Islamized Turkey: Cartoonist to be Tried for Insulting Islam
[AtlasShrugs.com]
Thursday, September 29, 2011
“Let me be clear: the United States strongly supports Turkey’s bid to become a member of the European Union,” Obama pledged in a speech at the Turkish parliament.
More of Obama’s anti-American, anti-freeedom foreign policy. Insane. Should the increasingly devout Muslim country ever gain entry into the EU under current membership regulations, it would,
due to its high population, put it in a similar position in the decision making process as the leading countries in Europe. It would be represented in all European institutions at the same level as Germany, the United Kingdom and France, and would take up a dominant position in institutions and decision making processes.
In other words, the European Union would be part of the universal caliphate. Turkey has reverted (no pun intended), and dreams Ottoman domination and Islamic imperialism.
Cartoonist to be Tried for Insulting Islam Contentions
Venezuelan President Chavez Reportedly Hospitalized for Kidney Failure
[FoxNews.com]
Published September 29, 2011
AP – Sept. 18: Latin America leaders, from left, Bolivia’s President Evo Morales, Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez and Cuba’s President Raul Castro speak at the Jose Marti airport in Havana, Cuba
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez reportedly entered a hospital in Caracas to undergo emergency treatment for kidney failure.
The El Nuevo Herald report cites unidentified sources but said Chavez — who has been receiving chemotherapy for an undisclosed type of cancer — entered a military hospital in the Venezuelan capital on Sept. 27.
Chavez, meanwhile, called state television on Thursday and urged Venezuelans to “pay no attention to rumors,” apparently referring to the newspaper’s report.
“Obama’s lecture on the euro crisis … is overbearing, arrogant and absurd.”
Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, and Greece are all vulnerable to defaultEuropeans are underwhelmed with the latest Obama Drama. With the sanctimonious attitude of a faux professor, Obama lectured Europeans on the importance of restoring fiscal responsibility to the European Union.
As humorous as it sounds, the Europeans found nothing to laugh about; in fact, they are insulted and indignant over the presumption of a profligate wastrel like Obama lecturing anyone concerning fiscal responsibility.
In California on Monday the 26th Obama warned the Europeans about their debt, stating that the European inaction was:
scaring the world. (That they)…have not fully healed from the crisis back in 2007 and never fully dealt with all the challenges that their banking system faced. It’s now being compounded by what’s happening in Greece. They’re going through a financial crisis that is scaring the world, and they’re trying to take responsible actions, but those actions haven’t been quite as quick as they need to be.
ICE Cracks Down on the ‘Worst of the Worst’ Criminal Illegal Immigrants
[FoxNews.com]
Published September 28, 2011
Alfredo Nava says he never thought they would come for him. The 62-year-old was working in a Los Angeles area flooring and carpet store when a team of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers showed up to arrest him.The Mexican national has been deported twice already, and last Monday he was deported a third time. Not only is Nava an illegal immigrant, but he’s also a four-time felon, convicted of drunken driving and giving alcohol to a minor.
Nava was one of more than 2,900 people arrested as part of “Operation Cross Check” — a seven-day enforcement bust across all 50 states and four U.S. territories. The program is ICE’s largest criminal alien operation.
Why Are Young Evangelicals (Almost) Just as Sexually Active as Non-Believers?
[TheBlaze.com]
Posted on September 28, 2011 at 9:17am by 
Billy Hallowell
Below, see the safe sex and abstinence ad put out by the Candie’s Foundation (featuring Bristol Palin and “The Situation”).
Christians are known for believing that sex is something best saved for marriage. But research over the past few years seems to indicate that young evangelicals are almost just as sexually active as their non-believing counterparts.
This subject has been studied numerous times, with the latest discussion on the matter coming in the October issue of the Relevant, an evangelical Christian magazine geared toward young people. In an article, entitled “(Almost) Everyone’s Doing It,” Tyler Charles examines several studies that shed light on the sexual activity of single Christians.
Senate Passes Stopgap Spending Bill to Avert Shutdown
[FoxNews.com]
Published September 26, 2011
AP – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill Sept. 23 to discuss his fight with Republican lawmakers over whether funding for victims of natural disasters should be paid for by cuts to other government programs.
