Wednesday, March 2, 2011

'My People' and the American People Eric Holder Serves (Updated)

American Thinker  "House Republicans need to put another item on their to-do list: ask Attorney General Eric Holder for his resignation ASAP."

Texas Lawmaker says Civil Rights Division only protects black voters

They're playing games, literally, in the Justice Department


Eric Holder: Black Panther case focus demeans 'my people'  "The Attorney General seemed to take personal offense at a comment Culberson read in which former Democratic activist Bartle Bull called the incident the most serious act of voter intimidation he had witnessed in his career."

http://townhall.com/cartoons/chipbok
Conservative Group: Did Obama Justice Dept. Collaborate With Those Trying to Overturn California’s Same-Sex Marriage Ban? "A conservative advocacy group wants to know if the U.S. Justice Department had any behind-the-scenes correspondence or communication with various law firms and/or groups that are suing California over its voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage."

Farrakhan: Jews are pushing the US into war

Close friend of Obama's former pastor 
Jerusalem Post  "President Obama," Farrakhan said, "if you allow the Zionists to push you, to mount a military offensive against Gaddafi and you go in and kill him and his sons as you did with Saddam Hussein and his sons, I’m warning you this is a Libyan problem, let the Libyans solve their problem among themselves.” Farrakhan called Muammar Gaddafi "my brother" and "my friend."

Al Sharpton And Louis Farrakhan Welcome Libyan Dictator Moammar Khadafy  Audio from the Sharpton radio show.

Eugene Walcott aka Minister Louis Farrakhan aka Calypso Louie-sings "Stone Cold Man"

Document: A Guide to the Blasphemy Laws of Pakistan

MEMRI  "...Following is a guide to various sections of the Chapter XV of the PPC, regarding the "Offences Relating to Religion:"
"Section 295: Harming or defiling a place of worship with intent to insult a religion
"Section 295-A: Deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage the religious feelings of any section of society by insulting its religion or religious beliefs
"Section 295-B: Defiling the Holy Koran
"Section 295-C: Use of derogatory remarks regarding the Holy Prophet of Islam
"Section 296: Disturbing religious assembly
"Section 297: Trespassing on burial places
"Section 298: Uttering words with deliberate intent to wound religious feelings*
"Section 298-A: Use of derogatory remarks regarding holy personages
"Section 298-B: Misuse of epithets, descriptions and titles reserved for certain holy personages or places
"Section 298-C: Person of Ahmadi group calling himself a Muslim or preaching or propagating his faith"
*They must have got this idea from American campus speech codes.

Iran would "slaughter" people in revolt: defector

Reuters   "Ahmed Maleki, who was vice consul of Iran's consulate in Milan before fleeing to Paris with his family last month, is the latest in a string of officials to defect from the Islamic state and join a year-old opposition group called the Green Wave.
"He said in an interview that Iranians had been inspired by images of popular revolt in North Africa but faced a regime far more brutal than those of Egypt, Tunisia or even Libya."
All that is holding back their brutality is Obama's offer of friendship.

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House Hearing: Obamacare Threatens American Medical Innovation

Obama takes us from this...
The Foundry  "Until now, the United States has been the world leader in medical innovation, but this is by no means a given for the future. Due to burdensome, time-consuming regulations, medical innovation faces an uphill battle in the United States. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has taken note of this and just this week released a white paper proposing a new approval pathway for medical devices that would accelerate the process and reduce costs for medical device companies. Unfortunately, at the same time that the FDA is taking steps to encourage future innovation, new taxes under Obamacare will further diminish the United States’ competitiveness in the industry."

...to this.


Treatment of Libya Illustrates the Fatuousness of the Human Rights Council

Heritage  "Fatuous:1. foolish or inane, especially in an unconscious, complacent manner; silly. 2. unreal; illusory."  Dictionary.com
"The brutal truth is that the Council has proven to be a weak body easily manipulated by repressive regimes to provide a patina of international legitimacy on their abuses. The Bush administration was right to shun the Council and the Obama administration has made precious little progress in improving the HRC since overturning that decision and joining its ranks."




Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Obama gets benefit of doubt during slap-down from Gov. Walker

American Thinker  "Once again Barack Obama has jumped into a local matter without even a casual acquaintance with the facts.  Mr. Obama’s disturbing habit of quickly taking sides on controversial issues shows that the community organizer in chief is entirely unsuited to serve as President of the United States."

http://terrellaftermath.com/


Identity revealed of second mastermind behind Egypt uprising

Mansour
Ahram Online  "The anonymity that had cloaked the figures responsible for mobilizing the call and build up for the January 25 uprising that became a revolution has been lifted further. To the name of Wael Ghoneim, Abdel Rahman Mansour has been added."....
"Mansour, a 24 year old journalism graduate, is one of the founders of Wikileaks Arabic and has been blogging since 2005. He has also worked as a reporter for Al-Jazeera's talk website, Al Arabiya’s website and was also a contributor to “Kolena Layla”, an annual feminist event."




