The New Commandments on the Barn Wall

Victor Davis Hanson   ..."8) Neanderthals need nerds. The cool gang banger who is knifed on Saturday night suddenly in extremis worships the surgeon who stiches up his liver and kidneys — a target whom he would otherwise have robbed earlier that Saturday afternoon. The thug who strips the copper wire from our streetlights nonetheless assumes a nerdish engineer will keep designing the wiring scheme that runs his car’s CD. For the good life to go on, each illiterate punk demands one corresponding graduate student at MIT to take care of him. When the former outnumber the latter, then civilization usually winds down."
....
"I keep these commandments in mind daily. That way what would have seemed absurd in my youth is now as natural as the sun rising."

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/2012/02/16/96531

The wedges Obama is driving into America

The Catholic Betrayal of Religious Freedom; Liberal Catholics abandon their crown jewel.
"Thus “liberal Catholics” who refuse to grasp the threats to religious freedom posed by the Obama administration on so many fronts — the HHS mandate, the EEOC’s recently rejected attempt to strip the “ministerial exemption” from employment law, the State Department’s dumbing-down of religious freedom to a mere “freedom of worship” — are betraying the best of their own heritage." Also: Religious liberty versus ‘women’s health.’


Victor Davis Hanson: Are You ‘Them!’? "My God, man, how did Barack Obama & Co. conjure up so many demons?....
"This is proving to be a Manichean administration. It sees the world in terms dark and light, of us/them, and then must create the necessary binaries to divide and demonize — so strange given this was the narrative of the Obama campaign against Bush, not so strange given the Chicago origins."


Obama, the Great Divider:  "President Obama’s appearance, and the mixed reaction he received, illustrates a broader ideological divide not only in the Orange County community but perhaps nationally. As one protester said “He was billed as the great ‘uniter’ but he has become the great divider.” 

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/great-340813-nukes-homeowners.html?pic=1

Obama 2008 v. Obama 2012: An Amateur v. a Failure

Big Government "Gas prices are up over 80% on Obama’s watch, yet his approach to gasoline remains unchanged. Which means we continue to buy our gasoline from many of the same countries that can’t wait to see a nuclear weapon detonated in an American city. "
...."we’ve been shamed on the battlefield, where Obama pulled our soldiers out as a result of his election year promises to the 21st century counter culture."
...."The bottom line: Obama has been a disaster and he is beatable. Anything his campaign publishes to the contrary is just a facade."

Multi-Millionaire One-Percenter Bruce Springsteen Says Occupy Wall Street Inspiration For New Album…

Weasel Zippers

"Bruce Springsteen said this week that his new albumWrecking Ball was inspired by an “angry patriotism” that drew fuel from the Occupy movement.

Speaking to a group of journalists at the Theatre Marigny in Paris, Springsteen described how the financial crisis, income inequality, and other hot-button political issues informed Wrecking Ball, which paints a picture of an America that has failed the working class."

BS gets big tax breaks  "Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen have been making hit music for years and its no surprise that they've earned enough money to buy big mansions with acres of property, but what might surprise you is the huge tax breaks they, and others, are getting."

Farm Tax Breaks for N.J. Celebrities

Now we go from Springsteen's money to his music:  (And his good buddy, Pete Seeger)  "The politicization of American pop dates from the 1960s, but it grew out of a patient leftist political strategy that began in the mid-1930s with the Communist Party’s “Popular Front” effort to use popular culture to advance its cause."

...."Happily, some have embraced the Popular Front’s legacy in ways that Seeger probably didn’t anticipate and wouldn’t likely approve. In March, a crowd in Taipei, several hundred thousand–strong, sang “We Shall Overcome” and “Blowin’ in the Wind” as part of a protest against forcible annexation by mainland China—and the prospect of Communist Party rule."

