http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/09/socially_acceptable_hatred.html All the liberal Jews I talk to seem to believe that the age of anti-Semitism is over. That is often true, in countries that have mature, democratic political systems. The United States, which all good liberals learn to sneer at, has the single most mature political system in the world — 230 years of […]
Game changer: Methane hydrate extraction works
Forbes
Saturday, September 8, 2012
News
In April, the U.S. Department of Energy and an international consortium of major oil and gas companies completed an unprecedented two-month proof-of-concept test in the North Slope of Alaska. It worked and the world moved one step closer to tapping gas hydrates, the most abundant fossil fuel resource on Earth. Read more…
Read more: http://times247.com/#ixzz25yQNZUj7
Hong Kong backs down on China patriotism classes
Associated Press
Saturday, September 8, 2012
News
Hong Kong officials backed down Saturday on plans to make students take Chinese patriotism classes following a week of protests in the former British colony sparked by fears of pro-Beijing “brainwashing.” Read more…
Captive U.S. soldier safe, terrorist group says
Associated Press
Saturday, September 8, 2012
News
A U.S. soldier held by Afghan militants will not be harmed despite the Obama administration’s decision to declare his alleged captors a terrorist group, a senior member of the Pakistan-based Haqqani network told The Associated Press on Saturday. Bergdahl has been held by the Pakistan-based Haqqanis since 2009. Read more…
Obama campaign disrespects American flag
The Blaze
Friday, September 7, 2012
News
The University of Iowa is now denying a large American flag was mishandled ahead of an Obama campaign stop on campus, after previously apologizing and removing a photo of the flag laying on the grass. Read more…
FBI installing $1 billion face-recognition system
RT
Saturday, September 8, 2012
News
Birthmarks, be damned: the FBI has officially started rolling out a state-of-the-art face recognition project that will assist in their effort to accumulate and archive information about each and every American at a cost of a billion dollars. Read more…
Toomey: ‘Wave of regulations’ shuts 6 plants
NewsWorks
Friday, September 7, 2012
News
Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., says President Obama’s policies have put the economy in harm’s way. “We closed six power plants in Pennsylvania because they can’t comply with a new wave of regulations,” he said. Read more…
Shale boom driving down Gulf Coast crude prices
Bloomberg
Friday, September 7, 2012
News
The U.S. shale boom has driven the cost of Gulf Coast light, sweet oil to its lowest level versus Brent crude in almost a quarter century. “Before you know it, we’re going to have so much light, sweet crude that in the U.S. Gulf Coast we’re not going to be importing light, sweet crude, and we think that happens next year,” said Valero Energy Corp. CEO Bill Klesse. Read more…
Clinton asks Putin to expand Russia’s Pacific power
Associated Press
Saturday, September 8, 2012
News
Alarmed by a rise in nationalist sentiment around the Asia-Pacific, the Obama administration is looking for Russia to play a greater role in the region as it seeks to quell growing maritime tensions. Read more…
Obama: Thanks for your service, just don’t vote
Investor’s Business Daily
Friday, September 7, 2012
Commentary
The administration thanks the troops for their service by failing to comply with a law requiring that it help soldiers deployed overseas cast ballots in their home states. Read more…
An e-pal and friend named Mimi sent this along:
Bible Study…. Origin of Left & Right…
I have often wondered why it is that
Conservatives are called the “right”
and Liberals are called the “left.”
By chance I stumbled upon this verse in the Bible:
“The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the
heart of the fool to the left.” Ecclesiastes 10:2(NIV)
Thus say-eth the Lord. Amen.
Can’t get any simpler than that.
and now for a Spelling Lesson——-
The last four letters in American……….I Can
The last four letters in Republican…….I Can
The last four letters in Democrats………Rats
End of lesson. Test to follow in November, 2012.
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/316333/double-minded-republicans-andrew-c-mccarthy Double-Minded Republicans They won’t get very far with “We’re not as bad as they say we are.” After a first term that has been historically abysmal, President Obama stands a good chance of being reelected. How can that be? Here is the blunt explanation: We have lost a third of the country and, as […]
Read more: http://politicaloutcast.com/2012/09/bill-clinton-and-ted-kennedy-poster-boys-for-the-war-on-women/#ixzz25tabQAZG
Bill Clinton and Ted Kennedy — Poster Boys for the War on Women
Clinton spoke at the Democratic National Convention to save Barack Obama’s failed presidency. But did he instead remind the American people that he mistreated women — from an intern who was the same age of his daughter to his wife who had to grin and bear his infidelity in public? Clinton had sex with an impressionable and vulnerable young woman who was serving as a White House intern. He abused his authority in the same way some teachers abuse their authority by having sex with their students. Then there were the charges of rape by Juanita Broaddrick:
“Michael Isikoff’s book, Uncovering Clinton, and Christopher Hitchens’ book, No One Left to Lie To, argued that Broaddrick’s claim is credible and shows similarities to Paula Jones’ later allegation of sexual harassment. Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen commented, ‘And yet, I cannot get [Broaddrick’s] accusation out of my head. On television, and in interviews with newspaper reporters, Broaddrick appeared credible.’”
