Victor Davis Hanson; Target: Ann Romney

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Victor Davis Hanson  "A compromise view soon emerged, voiced by President Obama himself, that the wives both of presidents and of presidential candidates should be off limits to public criticism. But should they?"
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"The answer to the question of how to treat a first lady or potential first lady depends on the degree to which she interjects herself into politics in ways that transcend just supporting her husband."
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"When Bill Clinton was campaigning in 1992, he bragged that if the nation elected him it would get two Clintons for the price of one. Almost immediately he entrusted his wife with reforming the nation’s entire healthcare system. The term “Hillarycare” was a fair indictment of the subsequent debacle. Hillary herself was determined to put herself forward as an unapologetic liberal in times of her husband’s triangulation — no doubt to help him calm his itchy left-wing base. She was more than a fair target for any critic opposed to such an ideology or to her own incessant politicking (“vast right-wing conspiracy”)."
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"So far, in this silly “war-on-women” back-and-forth, it is the amateur Ann Romney who is proving far more politically savvy than the inept Ms. Rosen, the supposedly professional public-relations pundit. At some point, the Romneys will have to decide how to use this undeniable political asset, who enhances her husband whether she is being political or supportive as a traditional wife and mother.
"And we should blame or praise her — or leave her alone — depending on her choice, not ours."

http://selfdeprecate.com/political-cartoons/ann-romney-war-on-women/

Alan Caruba: Genocidal Green Quotes. Fourth in a series

Warning Signs:  "In 1970, the first Earth Day generated the following quotes:

“Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.” - George Wald, Harvard Biologist

....“Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make. The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.” - Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist....

“It is already too late to avoid mass starvation.” - Denis Hayes, chief organizer for Earth Day in 1970.

 "And, finally, this warning from the President of the Czech Republic, Vaclac Klaus: “They hate us, the humans, they consider us selfish and sinful creatures who must be controlled by them. I used to live in a similar world—called communism—and I know that it led to the worst environmental damage the world has ever experienced.” "

The prosecution, the media and the race-baiters vs. Zimerman

Walking Papers? The Incredibly Thin, Speculative Zimmerman Affidavit; Angela Corey's filing against George Zimmerman bears the hallmarks of a career-ender.

"The affidavit starts out typically, listing the names and qualifications of the two investigators used by the special prosecutor. It then begins to build a case against George Zimmerman:

On Sunday 2/26/12, Trayvon Martin was temporarily living at the Retreat at Twin Lakes, a gated community in Sanford, Seminole County, Florida. That evening Martin walked to a nearby 7-11 Store where he purchased a can of iced tea and some Skittles. Martin then walked back to and entered the gated community and was on his way back to the townhouse where he was living when he was profiled by George Zimmerman. Martin was unarmed and was not committing a crime.

"Not one paragraph into the “meat” of the affidavit, Corey’s team already made two unsubstantiated claims."
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"I live and work in central North Carolina, just miles away from where an overzealous, politically minded prosecutor named Mike Nifong attempted to railroad athletes from the Duke University lacrosse team in a similarly racially charged environment just a half-decade ago.

"Nifong was disbarred and found guilty of criminal contempt for his actions. Angela Corey’s affidavit against George Zimmerman looks to be treading dangerously close to that same path."


Overcriminalization: Attacking a Dangerous Precedent  "What happens when the Florida legislature eliminates the centuries-old requirement that the government must prove that an accused person acted with criminal intent before he may be punished as a criminal?  It risks making almost anyone a criminal – both those who intend to commit a crime and those who do so by accident.  And that’s wrong.  It’s wrong as a matter of policy, and it’s wrong as a matter of history."

 Dan Joppich: Zimmerman's media lynching continues  "The long delay is because there was no case. And the delay didn't spark the protests, the media manipulation of the 911 tapes and police video did. The arrest was done in order to appease the likes of Al Sharpton, not to achieve justice for Martin."
...."This is exactly the race-baiting that the media is exploiting. Why is the author attaching the "white and" label to Zimmerman. Do we refer to Obama as a "white and" black man? Do we refer to Tiger Woods as an "Asian and" black person? Zimmerman is considered Hispanic just the same as Obama and Tiger are always referred to as black. The author's motives are obvious here."


