Bill Clinton Trashes Obama: 'Awful Legacy of the Last Eight Years'

Weekly Standard   "At an event today in Spokane, Washington, Bill Clinton called for putting "the awful legacy of the last 8 years behind us and the 7 years before that where we were practicing trickle down economics.' "

". . .  Because she's the only person who basically has good ideas, will tell you how she's going to pay for them, can be commander-in-chief, and is a proven change maker with Republicans and Democrats and Independents alike."  

"Of course, Barack Obama has been president for the last seven years. And Bill Clinton's wife, Hillary Clinton, served in the Obama administration."   Via Lucianne

Castro wants Obama to give him Gitmo!

Do you suppose they want a really state of the art prison to lock up the anti-Castro protestors that Obama will not visit with on this trip? As I said before, Mr. Obama is a third-world president, elected by third-world voters.

"What Castro Just Said While Standing Feet From Obama Is Jaw Dropping"

Western Journalism   "Cuban President Raul Castro called on the United States to hand over the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base at the joint press conference in Havana with President Obama on Monday.

""Castro said that the Guantanamo Bay is being “illegally occupied,” though the territory was granted to the U.S. as part of Cuban-American Treaty of Relations in 1903.

"The United States won Cuba its independence during the Spanish-American War: the island was a colony of Spain prior to that time. The U.S. and Cuba affirmed America’s right to the facility in another treaty signed in 1934, which granted the land as part of a perpetual lease.

"In addition to returning Guantanamo Bay, Castro called on the United States to lift its trade embargo against his nation. “The blockade stands as the most important obstacle to our economic development and the well-being of the Cuban people. That’s why its removal will be of the essence,” the Cuban leader said, Politico reported.' "

Former Reagan Official: 'Really Distasteful' Obama Welcomed Castro's Criticism
Somehow I do not think this trip will end well for the US. Knowing there is limited time to get concessions from this president who has a built-in guilt complex, America's adversaries are moving fast. 2016 is going to last forever.
. . . "Obama said. "I actually welcome President Castro commenting on some of the areas where he feels where we're falling short because I think we should not be immune or afraid of criticism or discussion as well.No record of Obama bowing to Castro yet.

America's Commander-in-Chief posed for an ironic photo that wasn’t lost on many conservatives, who took it as another spit in the face from our corrupt leader.

So these 2008 Obama supporters knew all along what was coming.

Activism U and the End of Education

Sultan Knish   "The campus wars aren’t really about race. Race and the rest of the identity politics roster are the engine for transforming an academic environment into an activist environment.

"Think of it as the Post-Educational University. Or Activism U."The average campus already skews left, but maintains the pretense of serving an educational purpose. The demands put forward on campuses begin with racial privileges, but do not end there. These demands call for politicizing every department, the mandatory political indoctrination of all students and faculty, and the submission of non-political academic departments to activist political ones. "

. . . 

"Safe space culture would silence dissent among faculty and students while creating activist student-faculty organizations empowered to conduct endless purges and protests. College would be free and utterly useless for anything except turning out the next generation of community organizers. It is not only the ideas themselves that are endangered, but the entire mechanism for exchanging them. 

"The activist model would not only eliminate intellectual diversity, it would eliminate education. 

"The campus wars are about political correctness as a way of life. And we are only beginning to discover what that truly means."

1,200 Signatures for Petition to Reinstate DePaul Professor, 800 More Needed   . . . "In an interview with Walking Eagle Productions, a documentary film company covering the DePaul controvers y, Klocek said that he was suspended by DePaul administration and ultimately lost his position and teaching benefits after engaging in an out-of-class argument with pro-Palestinian students at a student activities fair on campus." . . .

PRweb

What happened when Merrick Garland wrote for himself

"This would likely make a Justice Garland closer to Justice Anthony Kennedy, Justice Stephen Breyer or even Justice Samuel Alito in criminal cases than to Scalia."

Volokh Conspiracy
. . . "Garland’s opinions urging more deference to federal regulatory agencies suggest that a Justice Garland would likely be more deferential to agency decisions than was the justice he would replace. Justice Antonin Scalia was far more likely to reject an agency’s statutory interpretation than Garland appears to have been on the D.C. Circuit. Scalia, unlike Garland, was also sympathetic to underlying claims about the need to limit federal regulatory authority. In two federalism-related cases in which Garland’s majority prompted separate opinions from one or more colleagues — one concerning the application of the Commerce Clause (Rancho Viejo LLC v. Norton), another concerning the spending power (Barbour v. Washington Metro Area Transit Auth.) — Garland interpreted the relevant precedents narrowly and showed relatively little concern for the need to limit federal power." . . .
(Emphasis mine, TD)

Iranians defying the Mullahs by celebrating Nowruz, the pre-Islamic Persian New Year

If the Iranian people want freedom from the mullahs, they know -now- not to expect help from Barack Obama or anyone who thinks like him.

Obama To Iran Green Revolution Dissidents: Drop Dead   "During their brutally suppressed protests in 2009, Iranian freedom fighters sent the White House an urgent memo calling for help. Under Obama, America ignored it.

. . . "President Obama made his choice, and like so often before it was to vote “present*.' ".  * Just to prove a point, this link is from the strongly leftist 2007 "Mother Jones".

All that said, here is the featured post:
Shokooh Mirzadegi  ". . . In order to survive, Iranians have had no choice but to resort to the essence and fabric of their culture of joy, beauty and kindness. Iranians have discovered that culture can be the best antidote to a government’s inhumanity that has brought them nothing but despair, sorrow and anger.