Then there’s Democrat Ted Kennedy of Chappaquiddick infamy. The Democrats played a video tribute to the womanizer at the Convention, putting aside his war on women actions. Former Kennedy speechwriter and campaign operative Bob Shrum said in an interview that “over a long period of time” Kennedy was a “a liberal lion, entirely principled” who “could actually get things done.”
A “long period of time” is right. The Chappaquiddick story is so well known that the words “Ted Kennedy” and “Chappaquiddick” are inseparably linked for all time. But there are many people who don’t know the story.
Kennedy was most likely driving under the influence on the evening of July 18, 1969, when he drove his car off Dike Bridge and into Poucha Pond, leaving Mary Jo Kopechne, a young campaign worker, to drown. To add to the tragedy, Kennedy left the scene of the accident and did not report it to the police until 9:45 the next morning. Kennedy hoped to contrive a story that would put Kopechne in the driver’s seat and absolve him of criminal neglect for driving too fast for conditions and under the influence.
Do not miss this Blockbuster episode of The Glazov Gang, where superstars Dwight Schultz, Tommi Trudeau and Leon Weinstein, analyze the RNC and DNC. A special spotlight on the Cult of Obama, the Left’s Hate of Eastwood, and Democrats booing God and Jerusalem:
The Left’s Clint Eastwood Derangement Syndrome — On The Glazov Gang.
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp_igrxT0TM
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aSciDnLzvM
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MURY6qbH118
Hedge Fund Manager Strikes Back at Obama
By ZACHERY KOUWE
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2009/05/05/a-hedge-fund-manager-strikes-back-at-obama/?smid=fb-share&pagewanted=print
Clifford S. Asness is not afraid to defend himself against attacks from the Obama administration. The outspoken managing partner of AQR Capital Management, a $20 billion hedge fund in Greenwich, Conn., has written a scathing letter striking back at President Obama for his harsh words blaming hedge funds for Chrysler’s bankruptcy.
The letter is making its way around Wall Street, where it’s being met with cheers from other hedge funds managers, one of whom sent it to DealBook. Among other things, Mr. Asness said he was “aghast at the president’s comments” and called them “backwards and libelous.”
Read the full text of the letter after the jump.
Unafraid In Greenwich Connecticut
Clifford S. Asness
Managing and Founding Principal
AQR Capital Management, LLC
The President has just harshly castigated hedge fund managers for being unwilling to take his administration’s bid for their Chrysler bonds. He called them “speculators” who were “refusing to sacrifice like everyone else” and who wanted “to hold out for the prospect of an unjustified taxpayer-funded bailout.”
The responses of hedge fund managers have been, appropriately, outrage, but generally have been anonymous for fear of going on the record against a powerful President (an exception, though still in the form of a “group letter,” was the superb note from “The Committee of Chrysler Non-TARP Lenders,” some of the points of which I echo here, and a relatively few firms, like Oppenheimer, that have publicly defended themselves). Furthermore, one by one the managers and banks are said to be caving to the President’s wishes out of justifiable fear.
I run an approximately twenty billion dollar money management firm that offers hedge funds as well as public mutual funds and unhedged traditional investments. My company is not involved in the Chrysler situation, but I am still aghast at the President’s comments (of course, these are my own views, not those of my company). Furthermore, for some reason I was not born with the common sense to keep it to myself, though my title should more accurately be called “Not Afraid Enough” as I am indeed fearful writing this… It’s really a bad idea to speak out.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/wap/Item.aspx?type=0&item=159758 Hundreds of PA Arabs assault Jewish villagers in the Binyamin region, children cry as mob screams ‘slaughter the Jews.’ Hundreds of Palestinian Authority Arabs have been assaulting a Jewish village in the Binyamin region since Saturday afternoon, Tatzpit reports. Residents of the Jewish village of Esh Kodesh reported that the assault began when three […]
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/printpage/?url=http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/09/08/obamas_same_old_same_old_115378.html Perhaps the reason for President Obama’s flat and energy-less speech Thursday night — TV cameras panning the convention floor actually showed delegates falling asleep — was that he already knew Friday’s jobs numbers were going to be a disaster. The August unemployment report completely punctured his argument that if you just give him four […]
http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2012/09/06/clinton%e2%80%99s-speech-nasty-brutish-and-long/?singlepage=true Thomas Hobbes famously said that man in the “state of nature” faced a life that was “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” It was the state, Hobbes thought, that beneficently intervened in that dour free-for-all and made civilized life possible. Hobbes was probably right about that, but what would he have thought of the […]
