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Craig Karpel is a recovering addict. He says so himself. His addiction is to Barack Obama, and his recovery inspires him to write a book. He offers a 12-step program, patterned after the program that has rescued thousands of town drunks.

He’s a confirmed Obamaholic, but he doesn’t blame the president. He absolves Mr. Obama of blame for the addiction to the messiah from the south side of Chicago that turned so many healthy Americans into junkies. His book has created a bit of a buzz already.

“My name is Craig K.,” he says in the opening line of the “12-Step Guide for the Recovering Obama Voters,” published by HarperCollins Broadside Books.

“I’m an Obamaholic. Welcome to what Alcoholics Anonymous would call a ‘meeting in print.’ We’re here to admit to each other and to ourselves that the Obama presidency isn’t Obama’s fault – it’s ours. We should be impeached for having elected him.”

Though the collective stupor induced by Mr. Obama’s speechifying four years ago is finally dissolving, little by little, there’s still a lot of stupor out there. Gallup only this week said Mitt Romney has edged ahead of the president in a national poll of voters, but what is remarkable to the sober observer is that Mr. Obama is keeping it close, given the unholy mess he has made of the economy.

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/mark-durie/insider-killings-in-afghanistan/

In the past two weeks at least nine Americans have been killed by their Afghan allies in what is known to as “insider killings.” Members of the Afghan army, having been trained and armed by NATO forces, are turning their weapons in increasing numbers against their foreign allies, killing at least 40 NATO troops this year so far.

These killings are demoralizing, not only for the troops, but also for the folks back home. They make people war-weary. Mrs. Marina Buckley, the mother of Lance Corporal Gregory Buckley who was killed by one of his Afghan allies just before he was due to return home, spoke for many when she said: “Our forces shouldn’t be there. It should be over. It’s done. No more.”

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/159195#replies

The State Department has issued a travel warning for Israel, as it has for Syria. Apparently, though, Egypt is perfectly safe to visit
Travel Warning
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Bureau of Consular Affairs
http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_5760.html

As far as the U.S. State Department is concerned, Israel is as risky a place to visit at this time as is Syria – while Egypt, which just underwent a raucous election and an upheaval in the army (not to mention a major terror attack) is perfectly safe to visit.

That, at least, is the conclusion one would come to in a review of the latest travel warnings issued by the State Department. A travel warning was issued for Israel several weeks ago, because of, as the web site with the warning states, because of “long-term, protracted conditions that make a country dangerous or unstable lead the State Department to recommend that Americans avoid or consider the risk of travel to that country.”

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/michael-widlanski/how-leftist-jews-make-terror-kosher/

Lenin joked that capitalists would sell him the rope by which he would
hang them, and Muslim terrorists may be making the same joke about
Jews whom they target.

Jews are among the biggest defenders of Arab-Islamic terrorists and
those who help finance their efforts, help advance their political
goals and help hide their real aims.

Jewish lawyers, clergy, politicians, journalists have taken a
prominent role trying to stop interrogation or surveillance of alleged
terrorists, while working to block probes of radical mosque speakers
and Islamic funding programs that may aid groups like Al-Qaeda and
Hamas or support their agenda.

EDITORIAL: Holder’s severe mental deficiency

EDITORIAL: Holder’s severe mental deficiency
The Washington Times | Affirmative action has gone far astray from its origins as a means of correcting specific acts of unlawful discrimination. The Justice Department’s new policy reveals that special preferences are being used actively to deny opportunities to otherwise well- or better-qualified job seekers in the name of an abstract view of fairness. Read more…

Read more: http://times247.com/#ixzz24MQAnicw

Issa investigating IRS for Obamacare assist
The Hill
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Blogs
Issa investigating IRS for Obamacare assist
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) questioned Wednesday whether the White House pushed the IRS to implement President Obama’s healthcare law in a way Issa believes is illegal. Read more…

Read more: http://times247.com/#ixzz24MQ2yQvl

IRS gives break to Obamacare health exchanges
American Spectator
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
News
IRS gives break to Obamacare health exchanges
President Obama won big when Congress passed his health care bill. But the administration made a serious mistake and now the IRS is rewriting the law. Without going to Congress, as required by the Constitution. Read more…

DOJ recruits lawyers with ‘psychiatric disabilities’
PJ Media
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
News
The PJ Tatler obtained documents from the Justice Department detailing efforts to recruit attorneys and staff who are dwarfs, or who have “psychiatric disabilities” or “severe intellectual disabilities.” Read more…

Read more: http://times247.com/#ixzz24MQPZChP

Mali Becomes Infected by the Somali Virus By Jan Puhl in Mopti, Mali

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/mali-struggles-against-islamist-takeover-of-north-a-851122-druck.html

Mali was once a model of African democracy. But ever since a military coup in March, Islamists have been on the march and have already imposed Sharia law in the country’s north. There are fears that Mali could join Somalia as another failed state.

