The Late, Great Middle Class; How Obama facilitated its decline

Victor Davis Hanson

 

...."Obama promised to restore the middle class. In truth, he has enacted the very policies that have done it the most damage in years. That paradox may explain why his base of support remains the very rich and the very poor. Goldman Sachs, federal bureaucrats, and aid recipients are helped in a way that the strapped hardware-store owner, Starbucks barista, and part-time welder are not."....

Farrakhan a VIP guest at dinner party with Iran's Rouhani

Fox News

 

"Farrakhan is no stranger to controversy. He has been blasted for his anti-Semitic remarks and has aligned himself with former Iranian presidents and other controversial world leaders. In 2011, Farrakhan blasted Obama, calling him a “murderer” in response to the death of Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi.
" 'We voted for our brother Barack, a beautiful human being with a sweet heart,” Farrakhan said. “Now he's an assassin.' ”
Speaking of assassins: Iran's Rohani tied to AMIA 1994 bombing   "Indictment by Argentine government investigating bombing says Iranian president connected to decision to launch attack."

Peas in a Pod: Farrakhan sups with Rouhani   "Doesn't it sound like Farrakhan knows Obama pretty well? The two met at the White House back in 2009, according to visitor logs, and he may have been there another time with his family. Prior to that, no self-respecting black politician could run in the state of Illinois without Farrakhan's blessing. Whether the two met back then is unknown, but it's not surprising that Obama would try and hide his connection to such a radical, anti-Semitic, anti-American hater."

 

Reading list: Obama has made America the 'B" movie sidekick to the world's rogue states

By Nile Gardiner at the UK Telegraph; Barack Obama’s UN speech was pure mush. America’s enemies no longer fear the US superpower
..."Not only is this approach staggeringly naïve. It also send a dangerous signal that the world’s superpower is losing the will to stand up to rogue states, and opens up the possibility of the United States loosening sanctions on Iran. Obama’s words must have been music to the ears of the Mullahs, who continue to operate one of the most oppressive regimes in the world while trying to turn Iran into a regional nuclear power."...

 

Our sucker-in-chief’s U.N. outing  "And would you please stop referring to Ali Khamenei as The Supreme Leader? How much has this suck-up softened Khamenei so far?"

 

Rouhani Outsmarts Obama  "Only the credible threat of force has ever worked in stopping Iran's nuclear ambitions, and after Obama's feckless and spineless approach to a far weaker adversary (Syria), the Iranians have all the more reason to doubt any U.S.  military threat -- particularly if Obama can be stalled by a diplomatic process that seems to offer progress now that the Iranian wolf has been redressed as a sheep."

DEBKAfile; Obama launches diplomacy with Tehran after quietly accepting Iran’s current nuclear capabilities    "Iranian President Rouhani conspicuously avoided shaking the hand President Barack Obama extended to his government at the UN Tuesday, Sept. 24, by absenting himself from the UN reception for world readers. He made this gesture under strong international spotlight to underscore the value Iran places on being respected as an equal in the negotiations ahead with the United States, Iranian sources stress."
Obama gives his lunch money to the little schoolyard bully before he has to face him man-to-man.

After Kenya, no more turning the other cheek to those who hate us

Where is the Muslim condemnation of the Nairobi massacre by maniacs in the name of their religion?

UK Telegraph  "Picture the scene if you can bear to. A bustling shopping precinct where a group of men, women and children are surrounded by armed men. As one of the terrorists moves among them, he demands that the person quailing in front of him names the mother of Jesus or recites the Lord’s Prayer. “Our Father which art in Heaven,” says one woman. She is spared. Her neighbour, a Muslim boy, racks his brain for any line of the Bible, anything he has heard in school or on TV. But it’s too late. The boy is shot through the head; put to death for not being Christian."

 

 

...."Radio presenter Saadia Ahmed said she saw people say something in Arabic “and the gunmen let them go. A colleague of mine said he was Muslim and they let him go as well.” But she added: “I saw a lot of children and elderly people being shot dead. I don’t understand why you would shoot a five-year-old child.” ...

American Papers Still Censor Words ‘Islam’ And ‘Muslim,’ Refuse To Report Facts   "This all has the distinctive characteristics of radical Islam. Christian and Jewish groups do not do things like this. Anyone who would disagree, I challenge them to find even one incident of such level of brutality and terror being perpetrated by any group other than radical Muslims since 9-11. "    Bill O’Reilly: After Kenyan Terror Attack, Whole Muslim World Is To Blame For Terrorism 

What more has been revealed about ObamaCare?

