Commentary
Obama’s Untruth, Inc.
- Let us count the ways: bald lies, lies of omission, mythography, amnesia,
redaction . . . We can usefully view the Obama administration’s chronic
untruthfulness as a sort of multifaceted corporation of untruth, with all sorts
of subsidiaries…..The result is that almost any time the president makes
reference to the past, ours or his, we can assume two things: His facts are
wrong, and they are wrong in a way that is meant to highlight his own
godhead…….On any given day the president of the United States can step up to
the teleprompter amid the latest disaster and swear that he did not do what he
just did, or insist that someone else, not he, did the dastardly deed, or
simply skip over recent history and make things up. The press at first
quibbles, then nods in agreement, and Obama is empowered to do it again and
again. We have not seen such a disingenuous president since Richard Nixon — but
he, at least, was countered rather than enabled by the media…..
Economics
Cover Story: Corporate America heads for the exits -
Corporate "inversions" are a problem that President Obama might find
intractable, given a corporate tax system that most people agree is outdated
and in urgent need of drastic reform at a time when Congress is too divided to
fix it.
Constitution
The time may be right to salvage states rights - With Washington immobilized by partisan gridlock, states
find themselves in a better position than for decades to redress the balance of
power and remind the feds that there is a 10th Amendment. States enraged by an Obamacare provision
denying them subsidies unless they created insurance exchanges shouldn’t have been surprised. Congress routinely
uses the power of the purse to twist states’ arms until they submit. It’s worked
for decades. When states wanted federal highway funds in the 1970s, they first
had to lower their speed limits to 55 mph. A decade later, states were prodded
into raising the drinking age to 21. In the 2000s, federal education grants were
made contingent on states adopting standards included in such programs as No
Child Left Behind and Common Core. Now,
however, states increasingly are complaining and pushing back or ignoring
federal laws and mandates they say are out of touch, excessively burdensome, or
unconstitutional.
First Amendment
wins in Ohio; still vulnerable in D.C. - The best
part about the truth is that it usually wins, contrary to what many people
think. “[We are
not] arguing for a right to lie. We’re arguing that we have a right not to have
the truth of our political statements be judged by the Government.” With this
simple argument, the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List PAC and
its attorneys successfully convinced a federal judge last week to throw out Ohio's Orwellian political false-statements law. The Ohio law,
which threatened up to six months in jail for those running political ads
deemed to be false by a state panel, will not be missed by those who love the First Amendment. There is no question that politicians frequently lie or at least bend
the facts on the campaign trail. As
frustrating as this may seem, the Supreme
Court has correctly pointed out on several occasions that there is
no more effective remedy for falsehood than the truth. Writing in favor of Susan B. Anthony, Federal
District Judge Judge Timothy S. Black even quoted from the
Netflix series House of Cards:
“There’s no better way to
overpower a trickle of doubt than with a flood of naked truth.”
Islam and the
Middle East
Muslims Are Already Slaughtering
Christians In America (Get Ready For More Persecution Of Christians In Your Own
Country) - Because
her passport expired in 1998, it appears that it must be verified that she is
still a Romanian citizen and that she has not given up her citizenship to
another country without their knowledge, even though I provided them with her
resident alien U.S. re-entry permit (a form of passport for legal immigrants),
which also expired in the late 1990s, and her resident alien card. The Romanians must check that she is a legal
entity and that she exists as a Romanian citizen still, for the fee of $81 in
cash, according to the condescending clerk in the consular office. How do they
know that she has not sworn allegiance to another country in the interim?....
Terrorizing the Enemy is Part of Islam & Islamic State
is "Pro-Life"
-
London Islamic cleric Anjem
Choudary, a long-time controversial Islamist in the UK, finally came out and
admitted what all of us who don't have our heads in the sand have been saying.
The same imam that encouraged Islamists to get on welfare in
order to engage in jihad told Russia Today, "Terrorizing the
enemy is, in fact, part of Islam."
