op ed review 6/1
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
White House accidentally blows the cover of CIA chief in
Afghanistan in memo to thousands of reporters
According to former UN
ambassador John Bolton, "This is utter incompetence. There is no
justification for this. There is no explanation for it. It's like there's
nobody in charge of the White House."
When Bushes blew a CIA cover, it
was ´treason´; now, it´s an honest mistake.
More Americans believe that biased media coverage is a
bigger problem in politics than donations from fat cats, according to a new
poll. Rasmussen Reports found that when given a choice, 48 percent of voters
believe media bias is the No. 1 villain while 44 blamed big campaign
contributions.
A severely disturbed young man in Isla Vista, California,
murdered six and wounded seven. He sought "retribution" for perceived
social slights, mainly from women. Half of his victims were stabbed and the
others were shot, though news reports refer to him only as a "gunman"
in order to serve a political agenda. He used a knife, a legally purchased
handgun and he had only 10-round magazines (41 of them). Predictably, it took
no time at all for shameless gun grabbers to call for action -- against guns,
not knives.
But wait! The LA times recently boasted that “California has
toughest gun control laws in country.”
The State Department misplaced and lost some $6 billion due
to the improper filing of contracts during the past six years, mainly during
the tenure of former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, according to a newly
released Inspector General report.
A report warns that 120,000 illegals will flood our southern
border in 2014. That´s a crisis. So what´s the president doing? Encouraging it
with amnesty calls on U.S. embassy websites and La Raza-linked envoys.
The UK Independence Party has won a national election for
the first time, taking the most votes and seats in the European Parliament
elections according to sources in all of Britain´s main political parties. The
Ukip victory, which came as anti-establishment parties advanced across the
European Union, represents the biggest shock to the British political system in
a generation.
Here comes the next civil rights crusade: transgenders.
You won’t see this in the media: Democrat challenger says of hispanic republican Governor Susana Martinez: ‘We Need To
Send Her Back To Wherever She Really
Came From’
http://www.ijreview.com/2014/05/142850-democrat-says-hispanic-republican-need-send-back-really-came/
Cook County has long been ridiculed for allowing dead people
to cast votes, but now it lets them get healthcare too. The county paid $12
million in health care for people who were already dead — including in one
case, for a person who had died in 1989.
One school district in Oregon distributes condoms to sixth
graders.
The Obama administration’s Department of Veterans Affairs
(VA) expects to have more money for medical care than it can spend for the
fifth fiscal year in a row,
“Democrats Privately
Calling Obama ´Detached,´ ´Flat Footed,´
´Incompetent´”
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THIS WEEK’S FEATURED COLUMN
Investor’s Business Daily
5/14
Bias: President Obama repeatedly claims to
know nothing about scandals, blames others for problems and has failed to
achieve most of his stated goals. If he were a Republican, what do you think
the press would call him?
When a reporter asked in a two-part question whether Obama
had been "caught by surprise" by the mushrooming scandal at the VA,
Obama ignored it.
It was a good question. The White House had earlier claimed
that Obama only learned about attempts at VA hospitals to falsify records and
hide chronic delays after reading about it in the newspaper, despite mounting
evidence that he must have, or should have, known long before. Obama did, after
all, promise repeatedly to fix the VA when he ran for president in 2008. Yet
neither the reporter nor anyone else in the room insisted that Obama answer it.
Now try to imagine how the mainstream press would have
responded if Obama were a Republican. They'd almost certainly describe him as
disengaged, maybe even incompetent. Or worse, an inveterate liar. At the very
least they wouldn't let him dodge such a pertinent question. Especially not
after he'd made the same plea of ignorance about the ObamaCare website fiasco,
IRS targeting, AP snooping, Fast and Furious and other scandals.
Normally, the press is eager to come up with an overarching
narrative for a president to help explain the day-to-day news coming out of
Washington. President Reagan was an amiable dunce when he wasn't a warmonger.
George W. Bush was by turns arrogant or a bumbling idiot. Nixon was a criminal.
