stage. As usual with these dog and pony shows, I’ll begin with the folks who didn’t seem to fare very well."

Stephen F. Hayes: The Winner in Ames  None of the above. "It’s a problem for the Republican party when the best performance of the evening came from a marginal candidate who lost virtually all of his senior staff in resignations over the past two months."



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 William Kristol: The Use and Abuse of History "History suggests that the race—absent an intervention—is predictably headed toward a showdown between 2008 runner-up Mitt Romney and Texas governor Rick Perry."