In the eye of the beholder, Iran's loony view of 2012 Olympic logo

Spot the "Zion"!
American Thinker  "According to an Iranian official, the logo, with its blocky, abstract rendering of "2012," is racist because it appears to spell the word "Zion," a biblical term for Jerusalem, rather than 2012. Bahram Afsharzadeh, the secretary-general of Iran's National Olympic Committee, said via the official IRNA news agency that he sent a letter of complaint to International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge."
And these people show Obama disrespect.

Wisconsin Is About Breaking Up the Union Racket

National Review Online  "Public-sector unions are a creature of government, and the Democrats are the party of government. The two of them have identical interests and worldviews, and both want to leverage government to swell their campaign coffers. How to characterize this? The word “shame” comes to mind." Rich Lowry




Libya and the US

"The United States military “is in the planning and preparing mode” on Libya, and will be able to provide the full range of options for national leaders, Pentagon spokesman Marine Corps Col. Dave Lapan said here today. The U.S. military is moving naval and air forces to the region, he said"  From GlobalSecurity.org

World Leaders Mull Military Intervention as Gadhafi Launches Counterattack.  "Also Monday, the U.S. and European allies said they were entertaining a full range of options to press Col. Gadhafi to stop a bloody crackdown on antiregime protesters. In Geneva, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Europeans discussed setting up a no-fly zone over Libyan airspace, and the Pentagon repositioned warships and planes in the waters off Libya to be ready to enforce such a zone or to deliver humanitarian aid."

http://townhall.com/cartoons/michaelramirez/
The Middle East’s Third Wave  "In a private phone call with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, almost two weeks after the unrest began, President Barack Obama finally called for Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi to step down. While the President’s inertia may have been mitigated by the need to get Americans out of the country so Qadhafi could not take any hostages, the incident demonstrates again that the wave of revolution currently sweeping North Africa and the Middle East took the Obama Administration completely by surprise. And for good reason: President Obama’s “engagement” strategy toward the “Islamic world” is thoroughly outdated and irrelevant."

An Epochal Disaster for al-Qaeda  "For many specialists on terrorism and the Middle East, “the past few weeks have the makings of an epochal disaster for Al Qaeda, making the jihadists look like ineffectual bystanders to history while offering young Muslims an appealing alternative to terrorism.”"

What We Can Do in Libya "Outside of Iran, his regime is the most poisonous expression of a badly dated post-colonial politics that blames the West for all ills. The mullahs have to be watching events in Libya with trepidation — if a revolution can come to Qaddafi’s Libya, one of the most totalitarian societies on earth, it can happen anywhere."

Breaking: Iran Has Several Military Bases in Libya  "According to this source, Guards enter Libya under the guise of oil company employees. Most of these companies are under the control of the Revolutionary Guards.
"The source, who is a colonel in the Guards, added that Gaddafi and his government are quite aware of these activities and have even signed joint contracts with those Iranian oil companies so that the the Guards can enter Libya without any trouble."

US weighs hit-and-run raids to disable Qaddafi's air capability  "The Pentagon spokesman's indeed remarked that there are "various contingency plans" for the North African country where Muammar Qaddafi's forces and rebels in the east "remain locked in a tense standoff."
"Most military observers interpreted his remark as referring to potential US military intervention in Libya to break the stalemate. It was strengthened by the imminent redeployment off the Libyan coast of USS Enterprise from the Red Sea and the amphibious USS Kearsarge, which has a fleet of helicopters and about 1,800 Marines aboard."

Victor Davis Hanson: Show the World? Exactly what will the people of the Middle East do?  "Will popular resistance to a Gaddafi, Assad, or Ahmadinejad translate into pro-Westernism, given those leaders’ hatred of the US and its allies, or will the reformers, in conspiratorial and Pavlovian fashion, manage to blame the US for their own anti-American nightmares?"
http://townhall.com/cartoons/chipbok

















Never Fight a Land War in Asia

STRATFOR  "Given that the United States has fought four major land wars in Asia since World War II — Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq — none of which had ideal outcomes, it is useful to ask three questions: First, why is fighting a land war in Asia a bad idea? Second, why does the United States seem compelled to fight these wars? And third, what is the alternative that protects U.S. interests in Asia without large-scale military land wars?"
But what if our national interests require a projection of power into those areas?