MSNBC: WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO LIE ABOUT YOU  "...MSNBC’s latest attack on the Koch brothers, whom guest host Karen Finney outrageously blamed for the Trayvon Martin shooting. Finney’s slander was repeated on MSNBC by former Obama administration official Van Jones, who said, “You’ve got all of the passion around Trayvon and what a horrible injustice that was and you can draw a direct line to the Koch brothers.” 

10 Years Ago Today, Dems Say ANWR Won’t Yield Oil for 10 Years

Heritage

Their objections voiced a common concern: ANWR wouldn’t begin to produce oil for up to ten years. Here’s what some of the Senators had to say:

• “There would be no production out of [ANWR] for at least 7 years.” -Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.)
• “Oil extracted from [ANWR] would not reach refineries for seven to ten years.” -Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA)
• “No oil will flow from ANWR…until from 7 to 10 years from now.” -Sen. John Kerry (D-MA)
• “Oil exploration in ANWR will not actually start producing oil for as many as 10 years.” -Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA)
• “Even if we started drilling [in ANWR] tomorrow, the first barrel of crude oil would not make it to the market for at least 10 years.” -Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)

Ten years later, oil and gas production on federal lands is at a nine-year low, a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline costs an average $3.90, and the president is busy blaming “speculators” for high oil prices – a scapegoat that even a former Democratic Commodity Futures Trading Commissioner rejects. Heritage’s David Kreutzer also debunked that argument.

Dems Use Ted Nugent's Remarks to Distract from Ann Romney Flap

American Thinker  "Now it's reported that conservative rocker Ted Nugent has fired insults at Congresswomen Debbie Wasserrman-Schutlz and Nancy Pelosi.  Nugent called Wasserman-Schultz a "brain-dead, soulless idiot" and Pelosi a "sub-human scoundrel."  Nugent labeled both women "varmints," conjuring up Yosemite Sam using the same epithet against Bugs Bunny."


Nuge strikes again: Nugent blasts Obama administration as 'America haters' " “We have a guy in the White House who is an absolute, America-hating punk,” Nugent said. “And it isn’t really the punk’s fault. It’s we the people for bending over and letting the punk in the door.” "

Secret Service calls Nugent over anti-Obama screed "Rocker and gun rights champion Ted Nugent says he will meet with the Secret Service on Thursday to explain his raucous remarks about what he called Barack Obama's "evil, America-hating administration" _ comments some critics interpreted as a threat against the president."


Holder and Farrakhan Make Racist Remarks, But Rush is the Racist?  "Just a few weeks ago Khadafy was calling for the Arab world to rise up against Israel, and now Calypso Louie is talking about "uprisings" against America. Who do you think Farrakhan sees as some of the first targets in these uprisings? Who do you think it would be? The Jews!"


Obama, Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan, White Folks, You Owe Us The Whole Country!

Death Threats Against Bush at Protests Ignored for Years  

"Don’t believe me? Then keep reading. Because this essay exists for one reason only:To prove beyond any doubt that explicit and implicit threats to Bush’s life were commonly displayed at public protests throughout his term as president. Below this introduction you will find dozens of examples of such threats — unaltered photographs from a wide variety of sources, along with links verifying their authenticity."
From Zomblog

It's a dog's life

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Jack Cashill: Some More Obama Dog Observations "Not surprisingly, Bill Ayers is also obsessed with dogs.  He makes twenty separate references to dogs in his memoir, Fugitive Days, including this curious admission.  "One day we passed out thousands of leaflets advertising a demonstration . . . in which we would burn a dog to death with napalm in protest of the war."  Of course, he was bluffing.  The killing he and his pals would reserve for humans."

You didn't see this coming? Hitler Finds Out Obama Ate His Dog "Might a “good and dedicated father and grandfather” in fact be a sociopath because of how he once transported the family pet on vacation? I look forward to seeing this important question explored at length in the media’s campaign coverage this summer. Oh, by the way — we just passed $5 trillion in new debt accumulated since Obama was sworn in. Enjoy the clip."
Via Hot Air

More from Hot Air: Ann Romney: Seamus the Dog “loved” trips atop the car

Politico: Rush Limbaugh addresses the dog affair  "The conservative radio personality then imitated Rev. Jeremiah Wright, imagining how the president’s former pastor might defend Obama.
"“Mitt Romney ain’t never had to eat no dog meat. And Barack has. Barack knows poverty. Mitt Romney never had to eat no dog meat,” Limbaugh said.