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Monday night to send a temporary spending bill to the House to avoid a government shutdown, Democrats and Republicans appeared to have reached a final-hour resolution to an impasse over disaster aid.
The vote in the Senate was 79 to 12 to fund the government through Nov. 18, giving the two sides more time to haggle over long-term spending levels. The Senate also approved an even shorter-term spending bill — funding the government into next week — by a voice vote to give the House time to reconvene and approve the followup legislation.
Candidate Obama’s Class Warfare
[HumanEvents.com]
Forget trying to govern. President Obama has gone all in on class warfare.
Don’t expect any of his stimulus or deficit-cutting ideas to pass Congress. They’re not designed to pass in a House controlled by Republicans. They’re designed to pit middle-class and poor voters against job creators and the Tea Party’s low-tax philosophy.
The President’s legislative plan to stimulate the economy is a miniature version of his failed stimulus plan. Congress won’t pass another expensive bailout of the states and giveaway to Big Labor wholly funded with higher taxes.
Obama’s submission to the Super Committee contains $3 trillion in gimmicks and tax increases over the next 10 years, which will purportedly slice $3 trillion off the national debt. He claims a “cut” of more than $1 trillion in connection to the planned wind-down of the conflict in Afghanistan and Iraq. Obama raises $1.5 trillion with most of that new revenue on the backs of individuals making more than $200,000 and families making in excess of $250,000.
Herman Cain Sheds Dark-Horse Status in Crucial Florida
[PajamasMedia.com]
The first time I heard Herman Cain refer to himself as “the dark-horse candidate,” I knew that man had the kind of character and wisdom which smart people look for when picking a leader. Cain has risen so far above the superficiality of racialist, skin-color thinking that he makes those who pander to it or run from it look like a bunch of kindergarteners hurling spitballs.
Yes, until this weekend, Herman Cain was a dark-horse candidate, given very little chance of winning the nomination by everyone who is anyone.
Well, that was then and this is now. Not even Herman Cain can call himself a dark-horse candidate after Florida’s Presidency 5 vote, where Herman pulled in the winning 37% of Republican Party activists to Perry’s dismal 15% and Romney’s even worse 14%.
Oh sure, many prognosticators and pundits will be quick on the draw to downplay the significance of another “straw poll,” like the one Michele Bachmann won in Iowa only to see her popularity melt faster than a popsicle in a Texas desert on an August afternoon. But Florida’s Presidency 5 contest is a very different animal than Iowa’s straw poll and has far, far more significance.
The Constitution or Sharia: Preserving Freedom Conference
[AtlasShrugs.com]
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Please join me at this historic conference in defense of freedom. This is a working conference, a workshop to meet, strategize and move forward with many of the action plans I lay out in battle plan for America, Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance. Sign up. Come on, let’s work together on this. November 11th in Tennessee.
The Constitution or Sharia: Preserving Freedom Conference will be the first national conference on Sharia and the Islamization of America. Topics will include:
- Sharia and Jihad
- The European Experience
- The Dehumanization and Diminishment of Women in the West Under Sharia
- The Muslim Brotherhood In America
- Sharia and Legal Action
- Grassroots Organizing Against Sharia and Rabats (including Mega-Mosques)
- Defending Liberty In Legislatures
- Fighting Islamist Propaganda in the Media
Politics over Country: Senate Dems Delay Stopgap Funding/Disaster Bill
[MichelleMalkin.com]
By Michelle Malkin • September 23, 2011 02:08 PM
Ah, the games Beltway people play.
Harry Reid is stalling:
The U.S. Senate agreed to delay further action on a stopgap spending bill until Monday as Democrats and Republicans remained at odds over the measure, which would refill depleted disaster funds and ensure the government does not shut down in October.
“Everyone once in a while needs a little cooling off,” Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid said. “We’ll come here Monday and more reasonable heads will prevail.”
What are Senate Dems doing instead of working this weekend?
This: Attending a fall beach retreat in South Carolina.
Like someone said: “There is nothing wrong with our country. There is something wrong with our politics.”