The "Affordable" Care Act?

Tennessee: Obamacare will triple men's premiums, double women's
Video.

..."We know this because at the same time the White House was releasing its broad study, Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander released his analysis of the report's portion on his state. He found that Obamacare will cost far more than what many of his constituents are paying today, some by as much as 190 percent."
The Obama Wedding Tax  "The third tragic outcome of Obamacare is what it will do to marriages and families. In January 2010, two months before Obamacare’s passage, the estimable Robert Rector at the Heritage Foundation gave the impact a name: the “wedding tax.' ”

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"But the grandkids will also face the prospect of seeing their moms and dads divorce because of Obamacare."  Emphasis added. TD

 

Wall Street Journal; The Young and the Clueless   "[Twenty-five-year-old Steven] Binko is one of 2.7 million healthy 18- to 34-year-olds, dubbed the young invincibles, that the Obama administration has said are needed in the exchanges to offset the cost of providing care for millions of other uninsured people who are likely to be older and sicker. Without young adults, who pay for insurance yet rarely use it, premium costs in the exchanges may soar. . . ."

 

Obamacare Exchanges to Cost $5.3 Billion, 16 Million Hours   " 'According to administration data, the listed paperwork burden of the exchanges exceeds 16.6 million hours, $558 million in direct costs, and 40 new forms. Examining the regulatory impact analyses from exchange regulations, the total cost to states and private entities approaches $5.3 billion. Including all current requirements under Health and Human Services (HHS), the agency imposes 645 million hours of paperwork, $35.3 billion in costs, and 4,116 federal forms' ."

Cruz Control Should Be Standard on GOP Models

 

Ann Coulter   "Obamacare is an unmitigated disaster."

"It was passed illegally without the House ever voting on the Senate bill and became law absent a single Republican vote -- even "the girls from Maine" and "the girl from Arizona" -- the only major legislation ever enacted on a strict party-line vote. The Supreme Court had to violate the Constitution's separation of powers to uphold Obamacare as a "tax" -- despite the fact that no elected body could ever have enacted such a massive tax hike even with the sleazy parliamentary tricks used to pass this bill."
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 "Unfortunately, most Republicans are too stupid to notice that Democrats are walking around with a gigantic glass jaw. Democrats must not be able to believe their dumb luck. Instead of hitting our glass jaw, Republicans have decided to attack Ted Cruz! "

On the Obama Foreign Policy

Half Of US Disapprove Of Obama’s Foreign Policy  "One thing that is never mentioned in these reports on Obama’s current lousy foreign policy poll numbers is that foreign policy used to be his ‘strong suit.’ Which was why it was so important that he lie about Benghazi and the Arab Spring in general until after the elections.
"But now that people have seen some honest reporting on his foreign policy, they realize he’s incompetent in that department, too."

Jonathan S. Tobin;  Rouhani Treats Obama Like a Chump  ..."But yesterday’s events didn’t tell us as much about whether Rouhani is a sincere advocate of change as it did about the way the Iranians think about President Obama."

 

Max Boot; Obama’s Confused Foreign Policy  "If there is one point that President Obama’s defenders have made in favor of his muddled Syria policy, it is its popularity. Not so fast. A new New York Times/CBS News poll finds “that 52 percent disapproved of the way Mr. Obama was handling the situation in Syria.' ”

ObamaCare; Bend Over; Here it Comes Again

Turns Out Obamacare Is Going to Limit Your Choices 
"Prices on the insurance exchanges that will make their debut on Oct. 1 will, by broad consensus, mostly be higher than you were paying before,* but lower than some studies had projected. And why is it lower? The answer, it appears, is that state and federal regulators have been pushing insurers to hold the cost down. In some cases, insurers have simply pulled out of the market, as Aetna did when Maryland asked it to lower prices by 29 percent."


Black Liberals Explain Why Virtually Everyone Hates ObamaCare


InvestmentWatch;  Obamacare – Family “Glitch” to cost many; average plan for an individual is about $5,600, but it goes up to $15,700 for families  
"Unfortunately, the experts working for Medicare’s actuary have (yet again[1]) reported that in its first 10 years, Obamacare will boost health spending by “roughly $621 billion” above the amounts Americans would have spent without this misguided law." More.

