Obama and Libya

American Thinker on: Congress and its war powers  "President Truman authorized the Korean War without Congress in 1950. And ever since, in Iran, Lebanon, Libya, Panama, Somalia, Bosnia and Haiti there has been a greater unilateral executive authorization. Unless Obama is able to keep the intervention within the 60-90 day time limit, then I don't think he has much to worry about in terms of legality." Then this: Soros heavily involved in the 'Responsibility to Protect" movement

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/lisabenson

And this: General Ham 'Strung'   "We have heard the usual hand wringing pronouncements from politicians, all their now depressingly familiar bleating about exit strategies and end games. The real problem here is that we have policy being made by people who think they can govern by nuance and the shading of reality. We should expect nothing less of dilettantes who seek to impose impossible levels of distinction on the simple, timeless truths of war and life and death now playing themselves out once again in Libya."

For crying out loud, Barry - Make up your mind! "Go...stay...go...Does Obama have a clue what he's doing? Of course, it would help if we had a strategy. Administration spokesmen are insisting that regime change is not part of the mission. They are also insisting that Gaddafi needs to go - or stay but reform - or go, but not necessarily feet first."

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/natebeeler/2011/03/22/85409

This is the Way the Coalition Crumbles "The intervention is noble and necessary, but without unapologetic American leadership it will crumble beneath the weight of its own good intentions."
Obama Continues to Slam Bush on Iraq  "Yet, according to Fox Nation, the claim that the U.S. has more international support now than it did when it entered Iraq is inaccurate. According to the news site, the coalition of countries that backed Bush in Iraq was twice as large as the coalition now backing Obama.
"It’s unfortunate that Obama hasn’t used the crisis in Libya as an opportunity to rethink his previous harsh criticism of the Bush administration."

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/garyvarvel

Max Boot asks: Shouldn’t Post-Qaddafi Plans Have Been a Given?  "Is the coalition now enforcing a no-fly zone prepared to do something on the ground to ease Libya’s transition, or will we just wash our hands of the place and hope for the best?"

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/danasummers/2011/03/21/85427

Has Barack Obama ever been brave? Perhaps more pertinently, will he ever be?

The Economist  "Political courage is hard to define. But you know it when you see it. The senior George Bush increased taxes and paid with his job. Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act even though he knew it would cost the Democrats the South.
The much-maligned younger Mr Bush showed a moment of true grit, when he defied almost everyone and refused to leave Iraq to chaos in 2007. Maybe Mr Obama will find the same raw courage when at last he thinks it warranted. All one can say is that it has not happened yet. Meanwhile, Libya and Bahrain burn."

Obamacare’s Failed First Year

Heritage  "The reason why President Obama and his liberal allies have failed to turn public opinion around is simple: The major claims made by the President in the effort to pass Obamacare have all been exposed as frauds, and the early implementation by his Administration has been a complete disaster.

"Center for Policy Innovation Senior Fellow and Why Obamacare is Wrong for America co-author Bob Moffit details just some of the Obamacare claims that have been exposed as fictions:"...And here they are:...

One Year Later: Time doesn't change views on health care law  "According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Wednesday, on the one year anniversary of the signing of the law, 37 percent of Americans support the measure, with 59 percent opposed. That's basically unchanged from last March, when 39 percent supported the law and 59 percent opposed the measure."

These are not your father's schools

http://terrellaftermath.com/

The Left's Economic Terrorism Plans for America

American Thinker  "The Blaze has obtained a taped recording of the radical plans of Stephen Lerner, a former official of SEIU, on of the most powerful unions in the country. In a meeting held on March 19, 2011, Lerner is heard talking to a group of community organizers, socialists, and union members in a discussion about tactics and strategies on how to disrupt and destabilize the American economy and create widespread uncertainty and fear."

Former SEIU Leader Exposed Planning Economic Terrorist Attack   "We have a very simple strategy:"

How do we bring down the stock market
How do we bring down their bonuses
How do we interfere with there ability to be rich...

Former SEIU leader caught on tape laying out the unions’ plan for economic chaos  "A former official of one of the country’s most-powerful unions, SEIU, is detailing a secret plan to “destabilize” the country.
"Specifically, the plan seeks to destroy JP Morgan, nuke the stock market, and weaken Wall Street’s grip on power, thus creating the conditions necessary for a redistribution of wealth and a change in government.
"The former SEIU official, Stephen Lerner, spoke in a closed session at a Pace University forum last weekend."

Stephen Lerner

Former SEIU Official Details Plan to Crash Stock Market, Redistribute Wealth  "Lerner also says explicitly that, although the attack will benefit labor unions, it cannot be seen as being organized by them. It must therefore be run by community organizations." 

The way our daughters dress for school

Why Do We Let Them Dress Like That?  "But it's easy for parents to slip into denial. We wouldn't dream of dropping our daughters off at college and saying: "Study hard and floss every night, honey—and for heaven's sake, get laid!" But that's essentially what we're saying by allowing them to dress the way they do while they're still living under our own roofs." Jennifer Moses

Clueless counterpoint: "I want them to value themselves and their peers -- to not judge other girls as skanks, to not view boys as those creatures whom they have to guard against at all times. I want them to believe that their sexuality isn't something to be afraid of, to be doled out stingily and grudgingly. I want them to know it's not the length of your skirt that matters; it's what's going on between your ears."   Mary Elizabeth Williams , Salon

Feminazis Worry Their Daughters Will Dress for Sex Like They Did   "As for the girls themselves, if you ask them why they dress the way they do, they'll say (roughly) the same things I said to my mother: 'What's the big deal?' 'But it's the style.' 'Could you be any more out of it?' What teenage girl doesn't want to be attractive, sought-after and popular? And what mom doesn't want to help that cause?"

