Iran to build permanent naval base in Syria

DEBKAfile  "Iran has much to celebrate, debkafile's military sources report. It has acquired its first military foothold on a Mediterranean shore and its first permanent military presence on Syrian soil. Tehran will be setting in place the logistical infrastructure for accommodating incoming Iranian troops to fight in a potential Middle East war."

What if the TEA Party had done something like this?

Angry protesters confront a locked-out Sen. Grothman  "Protests against Gov. Scott Walker's budget and the battle for access to the Capitol took a tense turn last night when GOP Sen. Glenn Grothman was locked out of the building and was eventually surrounded by hundreds of angry protesters, according to the Cap Times." 

Moore On Wealthy People's Money: "That's Not Theirs, That's A National Resource, It's Ours"

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RealClearPolitics  According to this piece of work, your paycheck is a "national resource", got that?  ""They're sitting on the money, they're using it for their own -- they're putting it someplace else with no interest in helping you with your life, with that money. We've allowed them to take that. That's not theirs, that's a national resource, that's ours. We all have this -- we all benefit from this or we all suffer as a result of not having it," Michael Moore told Laura Flanders of GRITtv."

Politics Seen to Limit E.P.A. as It Sets Rules for Natural Gas

NY Times  "They have been helped in their lobbying efforts by a compelling storyline: Cutting red tape helps these energy companies reduce the nation’s dependence on other countries for fuel. Natural gas is also a cleaner-burning alternative to coal and plentiful within United States borders, so it can create jobs." However...this being the NY Times, you knew there would be a however, didn't you? 

Official: Suspect in Deadly Shooting of U.S. Airmen at German Airport Acted Alone

Fox News  "The suspect, Arif Uka, is said to be a Muslim man with family in Kosovo who was born in Germany and was working at the airport at the time of the attack. He reportedly said "Allah Akbar" before opening fire on a bus outside the airport, a source told Fox News. The deadly attack also wounded two others before the man was taken into custody."

Details Emerge on Jihadi Arif Uka Who Opened Fire on U.S. Airmen Just Arriving From America
"The [e-media] is reporting a "lone" jihadi. How the hell do they know what Islamic group Arif Uka belonged to? We are always being admonished not to rush to judgment (they are still scratching their heads over the Fort Hood jihadi -- Gd forbid they rush to judgment), but these devout bastards can wail Koranic verses while they are mowing people down -- but Gd forbid we say it.
"How many have to die before we can call this war what it is? How many?
"No independent state for Kosovo! Are they crazy?"

Gunman Screams 'Allahu Akbar', Obama Sees Motive Unclear  "Once again, the President and the mainstream media -- even the report on Fox News -- scrupulously avoid the words "Muslim," or "Islam" and reference to any possible religious motive for the attack. It is true that we don't have "all the information"-not that this has been any impediment in the past for the President to shoot off his mouth-but we do have some extremely strong evidence that the man was an Islamic terrorist." Right-wing TEA Party activists suspected.

More Cat Stevens: The music of revolution

Al Jazeera "We speak with rock icon Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens, about his latest song My People which is inspired by the popular uprisngs(sic) calling for freedom and change in the Arab world."
The image I get is this 1960 Volkswagen van bedecked with flowers and a guitar in the front seat, loaded with 500 pounds of explosives. The driver yells "Allahu Akbar!", which being translated means "peace train!" .



How Obama Is Making Gas Prices Higher

Heritage  "Anyone could have predicted that the recovering world economy, coupled with the continued growth of India and China, was going to push oil prices higher. So if an Administration wanted to keep gas prices down, they could have mitigated increased oil demand by increasing domestic oil production. But that is not what the Obama Administration has done. Instead of increasing domestic oil supplies, the Obama Administration has cut them at every opportunity, and Americans are now suffering because of those choices"

Yet Another New Obamacare Bureaucracy

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Heritage  "To fix the problem, the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO)—a government entity created under the new law to oversee the changes made by Obamacare to the private insurance market—stepped in. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued regulations giving CCIIO the power to waive that requirement, thus arbitrarily determining winners and losers under the new law and resulting in a system where some must abide by new regulations while others are given a “get out of jail free” card by bureaucrats at CCIIO"
We'll be asking questions later, so be sure you get this all down.

