General News and Comment
Another terrific book in the Carrera series. Kratman is a
retired Army LtCol who writes military science fiction, with a very realistic
picture of war. In my view, he gets better with every book. But that may be
because this is the most recent I have read--I've loved everything by him so
far. If you haven't read any of the Carrera series, do yourself a favor and
start with A Desert Called Peace by Tom Kratman.
~Bob
Worth Reading : Chicago
Excerpt: Prominent Chicago Democrats have had an easy time
with the national media for decades — as easy as shaking a ring of keys to
distract an anxious child in church. Former Mayor Richard M. Daley rode a bicycle
in photo ops and put a few plants on the roof of City Hall, leading the
national news networks to cast him as the “green” mayor, not as the absolute
boss of a broken and corrupt political system that piled debt on the city and
drained its future for the benefit of the insiders. President Barack Obama
appeared on the late-night talk shows as the mystical healer of America ’s broken politics, not as some untested
suit who held the hand of now-imprisoned bagman Tony Rezko while learning to
cross Chicago ’s
political streets. (Kass is a Chicago Tribune columnist. Brave man, often takes
on the mob as well as the corrupt politicians. ~Bob)
Voter fraud in MN
Democrat Primary
I sent a liberal close to me the article about the Democrat
in MN filing the fraud claim against her opponent, who is Somali. The case
involved 141 Somalis registered to vote at the same address, a commercial space
where no one lives, a clear violation of MN law. He has denied that voter fraud
exists and asked to see evidence, but has refused to look at it on the grounds
that it was linked from a website for a group he thinks is racist. His response
to this case was, " I feel the
power slowly slipping away from the old white guys and they are scared
shitless. Disfranchise as many voters as possible - try to hold on to at least
the image of being in charge." The "Old White Guy" here
is a white woman, and a very liberal Democrat, Rep. Phyllis Kahn. Her
legislative bio says, in part: "She has a B.A. in physics from Cornell, a
Ph.D. in biophysics from Yale and a M.P.A. from the J.F.K. School Africa , that is.
The endless,
excruciating idiocy of the Internet — in one very stupid viral photo
Excerpt: This is a photo of
director Steven Spielberg sitting next to a triceratops prop on the set of “Jurassic Park
OBAMA: ‘I’m Just
Telling the Truth Now, I’m Not Running For Office Anymore.’
Well, they say there's a first time for everything. ~Bob. Excerpt:
In other words, and as we and many others have profusely told the Obama oglers
from 2006 until today, that BHO is a liar and lied his half-black butt off in
order to get elected. Check this admission out, Clashers. Oh, and pay attention
to this dipsticks in the crowd clapping like seals when he admits to his
practice of prevarication.
Worth Reading
Excerpt: “A jury might find nothing untoward in the advance
of a brother towards his sister once she had sexually matured, had sexual
relationships with other men and was now ‘available,’ not having [a] sexual
partner. . . . If this was the 1950s and you had a jury of 12 men there, which
is what you’d invariably have, they would say it’s unnatural for a man to be
interested in another man or a man being interested in a boy. Those things have
gone.” Judge Neilson made the comments during the trial of a brother charged
with raping his younger sister. The man has pleaded guilty to sexually
assaulting his sister when she was 10 or 11 years old in 1973 or 1974 but has
pleaded not guilty to charges relating to sex they had in 1981, when she was 18
and he was 26. “By that stage they are both mature adults,” the judge said.
“The complainant has been sexually awoken, shall we say, by having two
relationships with men and she had become ‘free’ when the second relationship
broke down. The only thing that might change that is the fact that they were a
brother and sister but we’ve come a long way from the 1950s—when the position
of the English Common Law was that sex outside marriage was not lawful.”
