Gay pride flag hoisted above US embassy in Israel

... "Reaction from outside of the gay community to the sight of the American flag being accompanied by the rainbow banner was mixed.

“ 'I see that it is OK to put up a gay pride flag over an embassy but not ok for military members to espouse their religious beliefs in God," read a post on the Embassy's page, attributed to Grant Hix Jones. "I am ashamed to see those flags side by side.”

“ 'How is this "gay pride flag" representative of all Americans?" wrote a poster named James Brown. "This flag needs to come down.' ”

Gallup Concludes Hillary's Era of High Favorability Ending as Poll Numbers Plummet

Big Government  "According to a Gallup survey, only 54 percent of Americans now view Clinton favorably, which is her lowest rating since 2008. She had a 59 percent favorability rating before her book tour.

"Clinton, a potential 2016 presidential contender, is less liked when she enters the political arena, and her book tour is being run like a campaign. Clinton has already made plenty of blunders during her book launch, like claiming that she was "dead broke" after she and her husband left the White House, even though they bought two lavish homes in Washington, D.C. and New York."

 Liberal L.A. Times Columnist: Hillary's 'Dead Broke' Retort on ABC Was 'Completely Tone Deaf'

ABCARIAN: It is just completely tone-deaf for a multi-millionaire presidential candidate, or former First Lady, or former Secretary of State, who’s married to a former President, to claim in way, shape or form that she was having trouble coming up with money for mortgages, or her child’s college education. These are people who – at the moment she left the White House, she had an $8 million contract for a memoir. Her husband was going out and making hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars per speech. I mean, you cannot complain about money if you’re in that kind of situation. Or you will be hammered over the head with it, as she has been, joyfully by Republicans.

 

Welcome to the Islamic enclave of Redbridge in the UK

Up Pompeii

 

"It said "Music in the park" what I stumbled into was something different, It was in fact a Muslim festival celebrating something called Al Noor, the place was full of bearded men and hijab clad women - including children.

"I started to take some photos, what really caught my eye was the segregation - "bumper cars for women"

" 'I walked around for a while taking the odd snap here and there, it was not long - about 20 mins when a group of bearded men asked me why I was taking photographs and why was I there, it was quite clear that my presence was not required, I was not bearded or dressed in an Islamic fashion and I was clearly being asked to stop taking photos and to leave.

" 'This I did

" 'So much for the tolerance of Islam, so much for integration. welcome to the Islamic enclave of Redbridge

"What we have to remember is that all monies raised in such events funds the activities of Islam and funds the various organizations that wish to see this country become an Islamic state.

"These photos are big, to see them full screen  right click an view image"

Illegal Immigration and Eric Cantor

Victor Davis Hanson   "Eric Cantor’s luck ran out, when his long insistence of pushing immigration-reform legislation finally coincided with a massive and sudden rush of thousands to the U.S. border

from Central America. That lining up of the planets explains why a good but obscure candidate beat a supposedly invincible insider. There are a number of elements to the illegal-immigration debate that really tick off people of all races and classes and drive them to the polls in a way the alliance of the Chamber of Commerce and La Raza activists can never comprehend.

"One, the issue really has become an elite/mass split. The left-wing identity-politics crowd knows that such huge numbers of illegal immigrants preclude easy assimilation and integration." ...

Obama failures and false promises creating Mittmentum for 2016?

Legal Insurrection  "Has Mitt being right about just about everything, and Obama being a failure, finally made the case that Mitt didn’t make in 2012?"

 

"The latest frontrunner talk among the Republican insiders and DC media types is none other than Mitt Romney.

"But are Americans ready for a third run for President by the 2012 GOP loser to Barack Obama?

"With the economy in virtual stagnation for six years, Russia annexing Ukranian territory and Islamic terrorists on the doorstep of Baghdad — Mitt Romney (circa 2012) suddenly seems like a wise soothsayer:

“I’m saying in terms of a geopolitical opponent, the nation that lines up with the world’s worst actors, of course the greatest threat that the world faces is a nuclear Iran, and nuclear North Korea is already troubling enough, but when these terrible actors pursue their course in the world and we go to the United Nations looking for ways to stop them, when [Syrian President] Assad, for instance, is murdering his own people, we go to the United Nations and who is it that always stands up for the world’s worst actors? It is always Russia, typically with China alongside, and so in terms of a geopolitical foe, a nation that’s on the Security Council, that has the heft of the Security Council, and is of course a massive security power — Russia is the geopolitical foe.” – Mitt Romney, October 2012

Cleveland: Black Teen Sucker Punches Then Pummels 10-Year-Old White Girl While Calling Her A “Cracker”…

Weasel Zippers   "Paging Al Sharpton."
 