"The fact that Obama once ate dog meat went viral after the Daily Caller flagged a passage from the president’s memoir, “Dreams from My Father.” "

Hat tip to Lucianne

Victor Davis Hanson: The Trayvon Martin Case and the Growing Racial Divide

Victor Davis Hanson:  "The counter-narrative is just as uncompromising. It runs I think as this: We live in a multi-racial society now, where almost every minority group has genuine claims on past exploitation, from the Holocaust to the frontier wars to the internment. But after a half-century of hyphenation and racial identity politics, and a trillion dollars spent on federal race-based programs, it is time to move beyond race and evaluate Americans on their behaviors and talents, without worry whether any particular group statistically does better than another...."

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"Those two narrative don’t match and won’t, and so race relations have gotten only worse — as Barack Obama and Eric Holder well know. They do not seem to care or feel there is advantage to be had in the new polarity."

http://savingcommonsense.blogspot.com/2010/09/jackson-sharpton-cartoon-on-racism.html

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 Ann Coulter:  Negroes with guns  "Gun control laws were originally promulgated by Democrats to keep guns out of the hands of blacks. This allowed the Democratic policy of slavery to proceed with fewer bumps and, after the Civil War, allowed the Democratic Ku Klux Klan to menace and murder black Americans with little resistance. 
"(Contrary to what illiterates believe, the KKK was an outgrowth of the Democratic Party, with overlapping membership rolls. The Klan was to the Democrats what the American Civil Liberties Union is today: Not every Democrat is an ACLU'er, but every ACLU'er is a Democrat. Same with the Klan.) 
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"A World War II Marine veteran, Williams returned home to Monroe, N.C., to find the Klan riding high -- beating, lynching and murdering blacks at will. No one would join the NAACP for fear of Klan reprisals. Williams became president of the local chapter and increased membership from six to more than 200. 
"But it was not until he got a charter from the NRA in 1957 and founded the Black Armed Guard that the Klan got their comeuppance in Monroe. "

Alan Caruba: Eco-Communism Celebrated Annually on Earth Day. Third in a series

Warning Signs  "Americans are the victims of blunders by a succession of presidents, but it was Richard Nixon who kicked off the plundering of the nation by the environmental movement when, in 1970, he quietly signed into law the National Environmental Policy Act, followed by the Clean Air Act. “Nixon’s Clean Air Act expanded the ’67 law to autocratically allow the federal government to limit both industrial and mobile sources of air pollution. It set up the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

"Today, the EPA has become a rogue agency, barely controlled by Congress. “Today the EPA is eighteen thousand full-time employees strong, with an annual budget of $10 billion”, notes Sussman".

Alan Caruba: Earth Day and the Great "Sustainability" Lie. Second in a series

Warning Signs  "Throw in the Environmental Protection Agency’s war on the coal industry, and the Interior Department’s limits on access to federal land known to contain uranium deposits for the nuclear energy industry, and you begin to see how our own government is conspiring to leave the United States of America bereft of the energy reserves that we have in abundance!

"The nation’s energy needs and its dollar are being weakened in order to eliminate it as the only real deterrent to the United Nation’s, Russia’s and China’s global ambitions."
...."There is not one single reason why the U.S. taxpayer should be contributing to this communist cabal and conference."

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'Land of opportunity?' Apparently not for some

Rick Moran  "How far has the US fallen in recent years? One yardstick is in the number of second generation immigrants returning to the country of their parent's birth for opportunities that they can't find here."
...."What makes this particular trend so worrisome is that it involves the kinds of immigrants that have powered American entrepreneurship  for decades. It is becoming too difficult to start a business, to negotiate the myriad regulations and laws governing business creation - not to mention the highest corporate tax rate in the world and overregulation that has gotten much worse under the current administration.  
"Government's stranglehold on American business is costing us not only jobs, but talent as well."

http://www.usnews.com/cartoons/economy-cartoons

The Al Sharpton and Louis Farrakhan Comedy Hour

From PJ Media with a big hat tip to Bud Abbott and Lou Costello.
This In Living Color skit is "hands down, the winner. This is pure genius, from the respective impersonations by David Alan Grier and Damon Wayans to the script to the belly rub at the end."


