Update
Election Day in Wisconsin --and
it's cold, raw and rainy. Conservative Weather--low info voters will stay home.
Posting early, as I have a political function to go to tonight. ~Bob
General News and Comment
Excerpt: Compared with nearly all of American history, the
average American school teaches much less about important subjects such as
American history, English grammar, literature, music, and art. Instead schools
are teaching much more about 'social justice,' environmentalism, and sex. . . .
At least two generations of American young people have been taught that moral
categories are nothing more than personal (or societal) preferences.
Worth Reading
Excerpt: "Today’s Third World
poverty is mostly self-inflicted — indigenously created. The growth-promoting
characteristics of the non-poor countries that are all but absent in poor
countries are protected private property rights, personal liberty, enforcement
of contracts, rule of law and a market-oriented economic system." (Just
the things progressives would love to do away with in the US and other
western countries. ~Bob)
Excerpt: The news that she used an iPad as well as a
BlackBerry demolishes her already ridiculous claim that she set up a private
email server so she would only need to carry one gadget as secretary of state.
At a March 10 press conference, Clinton
put it this way: “I thought using one device would be simpler, and, obviously,
it hasn’t worked out that way. Looking back, it would have been probably . . .
smarter to have used two devices.”
Decoding the Obama
doctrine. By Daniel Pipes
Excerpt: "The Obama Doctrine is simple and universal:
Warm relations with adversaries and cool them with friends. . . . The great
question ahead is how, in their wisdom, the American people will judge the
Obama Doctrine when they next vote for president in 19 months. Will they
repudiate his policy of shuffling and contrition, as they comparably did in
1980 when they elected Ronald Reagan over Jimmy Carter? Or will they choose
four more years of it, thereby turning the Obama Doctrine into the new norm and
Americans into European-style remorseful masochists?"
Report: Biden Told Chinese
Leader That US Focus On Human Rights ‘Doesn’t Make Us Better’
Excerpt: Joe Biden apparently doesn’t think America ’s focus
on human rights makes it superior to authoritarian regimes that systematically
violate their people’s basic human rights. At least that’s what he told Xi
Jinping before the Chinese leader assumed his country’s top office, according
to a report in the New Yorker magazine.... But it is pretty
astounding for an American leader to claim that it makes no moral difference
how a country treats its people. (Easy if one has no morals, no values and is
not a Christian, and is, in fact, anti-Christian. --Barb)
Feds giving Puerto
Ricans disability benefits because they speak Spanish
Excerpt: The Social Security Administration (SSA) approved
disability benefits for hundreds of Puerto Ricans because they do not speak
English, despite the fact that Puerto Rico is
a predominantly Spanish-speaking territory. According to a new audit by
the Office of Inspector General (OIG), the agency is misapplying rules that are
intended to provide financial assistance to individuals who are illiterate or
cannot speak English in the United States . Under the rules,
Puerto Ricans are allowed to receive disability benefits for their inability to
speak English as well.
Honor and Distinction: NCIS investigation reportedly
shows Bergdahl had 'deliberate plan' to 'offer himself up' to the Taliban
Excerpt: Shaffer, a former military intelligence officer and
Fox News contributor, said two senior sources told him that the Naval Criminal
Investigative Service investigation included a forensic review of his computer,
which show Bergdahl’s apparent intent to travel to Uzbekistan . “He
was going to go off to Uzbekistan ,”
Shaffer told Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly. “He had made contact with local Afghans
and wanted to be moved to Uzbekistan and
then made contact with the Russians because he wanted to talk to Russian
organized crime ...
VA official got $288G
'relocation payment' for DC-to-Philly
Excerpt: Despite the spokesman’s claim, the VA’s internal
statistics show that Rubens, who oversaw 57 regional benefits offices in her
previous job, presided over a massive increase in processing times for
veterans’ claims. Rubens received more than $97,000 in bonuses between 2007 and
2011. But the average time to process veterans’ claims doubled to 325 days
during that period. (Per article, percentage of backlogged cases almost doubled as well under
Rubens. --Barb)
Labor Department failed to properly report $2 million in
employee conferences. By Josh Hicks
Excerpt: The Department of Labor failed to follow
federal reporting guidelines for some of its most expensive employee
conferences in 2013, missing statutory deadlines for telling auditors about the
events and potentially miscalculating its cost reductions, according to a
watchdog review.