 

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Cleveland police are calling the Wednesday assault of a 10-year-old West Side girl a “hate incident,” according to a police report.
The suspect in the attack is a 13-year-old girl.
The victim was riding a scooter in their First District neighborhood when the suspect punched her, knocking her to the ground, the victim’s mother told police.
The suspect, who is black, continued to punch the victim, who is white, while calling the girl “cracker,” the mother told police.
A Cleveland police spokesman said officers are investigating the attack as a juvenile assault. A narrative included with the police report lists the case as a “hate incident.”
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On Hillary

Hillary’s Bad Week  "The presumed 2016 candidate has bounced boisterously from gaffe to gaffe."

 

Hillary: Russian Reset 'A Brilliant Stroke'  " In an interview to promote her book on BBC, Hillary Clinton called the Russian so-called reset "a brilliant stroke." The statement came in response to a question about whether she was in retrospect embarrassed about the policy." 

 

Hillary Clinton: Taliban Five Not a Threat to U.S.  ... "Adopting Mrs. Clinton’s own reasoning, I don’t see the, shall we say, remarkable judgment she exhibited at the State Department as a threat to her presidential ambitions, not at all."

President Obama Wasted American Victory and Lost Iraq: What Now?

NRO   "This is what happens when a president declares an end to a war that wasn’t truly over."
...
"What now? Obviously we cannot return in force on the ground. The American people simply would not abide it. But we’re not helpless and can at least take action to prevent total disaster. I suggest five steps:"
1. Provide air support if necessary to protect the Kurds, our most faithful Iraqi allies for more than a generation. If we allow the Kurds to be swallowed up in the fighting, we’ll send a disastrous message to all our close allies that we are utterly faithless — that indeed our friendship is deadly....
 
2. Condition any direct military support for the Maliki government on the removal of Iranian forces from the country. The United States Air Force must not become close air support for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, thereby using American air power to turn southern Iraq into a virtual Iranian province. There are reports of thousands of Shiite fighters rallying to defend Baghdad, and it’s possible that they’ll be able to at least stabilize the front. If they can’t — and if they’re Iraqi and not Iranian — we should consider American strikes to keep the capital from falling.
 
3. Defend our embassy.... Jihad thrives on victory, and the image of occupying the American embassy would lift the Sunni radicals far more than any victory thus far.
 
4. Demand an overhaul of the Obama national-security team. That team — including of course Susan Rice and the hapless secretary of defense — is completely out of its depth. ...We have to replace the political hacks with warriors, or the war will come home once again.
 
5. Educate the American people. This is perhaps the most difficult task. The American people have to understand that the violence sweeping the Middle East has direct implications for our own security. The jihadists fighting each other are doing so only as a prelude to taking on the real enemy — the United States. A “Fortress America” approach can keep out large groups of terrorists, but it doesn’t take large groups to wreak havoc. We have to demonstrate to our citizens that the Obama Doctrine of withdrawal and defeat is the pathway to genocide abroad and violence at home. It may be too late for Iraq, but it’s not too late for Afghanistan. Total withdrawal there will likely yield similar results. 

Lois Lerner and the corruption of this third-world government

A dog ate 2 years of Lois Lerner’s emails. Now what?  "So the IRS suffered a catastrophic hard disk failure and, lo and behold! two years of Lois Lerner’s emails have vanished: poof! Just like that. Imagine. Evidence of those happy days targeting conservative groups, gone. So much for the memoir. Eliana Johnson reports that Dave Camp, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, is really steamed. He has even asked the Justice Department to look into it.  “The fact that I am just learning about this, over a year into the investigation, is completely unacceptable and now calls into question the credibility of the IRS’s response to congressional inquiries,” he said in a statement. “There needs to be an immediate investigation and forensic audit by Department of Justice as well as the Inspector General.”

"Still laughing? Yes, that would be Eric Holder’s Justice Department.  Don’t hold your breath, Mr. Camp."

