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THIS WEEK’S NEWS
To distract America from the VA scandal, the administration
announced the release of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in exchange for five top Taliban
leaders. The joy is not shared by many
of those who served with him -- veterans and soldiers who call him a deserter
whose "selfish act" ended up costing the lives of better men. "I
was &!@# off then and I am even more so now with everything going on,"
said former Sergeant Matt Vierkant, a member of Bergdahl´s platoon when he went
missing on June 30, 2009. "Bowe Bergdahl deserted during a time of war and
his fellow Americans lost their lives searching for him.”
“President Obama has given his own military a reason to hate
him — not just be skeptical of him, but actively hate him — for releasing five
senior Taliban commanders in exchange for a captured US soldier who appears to
be a deserter. “
At least one of the prisoners had direct ties to Osama bin
Laden. Sen. John McCain once described the five as “the five biggest murderers
in world history.”
Members of Bergdahl’s unit said he left behind a note saying
he felt disillusioned with the Army and wanted to renounce his citizenship
before he was captured in 2009.
Col. David Hunt: “Here’s a partial list of 5 men killed in
action searching for Bergdahl.”
Gold Star mom: “This guy was worth my son's life???”
On Wednesday, Bergdahl’s hometown canceled a rally
celebrating his release.
“Bergdahl at one point during his captivity converted to
Islam, fraternized openly with his captors and declared himself a
"mujahid," or warrior for Islam, according to secret documents
prepared on the basis of a purported eyewitness account.”
“Bergdahl Never Listed By Pentagon As Prisoner Of War”
White House sends Susan Rice out to insist that Bergdahl had
served with “honor and distinction.”
“Who Wrote Susan Rice's Talking Points This Time?”
´A cover up just like Benghazi´:
Outraged parents of officer who died hunting for ´deserter´ Bergdahl lash out at Obama over ´LIES´ they were told about how their hero son died.
Mullah Omar, the head of the Taliban, doesn’t make
statements often. But on Sunday the Taliban released a statement attributed to
Omar, who declared the release of the top five Taliban commanders from
Guantanamo a “great victory” for the mujahideen of Afghanistan.
“Open Season´ on Americans Now That Obama Negotiates with
Terrorists”
Bergdahl’s father told the Taliban ´God will repay the death
of every Afghan child´, learned Pashto, grew a beard and adopted liberal views
in the wake of son´s capture.
The percentage of American civilians who do not have a job
and are not actively seeking one is at a 36-year high.
One Third Of America's 18- To 34-Years-Olds Live With Their
Parents
The American Dream is impossible to achieve in this country.
So say nearly 6 in 10 people who responded to CNNMoney's American Dream Poll.
They feel the dream -- however they define it -- is out of reach.
The Obama administration took aim at the coal industry on
Monday by mandating a 30 percent cut in carbon emissions at fossil fuel-burning
power plants by 2030 -- despite claims the regulation will cost nearly a
quarter-million jobs a year and force plants across the country to close.
Obama is less competent than George Bush, say a majority of
Americans
A twenty-five year old U.S. Marine reservist is currently behind
bars in a Mexican prison for mistakenly carrying his legally-owned firearm into
Mexico after missing a California freeway exit.
The Tactical Firearms store of Katy, Texas, has a sign
outside: “Will Trade Obama To Mexico For Sgt. Tahmooressi.”
Central Americans say news reports in their countries are
encouraging them to sneak into the United States. “A mother and child told
CHANNEL 5 NEWS that the message being disseminated in their country is,
"go to America with your child, you won't be turned away."
Oklahoma became the
third state to exit the Common Core standards and reclaim its decision-making
authority in education.
Ted Cruz wins presidential straw poll at Republican
Leadership Conference
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THIS WEEK’S FEATURED COLUMN
Isn't it Time
Republicans Linked the VA Scandal to ObamaCare?
By Jeannie DeAngelis
If liberals deserve
kudos for anything, it’s for consistently and successfully politicizing crises,
perverting truth, and demonizing political opponents.
Thanks to Rahm
Emanuel, America knows that the liberal mindset is to ‘never let a serious
crisis to go to waste.’ Democrats are well-practiced at responding to disasters
with political campaigns, because as Rahm attested, every calamity is another
“opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”
A perfect example of
the left’s penchant for exploiting misfortune is their obsession with gun
control. A madman shoots up a movie theatre, school, or supermarket
parking lot, and instantly the liberals attempt to influence public opinion by
redefining a mentally ill person with evil intent as a need for the Second
Amendment to be dismantled. And it works!
Democrats have done
the same thing with immigration reform. In order to ‘do things they didn’t
think they could do before,’ which is to widen their voting base by granting
amnesty to anywhere from 11- to 30 million unlawful aliens, the left has taken
an illegal incursion and turned it into an American racism problem.
Disagree with
amnesty and you’re branded a xenophobe.
On the other hand,
feckless elected Republicans consistently fail to recognize the repeated
God-given opportunities they’ve been given to shed light on the truth the left
distorts for political gain. Liberals politicize disasters to advance an
ideological position, and conservatives squander opportunities to rescue from
exploitation policies that are detrimental to the future and wellbeing of the
American people. A glaring example of Republican failure to recognize a perfect
opening to remedy a negative situation concerns the VA scandal and how it
relates to the foreseeable fiasco of Obamacare.