Target Becomes Target
of Armed Robberies After Declaring Themselves Gun-Free Zones
Excerpt: This is hardly the first
time something like this has happened. Recently, a barbecue restaurant that was
very adamant about and probably proud of their no-guns policy was robbed at gunpoint. There’s a shock. Breitbart’s reporting now that there have already been
two robberies in Target parking lots ever since Target announced a ban on their
customers’ 2nd Amendment rights: (Criminals know that in a "gun
free" zone, only they are likely to be armed. Stay out of Target to stay
safe. ~Bob)
Waitresses at Colorado
Excerpt: Many stores and restaurants are telling people not
to bring their guns inside, but one western Colorado restaurant not only embraces the
practice of packing heat, it encourages its customers to carry openly — and its
waitresses do, too. As she takes your order at Shooters Grill in the town of Rifle — yes, Rifle —
waitress Ashlee Saenz carries a pad, pen and a loaded Ruger .357 Blackhawk
revolver holstered on her leg, Old West style. It's loaded, and she knows how
to use it.
Life After Wartime: Combating
the Veteran-as-Victim Narrative. By Mackubin Thomas Owens
Excerpt: The image of the veteran as victim had its genesis
in the anti-Vietnam war left of the 1960s and ’70s. According to this image,
the Vietnam war was uniquely brutal and unjust, and it brutalized those who
fought it. At first the antiwar left vilified veterans as war criminals and
baby-killers. But this approach evolved into the idea that the Vietnam veteran
was a victim: He was victimized first by his country, which disproportionately
sent the poor off to fight an unjust war. Then he was victimized by a military
that dehumanized him and turned him into a killer, one who was dangerous to
society because he could lash out at any time. The press was complicit in
perpetuating the negative stereotype of the Vietnam veteran. B.G. Burkett and
Glenna Whitley’s incomparable 1998 book,Stolen Valor, explains how. Burkett
used the Freedom of Information Act to check the actual records of the “image
makers” used by reporters to flesh out their stories on homelessness, Agent
Orange, suicide, drug abuse, criminality, and alcoholism. What he found was
astounding. More often than not, the showcase “veterans” who cried on camera
about their dead buddies, about committing or witnessing atrocities, or about
some heroic action in combat that led them to their current dead end in life,
were impostors. Many had never been in Vietnam , or even in the armed
services. Burkett’s book stands as a rebuke to a generation of journalists who
were so predisposed to believe the worst about the Vietnam veteran that they
failed to do due diligence in checking the facts. The “Vietnam vet
goes berserk” angle became a staple of journalism. (I didn't see this when it
came out, but think it's worth sending out for others to see and perhaps pass
on. This is the kind of thing we are making available at the Vietnam Veterans
for Factual History website. It is a super trove of the most accurate and best
explained contributions about the real history of our involvement in Viet Nam . Check
it out at http://vvfh.org/
--Del )
Tweet from Casey Kelley @policygal
Barack Obama is what happens when Affirmative Action and
The Peter Principle have a baby.
Selling Guns in the
Hood (Prank gone bad)
this is beyond stupid.
Excerpt: HO CHI
MINH CITY , Vietnam China . China ’s
move in May, to place an offshore oil rig on the Vietnamese continental shelf,
and its arrogant statements in June, at an Asian security summit meeting known
as the Shangri-La Dialogue, exposed China ’s sea piracy to the world.
These developments should alarm anyone in Vietnam
who still clings to the myth of brotherly love between our nation and China . (A very
nice article, but I wonder what will happen to the writer, if he is still in Viet Nam . This
could be considered to be abusive to the government and the Party, and we know
they aren't very patient about such things. But that it got written at all is
really good, a very public voice about the government changing is something Viet Nam needs.
--Del. Might have been approved by the government as a trial balloon. ~Bob)
Worth Reading
http://patriotpost.us/opinion/27394
Excerpt: Last winter, residents of many parts of the North
paid as much for electricity as in all of 2012. Some power plants came within
two days of running out of oil in New England .
During the winter of 2014, coal was the only fuel with the ability to meet
demand increases for electricity, providing 92 percent of incremental
electricity in January/February, 2014 versus the same months in 2013. With the
projected closure of 60 gigawatts (GW) of coal plant capacity, virtually the
entire U.S. is rapidly reaching the brink of significantly higher prices for
electricity and being unable to meet either the summer or winter peak demand
for power. Unless immediate steps are taken to halt coal plant closures.