The meanest things Democrats have said about Hillary
Clinton’s presidential bid, ranked. By Hunter Schwarz
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/04/06/the-meanest-things-democrats-have-said-about-hillary-clintons-presidential-bid-ranked/?wpisrc=nl_politics&wpmm=1
Excerpt: But, her expected coronation hasn't stopped a few
Democrats from offering some less-than-positive thoughts about her and her
candidacy. Here's the five meanest, ranked from least mean to most mean.
Rand Paul Begins a Campaign for President With ‘Guts’ and
‘Gray Cells.’ By Ken McIntyre
Excerpt: If one thing looks certain about Paul’s campaign
for the Republican nomination for president, which he is set to announce
Tuesday, his determination to seek out and engage potential new GOP voters will
put him in many more unconventional settings.
Perry Rips Obama’s
‘State of Delusion
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/416514/perry-rips-obamas-state-delusion-national-security-jim-geraghty
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/416514/perry-rips-obamas-state-delusion-national-security-jim-geraghty
Excerpt: Former Texas
governor Rick Perry accused the Obama administration of “delusional thinking”
and keeping the American military in the dark about the threats facing the
country in a speech at the Citadel, South
Carolina ’s military college, earlier today. “If you
choose to wear the uniform of our nation, you deserve the truth about the
realities you will face, however unpleasant,” Perry said. “At no time in the
last 25 years has the world been more dangerous. And because of it, some of you
will be called upon to put your lives at risk.” Perry effectively accused
President Obama of lying in his statements on U.S. efforts against ISIS and other
terror groups:
Captain Rick Perry. By Larry Kudlow
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/415039/captain-rick-perry-larry-kudlow
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/415039/captain-rick-perry-larry-kudlow
Excerpt: Let’s think on that. With the world in turmoil, who
do you really want sitting across the negotiating table from Vladimir Putin,
the Iranian mullahs, or the Chinese? How about a military man to command the
war to destroy radical-Islamic jihadism? Very few people know that between 1972
and 1977, Perry served in the U.S. Air Force, flying C-130 tactical aircraft in
Europe and the Middle East . He is the only
current GOP candidate to have worn the military uniform. And he rarely talks
about it.
Rick Perry at the Citadel. By Jennifer Rubin
Excerpt: At the Citadel today former Texas governor Rick
Perry will deliver a speech worthy of a commander in chief. Sen. Marco Rubio
(R-Fla.) can be more poetic and stirring, but no other 2016 hopeful displays
the sense of command and steely strength as well as Perry. Perhaps it is his
military training, to which he refers in the speech, or perhaps it is his
adulation of what philosophers call “manly
virtues” — courage, confidence, honor, self-sacrifice — that make him
unique among the 2016 contenders. (In 2012, Ben Smith was at Politico and declared
that the Washington Post’s Jen Rubin was “Rick Perry’s worst nightmare,”
writing of her “brutal treatment” of the Texas
governor. -- Jim Geraghty)
Excerpt: The Chinese Navy is preparing to commission three
new, nuclear-powered attack submarines with a vertical launching system able to
fire supersonic anti-ship missiles, a report from China Daily said. The China
Central Television showed satellite pictures earlier this week of the three
submarines anchored at an unidentified port claiming that the new submarines
are China’s most advanced Type-093G attack submarines.
Admiral Says
Excerpt: The Chinese navy now operates a greater number of
attack submarines than the U.S. Navy and is rapidly expanding the scope of
their undersea missions and patrols, U.S. Navy leaders told Congress Wednesday.
“Their submarine force has grown over a tremendous rate. They now have more
diesel and nuclear attack submarines than we have so they’ve passed us in total
quantity — but in quality they are still not there,” said Vice Adm. Joseph
Mulloy, deputy chief of Naval operations, integration of capabilities and
resources.
Gun News
Why no mass shootings in Israel
Feisty! 92-Year-Old Blind Woman Wards Off West Tulsa Burglars. By Melissa Hawks
Excerpt: She had just locked the back door and put a board
up when she heard the thieves trying to break into her home. That's when she
went for her pistol. "I got up close to the door and said, 'Come on in,
boys! The police won't take you away, the morgue will. I'll take care of you,'”
Smock told them. Within seconds they ran off, but Smock was still angry over
what they had done. “If I could get a hold of the ones who got my friends up
there, I'd take them out," she said
Race Card News
Thugged Out Toddler:
What This Little Kid Says Will Make You Hate His Parents
Excerpt: I’m sure this kid has a bright future…in prison.
