Category Archives: Blogosphere

About those teachers’ unions in Chicago…

Posted on September 21, 2012 | Comments Off on About those teachers’ unions in Chicago…

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Can we impeach Obama now?

Posted on September 16, 2012 | Comments Off on Can we impeach Obama now?

He literally sends brown shirts (L.A. sheriff’s deputies who wear brown-shirt uniforms) to roust a film-maker whose cheesy video has embarrassed the White House’s suck-up Muslim policies. You apparently lose your First Amendment rights when you do that.

“He won’t resign, of course. First, the President has the appreciation of free speech that one would expect from a Chicago Machine politician, which is to say, none. Second, he’s not getting any pressure. Indeed, the very press that went crazy over Ari Fleischer’s misrepresented remarks seems far less interested in the actions of an administration that I repeat, literally sent brown-shirted enforcers to launch a midnight knock on a filmmaker’s door.”

Meanwhile the lapdog media have staked out the filmmaker’s house, figuratively painting a hey-blow-this-place-up sign on his front door and, incidentally, endangering his whole neighborhood. Thanks a lot Mr., ahem, El Presidente. Some president. Can we impeach this clown now?

As law professor Glenn Reynolds says: “It’s the deputies who should be covering their faces out of shame, but the real shame is on the man at the top of the hierarchy.”

So, if the sycophant news media won’t call their champion on the clear violation of his oath to defend the U.S. Constitution, is there a Republican in the House of Representatives with the guts to file a bill of impeachment? If not now, when?

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Those three loud votes no

Posted on September 15, 2012 | Comments Off on Those three loud votes no

It fit with the longtime anti-Christian and anti-Israel narrative of their Hollywood and news media pals when a sizable number of Dems tried three times last week to shout down restoration of the words god and Jerusalem to their party platform. But it still shocked me. Why had they been deleted in the first place?

David Goldman, a recently-returned modern Orthodox Jew (a minority within a minority), wasn’t surprised:

“The cultural divide in the United States is now almost absolute; Democratic Party liberalism, which once embraced devout Catholics and observant Jews, cannot conceal its contempt for religion.”

But the no votes also concerned recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, something some Arab-American Democrats (and surely many non-Arab American delegates, judging from the volume) vigorously opposed. Which bothered PJMedia’s Roger L. Simon more than a little:

“A sizable and serious claque on the Democratic National Convention floor was shouting and applauding against the Jews.”

If Goldman saw it that way, he didn’t mention it. But the video, whose maker focused on two Arab-American delegates, could be so interpreted.

So the line between the two political parties has been drawn sharper than ever. No longer just over abortion or gay marriage or more welfare and higher taxes vs social conservatism, free enterprise and individualism.

But now over Israel and religion. And we’ll see if the Democrats have correctly interpreted the American mood or put their heads in a noose.

And, oh, by the way, if you think the post-convention polls showing Obozo ahead by 2-3-4 percentage points are accurate, remember they similarly showed Carter ahead in September-October 1980—until Reagan trounced him by winning 44 states.

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A Texas sign? Nope. Try Democrat Massachusetts

Posted on September 14, 2012 | Comments Off on A Texas sign? Nope. Try Democrat Massachusetts

Via IMAO.

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How will Israel hit Iran? From the inside

Posted on September 13, 2012 | Comments Off on How will Israel hit Iran? From the inside

Everybody who thinks they know what Israel will do or when they will do it always seems to think (and talk and write) in terms of jet fighter-bombers dropping bunker busters on laboratories deep within mountains. Or else launching missiles from their tiny fleet of Dolphin submarines.

Certainly the submarine option would be preferable to risking the lives of young pilots and weapons officers (the guy in the back seat) flying so far away and over so much hostile territory. But there are other options few talk (or think or write) about.

Except PJMedia’s Dr. Michael Ledeen in his good series “The Iranian Time Bomb.” My favorite of his suppositions as to how it could be done is to think about an inside job. Not just by commandoes, though there are bound to be a more than a few of them already inside Iran.

But, even more likely, are some of the estimated quarter million Iranian Jews who already live there, all speaking Farsi and all passing effectively (because they are Iranians in a country where many, many people hate the regime) with plenty of means, motive and opportunity. Think about it.

(If you can’t get to the series at the link above without paying for a subscription, give one a trial. It’s not expensive and so much of PJMedia is so good and so very different from the Democrat news media’s familiar Obozo-lovin’ and Obozo-excusin’ narrative.)

UPDATE:  A quarter million Iranian Jews still in Iran? Says Dr. Ledeen. Could be far fewer, according to Point of No Return, the Jewish Refugees blog. About 100,000 were there before the 1979 Muslim revolution. Not many have left since and the ones who stayed try to keep out of the public eye since the regime is mortally hostile to them. Still, what better motive could you ask for if you wanted an inside job?

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The Coveted Russian Dictator Endorsement: Putin Picks Obama

Posted on September 12, 2012 | Comments Off on The Coveted Russian Dictator Endorsement: Putin Picks Obama

If you know what’s good for you, America, you will reelect President Barack Obama — says the proud KGB spy and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.

Next up: The Fidel Castro endorsement, followed by critical endorsements from Cesar Hugo Chavez and the Muslim Brotherhood.

(At least the Canucks have some guts. They closed their embassy in Tehran and kicked Iranian diplomats out of Ottawa. Nice to see someone in North American has balls.)

UPDATE:  The lust for Putin’s endorsement apparently extended to the Dem convention:

“On the last night of the Democratic National Convention, a retired Navy four-star took the stage to pay tribute to veterans. Behind him, on a giant screen, the image of four hulking warships reinforced his patriotic message. But there was a big mistake in the stirring backdrop: those are Russian warships.”

Or was it a mistake? How could it be? Inquiring minds want to know.

MORE: Well, they say it was a mistake. But they say a lot of things.

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Help them (continue to) eat cake

Posted on September 11, 2012 | Comments Off on Help them (continue to) eat cake

Queen Michelle, she of the opulent vacations, dresses and shoes, wants you to give up a meal or two so she can continue her monthly trips to Aspen, Spain, Hawaii, etc. on your tax money.

And so poor Big Ears doesn’t have to stop playing golf every day and bashing the rich (his chief donors, actually) and pretend to plan to raise their taxes while his Democrat cronies actually plan to raise yours. Hey, when you’re entitled, you’re entitled. Er, they’re entitled.

Via Simply Jews.

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