Farrakhan Warns Whites: “Unless You Change, Your End Has Come”…

"If this was a white man making these types of threats Holder would unleash the DOJ attack dogs faster than you can say, “my people.” "

He continued, going on to address Caucasians directly.

“I know myself. I know you. And some of you white people – I know you better than you know yourself because God has revealed you fully,” he explained, going on to seemingly claim that he has a special, God-ordained ability to see what others cannot.
This, of course, was followed up with a cryptic warning to white Americans about their need to “change.”
“It ain’t about hating you. We ain’t got no time for that. But we know who we’re dealing with. We know what we’re dealing with,” he said. “We know your origin in the world and we know how long you were set to live and unless you change, your end has come.”

Via Weasel Zippers

What would a second Obama term look like?

Human Events: California Dreamin'   "I live in California.  If you were wondering what living in Obama's second term would be like, wonder no longer.  We in California are living there now.
 "California is a one-party state dominated by a virulent Democratic Left enabled by a complicit media where every agency of local, county, and state government is run by and for the public employee unions.  The unemployment rate is 12%."
...."California has seven income tax brackets.  The top income tax rate is 9.3%, which is slapped on the greedy rich earning at least $47,056 a year.  Income of more than $1 million pays the "millionaires' and billionaires'" surcharge tax rate of 10.3%.   
 "Brown's proposal would add 2% for income over $250,000.  A million-dollar income would then be taxed at 12.3%.  And that's just for the state."  Roger Hedgecock

http://www.usnews.com/cartoons/barack-obama-cartoons

Another California comparison made by another Californian: "But at the core of this breakdown was the abandonment of our basic republican structure of government – and it began right here.

"Our parliamentary institutions have evolved over centuries to distill diverse viewpoints to a common direction within constitutional boundaries. When this process is applied, it works extremely well.

"For a quarter of a century, I watched as these brilliant checks and balances that had produced reasonably punctual and reasonably balanced budgets for over a century, and nurtured the most prosperous economy in the nation, were gradually abandoned in the name of liberal efficiency.

..".I believe that if Californians rediscover these self-evident truths, Jerry Brown will be to California what Barack Obama has been to the rest of the country – a giant wake-up call."
Tom McClintock

http://www.calwatchdog.com/cartoon/

Ezra Klein:  The best way to judge Obama’s first term — and his second  "In Obama’s case, however, a failure to win a second term will not just color his accomplishments. It will decide their fate."

Letter: Second term would give Obama license to do unspeakable things "He has lost America’s position as leader of the world. His message has become a farce. I believe the world considers him a joke, as their cartoons about him are telling. He has become an embarrassment, bowing to Saudi royalty and apologizing for America’s imagined transgressions."


Investor's Business Daily: Is Obama 'Dangerously Close To Totalitarianism'?  "... "A few months ago he was saying, 'The Congress doesn't count, the Congress doesn't mean anything, I am going to rule by decree and by administrative regulation.'
" "Now he's basically saying the Supreme Court doesn't count. It doesn't matter what they think. They can't review our legislation. That would leave just him as the only branch of government standing." "

http://www.usnews.com/cartoons/barack-obama-cartoons

Romney Warns Gun Lobby of a Second Obama Term  " “In his first term,” Mr. Romney’s said, “we’ve seen the president try to browbeat the Supreme Court. In a second term, he would remake it. Our freedoms would be in the hands of an Obama court, not just for four years, but for the next 40. That must not happen.’’ "


The Nation: Why the Supreme Court Matters  "Four justices are now in their 70s: Ginsburg (79), Scalia (76), Kennedy (75) and Breyer (73). If Romney wins, he could shore up the right flank of the Court; if Obama wins, he could tip the balance of power back to the center. "
...." “If Obama wins re-election, he will likely appoint one—and perhaps three—more Supreme Court justices,” [NRA head Wayne]  LaPierre said. “It’ll be the end of our freedom forever.” "
"....If ever there was a time for the president to run against the Court, it is now."  Ari Berman


What Tax Day Could Feel Like in 2013  "The Tax Foundation reports that because of higher federal income and corporate tax collections, Tax Freedom Day came four days later this year than last. And the bad news is that unless Washington takes action, it will take working Americans 11 more days to meet next year’s tax burden."