The Art of Loving
Your Country
Excerpt: There’s no better time than July 4th to talk
about love of country. People and communities proudly fly the Stars and
Stripes. Fireworks explode. Patriotism abounds. But what does it mean to be
patriotic and love ones’ country? (I was thinking about this kid who lived
around the corner from me growing up...the one who threw the rock at the bus
stop that hit me in the mouth the morning of the class field trip. Turns out
he's a PhD psychologist contributing to Forbes. --GS)
How U.S.
Taxpayers Subsidize Fossil Fuels in Russia ,
Saudi Arabia
Excerpt: Americans have to pay more for electricity and
compete for fewer jobs because of President Obama’s regulatory curbs on fossil
fuels at home, even as their tax dollars support expansion of those same energy
sources abroad.
Banding together in
NC to push for reform at Veterans Affairs. By Tristan Scott
Excerpt: Here’s how you can tell there’s a serious problem
at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs: The Obama administration is finally
admitting it. For several years, the president and his allies boasted of
improved performance at the second-largest federal department, talking of major
funding boosts and expanded access to VA services as a point of pride. But the
facts finally got in the way. The department’s bureaucratic dysfunction,
incompetence and corruption have been laid bare in a patient care scandal that
has engulfed the VA. Veterans and taxpayers are now all too aware of how the
VA’s service mission has been hijacked by long wait times for health care,
backlogged benefit applications, phony wait times and abusive behavior. And
they recognize that while the situation is not a new development, it has grown
measurably worse over the past five years. (The pressure is on and hopefully
will continue to climb until Congress does what's really needed to break the
"corrosive culture". That will take one hell of an effort, since it
means taking away the bulletproof vest that the civil service union has, and
making it possible to actually discipline and even fire people for bad
performance. --Del. info@concernedveteransforamerica.org)
Excerpt: America ’s
oldest family owned and operated gun manufacturing
company O.F. Mossberg & Sons,
has its eye on Texas .
The company was founded in Connecticut
in 1919; however, after Gov. Dannel Malloy (D) passed one of the strictest
gun-control legislations in the nation last April, Mossberg
& Sons is looking to expand in a more gun-friendly state.
Excerpt: Last week the Associated Press published their
annual report on government waste fraud and abuse. I found it quite
illuminating. After reading what our taxpayer money is being wasted on, I was
amazed by how easy it would be to stop the waste and fraud if someone really
cared enough.
Surprise! Nation's
2nd Largest Teachers Union Withdraws Support
of Common Core
Excerpt: In a major surprise, the American Federation of
Teachers (AFT), the country’s second-largest teachers union, opened its
biannual convention Friday by announcing a step back from its support for
Common Core education standards. The group, gathering in Los Angeles, announced
that it will now provide monetary grants from its Innovation Fund for teachers
who want to critique the standards or even write entirely new ones themselves.
Excerpt: And we can say that, at least
for now, the American people agree with Mitt Romney (pretty much). According
to a new survey from
the Pew Research Center, Americans see Russia
as the No. 1 future threat to the United States .
Obamacare News
Supply Side Contraceptives. By John C. Goodman
Excerpt: The Obama administration says the cost of providing
contraceptives will be offset by savings that result from greater use of birth control,
“fewer unplanned pregnancies” and improvement in women’s health. ... The
trouble is: there is no evidence for that claim. In fact, there is no evidence
that making contraceptives free leads to their greater use. The ObamaCare
mandate requiring contraceptives to be available without deductibles or
copayments is apparently not causing women to use more contraceptives according
to a report by the IMS Institute. (The mandate has nothing to do with
healthcare costs and everything to do with buying votes from young, single
women, a key Democrat demographic, by giving them something they want and
making someone else pay for it. ~Bob)
The Great Unknown:
ObamaCare cost unclear amid changes to the law. By Jim Angle
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/07/11/great-unknown-obamacare-cost-unclear-amid-changes-to-law/
Excerpt: President Obama’s health care law has been delayed
and changed so many times that the official budget scorekeepers can no longer
keep track of what the law costs.
The changes, and the overall uncertainty regarding the price
tag, are raising concerns about whether the law even has enough revenue coming
in to pay for the program.