"This year, on the eve of yet another spring and at the dawn of the thirty-eighth year of civil disobedience, we, the lovers of Iranian culture, will once again renew our struggle with this current culturecidal government of Iran. A struggle for our natural rights of freedom and our rights to be happy and inevitably bring down this sullen army of anti-liberty and anti-happiness, ultimately to their knees."

Shokooh Mirzadegi began her literary work, both as a novelist and a poet with Ferdowsi magazine and Kayhān daily in the late 1960s in Iran. Over the past four decades, she has been one of the most active figures in the Iranian literary community, both inside and outside Iran. She is currently residing with her husband in the US.

Remember when young Iranians made this video and were later arrested by the Iran authorities? There was once joy in Iran; Obama could have helped to restore it but chose the Mullahs instead. As was his wont, Obama voted "present".

Oh, how'd that all work out for them?
Iran's 'Happy' Dancers Sentenced to 91 Lashes "The seven young Iranians who were arrested for creating a dancing video response to Pharrell's "Happy" have been sentenced to jail time (ranging from six months to one year) and 91 lashes each, according to Associated Press.
 . . .. "After their May arrest, the seven Iranians were humiliated and forced to repent for their actions on state television. But they found support from a dumbfounded Pharrell, who tweeted that month, "It's beyond sad these kids were arrested for trying to spread happiness." Meanwhile, Iranian police chief Hossein Sajedinia called their "Happy" send-up "vulgar," saying it "hurt public chastity." 

Donald Trump Re-ignites Feud with Fox News’s Megyn Kelly

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Big Government  "GOP frontrunner Donald Trump is once again urging his supporters to turn against Fox News with a Tweet calling for a boycott of Megyn Kelly’s highly rated TV-show.

“Everybody should boycott the @megynkelly show,” the real estate mogul tweeted on Friday evening. “Never worth watching. [It is] always a hit on Trump. She is sick [and] the most overrated person on TV,” the tweet concluded.

. . . "The Trump campaign renewed its attack in reply to the Fox statement.

“Megyn Kelly is a highly overrated reporter and anchor that constantly disparages Mr. Trump with negative and inaccurate reports. Despite the fact he wants nothing to do with her and will not appear on her show due to her extremely biased reporting, much of the program is about him anyway on a nightly basis,” Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks said.
"Trump has repeatedly called Megyn Kelly “crazy Megyn” and accused her of being biased against him. But the feud goes back almost since Trump first announced his campaign for president."

 

List of members of Congress who went to Cuba with Obama:

Mark Knoller

Watch: Al Sharpton In 1992 Endorses Shooting Police Officers…

Weasel Zippers

Generational Whine vs Free Speech

John Stossel   "Samantha Harris (FIRE Director of Policy Research) and Taylor Schmitt (Claremont McKenna student) joins John to discuss the politically correct nitwittery that is crushing free speech principles at American colleges. http://www.LibertyPen.com"

Kasich says he would consider nominating Garland for SCOTUS if he were president

Rick Moran   "You have to wonder what John Kasich is thinking these days as he continues his futile quest for the Republican nomination. 

"With almost the entire GOP united in opposition to Obama's SCOTUS pick Merrit Garland, Kasich scolded Senate Republicans for refusing to meet with the nominee, and claimed that he would consider nominating Garland himself if he was elected president.

. . . 

"But does anyone doubt Garland would be a reliable left wing vote on the high court? On a host of vital issues that will come before the court over the next few terms, Garland would cast his vote with the liberal wing. This is a given, which is why opposition to his confirmation is so universal on the Republican side.

"Kasich is not going to get the nomination. And if he thinks taking liberal positions on the issues will endear him to Donald Trump who might then choose him for vice president, he has no concept of the tenor and mood of the country. "

Secretary of Mistake

HopeNChange

"After much diplomatic hemming and hawing, Secretary of State John Kerry finally admitted that when ISIS beheads, burns, drowns, crushes, stones, and blows up people singled out solely because of their religion...it just might kinda sorta be genocide-ish.

"What he did not say, owing to the fact that he isn't suicidal, is that Hillary Clinton's totally failed tenure as Secretary of State pretty much laid waste to the Middle East and softened up the region for the nightmarish growth of ISIS.

"Rather than blame his predecessor, Kerry made a point of saying that while the determination of genocide is very serious, it won't have immediate policy repercussions because (brace yourself) it's going to be so difficult to bring the genocidal throat-slashing maniacs to court to be tried - no doubt with American taxpayers paying their legal defense bills." . . .

FALSE: U.S. Troops Forced to Observe Ramadan

Snopes   "Claim:   U.S. troops stationed in Muslim countries are being ordered to fast and practice Sharia law during Ramadan." 

. . . "Such claims were based on a single article from the military publication Stars and Stripes which has been greatly exaggerated in the telling. What that article actually reported is that some U.S. military personnel in Bahrain have been briefed about the significance of Ramadan, Navy personnel there have been ordered to dress more conservatively while off-base during that month, and troops have been reminded that activities such as eating, drinking, and smoking in public in the daytime during the month of Ramadan is a violation of local law (and as with other local laws, they can be detained by authorities for breaking them): " . . .

"As a number of servicemen who have been stationed in Muslim countries have observed to us, the restriction against eating and drinking in public during Ramadan didn't affect them much since most businesses, shops, and restaurants in such areas are closed in the daytime throughout that month."