More to come as June 6th approaches. Meanwhile, let's reflect on this:
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Krauthammer: Antagonizing Canada is Hillary’s Only Achievement as Secretary of State
Townhall “ 'With these fiascos underway in Kiev, a massacre, and in Venezuela, the arrest of opposition leader, Leopoldo Lopez today, Hillary’s foreign policy trifecta is complete,” [Hugh] Hewitt said. “She’s lost South America, she’s lost the Middle East, and she’s lost Eastern Europe. How does anyone recover from that and run for the presidency?”
“ 'When people talk about Hillary being a superb secretary of State, I just ask one question,” Krauthammer replied. “Name me one thing, just one, not three, give me one thing she achieved in her four years as secretary of state. I have yet to hear an answer.' ”
New Obama Promise: If You Like Your Life, You Can Keep It
Ann Coulter ... "The New York Times has described Obama's repeated claim that you could keep your insurance plan and keep your doctor under Obamacare as a mere slip of the tongue: "Mr. Obama clearly misspoke when he said that."
"Misspoke? How exactly does one misspeak, word for word, dozens of times, over and over again?
"That wasn't misspeaking -- it was a deliberate, necessary lie. Even Democrats couldn't have voted for Obamacare if Americans had known the truth. It was absolutely vital for Obama to lie about people being able to keep their insurance and their doctors.
"Of course, it was difficult for voters to know the truth because every time Republicans would try to tell them, the White House and the media would rush in and call the critics liars. "
And, of course, "RACISTS!"
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"It's not that Obama doesn't believe in American exceptionalism; it's that he wants to end it."
Greens ratchet up the pressure on Obama not to approve Keystone
Rick Moran "The significance here is not so much damage done to Obama by his environmental base as it would be damage done to Democratic Senate incumbents who would face the wrath of the greens next November. But the prospect of tens of thousands of jobs may be too attractive for the president to pass up, not to mention the president's reluctance in handing the GOP an excellent issue to run on in November if he nixes the project.
"Obama could delay the decision until after the 2012 election. Since he's shown a willingness to put just about any controversial issue [beyond] that date, we probably shouldn't expect him to do otherwise with Keystone."
Tell the UAW to stop insulting the intelligence of the plant workers in Tennessee
Silvio Canto, Jr. "It never fails. Every time that the left loses or can't succeed it is "racism," "sexism," "Tea Party madness, and so on. This is getting as predictable as President Obama playing golf.
"No one in the left has sat back and looked at the UAW defeat seriously. It is "a teachable" moment as President Obama likes to say. I just hope that the UAW takes the time to learn from this "teachable moment"!
"The Wall Street Journal looks at the UAW's hysterical reaction:"....
Why Card Check Matters, Chattanooga Edition "Under so-called card-check legislation that Democrats have tried to push through Congress in recent years, 50 percent of the workforce having signed a card would automatically create a union without a secret ballot — regardless of the employer’s wishes."
MSNBC Guest Notes Network’s Low Ratings
"As far as “saying hateful things” goes, one YouTube user summed it up perfectly…
If saying horrible and hateful things were the key to ratings MSNBC would have the highest ratings in history.
Bill Maher Breaks Up with MSNBC "When you’re a so-called liberal-progressive media outlet and you’ve lost Bill Maher, that may be a sign you’ve jumped the shark."
Why the Left Smears Black Conservatives As Race Traitors
Below: How liberal cartoonist Pat Oliphant's treated President Bush's appointment of Condoleezza Rice as Secretary of State.
DiscoverTheNetworks.org "Black conservatives represent the antithesis of black leftists, who, for decades, have relentlessly cast African Americans as the perpetual victims of intransigent societal racism; who are intolerant of anyone rejecting the notion of universal black victimization; and who interpret as treason any deviation from their own intellectual orthodoxy. Some examples will serve to illustrate:"
... "In February 2014, Justice Thomas told an audience at Palm Beach Atlantic University in Florida that the “worst things that have been done to me, the worst things that have been said about me, [were] by northern liberal elites, not by the people of Savannah, Georgia.' ”
Book: Christians Shown As ‘Hateful Stereotypes in Today’s Movies’
"Christians in the Movies traces the arc of the portrayal in film of Christians from 1905 to the present. For most of the first six decades, the portrayals were favorable and even reverential. By contrast, from 1970 on, Christians have often been treated with hostility and often outright ridicule. This book explores this shift through in-depth reviews and commentaries on 100 important films, as well as briefer discussions of about 75 additional Christian-themed films.
"Peter E. Dans examines various causative factors for this change such as the abolition of the Hays Motion Picture Production Code, the demise of the Catholic Legion of Decency, and the
associated profound societal and cultural changes. From a look at the real story behind the Scopes trial to portraits of actors, directors and writers most prominently associated with films involving Christians and Christianity, Christians in the Movies provides a great resource for those who wish to select films for showing at churches, universities or for personal viewing and critical examination of the recent cultural movements and thought.