Someone please call Child Protective Services ASAP. - video
Undocumented Democrat News
The Number Of Illegal
Immigrant Minors Caught Crossing The US
Excerpt: The number of illegal immigrant children age 17
caught by U.S.
officials in the Southwest swelled in March, a trend that immigration watchers
say will continue as the weather improves throughout the summer.
"You're Greener than Gore" News
UN Climate Chief: We
Should ‘Make Every Effort’ To Reduce Population Increases
Excerpt: United Nations climate chief Christiana Figueres
said humanity “really should make every effort” to reduce global population
trends to protect the environment and fight global warming in an interview with
Climate One....The U.N. said countries will have to increase water prices or
recycling programs to accommodate more people. The U.N. argued in
2013 that more people should eat insects for protein and help the environment
by reducing the demand for traditional meats from cows, chickens and pigs. (My,
oh my! US Ag Dept encouraging people eat more plants (hard sell to US moms to
"eat more bugs") and fewer proteins from meat. And there have been
those curious appearances of Avian flu in chickens and turkeys, diarrhea bug in
pigs and now dog influenza...Who hates pigs and dogs? Oh, let me see..... Don't
worry. POTUS has a plan to decrease population in US big time....Iran deal,
open borders, more "children" currently surging in, offering to fly
children in at our expense to "join their parents" and all those
diseases they bring with them, and importing thousands from ME to
"transform" US...and geoengineering, continuing "drought"
over CA and bringing jet stream over Gulf to make East wet. Wondering who is
paying for the 28+ trails over our neighborhood in 1.5 hours this AM. Day and
night. --Barb. Well, we could give up fighting Ebola, AIDS, Malaria, hunger....Or
she could kill herself... ~Bob)
Religion of Peace News
Obama Won't
Say Murdered Kenyans Were Christians. From The Patriot Post
Last week, Islamic militants murdered 150 Christians in Kenya ,
explicitly because of their faith. According to the Associated Press, "The attackers
separated Christian students from Muslim ones and massacred the
Christians." But Barack Obama couldn't be bothered to mention faith at all.
The White House statement denounced "terrorist atrocities"
against "men and women" and "students," but there was nary
a peep about "Muslims" or "Christians." Likewise, Obama
neglected to mention the 21 Egyptian Christians beheaded by ISIL earlier this
year were anything but "citizens." It would seem the only time Obama
doesn't mind mentioning Christians is when he's lecturing them
about the Crusades.
The Age of the
Anti-Christian Pogrom. By Rich Lowry
Excerpt: The least we can do is to speak up forcefully about
the plight of threatened Christians and urge governments to do more to protect
them. It is one of the scandals of our time that the president of Egypt has been a more courageous voice on this
than the president of the United
States .
Krauthammer on the
Fundamental Problem With the Iran
Excerpt: Political analyst Charles Krauthammer outlines the
real problem with Barack Obama’s Iran deal: “The problem with
deal is really a fundamental one, apart from all of the details. … Obama [said]
in 2012 that the object of this is to end their nuclear program. That was the
understanding. You end the program you get a lifting of sanctions. What we are
talking about here is a preserving of the program, leaving it in tact
everywhere even the underground facility in Fordow, which Obama said if you
have a peaceful program there is no need for that. That all stays in tact. What
he is talking about now is preventing a nuclear weapon, which means by some
calculations you leave the infrastructure in tact but it would take them a
while to achieve a bomb.
Excerpt: By abandoning virtually all its demands for serious
restrictions on Iran ’s
nuclear bomb program, the Obama administration has apparently achieved the
semblance of a preliminary introduction to the beginning of a tentative
framework for a possible hope of an eventual agreement with Iran . But even
this hazy “achievement” may vanish like a mirage. It takes two to agree – and Iran
has already publicly disputed and even mocked what President Obama says is the
nature of that framework.
Interesting: Chuck Schumer
bucks White House on Iran
Excerpt: Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer, one of Capitol
Hill’s most influential voices in the Iran nuclear debate, is strongly
endorsing passage of a law opposed by President Barack Obama that would give
Congress an avenue to reject the White House-brokered framework unveiled last
week. The comments Monday by the Democratic leader-in-waiting illustrate the
enormity of the task ahead for Obama and his team: While there’s no guarantee
that Congress would ultimately reject an agreement with Iran , there’s
an increasingly bipartisan consensus that Congress should at least have the
ability to do so.
