http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/NI18Aa01.html TEL AVIV – It is hard to remember a moment when the United States’ foreign policy establishment showed as much unanimity as in its horror at the prospect of a unilateral Israeli strike on Iran. In a September 10 report for Georgetown University’s Center for Strategic and International Studies, Anthony Cordesman warns, “A strike […]
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MOTHER JONES IS A PREDICTABLE LEFTIST RAG…BUT THE CONSERVATIVES SUCH AS WILLIAM KRISTOL AND PEGGY NOONAN WHO JOINED THE BRAYING ASSES IN CRITICIZING ROMNEY ARE FOOLS….RSK
“Here was Romney raw and unplugged — sort of unscripted,” writes David Corn of Mother Jones about the newly released video of Mitt Romney at a Boca Raton fundraising event in May. “With this crowd of fellow millionaires, he apparently felt free to utter what he really believes and would never dare say out in the open.”
It’s not that simple. As citizens become more interested in what our prospective presidents really believe, politicians become more guarded about sharing their beliefs. If everyone wants to look behind the mask, the incentives lead hyper-ambitious but hyper-cautious politicians to wear layers of masks. Corn’s idea that a presidential candidate at a fundraising event is baring his soul is either tendentious, since it helps Corn condemn Romney as a callous plutocrat, or naïve. A more plausible interpretation is that the video finds Romney giving one more speech to one more audience, calibrating, as all politicians must: the message he wants to deliver; the message that particular audience desires and is capable of hearing; and the result he’s hoping for, which is usually votes, but sometimes the investment of money, effort, or enthusiasm.
The contest between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney now features symmetrical embarrassing, surreptitious tapes from fundraisers. Barack Obama’s remarks at a San Francisco fundraiser in April 2008 about the “bitter” people in the small towns of Pennsylvania and the Midwest who “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations” is one bookend. Romney’s discourse on the “47 percent who are with [Obama], who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it” is the other.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner As Mike correctly notes, there’s plenty to say about David Brooks’s faulty logic. I’ll stick to one aspect of it. Progressives like Brooks see government as if it were not merely a sentient being but one to whom we could transfer our personal responsibilities — as if there were virtue in spending other people’s […]
Undercover in Ramallah — on The Glazov Gang
by Jamie Glazov
A photographer dresses up as a leftist hippie and journeys inside a death cult. This is his tale.
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/jamie-glazov/undercover-in-ramallah-on-the-glazov-gang/
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3350/muslim-riots-europe “We are ready to work with our souls and hearts to fight for our beloved prophet, even if death comes to meet us.” — Sharia4Belgium “I can imagine there would be good reasons to outlaw the film.” German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in a reversal from two years ago, when she said, “Free speech is […]
Heather Ann Wilson is a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives representing New Mexico’s 1st congressional district from 1998 to 2009. She is the first female military veteran elected to a full term in Congress. She is running for the Senate.
http://heatherwilson.com/
HEALTHCARE
I am running for the Senate because I trust people more than I trust government to make the best decisions for themselves and their families. But that is not what we have today with Obamacare. Obamacare does nothing to control the spiraling cost of care. It raises taxes, cuts Medicare, costs more, and gives people less control over their health care decisions.
For the first time in American history, every citizen will be required to purchase a government approved product. If Washington can mandate how people must spend their money, there is no limit to government power. The law is unconstitutional and if it is not thrown out by the Supreme Court, I will fight to make sure it is repealed and replaced.
DEFENSE
The first and most important responsibility of the federal government is to provide for the common defense. A strong military is the best way to keep the peace. Our young men and women in the military should only be sent into harm’s way to protect America’s vital national interests, with clear missions, and with the force necessary to win and come home again.
Three generations of my family have served in uniform. I have spent my adult life serving to protect our country and I will continue to do so in the Senate.
http://pjmedia.com/claudiarosett/rice-on-libya-obfuscating-from-behind/?print=1 With an American ambassador murdered abroad for the first time since 1979, it was clear that someone from the Obama administration had to show up on the Sunday TV talk shows to field questions about the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. But of all the many officials to whom the […]
http://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2012/09/17/steyn-on-after-america/ Last year, as the month of August began, I received a copy of Mark Steyn’s After America from his publicist on Wednesday, the Dow Jones dropped 512 points on Thursday, and S&P shorted America’s credit rating on Friday. Mark’s crack PR team earned their keep once again this year, staging riots across the Middle […]
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/sep/17/islamists-tipping-point/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS History is replete with examples of strategic miscalculations in which an overreach — usually born of contemptuous disdain for a foe — led to disaster for the aggressor. Think Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812 or Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union 131 years later. We may look back at Sept. 11, 2012, as […]
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‘The Book of Mormon’ performed at New York’s Eugene O’Neill Theatre
‘Hasa Diga Eebowai” is the hit number in Broadway’s hit musical “The Book of Mormon,” which won nine Tony awards last year. What does the phrase mean? I can’t tell you, because it’s unprintable in a family newspaper.
On the other hand, if you can afford to shell out several hundred bucks for a seat, then you can watch a Mormon missionary get his holy book stuffed—well, I can’t tell you about that, either. Let’s just say it has New York City audiences roaring with laughter.
The “Book of Mormon”—a performance of which Hillary Clinton attended last year, without registering a complaint—comes to mind as the administration falls over itself denouncing “Innocence of Muslims.” This is a film that may or may not exist; whose makers are likely not who they say they are; whose actors claim to have known neither the plot nor purpose of the film; and which has never been seen by any member of the public except as a video clip on the Internet.
No matter. The film, the administration says, is “hateful and offensive” (Susan Rice), “reprehensible and disgusting” (Jay Carney) and, in a twist, “disgusting and reprehensible” (Hillary Clinton). Mr. Carney, the White House spokesman, also lays sole blame on the film for inciting the riots that have swept the Muslim world and claimed the lives of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three of his staff in Libya.
So let’s get this straight: In the consensus view of modern American liberalism, it is hilarious to mock Mormons and Mormonism but outrageous to mock Muslims and Islam. Why? Maybe it’s because nobody has ever been harmed, much less killed, making fun of Mormons.