According
to Choudary, who lectures in Sharia, "I would say to the people in Russia,
the Muslims and the non-Muslims, that every action for a Muslim must be based
upon the Koran, the word of Allah, and the teachings of the messenger
Mohammed...who is the final messenger for mankind. I mean I would first invite
the people to think about and embrace Islam, but those who are already Muslim
must know that Allah mentions in the Koran, in fact, if you look in chapter 8 verse 60, he said prepare as much
as you can 'steeds of war' to terrorize the enemy. So terrorizing the enemy is
in fact part of Islam. I mean this is something that we must embrace and
understand as far as the jurisprudence of Islam is concerned."
It’s Not a Misnomer - The Islamic State has everything to do with Islam.
When you are dealing with an administration whose officials look you in the eye
and tell you the Muslim Brotherhood is a “largely secular” organization, it’s
tempting to laugh off the idiocy spouted by President Obama and Secretary of
State John Kerry about how the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam. We
should resist the temptation, though, because there is a dangerous purpose
behind the laughable assertion.
Obviously, Bing West and Daniel Pipes are correct that the terrorist
group is entirely Islamic. As I’ve been arguing here more times and for more
years than I care to remember, what we presume to call “radical Islam” (a/k/a
Islamic supremacism, Islamic extremism, political Islam, Islamism, and whatever
other “Islam [fill in the caveat]” terms we devise to avoid considering whether
Islam itself inevitably breeds terrorism) is not very radical among the world’s
Muslims. There are pacific constructions of Islam, too, but it is silly not to
acknowledge that Islamic supremacism is a mainstream interpretation of Islam.
It is firmly rooted in Islamic scripture and endorsed by many of Islam’s most
influential scholars. Indeed, when you read what the scriptures say, there is a
good argument that the pacific constructions are the ones that are radical
revisionism……
A Mismanage-able Problem - Obama’s belief that he can “manage” the Islamic State may
collide with reality. President
Obama says he intends to shrink the al-Qaeda-spawned Islamic State into a
“manageable problem.” Perhaps we’ll learn more about how when he speaks to the
nation on Wednesday evening. Still, the question presses: Is he the manager for
the job? In answering that question, past performance is more a guarantee of future
results than is any statement of newfound purpose from a president whose innate
dishonesty has turned his signature phrase “Let me be clear” into notorious
self-parody. In late September 2012, Mr. Obama’s administration quietly
approved the transfer of 55 jihadist prisoners out of the Guantanamo Bay
detention center. As Tom Joscelyn explained at the time, most of the
detainees had previously been categorized as “high risk” because they were
deemed “likely to pose a threat to the US, its interests, and allies” if
released. Almost all of the rest had been assessed “medium risk” — still posing
a threat, albeit one less certain than the “high risk” jihadists…..
The Middle East’s Maze of Alliances - It’s increasingly
difficult to navigate the web of transitory enemies and allies in the region. Try
figuring out the maze of enemies, allies, and neutrals in the Middle East. In 2012, the Obama administration was on the verge of bombing the
forces of Syrian president Bashar Assad. For a few weeks, he was public enemy
No. 1 because he had used chemical weapons on his own people and because he was
responsible for many of the deaths in the Syrian civil war, with a casualty
count that is now close to 200,000. After Obama’s red lines turned pink, we forgot about Syria. Then
the Islamic State showed up with beheadings, crucifixions, rapes, and mass
murders through a huge swath of Iraq and Syria. Now the
United States is bombing the Islamic State. Sometimes Obama says that he is
still seeking a strategy against the jihadist group. Sometimes he wants to
reduce it to a manageable problem. And sometimes he says that he wants to
degrade or even destroy it. The Islamic State is still trying to
overthrow Assad. If the Obama administration is now bombing the Islamic State,
is it then helping Assad? Or when America did not bomb Assad, did it help the
Islamic State? Which of the two should Obama bomb — or both, or neither?....
Lindsey Graham says 'no one
believes' president; Islamic State plan 'delusional' - Sen.
Lindsey Graham said President Obama's plan in Syria "won't even come close
to defeating" the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
Arab allies willing to launch
airstrikes against Islamic State - A number of Arab
nations are offering to launch airstrikes against the Islamic State in Iraq and
Syria, American officials say.
White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough repeatedly
said Americans would hear the news from Secretary of State John Kerry later
this week.