Six Steps to Reining in the Administrative State  "This terribly unpopular law led millions of citizens to ask of themselves and their neighbors: Are we citizens in a constitutional republic or subjects of the administrative state?
"Then the elections came. Americans went to the polls and voiced their opposition to the health care overhaul. But is it too late for Congress to roll back the administrative state? Drawing on a recent Center for American Studies scholars’ conference on that topic (look for more papers to come),  Robert Moffit offers six steps for Congress to roll back the administrative state."

Paul Ryan accuses W.H. of skirting Medicare law "Ryan claims the White House owes Congress a plan for shoring up Medicare funding because the federal government is covering more than its targeted share of the program. Ryan points to a provision of the 2003 Medicare law that requires the president to act. "



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Speaking of bureaucracies:  Debt, the Economy and Government 'Investments'  "Did you know that those in the federal government -- the folks who brought you $1.6 trillion of yearly deficits, brought you $14 trillion of debt and make Elmo a reality -- offer Americans 56 separate programs to help them better understand their finances?"  And.....

The U.S. government gives its citizens lots of overlap and inefficiency for their tax dollars "Have you got a hangnail? Somewhere in the federal bureaucracy there has to be a program even for such a minor ill. Because there are dozens and dozens of programs for everything else. So says a new report from the Government Accountability Office"

Freedom on the March? No Thanks to the American Left

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Pajamas Media  "...the American left’s support of national actors who are anti-democratic and anti-American. Their pattern of conduct has seen them dealing with the most disreputable leaders in the world.
"Ironically, this anti-American predilection shows leftists actually do have the ability to show outrage over Libya. When President Reagan ordered the bombing of Libyan targets in 1986, in response to a Libyan terror attack on a German nightclub frequented by American military personnel, the left condemned the act as “immoral,” for “seriously violating laws and norms governing international relations.” "
  R. Dozier Gray is a military veteran, private business consultant, and member of the Project 21 black leadership network

The Libyan people are no more our ally than Qaddafi.

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Andrew C. McCarthy "In any event, guess who else wants Qaddafi gone tomorrow? None other than Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi, the Muslim Brotherhood’s sharia compass, who is still tingling from his recent, triumphant return to Egypt, right across the border from Eastern Libya, where Qaddafi’s fiercest opposition just happens to be. He did make time, though, to issue a fatwa last week calling for the Libyan despot’s assassination.

"Not to worry, though. We have it on good authority (the U.S. government) that the Muslim Brotherhood is a “largely secular” organization, with a real passion for democracy. Perhaps if one of the Libyan secularists is moved to carry out the fatwa — which, of course, should be understood as a strictly secular edict — Secretary Clinton could find a new friend of America in Sheikh Qaradawi.

Our Schizoid Foreign Policy

Victor Davis Hanson "Autocratic and dictatorial Russia has become a veritable friend. America will say very little about the Russian government’s involvement in the chronic assassination of journalists and dissidents. We don’t mind passing along nuclear-weapon information about our British allies to Russia if it furthers better relations with Moscow and results in a treaty. We apparently are more worried about offending Vladimir Putin than about offending our Polish and Czech allies. We eagerly sign an arms treaty that most people believe favors Russia more than ourselves, and we shrug when Russia does not, as promised, help thwart Iranian nuclear proliferation."
But Israel better not mess with us or else.

Sorry, but Israelis Have Good Reason to Be Fearful

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Commentary Magazine  "I’ve written elsewhere that Arab democracy is Israel’s only hope for long-term peace. And if the current revolutions indeed succeed in producing it, most Israelis will cheer. But our experience is that, in this region, change can always be for the worse, and usually is. Right now, nobody can promise that this particular change won’t be the same."