Colonel Moussa Maiga has summoned up his entire army of 700 volunteers, who are now standing at attention in sandals. “Right face!” he shouts. The men step on each other’s feet and stumble their way into a march formation. A mobile phone rings in the second platoon. The owner is punished with 20 pushups, a torture on this sandy square in Mopti, a city in central Mali, where the temperature is 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in the shade.

“We are the ones who will recapture the north,” the soldiers sing.

The troops practicing their marching skills here in Mopti are part of a militia called the Front for the Liberation of the North (FLN). Most are taking part in the exercise in rubber sandals and T-shirts. One man is wearing a shirt with a map of Africa outlined in gold sequins on the front. Football jerseys are popular, including those of former Brazilian footballer Ronaldo and German national team player Piotr Trochowski.

The FLN recruits spend eight hours a day running and crawling across the terrain. Many are refugees from northern Mali, which the Islamists have captured and where Sharia law is now in effect.

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3302/crucial-threat-to-israel-from-western-border

The developments on Israel’s western border might be far more crucial to its strategic situation, even compared to the Iranian nuclear threat. The August 5 terror attack in northern Sinai, killing 16 Egyptian policemen, supplied the perfect excuse for the newly elected Mursi regime in Cairo. Under the pretext of finally dealing with extremist Islamic terrorism in the peninsula, the Egyptian President is aiming for something more: re-defining the terms of The Egyptian-Israeli peace agreement, especially regarding the security situation in Sinai.

Israel had previously ignored, or sometimes secretly approved, Egyptian violations of the treaty. These always concerned deploying more battalions than agreed, but only for a short period of time, in order to fight the terrorist groups. This time, Cairo is aiming for a more serious goal. Not only had it moved to Sinai more battalions and even tanks, with no prior consent from Jerusalem, but the Egyptian media is full of reports of fighter aircraft and heavy artillery batteries about to be deployed. These reports are not all necessarily accurate, but what’s important is that they are part of a bigger plan – undermining the peace agreement, without actually deserting it altogether.

Why is the Islamic Brotherhood government doing this? The most logical explanation would be that it’s done because of internal political reasons. Changing the security part of the treaty had been one of the party’s promises during the election campaign. The Islamists claimed that the current treaty was a humiliation for Egypt’s national honor. I assume they will be going for a de-facto change, believing Israel has no alternative but to agree, since the Mursi regime would find it hard to actually sit down formally and re-negotiate the contract with the Israelis.

http://www.jidaily.com/5095b

Israeli innovation could make water drinkable in Africa

Many nations find desalination facilities costly to install, but a recent Israeli discovery may spell a more affordable way, using solar energy

In a world where freshwater resources are becoming increasingly limited, Israel– a country that is two-thirds arid – has become a leader in developing state-of-the-art desalination technology.However, less-developed nations find that installing desalination facilities is extremely costly, as they use enormous amounts of electricity and are location-sensitive. But thanks to a recent Israeli discovery, the desalination system may become much more affordable in areas like Africa and the Middle East.

Researchers from the Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research at Ben Gurion University of the Negev and central Arava R&D, have found a way to utilize solar energyat a fraction of the cost which can be custom-engineered for the desalination process, according to the Foreign Ministry.

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/afghanistan-missions-new-woes

The recent string of “green-on-blue” (Afghan on US/Coalition troops) attacks in Afghanistan are cause for real worry: Not only might the Coalition’s vital mission to provide security training to the Afghan police and army be in trouble, but the country’s entire future might be in question, too.

Without the high-quality training the Afghan security forces desperately will need after Coalition forces leave in 2014 (or maybe sooner), it’s possible Afghanistan will once again fall to the likes of the Taliban.

And that’s exactly what the Taliban, the Haqqani network, al Qaeda – and maybe others – want.

What better way to achieve that goal than to cowardly go after the brave men and women who have the capacity to give the people of Afghanistan a chance for a secure future, free from an Islamist extremist stranglehold?

We’ve lost nearly 10 brave Americans to attacks by “friendlies” in just the past two weeks. There have been some 30 attacks on Coalition forces this year, causing nearly 40 fatalities.That’s a treble increase in “insider” attacks over last year.

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/general-dempsey-forgets-oath-plays-politics?f=puball

Has General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made himself a political shill for the Obama Administration?

According to Fox News, General Dempsey criticized a group of former military and intelligence operatives for its aggressive campaign against President Obama, telling Fox News that he is “disappointed” by such political activity, which he called “not useful.”

Specifically, Dempsey denounced a group of former CIA agents, Navy SEALs and other military members, the Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund, who recently released a long-form political ad blasting Obama for security leaks on his watch, as well as suggesting he has taken too much credit for the SEALs raid in Pakistan that killed Usama bin Laden.

Those seem to be legitimate criticisms made by knowledgeable and experienced individuals.

Dempsey, however, said as the steward of his profession — the military — he thinks it imperative that the military remain “apolitical.”

Nonsense. They are civilians.

This is nothing less than a blatant attempt by Dempsey to silence criticism of Obama because it makes him look bad to the Administration that appointed him.