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Obama and the Burden of Exceptionalism http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904787404576532623176115558.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

“As a president, Barack Obama has been a force for mediocrity. He has banked more on the hopeless interventions of government than on the exceptionalism of the people. His greatest weakness as a president is a limp confidence in his countrymen. He is afraid to ask difficult things of them.Like me, he is black, and it was the government that in part saved us from the ignorances of the people. So the concept of the exceptionalism—the genius for freedom—of the American people may still be a stretch for him. But in fact he was elected to make that stretch. It should be held against him that he has failed to do so.”

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904716604576542552821233200.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLETopOpinion Are you sitting down? If not, you probably should be, because we have some stunning news: Barack Obama is giving a speech next week. “Obama plans to propose his new jobs plan in a prime time address to a joint session of Congress on Sept. 7, a week from today,” USA Today reports. As […]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/31/libyan-intel-papers-link-ex-diplomat-to-gadhafi-pr/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS Libyan intel papers link ex-diplomat to Gadhafi propagand A former U.S. diplomat advised the crumbling regime of Col. Moammar Gadhafi on how to counter its critics, according to documents found after rebels gained access to the regime’s intelligence ministry in Tripoli. Other documents show that an anti-war congressman was in touch with an intermediary […]

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“The Islamic Caliphate as a panacea for the problems caused by Islamic caliphates is about as good an idea as pouring gasoline on a fire. Which is exactly what the Islamists financed by Gulf royals, who can’t help cutting throats even when it’s their own, are doing.You can’t build a country out of sand and a book. Nor out of armies and billions of dollars. The last 70 years testify to that. The reason that Israel works and the Arab world doesn’t is very simple. The Jews retained their identity and their humanity. The perpetrators and victims of Islam who surround them have no roots. Only the sword in their hand and the shifting sand underneath their feet.”

http://townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/2011/09/01/the_unsexiness_of_lady_gaga/print

It does create change for Lady Gaga to parade her calculated drek on national television. It creates change among adolescents who watch this nonsense and think that such behavior is acceptable. It creates change among parents who begin treating such behavior as “no big deal.”

This week, the ubiquitously absurd Lady Gaga appeared at the MTV Video Music Awards. Well, actually, she didn’t appear — her alter ego, Jo Calderone, did. Calderone looked frighteningly hideous, with a large coif that looked a good deal like Elvis and a dark brooding look that looked a good deal like crystal meth. Overall, she strongly resembled Sal Mineo in “Rebel Without A Cause.”

http://townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/2011/09/01/nightmare_on_pennsylvania_avenue/print In advance of a “major speech” on the economy and jobs, President Obama has selected Princeton University professor Alan Krueger to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. Krueger is no relation to the horror film character Freddy Krueger, though if his ideas are implemented, they might further “slash” the economy. Alan Krueger […]

http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2011/08/were-cheering-on-a-football-crowd-with-ak-47s-who-could-be-worse-than-gaddafi.html We’re cheering on a football crowd with AK-47s, who could be worse than Gaddafi This is Peter Hitchens’ Mail on Sunday column The moment has come to admit that I loathe the Arab Spring and almost everything about it. It looks to me pretty much like a football crowd armed with AK-47s and bazookas, […]

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TOOBIN WAS PART OF THE JOURNO CLIQUE THAT DELIBERATELY WITHHELD LEGITIMATE CRITICISM OF OBAMA WHILE GOING OVERBOARD IN TRASHING AND BASHING PALIN. ….AT LEAST HE ACKNOWLEDGES:

These tempests obscure a larger truth about Thomas: that this year has also been, for him, a moment of triumph. In several of the most important areas of constitutional law, Thomas has emerged as an intellectual leader of the Supreme Court. Since the arrival of Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., in 2005, and Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr., in 2006, the Court has moved to the right when it comes to the free-speech rights of corporations, the rights of gun owners, and, potentially, the powers of the federal government; in each of these areas, the majority has followed where Thomas has been leading for a decade or more. Rarely has a Supreme Court Justice enjoyed such broad or significant vindication.

http://www.hudson-ny.org/2394/salt-spain-radical-islamism The municipality of Salt, a town near Barcelona where Muslim immigrants now make up 40% of the population, has approved a one-year ban on the construction of new mosques. It is the first ban of its kind in Spain. The moratorium follows public outrage over plans to build a massive Salafi mosque that is […]

http://zioncon.blogspot.com The Derfner affair began as an esoteric incident noticed only by English-speaking Israelis.  Where the ex-columnist for the Jerusalem Post Larry Derfner was fired by the Post after he had published criminal support for random murders of Jewish civilians by Arab terrorists. It has grown as the radical Left rallies to endorse Derfner and […]