 

Michelle Malkin; Obama Lied, My Health Plan Died   "Last week, our family received notice from Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield of Colorado that we can no longer keep the plan we like because of “changes from health care reform (also called the Affordable Care Act or ACA).” The letter informed us that “to meet the requirements of the new laws, your current plan can no longer be continued beyond your 2014 renewal date.' ”

 

US To Be #1 Oil Producer By 2017 Due To Fracking

And in spite of the Obama Administration and the barrage of anti-fracking propaganda coming from Hollywood, I might add.

Sweetness and Light
Shale oil poses threat to Gulf exports
By Ali Khalil | September 24, 2013

DUBAI (AFP) – Shale oil production could pose a threat to exports from the Gulf region, whose energy wealth has given it pivotal role in the global market and a geopolitical importance, experts say.
Saudi Arabia is the world’s top oil producer, but is only marginally ahead of the United States, whose output is gaining rapidly thanks in part to development of oil shale reserves.
That could significantly alter Saudi Arabia’s export mix, as the kingdom’s oil accounted for a whopping 16 percent of US imports last year…
Saudi Arabia, in particular, has long enjoyed the status of swing producer, being able to raise and lower production and affect market balance and prices…






"Huh. When people like Sarah Palin were saying ‘Drill Baby Drill,’ the experts and our media guardians told us no country could lower the price of oil by increasing its production. Of course, what they really meant was, they didn’t want the US to have that power."

And they don't want no stinkin' coal neither.

The best of Tuesday's late-night TV.

Politico

The New Muslim Brotherhood four-fingered R4BIA symbol isn’t what Muslims want you to think it is

BareNakedIslam  "You may have seen the four-fingered yellow signs, first in Egypt, in protest of the overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood and Mohamed Morsi. But just this weekend in NY City, they were in abundance at the Muslim Day Parade on Madison Avenue and at the pro-Muslim Brotherhood demonstration in Times Square."

"The logo symbolizes the worldwide push for a new Islamic Caliphate which was supposed to have had Egypt as its base to extend to the other Arab Spring Islamist-led countries like Tunisia and Libya. "

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"In any case, you’ll be seeing a lot of this yellow symbol. Think of it as DANGER AHEAD." 

When you see celebrities and other liberals flashing this sign to show what inclusive people they are, know that they are clueless.

 

 Symbol of support for Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt   "1. In Arabic, Rabi'ah / arba'ah means four. Rab'ah (figure 4) were used as a symbol of strength, power, resistance and unity to all over the world who love freedom.

 "2. Symbols 4 finger as a symbol to remember the demonstrators Pro headquarters in Rabi'ah Mursi was crushed by the military junta. Symbols 4 fingers to show Rabi'ah icon.

"3. 4 finger symbol was launched by the Prime Minister of Turkey, Recep Erdogan Tayyip from Saturday night (August 17, 2013) strongly condemned the massacre after the military made ​​Egypt that occurred on Friday and Saturday at Ramses Square and the Fatih Mosque siege army."....
 

Frontpage Magazine; A New Muslim Brotherhood Symbol: R4BIA  ...."The R4BIA sign is not a benign peace symbol; it is a symbol of resistance, Islamism, martyrdom, and a visual call to arms comparable to the black flag of jihad."....

 

'Four-Finger Salute' Shows Solidarity With Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood

 

The Times of Israel; R4BIA Is The End Of Zionists  "So now we just wait and see when the mainstream media is going to mention something this significant. It’s the simultaneous, global, world-wide launch of a new Islamic branding exercise complete with merchandising arm and slick PR campaign."

 

Robert Spencer at CounterJihad; A New Muslim Brotherhood Symbol: R4BIA   "It has become the symbol of the massacre of pro-Morsi supporters in Rabia al-Adawiya Square on August 14, 2013. This new sign already has its own history, legend and mysticism and it contains all the attributes that Islamists favor in their symbology, particularly martyrdom.

 

Islam in a Nutshell R4BIA Flier Download and print out if you need it.

 

www.rightwingnews.com

Obama: World 'More Stable Than It Was 5 Years Ago,' But al Qaeda 'Does Pose Serious Threats'

CNS News  "He also claimed that al Qaida does not have the capacity to carry out attacks like the one on 9-11,  but it "does pose serious threats."
Partly as a result of the U.S winding down two wars -- and because of U.S. cooperation with its allies and partners -- "the world is more stable than it was five years ago," but "dangers remain," the president said."   

 

Obama Has Touted Al Qaeda’s Demise 32 Times since Benghazi Attack

 

Obama To UN: Hey, Did You Guys Know I Killed Bin Laden?…  "By the end of his term he’s going to be claiming he killed Bin Laden with his bare hands."