Texas School Punishes Boy for Opposing Homosexuality
[FoxNews.com]
By Todd Starnes
Published September 22, 2011
An honors student in Fort Worth, Texas, was sent to the principal’s office and punished for telling a classmate that he believes homosexuality is wrong.Holly Pope said she was “absolutely stunned” when she received a telephone call from an assistant principal at Western Hills High School informing her that her son, Dakota Ary, had been sent to in-school suspension.
Troy Davis Executed; Supporters Claim Injustice
[FoxNews.com]
Associated Press
Published September 22, 2011
JACKSON, Georgia – Troy Davis lifted his head and declared one last time that he did not kill a police officer before being executed Thursday, while outside the prison a crowd of more than 500 demonstrators cried, hugged, prayed and held candles.Hundreds of thousands of Davis supporters worldwide who took up the anti-death penalty cause as his final days ticked away. They staged vigils in the U.S. and Europe, declaring “I am Troy Davis” on signs, T-shirts and the Internet.
Sept. 21: Anti-death penalty protester reacts after hearing about a delay of the execution by the U.S. Supreme Court for Georgia death row inmate Troy Davis In Jackson, Ga.
Obama: I Wear My Class Warfare as a “Badge of Honor”
[HotAir.com]
posted at 6:56 pm on September 21, 2011 by Allahpundit
He’s a warrior for the middle class, don’tcha know, even though it’s the middle class that’ll end up shouldering the load of Obamanomics once people realize that we can’t possibly tax the Warren Buffetts of the world enough to pay for everything. Further to that point, check out the snazzy chart posted yesterday at the Atlantic by Daniel Indiviglio. Even if we took the “Buffett rule” to its ultimate extreme and confiscated 100 percent of the earnings of people who take in $1 million or more each year, we’d eliminate less than one-third of the annual deficit. (That’s assuming, of course, that the deficit wouldn’t rise as economic activity collapsed under the new tax rate and the feds were forced to borrow more for stimulus.) More from David Freddoso:
In 2009, about 237,000 individual income tax filers reported adjusted gross income of $1 million or more. Taken together, these filers — families and small businesses — made a grand total of $722 billion, and paid $178 billion of that in income taxes.
Their effective federal income tax rate was 24.6 percent, between three and four times the effective rate on middle-income families that pull in $50,000 to $75,000 per year.
This million-plus crowd — who comprise less than 0.2 percent of all taxpayers — made 10.6 percent of all income in 2009 and paid 20.5 percent of all individual income taxes.
To be sure, the wealthy can and should pay more in taxes than the poor. The point here is that they already do pay more — a lot more.
House Kills Stopgap Spending Bill Over Disaster Relief Dispute
[HotAir.com]
Associated Press
Published September 21, 2011
House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio speaks to the National Automobile Dealers Association meeting in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011.
In a rebuke to GOP leaders, the House on Wednesday rejected a measure providing $3.7 billion for disaster relief as part of a bill to keep the government running through mid-November.
The surprise 230-195 defeat came at the hands of Democrats and tea party Republicans.
Democrats were opposed because the measure contains $1.5 billion in cuts to a government loan program to help car companies build fuel-efficient vehicles. For their part, many GOP conservatives felt the underlying bill permits spending at too high a rate.
Reid and Cantor on Collision Course; Government Shutdown Near?
[FoxNews.com]
by Trish Turner | September 20, 2011
It’s a little early to be talking about a government shutdown possibility, but at the moment, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Republican leaders in the House appear to be on a collision course over how to fund disaster relief, one that could shutter the federal government in the next two weeks if a compromise is not found. And none appears to be in the works.
The current stopgap funding bill, called a Continuing Resolution (CR), expires at midnight on September 30, but lawmakers are scheduled to be out next week in observance of Rosh Hashanah, thereby speeding up the legislative clock. Congressional leaders know they have to use the CR, considered a must-pass bill, as a vehicle for disaster relief, as it is the least likely to be blocked.
Even more pressing, FEMA says it will run out of money by September 26, if Congress does not at least approve a chunk of emergency funds as soon as possible.