Stupid Democrat Tricks

What happens when you invest people who have poor judgment with absolute authority? All this:


Daily Mail: Permission slips for school cookies  "Now Democratic Delegate Ralph Rodighiero of Logan County wants to regulate Christmas cookies at school — along with Halloween candy and peeps at Easter."  Via Boortz


POLITICO: Dems on Keystone pipeline: Only in America  ""This is a political ploy that they're making, it's a red herring, it's a red meat issue," Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield told POLITICO, pointing to an Energy Department analysis noting that very little, if any, of the oil would be exported." Via Boortz

 TheGatewayPundit:  #Occupy Goons Booted From CPAC After Interrupting Sarah Palin With Their Declaration of the Occupy Movement
"#Occupy goons interrupted Sarah Palin’s speech at CPAC yesterday to read their socialist declaration of the #Occupy movement. They were very impressed with themselves as they were booted from the hotel. The left must be very proud of their young brown shirts."

Feds shut down Amish farm for selling fresh milk  " "In Maryland, they force taxpayers to pay for abortions, but God forbid we want the same milk our grandparents drank." "
Terrorism of this sort will not be condoned.


Legal Insurrection:   More “fatuous, preening, liberal self-righteousness”
"And of course, a Prius is the epitome of simple living, with its high price tag and increased insurance costs."

When today's liberals run the armed forces, this is what you get.

Soldiers don fake belly, breasts to better understand pregnant troops' exercise concerns  "The Army is ordering its hardened combat veterans to wear fake breasts and empathy bellies so they can better understand how pregnant soldiers feel during physical training.

"This week, 14 noncommissioned(sp) officers at Camp Zama took turns wearing the “pregnancy simulators” as they stretched, twisted and exercised during a three-day class that teaches them to serve as fitness instructors for pregnant soldiers and new mothers."  Hat tip to This Ain't Hell.

Note that this began in 2008.  No matter who is in office, liberal changes will never be rolled back, only maintained till the next group of leftists push everything even further to the left.

Jeremy Lin: The Wrong Kind of Guy

Richard Fernandez: "Some months ago, in the wake of all the media hype about so-called Asian values and Tiger-mother upbringing, one old gentleman remarked to me: “Why should the media think that sort of thing is Chinese? A few generations ago, those values were accepted as the way things ought to be. It is only recently that believing in these things has become suspect.”

Maybe the real reason for the media’s discomfort is that Lin’s story uncomfortably suggests that these things still matter. The deep secret is that those attributes are still pluses, not minuses that afflict only the uncool and bigoted few."

This should get Lin on the press and celebrity blacklist


ESPN apologizes for "offensive" headline on Jeremy Lin
"The headline -- "Chink in the Armor" -- accompanied an online analysis that blamed Lin, a Chinese-American, for the Knick's surprising 89-85 loss to the New Orleans Hornets at a sold-out Madison Square Garden on Friday night."
Oh boy.

Just what you want to hear: Planned Parenthood works around the clock to hook your kids on sex

Hot Air  " The video included clips and images from PP educational materials — cartoons and the like — and the gist of the clips was that teens should learn to pleasure themselves and each other as soon as possible."
"At the time, I was so disgusted that I couldn’t bring myself to post it. Now, I wish I had. Because of a copyright claim, YouTube pulled the video. No worries, though: You can read more about its contents here. As the smallest of samplings, here’s a screenshot:"
"The cartoon in the corner speaks for itself."

"But what angers me most about Planned Parenthood’s perpetual attempts to perpetuate knowledge about every last perversion that plagues the human race is that it robs marriage and sex of mystery and romance. If everybody’s business is everybody’s business, then nothing is private. How ironic that the “right to privacy” has made public in a huge way what was once between just two people.

More here: American Life League unveils tool to stop Planned Parenthood's pornographic assault on children

Obama's Syria Policy: Shameful, Humiliating, Embarrassing

Michael Ledeen: Freedom and Tyranny "This president, who so vigorously asserts and imposes state power against Americans, is much more comfortable supporting dissident movements against American friends than against American enemies."
...."And then there’s central issue, which we all know:  Khamenei kills Americans all the time, as has his regime for 33 years, but when the Iranian people rise up against him, the American president assures Khamenei that we still want to make a deal with him.