Excerpt: This leaves Democrats in a political pickle. They
passed a law to protect religious freedom, but they do not desire to protect
religious freedom when doing so interrupts their risible war-on-women soap
opera. ... The Democratic theory of rights is extraordinarily convenient in
that it would concentrate power in institutions such as the media, the unions,
and the government bureaucracies — institutions that are controlled by and
friendly to Democrats and their interests. But if ordinary people wish to form
an organization to work for, say, reform of the criminally abusive agency that
enforces our tax code, they will have to ask Democrats’ permission first, and
any discourse in which they engage will have to be conducted according to the
Democrats’ rules.
Worth Reading : Washington
Excerpt: “Really, we should be afraid of this court. The
five guys who start determining what contraceptions are legal. Let’s not even go there.” — Pelosi This is a very odd statement from
the House Democratic leader, given that the majority opinion flatly states that “under our cases,
women (and men) have a constitutional right to obtain contraceptives,” citing
the 1965 ruling in Griswold v. Connecticut, which under the right to
privacy nullified a law prohibiting the use of contraceptives. ... But this
collection of rhetoric suggests that Democrats need to be more careful
in their language about the ruling. All too often, lawmakers leap to
conclusions that are not warranted by the facts at hand. Simply put, the court
ruling does not outlaw contraceptives, does not allow bosses to prevent women
from seeking birth control and does not take away a person’s religious freedom.
Undocumented Democrat News
TSA Allows Illegals
to Fly Without Verifiable ID
Excerpt: Breitbart is reporting that illegal aliens are
being permitted to fly on commercial airlines without valid identification.
Does anyone else see the potential threat to our national security or are we
just crazy? See below…Illegal aliens are being allowed to fly on commercial
airliners without valid identification, according to the National Border Patrol
Council (NBPC). “The aliens who are getting released on their own recognizance
are being allowed to board and travel commercial airliners by simply showing
their Notice to Appear forms,” NBPC’s Local 2455 Spokesman, Hector Garza, told
Breitbart Texas .
No 'Blank Check.' From
The Patriot Post
School officials in Lynn ,
Massachusetts Lynn mayor's chief of staff. Hey, at least
they're trying to learn English. It's not clear how many are succeeding, but as
long as so many illegals are allowed to remain here,
more will come. Meanwhile, in Congress, Republicans have virtually rejected
Barack Obama's request for what they're calling a "blank check" to
deal with the crisis. Obama seeks $3.7 billion in
additional funding, but he's allowed a crisis to fester -- and had a
hand in creating it -- in order to exploit the crisis for spending priorities.
Does anyone think this president is going to deport Democrats' future
constituents?
Religion of Peace News
Worth Reading : Israel
Excerpt: To understand why, let’s step into a time machine
and go back to the spring of 632. ... Back in Medina , Mohammed had come down with the
sniffles. He had a fever and a headache and there wasn’t any Tylenol around for
miles. Mohammed hadn’t been a very good man and he made a very bad patient.
Upon being told that he had pleurisy, he claimed that only people possessed by
Satan came down with that disease so he couldn’t possibly have it and instead
blamed the Jews for poisoning him.
Excerpt: Minority Christians in Syria
and neighboring Iraq
faced more upheaval Monday, July 7, after an Islamic group expelled tens of
thousands of residents from their homes and crucified at least nine people.
Bombs Away! By David Wilder
Excerpt: Presently we are experiencing bombs falling on Israel ,
launched by a terrorist government whose goal is the demise of the State of
Israel and the annihilation of all its Jewish citizens. Simultaneously Israel
is returning the favor, not in an effort to kill all Gazan Arabs, rather to
exterminate the animals who are causing 'Red Alert' to be sounded, not only in
Sderot, Ashkelon and Ashdod, but also in Beit Shemesh, Jerusalem, Haifa,
Caesarea, Tel Aviv, Nes Tziona, Rishon L'Tzion, and many other places, and yes,
including even Hebron.
Excerpt: On July 7 in San
Francisco , Muslims attacked Jews at a pro-Israel demo.
300 anti-Israel protesters surround and threaten 30 peaceful, pro-Israel
demonstrators in San Francisco .