"Peter E. Dans examines various causative factors for this change such as the abolition of the Hays Motion Picture Production Code, the demise of the Catholic Legion of Decency, and the
Media Research Center ... "Part of the downward spiral of Christian portrayal in film stemmed from the loss of accountability groups like the National Legion of Decency and the Hays Motion Picture Production Code, as well as cultural shifts such as the sexual revolution. Dans blamed a particular “disdain for dogma” by the film industry when picking and choosing which religions to cover favorably. One exception to the rule is Islam – in comparison, Dans surmised, Christians, “who are taught to turn the other cheek, may be easier and safer targets.' ”
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Seventy years ago, Operation Jericho: RAF breach Amiens prison walls
Feb 18, 1944; 70 years ago ... "Information: Mosquitos of 140 Airfield are to attack the prison at AMIENS in an attempt to assist 120 prisoners to escape. These prisoners are French patriots condemned to death for assisting the Allies. This air attack is only part of the plan as other assistance will be at hand at the time.
"Date and Time: 18th February, 1944." ...
Here, Mosquitos of No. 487 Squadron RNZAF clear the target at low level as the first 500-lb bombs
to be dropped detonate near the south wall of the prison.
"On the 18th February the RAF conducted one of their most successful low level raids, freeing large numbers of the French Resistance with their raid on Amiens Prison."
Contemporary newsreel explaining the raid:
BREAKING--CBO: Minimum Wage Increase Will Cost 500,000 Jobs (Updated)
"The non-partisan Congressional Budget office confirmed GOP fears about a minimum wage increase. According to the report embedded below, the Democratic Party proposal to increase the minimum wage to $10.10 from $7.25 would reduce employment by 500,000 workers by 2016, but that low-wage workers still employed would see their incomes boosted.
The report looks at two options:
- The first would raise the wage in three steps every year through 2016 on July 1, to $10.10. Once the $10.10 wage is in effect, it would rise with inflation. CBO found that the range of job losses under this option would most likely be around 500,000 people. It estimated that 16.5 million workers would see their incomes rise, no consolation to those who lost their jobs.
- Option two increases the minimum wage to $9 per hour over the two years, without indexing it to inflation. This option would only kill 100,000 jobs.
It will be interesting to see how the Democrats who used the "non-partisan" CBO reports to sell Obamacare, react to a CBO report which disagrees with their policy. The full CBO Report follows:
Vetting Hillary (Updated) " Dems Can ‘Attack Palin’s Whole Family,’ But GOP Won’t Dare Target Hillary"
"Willey claims Mrs. Clinton, the former U.S. secretary of state, has orchestrated a series of investigations designed to discredit the many women who have claimed her husband sexually assaulted them.
" 'The point is what this woman is capable of doing to other women while she's running a campaign, basically, on women's issues,' she said. 'It just doesn't make any sense.'
" 'She singlehandedly orchestrated every one of the investigations of all these women.' "
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Willey (L) and Juanita Broddrick (R) both claim Bill Clinton sexually
assaulted them. Broddrick's allegations include her insistence
that the former president raped her in 1978, but she has changed
her story several times
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... "And addressing claims by some Democrats that Republican politicians are conducting a so-called 'war on women' through their social policies, Willey turned the notion on its head."
... "It's not ancient history; it reveals something about who Clinton was and still is. And re-examining her past is entirely consistent with practices in recent campaigns.
"In the 2012 presidential race, for example, many in the press were very interested in business deals Mitt Romney made in the 1980s. In the 2004 race, many journalists were even more interested in what George W. Bush did with the Texas Air National Guard in 1968, as well as what John Kerry did in Vietnam that same year. And in 2000, a lot of journalists invested a lot of time trying to find proof that Bush had used cocaine three decades earlier."
UPDATE: Limbaugh: Dems Can ‘Attack Palin’s Whole Family,’ But GOP Won’t Dare Target Hillary "He pointed out the GOP kid-gloves approach may have seriously hurt Mitt Romney in 2012, and now establishment types like Karl Rove have warned against making issues out of Monica Lewinsky to hit Hillary Clinton with."
Buyer’s Remorse: Economist Poll Finds 71% of Obama Supporters “Regret” Voting For His Re-Election…
"Assuming most of them voted for Obama in 2008, this fits Einstein’s definition of insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again hoping for a different results."
Via Washington Secrets:
But his voters seem to have moved on and are ready for the next election, giving Obama very early lame duck status before the midterm elections. The poll, for example, found that Hillary Clinton has a higher favorability rating than the president. While Obama is underwater in his ratings, Clinton is buoyed by a 50-percent favorable to 43-percent unfavorable rating, with a sizable 28 percent rating her “very favorable.”
As for Romney, his favorable ratings have dropped, but he would edge Obama by about three million votes, probably because Americans are not wowed by Obama's second term performance, not because they like Romney more.
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