"Remember that this president is presenting himself as a tough guy, because he killed bin Laden, smashed al-Qaeda, and toppled Qadaffi.  Actually the defeat of AQ in Iraq was Bush’s fault, but no matter.  The important point is that this president isn’t interested in bringing American power to bear on the state sponsors of the terrorists who kill our guys.  Obama kills terrorists, the tail of the snake.  He doesn’t go for the head, or rather the heads, which feed in Damascus and Tehran."

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/2012/02/17/96482

...."This president doesn’t talk about that.  He is obsessed with nukes, as if Iran would only be a real threat to us if the mullahs had atomic warheads.  Let him come with us to Bethesda Naval Hospital some day, and we’ll introduce him to some wounded warriors who can tell him how evil, how menacing, and how lethal the Islamic Republic is right here and now.  Even though it’s nukeless."

10 Questions and Answers: What the U.S. Should Do About Syria  "As the violent government crackdown continues in Syria, the United States is faced with a series of questions about what role it should play in the international response. Here are ten questions and answers about the road forward:..."

Occupiers for Obama

Ann Coulter: Communism By Insurance Mandate

Ann Coulter  ...."And now we're all going to be forced to subsidize the entire wish list of the Berkeley City Council, recast as "health insurance." "
...."Just as liberals have turned the Constitution into a vehicle for achieving all the left-wing policies they could never get Americans to vote for, now they are going to use "insurance" for the same purpose. Their new method doesn't even require them to get votes from five justices on the Supreme Court.
"The secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, will do it all on her own."
...."What about the rest of us? You know, the ones who didn't support ObamaCare? We still have to live under the thumb of a nutcase gender-feminist with unlimited authority to ban whatever she doesn't like, subsidize whatever she does like and call it "insurance." "

Obama Considers apologizing to Pakistan. (Bowing not ruled out)

NationalJournal Magazine  "The Obama administration is actively considering issuing an apology or at least an expression of contrition to Pakistan over the errant NATO strikes that killed at least 24 Pakistani soldiers last fall, even though nearly two months have passed since the completion of an official Pentagon investigation that partially blamed mistakes made by U.S. forces for the incident, U.S. officials said."


OK, that's fine. But if Obama apologizes for killing bin Laden, that's waaaaay over the top for me. 

http://www.mideasttruth.com/cartoons.html

The Daily Caller expose' on Media Matters

The liberal Media Matters for America organization once accepted a $50,000 grant to monitor and attack religious news outlets  
"A search of religion-themed stories on Media Matters’ website shows the liberal group has most recently been hitting news outlets for covering the uproar over the Obama administration’s birth control rule. One such story was headlined “Obama’s Birth Control Policy Has Support From Catholic Hospitals, Colleges, And Charities, But Fox Won’t Tell You That.” "
Also at FoxNews


Media Matters talking points occupy MSNBC 
"Just in recent weeks, there have been several examples. Two MSNBC hosts who have recently, and regularly, used the organization’s content for their programming are Ed Schultz of “The ED Show” and Al Sharpton of “PoliticsNation.”

While they vary, the most popular targets have been Fox News personalities and conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh."


Feb. 6, 2012 “PoliticsNation” — Sharpton attacking Steve Doocy, co-host of “Fox and Friends” and Rush Limbaugh on unemployment data:  Feb. 6, 2012 “PoliticsNation” — Sharpton attacking Steve Doocy, co-host of “Fox & Friends” and Rush Limbaugh on unemployment data:"...(Underlining in the paste link)

“The ED Show” — Schultz’s ‘Psycho Talk’ segment on Obama’s use of Air Force One:

“In ‘Psycho Talk’ tonight: Fox News blowhard Eric Bolling,” Schultz said. “Now, this guy is complaining about President Obama using Air Force One to talk to the American people.”

"Schultz was referring to Bolling’s complaint that the president was using Air Force One as a political tool to promote his State of the Union address in five swing states."


Alan Dershowitz: Media Matters could become Rev. Wright of 2012 for Obama

“When I started reading their stuff it sounded like the kind of stuff you see on neo-Nazi websites,” Dershowitz said. “Or on Hezbollah-supporter websites. It is so extremist. The thing that shocked me is that anybody regarded it as mainstream.”