The VA scandal,
without question, exposes the federal government’s incompetence to manage
anything, most especially healthcare. In the midst of the implementation
of ObamaCare, which is highly unpopular and doomed to failure, without the
assistance of Republicans in Congress an argument for repeal is being made on
the public stage via a VA-orchestrated debacle. Yet, for some unknown reason,
probably out of fear of politicizing a scandal involving America’s vets,
Republican representatives have chosen not to link this healthcare scandal to
ObamaCare with the same fervor exhibited by the left when tethering mental
illness to gun control, illegal immigration to racism, and extortion to
fairness.
Let’s remember that
it was Nancy Pelosi who did not hesitate to tie GOP refusal to fund ObamaCare
abortion coverage to ‘women dying on the floor.’ With that in mind, why haven’t
the Republicans in Washington inquired as to why liberals who claim they don't
like it when guns kill people seem fine when socialized medicine does the
killing?
Rest assured, if the
shoddy medical care that America’s veterans received from the Veteran’s
Administration had been disclosed as the result of an official pilot study to
test the feasibility and logistics of a large-scale government-run healthcare
system, ObamaCare would never have seen the light of day. Moreover, if it were
Democrats who were looking to advance a policy initiative, based on the
deficiencies that came to light as a result of the preventable deaths of 40
veterans in a Phoenix VA hospital, the VA scandal would have become the
liberals’ number one tool of accusation and exploitation.
Still, Americans
deserve an answer as to why, based on the findings of that unofficial VA
‘pilot’ study, the GOP refuses to use that specific example of bureaucratic
failure to demand that ObamaCare be irrevocably repealed.
But despite the
obvious ‘teachable moment’ presenting itself that exposes the weaknesses
intrinsic to government-run healthcare, Republicans, appalled as they say they
are, choose to keep separate two issues that are really one and the same. At
this critical juncture, how easy would it be to reaffirm the left’s
exploitation of 30 million Americans without health insurance merely to justify
the weak argument that the American healthcare system needs socializing, which
the VA has proven doesn’t work?
And why not hammer
home the point that the microcosm of the system Barack Obama touts as the
answer to 300 million Americans’ healthcare woes has proven to be incapable of
caring for at minimum 40 dead veterans who suffered and died needlessly while
waiting for months on a secret list? Instead, rather than point out what is
powerfully evident and use the VA scandal as a platform to demand the repeal of
ObamaCare, the right says and does nothing. If this were a perfect world,
regardless of party affiliation, honest politicians would lay bare the lies and
tricks associated with any occurrence that the left uses to further their cause
and demonize their opposition. Then, rather than remain silent, they
would actively focus on what the left has perverted and expose the truth of
each individual issue.
That’s why, if the
fortuitously-timed death of poet Maya Angelou fails to provide the week-long
cry fest Barack Obama has been praying for, the right should waste no time
attaching the small-scale VA scandal to the impending large-scale catastrophe
that is sure to accompany the full implementation of ObamaCare. But they
won’t.
Unfortunately,
what’s more likely to happen instead is that, to the detriment of the American
people, while capitulating to every liberal demand, John ‘we’ve let them die’
Boehner and his passively complicit posse of pseudo-conservatives will continue
throwing their hands up in resignation that ObamaCare will never be repealed.
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BOOKS, FILM
Dinesh D’Souza’s dire warning: Americans ‘are being prepared
for a political and financial shakedown’.
Is Hillary Clinton a charlatan or just the crappiest lawyer
in Washington? As the Obama Left likes to say, that’s a false choice. There’s
no reason she can’t be both. The question arises thanks to yet another
excellent report on the Obama administration’s Benghazi fraud ……a prominent
subject of my new book, Faithless Execution, which traces the debacle from the
president’s unauthorized, unprovoked, and ultimately disastrous instigation of
a war against the Qaddafi regime; through his (and Secretary Clinton’s)
recklessly irresponsible failure to provide security for the American officials
they mysteriously stationed in Benghazi (a jihadist hotbed that is one of the
world’s most dangerous places for Americans).
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GLOBALONEY
Obama declares war on Republicans
over climate change with slew of measures
to reduce pollution from coal-fired
power stations.
Pentagon wrestles with bogus climate warnings as funds
shifted to green agenda…..Ten years ago, the Pentagon paid for a climate study
that put forth many scary scenarios. Consultants told the military that, by
now, California would be flooded by inland seas, The Hague would be unlivable,
polar ice would be mostly gone in summer, and global temperatures would rise at
an accelerated rate as high as 0.5 degrees a year. None of that has happened.
Yet the 2003 report, “An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and Its Implications
for United States National Security,” is credited with kick-starting the
movement that, to this day and perhaps with more vigor than ever, links climate
change to national security.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/1/pentagon-wrestles-with-false-climate-predictions-a/#ixzz33UZe9k5f
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LEFTIST WATCH
Money grubbing leftie filmmaker Michael Moore is battling
his wife over the valuation of the couple’s assets, while branding her a
spendthrift who “unilaterally wasted a large percentage of the marital funds”
building a lakefront mansion that has prompted mocking news stories about the
activist filmmaker’s wealth.
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WEBSITES
Ronald Reagan gave one of his greatest speeches of
his Presidency on the fortieth anniversary of the Normandy invasion on June 6,
1984. Perched on the cliffs where 135 out of 225 Rangers were killed or wounded
attempting to scale 100 feet of sheer vertical rock in the face of heavy German
fire, he extolled their bravery and its meaning. See it here.
The Rogue’s Gallery:
The Gitmo detainees swapped for Bergdahl: Who are they?
Watch Obama´s face as Bergdahl´s dad invokes Allah in Arabic.
5 things Obama doesn´t want you to know about the Taliban prisoner deal
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WISE WORDS
"Without liberty, law loses
its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also
loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness."
-James Wilson, 1790
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