How the Wall Street Journal Set Off a Firestorm Against Petrobras

Forbes  "What's all of this nonsense about the US giving Petrobras a $2 billion loan for their drilling in Brazil? This article should put that rumor to bed." 
From Neal Boortz, whom the TW refers to often, especially on the complicated issues. One must respect the way Mr. Boortz can make the incomprehensible understandable. And so much the left does today is truly incomprehensible.
Oh, and if you go to Mr. Boortz's Reading Assignments, be sure to catch this one: "Capitalism may be to blame for the lack of life on the planet Mars. That is according to Hugo Chavez."
Mr. Chavez, Senator Kucinich will see you now.

Having said all that, this still applies: President Obama Can’t Wait to Buy More Foreign Oil  "But President Obama is not against all offshore oil drilling. When other countries are the ones developing their natural resources, President Obama is all for it. This Sunday in Brazil, President Obama highlighted that country’s recent offshore oil discoveries: “We want to help you with the technology and support to develop these oil reserves safely, and when you’re ready to start selling, we want to be one of your best customers.”"

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/michaelramirez

Obama: Drill, Brazil, Drill!

Investors.com  "Now, with a seven-year offshore drilling ban in effect off of both coasts, on Alaska's continental shelf and in much of the Gulf of Mexico — and a de facto moratorium covering the rest — Obama tells the Brazilians:
" "We want to help you with the technology and support to develop these oil reserves safely. And when you're ready to start selling, we want to be one of your best customers.""  Unreal, absolutely unreal.
Via the California Chronicle

Urban legend regarding this subject.

Obama Underwrites Offshore Drilling from 2009:  "The Bush Administration's five-year plan (2007-2012) to open the outer continental shelf to oil exploration included new lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico. But in 2007 environmentalists went to court to block drilling in Alaska and in April a federal court ruled in their favor. In May, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said his department was unsure whether that ruling applied only to Alaska or all offshore drilling. So it asked an appeals court for clarification. Late last month the court said the earlier decision applied only to Alaska, opening the way for the sale of leases in the Gulf. Mr. Salazar now says the sales will go forward on August 19."

Obama Praises Brazilian Oil Industry While He Stifles Oil Drilling at Home  "Thanks to Barack Obama’s failed energy policies, seven deepwater rigs were moved from the Gulf of Mexico in the last year. At least one of the rigs was relocated to Brazil.
"Barack Obama loves Brazilian energy production."

Why Democrats Love Unions

 Crystal Coast Tea Party "Just in case anyone wonders why Obama and his cronies are so hot to support labor unions particularly government employee unions check out the contributions."                                                                                
 Source: Center for Responsive Politics, Washington, D.C.
Hat tip to John Uhrig, Plano, TX

Foreign journalists used as human shields outside Gadhafi compound?

Yahoo News  "But reports out of the North African nation now indicate that Libyan officials may actually be using foreign journalists to that end. The regime brought reporters to Gadhafi's compound in Tripoli Sunday night "to effectively use them as human shields," Fox News Channel correspondent Jennifer Griffin reports."

Democrats for Progress reports: FOX Lies (again): CNN crews used as human shields in Libya :
"I just saw Wolf Blitzer ask Nic Robertson if he felt he was being used as a "human shield" and he throughly dispelled that notion as rubbish ."

Jennifer Griffin sticking by report on journalists being used as human shields in Libya  "“They felt that the civilians and journalists had effectively been used as human shields and that was frustrating to them,” said Griffin tonight. “It was a very close call. In fact one official told me that there was a Reuters crew literally on a spot where they were going to drop a missile.”"

Florida Pastor Terry Jones Finally Burns that Koran

Verum Serum  "There are already 2-3 copies of this clip on You Tube with a description in Arabic. This is going to get around the Muslim world very quickly.
"I don’t think this accomplishes anything except to make people angry. Moderates who see this may be less sympathetic to us. Radicals who view it will only have their view of America confirmed."
This guy and Julian Assange should hug each other.

Palin Condemns Quran Burning, Likens to "Ground Zero Mosque"  ""Book burning is antithetical to American ideals," Palin wrote in a Facebook note. "People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation - much like building a mosque at Ground Zero.""

MARVEL COMICS INSULTS 9-11 FAMILIES AND THEIR SUPPORTERS

Astute Blogger  "And who wrote the X-Factor story here? Peter David, I'm afraid. The man who once wrote a story in the same named series back in the early 90s where they and the Hulk took down a Saddam Hussein-ish dictator now does 360, and explains why I don't think I'll want to read his writings anymore. Once, I thought he was smart enough to avoid this kind of propaganda, and he did once signal he respects Israel. Guess I was wrong. Now, he's plumbing new depths and suggesting he condones imposing sharia on America."

Now they want your children's minds.