Obama’s HUD Has Given $730,000 to ACORN This Year Alone. What’s Another $15 Billion More for Alinsky Groups?
[BigGovernment.com]
Posted Sep 21st 2011 at 7:14 am
President Obama has given ACORN $729,849 so far this year and billions more in federal cash may be in the pipeline.
The president’s new economic stimulus package, the so-called “jobs bill,” contains as much as $15 billion for radical left-wing groups such as ACORN (his former employer). Obama has been using his presidential bully pulpit to demand that Republicans in Congress “pass this bill,” even though there is no bill yet. Despite all the rhetoric, the proposed “American Jobs Act of 2011” apparently hasn’t even been introduced in Congress.
Meanwhile, longtime ACORN ally Shaun Donovan, who heads Obama’s Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), has been showering ACORN with your tax dollars. The money has gone to Affordable Housing Centers of America Inc. (AHCOA), which is the new name for ACORN Housing. Like a con artist trying to escape his past, ACORN Housing legally changed its name last year.
ACORN Housing grew out of crime: trespassing and breaking and entering. It emerged from a 1982 squatting campaign in which ACORN built a squatters’ tent city behind the White House. Rampaging ACORN activists routinely break in and illegally occupy property already owned by others – and your tax dollars subsidize this criminal activity, as I write in my new book, Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers.
HUD’s grants to AHCOA this year come despite a congressional ban on funding ACORN. Although the same longtime ACORN loyalists remain in charge of the massive housing conglomerate, HUD disingenuously claims that AHCOA has no ties to the ACORN network, relying on a slipshod, superficial legal memo written by someone who didn’t apparently understand how ACORN operates. And the mainstream media routinely let HUD get away with this kind of sleight-of-hand.
Solyndra Executives to Plead Fifth at Congressional Hearing
[FoxNews.com]
Published September 20, 2011
AP – In this May 26, 2010, file photo, President Obama, with Solyndra Chief Executive Officer Chris Gronet, looks at a solar panel during a tour of Solyndra, Inc., a solar panel manufacturing facility, in Fremont, Calif.
Executives with the bankrupt solar energy firm at the heart of a widening federal controversy plan to plead the Fifth when they head to Capitol Hill for a hearing Friday.
A statement Tuesday from California-based Solyndra said CEO Brian Harrison and Chief Financial Officer Bill Stover have informed members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee that they will not be able to provide “substantive answers” to lawmakers’ questions due to the ongoing Justice Department probe.
“Present circumstances require both gentlemen to exercise their Fifth Amendment rights in the face of questioning that might occur,” the company said.
Gay Serviceman Comes Out to His Father on YouTube
[TheBlaze.com]
- Posted on September 20, 2011 at 4:43pm by Billy Hallowell
Today, the military’s 17-year-old “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy expires. The debate leading up to this day has been intense. Needless to say, the decision has been made and the ability to serve openly is now officially on the table.
With experts weighing on on whether or not the policy’s expiration will have a radical change on life in the military and with the public continuing to discuss and debate the issues surrounding it, some intriguing stories are beginning to emerge. Soldiers who have thus far served without discussing their sexuality — some of them while engaging in gay rights activism — are now coming forward.
First, there’s the story of Randy Phillips, a soldier who has taken to social media with the alias “AreYouSurprised.” While he initially made public statements and videos about his sexuality without providing his identity, has now made his face known. Gawker has more:
To celebrate the end of the military’s ban against openly gay servicemembers, a gay soldier stationed in Germany decided to come out to his family and the world in the most public way possible: by recording a video and posting it on the internet.
Europe’s Moral Decadence Fuels Spread of Islamic Fundamentalism
[PajamasMedia.com]
The left has done its job well: Norwegian reporters, for fear of being accused of Islamophobia, are now actually loath to remind readers that there is such a thing as Islamic terrorism.