Carter was the malaise president. And so on. Stories that fit the narrative are
played up. Those that don't tend to be buried. But the press just gives Obama a
free pass.
His economic policies, for example, have produced falling
incomes for middle class families, while Wall Street fat cats got even richer. They've
pushed millions into poverty and millions more onto food stamps, while
corporate profits soared.
A GOP president would be accused of helping the rich at the
expense of the middle class. But not Obama. How about the fact that Obama has
missed every economic growth target he set and presided over the worst economic
recovery in more than 70 years, yet has refused to take any responsibility for
his failure and never once considered changing course. Wouldn't such a
president be depicted as close-minded, arrogant or inflexible? Guess how often
those labels have been applied to Obama.
Another must read:
Victor Davis Hansen: “Lord Obama”
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
"The VA problem is not Shinseki; it's socialism. The
Veterans Affairs health care system is completely government run. It is a pure
single-payer program. ... [P]erhaps Democrats and Republicans will get together
to sack VA Secretary Eric Shinseki. But that won't change a thing. In fact,
it's a distraction. The long waits for treatment, with excessive delays
resulting in as many as 40 deaths, are a tragically predictable outcome. This
is the result of bureaucratic rationing, price controls, inefficiencies and the
inevitable cover-ups. ... So if Congress thinks it can find somebody who can
tame the VA bureaucracy, it should go right ahead. But the statist VA health care
system, which in so many ways mirrors the government-run health care problems
in Britain, Europe and Canada, must be completely changed. ... [A] system of
government vouchers which permits veterans to choose their own health care
plans, especially private health care plans, would be one giant step toward
solving this problem."
-Larry
Kudlow
"It is said that the problem with the younger
generation -- any younger generation -- is that it has not read the minutes of
the last meeting. Barack Obama, forever young, has convenient memory loss: It
serves his ideology. ... The Pew Research Center reports that Americans 25 to
32 -- 'millennials' -- constitute the first age cohort since World War II with
higher unemployment or a greater portion living in poverty than their parents
at this age. But today's millennials have the consolation of having the
president they wanted."
-George Will
"I hope no one is proposing you need a photo ID to buy
a gun because we all know the racist implications of that. “
-Frank
Fleming
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BOOKS, FILM
In his highly anticipated new book and movie "America,"
conservative author Dinesh D'Souza is warning that Hillary Clinton won't be a
clone of her moderate husband, but will instead take the baton from President
Obama to continue radicalizing the country and “undo the nation's founding
ideals.” “They may not be responsible
for the suicide of America, but they certainly will have helped to finish off a
certain way of life in America, and they will leave us with a country
unrecognizable not only to Washington and Jefferson but also to those of us who
grew up in the 20th century,” wrote D’Souza.
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GLOBALONEY
Must read: Americans
no Longer Live in a Scientific Society “Although
we enjoy deceiving ourselves about how sophisticated today’s American culture
is, we no longer even have a scientific society. This means that in the place
of careful analysis, unbiased study, or scientific experimentation, meant to
purify society with reliable facts—our leaders misuse science as another tool
of propaganda to influence public opinion. In case after case, after public
opinion has been molded by advocacy groups and politically correct zealots,
science is then wheeled out to prop up the resident opinion. “
“In addressing the
claims of misused science, no subject is more readily apparent than Global
Warming. To suggest that AGW has been designed to punish more advanced nations
and force them to disgorge wealth to the developing world is certainly true.
Moreover, that the ideology is transparently Marxist in origin is obvious to
the nth degree. The employment of “science” in the support of AGW has been so
far over the top as to beggar belief. Despite the announcement that the globe
has not increased in temperature for several decades, and scientists were asked
to cover this up, it has become a weekly event for some group or person to
claim that the earth is on the verge of baking, melting, drowning, or somehow
dying.”
“…..one of the surprises of the rise of modern science is
that it was closely tied to the 17th century Christian culture,
according to John Henry in The Scientific Revolution and the Origin of Modern
Science. For example, mankind’s first scientific club—the Royal Society—is
known to have had an unusually high percentage of Puritans. Further, Henry
argues that religion generally created a culture sympathetic to the creation of
science, and specifically it was Protestantism and Puritanism which are seen as
crucial to science’s development.”
