WES PRUDEN: THE LONG SEASON OF RAGE AHEAD

http://www.prudenpolitics.com/newsletter?utm_source=P&P%20Auto%201&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=5810 Barack Obama is laying out a revolutionary agenda for his second term, and he’s calling up his heaviest artillery to enforce the transformative presidency delayed in the first. The campaign to confirm Chuck Hagel will be no campaign for the faint-hearted summer soldiers who know only small-caliber combat. The emerging White House strategy is […]

Palestinians: Fatah’s Armed Gangs Are Back by Khaled Abu Toameh

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3542/fatah-armed-gangs The US and the EU, which have been funding and training the the Palestinian security forces, need to bang on the table — now — for Abbas to rein in the Fatah militiamen, before scenes of anarchy, violence and lawlessness return to the West Bank. After keeping a low profile for the past few […]

The “Victimology” Subterfuge by Christine Williams

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3540/victimology To question or discuss Islam, or any religion, is not racism, it is not hate, it is not necessarily meant to “victimize” anyone. One is often left with the impression that if anyone ever felt that Mohammed, or Islam, even might have been insulted, no freedom-loving person can expect to be left in peace […]

DAVID GOLDMAN: WHY REPUBLICANS SHOULD REJECT JACL LEW’S NOMINATION AND WHY WE WON’T

http://pjmedia.com/spengler/2013/01/14/why-republicans-should-reject-jack-lews-nomination-and-why-we-wont/ Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder, some observers suggest, qualified himself for the nation’s top law enforcement position by ramming through a presidential pardon for fugitive tax cheat Marc Rich in the final hours of the Clinton Administration. A lawyer who will take the blame for one of the ugliest acts of political patronage in […]

JED BABBIN: THE UNSERIOUS GUN DEBATE

http://spectator.org/archives/2013/01/14/the-unserious-gun-control-deba The fix is in that won’t fix anything. Vice President Biden’s gun violence task force is reportedly going to give its recommendations to President Obama tomorrow, kicking off the next stage of the gun control debate. President Obama — aided eagerly by his media cohort — will try to convince people that this is […]

MOSHE PHILLIPS: 70 YEARS LATER….RECALLING THE FIRST BATTLE AGAINST THE NAZIS

http://www.jns.org/latest-articles/2013/1/12/70-years-later-recalling-the-first-battle-against-the-nazis.html Moshe Phillips is the president of the Philadelphia Chapter of Americans For a Safe Israel/AFSI. Seventy years ago this month, the Nazis began their second deportation of the Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto. In response, on Jan. 18, 1943, the first organized and armed Jewish/Zionist resistance action in the Ghetto was launched. The fighters […]

CAROLINE GLICK: CHUCK HAGEL…IT’S THE ANTI-AMERICANISM STUPID

http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2013/01/chuck-hagel—its-the-anti-ame.php?utm_source=MadMimi&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Chuck+Hagel+-+It%27s+the+anti-Americanism%2C+stupid&utm_campaign=20130114_m114928819_Chuck+Hagel+-+It%27s+the+anti-Americanism%2C+stupid&utm_term=Continue+reading___ Chuck Hagel hates Jews. Or should I say, he hates Jews who think that Jews have rights and that their rights should be defended, in Israel by the government and the IDF, in America by Israel’s supporters. As I mentioned before, it is not at all surprising that Obama appointed Hagel, and I see […]

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Obama to push comprehensive immigration bill

GIVE ME YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR, ANYONE WHO BREAKS THE LAW….RSK
Townhall
Sunday, January 13, 2013
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Obama to push comprehensive immigration bill
Obama and Senate Democrats will propose immigration changes in one comprehensive bill, resisting efforts by Republicans to break the overhaul into smaller pieces which might be easier for reluctant members of their party to accept. Read more…

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Karzai suggests U.S. soldiers under Afghan law…..
Associated Press
Monday, January 14, 2013
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President Hamid Karzai says a national meeting of elders should be called to decide whether U.S. troops staying in Afghanistan after 2014 would be immune from prosecution under Afghan law. Read more…

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Report: North Korea planning nuclear test
Agence France-Presse
Saturday, January 12, 2013
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A North Korean official has apparently told Chinese authorities that the communist state is planning to conduct a third nuclear test in the coming week, a news report said today. Read more…

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MY SAY: THE FLIP SIDE OF JOHN KERRY

1. Great Hair no question about it

2. Flexibility….the man is often for something before he’s against it….see

http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-250_162-646435.html KERRY’S TOP TEN FLIP-FLOPS

John Kerry “I actually did vote for the $87 billion, before I voted against it.

John Kerry “I was for the Iraq war before I was against it”.

In October 2003, Kerry said Israel’s unilateral construction of a security fence was “a barrier to peace.”

“I know how disheartened Palestinians are by the decision to build the barrier off the Green Line,” he told the Arab American Institute National Leadership Conference. “We don’t need another barrier to peace. Provocative and counterproductive measures only harm Israelis.”

But less than a year later, in February 2004, he reversed himself, calling the fence “a legitimate act of self-defense,” and saying “President Bush is rightly discussing with Israel the exact route of the fence to minimize the hardship it causes innocent Palestinians.”

He voted for the Patriot Act before he was against it…..

Maybe the Senators should just say…”we were for your nomination before we were against it”

DIANA WEST: HILLARY CLINTON IS A “MAW????”

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/the-most-admired-woman-in-the-world?f=puball

Americans, Gallup tells us, admire Hillary Clinton more than any other woman in the world – again. This latest accolade marks the 17th time Gallup has found Clinton to be the Most Admired Woman (MAW?) since she became first lady nearly 20 years ago. Only Eleanor Roosevelt (13 MAWs) comes close. Only Mother Teresa (1995 and 1996) and Laura Bush (2001) have interrupted Clinton’s winning streak, and even then, Clinton came in second.

And therein lies America’s cosmic flaw. A country that could time and again embrace Hillary Clinton as its MAW has lost its mind or its memory or both.

Does the phrase “congenital liar” tinkle any bells? I know such non-admirable sentiments are thought to be in the worst of taste, if not also banishable offenses. Still, as conjured by the late New York Times columnist William Safire in 1996, the phrase described the then-first lady for her shameless prevarications. These included what sure looked like bribery (“cattle futures”), defrauding taxpayers (“Whitewater”), obstructing justice – or, rather, “finding” her Rose Law Firm billing records (under subpoena for two years) just days after the statute of limitations ran out – among other corrupt behaviors that must have slightly suppressed Hillary-admiration that same year. The phrase remains apt.

“I remember landing under sniper fire,” Clinton declared on the presidential campaign trail in 2008, describing a 1996 trip to Bosnia. “There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down (chuckles) to get into the vehicles to get to our base.” It was a vivid but debunkable whopper, as CBS footage of the event proved. In reality, Clinton, accompanied by daughter Chelsea, made her ceremonial way into Bosnia through a warm throng marked by smiling faces and a kiss from a local girl – not bullets. Admirable?