September 19, 2011 – 11:48 am – by Bruce Bawer
On September 15, PJMedia ran a piece by me about the famous Muhammed cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, who a couple of days earlier was scheduled to have taken part in a press conference in Oslo, Norway, to celebrate the publication of a new children’s book for which he had drawn the illustrations. Instead of attending the conference, however, Westergaard rushed back to his native Denmark the day before. The reason originally given for his cancellation was that he had taken ill; but it then emerged that there had been concerns about his safety, and that the report of illness was a cover story. Reports were inconsistent: while the Norwegian security police, the PST, claimed that Westergaard himself had made the decision to return to Denmark, Geirr Lystrup, author of the book for which he had done the illustrations, said that the PST had made the call. Meanwhile the nature of the threat that had led to Westergaard’s departure remained murky.
Terror Matriarch Petitions UN
[AtlasShrugs.com]
Monday, September 19, 2011
The Palestinians were offered statehood in 1948 and rejected it. They also rejected numerous other chances to have it, because they’d never recognize Israel’s right to exist. Palestinian Arabs rejected a state in 1948 because they wanted to destroy Israel utterly
The “occupied territories” of Judea and Samaria and Gaza were under Jordanian and Egyptian rule, respectively, from 1948 to 1967. Why did the Palestinians never complain about “occupation” or clamor for a state during that period?
When Israel withdrew from Gaza we were promised that Gaza would be a place where the Palestinians could live freely and peacefully. Instead, it became another jihad base. A Palestinian state will too, since they have never recognized Israel.
Just weeks after Mahmoud Abbas, leader of the annihilationist movement in Israel, against Israel, said, “We will never recognize Israel as a Jewish state,” yet again ratcheting up the threats and the hate.
Of Plans and People
American Spectator
[Spectator.org]
With the Tea Partiers
By Ned Ryun from the September 2011 issue
Ideas do have consequences — but only if they’re implemented.
This past spring, the new chairman of the American Conservative Union, Al Cardenas, told the Washington Times, “Truth be told…these tea party newcomers have been able to achieve what the rest of us couldn’t.” By “us,” it’s assumed Mr. Cardenas meant the old establishment conservative movement, much of which resides inside the Beltway of Washington, D.C. And the achievement of the Tea Party? One of the more dramatic electoral shifts in American political history last fall.
It does cause one to wonder why the Tea Party movement has been (and will continue to be) successful in American politics when in reality it shouldn’t be: it has no real money to speak of and nearly half the local leaders’ first real entry into politics was in 2009. Yet it’s done more to move the political dial in two years than the rest of the conservative movement managed to over the last few decades.
Clinton on Obama’s Economic Performance: ‘Got a Very Difficult Hand to Play’
[TheBlaze.com]
- Posted on September 18, 2011 at 4:15pm by
Christopher Santarelli
Waiting for an uptick in the economy during President Obama’s first term? Former President Bill Clinton says don’t hold your breath:
After reading a quote from President Clinton’s former adviser James Carville, suggesting that President Obama take a complete change of direction and “fire a lot of people,” President Clinton countered Carville’s assertion that things are not going well with:
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Obama’s Solyndra Scandal Reeks of the Chicago Way
[BigGovernment.com]
Posted Sep 17th 2011 at 1:27 pm
by Publius
From the invaluable John Kass in The Chicago Tribune:
The Solyndra scandal cost at least a half-billion public dollars. It is plaguing President Barack Obama. And it’s being billed as a Washington story.
But back in Obama’s political hometown, those of us familiar with the Chicago Way can see something else in Solyndra — something that the Washington crowd calls “optics.” In fact, it’s not just a Washington saga — it has all the elements of a Chicago City Hall story, except with more zeros.
The FBI is investigating what happened with Solyndra, a solar panel company that got a $535 million government-backed loan with the help of the Obama White House over the objections of federal budget analysts.
Obama Shames America by Coveting China’s Trains and Airports
[BigGovernment.com]
Posted Sep 16th 2011 at 10:11 am
An oft-repeated talking point and applause line has crept into President Obama’s repertoire of class-envy and demonizing rhetoric these days.
“At a time when countries like China are building high-speed rail lines and gleaming new airports, we’ve got over a million unemployed construction workers — many of them Latino — who could be doing the same thing right here in the United States. That’s not right. It’s time for us to fix it.”
Setting aside the ethnic pandering inserted especially for the Hispanic Caucus audience, the blatant coveting of China’s shiny new toys is shameful.
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