Excerpt: Russia
has no interest in seeing a nuclear-armed Iran
in the neighborhood, but the mere threat of an unshackled Iranian nuclear
program and a hostile relationship between Washington
and Tehran provided just the level of
distraction Moscow needed to keep the United States from committing serious attention
to Russia 's
former Soviet sphere. Russia
tried its best to keep the Americans and Iranians apart. Offers
to sell Iran advanced air defense systems were designed to poke holes
in U.S.
threats to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities. Teams of Russian nuclear experts
whetted Iran 's
appetite for civilian nuclear power with offers to build additional power
reactors.
Al-Qaida Decimates Yemen
Excerpt: It’s getting harder for Barack Obama to use Yemen as a model of successful U.S. foreign
policy as al-Qaida and the Iran-backed Houthi rebels made significant military
gains in the beleaguered state in recent days. Last week, al-Qaida militants
claimed the key Yemeni port city of Mukalla ,
freeing nearly 300 prisoners and delivering a setback to the 10-nation coalition led by Saudi
Arabia that has been engaged in an air and land campaign there. Among
those freed were Khaled Batarfi, a senior leader of al-Qaida in the Arab
Peninsula (AQAP). So much for al-Qaida being “on the run.”
Interesting: Leading Conservatives Call on Apple to
Pull Out of Nigeria , Qatar , Saudi
Arabia and Iran
Excerpt: Last week, I got together with Bruce
Carroll from Gay Patriot to
write a letter calling on Apple to live up to its publicly stated principles by
pulling out of countries that murder their citizens for being gay. After the
letter was written, we asked some other conservatives to sign on with us. A
full list of signatories follows. (Stopping bakeries from refusing cakes to
gays? An outrage. Stopping Muslims from murdering gays? Racist Islamophobia.
~Bob)
Crisis in Palestinian
Camp in Syria Has Worsened
Since ISIS Invasion, U.N. Says.
Excerpt: Relief officials at the United Nations expressed
alarm on Monday about a deepening humanitarian disaster in Syria’s Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp,
which was invaded last week by Islamic State militants and their allies. Roughly
18,000 people, including 3,500 children, have been trapped by fighting in Yarmouk,
which is on the southern outskirts of the capital, Damascus , and is less than 10 miles from the
presidential palace. (Let's send Kerry's gay ambassador to discuss with ISIS . ~Bob
Boko Haram disguised
as preachers kill at least 24 in Nigeria
Excerpt: The attackers arrived in cars late on Sunday and
gathered people at a mosque in the remote village of Kwajafa
Interesting report from the front: Battle
Excerpt: Assyrian Christians and Kurds in Iraq 's north have been holding a 640-mile front
against ISIS since last year. With a
humanitarian crisis at their doorstep, can a planned offensive break ISIS ?
Excerpt: Freedom of speech, you say? Increasingly not, in the
United States :
those who dare notice jihad violence and Islamic supremacism are vilified,
marginalized, and defamed. When Scott Lees was fired, was truth a criterion?
Apparently not.
Arrest made in attack
on Bosnian Jewish leader
Excerpt: A man was arrested in connection with the attack on
Bosnian Jewish leader Eli Tauber.
Tauber, an adviser on culture and religious affairs for
the Jewish Community of Bosnia and Herzegovina ,
was attacked by a man wielding a weighted chain at a cafe in central Sarajevo . Many witnessed
the attack. The attack, which was widely reported in the Bosnian media,
occurred on March 21 while journalists from National Geographic magazine were
interviewing Tauber about the status of Jews in Bosnia and Herzegovina .
Happy Easter: IS brings down Syria
Excerpt: The IS booby-trapped and blew up the Virgin Mary
Church in the town of Tal Nasra in the western countryside of Hasaka province,
the report said, adding that the attack is part of the “brutal crimes” the
terrorist group is committing in Syria.
Excerpt: Maybe I'm too sensitive, but when a foreign
autocrat leads his people in chants of "Death to America ,"
I take it personally. President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry
apparently don't. The chant, which became a staple of the Islamic Republic
during the 1979 revolution, is not a relic of the past. Just last weekend, at a
rally in the northern part of the country, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was
interrupted by the chant as he was denouncing American "lies" and
"arrogance." He smiled and responded, "Of course, yes, death to America , because America is the original source of
this pressure."
*****
Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam Veteran who served five
terms in the Massachusetts State Senate. He is the author of The Coming Collapse of the American Republic.
http://www.amazon.com/Coming-Collapse-American-Republic-prevent/dp/1461122538/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1304815980&sr=1-5
For a free PDF of Collapse, e-mail him at tartanmarine(at)gmail.com. Hall’s
eleven books are listed here:
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2010/07/new-book-published.html.
His blog of political news and conservative comment is www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com.
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