http://www.thecommentator.com/article/1972/are_the_opinion_polls_biased_on_the_us_elections_ Are the opinion polls biased on the US elections? If Obama’s supporters look for good news from the polls, they’ll find it. Pradoxically so can Romney’s. Can the polls be trusted? As if it wasn’t confusing enough for non-Americans trying to work out who’s going to win the elections on Tuesday — who outside […]
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Every now and then an email comes my way warning about the day when the government unleashes the military against its own citizens. This day isn’t likely to come because for one thing the current regime is not particularly fond of the military.
The Obama Administration isn’t inflicting massive cuts on the military, cutting their health care and pushing veteran officers out the door because it likes the military as an institution. It doesn’t. And it won’t until it remakes it into a fully politically correct institution dedicated to promoting tolerance and fighting global warming. Progress has been made on that front, the Navy is cutting ships and spending money on Green Energy. The Marines are celebrating gay marriage. Any day now the Air Force will be announcing its first wheelchair pilot. But it’s still a poor fit with the culture of the left.
If Obama has to have any kind of military, he prefers the kind where young men with college degrees sit in a room, push buttons and kill people thousands of miles away from remotely controlled aircraft. That kind of military is a closer cultural fit with a campaign that is in love with technocratic solutions and always looking for shortcuts to avoid the dangerous and dirty hard work that has to be done. It’s also much less dangerous.
Unleashing the military on a civilian population carries a price. Once you call out the troops to protect your regime, one of two things happen. Either the troops don’t do it and your government is done. Or they do it and your regime now lives or dies by the support of the military. Within the last few years the use of the military in Egypt and Iran turned generals into the arbiters of political succession. To the left, the idea of the people they despise deciding who should run the country and how is their biggest nightmare. It is one reason that we still have a democracy.
Tunisia: Imam calls jihad, Salafites to prepare shrouds He replaced cleric killed in assault on Doaur Hicher barracks http://ansamed.ansa.it/ansamed/en/news/sections/generalnews/2012/11/02/Tunisia-Imam-calls-jihad-Salafites-prepare-shrouds_7730098.html (ANSAmed) – Tunis -The new imam of the Nour mosque appointed after his predecessor Aymen Amdouni was killed in an assault on National Guards barracks, called for jihad inviting young Salafites to prepare their shrouds. Nasreddine […]
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2012.11.03 (Mogadishu, Somalia) – Two suicide bombers manage to kill only one other person at a restaurant.
2012.11.03 (Buner, Pakistan) – A Shahid suicide bomber on a motorcycle detonates, killing six others.
2012.11.03 (al-Arish, Egypt) – Jihadi gunmen murder three police officers.
2012.11.01 (Jai, Pakistan) – A 4-year-old girl is killed when Religion of Peace militants fire into her home.
2012.11.01 (Saraqeb, Syria) – Ten captured soldiers are beaten and then executed by Sunni rebels to shouts of ‘Allah Akbar’.
2012.10.31 (Pattani, Thailand) – Muslim gunmen open fire on employees at an ‘UnIslamic’ gambling site at a fair, killing two.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/11/03/No-Answers-From-State-Dept-On-Exposed-Classified-Documents-In-Benghazi Since the Obama Administration has launched the Accountability Review Board (ARB) to investigate the murders of U.S. diplomats and intelligence gatherers in Benghazi, the State Department has been tight-lipped on any developments discovered by news agencies. That changed this week when a State Department official went on the record in an attempt to explain […]
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3432/mideast-peace-negotiations I was invited to meet with President Abbas of the Palestinian Authority just before he spoke to the General Assembly of the United Nations. I came to the meeting with an agenda: to persuade him to sit down with the Israelis and resume negotiations without first requiring the Israelis to accept a total settlement […]
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2012/11/the_threat_doctrine_that_cries_blasphemy.html For the past 25 years, the Muslim Brotherhood in North America has been pursuing a comprehensive strategy to control what non-Muslims know about Islam. This multi-pronged threat doctrine seeks to prohibit open discussion and to abridge free speech. It also seeks to curtail education and training given to the military, law enforcement, intelligence, and […]
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=290160 In July, the government-appointed Commission to Examine the Status of Building in Judea and Samaria issued its findings. The Levy Report, named for the head of the three-person commission, former Supreme Court Justice Edmond Levy, has triggered hysterical, damning responses not only from those beyond the Jewish world that are traditionally hostile to Israel […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/nov/2/auto-bailouts-bleeding-more-taxpayer-cash/print/ SCHWEIZER: Auto bailouts bleeding more taxpayer cash Obama cronies profit from cooked books Reports that the auto bailouts will cost taxpayers $25 billion more than previously projected have sparked the predictable political squabbles that attend an election year. Liberals claim the cost to taxpayers was worth the price of saving American car companies, while […]
http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/2303/Petraeus-of-Benghazi.aspx First, the WSJ, now the NYT: CIA Director David Petraeus is feeling a little heat from the spotlight regarding Benghazi. It’s an extremely soft-focus spot, however, one that obscures the most important question regarding Petraeus’ role in Obama administration mendacity in characterizing what was a planned terrorist attack as a violent melee growing from […]