But the British prime minister said he does not intend to
put troops on the ground in either Iraq or Syria. (My
Take- Maybe he should start in London!)
Muslims
Are Already Slaughtering Christians In America (Get Ready For More Persecution
Of Christians In Your Own Country)- Muslims are already
slaughtering Christians in America. Get ready for more persecution of
Christians in your own country. In one of the recent murders almost totally
ignored by mainstream media, a 19 year old Roman Catholic named Brendan Tevlin
was shot to death by an African American Muslim named Ali Muhammad Brown in New
Jersey. Brendan was a Eucharistic minister in the Catholic Church and also who
volunteered playing the bagpipe in funerals. The slaughter of this innocent
Catholic was considered by
Brown, a "just kill," and that he was seeking
vengeance for what is happening to Muslims in "Iraq, Syria, (and)
Afghanistan." Brown was driving his jeep, and he just had texted his
mother that he was coming home, when he stopped at a red light, Ali shot
Brendan 8 times in his jeep. Ali then drove
the jeep to an apartment complex where he stole undisclosed items……
The inner workings of ISIS revealed - The Sunni jihadist group known as the Islamic State
(IS) is the most organized, well-funded and militant terrorist group the world
has ever seen. It proclaims itself as a caliphate,
claiming religious authority over all Muslims. ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) and ISIL (the Islamic State of Iraq and the
Levant) are currently both being used to refer to Iraq's Islamic extremist
terrorist organization, but recently there has been confusion over what to call
the jihadist group. The President and the U.S. Department of State both refer
to them as ISIL while the majority of the American media refer to them as ISIS. There were documents seized from the house of a member of the Islamic State
in a raid by the Iraqi military. Now for the first time and in acute detail,
the leadership
structure of this secretive organization is revealed. Hisham
al-Hashimi, a Baghdad-based expert on Islamist groups, outlined and described
the ISIS leadership structure to The Wall Street Journal. His information has
been corroborated by other experts and U.S. intelligence sources.
Medical
115,000 people set to lose Obamacare - They are
scheduled to lose their Obamacare coverage at the end of the month because
officials could not verify their citizenship or immigration status, the Obama
administration announced Monday.
Global
Warming
Climate truthers invade Gotham - Far-out global warming campaigners will gather by the
thousands in a desperate group grievance to convince the United Nations and the
world that climate change
is a looming, existential threat to life on planet earth. On September 21st, warmists
will target the U.N. in New York City
with protests, media demonstrations and tactical local disruptions to
resuscitate their moribund “war on carbon.” The “People's Climate March” is
timed to push the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) meeting
in Paris for a years-delayed replacement to “The Kyoto Protocol” carbon
controls that expired in 2012. Given
today’s partisan liberal-progressive climate constituencies, this “People’s
Climate March” will parade all of the devout radical environmentalists
followers of such corrupt green apostles as Al Gore, IPCC Chairman Pachauri,
EPA’s McCarthy, Tom Steyer, and the elite eco-propagandists of the thousands of
nonprofit and global NGO environmental groups…..
Immigration
Illegal Aliens in the US Get
Passport & Social Security Numbers in One Day - Legals must Wait-
Because her
passport expired in 1998, it appears that it must be verified that she is still
a Romanian citizen and that she has not given up her citizenship to another
country without their knowledge, even though I provided them with her resident
alien U.S. re-entry permit (a form of passport for legal immigrants), which
also expired in the late 1990s, and her resident alien card. The Romanians must
check that she is a legal entity and that she exists as a Romanian citizen
still, for the fee of $81 in cash, according to the condescending clerk in the
consular office. How do they know that she has not sworn allegiance to another
country in the interim?
Amnesty With
Open Borders Equals National Suicide - Our President has made no secret of what his end game is. Remember
him with Joe the plumber? He just wants to spread the wealth around. He is
perhaps not an avowed socialist but he is certainly an announced one. Yet, he
has won two elections one way or another and he is coordinating the end game of
the Cloward-Piven
Strategy. This is not a
conspiracy...it's a strategy....and it breaks my heart that as America dozed on the couch watching
the game these Progressives have turned the American dream
into a nightmare.
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