Andrew C. McCarthy:  Lois Lerner’s ‘Lost’ Emails
"When will this president finally have to answer for the executive-branch lawlessness that is an everyday occurrence on his watch?"



 

House Ways and Means Commitee chairman Dave Camp has hit a roadblock in his investigation of the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups: The IRS says it has lost over two years’ worth of e-mails sent by former agency official Lois Lerner, the one of the chief subjects of the committee’s investigation.

Iraq before Obama. The Obama administration tells us how much better it was by 2012 thanks to Obama

Power Line   ...

"When we arrived in November 2007, in Diyala Province (labeled the Islamic Caliphate of Iraq by the al-Qaeda forces in control) every time any convoy rolled out of the gate, it had a greater than 25 percent chance of enemy contact — IEDs, ambushes, or sniper fire. When we left in late September 2008, that chance was down to approximately 1 percent."

... "Fortunately, our presidents, both Republican and Democrat, preserved our hard-won success in South Korea. It wasn’t the easy thing to do, but it was the right thing.

"President Obama opted for the easy thing. In doing so, he has given away what brave Americans gave their life to win.

"Indeed, Obama has disserved our Iraq War veterans both coming and going. Barring a reversal in Iraq, he has rendered their sacrifices a virtual nullity and he has failed to provide so many of them with the health care they were promised."

 "What a guy."  Full article.

Obama Campaign 2012: President Obama Responsibly Ended The War In Iraq   "It’s Friday the 13th and there’s a full moon tonight. I think we all deserve a good laugh to keep our minds off of the impending werewolf attacks. I came across a list of accomplishments on barackobama.com from Halloween 2012, just prior to the election, and it is a side-splitter.

"There’s plenty of horn-tooting about all of the jobs Obama claims to have created and tax cuts he pretends exist, but the real comedy lies further down the list:

                27. President Obama responsibly ended the war in Iraq.

Then there is this one:

28. He announced a plan to end the war in Afghanistan and transition security responsibility to the Afghan people.

Another testimony to the honor and integrity of this president who was the darling of Hollywood, academia, the media, and all low-information voters everywhere:

31. Through the President’s historic increases in Veterans Affairs funding, he has expanded and improved healthcare and job training access for our returning veterans.

 

Obama Quits Afghanistan

"Bringing Bergdahl home was useful for closing Gitmo and winding down the war."

Victor Davis Hanson

 

... "The president wants to quit the war, whether Afghanistan is subsequently lost to the Taliban or not. He wishes to close Guantanamo, as he promised in 2008, regardless of a law that demands congressional approval to release detainees, and despite the dangers incurred by the release of terrorists. Bringing Bergdahl home is part of sporadic negotiations with the Taliban about easing Americans out of the war, and also useful for closing down Guantanamo.

 

"Obama is wagering that the public does not care all that much whether Bergdahl is a deserter. Or whether the administration has negotiated with terrorists such as the Haqqani network or the Taliban. Or whether the released Taliban militants will soon return to fight in Afghanistan.

 

"Obama is also betting that Americans are sick of Afghanistan, and don’t really care how American soldiers leave or what they leave behind, as long as they all leave.

 

"We saw that in Iraq in 2011, and we are seeing it again as a backdrop to the Bergdahl swap." 

 

Is it just me, or do we see Barack Obama simply referred to as "Obama" and not as "President Obama"

The Hubris and Incompetence of Barack Obama

Blackfive

 

"Leadership is hard.  Harry Truman wasn’t the best president ever, but at least he knew his job.

"When it came time to decide in 1945 after the Potsdam Declaration, "Bomb or No bomb," he made the call and did the right thing, which was a very hard thing.  When General MacArthur and he began to have significant differences of opinion on policy and operational conduct, he did the hard thing and relieved MacArthur.  In both of these cases, he dealt with extraordinary pressures and demands and through it all, still made a decision.

"Contrast that with what comes from the Occupant in Chief; lots and lots of "I just learned about this the same time you did" followed generally by "It was/wasn't a youtube video"  "It was (insert policy maker/leaders' name here) decision"  followed closely by not doing anything of significance or involving competence and then pivoting to solving the student loan crisis." 
This next is going to hurt:

My guess is that Barack is going to say he learned about all of this Al-Qaeda movement from the media.  At least, that will be his excuse.  Might be a good one, since he doesn't attend his daily briefings. 

Ouch. Told you so.
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