Retired military officers poised to profit after Pentagon’s alarmist climate change report
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LEFTIST WATCH
Former Obama campaign manager David Plouffe remarked during
an appearance on ABC’s ‘This Week’ that Tea Party candidates in 2010 were
“witches and defenders of rape.”
When your own minimum wage reportedly is in the neighborhood
of $200,000 a speech, it might be difficult to sell yourself as the populist
champion of the working class. But Hillary Rodham Clinton is doing it anyway,
beginning a calculated transition from diplomat to fierce advocate for the 99
percent, using a “haves versus have-nots” message to build support among
progressives.
Internal Democratic Party research says they must “portray Republicans as uncaring toward
working-class Americans” in the 2014 campaign.
With last week's
release of the Harvey Milk postage stamp by the United States Postal Service,
AFA wants you to know the truth behind it. According to Milk’s
biography, written by his own friend and fellow activist, “Harvey always had a
penchant for young waifs with substance abuse problems.”
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ISLAM
A sign declaring a London park an “Islamic area” and
ordering dog walkers to stay away because “Muslims do not like dogs” is being
investigated by police. T
The city of London wants to be a hub for Islamic finance.
Ancient Islam arose from a desert raider culture, which
considered slaves taken in war to be legal. In the case of Boko Haram (meaning
“books are forbidden”), they just stole 276 young Nigerian girls from their
parents, right in front of the world media, citing Islam as their warrant --
and nobody in the world dared so say anything about the long history of Arab
slave-stealing in Africa.
A 25-year-old woman was stoned to death by her family outside
one of Pakistan´s top courts on Tuesday in a so-called "honor"
killing for marrying the man she loved, police said.
CAIR Officials on Memorial Day: “Do Fallen Troops Really
Merit Honoring?”
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ARTICLES
America is having what President Obama called a “teachable moment”
on single-payer health care, the goal toward which Obamacare is but the first
step. Doctor Hal Scherz has written an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today
in which he lays out the real problem with the VA single-payer health care
system, and offers hair raising examples, naming names. This is a brave thing
for a doctor to do. In his words: The VA health-care system is run by a
centrally controlled federal bureaucracy. Ultimately, that is the source of the
poor care veterans receive.
You have to hand it to the liberals: they never miss an
opportunity to convert tragedy into political gain. In the wake of Elliot
Rodger’s six murders–three with a knife and three with a gun, plus injuries
inflicted with an automobile–they are calling, once again, for gun confiscation.
As usual, they denounce conservatives and say things like “end the madness,”
but confiscation seems to be the point of it all. Once again, though, liberals
are denied the holy grail of mass murderers–a conservative perpetrator,
preferably a follower of the Tea Party.
Why Santa Barbara shootings are not just about gun control
Elections for the European parliament have been taking place
across the EU, and the results are described by many as shocking: Stunning
victories in European Parliament elections by nationalist, Eurosceptic parties
from France and Britain left the European Union licking its wounds on Monday
and facing a giant policy dilemma. Across the continent, anti-establishment
parties of the far right and hard left more than doubled their representation
amid voter apathy, harnessing a mood of anger with Brussels over austerity,
mass unemployment and immigration.
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WEBSITES
“It’s the feel-good video of the day. I’d trade it for six
cute puppy or kitten videos. It happened in Syria, when a bunch of terrorists,
said to be from abroad, got together for a little party. The Syrian-based terror group is all sitting
around singing, rifles stacked in the middle of the room in a menacing manner
and their flag draped on the wall above. As their celebration continues, all of
the sudden there’s a massive BOOM and the camera is shot off the screen. Panic
ensues, and the men run around like madmen screaming “Allahu akbar!”
Conspiracy field day:
Official Bilderberg 2014 Membership List Released
Gen. Petraeus, Richard Perle, Google Chairman Schmidt, Microsoft’s
Craig Mundie, Henry Kissinger, etc
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WISE WORDS
"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield
and government to gain ground."
-Thomas Jefferson
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