They call for another intifada, and the destruction of the Jewish State. Here
is one account from Atlas reader Robin:
Excerpt: News reports suggest that the parties are nowhere
near a deal in Vienna on Iran ’s nuclear
program. That’s unremarkable given that the Iranians refuse to dismantle
anything and even this administration insists it must dismantle most of its
program. Still, the fact that the administration for now is not folding should
be reassuring to Congress and to our allies in the Middle
East .
Palestinian Officials
Openly Fault Hamas
Excerpt: While American Islamists
have remained mute about Hamas' instigating the conflict, and about Hamas
officials openly urging Palestinians to run into buildings about to be
targeted to be human shields, they have no qualms hyping the resulting casualty figures to criticize
Israel. ... Last week, PA President Mahmoud Abbas wondered what Hamas was "trying to achieve"
given that Palestinians "are the losing side, and every minute there are
more and more unnecessary deaths. I don't like trading in Palestinian
blood." For that, Hamas officials blasted Abbas for being "a
criminal" and "a Likud member."
Excerpt: From the beginning of the latest Gaza war, the call for “mutual restraint” and
for both sides to “de-escalate” has been preposterous. Up until the day its
major offensive was launched, Israel
pursued a cease-fire. Even now, there is only one side escalating and refusing
to show restraint. Joel Gulhane, a writer from Daily
News Egypt , reports that
Hamas rejected a cease-fire proposal from Turkey and Egypt.
Armed security at Hamden
Excerpt: When Sayyid Abdur-Rahman visits the
Abdul-Majid Karim Hasan Islamic Center, he goes to find peace and comfort.
However, these days when Abudur-Rahman visits his place of worship, he feels
conflicted. That’s because armed security guards at the Islamic center are
allegedly using their firearms to stand behind old ways of thinking in the
place of worship. “There’s a sickness going on with this thing,” Abdur-Rahman
said. (I didn't know what to expect here, but the article starts as an internal
dispute and continues by trying to incite discussion on bringing weapons to
houses of worship. It ignores the elephant in the room: we license Muslims to
carry guns? --GS)
Excerpt: Mohamed Shahid Butt was driving back from the
airport on Friday evening when his car was blocked by another vehicle and two
gunmen opened fire. Mr Butt was due to appear in court next month charged with
funding the radicalisation of Muslim youth. On the coast near Mombasa there has been a string of killings
of people associated with Islamic extremism.
Anti-Israel
protesters trap hundreds in Paris
Excerpt: But clashes erupted at the end of the march on Bastille Square ,
with people throwing projectiles onto a cordon of police who responded with
tear gas. The unrest was continuing early Sunday evening. Media reports said
that hundreds of Jews were trapped inside a synagogue in the area and police
units were sent to rescue them.
Excerpt: A US judge sentenced an elderly Pakistani-American
to 18 years to life in prison Wednesday for murdering his wife in New York
after she refused to cook him a goat supper.
Noor Hussain, 75, was convicted of second degree murder for
killing Nazar in April 2011 as she lay in bed in their Brooklyn
apartment after subjecting her to years of abuse. ... He maintained she
“disrespected” him by swearing and believed
he was entitled to “discipline” his wife of 21 years. (The real "War
on Women" liberals ignore in the name of multiculturalism. ~Bob)
Putin Belittles Obama
by Praising Israel
Excerpt: Putin is enjoying making Obama look like a fool. Check
it out: “President Vladimir Putin of Russia
said, Thursday, that he was closely following events in Israel .
Referring to the Protective Edge campaign against rocket attacks originating in
Gaza , Putin told rabbis from Israel and Europe, ‘I support Israel ’s struggle,
which is intended to protect its citizens.’”
Egyptian Muslim
cleric endorses genocidal hadiths: “Not a single Jew will remain on the face of
the earth.” By Robert Spencer
Excerpt: “Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace
be upon him) as saying: The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will
fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would
hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say:
Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him;
but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.” (Sahih
Muslim 6985) “Egyptian Cleric Al-Zoghbi Discusses the Annihilation of the Jews
on Judgment Day,” MEMRI, n.d.:
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